Firsts
Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
4.9 • 21.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
“Firsts” in prison can be especially memorable: the first time you meet your cellie, or leave the prison for medical treatment, or run your first marathon. Alongside these tales, Adnan Khan shares the story of his first visit from his mom, 13 years after he was incarcerated.
Thanks to Adnan Khan for sharing his story and Shane, Michael Thompson, Rahsaan Thomas, Jason Jones and Antwan Williams for also sharing their firsts.
Ear Hustle is produced by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods. Outside producer Pat Mesiti-Miller comes inside to lead the sound design team. This episode includes music by David Jassy, Antwan Williams, Joshua Burton & Dwight Krizman Our story editor is Curtis Fox and executive producer for Radiotopia is Julie Shapiro.
Find out more about the show at earhustlesq.com where you can also buy a brand new EH t-shirt! Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
Eternal thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Warden Ron Davis for supporting the show, and to our sponsors Burrow and NECTAR Sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains language |
| 0:02.0 | that may not be appropriate for all listeners. |
| 0:05.2 | So I come here to San Quentin |
| 0:07.1 | and it's like the most intimidating place in the world, right? |
| 0:09.8 | You get to prison and it's scary. |
| 0:11.7 | It's, you know, like you've only seen it in movies |
| 0:14.4 | and like I'm walking into reception |
| 0:15.8 | and it's so loud. |
| 0:16.8 | People are just yelling and screaming |
| 0:18.5 | and this one guy is like, |
| 0:19.5 | hey, that's him. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm like, what the fuck? |
| 0:21.6 | Like no way, like to someone, someone like no me. |
| 0:24.0 | And like, hey, that's that motherfucker that killed Ray Ray. |
| 0:27.6 | And then to someone else, he goes, |
| 0:28.5 | oh, he killed Ray Ray. |
| 0:29.5 | Hey, that motherfucker's here. |
| 0:30.6 | He killed Ray Ray. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm like, I don't know who Ray Ray is. |
| 0:33.5 | Who's Ray Ray? |
| 0:35.2 | Like, so like I'm like walking to my son. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm like, oh, this kid getting any worse. |
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