Getting a Date
Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
4.9 • 21.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
There are only a few ways to leave prison: serve your time, get out early on parole... or escape.
Steve, Danny, Phillip and Ron are all trying to make their way out of prison. In our final episode of the season, these men share their stories of going through the parole hearing process, and contemplate life on the outside after being incarcerated for decades.
Big thanks to Steve Wilson for telling his story, and to Danny Plunket, Phillip Melendez and Ron Self for sharing their parole board experiences.
Ear Hustle is produced by Nigel Poor, Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods with consulting editor Curtis Fox, outside production advisor Pat Mesiti-Miller and executive producer Julie Shapiro. Music used in this episode was contributed by Antwan Williams, David Jassy, E. “Phil” Phillips and Earlonne Woods.
Find out more about the show at earhustlesq.com, including how to send us a question (by postcard) that might get answered in a future episode. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX.
Yet more thanks to our this season’s sponsors: Mail Chimp, Squarespace, Texture, Casper and Bombas, for supporting the show.
p.s. It’s hard to believe this is our final episode of Season One! Thanks tons to our amazing listeners all over the place, who have sent thousands of postcards and photos of where they listen.Your support and responsiveness has meant the world to us. Stay tuned for Season Two coming up in March, 2018! And in the meantime we’ll drop a few surprises in this feed, so stay with us.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Felia the podcast in a holless broke some canons this o-lamplet for Visa listener |
| 0:04.8 | The following podcast contains language that may not be appropriate for all listeners |
| 0:09.2 | You're now tuned in to San Quentin's Ear Hustle from PRX's Radio Topia |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, E tell everyone how you heard about this story. You really ear hustled this one |
| 0:19.2 | I think it was back like in January |
| 0:21.0 | I was in a chow hall and I'm waiting in line for dinner and it was a couple of dudes behind me |
| 0:26.0 | And one was telling the other guy about this one 15-y-guy |
| 0:29.6 | I want 15 is a rule violation right except this wasn't about |
| 0:35.0 | Country band or fight this was about an actual escape so you know it got a little interesting right? |
| 0:40.6 | I'm I'm I'm hustling this one. I'm sure you are so I did one of those |
| 0:44.6 | I'm not listening to what you're saying things and turn around just so I can really identify the guy and |
| 0:51.5 | Later I saw him on a yard and he was in front of the area where the white guys kick it |
| 0:56.0 | Mm-hmm, and he's an older guy, but he was busing down doing burpees getting his money right? |
| 1:00.6 | Thanks, so I waited for him to finish his set and then I walked over to him and I'm like excuse me sir |
| 1:05.2 | My name is Erlund and I highlight you for a second and we start talking and I told him about the podcast and I was like look man |
| 1:11.9 | I was in line the other day and it was you and another guy and you was telling him about a one 15 |
| 1:17.4 | You had and it was a very interesting story and I would hope that you can come down to the studio |
| 1:24.8 | So we can talk about it and he was like no |
| 1:30.8 | I'm Erlund Woods a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison in California. I'm Nigel Poor a visual artist who works with incarcerated men at San Quentin and |
| 1:39.7 | Together we're gonna take you inside |
| 1:41.7 | I've been denied three times. This is my fourth parole hearing coming up now |
| 1:54.0 | Steve Wilson has been in prison on and off for about 30 years |
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