Introducing Ear Hustle - Episode 1: That World
You Didn't See Nothin
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison.
Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the California Institution for Women, as well as stories about getting out of prison and starting over, post-incarceration.
From finding romance, to grappling with a life sentence, to trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, Ear Hustle stories deliver what This American Life host Ira Glass calls a “very real” and “untragic” take on prison life.
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| 0:00.0 | My daughter Ellen is a really good friend of Nigel and Erlan's and therefore they have become |
| 0:08.4 | friends of mine also. The following episode of Ear Hustle contains language that may not be appropriate for all listeners. |
| 0:16.2 | Discretion is advised. Shh, shh. Shh, shh-h-h-hmm. Okay, well, baby. |
| 0:24.0 | Just... |
| 0:25.0 | Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. |
| 0:29.0 | We gotta go with like an old-baithful, tried-tru, we sung this a thousand times in church, so we won't forget the words. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay. |
| 0:36.0 | Erlon, do you know what's one of the things I've learned about prison? |
| 0:40.0 | Not to me. |
| 0:42.0 | Okay. So I've noticed that a lot of people really love to perform. |
| 0:45.0 | Amazing. |
| 0:49.0 | So I always think it's kind of fun as an icebreaker to kind of stick a microphone in someone's face |
| 0:53.4 | and ask them to sing but maybe it's actually stressful I don't know. |
| 0:57.3 | Okay you lead I'll follow. Maybe to some people but you know you're going to get those that soon as that |
| 1:05.1 | might come in front of their face they get to perform. |
| 1:07.6 | They gotta take the chance right? |
| 1:10.6 | How sweet the sound. This is our first official visit to the Central California level four yard for women in California. And Erlon, did you know it's actually the largest |
| 1:34.8 | women's prison in the world? |
| 1:36.5 | That's crazy in the world. Yes. And this one has a certain reputation. Yeah, I don't know if it's deserved, but I've always heard that |
| 1:45.1 | CCWF is a pretty tough place. Well, I mean, level fours are high security prisons. You know, if you're a woman and you commit a serious crime |
| 1:55.4 | this is what they gonna put you first right so for a lot of reasons I was really |
| 2:00.0 | curious to see this place. So we drove out early that morning and met our |
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