My Understanding of This Place, Part 1

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Nigel — with help from our team inside San Quentin — has been cooking up an episode that her co-host knows nothing about. Without giving too much away, we can tell you that it involves visiting a part of the prison no one on Ear Hustle had seen before … with, of course, a few detours along the way. Part 1 of a two-part series.

Special thanks to Lt. Guim'Mara Berry for letting Nigel and our inside team explore and record inside East Block, and to Rabbi Paul Shleffar for hosting us inside the chapel.

This episode was scored with music by Earlonne Woods, Antwan Williams, and Derrell Sadiq Davis.

Big thanks to Acting Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, Acting Warden Parker, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women, and Warden De La Cruz and Lt. Williams at the Central California Women’s Facility for their support of the show.

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Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX.

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0:00.0	From Wundry, this is Black History for Real.
0:03.0	I'm from Jessica Ramsey.
0:04.3	And I'm consciously.
0:05.7	And every week, we're gonna be chronicling a lot of trials and triumphs
0:09.4	from Black folks who ain't never heard about,
0:11.8	even though we've been doing the damn thing since forever.
0:15.0	Together we'll weave Black History's most overlooked figures back into the rightful place
0:19.2	in American culture and all over the world.
0:22.4	Follow Black History for Real. and all over the world.
0:28.0	Follow Black History for real on the Wundry app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.8	Hello, this is Ross Saint New York Thomas, producer with Ear Hustle, co-director of the San Quentin Film Festival, and executive director of Empowerment Avenue.
0:40.3	The following episode of Ear Hustle contains language that may not be appropriate for all listeners.
0:45.5	Discretion is advised. It's Thursday, 7 a.m. and I'm sitting in the San Quentin parking lot looking out at the bay.
1:09.0	I haven't done this in a long time. I'm going in to meet the guys down in the media lab and we're going to do
1:14.7	something we've never done before, which is to go into East Block, death row. Well, I guess can I say it's
1:22.4	formerly death row because they're closing it down and they moved everybody out.
1:27.0	And we've got permission to go in and look around and record before they clean it out.
1:33.6	So, what do you think?
1:38.6	So, what do you think?
1:42.2	Is this a Halloween episode?
1:44.0	No it's not but I can see why you think that.
1:46.5	So I want to ask questions but I don't want to ask the questions because it may come out.
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