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Ear Hustle, the award-winning radio-topia podcast featuring sounds and stories that come from American Prison Life, is back with a brand new season.

And they're also celebrating their 100th episode.

In the new season, the show revisits its very first episode, a listener favorite called Sellies, about the relationships formed inside a prison cell.

But this time, the whole episode takes place inside a woman's prison.

The producers also spent a marathon 14 hours out on the road at San Quentin for this season.

From dungeons and dragons to dominoes, gospel to geese, weightlifting to just waiting, they've got new sounds and new stories that you have never heard before.

Listen to Ear Hustle, wherever you get your podcasts.

One of my favorite New Yorkers is Jeremiah Moss.

He used to have a blog called Vanishing New York.

And he would chronicle all of the places that he noticed that were not just disappearing but being replaced.

During COVID time, Jeremiah remained in New York City.

And in his new book, Farrell City, he gives us a first-person account of not just what the city was like during COVID.

But he also has new insights into what has happened to the city over the past few decades.

And most importantly, he discovered that what he thought had vanished is actually still here.

We met up in Tomkin Square Park and walked around our neighborhood together.

I got to hear firsthand what it was like when the city went Farrell.

Well, the streets were completely empty. There were no cars.

You know, you could just ride down the middle of the street.

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