Revisiting “Future on Ice”

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Revisiting our 2018 episode “Future on Ice,” about the lives of immigrants in San Quentin.

Being an immigrant in an American prison can pose unique challenges, like deciding which racial group you’ll identify with. But sometimes the biggest hurdles don’t become apparent until the day you are released.

Thanks to Martin Gomez, Miguel Sifuentes, Wayne Boatwright, Phoeun You, David Jassy, Ai Borey (aka PJ) and Marco Villa for sharing their stories with us. And thanks to Jose Diaz, Vicente Gomez and Gerardo Sanchez-Muratalla, the Three Guitarists.

This episode was scored with music by David Jassy, with contributions from Antwan Williams. As always, much gratitude to Lt. Sam Robinson and Warden Ron Davis for their continued support of Ear Hustle.

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Big thanks to 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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0:00.0	Hey Shabnam. Hey, Bruce. Why are listeners hearing road noise in the background?
0:10.0	Well, we're on the road as part of our Ear Hustle Live Road show, and today we're driving from Oklahoma City to Dallas for, what is it, the ninth out of our 10 performances.
0:23.4	Which has been so much fun, and people will certainly be hearing more about that in the future.
0:27.7	We also, just to say, we were in Oklahoma City because we brought the show into two women's prisons in Oklahoma,
0:32.9	and the second of them was yesterday and was near Oklahoma City.
0:38.3	It was beautiful, really rewarding, really special, and one of the hottest experiences I've ever had.
0:45.3	I drank a lot of water. It was 100 degrees yesterday and the place where we performed the live show at the prison
0:55.5	was not air conditioned.
0:56.5	But it was great though.
0:58.5	I think everyone really appreciated it.
1:00.5	Yep.
1:01.5	All right.
1:02.5	And before we get into what we're here to talk about, just remind listeners what your
1:05.3	role on Air Hustle is.
1:06.5	I'm the managing producer, so I handle a lot of what goes on outside of the audio production,
1:13.6	so communications, social media, newsletter, handling a lot of our events and logistics
1:20.6	and a lot of the fun and different collaborations we get to do with outside groups, just a really
1:26.6	fun and diverse list of activities, also including
1:29.3	cat herding.
1:30.3	So many cats on this trip.
1:33.3	All right, so what we're here to do today is do these things called sleeper hits, which
1:37.3	is every person on the Ear Hustle staff picks an episode from our archives that they really
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