Revisiting “Gold Coats and OGs”
Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
4.9 • 21.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Earlonne brings his second selection from the archives: an episode from Ear Hustle’s first season about how people care for each other in a harsh place.
Dealing with aging and death is never easy. But in prison, these issues are fraught with extra challenges, both emotional and physical. Meet two inmates serving extended sentences who grapple with the idea of dying in prison, and have also stepped up to take care of their fellow aging prisoners.
Sound design for this episode is by Antwan Williams, with extra music tracks supplied by JB Burton. Thanks to Lonnie Morris, Richard Lathan, and Andres Eric Watson for sharing their stories. And special thanks to Anthony Marzett for being on the receiving end of Andres’ shit talk.
Big thanks to Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center; Acting Warden Parker, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Avina 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 | Hello, Erlon. Hey, what's up, Bruce? That's how I'm supposed to welcome you to this episode. Well, hello, Bruce. How are you? Good. Good to be back in the studio with you. We're jamming this in between roadshow rehearsals. We're about to hit the road in a few days. I don't know. Yes. Have you have everything vacuum sealed all your clothes and luggage pack? I haven't even went to the washhouse yet. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | You know, so. |
| 0:25.2 | We're in the studio today to do your second round of your sleeper hits where an Ear Hustle team |
| 0:30.5 | member goes into the Ear Hustle archives and pulls out an episode that is a favorite of theirs |
| 0:35.8 | that they want to relisten to, return to, |
| 0:38.7 | and drop more attention to. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, so I got a cool one. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm excited about this one. |
| 0:42.6 | Tell folks what you wanted to listen to today. |
| 0:44.6 | So today, we're going to be listening to an episode out of our first season. |
| 0:49.5 | It's episode nine, and it's called Gold Coats and OGs. |
| 0:53.4 | And this one first aired October 11, 2017. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, and I feel like we return to a lot of our episodes from that first season. |
| 1:01.5 | There are a lot of classics in there, but this one is talked about a lot, but I haven't listened to it in years. |
| 1:08.3 | Damn. |
| 1:08.9 | Why did you choose this one? |
| 1:30.0 | Well, one, the person that's talking, he's a good friend of mine. That's Lonnie Morris? Lonnie Moe. Oh, yeah, he's a good friend of Ear Hustles. And he's been on since he's been out, not to give anything way, but he's been on some episodes since he's been out to. Remember when we did on clothing, he was sort of our expert on how inside. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah, inside clothing trends and policies changed over the many years. |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.6 | There's a few episodes I've always, you know, like it was interested to do because we got a different side of the, not just all the crazy shit that goes on in prison, but, you know, some humanitarian that goes on inside of that joint. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah. |
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