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Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
4.9 • 21.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Running a prison takes a lot of work, and not just by the staff running the place. At San Quentin inmates work regular jobs, earn pennies on the hour and often supplement their income with a side hustle.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Juan Hanes, Senior Editor for San Quentin News. |
| 0:03.4 | The following podcast contains language and descriptions of graphic violence that may not |
| 0:07.8 | be appropriate for all listeners. |
| 0:09.8 | Disgression is advised. |
| 0:11.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:12.3 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:13.3 | I'll go get some. |
| 0:15.1 | So I have a big jar of coffee I'm selling. |
| 0:19.7 | I have a big jar of coffee. |
| 0:21.0 | Anybody interested? |
| 0:22.0 | Are you sick and tired of your sell? |
| 0:23.6 | He's just laying around in the house next to you and won't get you any sell time. |
| 0:27.1 | Well, I believe if you bought this jar of coffee and surely with your selling, giving |
| 0:30.5 | a big strong shot, I guarantee you he'll get up, he'll jump down, he'll brush his teeth, |
| 0:36.1 | wash his hair and he'll get out and give you sell time. |
| 0:38.5 | That's what this big jar of coffee would do. |
| 0:40.4 | So you guys continue to be difficult if you want to. |
| 0:43.4 | But if you want to get up an exercise, you're tired of laying up in your bunk. |
| 0:46.1 | I got you. |
| 0:47.1 | This big jar of coffee right here is going to get you up and out of that cell in a heartbeat. |
| 0:53.4 | You are now listening to San Quitton's Ear Hustle from PRX's Radio Topia. |
| 0:58.9 | I am Rossan New York Thomas, a resident of San Quitton serving a life sentence. |
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