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🗓️ 1 October 2025
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Next week we’re dropping the first episode of our six-part series about kids who are involved, one way or another, in New York City’s criminal justice system, and an innovative program that’s teaching them the skills of theatrical improv. We’re calling it “The Loop.” Here’s a sneak peek.
You can find the series, starting October 8, wherever you listen to Ear Hustle.
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| 0:00.0 | Erlon, we've got some news to share. Yes, we do. In one week, right here, we are launching a whole new six-part series. Can you share the details? Yes. Over the last year and a half, we've been getting on planes every couple of months to go spend time with incarcerated kids and staff at a juvenile detention center in New York. |
| 0:21.9 | All right, it's over. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, we're heading in. |
| 0:24.6 | We have to go through these two doors. |
| 0:26.6 | Where there's a very cool project taking place called Drama Club. |
| 0:30.6 | Three, two, one, action. |
| 0:33.6 | What do you mean? |
| 0:35.6 | You're supposed to come in the car? |
| 0:36.6 | Like, this is the best day of my life, so you take me out. |
| 0:40.3 | They're getting incarcerated teenagers to do something that may not be in their toolkit. |
| 0:45.3 | Drama's not like the coolest thing in the world. |
| 0:49.3 | To be part of drummer club, you gotta know the five rules. |
| 0:53.3 | Rule number one, yes and. |
| 0:55.8 | Which means accept the offer that's given to you and add something to it. |
| 1:00.8 | With improv, you could do anything. |
| 1:02.6 | And there's like nobody could laugh at you, there's no right or wrong answer. |
| 1:05.7 | Like I could be a cowgirl if I want to, like, you know, nobody's gonna look at me weird. |
| 1:09.4 | Rule number two, the three Ws. |
| 1:11.6 | You gotta know who you are, where you are, |
| 1:14.6 | and what's going on in the scene. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm a product of my environment. |
| 1:18.6 | I was raised around nothing but violent, |
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