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🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Life in prison can mess with your senses. There are smells you can’t unsmell, and sounds you long to hear. Some tastes you forget about entirely, and some forms of touch are almost too evocative to bear. Five San Quentin residents reflect on the sights, tastes, touch, smells, and sounds of prison life.
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0:00.0 | Okay, Irlon, you know what my all-time inspirational go-to podcast is, right? |
0:05.8 | Of course I do. |
0:07.0 | This American life. |
0:08.0 | You brought it into the prison for us to hear before Ear House will even exist. |
0:12.0 | Exactly because I really wanted you and the guys inside to know what a podcast is supposed |
0:17.6 | to sound like. |
0:18.6 | You mean the goal, standard? |
0:19.6 | Totally. |
0:20.6 | And one of the reasons it remains my favorite is that Ira and the team tell stories that |
0:24.6 | make you understand what it feels like to be in someone else's shoes. |
0:28.4 | They definitely have a story about what it feels like to be in my shoes. |
0:32.0 | Oh yeah, like what? |
0:33.2 | There's this episode called The Longest Distance Between Two Points. |
0:37.0 | And in it you hear this little guy struggling so hard to come up with a way to visualize |
0:41.8 | the difference between bees and bees. |
0:44.3 | And man, that one gave me little boo-hoo's because that is exactly what it's like to be |
0:48.8 | dyslexic. |
0:49.8 | And I still struggle with those damn bees and bees. |
0:52.5 | Oh, you know, I think their show works so well because sometime, like you just said, |
0:58.3 | you see yourself in it. |
0:59.8 | And other times, it's something you thought you understood, but just a whole other perspective |
1:04.6 | on it. |
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