The SHU

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The hole, the box, solitary confinement. It doesn’t matter what you call it; doing time in the SHU (Security Housing Unit) means you are alone and segregated from the general prison population. In this episode, four men who served between 8 and 28 years in the SHU share their memories of that time.

Thanks to Armando Flores, Gus Lamumba Edwards, Richard Johnson and Isaac Flores for telling their stories, and to John YaYa Johnson for assisting with this episode.

Ear Hustle is produced by Nigel Poor, Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods with consulting editor Curtis Fox, outside production advisor Pat Mesiti-Miller and executive producer Julie Shapiro.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're now tuned in to San Quentin's Ear Hustle from PR X's Radio Topia.
0:22.0	The following podcast contains language that may not be appropriate for all listeners.
0:27.4	Hey, it's Erline.
0:28.6	And Nigel, you know, folks are always asking us for show recommendations.
0:32.9	Yep, and listeners, if you're looking for a new podcast for your rotation,
0:37.1	may we recommend one of the first and best ever to do it, the kitchen sisters present.
0:41.9	You'll find a beautiful marriage of sound rich, deeply layered audio and unexpected compelling stories
0:48.5	that crisscross the B side of history.
0:50.9	Learn about role-globbering, while rotisserie chicken is so cheap, famous people,
0:56.5	like Ray Eams and Linda Rohnstatt and not so famous people, like Susan Rogers.
1:01.5	The technician who became Prince's Sound Engineer with no training and sound engineering.
1:06.2	Erline, have I told you my favorite episode?
1:08.2	Hmm.
1:09.2	Eel, high, island.
1:11.0	If you're into music, you've got to listen.
1:13.2	I've listened so many times.
1:15.0	And like all of their episodes, it is full of surprises.
1:18.3	From Radio Topia, the kitchen sisters present.
1:21.2	Listen wherever you get your podcasts and at kitchensisters.org.
1:26.5	I'm a Mondo Flores and I served 26 years in solitary confinement.
1:32.7	Being in the shoe for so long, it will affect you.
1:36.4	In many ways, you know, from not being able to finish a sentence,
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