Snap Studios.

I'm Erlon Woods.

I'm Nigel Poor.

We're the hosts and creators of Ear Hustle from PRX's Radiotopia.

When we met, I was doing time at San Quentin State Prison in California.

And I was coming in as a volunteer.

The stories we tell are probably

not what people expect from a prison podcast. Like cooking meals in a prison cell,

keeping little pets, prison nicknames, and trying to be a parent from inside. Stories about

life on the inside, shared by those who live it. Find your hustle wherever you get your podcasts.

Okay, so it's time the world knew the truth.

And I know I'm going to get the angry letters, the furious reprisals.

Please send any of all complaints, the Snap Judgment Complaint Department,

Joe Rogan at joe rogan.com.

But I gotta tell my truth because back in the day,

I moved from Michigan to the San Francisco Bay.

Land and lovely Oakland, California, good people, good times.

I instantly feel this sense of kinship,

the sense of home, some of the same foods,

and someone needs to explore the relationship between Michigan pasties and Bay Area Epinadas.

That the same pride of place. And I even hear similar slang in the bank.

Take the folk walking down the street saying,

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