4.9 • 21.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Sports in prison are more than just games. They can be an outlet for stress, the realization of dreams deferred, or a positive way to prove oneself to peers and family. In this episode, one player battles for acceptance and a spot on the San Quentin baseball team, a two-time Super Bowl champion goes from partying with the Patriots to living in a 5x9 cell, and resident sports reporter Rahsaan “New York” Thomas attempts to win a one-on-one basketball game on behalf of all the nerds.
As always, big thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Warden Ron Broomfield for their support of the show.
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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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