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2025-02-26

  New Episodes Start Next Week!

The Ear Hustle team has been hard at work on a whole batch of new stories from San Quentin, the California Institution for Women, the Central California Women’s Facility, and beyond. They’ll be in your feed starting next Wednesday, March 5 — but Nigel ...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2025-02-12

  Revisiting “Camp Grace”

Next up in our “sleeper hits” series, our editor Amy listens back to “Camp Grace,” a 2021 episode that she had started producing until she was sidelined by COVID. In it, we follow a group of kids to Salinas Valley State Prison to spend two days with th...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2025-01-17

  From the Vault: Crew No. 7

California relies on incarcerated firefighters to fight fires like the ones that have engulfed Southern California this month. But once these men and women are released from prison, they can have a hard time finding jobs on civilian firefighting crews....
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2025-01-08

  Revisiting “August 21, 1971”

In the next installment in our “sleeper hits” series, Earlonne listens back to the episode “August 21, 1971,” about George Jackson and one of the most significant days in San Quentin’s history. E talks about why this was an essential story for Ear Hust...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-12-11

  Last Memory: Linda

Linda’s mom brought her to a Catholic Mass because she had a sense her daughter was on the verge of something, and needed help. Thirty-seven years into her prison sentence, Linda wonders what would have happened if she had listened to her mom, and Nige...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-11-27

  Last Memory: Leisha

Leisha didn't plan on getting pregnant. And she certainly didn't plan on giving birth in prison. But on the day those two red lines showed up, Leisha found kindness in an unexpected place.Thanks to Katie Turner and Samantha Bhatia at Poetic Justice for...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-11-13

  The Wrong Line of Business

Earlonne's here with his "mystery" episode, and it's a doozy. He tells Nigel a redemption story wrapped in a drug-trafficking story, and, along the way, dives deep into several subjects we swore we'd never touch. Buckle up. Thanks to George for telling...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-11-06

  My Understanding of This Place: Nigel & Earlonne

Over the past two episodes we’ve been hearing about “memory places” at San Quentin: ordinary-seeming spots that become extraordinary through the eyes of people who spent time there. In this extra mini-ep, Nigel and Earlonne take us to their spots, and ...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-10-30

  My Understanding of This Place, Part 2

In the second part of this two-part series, Nigel reveals to Earlonne the final stops in her memory-tour of San Quentin, culminating in an exploration of the prison’s former death row. Thanks to Shaka for speaking with us for this episode. Special than...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-10-16

  My Understanding of This Place, Part 1

Nigel — with help from our team inside San Quentin — has been cooking up an episode that her co-host knows nothing about. Without giving too much away, we can tell you that it involves visiting a part of the prison no one on Ear Hustle had seen before ...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author