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Ear Hustle

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Latest episodes

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October 14, 2026 · 49 min

Jack spent 35 years in a security housing unit, aka "the hole," and he’s got some stories to tell. You can hear more about Jack's story on the PBS documentary The Strike. Subscribe to Ear Hustle Plus! Last week, Nigel took Ear Plustlers…
An Announcement from Nigel and Earlonne

October 7, 2026 · 5 min

E and Nyge would like a quick word. Sign up for Ear Hustle Plus at earhustlesq.com/plus. (Supercast subscribers: Keep an eye on your email for instructions on how to set up your new EH+ feed.) Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia…
Catch a Kite: On the Road

September 30, 2026 · 38 min

We solicited questions about life in prison from audience members at our live shows. Then, we took those questions into a couple prisons we'd never been to before — Folsom State Prison in California, and SCI Chester in Pennsylvania — and…
From "Examined: The Backfire Effect"

September 23, 2026 · 34 min

Here's a preview from the new season of Examined, a podcast from Pushkin Industries that looks at the realities of incarceration from the perspective of a wrongful conviction. This season: The Backfire Effect. Nearly 40 years ago, in the…
The Whole Night Was for Nothing

September 16, 2026 · 58 min

Two people are connected by a terrible crime, committed over 30 years ago. What do we owe the people we hurt, and how long does that debt endure? Subscribe to Ear Hustle Plus! In the feed this week: Earlonne and Nigel get a reading from…

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On the Margins

September 2, 2026 · 47 min

A psychic. An RV park. A one-room post office. San Quentin's prison gets all the headlines, but just over the wall, there's a whole other world to explore. This episode was scored with music by Antwan Williams, David Jassy, Derrell Sadiq…
CIW: The Magazine, Issue One

August 12, 2026 · 35 min

Rumors of a prison swimming pool, losing cherished memories to new technology, the right to housing in prison, and different ways of looking at a letter: Our first class of storytellers at the California Institution for Women dives deep…
Revisiting "Last Memory: Linda"

July 23, 2026 · 58 min

Nigel reexamines the fourth episode in our Last Memory series, from December of 2024. 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…
Behind the Scenes: “Bag of Skittles” and “Over and Over and Over and Over”

July 8, 2026 · 33 min

Could telling Sadiq and Demarion’s story actually make things worse between them? And were we right to be concerned that SQ's public information officer wouldn't sign off on a story about penis modification? For our latest editorial…
Revisiting "Getting a Date"

June 24, 2026 · 43 min

Earlonne relistens to the final episode of Ear Hustle’s first season, about one official and one unofficial way to get out of prison. Steve, Danny, Phillip, and Ron are all trying to make their way out of prison. In our final episode of…
Over and Over and Over and Over

June 10, 2026 · 39 min

Even though they share a difficult past, Sadiq and Demarion had never met in person, and it was probably best that it stayed that way. When an event at San Quentin brought them together, Demarion faced an agonizing choice. This episode…
Tricks of the Trade

May 28, 2026 · 43 min

At North Kern State Prison, incarcerated people are being trained to do what staff cannot: provide peer support, whether it’s with addiction, cellie drama, or just adjusting to prison life. Nigel and Earlonne pay a couple visits, and hit…

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About the show

Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the California Institution for Women, as well as stories about getting out of prison and starting over, post-incarceration. From finding romance, to grappling with a life sentence, to trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, Ear Hustle stories deliver what This American Life host Ira Glass calls a “"very real” and “untragic” take on prison life. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a network of independent listener-supported podcasts. Discover audio with vision at radiotopia.fm and learn more about Ear Hustle at earhustlesq.com.