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First-ever prison-produced podcast 'Ear Hustle' lets you listen to real stories of incarcerated life - Duration: 8:32.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: how a podcast is providing an intimate look at life behind bars in California's
oldest prison.
The audio series "Ear Hustle," the first podcast to be produced entirely inside a prison, has
steadily grown in popularity by laying out in vivid detail the everyday experiences of
the inmates at San Quentin.
Jeffrey Brown has our story.
MAN: You are now tuned into San Quentin's "Ear Hustle."
MAN: What gives you hope in prison?
MAN: Damn.
Getting out, that's all I can hope for.
JEFFREY BROWN: On the popular podcast, "Ear Hustle," they call this yard talk.
MAN: What does it mean to be institutionalized in prison?
MAN: Like, just being stuck in a rut.
Even though that you know these things are not right, but you're still doing them, though.
JEFFREY BROWN: For the inmates at San Quentin, it's a chance to be heard far beyond these
prison walls.
"Ear Hustle"'s stories and the sketches by inmates that accompany them offer a rare look
at life inside a prison.
The phrase is slang in here for eavesdropping.
NIGEL POOR, Co-Host, "Ear Hustle": How do you take your coffee?
MAN: I don't usually drink coffee in here, because I like don't like to stay up.
I like to sleep it off.
JEFFREY BROWN: Sitting just north of San Francisco, San Quentin is a California state facility
that's home to some 4,000 men, most under medium security, but it includes more than
700 on death row.
It's a place known for its education and work opportunities for prisoners, including a media
lab, where we watched the show's co-hosts in action, inmate Earlonne Woods and Nigel
Poor, a San Francisco-based artist who's been volunteering in San Quentin since 2011.
NIGEL POOR: The purpose of the podcast is to try to tell the everyday stories of life
inside prison, and trying to find the commonalities between what happens inside and what happens
outside of prison.
MAN: I did not realize that I could potentially be facing life in prison.
JEFFREY BROWN: "Ear Hustle"'s stories can be raw and intense about the realities of
race relations, for example.
MAN: You're one with your race.
If something happens between two races, everyone is supposed to go, whether it's fighting or
whatever.
JEFFREY BROWN: But there's also plenty of humor and relatable problems, such as sharing
a tiny space, as in the episode called "Cellies."
MAN: You can't walk by each other.
One person either got to sit on his buck and the other person can walk by.
MAN: The rule is, don't touch my stuff, don't look through my mail, don't look at my pictures,
do not put your hands on my shelf, because, if you do, that's like the ultimate form of
disrespect.
JEFFREY BROWN: Earlonne Woods, who has served nearly 20 years on a 31-year-to-life sentence
for attempted second-degree robbery, says that "Ear Hustle" is a reflection of his own
coming to terms.
EARLONNE WOODS, Co-Host, "Ear Hustle": As you go through time, you have to get real
with yourself and you have to come to the conclusion, well, I did do this.
You know, and I am accountable for my actions.
And I think most people that are here that's been locked up over a decade are on that path,
to where they're trying to atone for whatever may have happened in the past or just trying
to find some type of understanding, you know?
JEFFREY BROWN: Woods met co-host Nigel Poor while she was teaching a photography class
at San Quentin.
The pair hit it off and quickly built an easy rapport that has become the backbone of the
show.
NIGEL POOR: One of the original intents was to show that inside and outside people can
work together as colleagues with professionalism and mutual respect.
And I also can be the voice of the person who doesn't have experience in prison.
So, I can ask the maybe embarrassing questions or push Earlonne a little bit.
JEFFREY BROWN: Last year, a pilot of the series won an international contest put on by PRX's
Radiotopia that helped introduced "Ear Hustle" to a much larger audience.
Within a few months, it was at the top of the iTunes podcast charts, and, to date, episodes
have been downloaded more than six million times.
EARLONNE WOODS: We wasn't trying to send no messages, nothing like that.
We were just, let's tell some good stories.
Let's get some good people to tell stories.
JEFFREY BROWN: Nigel Poor says finding good stories at San Quentin has never been a problem.
NIGEL POOR: There's a lot of gossip inside prison.
JEFFREY BROWN: Yes.
NIGEL POOR: So, it's not hard to get the word around that you're looking for something specific.
So, at this point, we can get people coming to us and saying, I want to do this story.
JEFFREY BROWN: For the podcast's sound designer, Antwan Williams, who is serving a 15-year
sentence for armed robbery, the challenge is to capture the feel of daily life here,
including what he calls the sound of despair.
What would despair feel like?
What would it sound like?
ANTWAN WILLIAMS, Sound Designer, "Ear Hustle": It can be just the sound of breathing by itself,
with no interruptions, with no echoes or with no chimes, just the sound of a breath.
JEFFREY BROWN: "Ear Hustle" follows the long tradition of inmate-produced content at San
Quentin.
The prison's newspaper has been published since the 1920s.
CURTIS ROBERTS, Inmate: The first time I'm eligible for parole is 2044.
JEFFREY BROWN: One episode, called "Left Behind," included the story of Curtis Roberts, who
is in his 23rd year after being sentenced under California's three strikes law.
CURTIS ROBERTS: The crime I committed was that I walked into a liquor store, I snatched
two $20 bills out of the cash register, no weapon.
After I got caught for stealing the $40, I pled guilty to burglary robbery, and they
gave me 50 years to life.
JEFFREY BROWN: Roberts says he eventually felt safe enough with the "Ear Hustle" team
to talk about something rarely spoken of: He'd been raped inside San Quentin.
CURTIS ROBERTS: They really helped me feel comfortable and calm.
And I never felt threatened.
It was a comfortable environment.
JEFFREY BROWN: What do you think is the biggest misperception about people in prison?
CURTIS ROBERTS: I think the perception is that we're these monsters in here.
I am not a monster.
I'm a stupid idiot that did drugs and stole money.
I'm still human, though.
JEFFREY BROWN: Every "Ear Hustle" story, no matter the topic, must be approved by Lieutenant
Sam Robinson, San Quentin's public information officer.
LT.
SAM ROBINSON, San Quentin Public Information Officer: I think, as a society, we're responsible.
We pay for what takes place behind the walls of a prison.
And you're accountable for it.
And so, if you're accountable for it, you should be informed about what that is.
JEFFREY BROWN: Robinson says the only episode he nearly prevented was titled "The Boom Boom
Room" about conjugal visits, both legal and illicit.
MAN: At San Quentin, the married guys who have them get to spend 48 hours with their
family in a cottage on prison grounds.
NIGEL POOR: OK, that's the official, legitimate way.
But people being who they are, they're going to find a way to do their thing.
LT.
SAM ROBINSON: I have been here 21 years, so I have...
(LAUGHTER)
LT.
SAM ROBINSON: You know, it's not the first time that I have heard it.
It's not the first time that I'm aware of illegal sexual activities taking place inside
the prison.
JEFFREY BROWN: "Ear Hustle"'s creators say they have been overwhelmed by the response
to the series so far.
But I asked Woods what he'd tell those, including victims of crime, who might question his freedom
to do this work.
EARLONNE WOODS: Everybody has their truth, you know?
Even the victims and the survivors that you're speaking of, they have their truth, whether
we should have this or not.
But I believe that the whole purpose of the Department of Corrections or prisons is for
one to correct themselves.
So, if the underlying reasons is for us to correct ourselves, there should be some type
of rehabilitative services.
JEFFREY BROWN: Woods and the rest of the team are now at work on season two of "Ear Hustle,"
set for next march.
For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jeffrey Brown in San Quentin Prison, California.
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Welcome to Klein Family Dentistry! - Duration: 5:22.
- I'm Dr. Gary Klein.
I'm the dentist here at Klein Family Dentistry in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
My father founded this practice in 1979.
When I was a kid, I would come here, and my dad would take impressions of my finger.
He would tickle our teeth.
After shadowing my father for a little while, I realized this was what I wanted to do with
my life.
So I'm married to my wife, Alyssa.
We have three beautiful children, Julia, Jenna, and Parisa.
And the best part about bein' a dad is when they come into my room in the morning, and
they give me a hug and say, "Dad, I missed you so much while you were sleeping."
It's the reason why I get up in the morning, and the reason I work so hard is for them.
They make it all worthwhile, their smiles.
You know this is called Klein Family Dentistry for a reason.
The family part of it is we treat everyone like our own family.
Many times you'll find me out here in the waiting room, talking to our patients because
I really care about their lives and when that comes to treatment planning, and doing dentistry
we treat them like our own family.
Like we wanna be treated.
So my dad started this practice 1979, you know, we have patients here who are the grandchildren
or the great-grandchildren of our first patients.
And so, we're building trust, we're building relationships over a long time.
So we wanna do the right thing, we wanna do it well, we wanna make sure that the treatment
we're proposing, the treatment that we're doing is the best possible treatment for our
patients.
We have lots of patients who come in our office and we see them everyday, who haven't been
to the dentist in five, ten, fifteen years.
And they think their mouth is the worst mouth in the world.
They have deteriorated gums.
They have broken down teeth, lots of cavities, abscesses, pain.
It's routine for us.
We have a great facility here and we can get our treatment done in a very quick and painless
fashion.
The most rewarding aspect of what I do in our office, is to really get people outta
pain, but more so make them smile again.
I mean, I can't tell you how many patients walked into our office with their hands over
their mouth and we're able to fix these problems.
And we know, look, this is life, your teeth wear down, your teeth break.
We can very easily fix them in a very, simple and straightforward manner.
Even if it's a small, little one-tooth filling, or a one-tooth that's broken, we can fix that.
Up to the very large cases, I mean it's very rewarding both for the patient and for us.
I mean, I can't tell you how many times that someone comes in with a single broken tooth
and in a matter of an hour procedure we can put that tooth back together and they can
walk out with a functional tooth and smiling and happy.
-I had a lot of sensitivity.
I couldn't eat.
So I went to another dentist.
They told me I had was a gum disease and I was losing bone so my teeth had to be pulled.
And he said, "All of 'em."
I lost it.
It's like what am I gonna do?
So I ended up getting dentures from that place and for a year and a half I was miserable.
Cried everyday.
They didn't fit.
As soon as I would bite into something, they would come loose and the bottoms wouldn't
stay in, the tops were falling out.
I said the teeth aren't right, they don't work.
These are my permanents, they're not right.
He shoved me out the door.
After that, I drove by here going to the highway and I saw the sign and thought, "Hm, let me
call them."
Gave me an estimate of how much it would cost, you know, with my dental insurance and everything
and actually, it was very reasonable.
It was doable.
Six months later I had my implants in.
So they don't move at all.
I can chew gum now.
I can eat nuts which for a year and a half I could not eat a Hershey bar with almonds,
and it was upsetting because that's my favorite.
But now, I mean, my mom would be proud.
I can chew gum.
So Dr. Klein has made a huge difference in my life, a huge.
I tell everybody about him because this smile, I'm proud of this smile and it doesn't fall
out.
And I can't say how happy I am.
You know, don't sit at home and be this way, don't be miserable.
Everything I couldn't eat a year ago, I'm eating now with no problem now.
It is affordable, it really is affordable.
When I called Klein Family Dentistry it was the best phone call I had ever made in my
life.
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i'm tired - Duration: 1:01.
and we meet again.
honestly, i am tired.
i am scared.
you scare me.
lately, i've been thinking...
you remember, right?
that day...
when i first met you.
you listened.
you listened so well.
you were listening to me that day
i was so proud.
but did you?
you never answer me.
i'm tired.
YOU
i need you...
until the end
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