[5][15] In 2020, alongside Poor and co-host Rahsaan Thomas, Woods was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. E WOODS: I don't - I think when you're living in the moment, you feel untouchable. So you recorded interviews with Trevor and Tyra talking about how difficult it is to maintain a relationship with your child when you're incarcerated and how difficult it is to help them stay out of trouble. GROSS: We talk about the podcast and before we talk about your work together, Earlonne, I want to talk with you about life outside. Earlonne Woods was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. I don't know what tomorrow brings, but I know what's happening today and right now. So sometimes it's important, and I can give you an example. He's able to call me collect. His first book, OG Told Me, is a memoir-style collection of essays about Harshaw's. He works as a full-time producer, co-host, and co-creator of Ear Hustle at PRX alongside Nigel Poor. POOR: There's something I have to talk to you about. They searched Tyler, and then they ran his name. So I think what kept me sane is that I had the philosophy where, I am going to live to the best of my ability every day that I have left on this Earth no matter where I'm at. I'm always interested in people who - I'm quiet myself. As co-host of the 2019 Third Coast Awards Ceremony, Earlonne will make his return to the "Oscars of Radio." Last year, he beamed in via video ( watch here ) after winning a 2018 Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award as part of the Ear Hustle team. And so to me, that meant he was a very good observer. He is a man of average height. WOODS: It's unrealistic, but I think about just getting out of San Quentin, jumping in the water and swimming to my yacht and going around the world. And it really wasn't until I got into the healing circle that I understood what it was like to be a survivor of crime because in these circles, you're sitting across from crime victims. GROSS: Yeah. We called up Nigel Poor today to ask her about it, and she said that when they got the news yesterday, they were in the middle of making an episode. Content Creator @CoinAcademy; Pres. TYRA WOODSON: And he began acting out. Kourtney Kellar is an American model, social media celebrity, influencer, media face, and Internet personality. I don't know. Can people change? And he said the thing that all women fear is that I raped women because I could. For the first few months after Earlonne Woods was released from San Quentin in November, his "Ear Hustle" podcast co-host Nigel Poor kept receiving photos of ice cream on her phone. POOR: Earlonne described himself, and I described myself. POOR: But I get to see his brother and catch him up on what you're doing. He was hired to continue co-hosting and producing the podcast after his release. Nigel is a professor at California State University. They fell in love just like anyone else would. [5] Woods role on the podcast was well-received, with Sarah Larson from The New Yorker describing him as an "immediately warm and likable presence",[10] while Eddie Harana from Rolling Stone praised the sense of humor he brought to the show. And to hear - to take that in and to not be afraid and to not judge a person but to, like, sit with it and think about it and think about this was 30 years ago, like I just - I had to do a lot of work around that. Woods never used the drug, though became addicted to the money and lifestyle selling it provided. [3] After two rounds of judging, Ear Hustle was selected as the winner and added to the Radiotopia network. GROSS: And - so you interviewed him about commuting your sentence. But, as to being cool with it, it's what it is. And a chase pursued. ALEX BLUMBERG: And so a friend of Earlonne's, a volunteer at the prison, had an idea: with this spotlight on his work, and having served now two decades of his 31-to-life sentence, Earlonne should put in for a commutation -- make an official appeal to the governor, to set him free. Earlonne became busy reporting on re-entry stories and daily life for originally incarcerated people, while also documenting his own experiences. He also founded CHOOSE1, which aims to repeal the California . So Earlonne, let me ask you about ways you think you've changed since you were a teenager and were first put in prison. It was a restorative justice group. In 2016, it was selected by the Radiotopia network as the winner of its Podquest competition, and the following year released its first season. Earlonne Woods educational background is unavailable. Not one bit, you know? Then there are those marriages that become the subjects of books . No. EARLONNE WOODS: Well, I just keep getting up every morning, you know, thankful that I have another day, thankful that I'm alive, you know? Like, my mother used to bring him. He is a man of average stature. He became affiliated with a local Crips gang in high school, and began selling marijuana at 14, and later sold cocaine. So even though I'm hearing stuff and then I'm talking to him, he playing - he downplaying it. Earlonnes net worth is estimated to be $657,586. But I took way more from that person than $1. Don't be - whatever you do, don't play with no guns. I have all the different people that I talk to as I work my way down to the media lab. And so (laughter) it was just incredible. Woods helped create Ear Hustle while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. And it has made me - it has made me care about men so much more. E WOODS: It is - they see something that I can't see. And when I was sitting in a county jail, you know, mentally, I pretty much divorced myself from that whole way of life in that moment, you know? When asked earlier this year what was the first thing he would do if he got out, Woods said, Take a bath. What's it like to not think about that? But then someone will research you and be like, did they just feed me a bunch of bull [expletive]. So now we're - I mean, we're friends, and we're colleagues. Earlonne Woods annual salary is $61,244 on average. You may be a changed individual, all the way changed, would never commit another crime. You feel invincible in some ways. Earlonne Woods is a popular American podcaster. It didn't work out, unfortunately. While incarcerated, he received his GED, attended Coastline Community College, and completed many vocational programs. Earlonne Woods is an American podcaster and author, best known for co-hosting and co-founding the podcast Ear Hustle in 2017, and co-authoring the book This Is Ear Hustle in 2021. China. They eventually met this person. GROSS: And you basically just described your own situation when you were incarcerated because you got 31 to life for attempted second-degree robbery. E WOODS: So I think that goes into, like, what they call politics in prison and where, you know, you may have certain prisons that it matters what you're in prison for like - and it's a difference on a race level. He is also involved in the Repeal California's Three Strike Coalition, which aims to end California . Presently, Earlonne has not mentioned any details concerning his parents. I'll say I've - on the second term - so the first term is where I did all the solitary stuff. He does not, however, expose his wife's identity to the public. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guests are Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor, the co-creators of the podcast Ear Hustle. His net worth is estimated to be $657,586. Jerry Brown (D) has commuted the prison sentence of Earlonne Woods, whose hit podcast Ear Hustle explores life inside San Quentin State Prison. You end thinking, like, here's this guy who's very self-actualized. I get to see how they express love and tenderness and fear and frustration and how they posture and what's behind that. He likes to keep his personal life private hence Earlonne has not mentioned any details concerning his marital status. It was so kick-back and cool, meaning I take advantage of all these moments now. When Earlonne was incarcerated in San Quentin, he and Nigel Poor started the podcast Ear Hustle. In 1997, Earlonne was sentenced to thirty-one years to life in prison. I was questioning everything. I probably was like 14. You're sitting across from politicians. Should we recognize the change, or once you did the act, that's who you are - your essence, your identity - and never to be considered? [5] He served his last seven years at San Quentin. POOR: Yeah, not skewed, not skewed. Brown cited Woods' leadership in . For Walter "Earlonne" Woods, the path to freedom was podcasting. And when I went in the second time, my friend Furman Little (ph) was killed the night we were arrested. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. And you also spent time in solitary, where it's very hard to stay sane. But the things that you do in your past do add dimension to who you are in this moment. Who is Kourtney Kellar? But yeah, I can't. You know, they get to see each other in passing. You're sitting across from law enforcement. "Ear Hustle" features stories from prison told by prisoners - their intimate, honest conversations about family visits, cellmates, solitary confinement - conversations like this one between Earlonne Woods and his co-host Nigel Poor, who's not an inmate. I think it's about probably 20 people from there that call me collect. The podcast team announced Tuesday that it will hire Woods as an employee on the show. And they say Tyler just took off running. Earlonne still co-hosts the show alongside Nigel. No, and I laugh because had Governor Brown probably not been the governor, I would still have 10 years of my sentence left. Earlonne Woods, co-host of the popular prison podcast Ear Hustle, had his sentence commuted by California Gov. E WOODS: I like my colors bright these days. POOR: I'm so glad you asked about this. E WOODS: Well, I think - so I'll say this. Ear Hustle was the first podcast to be created entirely inside a prison. OK. While incarcerated, he received his GED, attended Coastline Community College, and completed many vocational programs. POOR: And it's going to be a little bit hard. You start attending different self-help groups. And Trevor, your brother, speaks first. I actually oddly enjoy being in there. Ive been taking showers for like 20 years.. Williams was serving a 15-year sentence for armed robbery with a gun enhancement. [8][9][16] Vulture's Nicholas Quah noted a particular story a prisoner told about a frog in episode three: "a moment of levity in a setting often described in the worst of terms, a productive kind of conversation between the specificities of a person and the overpowering context of his incarceration. And then I got into the lifestyle of robbing drug dealers. And so when people listen to this story, that's what I want them to take away, that here's this person who is in a difficult situation. [8] Galen Beebe's review for The Atlantic called it a "brilliant series" which "return[s] some of the humanity that the carceral system removes and provide[s] a link between inmates and outsiders. I don't know if it's a lake. But apparently it's fine - like, if you fall in love, the prisoner and the volunteer fall in love, that's fine as long as the volunteer or the staff person is no longer going to be working there in any capacity. We don't really do stories about people's crimes at all. And I think it would help demystify a lot of the assumptions that people have about who's in prison and who should be there. Earlonne Woods, 47, was recently released from San Quentin State Prison after California Gov. I was hoping I could talk to you a little bit about it. Also with us is Nigel Poor. So I'm going to enjoy. Jerry Brown commuted his sentence for attempted armed robbery. And I mean, we just knew that was the call. So me, personally, I would eradicate the three strikes law in California. Is that OK? You're more looking at what you're getting out of the situation. He went up there. They surrounded Tyler around a - at a apartment building, where he was trying to climb up to the roof. Why we living like we don't care - because this is somehow how we grew up and how - since as early teenager we've been living in the streets, in the gangs. Ear Hustle is a non-fiction podcast about prison life and life after incarceration created by Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, both formerly incarcerated, and Nigel Poor, an artist who volunteers at San Quentin State Prison. In 2018, California governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne Woods' sentence, citing Ear Hustle as a significant contributor to his reformation as an American citizen. You know, prison, I'm going to live to the best of my ability. Aaron Taylor. E WOODS: I, personally, would like to eradicate California's three strikes law because I think that there's a lot of people that's sentenced under this law, which everybody thinks is 25 to life. So you'll never get the opportunity to be in front of people to present the person that you are today. While incarcerated at California State Prison, Centinela, Woods saw a documentary about the film school at San Quentin State Prison, and applied to transfer to that prison. I was a clerk. Earlonne became preoccupied with reporting on re-entry stories and daily life for people who had previously been incarcerated, as well as documenting his own experiences. I was on some - I would like to say other words, but I'm holding my (laughter) E WOODS: (Laughter) I'm on the radio. POOR: So one of the things is that I really believe that people change. GROSS: A job because you thought it was, like, your only source of income? Through his podcast, [Woods] has shared meaningful stories from those inside prison.. SHAPIRO: Well, yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne Woods' sentence. Woods was raised in South Los Angeles with his parents and his older brother Trevor. Copyright 2018 NPR. I hope you'll join us. The podcast title, Ear Hustle, is prison slang for eavesdropping or being nosy. WOODSON: I used to work for the captain at CIW in the program office. They had left the auntie's house. [13], The term "ear hustle" is prison slang for eavesdropping. So you're interviewing a prisoner who - he and one of the volunteers fell in love, and so she stopped working there in any capacity, and they got married. And many people around me wasn't like that. Woods was involved in an attempted robbery in 1997, when he was in his 20s. And I hit the floor. I was going to Nigel's house the other day, and I was an hour early. So you can't wear blue, which is what they wear. It was transformational symposiums. And it might help you. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. Her latest novel "The Friend" won the National Book Award for fiction and is about to be published in paperback. I used to sit there and ask God, "Like, why am I living if I have to die?" And I think at that age I was questioning God. POOR: It is a different world over there. The show was still challenging to create, in part because none of the three producers had a background in audio production, but also because of prison administration red tape. Oh, daddy, I'm not playing with no guns. Woods learned of his commutation the day before Thanksgiving. I'm not doing this. ERIN: Oh, [expletive]. Woods helped create Ear Hustle while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. He and Nigel are also the authors of This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life, a book that was inspired by the podcast and released by Crown/Random House. And he understood how to diffuse a situation. She inherits his dog, a 180-pound Great Dane, who, like her, is grieving. All rights reserved. (SOUNDBITE OF NOEL BONNEVIE'S "DAHIL SA'YO"). Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. POOR: What are some of the things you think about when you fantasize about your life when you're out? Do you usually know what somebody is in for and do you ask, or is that considered wrong to ask? She started going to San Quentin to volunteer teaching photography. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. GROSS: Are you going to go back and visit him? POOR: You know, a kind of joy I never really experienced before - I mean, it's - you know, to be so happy for him and being in prison and not wanting to cry (laughter) - you know, trying to hold it together. And then the question is, well, what do we do about that? GROSS: So something I found really interesting is that the group that is multicultural and not segregated by race or ethnicity is the group that's into, like - the nerds, the group that are into, like, sci-fi fantasy and stuff like that. He works as a full-time producer, co-host, and co-creator of Ear Hustle at PRX alongside Nigel Poor. SHAPIRO: That's Earlonne Woods from the podcast "Ear Hustle." Earlonne Woods is the co-creator, co-host, and co-producer of Ear Hustle (PRX & Radiotopia). But I just - just took a course that was - seemed cool to me at the time. Elevated Entertainment LLC; Host: Hard in the Paint w/Aaron Showtime Taylor. And you have another 11 to go. And, like E WOODS: My partners. Does that mean we're self-absorbed? You know, when I was out for the two years 10 months, I raised Tyler, you know? --. Woods' sentence was recently commuted, but the two continue to tell stories of life. Even though you can't do nothing about your past, you just feel embarrassed about even going down that route, even victimizing anybody. POOR: You get a lot of calls from guys at San E WOODS: I get a lot of 15-minute calls from prison. I mean, there's two likely outcomes if you're robbing drug dealers. That, in a nutshell, is the juxtaposition that defines Ear Hustle. You were OK with that? GROSS: My guests are Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, the creators and hosts of the podcast Ear Hustle about life inside San Quentin Prison. He running with these hard heads. E WOODS: Right, right. He and Nigel also co-wrote This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life, a book inspired by the podcast and published by Crown/Random House. It was other people telling, you know, their stories about being robbed or losing a child, losing a loved one. [2], Woods first went to prison at 17 for two concurrent convictions of kidnapping and robbing a drug dealer, and was released at 23. And E WOODS: And of course I enjoy all the little moments. His mother was a postal worker and his father was an unemployed alcoholic, who Woods described as violent and distant. E WOODS: Hey - so I always go over to the L - I call them L7s. So right now there would be a problem with me going back to see him because I'm currently on parole. I'd rather not know. As of now, he works as a full-time producer, co-host, and co-creator of Ear Hustle at PRX alongside Nigel Poor. I think I was probably like eight years old when it came to me that one day I have to die. And you've said in the past that he was always the quietest person in the room, but you could tell he was a good observer. E WOODS: So I'll give you example. POOR: I walked him to the gate; you know, wished him good luck. "[6], Multiple reviewers noted how funny the show can be, despite often dealing with serious topics, and how uncommon it is to find humor in media taking place in real life prison settings. I'm not doing this. And your brother is still in San Quentin. We're able to share food. One is that you're going to get killed, and the other is that you'll eventually go to jail. So to hear Governor Brown say that, it was like this is how we actually think. It was a private wedding ceremony, according to accounts. Woods and Poor cohost the show while Williams does the show's sound design, working in San Quentin's media lab to record music and effects, including foley work. A post shared by @earhustlesq on Mar 13, 2018 at 8:35pm PDT. Earlonne continues to co-host the show with Nigel. , after serving 21 years of a 31-years-to-life sentence. I'm on a podcast. SHAPIRO: Nigel Poor told us that when Earlonne Woods came back POOR: He was walking with a lot of air in his step. E WOODS: Yeah, so that's cool. "[8] In particular, she praised Williams' "evocative, pitch-perfect sound design". You have to go through a lot of E WOODS: Yeah, it's a lot of stuff you have to go through. Namcy Wong. And it just puts you in a whole different space, you know? Earlonne holds an American nationality and white ethnicity. E WOODS: Well, me growing up the way I grew up, I grew up in a lifestyle where I was young when I got into selling drugs, and I was - I was real young. And he said Tyler got killed by the police. So, yeah. He is now 47. Earlonne Woods is the co-creator, co-host, and co-producer of Ear Hustle (PRX & Radiotopia). They ask how you are. He is 5 feet 7 inches tall ( Approx1.7 m). POOR: We can taste each other's food 'cause, you know, in prison you can't share food with people. Earlonne still co-hosts the show alongside Nigel. And it was very hard for that to not change the way I felt about him. When Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Poor was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project, and Woods was serving thirty-one years to life at California's San Quentin State Prison. I got out, stayed out two years, 10 months and found myself back in jail for attempted second-degree robbery. Kourtney Kellar models for a variety of periodicals, companies, Toni Storm is a famous New Zealand-Australian wrestler, social media influencer, Instagram personality, OnlyFans star, and entrepreneur from Auckland, New Zealand. "[15], The New Yorker's Sarah Larson said the show "might be the best new podcast Ive heard this year" and described it as being "about the creativity required to live a satisfying lifeor even a sane lifein prison, and is itself a product of that creativity. Yes, he was quiet, but he was always present. Those are my partners. And the captain comes in. He also founded CHOOSE1, which aims to repeal the California . Earlonne has not yet revealed any information about his parents. I was just done. He commuted my sentence to be released forthwith, immediately, right now, its time to go, time to walk out that gate, he added, laughing. GROSS: To stay sane in a situation like that. You know what I mean? [9], In a Rolling Stone article about the show, Tana Ganeva called it "a fascinating, harrowing and also deeply entertaining look into life on the inside that runs the full gamut of emotions. After California Governor Jerry Brown commuted his sentence last month, Woods reflects on. Earlonne still co-hosts the show alongside Nigel. Woods is expected to be released on parole in the coming days, after serving 21 years of a 31-years-to-life sentence. GROSS: Earlonne, how did you learn how to keep your calm and live in the kind of confined situation you were in during the more than two decades that you were incarcerated? Ive been taking showers for like 20 years.. This is FRESH AIR. "[9] The series is not overtly political, but Poor emphasizes the way the show can have a humanizing effect, making listeners care about the men they hear on the show and wonder why one of the hosts might serve a life sentence for attempted robbery. E WOODS: And she even got mad at me the other day E WOODS: 'Cause I left dinner with everyone, and I went to the movies by myself to go see "Vice" (laughter). Now Earlonne will be doing interviews with people like him who are transitioning back into society. But the - the problem is is that a lot of the sentences are a hundred years, 200 years, 300 years. But you look back, and you're looking at it like, I've wasted, like - I can say right now, I'm 47 years old. POOR: That's his obsession. And Nigel is also a professor of photography at California State University. Their tenth season finished airing in December 2022. GROSS: And you thanked him for doing it. GROSS: And that was because - you got such a long sentence because one crime had you convicted on two counts, so that counted as two strikes. [5] The show features interviews with inmates who share their stories and opinions on topics like cellmates, solitary confinement, race, morality, pets, religion, gangs, and family. What we did was humanize [prisoners], just by telling their stories, Woods said in February. Earlonne Woods was born in the United States in 1972. I've spent a total of 27 years in prison. And when it actually happened, it was a - it was an awakening in me, like, oh, I don't - why is we living this way, you know? Vice President . He understood human nature. Earlonne Woods is co-creator, co-producer and co-host of Ear Hustle from Radiotopia. It destroys hope, and it violates the principle that redemption is at the essence of what it is to be human. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. 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