Instead of me representing it, Earlonne and I can represent it together. So I still had a 17-year-old mentality. He is a staff writer and podcast producer at KQED, as well as a graduate of UC Berkeley's School of Journalism. And I was paroled when I was 23, about to turn 24. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. No, and I laugh because had Governor Brown probably not been the governor, I would still have 10 years of my sentence left. You feel invincible in some ways. A person can get certain - a certain amount of time for the crime that they commit. So what - one of the things that I've really taken away from being in prison is that I've gotten an incredible glimpse into what it means to be a man and what men deal with. It's like - I think they're not under the constraints or the pressures to not accept people. Like, he just seemed lighter and shiny and fresh. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR, and if you're just joining us, my guests are Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor. Earlonne Woods prefers to keep his personal life private, so he has not disclosed any information about his marital status. It was transformational symposiums. And Trevor, your brother, speaks first. When he was nine, Woods lifted up a faulty railroad crossing gate to allow cars to pass. And I got out in '95. So, yeah. GROSS: And - so you interviewed him about commuting your sentence. I'm not doing this. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. And they shot at Tyler, like, 40-something times. The podcast team announced Tuesday that it will hire Woods as an employee on the show. He went up there. 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. 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Earlonne is Shala Woods brother. They ask how you are. POOR: Well, he wasn't necessarily a good talker because he was very quiet. But the - the problem is is that a lot of the sentences are a hundred years, 200 years, 300 years. And they won't get that opportunity to present the person that they are today. I hope you'll join us. He is now 47. GROSS: Wait; so that means, like, you'd rather die than be E WOODS: Yes, yes. POOR: How do we tell stories and leave out that part? California Gov. After California Governor Jerry Brown commuted his sentence last month, Woods reflects on. I think my mother told me she loved Jesus more than she loved me. 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. In some ways, like, I find it hard to understand that somebody, like, wouldn't have any empathy for the victim and wouldn't care. Brown cited Woods' leadership in . Even though you can't do nothing about your past, you just feel embarrassed about even going down that route, even victimizing anybody. Earlonne holds an American nationality and white ethnicity. I was hoping I could talk to you a little bit about it. He commuted my sentence to be released forthwith, immediately, right now, its time to go, time to walk out that gate, he added, laughing. She co-created the podcast with Woods and has co-hosted and co-produced it with him. Earlonne Woods (@earlonnewoods) Instagram photos and videos earlonnewoods Follow 225 posts 24.1K followers 931 following Earlonne Woods Public figure Award winning Co-Creator + Co-Host, @earhustlesq . And then, I always say that, you know, a lot of people that volunteer - people like Nigel Poor, people like other volunteers that volunteer inside of prisons - are on the frontline of public safety because these are the people that's coming in and is trying to show you a different way of life or trying to help you understand differently, think differently. Before creating the podcast, Woods and Poor did interviews with inmates in San Quentin for public radio station KALW in San Francisco. [11], By September 2021, Ear Hustle episodes had been downloaded over 54 million times. So, Nigel, when you decided you wanted to start, like, a interview series that started on KALW - the public - one of the public radio stations in San Francisco, and then it became a podcast - you wanted a co-host and co-producer who was incarcerated in San Quentin. Nigel Poor assures us the podcast will continue with Earlonne contributing stories from the outside. Earlonne resides in the United States. He was born and brought up in the United States to his caring and supportive parents. He had just became a paramedic or something. Aaron Taylor. explores life inside San Quentin State Prison. 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. I was going to Nigel's house the other day, and I was an hour early. Earlonne, tell us a little more about what happened to Tyler, how he was killed. Therese Madden directed today's show. And, Earlonne, again, I want to thank - I want to congratulate you again for your new freedom. I don't (laughter) take them for granted. Woods has served 21 years of a 31 to life prison sentence. He was sentenced to 31 years to life for attempted robbery in 1999. When asked earlier this year what was the first thing he would do if he got out, Woods said, Take a bath. So on December 7, 1994, I murdered my ex-girlfriend, the mother of my now-25-year-old daughter. E WOODS: So on November 19, Tyler and his auntie and some other lady went to 7-Eleven to get a pack of cigarettes. Earlonne was an inmate as well as a host. POOR: We can taste each other's food 'cause, you know, in prison you can't share food with people. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Lexi Mainland wrote "The runaway hit Ear Hustle never takes a broad look at criminal justice policy or employs Voice of God narration. So to hear Governor Brown say that, it was like this is how we actually think. Therefore, Earlonne earns a decent salary as a full-time producer, co-host, and co-creator of Ear Hustle at PRX alongside Nigel Poor. And Jerry Brown was then the governor of California. GROSS: Who - give us an example of somebody who you spoke to who had been a victim of a crime similar to the one that you committed that made you feel this, you know, sense of feeling bad for what you'd done. Woods never used the drug, though became addicted to the money and lifestyle selling it provided. Earlonne is busy reporting on re-entry stories and daily life for originally incarcerated people, while also documenting his own experiences. T WOODS: You know, he was ripping and running with the gangs. E WOODS: It was devastating because I had - one, I had just talked to Tyler, like, probably the day before. GROSS: To stay sane in a situation like that. GROSS: So Tyler's father, your brother, is still in San Quentin during the final year that you were in San Quentin. An intimate view into the life and challenges of an asperger's spouse.It seems some marriages are so wonderfully stellar you have to look away or be blinded. Copyright 2018 NPR. And at one point, he revealed to me that he had raped quite a few women. 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. It looked so good on you. Earlonnes sentence was recently commuted, but the two proceed to tell stories of life behind bars. And the thing that I noticed in particular about him was that whenever there was an issue going on - and, of course, inside prison, there's all kinds of issues - and if we would have to sit down to solve a problem, Earlonne was the one who would speak up, cut through all of the baloney and get to the point. Then there are those marriages that become the subjects of books . I think maybe 14 years in my sentence, I went to San Quentin. So I'm not thinking that it's serious as much as I'm hearing. - like, was with him pretty much every day. POOR: Yeah, not skewed, not skewed. 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? Like, in the county jail, I was like, OK, I'm done with this side of life because even though our philosophy growing up was for death though - you know, meaning I'd rather be carried by six than judged by 12 - that was just the philosophy we had growing up, you know? And as they questioned the driver, the passenger officer seen tattoos and Tyler's face and started questioning him, made him get out the car. It mentally puts you in a whole different space. And Earlonne just had his sentence commuted by Governor Jerry Brown in November after serving 21 years. E WOODS: I think - I was just tripping off - he was just peeling back one of the Beatles POOR: Oh, yeah. Brown cited Woods'. SHAPIRO: That's Earlonne Woods from the podcast "Ear Hustle." 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