INSIDE EDITION
IN A SHABBY, low-slung bungalow on the grounds of California’s San Quentin State Prison, Adnan Khan sits nervously in front of a microphone. A slender 33-year-old with dark, slicked-back hair and skin the color of cinnamon, he’s clad in typical prison fashion—jeans and a powder-blue button-down over a white T-shirt. To one side, inmate Antwan Williams sits at a workstation wearing headphones while fellow prisoner Earlonne Woods and longtime San Quentin volunteer Nigel Poor—Williams’ co-producers on the hit podcast Ear Hustle—prepare for Khan’s interrogation.
A whiteboard still displays the first season’s episodes, with one date highlighted: June 29, 2017—the day Ear Hustle hit No. 1 on iTunes after it was featured on the Today show. A second whiteboard lists new potential topics, such as “ministering on death row” and “gangsters and literature.” Today’s session is for an episode on “prison firsts” that will air during
