Toure show featuring UnCuffed

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This season, the UnCuffed podcast is doing something new. Greg Eskridge, one of the program’s founding producers inside San Quentin prison, was released over the summer, after more than 30 years of incarceration. And now, he is our host. Over roughly ten episodes, he’ll be telling a deeply personal, riveting story about re-entering society after decades away. It’s a story that’s rarely if ever told about re-entry – the good, the bad, and everything in between: getting robbed at the mandatory transitional living center within weeks of his release, making amends with family members, revisiting the scene of his crime, and documenting, in real time, as he trains to join the leadership team of the Uncuffed program, which runs classes in three California prisons. [As Kelly put it to me, "he's going to be the boss!"] This ambitious season of the podcast will continue to feature stories of incarcerated producers – including, for the first time ever, incarcerated women. And now, with Greg on the mic, the stories from the inside will connect with the stories from the outside, addressing themes of family, food, and friendship – and tackling newsy subjects like mass incarceration in the so-called model state of California at a time when voters have opted to get tougher on crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, it's Toray. We're going to do something a little bit different this week. I want to tell you about
0:03.3	a new podcast and an amazing episode you're about to hear. The podcast, Uncuffed, empowers people
0:10.5	who are incarcerated to tell their own stories. Last summer, something monumental happened.
0:15.7	One of the founding producers of Uncuffed, Greg Eskridge, came home after more than 30 years in prison.
0:23.0	This episode takes us back to that emotional day last summer when he finally walked out of the
0:28.6	gates of San Quentin, free, and he introduces us to the newest season of the Uncuffed
0:34.3	podcast from KALW Public Media. Check it out.
0:40.0	KALW.
0:43.4	Normally, when you leave the prison, you leave in a van. If you're going to the hospital,
0:49.0	going to some appointment, and you're in a bright yellow or orange jumpsuit. Your hands are shackled,
0:56.4	your feet are shackled, and there's a cage inside of the van that they put you inside of
1:03.9	and lock you in. Today, it was different. I get in the van and I have on black jeans and regular street clothes.
1:16.4	No restraints whatsoever.
1:19.1	Then you go through the gate, you come to another gate,
1:23.5	and then you finally get to a last gate before you actually are off the premises.
1:30.3	And it's just a parking lot.
1:34.3	It's just a parking lot. It's so crazy how you would think, like,
1:38.3	freedom would be miles and miles away from the prison,
1:43.3	but freedom is literally just a few feet away.
1:51.5	What's up, everybody? I'm Greg Eskerich, and this is Uncuff, the podcast that empowers people in prison to tell their own stories.
2:02.3	You might remember hearing me coming at you from inside of San Quentin.
2:07.7	Well, things have challenged.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -26 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from DCP Entertainment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of DCP Entertainment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.