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The Loop Ep. 6: Make Your Partner Look Good
Dec 17, 2025 59 min EXPLICIT

The Loop Ep. 6: Make Your Partner Look Good

For the final episode of our all-NYC series, we take the train uptown to the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, where a group of incarcerated dads from Rikers Island are playing games, eating lunch, a...

The Loop Ep. 5: Yes, And ...
Dec 03, 2025 22 min EXPLICIT

The Loop Ep. 5: Yes, And ...

Kaysha is in her early 20s: low on resources, but big on dreams. Sometimes, those dreams feel tantalizingly close to reality; other times, she's pulled back into a life she badly wants to leave beh...

The Loop Ep. 4: Where’s the Conflict?
Nov 19, 2025 47 min EXPLICIT

The Loop Ep. 4: Where’s the Conflict?

Boys at Crossroads outnumber girls 10 to one, but if you ask staff about who’s harder to work with, it’s the girls, hands down. To find out for ourselves and learn more about life on the girls’ hal...

The Loop Ep. 3: No Violence
Nov 05, 2025 46 min

The Loop Ep. 3: No Violence

At Crossroads, just three little letters — SMD — can spark some very big drama. This episode is all about conflict: watching it, responding to it, and getting it started. Keys fly, milk is thrown, ...

The Loop Ep. 2: Who What Where
Oct 22, 2025 48 min EXPLICIT

The Loop Ep. 2: Who What Where

Nigel and Earlonne get a peek inside one of Crossroad’s residential halls, and hear from kids and staff about what it’s like to live and work here. Along the way, they cause some drama of their own...

The Loop Ep. 1: The Five Rules of Drama Club
Oct 08, 2025 1h 2m EXPLICIT

The Loop Ep. 1: The Five Rules of Drama Club

In the first episode of Ear Hustle’s all-new, all-New-York series, Nigel and Earlonne head to Brooklyn to hang out with incarcerated kids and staff at the Crossroads Juvenile Center. For Earlo...

Starting Next Week: The Loop
Oct 01, 2025 2 min

Starting Next Week: The Loop

Next week we’re dropping the first episode of our six-part series about kids who are involved, one way or another, in New York City’s criminal justice system, and an innovative program that’s teach...