# San Quentin

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The Danny Trejo Blueprint: Turning Your Worst Chapters Into Podcast Fuel

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You’re out here trying to build a pristine, “professional” podcast while the guys who actually win are the ones bleeding on the mic. In this episode of Your Mic, we steal a page from Danny Trejo’s life—heroin at twelve, armed robbery, San Quentin, then Machete and taco shops—and use it as a bluepri…

Celebrating Milestones, Rescues, and Cultural Losses

Pope Leo marks first Easter as pontiff with call for hope amid global conflicts, Caffe Trieste in San Francisco celebrates 70 years in business, a new cat adoption and veterinary center opens in Redwood City, the U.S. aviator missing after Iran shot down a fighter jet has been rescued, San Quentin …

Erna Janoschek: The 17-Year-Old Nanny Who Murdered a Baby

A 17-year-old Mormon girl called police in 1928, saying the maid killed the baby. When police arrived she smiled, and introduced herself as the maid. Erna Janoschek murdered baby Thais Dianne Liliencrantz in Oakland, then became a courtroom spectacle: laughing, refusing an insanity label, and narra…

EP 706: Diane Kahn - Redemption - Behind the Walls of San Quentin Prison

Diane Kahn is the Executive Director of Humans of San Quentin (HoSQ), a humanitarian non-profit organisation that shares the stories of incarcerated people to humanise those behind bars and break down societal stereotypes, through letters, art, and poetry. Inspired by the Humans of New York project…

Bodies Don’t Lie: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma Recovery and the Power of Homeboy Industries

When world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the nine-million-copy bestseller The Body Keeps the Score, walked into Homeboy Industries, he came skeptical. What he found stopped him cold: people leaning into each other like friends. No suspicion. No dominance games. Just open…

WFYM 382 - Glut Me Out

RL Stine is on notice for meddling in state-level politics with his G-rated Psychobilly nonsense making a Mr. Frumble type blunder endorsing Rudolf von Flugel. When he was Ricardo he pretty much ran San Quentin after running over a worm driving an apple and no one even glutted him out

Sales Infiltration: How Ben Gay III Learned to Work the System

Sales Infiltration: What San Quentin and Lompoc Taught Ben Gay III About Getting Inside the System Last week on The Closers Inner Circle Podcast, Ben introduced us to a concept that I think deserves a much closer look: sales infiltration. And if you thought that was simply a colorful phrase from …

Executing the Freeway Killer: Ret. San Quentin Warden Arthur Calderon

What is it like to look one of history's most monstrous serial killers in the eye moments before his death? This week on THE GRAY LINE, THE STORY BEHIND THE BLUE LINE PODCAST, retired San Quentin Warden Arthur Calderon takes us inside the death chamber for the historic execution of William Bonin, t…

Sales Infiltration Behind Bars: San Quentin to Lompoc

The Closers Inner Circle Podcast Episode: Sales Infiltration Behind Bars — From San Quentin to Lompoc Ben Gay III spent 11 and a half years in and around prisons — five years teaching at California's infamous San Quentin State Prison, and more than six years as an inmate at Lompoc Federal Penitent…