Jail Is No Joke

The cell block prepares a big dinner, as if they knew that something good for Jóse was going to happen. And just like that, the next morning a letter arrives from the Judge that would finally change his destiny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jóse begins to write a stand up comedy routine based on the time he's spent in Hudspeth County Jail. Everything is goin fine until he appears before a judge and the outcome is not what he expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jóse's friends on the outside call to encourage him and explain how his case is progressing with his lawyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All prisoners believe in something and after several weeks locked up, Jóse decides to seek his own spiritual path. He gets to know some of the religious traditions that his fellow inmates practice and finally comes to understand that in order to overcome his depression, he needs to find the grace of God. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After three weeks locked up in Hudspeth County Jail, Jóse recounts the food menu. He also learns how to shop inside prison and how the economy works among prisoners, who in some cases end up exchanging even their most personal items. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jóse finally meets his lawyer who has bad news for him: he will have to spend more time than expected in jail. His fellow inmates also have a party with drugs that ends badly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jóse decides to bathe for the first time since being in Hudspeth County Jail, but what he thought was going to be an uneventful shower ends in a fight with another inmate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jóse arrives at Hudspeth County Jail, a prison in the middle of the desert near El Paso, Texas. He checks in and is assigned to his cell, where he shares his first night with a former Marine who claims that drugs saved his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A roadtrip across the United States to document the legalization of cannabis comes to an abrupt end after Jóse Rafael Guzmán is arrested in Texas for “possession of narcotics” after visiting a cannabis farm in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Driving through Texas on a cross-country road trip, comedian Jóse Rafael Guzmán was arrested for possession of a small amount of marijuana. The state's zero tolerance policy on recreational weed landed Guzmàn in the Hudspeth County jail for two months. In Jail is No Joke, Guzmán tells the dark but surprisingly funny story of the most terrifying and miserable two months of his life and how it transformed his outlook on the world and his comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices