California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has commuted the prison sentence of Earlonne Woods, whose hit podcast Ear Hustle explores life inside San Quentin State Prison.

Woods is expected to be released on parolein the coming days, after serving 21 years of a 31-years-to-life sentence. Woods was involved in an attempted robbery in 1997, when he was in his 20s. He is now 47.

“After 21 years in prison, Governor Brown ― the great governor of California ― decided that I served enough time,” Woods said in the latest episode of Ear Hustle. “He commuted my sentence to be released forthwith, immediately, right now, it’s time to go, time to walk out that gate,” he added, laughing.

Woods learned of his commutation the day before Thanksgiving.

“It’s out of body,” he said of getting the call from Brown’s office. “I’m thinking about my mama, she’s 70. She’s holding on. Just to be … out there with her.”

Ear Hustle ― co-hosted by Woods and Nigel Poor, an artist and volunteer at San Quentin ― interviews men in the prison about their lives there. It focuses on both the personal and the political, shedding light on issues of mass incarceration and the criminal justice system by telling intimate, humanizing stories, like the tale of one inmate’s obsession with keeping small critters as pets in his cell or another’s struggle to be intimate with his wife while behind bars.

Since the podcast’s launch in 2017, it’s been downloaded millions of times, featured in media outlets from NPR to The New York Times, and made several “best of” podcast rankings.