Introducing - Suave: Season Two
Suave
Futuro Media
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
You can leave prison, but does the lingering trauma of prison ever leave you?
The Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast from Futuro Studios returns for its second season! “Suave” Gonzalez was one of thousands of juvenile lifers granted a second chance at life. Season 2 is his story about life after incarceration—and the search for the true meaning of freedom. You can hear the full season of Suave: Season 2 now.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Suave. So this is the first time that you've been back in this studio. |
| 0:06.4 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:08.2 | Let's get it done. |
| 0:13.4 | It's been seven years since David Luis Suave Gonzalez was released from prison after being sentenced to serve life without parole as a teenager. |
| 0:23.7 | We're driving away. |
| 0:24.9 | Yes. |
| 0:25.5 | Swapé, we're driving away from greater firm. |
| 0:28.3 | And it was his unexpected friendship with journalist Maria Nojosa that brought this story to a national spotlight. |
| 0:36.2 | Louis Swabe Gonzalez is working hard to give back. |
| 0:39.1 | Do you like it when people call you, Mr. Pulitzer? |
| 0:42.7 | Listen, I ain't going to lie. |
| 0:44.8 | That shit plays in my eagles. |
| 0:48.5 | But not everything is what it seems. |
| 0:52.2 | Being free is not what everybody think it is. |
| 0:55.0 | It's really not. |
| 0:57.0 | Everybody hype it up, like, all your pains and misery are gone. |
| 1:03.0 | That's bullshit, man. |
| 1:05.0 | My miseries and pains are just starting. |
| 1:08.0 | Because life on the outside means a whole new set of problems. |
| 1:13.8 | From dealing with lifetime parole... |
| 1:16.1 | I can't drink. |
| 1:17.0 | I cannot smoke a little bit of weed. |
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