Introducing: Suave

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast returns for its second season!

Seven years after his release from prison, former juvenile lifer Luis "Suave" Gonzalez seems to
be thriving. His career has taken off, he’s in a committed relationship and he’s received public
recognition after telling his story on the podcast. Suave always thought once he was out of
prison and found stability in his new life, he would finally feel truly free. But freedom, it turns out,
is more complicated than it seems. "Suave" is a deeply intimate portrait of a man battling the
lingering trauma of incarceration and his search for happiness in the outside world after a near-
lifetime in prison.

In this season we explore the long shadow of prison.

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0:00.0	You can leave prison, but does the lingering trauma of prison ever leave you?
0:06.1	That's what Futuro Studios' new season of the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast, Suave, explores in its new season.
0:13.6	The podcast documents the story of Louise Suave Gonzalez, a Philadelphia man who gets a second chance at freedom after decades in prison serving a life
0:22.2	without parole sentence handed down as a teenager. Today, we're sharing with you the trailer of the second
0:28.1	season. It's a story about life after incarceration, the challenges, the joys, and the complicated
0:34.7	ways in which people reentering society must learn to redefine themselves after prison.
0:40.5	Season two of Suave releases new episodes weekly starting on April 15, 2025.
0:46.5	A warning. This episode contains explicit language.
0:51.7	Okay, Swavey. So this is the first time that you've been back in this studio. How are you feeling?
0:59.4	Let's get it done.
1:04.6	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.
1:14.9	We're driving away.
1:16.1	Yes.
1:16.7	Swabe, we're driving away from Greater Fern.
1:19.2	And it was his unexpected friendship with journalist Maria Nojosa that brought this story to a national spotlight.
1:27.4	Louis Swabe Gonzalez is working hard to give back.
1:30.3	Do you like it when people call you, Mr. Pulitzer?
1:33.9	Listen, I ain't going to lie.
1:36.0	That shit plays in my eagles.
1:39.8	But not everything is what it seems.
1:43.4	Being free is not what everybody think it is.
1:47.0	It's really not.
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