Old Head - Ep. 4

Suave

Futuro Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There’s one brother behind bars in particular that Suave can’t stop thinking about — Frank Ross, his longtime mentor. The man who taught him how to read and write on the inside. Serving a life sentence for more than half a century, the 93-year-old may have a speck of a chance to get out. That is, if he can convince the state to release him to die on the outside.

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Suave was made possible by the Mellon Foundation.
0:11.6	Mellon makes grants to support visionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts
0:17.0	and humanities to help connect us all.
0:20.5	More at Mellon.org. Hey, Suave all. More at melin.org.
0:22.6	Hey, Suave listeners, it's Julieta here. Are you tired of waiting each week for new episodes to come out?
0:29.8	Well, you can listen to the whole season of Suave right now, plus exclusive bonus episodes by joining Futuro
0:37.1	Plus.
0:38.2	And you'll be helping support the independent journalism that we do here at Futuro.
0:43.1	Join now at Futuromediagroup.org backslash join plus.
0:53.7	It's a hot summer day in New York.
0:57.0	And today, Suave is making a dream come true.
1:00.9	He's been invited to read a poem on stage at an off-Broadway play.
1:05.7	Though Suave is a published author, it's not actually his writing he'll be debuting.
1:13.1	He's actually reading a poem by someone that's really special to him. The piece that I'm reading, it was written by a gentleman
1:19.4	called Frank Ross. Frank Ross is a lifer. They probably taught thousands and thousands of young guys in prison how to read and write,
1:31.1	including me.
1:32.2	Now I'm on stage and Broadway reading the piece from the guy that taught me how to read and write.
1:40.9	Suave remembers meeting Frank Ross in the early 90s.
1:45.0	That was just a few years into Suave's lifetime prison sentence.
1:49.0	Suave was in his early 20s then.
1:51.0	He initially didn't pay much mind to Frank.
1:54.0	Frank was in his late 50s, and Suave says he always used to carry a notebook around.
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