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The Horror of Dolores Roach

S1 Ep. 1: All the Gory Details

The Horror of Dolores Roach

Gimlet

Drama, Fiction, Arts, Performing Arts

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Dolores is reunited with Luis, weed, empanadas, and privacy. Dolores Roach- Daphne Rubin-Vega, Luis Batista- Bobby Cannavale, Claire- Abigail Spencer, Fat F**k-David Zayas, Jeremiah- John Douglas Thompson, Nellie- Kita Updike Written and directed by Aaron Mark, executive produced by Mimi O’Donnell, produced by Katie Pastore, Matthew Boll and Daphne Rubin-Vega, associate produced by MR Daniel. Sound design by Haley Shaw, foley recording by Nico Osborne, mixed by Matthew Boll. Score by Allison Leyton-Brown, music production and mix by Matthew Boll and Bobby Lord, additional engineering by Sam Bair and Shachar Boussani, additional assistance by Daniel Brunelle and Armando Serrano. Special thanks to Kristen Luciani, Saul Nathan-Kazis, Jim Nicola, and Danny Feldman. THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH is a production of Gimlet Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A listener note, this show contains adult content and strong language. You're going to. My name's Dolores. You heard of me? Or maybe you heard of

0:38.3

magic hands? Magic hands, Dolores Roach.

0:45.0

I know what they say about me.

0:47.0

I know they say I'm dangerous, huh?

0:50.0

Well, I'll tell you my story.

0:54.0

I'll tell you the real story of what happened up there and why I came all the way down here.

1:03.4

I'll tell you all the gory be pills.

1:08.4

I'll tell you all the gory be pills. Pills. I was...

1:13.0

I was... I was... I wasn't even out there very long, maybe like only three months before I had to come down on the ground.

1:29.0

Three months of precious freedom in my precious New York City. That's what I'm paying for now.

1:37.2

Because before that, I was in prison. I was at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women for 16

1:45.4

muth fucking years of my life then bam I'm just out

1:49.5

They gave me my clothes I was wearing when they took me and they gave me $200 and they pulled

1:55.3

me on the Metro North train from I get to Grand Central that day, I am fully freaking the

2:10.5

fuck out. I'm having like a panic attack so I just start walking.

2:16.0

And I'm walking all the way across town through Times Square up through Harlem all the muthfucking way up to Washington Heights.

2:28.0

And Broadway up there is so different.

2:32.0

There's a gym up there now, a planet fucking fitness with all these white

2:36.7

chicks and spandex working out. They're all drinking green smoothies or some shit and there's a chased bank where the diner was and a

2:45.2

T-Mobile where there used to be this cute little family-run bakery.

2:50.0

And I finally get to my block and there's my apartment building, there's my stoop.

2:59.0

But the buzz is not just those buttons anymore, now it's like a scrolling screen or some shit?

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