S1 Ep. 1: All the Gory Details
The Horror of Dolores Roach
Gimlet
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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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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