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Suave

The Old Head - Ep. 3

Suave

Futuro Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

“We had a secret, unspoken bond. We’re all dying in here. And I felt like I was breaking that bond. I feel like I'm leaving my brothers behind.”

Suave moves to a transitional housing unit at Graterford and begins to prepare for his release. But as he readies for life on the outside, his excitement gives way to a “never-ending list of fears” about life outside of prison. Suave also reckons with some complicated emotions—both the unparalleled joys of his upcoming release and the guilt of leaving behind the men he’s considered his brothers for nearly three decades. Maria ponders how her relationship with Suave will change now that they have a chance to explore their connection beyond a journalist-source relationship, as she travels to Graterford on his release day to bring him home.

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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 Mellin.org.

0:22.7

In the fall of 2001, while Americans were still grappling with the horror of September 11th,

0:28.0

envelopes started showing up at media outlets and government buildings, filled with a white,

0:32.7

lethal powder, anthrax. But what's strange is if you ask people now what happened with that story,

0:39.3

almost no one knows. It's like the whole thing just disappeared. Who mailed those letters?

0:45.0

Do you know? From Wolf Entertainment, USG Audio, and CBC podcasts, this is Aftermath,

0:50.8

The Hunt for the Anthrax Killer. Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcast.

0:56.3

So here I am going to court for the first time in 30-something years.

1:00.5

Then I got into a van.

1:02.3

Well, so tell me about that.

1:03.4

The sheriff opens the window for you and you smell the air.

1:06.1

And what did you smell?

1:07.7

I mean, the air smelled different.

1:09.6

Everything.

1:09.9

It was smelling like horseshit, bird shit, hamburgers, all the McDonald's, to be able to

1:17.1

smell some bird shit and some, and some cow shit and some, I mean, although it was a foul

1:23.7

order, it was like, everything smelled like roses.

1:27.8

Oh, Jesus, this is what the, can I curse?

1:31.0

This is what the fuck the world smell like to be able to smell what the world

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