The Old Head - Ep. 3
Suave
Futuro Media
4.8 • 1.6K 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 | So here I am going to court for the first time in 30-something years. |
| 0:10.9 | Then I got into a van. |
| 0:12.7 | Well, so tell me about that. |
| 0:13.8 | The sheriff opens the window for you and you smell the air. |
| 0:16.5 | And what did you smell? |
| 0:18.0 | I mean, the air smell different. |
| 0:19.9 | Everything. |
| 0:20.3 | It was smelling like horseshit, bird shit, hamburgers, all the McDonald's, to be able to smell |
| 0:27.8 | some bird shit and some, and some cow shit and some, I mean, although it was a foul order, |
| 0:34.5 | it was like, everything smelled like roses. Oh, Jesus. This is what the |
| 0:39.9 | can I curse? This is what the fuck the world smell like to be able to smell what the world |
| 0:46.9 | smell like other than prison. The prison smell like mold, like old basement, wet basement mold. |
| 0:56.6 | I always say that's why I don't like Doritos. |
| 1:00.2 | On a good day, it smelled like dry Doritos. |
| 1:04.0 | Like that old, you take your shoes off and you like... |
| 1:07.4 | Like cheesy? |
| 1:08.9 | Like cheesy. |
| 1:11.0 | It's on a good day, on a bad day, it's smell like death. |
| 1:15.3 | But after a while, that smell become normal. |
| 1:21.5 | From Futuro Studios and PRX, this is Suave. |
| 1:25.8 | A podcast about juveniles sentenced to die in prison told through one man's |
| 1:31.6 | journey. I'm Maggie Freeling. David Luis Suave Gonzalez was sentenced to mandatory life in prison |
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