True Crime Campfire - Introducing: Suave

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

The Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast returns for its second season!Seven years after his release from prison, former juvenile lifer Luis "Suave" Gonzalez seems tobe thriving. His career has taken off, he’s in a committed relationship and he’s received publicrecognition after telling his story on the podcast. Suave always thought once he was out ofprison and found stability in his new life, he would finally feel truly free. But freedom, it turns out,is more complicated than it seems. "Suave" is a deeply intimate portrait of a man battling thelingering trauma of incarceration and his search for happiness in the outside world after a near-lifetime in prison.In this season we explore the long shadow of prison.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support.

You can leave prison, but does the lingering trauma of prison ever leave you? That's what Futuro Studios' new season of the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast Suave explores in its new season. The podcast documents the story of Louise Suave Gonzalez, a Philadelphia man who gets a second chance at freedom after decades in prison serving a life without parole sentence handed down as a teenager. Today, we're sharing with you the trailer of the second season. It's a story about life after incarceration, the challenges, the joys, and the complicated ways in which people reentering society must learn to redefine themselves after prison.

Season 2 of Suave releases new episodes weekly, starting on April 15, 2025. A warning. This episode contains explicit language. Okay, Swavei. So this is the first time that you've been back in this studio. How are you feeling? Let's get it done. It's been seven years since David Luis Suave Gonzalez was released from prison after being sentenced to serve life without parole as a teenager.

We're driving away. Yes. Swapin, we're driving away from Greater France. And it was his unexpected friendship with journalist Maria Nojosa that brought this story to a national spotlight. Louis Swabe Gonzalez is working hard to give back. Do you like it when people call you Mr. Pulitzer? Listen, I ain't going to lie. That shit plays in my eagles.

But not everything is what it seems. Being free is not what everybody think it is. It's really not. Everybody hype it up. Like, all your pains and misery are gone. That's bullshit, man. My miseries and pains are just starting. Because life on the outside means a whole new set of problems.

From dealing with lifetime parole... I can't drink. I cannot smoke a little bit of weed. I can't travel. I'm like, damn, man, everybody here got a gun. And I'm like, I got to get out of here. Being in a relationship is giving up part of your freedom. Am I willing to give my freedom up again?

because I'm searching for love, man, fuck love. If it comes to that, no, no, no, no, no, no, no and no. To the complexities of human relationships. What kind of an asshole would I have been if I didn't answer your calls from prison? Well, you know why I don't like people don't know nothing to me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because later on, they throw it in your face. This season, we look at the long shadow of prison.

If you want to fuck with me, that's how it's going to go down. It's on sight. That's the dude y'all wanted, y'all got him. I just don't want to see your back, lost-up, Swahue. Hearing you say that, like, that scares the fucking shit at me. I'm Julieta Martinelli, and this is Suave, season two, a story about life after incarceration, and the search for the true meaning of freedom.

They check his bag and what did they? They find Julieta. Oh, shit. Out now on the Suave feet. Listen, add free to the entire season of Suave right now on Futuro Plus. Visit Futurostudios.org to join.