Best Futuro Studios and PRX Podcasts (2024)

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Introducing: Chess Piece: The Elián González Story 32:27

1M ago32:27

32:27

Here's a new series that we think you'll love: "Chess Piece: The Elián González Story," from Futuro Studios, in collaboration with iHeartRadio's My Cultura Podcast Network. In 1999, two Florida fishermen found a cherub of a boy named Elián González in the sea on Thanksgiving. The boy had floated alone for days. His mother managed to save her son’s …

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Suave Presents: Stars and Stars with Isa 19:23

3M ago19:23

19:23

Futuro Studios presents Stars and Stars with Isa in collaboration with Stitcher Studios. Each week our host and astrologer, Isa Nakazawa, sits down with some of the most talented stars and thinkers of our time, to find what their birth chart reveals about them and their purpose. You’ll laugh, you might cry, and you’ll definitely connect with your f…

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Introducing: My Divo 27:48

5M ago27:48

27:48

Introducing "My Divo" For host Maria Garcia, Mexican megastar Juan Gabriel has always held a singular allure. He was a prolific composer and one of the world’s greatest showmen. There was a lightness and a bigness to him—a big queer exuberance. And now, as the first openly gay woman in her family line, Maria looks to Juan Gabriel as a key to reconc…

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Suave Is Going On Tour 0:45

7M ago0:45

0:45

We're deep in production of season 2 of Suave, dropping on the feed this fall! We can't wait for you to listen. In the meantime, Suave is taking his story on the road. He is producing his own live show, "The Never Give Up Tour" and traveling the country. Join him for a night of storytelling, music, and special guests in a city near you this Summer.…

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Suave Presents: La Brega 2 — The Puerto Rican Experience in 8 Songs 29:05

2y ago29:05

29:05

Known as the island donde hasta la piedras cantan – “where even the rocks sing” – Puerto Rico is home to a dizzying breadth of musical expression. From the lyrical boleristas of the 1930s, to the electric salseros of the ’70s, to the reggaetoneros of today who have taken music from the margins and made it a global sensation, this season takes liste…

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8. Suave Wins the Pulitzer! 7:34

2+ y ago7:34

7:34

It's been a year since we released Suave into the world, and so much has happened. Including some really, really big news: this week our podcast won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. We bring you a special recording of Maria Hinojosa and Luis "Suave" Gonzalez reflecting on what this means for them, and for criminal justice reform.…

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7. The Reckoning 29:31

3+ y ago29:31

29:31

“There's no winners in this. You’re a victim so you victimize other people because you’re hurt. It's a circle and it goes on and on.” Suave reckons with the last three decades of his life and begins to deal with the traumas of his childhood and incarceration that he’s long buried. Maria and Maggie discuss how the Supreme Court decision has played o…

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6. The Corner 35:29

3+ y ago35:29

35:29

“That little place right here changed my whole life. December 6, 1986. 15 seconds. 15 seconds changed my whole life.” Suave has been cleared from all accusations and is free once again. He returns with Maria to the corner of 8th and Somerset in the Badlands—the place where his victim’s young life ended and the place that changed the course of Suave…

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5. The Doubts 36:00

3+ y ago36:00

36:00

“Doesn’t matter if you doing good, if you got a job, it doesn't matter—it could be snatched up in a heartbeat and there's nothing you could do about it.” Suave returns to prison and goes silent for weeks. Maria tries to figure out why and finds herself torn between her faith in Suave’s innocence and her responsibility to believe his accuser. Suave …

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4. The Release 43:01

3+ y ago43:01

43:01

“I never dreamed that it would be this good. Even the worst day that I have is good. I'm going up… and I know everything that goes up must come down.” Suave kicks off his first day of freedom by checking things off his bucket list, including a long overdue conversation with his brother and an apology to students at a school in his old neighborhood …

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3. The Old Head 30:42

4y ago30:42

30:42

“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 l…

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2. The Hustle 38:43

4y ago38:43

38:43

“I was fascinated with the lifestyle. I was fascinated with prison flicks. That's how you get the street credibility. You know, I'm gonna be the baddest dude on the block.” Maria learns more about Suave’s early life in the South Bronx and the crime Suave was convicted of as a teenager in the Badlands of Philadelphia. We explore the tactics of ruthl…

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1. The Sentence 33:28

4y ago33:28

33:28

“The very last word she said was ‘You can become a voice for the voiceless.’ And I was just like, ‘Damn, why am I letting this lady mess up my high?’” We meet Suave, a man who has been serving a life sentence at a Pennsylvania maximum-security prison since he was a teenager. And we learn about his decades-long relationship as a source with journali…

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Suave

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Introducing: Chess Piece: The Elián González Story 32:27

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Suave Presents: Stars and Stars with Isa 19:23

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Introducing: My Divo 27:48

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Suave Is Going On Tour 0:45

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Suave Presents: La Brega 2 — The Puerto Rican Experience in 8 Songs 29:05

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8. Suave Wins the Pulitzer! 7:34

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7. The Reckoning 29:31

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6. The Corner 35:29

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5. The Doubts 36:00

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4. The Release 43:01

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3. The Old Head 30:42

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2. The Hustle 38:43

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1. The Sentence 33:28

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