Rissa Montanez
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1,190 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Rissa Montanez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For what else could she do?
You guys know why I hate campfires.
I mean, ever since I was a teenager, I've watched those movies where people gather around them while camping, eating s'mores and talking.
I started to wonder what that felt like.
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to be here, doing the very thing I used to dream about doing when I was a kid.
It's a privilege to share that moment with you, but the last time I was in a space with fire, a devil himself was walking the earth.
Before moving here, my family and I lived outside of a small colonial town in Minas Gerais.
It was called Tiradentes.
Our house sat at the edge of the forest where the dirt road disappeared into trees that were older than anyone else in the town.
Sometimes the only sound we could hear was the flapping of a bird's wings.
And besides the neighbors, we rarely saw other people's faces.
Unless we were shopping.
I don't know exactly how you guys do it here, but in Brazil, we have a season called Quaresma.
It lasts 40 days before Easter.
And technically, it's the same thing you call Lent, but people in my country, especially the ones who live in rural zones, they don't see it as a religious tradition.
They see it as a warning.
My grandmother used to say that during those 40 nights, hell wasn't exactly closed.
There were very strict traditions that we had to follow in order to stay safe during this period.
Rule number one, never answer if someone calls your name from the woods.
You never know who's calling out to you.
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