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I am Paris

Berghain - Berlin, Germany

I am Paris

iHeartPodcasts and Paris Hilton

Society & Culture

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a new counter-culture emerged as the city came together to form a new identity. That cultural shift inspired the birth of Berghain, an iconic but ultra-private techno hotspot and sex club. Berghain ushered in a new era of hedonism, excess, and freeing secrecy that gave the city’s queer community a space to release their inhibitions and establish Berlin’s place as a party capital.

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0:00.0

911, what's your emergency?

0:03.0

It's a nightmare we could never have imagined.

0:07.0

In a killer, we were still on the loose.

0:10.0

In the 1980s, we were in high school

0:12.0

losing friends, teachers, and community members.

0:15.0

We weren't safe anywhere.

0:17.0

Would we be next?

0:18.0

It was getting harder and harder to live in Mount Pine.

0:22.0

Listen to the Murder Years on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts

0:26.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

I'm comedian Gabby Watts, and I'm hosting a new history podcast

0:34.0

called American Filth, where we're diving into the filthy underbelly

0:38.0

of the good old U.S.A.

0:40.0

I'll be talking about a founding father who died from a DIY catheter.

0:44.0

The woman who wrote the dirtyest blue song ever recorded.

0:48.0

How the pilgrims smelled durable.

0:51.0

And, of course, a 17th-century beastiality panic.

0:55.0

Listen to American Filth on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts

0:58.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.0

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1:05.0

told through the eyes of our Latino community.

1:08.0

I didn't understand how difficult life was going to be

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