Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

An unexplained cancer is moving through New York’s gay community. Throughout the early 1980s, as more men die, its origins remain a mystery. Meanwhile battlelines form among activists, scientists, politicians, and the public at large. “Slow Burn” creator Leon Neyfakh is out with “Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis” on Audible. The podcast looks into the forgotten twists and turns of the epidemic’s early days, when a diagnosis was a death sentence. Neyfakh brings us those who struggled to keep the infected alive - and get society to care.

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Riders on Aftershow right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders On.
0:23.6	Crime Riders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop
0:28.1	culture, other podcasts.
0:30.2	And on this episode, a deadly virus grips the world.
0:33.7	But its potential victims and public health officials are slow to take the right kind
0:37.9	of action.
0:38.9	We'll discuss the slow burn of the 80s pandemic in fiasco, the AIDS crisis.
0:45.1	Joining me to get that done in more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of
0:49.8	these are their stories podcast, my husband Kevin Flynn.
0:53.0	Hello Kevin.
0:54.0	I see what was done there with that intro.
0:56.6	Kevin.
0:57.6	Yes, I do.
0:58.6	But Kevin, we should mention we are not sitting next to each other right now.
1:02.3	Oh, this is true.
1:03.3	Yeah.
1:04.3	And you may sound a little different to our listeners.
1:05.8	You want to explain why we are not sitting next to each other and why you may sound a little
1:09.0	different?
1:10.0	Yeah, Rebecca is in studio C, the closet in our New Hampshire basement where she is now
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