Ronald Reagan and the AIDS Crisis of the 1980s
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Season 26, Episode 4
President Ronald Reagan and the AIDS crisis
When the AIDS epidemic started in the early ’80s, the Reagan administration's response mainly involved making jokes in the daily press briefings. Throughout his two terms as president, Reagan and his administration didn’t even do the bare minimum to help. According to The Atlantic, almost 83,000 cases of AIDS were confirmed while Reagan was in the White House, and nearly 50,000 people died of the disease. Reagan, what a creep.
Trigger warning: Homophobia
- Sources for this episode
- The Atlantic
- Buzzfeed
- History
- HIV.gov
- The New Yorker
- PBS
- “The Reagans,” a documentary series on Showtime
- "When AIDS Was Funny," a short film directed and produced by Scott Calonic
- Vice
- Vox
- Washington Post
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep. The show with Margotaniu and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.0 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.8 | This is your quick guide to the biggest Creeps, jerks, ass, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:15.0 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a Creep, this is Margot, Donahue and my cohort and |
| 0:31.2 | creepitude as always is the amazing |
| 0:33.0 | soya Mansfield hey sonia |
| 0:35.3 | hello my friend |
| 0:36.2 | hello my friend we are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the |
| 0:39.8 | present |
| 0:40.8 | this week we are doing part two of our Reagan series. |
| 0:44.0 | We're talking about his handling of the AIDS crisis in this particular episode. |
| 0:49.0 | It's going to be a laugh riot everybody. |
| 0:52.0 | Hold on to your bellies it's gonna be so funny. Gerger |
| 0:56.7 | loins mean something different here. But just to get started. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes, we are always looking for suggestions for creeps and for non creeps. |
| 1:07.0 | Good place to start with us is Facebook. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, we have a basic Facebook page you can like it episodes are posted there but usually |
| 1:16.7 | that's a place where people go to complain about our language this is your |
| 1:19.4 | warning that we use salty language in this program. |
| 1:22.8 | But yeah. |
| 1:24.4 | We're much more interactive in our Facebook group. |
| 1:27.4 | You have to answer some questions, mostly just promise not to be an asshole. |
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