It’s no coincidence that Neyfakh chose to devote this season of his podcast to the AIDS epidemic. They then start losing faith in the institutions that are supposed to protect them.’ Then they want to blame someone for having caused it as if that will make it go away. ‘The first thing they do is they deny it even occurred. ‘It’s well documented from the time of the Black Death in 1348… people respond to epidemics in exactly the same, predictable ways,’ Conant explained. Nowhere is this clearer than in the opening of this season on the AIDS epidemic in America, which begins with a quote from Marcus Conant, one of the first doctors to diagnose and treat AIDS in 1981. They made a season of Slow Burn that was ‘about Nixon but actually about Trump’, Neyfakh wrote on Twitter, and another ‘that was about Clinton/Lewinsky but was actually about #MeToo.’
Of course, the things that Neyfakh and his team usually choose to highlight have resonances in the present day. The podcast weaves new interviews from the events’ major players with archival news recordings and other sources from the era, which both allows for a greater understanding of history as it unfolded, but also has the added benefit of unintentionally letting the listener feel a bit smug, a bit wiser than we really are getting to hear important people say things that we, with the benefit of hindsight, know smacks of hubris. (At Slate’s Slow Burn, Neyfakh has also produced seasons about Watergate and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.) Other seasons have been devoted to the Benghazi scandal, the movement to desegregate Boston’s public schools, and Iran-Contra. This case – which saw President Clinton allow Gonzalez to be removed from his relatives in Florida and sent back to his father in Cuba – contributed to Al Gore’s loss of the Latino vote in Florida and thereby cost him the presidential election. Gore election, the opening episode is devoted entirely to the international custody imbroglio of Cuban-born Elian Gonzalez. In the first season, for example, which centred on the Bush v.
Often those that, within the larger epoch-defining events, have been lost to history. It takes listeners through the smaller moments.
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#This american life fiascos series#
Fiasco is a podcast series on Audible that dives deeply into episodes in recent American history.
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