Jad Abumrad / Chad (Radiolab host; primarily Jad Abumrad)

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Radiolab · Los Frikis · 12 Sep 2025 podcast

So it was like a prison, but it was also kind of a little bubble of freedom.

Yeah.

And strangely enough, they soon found out that they even had power.

No police over there.

A power they didn't have before.

Vladi told me this story.

The patients, they said the sanitarium could go out every 21 days for a day trip.

And some of the freakies would go out, and just by flashing their ID cards that said they were AIDS patients, police would leave them alone.

I remember on two or three occasions that the police came after them, and one of them has a syringe.

A syringe.

Full of blood.

And Vladdy says the guy took out the blood and waved it at the police.

And said, you want to come to me?

Come in.

Come to me.

And they were afraid of that.

And so word began to spread about what life was like inside the sanitarium.

And you have to keep in mind that outside...

Cuba was falling apart.

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