1992. Club Kids organizer and promoter Michael Alig is on the Geraldo show

1992. Geraldo Rivera on his namesake talk show hosts the 'Club Kids' of New York City, including a 'pied piper' of the group Michael Alig. We start the segment learning about ecstasy, a bedrock of the club kids party movement. In the audience is Michael's mother Elke, who was given ecstasy by her son and swears it is a very effective headache pill. She speaks to his childhood and later ends the show with some words of wisdom for all parents. In this segment we also hear about some of the reasons the Club Kids are who they are, and some of the 'outlaw parties' they throw -- a party thrown in a random spot to see how long it takes for the police to shut it down. "...my entire childhood, while I was growing up, I felt really repressed and really bored, and just sick of everything. It was horrible to live every day thinking that I'm gonna live the rest of my life and try and fit in to the American dream..." In 1996 Michael Alig was convicted of felony manslaughter in the death of another club kid, allegedly over drugs, and he served move than 15 years in prison. Years after his release, Michael passed away in 2020 from an accidental drug overdose. Films and books have been made about his life including "Party Monster: The Shockumentary" and "Glory Daze: The life and times of Michael Alig".