Just a warning that this episode quotes evidence in a legal case surrounding an assault that

includes swearing and racist slurs.

So we are recording on Thursday, May 27th in the morning.

And so what are we going to talk about today?

Let's go back to the 1980s.

Okay.

I'm ready.

Here we go.

In June of 1982, a 27-year-old man was having his bachelor party with his friends at a place

called the Fancy Pants Lounge.

That's a bar and a strip club.

In Highland Park, which is just outside of Detroit, Michigan.

But they ended up getting into a bar fight with two strangers.

And they called the man a chink and a nip.

They were all ejected from the bar.

Now the two strangers were a man named Ronald Evans and his 23-year-old stepson named Michael

Knitz.

Now, after they were ejected, they retrieved a baseball bat from their car and they went

looking for two of the men from the bachelor party group.

And they found them in a parking lot next to a nearby McDonald's.

And they beat the 27-year-old man with a baseball bat.

They beat him until he was unconscious.

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