Club Kid Killer Cardio Workout - Michael Alig and the Club Kid Muder of Angel Melendez

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Thank you for joining me for Running Scared with Coach Christine. I'm a Level 2 RRCA and Galloway certified coach,  but more importantly, I'm someone that knows it's so much easier to get out for your run or walk when you have something to look forward to that helps with motivation.

So if you are like me and are a runner or walker who enjoys hearing a true crime case or spooky tale, welcome! You have found your corner of the internet.

As a former candy raver, I was all about PLUR - Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect so when I learned about the tragic murder of Angel Melendez at the hands of Micahel Alig, I was so upset and also so obsessed. Like how did this happen? Well, friends, the answer was easy, fame, power, and mental illness exacerbated by serious drug abuse. 

However, the club kid scene did have its highlights, mainly thanking the drag queen heavens for giving us all RuPaul, but other famous folks, including Lady Bunny, Amanda Lepore, James St. James, Superstar DJ Keoki, and Richie Rich. 

This workout is a hardcore "killer" cardio - 
5 min warm-up
4 min Conversation RPE 3-4
2 min Tempo RPE 5-7
1 min Sprint 8-9
4 min Conversation RPE 3-4
2 min Tempo RPE 5-7
1 min Sprint 8-9
4 min Conversation RPE 3-4
2 min Tempo RPE 5-7
1 min Sprint 8-9
6 min cool-down

True Crime RPE found here >>

James St. James wrote about this case and his experience as Michaels #1 Frenemy and Club Kid in Disco Bloodbath. And that book was turned into the movie Party Monster with Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny (also part of the club kid scene), Natasha Lyonne,  and Wilmer Valderrama.

You can also watch some of the daytime tv highlights including this episode with Geraldo Rivera >>

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Please consult a physician before starting any new exercise routine.

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Summary Keywords: 

Clubkid, clubs, dance, EDM, party, true crime, drugs, workout, scene,  fashion, rpe scale, peter gatien, drug dealer, arrested, life, 

Transcript

Christine Hetzel: 0:04

Hello friends, welcome to running scared. I'm Coach Christine, I am a level two RCA and a run, walk run at certified coach. And if you enjoy a bit of true crime along with running, or at least you're willing to get least up for a good walk or a killer cardio session than a welcome, because you have found your corner of the internet, we are likely going to be fast friends. Without any further chat here, let's get right into our workout because that's what you came here for. Right? Let's go into a walking warmup and three, two, and one, the warmup is really important, you really should not be skipping it. I know, I know you got things to do, and you want to get on with the workout. But my friend this warm up will allow you to feel much better as we go in to some of our sessions for today, because we're gonna have a little bit of speedy feet here. But for our warmup, you want to make sure to set that intention of having good, tall, strong posture right out of the gate. So again, nice and tall, you're staying relaxed by keeping those shoulders down and back, keeping your chest open, you're staying light on your feet. And a couple things here. If you're rolling through in this workout outdoors, please be mindful and aware of your surroundings. It's also a great practice to let somebody know where you're heading, or where you're at, or at least when to expect you back at home. Make sure this is somebody that you love and trust my friend, and they don't maybe have a life insurance policy out on you. Just kidding, kinda not. If they're inside, if you're rolling inside, and maybe you're on a treadmill or elliptical spin bike, well, that still is something you need to take into consideration in terms of your posture. So you're engaging your core and you're not hanging over that display or hanging on to those handrails. So great work. And if you're on that treadmill, let's go in and bring it up to at least a 1% incline to help minimize the impact on your joints. Before we dive into our case a little further, I'm going to warn you right here right now that this particular true crime case is like a pharmaceutical treasure cove of all sorts of drugs and drug use. So if that in any way may trigger you please be aware that we're going to talk a lot about it because it goes with the scene that we're going to discover today. There's also going to be talk of mental illness. And well this case is kind of like the club kid version of sex, drugs and rock and roll but it's more like candy, drugs, electronic music, and well murder because again, that's what we're here. However, I'm guessing that you knew what you were getting into when you signed up and you hit play. So let's keep moving and grooving here. So great work and warming it up my friend. As we move forward, I want you to know that for today's workout, we are really going to harness in that rate of perceived effort which is the RPE scale that helps us to structure the workout and tailor it to wherever you are in your fitness journey. However, we are going to use the RPE scale True Crime style one is we're out for an easy peasy lemon squeezy stroll with our True Crime bestie were chatting about our latest True Crime obsession, tennis OOB ish. There is a murderer on the loose heading your way you better sprint for your life. And we are going to do a little bit of sprinting and today's workout. We're going to sprinkle those in. We'll talk a little bit more about that here in a few moments. I'm going to add that full RPE scale into Episode notes. If you ever have any questions on it, feel free to reach out to me at Christine at red wine finish. lines.com Okay, my friends. It's time we chitchat a little bit you hear the music it's a little different than what I usually play here the running scared because we are going to have our own version of a club kid disco to 1000 party here. And since we are talking about the club kid killer, we're going to break out our glow sticks. We're going to add on our candy bracelets and we're getting ready to repeat the mantra of Club Kids and candy rivers around the world all about that. Peace, love, unity and respect. So let's get ready to go back in time when Heraldo reigned supreme on daytime TV and the Club Kids ruled the night friends if you're a part of my Facebook community page, the running scared community you know that I consider this one of the first pieces that I was so obsessed with. And as a former candy raver myself. I was heavily inspired by the club kid scene. I thought it was beautiful because it was a place where everybody would come to accept you for who you were, you could march the beat of your own drum without fear of judgment. So I was shocked to hear that this subculture, one that I thought came to be of radically embracing everyone was love and acceptance, but actually end With the murder of one of their own, I've read the books. I've watched documentaries, I saw more daytime TV than anybody should ever watch in their life in preparation for today's case. And I'm going to include the movie Hardy monster where Macaulay Culkin did a phenomenal job of portraying Michael Alig, our actual clubs kid King and killer. So as we wrap up this warmup, let's know that for today's workout, we're going to have conversation pieces for four minutes, and we're going to push it up for two minutes. And then a one minute sprint. We'll talk more about that in our actual workout. Let's take it up to our first conversation pace in three, two, and one. Again, for this workout, we're gonna break it up into sets, we're gonna hang out here for four minutes, and in conversation pace, which is about a three to four on that RPE scale. And then I'm gonna give you the option to push up the pace for two minutes into a comfortably hard about a five or six, maybe even a seven for those 120 seconds. Or, again, if you're looking at doing this as more of an incline workout on that treadmill or resistance on your elliptical, you can do that as well. Then the first 60 seconds, I am going to have you sprint at that nine, maybe even if you're feeling a little spicy 10 Or really bringing up that incline on the treadmill to where it's really challenging, and you feel it in your booty, my friends. We're gonna repeat that cycle that four to one, all the way through the end of this workout. What we're going to end though with a cooldown. And again, make this your own, you don't have to follow exactly what I'm telling you to in terms of the RPE scale, you can walk this entire workout and just hop up into different inclines if you are so inclined. Or you could play back and forth between a random walk and roll if you prefer. Again, there's so many different ways and I'm always available to help you change this up and tailor it for what you need. I Christina at runway finishline.com. Okay, let's talk about this case, shall we? Were going to turn the hands of time back to 1996. Don't worry, we're going to go even further back than that in our time travel capsule here. But for right here right now, we're going to start off with 1996 because during that year for nine months gruesome rumors circulated through the New York City clubs like wildfire, Andre Melendez. Notice Angela was 25 a fixture on the downtown party circuit, known for his flamboyant costume with full size feather covered wings had gone missing because disappearance became the subject of a McCobb guessing game. Was it an abrupt change of address? Was it foul play or perhaps just a publicity stunt meant to generate notoriety for a new club, because again, that scene was kind of known for over the top promotion than under November 2, the City Medical Examiner's Office and now the dust dismembered corpse had been washed up on Staten Island during the month of April, in the that port actually belong to Angele. And on November 3, the Manhattan district attorney charged the killer, which was the well known king of the thriving underground clubs scene, Michael Alec. This was known as the downtown's Best party promoter, his gatherings in Manhattan nightspots through 1000s of young people eager to be at the center of the glitterati action. Prosecutors said that Michael, who at the time of his arrest was 30 years old, had killed Angel during an argument about money inside Michael's apartment on a West 43rd Street in early March. The details forever are not quite so clear and dry, my friends. As we learn a little bit more, we're gonna take it back a little bit further to the mark the night of March 17 1996. Michael and his roommate, Robert De Riggs known to the party world as freeze got into an argument and in Michael's apartment with endo over many things. Now, including a long standing drug that Michael and freeze claimed many, many times that they were so high on drugs that their memory of the event is a little hazy. But again, how did we get here? Club party kids are known for maybe questionable fashion choices, but not for murder. We'll learn more in our next two minutes segment let's go and three to one is where we push into that comfortably hard taking it up a notch pedal to the metal my friends. Let's go. Again, club party kids known for you know being a little Willian making their fashion choices, maybe a little bit of a drug addiction or two, but definitely not known for murder. So let's go ahead and unravel this a little bit further, shall we? So who are these kids? If you are thinking what in the world are you talking about Coach pristine. The contents were a group of young New York City dance club personalities, popularized by again our New York club promoter, Michael Alec and James St. James, which was his Frenemy. Julie jewels are some to be named a couple of others that you may have heard of DJ superstar karaoke earning glam. And then some of the other people that came out of the scene, Amanda Lapore, wallpaper which is wild Cassidy, the twins, genitalia pretty famous as well. Desi Santiago Kabuki star shine and Richie Rich and RuPaul. You heard me before there was drag race. There was the club kid, Mecca and RuPaul was definitely part of that crowd. The group was notable for its members flamboyant behavior and outrageous costumes. In 1988, writer Michael Musco wrote about the Club kids. And his words was it was Holt, a crazy fashion and petulant, they are terminally superficial, they have dubious aesthetic values. They are master manipulators, exploiters, and thank God they are partiers Alright friends are taking into a 62nd sprint. Let's do it in three, two, and one, let's move it on up. Again, this is about eight, nine, maybe even a nine and a half. But for this first sprint, I'm going to tell you maybe don't take it all the way. Don't floor it. Don't use all that gas. Let's leave some in the tank for the remainder of this workout. But definitely check in with that posture. And again, if you are in a treadmill, or maybe you're elliptical, there's so many different ways to challenge yourself here, you can change up the incline or the resistance. Or when in doubt, always focus on having the best possible form. Maybe like you're gonna stretch your own outrageous outfit down the runway of a super popular New York nightclub. We'll meet again and our four minute conversation pace and pick up the story again, in just 15 seconds. We're gonna go ahead and pull it back again in 5432. And one, give yourself about 30 seconds. When you first pull back the pace to catch your breath and ease back into this conversation pace a little lighter, a little easier. And again, in about 30 seconds, you'll feel a little bit more at home here. And you may even find that it feels a little easier in this conversation piece than it did the first time around. Again, back to The Club kids like group was recognized as an artistic and fashion conscious youth culture. They were a definitive force in New York City's underground club culture at that time, and several kids have made long lasting contributions to mainstream art and fashion. I mean, even like turning Muller to name just off the top of my head is someone who I know who has utilized the Club Kids is his inspiration. And according to former club kid wallpaper. The night club for me was like a laboratory place where you were encouraged and rewarded for experimentation. And Michael has been hailed as the king of this movement. But it was a far cry from his very conservative upbringing. Michael Alec was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He was the second of two sons born to John and elke Alec, his mother, a native of Bremerhaven, Germany, moved to the United States after marrying his father, who was a computer programmer. The couple divorced from Mike was four years old. Michael remained incredibly close to his mother all the way through his childhood his teen years when he moved away and into his adult life. I still attended Grissom Middle School in Penn high school there in South Bend where he was a straight A student and he graduated in the top 8% of his class. However, during his teenage years, Michael reported that he was often bullied because of his sexuality and well, he didn't adhere to the regular. Well, he didn't conform to what was seen at that time as just being part of the normal crowd. He was always a little bit more flourish with his grass and the way that he spoke. Mother had gone on to say that he was actually well ahead of his time that his peers didn't even realize the things that he was doing. Were so cool. They were they themselves are just too far behind. Understand how cool he was, however, Michael, seeking a less conservative social environment, maybe one that he would be more appreciated for his forward thinking. So after he graduated in 1984, he attended Fordham University in New York City. He centered architecture there before he transferred to the Fashion Institute of Technology. They're at FIT he met, the boyfriend of artists have been preparing to introduce Michael to New York City nightlife. That's pretty good that we go ahead and mention here that Michael was positively obsessed with Andy Warhol and the factory scene. So he loved the art. He loved that nightclub life. He thought Andy Warhol was a God. And he was pretty excited to make his way into that nightlife as well, because Michael soon dropped out of school and began working. Danceteria super hot and I club as a busboy. And then Andy Warhol passed on. Michael felt like his time to reign supreme and the New York City scene had finally come. During his time at sanitaria. He met James St. James, the two became, as I mentioned earlier, the best frenemies that New York City could ever hope for. We'll learn a little bit more about his friendship with James St. James. And our next two minutes segment, let's push it up a notch and three, two, and one, I told you, my friends, this is gonna be a killer cardio workout, don't give up. Now. Let's push it. I know you've got what it takes my friends. James St. James, who also wrote the book, disco bloodbath to discuss his time in the New York club scene. And maybe his version of how these events went down, was already part of a glitterati scene. And he taught Michael everything that he knew. But let's not get it twisted. Because Michael wasn't devoid of his own ideas and thoughts. He has charmed in really natural instincts as to what would make something really hot, at least in New York. He did. He knew how to get folks to show up to a good party, he would line up music, the DJs he said these outrageously amazing themes, and he would make sure that a quorum of beautiful people showed up his offbeat fashion sense, his flair for the outrageous made his party's trendy for those who attended. And it made it incredibly financially lucrative for the club owners of where he threw these parties at, like, one such piece irrigation. Well, Peter gation, had all of the United States at that time under his empire. And I mean, all the ones that you would know of as the places to be, who I am like tunnel, the hotspots, the 80s and 90s. They were next level of our studio for studio 54 has left off that and get back to Michael, he knew that shocking people a little shock and awe would really gather them, get them ready and get them at moving towards getting lined up for his nightclubs or his parties. So his party invitations were designed for that shock value. One even featured a photo of Michael lying on the pavement, pretending that his head had been smashed open, and it is a pretty gory one. Friends, let's take it up 60 seconds into that sprint to this is your time but eight nine or 10 on that RPE scale in three, two, and one will pick up again more about these parties on the other side in our next conversation pace. Got the after this point, we literally have just one more set, and then we'll have a cooldown. This is sometimes the hardest one because it's that last before that. Second to last but I'm excited any answers stand tall again, really engaging report and focusing on your breath. Maybe you just got your new hot invite to this glitterati party. You've got VIP treatment coming up and you want to make your way to that front door let's go add a little bit of glitter and let keep moving. 10 you got this don't hold back yet and 5432 and one less Go ahead and pull backs now. If you need to bring it back into a walk for a few seconds, feel free to do so. Or if you need to pull back the pace, maybe grab a sip of water, feel free to do that as well. But then get right back to it. My friends, this workout was not for the week. It's not for the meek at hearts, that's for sure. Let's be bold. Let's be audacious here. All right. So back to these parties. Although the members of the glitterati were never ever charged admission. 1000s of club goers happily paid cover charges of $20 or more to attend the party the moment now I know you're thinking $20 was not that much. I spent that at Starbucks yesterday. But friends, we're still talking about the late 80s, early 90s. That was unheard of of that time to have a club cover charge that would be that much. Like you got anything you didn't get a drink ticket. You just got inside, see where all the cool, who for us are, who they thought were cool people at the time. So for years, Michael was the undisputed center of that world. He appeared on the cover of New York Magazine, he was covered on the boys. He was even got a couple of mentions in New York Post New York Times and he was invited to all of the daytime talk shows of that day. Geraldo, Joan Rivers, Jerry Springer is Wednesday night party, disco 2000 was where everybody wanted to me. It was a mix of Gay Street cultures outrageous fashion and a little recreational drug use. You know what I'm saying? My friends, to Michael who grew up in South Bend, Indiana, where he was treated as an outcast because he was gay. The scene that he created offered a refuge from middle American disapproval. And it created a social circle a family in which unconventionality was accepted, admired, wanted and applauded. So needless to say he had found his place my friends. One of these such people who came out of the Club Kids scene lady bunny, you may know her. It was she goes on to say it was great for him to be in a world you can be as wild as you want. Lady Bunny was actually a former employee of Michaels he had employed she was also good went on to become a former organizer of the annual Woodstock drug festival. And we will likely have seen her on RuPaul drag race as well. Well, Michael worked for Peter gation. For several years, he promoted parties at Limelight at tunnel at nightspot. He also went on to throw what were called outlaw parties where he would just show up to a random Burger King, and have all of his kids descend upon it until the party ended with the police showing actually that was their goal every single time is to get shut down by the police to get arrested to cause as much scene and get as much promotion he very strongly believed in. There is no such thing as bad press. So friends, he did also get arrested though during this time, not just for these outlaw parties. But he also got arrested several times for his drug use. And said that he started to spiral in his chemical abuse got worse and worse until Peter gation had to let Michael go, oh, that's one story. That's a more cleaned version of it. What really happened was it Peter had the Feds on his ass and he had to shut Michael's parties down, at least try to get them out of his nightclub because the Feds were looking to shut him down and throw him away forever and literally lose the key. But Michael was really plagued by heavy drug use. He had begun adding drug dealers to the Club Kids roster. And he even figured out a way to get Peter nation to pay for having the club. The drug dealers on payroll. Cecily, numbers of a Club Kids became addicted to drugs. Friends, let's take it up to our next two minutes segment and three, two, and one, you're pushing into comfortably hard or bringing up that incline again. Let's go Let's go. The movement also began to decline when Rudy Giuliani took office as mayor of New York in 1994. Because Rudy Giuliani pretty much ran on a campaign called the quality of life campaign and he wanted to clean up New York City, you want to target the city's nightlife industry. With this party scene becoming more and more plagued with drug use, scattering of its members due to arrest or the death due to overdoses. Michael had fallen into a deep dark hole of abuse. Which brings us to Angel Hill on the first blush when you hear about this case, you may think oh, he was just a drug dealer really does that matter? He made that what he's deserved. But my dears nothing is what it seems because car Angela he got his nickname from those wings that I told you about the he wore to all the clubs and as an immigrant from cool lumpia his family arrived to York City when he was just eight years old, hoping to pursue the American dream, but Angele never quite fit in. Until he found the club kid. He thought, Yes, this is a place for me I can finally be accepted, desperately sought his place would be other club kids. But ironically, at this point, this subculture that was originally all about being inclusive, and a place of refuge for folks from all walks of life, well, they didn't accept Angele at all, especially now with open arms. And he sort of found that the only way to be liked by his peers or the peers that he desperately wanted the approval of, or to be even be invited to any of their parties was to be the one with drugs. And man, oh, man, when he had drugs on him to everyone like him, and even more, they were willing when he was willing to give it to them for free, just so he could be a part of their clique. Michael, at the height of his king pen of club royal throne, the desperation that Angela had to fit in, he saw that and he used it against him, and he used injure. While yes, he was able to get Angela on Peter vacations, payroll, he didn't do it at the kindness of his own heart for Angela, he did it so he could be closer to the drugs. Harvard, Angela, students started to see that he was being used and the people that he was buying the drugs from needed to collect their money. So he went to Michael and said, Hey, friend, I like you. I like you a lot. I want to be just like you when I grow up. But I have to pay these people back so you have to pay me. Well, Michel ignored him, stole from him, mocked him. until that fateful night, when Angela finally said no moss and put his foot down. Brands are taking it into our last 60 seconds and then we'll have a cooldown on the other side in three, two, and one, let's go. That's right. 60 seconds is your final push, you have a walk waiting for your other side, you have an opportunity to bring an incline back down, or pull that resistance off on the other side of this. So give this all you've got my friends. The music kind of move your feet, maybe again, you're on your way to a disco 2000 Before the scene got all gross for drug use. What probably always had drug use didn't. And when I say drug use my friends, they used everything, everything from see cocaine or when ketamine was very popular at that time. Needless to say their decision making wasn't probably the best. We have a lot to cover the other side. So I want you to really push it. Let's go in 5432 and one all right, we are cooling it down. Great job, my friends. Let's learn a little bit more about why Angelo put his foot down or we know why he put his foot down. Let's revisit the night of the murder and try to make sense of the drug haze memory of Michael and freeze. So on Sunday, March 17 1919 96 Angela was killed by Michael and freeze and according to various statements that they made to others into the police because let me tell you they told pretty much every single person who would be willing to listen to them. Michael and Angela got into an argument and it quickly escalated. According to Michael and freeze it became violent and Angelo became physically being physically larger than Michael was able to take the upper hand. They say that he pushed Michael into a glass table and then he pinned him against a wall and Michael turned out and cried for help freeze trying to protect Michael went to the defensive him and he hit into on the head with a hammer three times. They said in their words until Angela went down well friends freeze and my goal state that it was just a light tap tap tap with the hammer. But the fact that they remember that it made an audible noise and they used the claw side of the hammer. I don't think that that was a light tap tap tap into went down. And then they report that Michael then smothered Angele again just to continue protecting themselves but they don't remember if it was with a pillow or a sweatshirt. And for good measure they decided we should pour Drano in his mouth. So Michael portray no down mic down into his mouth and then covered his mouth with duct tape so that he wasn't able to vomit it out. That's one source. One source says that they actually injected him with Trey now. I don't know either way it sounds like once you put Drano into the mix, they really did not want him to ever be able to have the chance to come back to then stripped Angeles body they placed his body in a bathtub where it remained for about five to seven days because according to freeze during that time they went out and binge on every drug possible. Also stole a whole lot of money from him whatever he had on his person to steal as credit cards, they steal everything we could from him. And with the money that they stole. Freeze went down to Macy's any purchase to chef knives and one cleaver. And he said Michael, after taking 10 bags of heroin dismembered and just legs, and then freeze and Michael wrapped angels led separately in garbage bags, placed them into individual duffel bags and threw those in the Hudson River. The next day, they wrapped the upper body of Angeles sheet in a plastic garbage bag and placed it in a cardboard box. And then they took the heavy box down the elevator and through the main lobby, placed in the trunk of a yellow cab that in their words just happened to be right outside the door. frieze went on to say that they took the body to the West Side Highway around 25th Street. And then when the taxi drove off, they threw the box into the river. Some accounts say that Michael actually suggested that the taxi driver helped them that I don't know if I believe anything that Michael says. Originally, Michael really, really tried to go with the whole self defense. But shortly after this actually happened, he started to brag about the murder of Angelo he told pretty much everybody on the scene that they were part of that he had killed Angele and it wasn't too long before Angela's family had come looking. Angela's brother and father had gone to the authorities, but the authorities were unwilling to help because Angela wasn't the biggest priority for them. As far as they're concerned. He was a gay drug dealer who was a Colombian immigrant. That was the least of their concerns. If he went missing. They turned to the press. And then finally, Michael Musto, who had originally written quite a bit of complimentary articles about the Club Kids since he was part of the scene as well ran a blind item in his village voice column, and he pretty much called out Michael and freeze for murdering Angela. Angela's family continued to put a lot of pressure onto the press, who then in turn kind of helped, the police decide that they should take it a little bit more seriously. And luckily, with the help of this media, then a Quinzel discovery of another dismembered body. One of the police officers who had been following the case on the media decided that he should kind of help them open up another dismembered body that had been identified incorrectly, as an Asian male. So that's when they found using dental records, that that body that had previously been incorrectly identified was actually Angeles. And again on November 2, that's when they came to the conclusion that it was Angelo Melendez, and they confirmed the rumors. During the time Michael had fled to New Jersey, where he moved into a motel room with his boyfriend, another drug dealer named Brian and on December 5 1996, the police arrested Michael had the hook at the motel and hours later, they arrested freeze in Manhattan. Smuggle continued to at first say that it was just self defense. Then again, friends, when they started to divulge the details, it wasn't quite that easy to say it was just self defense. But prosecutors were hesitant charged my goal with first degree murder as I still hope that he would help them testify against their his former boss, nightclub owner and nightclub empire. Peter gation, who had been arrested for allowing those drugs to be sold in his nightclubs stay ventually offered both Michael Impreza Plainfield sentence of 10 to 20 years of accepted lesser charge of manslaughter October 1 1997. They both pleaded guilty and they were sentenced to 10 to 20 years because their convictions might countries were not used as prosecution witnesses in Peter tations trial, Peter ended up being found guilty and being deported back to Canada. The story doesn't end there. Freeze was released into parole in 2010. He went back to school immersing himself in the world of academia and for all intents purposes, he seems to be doing well with his life and kind of the anonymity of academia Michael, our fear of sociopath. Michael, was released on May 5 2014. He went right back to New York, right back into the scene. He tried to revive his places where he was previously. And then on September 7 2014, he and his fellow club kid Ernie glam began their own YouTube channel, you can find it, I'll link it if you like but not worth your time. It was called the pee Wah. Unfortunately, he had never really picked his drug addiction got the best of him. And on Christmas Day of 2020 Michael Hassan died of a drug overdose at the age of 54. So my friends, this is the tale of the pub kids. And as we wrap up this killer cardio club workout, I want you to go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back. Pull it on back completely as we wrap this up. I want us to discuss our lessons learned my friends. Lesson number one I think it's very obvious, isn't it? Don't do drugs. Easy, really. Just saying no, there's a reason why that campaign was so popular. Lesson number two, I think pretty much just is blatantly obvious is lesson number one. When someone goes around saying that they killed someone, and then that other person has been missing for weeks on end, maybe we should go ahead and go to the authorities and believe them right. All right, my friends. Thank you for listening. I can't wait to hear what you think about Michael his club kids in this case, trust me, it is actually truly fascinating. There's so much media out on this. I definitely gave you a Reader's Digest version of it all. But hit me up on Facebook group. If you want to talk a little bit more about the Club Kids. If you enjoy the keys in this workout, please rate review subscribe to this podcast cuz it helps from discoverability purposes. Thank you so much for running scared with Coach Christine