080 The Sole Surviving Defendant in the John DeLorean Drug Case | Stephen Arrington
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
An ex-Navy bomb disposal frogman, Stephen Arrington fell from the ranks of heroes when he made a marijuana mistake, which led to his becoming a co-defendant in the John DeLorean Drug Case, AKA "The Drug Trial of the Century. After prison he achieved his childhood dream as chief diver/expedition leader for Captain Jacques Cousteau.
Arrington is a talented storyteller and an expert on leadership and youth topics. He has done 5,000+ high-power programs that are life changing. He has produced gold medal winning documentaries and is an award winning author who has written seven books.
"In DeLorean's Shadow," his new true-crime memoir is available at http://www.drugsbite.com
To learn more about his foundation, visit http://dreammachinefoundation.com
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the 80th episode of Curiosityness. Wow, 80 episodes, crazy. I am Travis |
| 0:16.8 | DeRose, the host of the show, and thank you for being here. This is Curiosityness, |
| 0:21.3 | where we learn about fun, interesting topics and ideas, and I talk to interesting people, |
| 0:28.4 | and this episode's no exception, because I have on Stephen Arrington. And Stephen was the |
| 0:35.0 | co-defendant in the John DeLorean drug case. |
| 0:38.9 | So the big drug trial of the century with John DeLorean that took down his company and everything. |
| 0:45.1 | Stephen Arrington is on the cover. |
| 0:47.6 | He's on the cover of Los Angeles Times right next to John DeLorean. |
| 0:52.1 | And he was the co-defendant. |
| 0:53.9 | So we go through and hear his whole |
| 0:56.3 | story of how he got involved in this. He was the one who drove the car that had the cocaine in it |
| 1:02.1 | that busted John DeLorean. So he talks about that whole story and then we even get to dig into his |
| 1:07.5 | life and his experience in prison. He was a firefighter as an inmate, and then he got |
| 1:12.8 | out of prison and became a chief diver and worked for the Cousteau Society. So it's just a crazy |
| 1:19.4 | story, and Stephen has a really good message to share along with all this. So I think you'll really |
| 1:24.7 | enjoy this episode. If you love DeLorans, you're definitely going to love it. |
| 1:28.2 | But even without that, it's awesome. |
| 1:30.0 | So let's get to it. |
| 1:31.4 | Here is Stephen Arrington. |
| 1:35.4 | All right, Stephen. |
| 1:36.7 | Thanks for being on the show. |
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