A movie called Cocaine Bear needs two things, a bear and some cocaine.

Both are abundant in the new action comedy about a large quantity of cocaine that accidentally

winds up deep in the Georgia forest.

And who eats it?

That's right, a bear.

The bear proceeds to go on a rampage, eating and mauling various people as the drug runners

who lost it tried desperately to get it back.

It's funny, it's weird, it's very bloody, it's Cocaine Bear.

I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about Cocaine Bear on pop culture happy hour

from NPR.

Joining me today is Jordan Krushiola.

She is a writer and producer and host of the podcast Feeling, seen on Maximum Fun,

Hi Jordan.

Hello, good morning, thank you for having me.

And also with us is Ronald Young Jr.

He is the host of the film and television review podcast, leaving the theater high-ronald.

Hello, Linda.

Cocaine Bear is set in the mid 80s.

It begins with a drug runner who meets a terrible fate while jumping out of a plane from

which he's just thrown many double bags of smuggled cocaine.

His boss, played by Ray Leota, sends his son Eddie, played by Alden Aaron Reich, along

with his trusted lieutenant David, played by O'Shea Jackson Jr. to find all the double

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