Episode 231: The Life and Death of Drew Thornton and Cocaine Bear - Part 2

Sinisterhood

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Drew Thornton leapt out of a plane at 7,000 feet with a giant bag of cocaine strapped to his waist. What happened next has become the stuff of legends. A federal investigation, a tourist attraction, and now a major motion picture. What happened to the real cocaine bear and what is the legacy of the man who created it? This week’s episode is The Life and Death of Drew Thornton and Cocaine Bear - Part 2

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0:00.0	He left out of a plane at 7,000 feet with a giant bag of cocaine strapped to his waist.
0:06.1	What happened next has become the stuff of legends, a federal investigation, a tourist attraction,
0:11.9	and now a major motion picture.
0:14.2	What happened to the real cocaine bear and what is the legacy of the man who created
0:18.1	it?
0:19.1	This week's episode is The Life and Death of Drew Thornton and Cocaine Bear, part 2.
0:30.0	In the lights, your heart fills a dread, probably a murder of who wants you dead.
0:36.4	It could be a ghost, a demon or worse.
0:40.4	Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.
0:43.6	It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd call a priest if you could.
0:47.6	You'd rather just listen to who, sinister who.
1:00.9	Well, this has been a good response from this, but I think what most people want to know is
1:06.4	what happened to the bear, and that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:09.2	Well, spoiler alert, it's not pretty.
1:13.8	Yeah, it's probably next to, no, I think I'd rather have another bear attack me
1:21.8	than die the way this bear died.
1:24.2	Yeah, not an ideal list of symptoms of what you saw, but the thing that came out of this is
1:30.6	the movie Cocaine Bear, but I also saw, I don't know, I didn't really go ahead and say I doubt
1:35.2	it's by Elizabeth Banks, but I saw that there's cocaine shark, there's more.
1:40.4	I like the song with Sharknado, there's going to be some, I think some.
1:43.6	Here we go.
1:45.6	Well, if they're, if they're needing someone to start in cocaine pig, I got somebody for them.
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