53 min
Melbourne Live Show! Just the Gist
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- Comedy
We took our nonsense to Melbourne and had an EXCELLENT time - Bird in Hand in hand obvi.We’ve got some Breakin’ Nooz for ya, plus TWO stories!Jacob gives Just The Gist on Lawrence Joseph Bader, otherwise known as John Fritz Johnson - a guy who faked his own death to escape his boring life OR got total amnesia one day, disappeared and became a local TV star in a different town. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?Rosie gives Jacob Just The Gist on COCAINE BEAR! Thought it was just a bear that died after eating a lot of cocaine in the 80s? Turns out there’s a lot more to it than that, involving a paratrooper called Andrew Thornton II, a massive drug smuggling operation, and Gucci Loafers.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:John Fritz Johnson:
Article from LIFE magazine from the year Fritz was discovered: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KkEEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&ots=tKFmLcXexd&dq=Lawrence%20Joseph%20Bader&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q=Lawrence%20Joseph%20Bader&f=false
And another article from that same year: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19650210&id=C00fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bFEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6932,2562925&hl=en
Another take, reflecting back on the story from 2019: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585515/how-presumed-dead-lawrence-bader-invented-new-life
And if you life reading other people's opinions and hot takes on events, you might like to read the Reddit comments on the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/68o5l7/the_strange_disappearance_of_larry_bader_and_the/
Cocaine Bear:IFL Science breakdown: https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cocaine-bear-the-true-story-of-a-bear-that-ate-70-pounds-of-cocaine/Kentucky For Kentucky - the people who tracked down Cocaine Bear and now have him on display (along with a bunch of awesome merch): https://kyforky.com/History on Andrew Thornton: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._Thornton_IIhttps://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/apr/28/fbi-cia-cocaine/Tickets to Rosie's comedy show Kid Chameleon: https://moretalent.com.au/tours/rosiewaterland/Follow us on Instagram: @justthegistpodcast @rosiewaterland @jacobwilliamstanelySend us your suGISTions: justthegistpodcast@gmail.com
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We took our nonsense to Melbourne and had an EXCELLENT time - Bird in Hand in hand obvi.We’ve got some Breakin’ Nooz for ya, plus TWO stories!Jacob gives Just The Gist on Lawrence Joseph Bader, otherwise known as John Fritz Johnson - a guy who faked his own death to escape his boring life OR got total amnesia one day, disappeared and became a local TV star in a different town. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?Rosie gives Jacob Just The Gist on COCAINE BEAR! Thought it was just a bear that died after eating a lot of cocaine in the 80s? Turns out there’s a lot more to it than that, involving a paratrooper called Andrew Thornton II, a massive drug smuggling operation, and Gucci Loafers.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:John Fritz Johnson:
Article from LIFE magazine from the year Fritz was discovered: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KkEEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&ots=tKFmLcXexd&dq=Lawrence%20Joseph%20Bader&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q=Lawrence%20Joseph%20Bader&f=false
And another article from that same year: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19650210&id=C00fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bFEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6932,2562925&hl=en
Another take, reflecting back on the story from 2019: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585515/how-presumed-dead-lawrence-bader-invented-new-life
And if you life reading other people's opinions and hot takes on events, you might like to read the Reddit comments on the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/68o5l7/the_strange_disappearance_of_larry_bader_and_the/
Cocaine Bear:IFL Science breakdown: https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cocaine-bear-the-true-story-of-a-bear-that-ate-70-pounds-of-cocaine/Kentucky For Kentucky - the people who tracked down Cocaine Bear and now have him on display (along with a bunch of awesome merch): https://kyforky.com/History on Andrew Thornton: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._Thornton_IIhttps://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/apr/28/fbi-cia-cocaine/Tickets to Rosie's comedy show Kid Chameleon: https://moretalent.com.au/tours/rosiewaterland/Follow us on Instagram: @justthegistpodcast @rosiewaterland @jacobwilliamstanelySend us your suGISTions: justthegistpodcast@gmail.com
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
53 min