I’m only on episode two but I about died when they were digging into the Carole murdering her husband bit and they cut to Joe Exotic dropping that diss track complete with music video.
This is a good twitter thread from one of the guys behind the podcast for stuff he thinks the documentary didn't include for timing restrictions. Chief among them is probably that Carole pretty much definitely killed her husband lol
I think that was bullshit though. Joe said all that to PETA (which btw is not going to help him in his appeal, etc like I bet he thinks), which caused PETA to push on the other guys, which then resulted in a search warrant. I’m not sure what came out of the search warrant, maybe no arrest. https://www.wmbfnews.com/2019/12/11/sled-serving-warrants-myrtle-beach-safari-authorities-say/
Everyone knows Carol killed the guy. I pray day and night that she is the next to fall. That crazy old whore. I might catch shit for this, but I thought the creepiest of everyone was Doc in South Carolina. Lowe was runner up in the Jake Scott Tiger King crazy as a shithouse rat power rankings...
You could make a case for any important character in the documentary to be the creepiest/craziest and there would be absolute validity to it.
I laughed pretty hard at the Kenny Powers style sea doo ride by James Garretson. I need more info on Jeff Lowe. That guy is a huge piece of shit and likely to get in trouble sometime soon.
lol 9. For a long time, Joe told everyone he was dying from prostate & bone marrow cancer. He raised $$$ from his Facebook fans for his expenses. He showed me this horrifying photo as proof. I later learned he just had an infected prostate, dehydration, & a bad outbreak of herpes.
My Power Rankings for the Most Awful Humans in Tiger King (spoilers, obviously): 5. Doc Antle - fairly predatory relationships, runs more or less an indentured servitude camp, shadiness regarding disposing and purchasing of animals, price gouges customers 4. Allen Glover - accepted money to kill Carole (allegedly) and then got too high on crack to see it out, killed a person in his past, totally complicit in the plot to take down Joe 3. Joe Exotic - completely loose cannon who preyed on young men, unhinged from reality, wanted to kill Carole, perpetual liar, looked at animals as just money, multiple inter-state felon 2. Carole Baskin - clearly killed her ex-husband to profit and takeover his business empire, completely fucked over his sisters and ex-wife, incredible hypocrite, doesn't pay employees for years of labor 1. Jeff Lowe - total scum, assaulted and abused his ex-wife, enacted the plan to completely ruin Joe's life, orchestrated the hit as much - if not more than Joe, used and abused people, abused animals for profit in Vegas, unlike others in the film he never created a single thing - just totally destroyed everything in his path Pretty incredible that the guy who they based Tony Montana off of wouldn't have even been my honorable mention
Best line in the whole deal was from campaign manager, "I already knew he was batshit crazy from conversations we had at Walmart."
To me, Joe praying on young, straight, methed out teenagers is pretty fucked. Also, Joe being riddled with herpes is the least surprising thing ever.
I have a hot take: I genuinely think Joe liked the animals and cared about them despite being a shitty dude.
I think he did for a long time, but then became such a nutso about himself and his "fame" that he lost track of that.
Other funny and/or fucked up things Joe did: Joe invited his dead young husband Travis’ mom to his wedding to new husband. Also, why would she agree to do this? Joe started to legally go by Joe Maldonado-Passage, the two last names of his young husbands The neck tats of Travis and the new husband
Just finished it. Carnies on crack. All the shit started over 2 people not liking what the other was doing, then got so many other people involved.
I was telling my old lady about this. And she was like no fucking way. I'm like I swear to God I saw this idiot trying to run for president. She refused to believe me.
In truly heartbreaking news, it came out that Joe didn't even sing his own songs. This devastated me. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/netflix-tiger-king-joe-exotic And the Carol look-alike in the "Here Kitty, Kitty" video was eerily similar
Watching the final episode now and Joe is moving down a few pegs in my book given what I’m hearing. He’s still got 26 minutes and 51 seconds to redeem himself though.
He’s smart, but he’s fake as hell. I liked how the docuseries didn’t edit out his commentary that he clearly expected to be taken out.
Kirkman's story about walking past the studio to see Joe sitting at the computer and replaying the "Tiger King" intro with him sitting on the throne about a thousand times