Tyger king is one of those rare special shows that only comes around once in a
blue moon a show so crazy and unbelievably strange that it's able to
unite the world and even the most trying times I've been doing this 20 years
never even been big in the crime-filled docu-series that still has the world
questioning what was in there coffee this morning certainly isn't without its
good guys and bad guys she wanted to shut down a zoo for in the wild
Unchained land of Oklahoma murder mayhem and madness run amok it should be noted
that this ranking will carry more weight than most as in this case real people
are being ranked be sure you don't call me while we'd usually be hesitant to
call anybody in real life evil the show isn't lacking and morally distressing
people so we're gonna go ahead anyway I'm Brad with wicked bench get ready to
pounce headfirst into Tiger king good to evil I've got a big mouth and television
station now then before we start let's just get this out there we based much of
this on audience speculation and the general consensus of Internet opinions
we want to make it totally clear I don't think anybody truly knows exactly what
happened in this disaster of a situation so you know that whole people feature
are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law thing they get to read on
cops yeah that applies here this is all opinion as usual we'll start with the
kindness purist characters and work our way down from there
our best and brightest goes to Kelsi staffs a furry a zookeeper at the GW Zoo
throughout the series sap is able to maintain a cool collected froze even as
the world collapses around him at the GW Zoo when he gets his arm torn off by a
tiger he brushes it off as a risk that he knew was there and was willing to
take I'm never gonna financially recover from
this he didn't seek legal action against Joe exotic and even went back to work
only a few days after the accident to prevent the media from vilifying the zoo
upon reflecting in the last episode he comments that not a single animal
benefited from the war not a single animal benefited from this war what a
heart of gold below SAP but very close we have John
ranked the second amputee on our list it seems the less limbs you have in the
show the more reasonable you become he didn't lose his legs to tigers however
he actually had a ziplining accent in 1994 which still sounds like a gnarly
injury nonetheless I fell 50 feet landed on my feet John has a very similar
thought process to SAP he was only there to care for his animals and cared for
his animals he did until Jeff Lowe came along and took ownership of the GW Park
miss the babies a lot I really really do I miss bone digger and cletus likes f he
quit the zoo and now no longer works with big cats
he's only lower on the list and staff simply because he didn't literally
sacrifice life and limb to the Tigers voracious appetites next up on her list
we have Joshua Dyle former Walmart manager turned political campaign
manager Joshua never ceases to be a voice of reason and gives a feeling of
normalcy and it was a worst experience in my life he does very little evil if
any unless being honest is immoral he was president for Travis's death one of
Jos husbands and assisted in getting help even though he knew it would be in
vain I knew his dad the second he pulled the trigger by dial turned out to be an
honest guy who brought an air of comfort and consistency to the documentary even
though he didn't help anyone all that much and for that he secures a bronze
medal of goodness and this good to evil ranking coming up next is Barbara Bala
Fisher she's probably the most fleeting character in the series with a very
small amount of screen time but she is important in getting
image of the person that our former employer doc Ansel really is felt like
he could get them to do anything she took care of Tigers for Doc and
didn't hurt anybody in the process in addition she managed to resist his
advances and leave his cult to tell her story while she didn't do objectively
positive actions other than her job her innocence in the series and quirky
personality lets her keep a positive status on this list like I would go to
make a sandwich my bread would be full of cockroaches and it was like nothing
before we start let's give an honorable mention to Joe exotics parents they are
sued by Caroll Baskin for having some of his assets in his name and they're most
likely victims of circumstance they do seem like generally good people who
support their son through his endeavors which is all that can be asked of them
that's every phone call mom I need some money for this alright with that we now
enter the moral gray area quicker than usual
I'd say starting off we got Rick Kirkman the former Inside Edition team member
turn reality TV producer was a crazy beginning he straddles the line between
neutral and good due to his pessimistic outlook on life
and his questionable motives for recording the reality TV show we
consider him to be a good person since he has expressed an overwhelming regret
for being part of exotic zoo and his position on why he was there in the
first place I got everything invested in that project then no longer exists he
wanted to record a reality TV show and he wanted to make money which is hard to
fault him for once all of his footage was destroyed when an arsonist who was
probably Joe himself burned down his recording studio he packed his bags and
left which was most likely the best thing he could have done now moving on
we're going to throw an eric Cowie former head zookeeper at GW Zoo now I'm
doing Tiger shows he comes up as an apathetic character at times for sure
figured it's so big so fast he may not care about many of his
co-workers but insist that he's only there for the animals it's also sad that
he seems to feel some sense of guilt for not stopping the Tigers from being
killed even if he claims there wasn't anything he could do there's no way for
me to stop it alas poor Travis we hardly knew you the
youngest of Joe's husband Travis Maldonado married exotic at age
19 he seemed to only treat his marriage to Jo as a chore he reportedly told his
sister but it was only a gig for him this wouldn't be surprising since exotic
showered him with gifts all the time he also doesn't get any good boy points for
aiming guns at people's faces and waiting for them to wake up either
sometimes he'd wake you up pointing a gun at me we won't say he was bad
however teenagers can be pretty reckless which makes his tragic end a notably sad
part of the documentary on to Joe's other ex-husband John Finlay arguably
one of the most popular characters in the series he's a reasonable guy overall
he cares for his Tigers and he cares for his crocodiles and that's about it he
admits that he's not really gay and has an affair with Joe secretary all three
school of Dayton girl in the last episode we see him get his Joe exotic
tattoo covered up for good even though he's in the gray his immoral activities
weren't a mere slap on the wrist compared to other people on this list
pouncing forward it's time for everyone's favorite Executive Assistant
and McQueen between accusing people of murder and storing money for Don Louis
she actually does very little on the show Carol knows more than she's telling
she does seem to care about Don's wellness and passionately believes that
there was foul play in his disappearance
her aiding in him selling endangered animals can't be overlooked though which
we can consider to be generally unethical behavior next in line for
moral limbo is Dillon passage Joe's current fling when you propose I just I
said yes even with Joe's incarceration Dillon stands by his husband and
continues to endorse a potential presidential pardon for Joe which
probably doesn't shine a positive light on him we also catch a glimpse of him
hiding sale receipts from the cameras that document the exchange of tigers to
DA cancel which is pretty bad but since he seems to be the only person on the
show that legitimately liked joe exotic for who he is
give him a pass on a bad ranking for the sake of love I would definitely just hug
him as high as I could it's time for our knight in shining
armor to ride and valiantly on his jet ski and save us all the one and only
james Garretson confidential informant for the FBI plus full-time badass james
owned his own collection of cats before moving all his inventory to the GW zoo
and working for joe but great friends with him but friendly when he was faced
with the decision to save himself or sell out exotic he didn't hesitate to
turn on Joe he also admits to owning a lemur illegally and he may or may not
own a stolen car if you believe Geoff low if I stole a
Hummer don't you think I'd be charged this is the first person on the list
that we know committed a crime so he was bound to be further down but he kind of
redeems himself after testifying against Joe in court so he's not so bad if we
consider betraying Joe exotic an act of good which I do and I thought it was a
noble thing to do with our gray section complete it's time to lower ourselves
down a peg and get to the more villainous characters in this
documentary oh yeah it's time to get evil we're not really
sure what went on with Alan Glover he was the first would it be assassin of
Carroll Baskin except once Joe paid him three grand he disappeared apparently I
chickened out and didn't make it there the narrative makes it unclear whether
he drove down to Florida and changed his mind or whether he went straight home to
South Carolina either way agreeing to murder someone
doesn't put you in the best light whether you're planning on doing it or
not for that he's our first Tiger king evil doer closely piggybacking is Carol
Baskins current husband Howard Baskin between helping Carol sue Joe and being
generally a strange dude Howard is not as hateable as Carol but he's pretty
close we could sue him for violating our copyright he assists in Carol's plans
which include suing Joe's parents soliciting unpaid labor and profiting
off keeping tigers in captivity but he isn't the mastermind behind these plans
so he's more of a side character in the poor decision-making onwards and
downwards to Tim Stark former associate of Geoff low and weirdo on tenure keep
your friends close but keep your enemies closer
while he isn't hanging keys and diapers from a snack he's
breaking federal law former proprietor of wildlife in need
his license was revoked by the USDA and his sanctuary quote-unquote was charged
300 grand and fines in 2016 PETA levelled 120 charges against him
for animal abuse one of the claims stated that he beat a leper to death
with a baseball bat okay on to Jeff Lowe they call his setup
I call it investigate a playboy and a swinger who puts tigers into suitcases
and brings them to hotel rooms he rolled them through the casino up into the
Suites he was arrested for driving a bus down the Vegas Strip offering high
paying customers the opportunity to ride with big cat cubs the man is a con man
and a felon and after stepping as the benefactor to help Joe xotic revive his
sanctuary he shifted ownership over to himself by the end of the series we see
that Jeff is in the process of hiring a nanny for his baby
stating if you're gonna bring in one why not bring in one who's not enjoyable to
look at why bring in one that's not enjoyable to look at really another
absolutely bizarre individual who somehow miraculously God's people
seriously the craziest thing about this series is how so many of these seemingly
dim-witted people are able to pull off cons over and over seems like everybody
starts out well with me and then it has been we are in the final three folks
which means we've hit peak awfulness for bronze and evil we have da cancel the
spiritual polygamists that may or may not have euthanized baby tigers and a
gash tamer and cremate their bodies in an on-site incinerator he cremates their
bodies in his on-site crematorium allegedly we must add but if that is the
case this guy has stepped into some truly dark territory in addition to this
one of his former employees turned lovers has accused him of psychological
manipulation encouraging his employees to be intimate with them so that they
would be bonded to him in a way in which he felt like he could get them to do
anything his touch brings them up to his level of enlightenment if there was a
word that best describe his employment methods it would be cult ish
he's got his little coat I got my little Colt requirements for employment include
being female childless and single and no time off is given all for the promise of
cute tiger cubs best not drink the kool-aid
drumroll please in second place for the most evil person on tiger king it's none
other than that down in Florida Carol Baskin throughout the show she has a
judgment for Joe exotic that while she claims is fueled by a love and passion
for animals is obviously run on her rage what they are doing is breeding cats for
life in cages she claims to be opposed to Joe because of his property ring of
animals in captivity yet she kind of does the same thing well she doesn't
sell like Joe does she does keep them in cages no matter how spacious of cages it
is still a cage it's all so trashy that she doesn't pay our employees showing
little regard for their well-being and going so far as to admit she doesn't
even talk to many of them sadly I hardly ever know who they are
she tends to go on the defensive when it comes to talking about what happened to
her husband and the criticism online is rising to a breaking point the theories
that she killed her husband are not on based many people in the documentary
don't deny this claim and even more in Dorset we believe that she fed him this
patent and although it's only speculation if 12 of your average
Internet users were on a jury well I think Carol Baskin would be doing our
time I promise you he's underneath that damn thing are we gonna say she did it
well that's not our place but hers thousand-yard stare and creepy smile
don't make it better how would I then put him in the septic tank if this woman
was a condiment it would be paint thinner cuz you're afraid of Carol
Baskin oh yes I am and then there was one first off let us get it out of the
way hashtag free Joe exotic it's funny it's a funny meme but this man Joe
exotic he's a monster whether he's shooting dummies of Carol
and effigy committing insurance fraud by burning down his own animal facilities
feeding his cats and customers rotten meat from Walmart dumpsters or seducing
young straight men with the promise of methamphetamine this man is
off the wall sky at my days of drinking I had my days of meth he's a lunatic he
casually sets his own possessions on fire to make a point
he hired not one but two people to kill his rival he stole his partners money to
illegally funnel it into his campaign for governor command his employees to
kill the Tigers they love and care about those Tigers Joe exotic is a character
he's hilarious Lee charismatic and he's easily the most likable one in the
documentary but he's an Unchained dog of a man who does everything to serve his
own interest because the disrespect around this place is ending today even
if Jeff Lowe did set him up as he claims he deserves what he's gotten for his
other crimes sorry not sorry so what do you think is Joe exotic really innocent
do you agree with their ranking or are we completely off look if we got this
one wrong frankly we will never financially recover from this remember
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