- So good. Oh my god. This is such a train wreck.
- Tell the truth, Carol!
- (Chloe voice-over) I did not kill my husband.
- (chuckles) Yes, you frickin' did!
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (Joshua) It's not every day that a zookeeper...
- Yes! Tiger King! Joe Exotic!
- Ah, Joe Exotic, you dirty, dirty man.
- Ah, this is the best documentary I've ever seen.
- I'm literally-- My fiance's next to me
watching this right now. (laughs) - (Joshua) ...went to prison
for murder for hire. - I mean, how all of this trash
got in one spot is just beyond me.
- (reporter) There are more captive tigers in the US
than there are in the wild throughout the world.
- That's crazy. - Yeah, that crazy chick right there.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- (John) I'm sure y'all got a story to tell.
- Oh, I watched that too, the documentary about Fyre Festival.
I also watched that. - (Rick) He was like
a mythical character living out in the middle
of bum [censored] Oklahoma, who owned 1,200 tigers
and lions and bears and [censored]. - So good. Oh my god.
This is such a train wreck. - (Joe) I don't think we're done
blowing [censored] up today. - So, is he a crazy guy? Yes.
Is he [censored] awesome? Yes. (chuckles)
- (Rick) If he ever had an enemy in his life,
it was Carole Baskin. - (Carole) Hey, all you
cool cats and... - Ah, freakin' Carole Baskin.
- (Rick) ...it was Carole Baskin. - Carole Baskin, tell the truth!
(snapping) Tell the truth, Carole! Where's your husband?!
- (Carole) Hey, all you cool cats and kittens, it's Carole.
- Oh, Carole Bas-- I volunteered at Big Cat Rescue
when I was younger. Yeah, when I was around
eight to ten years old. She's the sweetest lady,
at least from what I remember. - (both) Hey, all you cool cats
and kittens. - (chuckles) The amount of times
I've seen that quote on Instagram in the last week.
"Hey, all you cool cats and kittens." (chuckles)
- (Joe) This is my way of living, and nobody's gonna tell me
any other way. - This is just so insane.
Just... ugh. - (man) Carole has an army
of people working for free. - It wasn't as insane as you think.
She didn't have a cult following of people going, like, "Ooh, boy,
I'm ready to work forever." We were all just like,
"Hey, I'm here. I got a free day.
I'm gonna come help out with the cats."
- (Joe) She's a plain ol' hypocrite.
She literally does everything that I do.
- Yeah, that child is... She's a hot m-- she look crazy!
- (man) So, Joe said, 'Will you go to Florida,
and..." what? Kill that [censored] lady.
- So crazy. - (man) What a story!
And it got way bigger... - It's so sketch.
The whole story's so sketch.
- (officiant) You may now kiss the... - And then this child right here,
he a hot mess too. - (Joe) You're gonna have to kill me
to shut me up. ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- Ah, it's so good. That trailer...
it gets close, but it doesn't even describe that show.
- I like how Netflix is like, "Hey, you guys wanna have
a documentary about tigers?" and it just totally goes off the rails.
- It's like a [censored] show came to town, they put it in a dumpster
and lit that dumpster on fire, and we cannot stop looking at it.
- So, don't worry, cool cats, we have more to show you in a second,
but that was the trailer for the Netflix docuseries,
Tiger King, which, as of filming this episode,
has become the number one show on Netflix right now.
- I believe it. - Since so many people
have been staying home and binging this show right now,
we thought it'd be perfect time to take a look
at the most talked about show at the moment.
- I love it. This is the best show ever.
- (FBE) As our audience may be able to tell,
we're currently all working remotely from home as we're trying to do
our part in social distancing, but thanks to everyone out there
for supporting us during these times and letting us bring
this different kind of content like this to you guys.
- Yeah, you guys are awesome. You guys are just being
so crazy supportive. And thank you so much
and thanks for staying home, and we'll get through this.
- (FBE) So next, we're gonna have you take a look at a few
of the weirdest and craziest moments from the show and just kind of
get some of your thoughts. So, warning to those
who haven't watched, there are spoilers ahead.
- Spoiler alert. - (officiant) Go with love.
You may now kiss. - (chuckles) Oh, god.
This scene was... - Yeah, I remember this part.
- Yes, beautiful ceremony. - I mean...
Three Ring Circus. Yeah. - That was interesting,
but I'm very like, you love who you love, you know?
Whether it be two dudes, three dudes...
- (John) ...doesn't come off to me as being gay,
but, you know, he lives with Joe. - Ooh, he got his name ta--
no, he didn't. - "Privately owned."
- "Privately owned. Joe Exotic." (gags)
- Each of them probably cared about Joe as a person at some point.
If they were in love with him, I have no idea.
There's probably a lot of different motivations behind
all of the relationships between all of the different people.
- I mean, when somebody's giving you free rent and meth every day,
I guess, to some, that's appealing. (chuckles)
And poor kid, I don't know, just got in the wrong place,
wrong time. - (Carole) The ownership of money...
- Yes, the science of getting rich. - Oh, this was so weird.
- (Carole) ...comes from doing things in a certain way.
- I can't make eye contact with that lady.
I feel like she's stealing my soul. - (Carole) Those who do things
in a certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally...
- Accidentally kill your husband. - In one way, her "accidentally"
is having a guy drive up to her while she was walking in the middle
of nowhere and then holding a gun on him.
I guess that's her way of getting rich.
- This woman. And I never got her concept.
She's mad, saying people are locking their cats up.
She's lockin' em up too. - ♪ Seeing you in springtime ♪
- This dude. - This is awful.
This guy's terrified of her. - (Howard and Carole chuckle)
- (Howard) My number one goal in life is gonna be
to make this woman happy. - Ah, the cringe!
- Yeah, he has the leash on, because we all know what happened
to the other guy that took the leash off.
- I do not trust her one bit. I'm watching the series again
with my fiance right now, and I'm like [censored] Carole Baskin.
(laughs) - ♪ La-da-da-da-da ♪
♪ It's the one and only D-O-double-G ♪
- Maybe I'm speaking to this through rose-colored glasses,
but when I was there, she was nothing but nice.
Even when I was volunteering, she would come up,
she would have a natural thing that she walks by just feeding a cat,
and I'd be like, "Hey, I'm just bringing a tourer along."
And she'd be like, "Hey, good job! Keep going there."
And I was like, "Oh, that's really nice."
- Since this show has become such a phenomenon across the country,
it's garnered many memes and parodies.
So finally, we have some of those to show you now.
- Okay. Oh, god. I can't wait to see this.
- "Me: I can't stop thinking about, talking about, or reading about
the coronavirus. Netflix: Let me introduce you
to Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin." Yes. (claps)
I feel like you need some type of distraction,
and that's what this is. - (chuckles) It's so true.
I forgot that we had to stay inside.
I was just like, "This is the best thing ever."
- It's great. In a time when we all need escapism,
we just need some crazy dude with a tiger and some hippy lady
who loves cats. - My whole Twitter is coronavirus,
Tiger King, Animal Crossing, coronavirus, Tiger King,
Animal Crossing. That's it!
- "Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Doc Antle trying to figure out
who's exploiting big cats." (chuckles)
This is so good! Literally, though, all of them.
- Totally! (laughs) Every single one of 'em.
I mean, they are all just pieces of [censored].
It's just shaped differently. - They all were.
The only difference between Carole Baskin
and Joe Exotic and the doctor is just that they let you
play with cubs. But Carole Baskin's
doing the exact same thing. - I didn't see any mistreatment
when I was there with Carole Baskin, but looking back at it, yeah,
that cage where the animal gets its feed is small.
I feel there's probably better ways. I feel like she has better ways.
I remember we would actually toss the meat into a nice area
as we get the cat somewhere else, and then we'd bring it back,
and they could eat in a nice area.
- "Oh, cool. A documentary about tigers. Let me check this out.
Me 10 minutes later..." Yeah. Yeah, my eyes were like that
through most of the series. - It definitely wasn't
what I was expecting. Once I started watching,
I was like, wait. So, she murdered somebody
and then his husband committed suicide in front of the other person?
And I was like, this is getting super, super weird.
- That's exactly how I felt, 'cause I didn't hear really
anything about it. I had someone be like,
"Hey, you should watch Tiger King," but they didn't go into it.
And as soon as I started it, I was like, okay, it's gonna be--
you know, it's gonna be like tigers and lions.
It's gonna be like the Lion King, you know, and it was not.
- (Laura) Hey, all you cool kids and kittens,
it's Carole Baskin. Just took... - (laughs)
- (Laura) ...a kitty cat ride around my kitty cat, meow, meow
kitty cat lake. - (laughs)
- (Laura) And I just wanna thank everybody for being
a supporter of The Big Cat Kitty Cat Rescue.
- (laughs) Oh my god. - (Laura) Now, order of business,
we stopped feeding live rabbits to the big cats,
so that's a big improvement. And also, I did not kill my husband.
- (laughs) - Yes, you frickin' did!
- (squeals softly) - (Laura) Just gonna zone off
into the distance. - That's a spot-on impression.
Oh my god. (chuckles) - She smiled like that too
in the movie! I remember when they asked her about it,
and she just laughed, like, (chuckles)
"I didn't kill my husband." (laughs)
I was like, girl, you crazy! - So, like you said,
Tiger King is currently the number one show
on Netflix right now, so let's start with maybe
the most obvious question, what do you think it is
about this show that seems to draw people to it?
- Okay, number one, we bored, okay? So, we ain't got nothing else to do
but try to watch some new stuff, and it was entertaining.
It sort of kept our mind from the coronavirus
and being stuck at home. - Because it's just crazy.
It's just so many things are happening.
Every episode gets weirder and weirder.
- There's so much happening! Polygamy! Guns! Drugs!
Tigers! People getting eaten! People get their arms ripped off!
There's potential murder! I can't even break it down.
I finished it last week, and I still am trying
to process it all. - It's the biggest train wreck
that has another train wreck, then it has another one.
All the things combined, all the scandals and everything,
it's very entertaining. - Do you think anyone could have
even made up a story like this if they tried?
- No, not with this many moving variables and elements.
There's no way you can jam pack all of that
just from your imagination alone. - It would take a panel of people
to come up with this [censored] show. Maybe a lot of alcohol and drugs
to create something like this. - If it wasn't a documentary,
it wouldn't work. You bring that to a network,
and they'd be like, "This is a piece of [censored].
Choose a direction." But because it's real life,
it's like watching a train wreck happen in slow motion.
You can't look away. - Well, as you saw with some
of the memes that we showed you today, one thing a lot of people seem
to be talking about online in reference to the show
is how it seems to be uniting people during this time of quarantine.
Why do you think that this show of all shows is the one
that seems to be uniting people during this time?
- I just think because it's just so crazy and bizarre,
the whole storyline, like just everything that's going on
with these different people, because like you said,
there's sex, there's all these marriages,
there's drugs, somebody trying to get somebody killed,
just all these stories. This is all the TV shows
that we watch, but it's all combined in one crazy show. (chuckles)
- It's like if Game of Thrones was on and everyone was watching it
and they were talking about the previous episode.
This is just the craziest thing ever. You can make jokes about it.
You can talk serious about it if you want.
You can have multiple debates in different categories of genres.
And it's the perfect show to just talk about with people.
- Joe Exotic is just a very meme-able person.
And I feel like our generation's gonna be like, "Oh, this dude's funny.
We'll just make memes out of him," which memes, you know, always--
During this weird time that we're in right now,
you're always gonna need that little bit of laughter,
you know, through the memes and stuff. - So, Winton, you're actually
an employee here at FBE. - Yeah. I do graphics.
I make all the pretty images that are floating around the screen
throughout the episodes. - So, can you tell us
a little bit more about what your experience was like
volunteering at Big Cat Rescue? - We visited a couple of times,
and it was right when I was in Boy Scouts and stuff,
so I'm volunteering places. And I just really liked
the big cats and everything, and they said, "Well,
do you wanna come? And we'll give you
a T-shirt and stuff." It was a really interesting experience
to be able to try and help out these kind of cats.
It's like working with a rescue animal,
but one that can turn on you. And they were very big on that.
And I think that's really important, and that's where the main
fundamental difference is between all of this thing
is the other ones are gonna breed a bunch of cubs
and shove 'em in your face. And this one was like,
"We're gonna teach you. We're gonna educate you.
But we're also gonna let you know about the separation we need to have
as you enjoy this other life form."
And I was more appreciative of that, because I was like,
I now know this and I know how I should love it.
- Well, finally, before we go, which statement do you feel
strongest about? - Okay.
- Carole killed her husband. - Carole killed her husband!
- Free Joe Exotic or Carole killed her husband?
- Carole killed her husband! - Carole killed her husband. Period.
- Based on everything that I saw, probably Carole killed her husband.
- I'm gonna have to go with Carole killed her husband
on this one. - Carole killed her husband.
But I still want Joe out, though. (laughs)
- Free-- no. Carole killed her husband.
- I feel the strongest about free Joe Exotic,
because, no, we shouldn't. (chuckles)
I think it's okay where he is right now.
- Carole killed her husband. That's that. Everyone knows that.
Everyone's like, "No, free Joe Exoti"--
tsk, he's pretty [censored] too. - Carole killed her husband for sure.
He for sure-- she for sure killed him!
She for sure fed him to the tigers.
I'm just confused why no one's investigating this.
I don't know how that investigation just stopped.
I think Carole needs to go to jail. Honestly, I think they should all
kind of go to jail, but what can you do, you know?
- Thanks to all you cool cats for watching this episode.
- What do you think about Tiger King?
Let us know in the comments. - Bye!
- Hi, all you cool cats and kittens.
Thanks for watching this episode on FBE.
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