The Lies Netflix Told on Tiger King Part 1
Why was Carole in the Tiger King?
Let’s get right into it and just think about that for a second.
Here’s a quick spoiler alert.
If you haven’t watched the series just yet, go watch it first and THEN watch this video.
Or if you don’t care about the spoilers and you want to watch the series with a different
perspective, watch this video first!
If you’ve already watched the series, you know that there’s basically one entire episode
that seems to heavily hint at Carol feeding her 2nd husband Don to a Tiger!
Why on earth would Carole Baskin agree to go on a documentary that was basically all
about Joe Exotic, someone who has continually been threatening her and making her life miserable?
Let’s show some of the evidence here: Why would someone go on a show that puts someone
they hate in a mostly positive light?
Is it for the money?
Well, no, because if Joe Exotic is right about Big Cat Rescue, then Carole makes plenty of
money.
We also know that she has a Facebook page that millions of people follow AND a YouTube
channel with over 1 million subscribers.
We also know that Carole had plenty of money from Don’s Estate.
But that’s another issue we’ll dive into later.
Carole’s Motivation So we know that Carole already is pretty much
rich along with a more than healthy cash flow.
So we can rule out money as a motivation.
She’d have to either absolutely LOVE money to agree to go on Tiger King or she’s absolutely
broke and needed that netflix money.
Neither appears to be the case here, so Netflix had to sell her some other way in order for
her to agree to go on the show.
And here’s what the most likely truth is.
Carole said that Netflix had told her they were making a documentary about big cats that
was going to be a lot like Blackfish.
That was the documentary that exposed the truth on SeaWorld.
Obviously, Tiger King’s focal point wasn’t about the bad practices in the industry of
big cats.
It was pretty much centered on Joe Exotic.
We definitely buy Carole’s claim here because it makes the most sense.
Why else would she agree to be on a show that puts her in a terrible light with all that
they had shown with her ex-husband’s disappearance?
As well as all the crazy things Joe exotic says against her?
Big Cat Rescue vs Big Cat Rescue Entertainment
Now where do we even begin with Joe Exotic’s claims about Carole?
We know that basically Carole’s relationship began way back with Joe.
She found out about Joe’s traveling circus and she didn’t think he was treating his
animals right.
So she started a campaign aimed at stopping his business.
And that’s where this big fight started.
Joe decided to create a company called Big Cat Rescue Entertainment Group.
The only thing is that his company was essentially named after Carole’s company, Big Cat Rescue
Corporation.
What was the main reason that he decided to do this?
Joe says his reasons, but John Reinke says the real reason.
That makes much more sense right?
Long story short, Carole and her current husband Howard took Joe to court and eventually won.
They were able to get a million dollar judgement against Joe Exotic.
But what had Joe Exotic been doing?
Mama Exotic Joe had transferred assets over to his mom,
Shirley.
Basically everything from his cash to his bills to his property.
Once the judgement was made against him, instead of hiding what he can, he even goes as far
as showing himself blowing up his own things on video!
Long story short, Carole and Howard are able to show that Joe’s mom committed fraud (show
page 2 and highlight section B. And Joe’s mom Shirley admitted to it.
However, Joe then claims that Carole and Howard started to go specifically after his mom and
tried to bankrupt her.
Except, that never happened!
In the same document, they agreed SPECIFICALLY not to go after Joe’s mom.
But of course Joe, with his personality, wants to play it up like he’s a big victim.
And he dragged his parents into it.
Let’s think this through.
No Motive Why would Carole and Howard want to go after
someone without money?
Let’s just be real here, that house that Joe’s parents are in doesn’t exactly look
expensive.
And even if they hate Joe, would they hate their mom too?
But let’s flip it really quickly.
Even if they DID decide to go after Joe’s parents’ assets, how would they be able
to do that?
They wouldn’t be able to!
They already agreed to not go after her for money for her involvement in the fraud.
But netflix producers still decided to allow Joe to make his false claims of Carole and
Howard bankrupting his mom and going after her house.
He claims that she had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend herself.
Except, her money was money from Joe’s operations!
And the only person that had to file for bankruptcy was Joe himself.
But of course, this wasn’t Joe Exotic’s biggest lie that Netflix producers left out.
He had a much bigger one!
Big Cat Rescue Operations What about Joe’s claims about Carole doing
the same exact thing as himself?
Netflix never really fully showed her daily operations with her cats.
The scene shown here on Tiger King apparently is a once a year event called the Walkabout.
The way Netflix shows it, it makes it seem like the event is a daily event and that many
people are looking at the cats everyday.
Apparently according to Carole, the rest of the year isn’t like what’s shown on Tiger
King.
Visitors are taken around in groups of no more than 20 on guided tours.
That’s where they learn the stories of the cats and the issues they face in captivity
and in the wild.
Joe has also repeatedly said that Carole has people working for her for free and Doc Antle
contended that Carole has quote “an army of people” working for her for free as well.
Carole is also on film saying this:
You would think that Carole doesn’t pay anyone but
herself or Howard, but that’s not true.
There ARE other salaried employees.
With Joe’s repeated claims that Carole makes a lot of money from Big Cat Rescue, you would
think that Netflix would want to show how Carole runs her operation.
But the producers don’t dive deeper into how Big Cat rescue is run as a nonprofit.
Nonprofits have to be open with their books and Big Cat rescue isn’t any different.
In fact, on their own website, they’re completely transparent with their finances!
Another contention that Joe has is that Carole and Howard kept their cats in cages just like
he did.
Joe showed a picture of one of Carole’s cats drinking out a cage.
But that was extremely misleading, because cats from Big Cat Rescue only go into that
section of the cage to eat.
According to Big Cat Rescue’s website, their smallest enclosure is the size of a small
house, around 1200 square feet.
Their largest enclosure is over two acres.
They have a detailed page showing exactly how their cats live and what their plans are
housing the cats in the future.
Netflix could have easily portrayed how operations at Big Cat Rescue actually are.
But they chose to focus on the more sensational parts of the story.
That’s understandable, given that Netflix is focused on entertainment and getting more
people to watch because of a crazy story.
They wanted to create more mystery by leaving out details of Carole’s operations to make
her look like a hypocrite.
If they had shown how operations were done at Big Cat Rescue run, Carole would have easily
seemed much more credible on Tiger King.
Joe Exotic Classic Hits Another thing that Netflix continued to lead
on was Joe’s singing.
Who can forget Joe’s rendition of “Here Kitty Kitty”, and “I saw a Tiger”?!
Because to be honest, the production quality on those tracks were good.
Actually great if we’re being honest!
If you played us the song and told us this was a new hit country song, we’d absolutely
believe you.
It seems like Joe Exotic actually has an amazing voice.
But surprise, the person singing wasn’t Joe Exotic at all!
And Netflix producers somehow never mentioned this fact!
Of course, it’s POSSIBLE that the producers never asked Joe who was singing and just ASSUMED
Joe had such a great voice.
But they spent so much time filming footage of him that there’s almost no way that the
producers had never heard him sing in real life.
They had to know that it wasn’t Joe singing the songs.
Clinton Johnson Band Musicians Vince Johnson and Danny Clinton
from the state of Washington claim that THEY’RE the real voices behind the songs.
Joe didn’t write any of the songs, and he didn’t even sing any of them!
Well, to be fair, a few songs did seem to have his voice mixed in over Vince and Danny’s
recordings.
Joe discovered Vince and Danny after he had put out an ad asking for someone to create
a theme song for his reality TV show.
It wasn’t until Vince and Danny discovered Joe’s videos on YouTube that they realized
that Joe was taking full credit and just passing himself off as singing the songs!
Vince said Joe would set the subjects for the songs and then let him do his own research
to come up with the lyrics.
But of course, that didn’t mean he agreed with Joe’s conclusions!
Why did Joe Exotic decide to pretend to be the person behind the songs?
Joe had even gone as far as saying singing was his passion and his getaway.
Well, from what we’ve seen on Tiger King, his lies for attention fits his narcissistic
personality perfectly!
Don’s Wealth And now let’s address the Don situation.
This situation is one giant story in and of itself.
Netflix seemed to carefully address Carole’s upbringing from childhood and her relationships
she’s had with Don.
However, one very pertinent piece of information that was left out by Netflix producers is
the fact that Carole actually contends that Don WASN’T rich when they had met.
Of course, this is a he said she said situation, because clearly everyone that was friends
or family with Don contends that he had money.
Each of Don’s friends, family members, and associates agree that he had money and came
from nothing.
And Don’s family, along with Joe Exotic, said that Carole was only about Don’s money.
Notice how Netflix nor anyone on the show actually mentioned how Don made money?
They just alluded to that he owned real estate and other assets!
But they never go into HOW he made his millions.
Plus, Carole never claimed that Don DIDN’T have money.
On the Big Cat Reserve website, she contends that they actually made Don’s first millions
TOGETHER in real estate, AFTER she had met Don.
Don’s Real Estate Carole contends that Don only owned two real
estate properties at the time they had met and was worth somewhere in the six figures.
He didn’t start making serious money until one day he happened to be at the bank when
he overheard a bank officer talking.
The bank officer apparently was saying that he had a $20,000 dollar loan in default that
he’d be glad to sell for $2000.
Don eventually got the information and had asked Carole to look into it.
Why?
Because again, according to Carole, Don couldn’t read beyond a 1st grade level!
So as a team, they bought the loan, foreclosed on the property, and sold it for a big profit.
And that’s how Carole and Don got into the real estate business and made all their money
together!
They started buying defaulted loans from banks and going to tax deed sales at a time before
a lot of people got into the business.
The Real Truth?
Of course, we shouldn’t just take Carole’s word to be true.
But we DO know that Netflix conveniently left out her side of the argument!
Maybe she never brought it up, but we highly doubt it.
Because if it were something she believed, she would definitely have told the producers
the whole story.
And she’d 100% would say it if it were a lie.
That way, she can clear any motives to have him disappear!
But of course, all this can easily be cleared up with property records.
By leaving out the part that Carole had equal rights to the properties they bought together,
it seriously undermines any motive that Carole would have to want to make Don disappear!
So of course, Netflix decided to make the story that much more salacious!
By not putting Carole’s version of Don’s wealth in Tiger King, they can play up Joe
Exotic’s crazy theory of Carole feeding Don to her Tigers!
What was the real reason Don was going to Costa Rica?
What’s the most logical reason he was burying things?
Find out more in Part 2!
Watch this next video to find out about why one of the biggest banks in the world decided
to launder dirty money!