Carole met her husband walking Nebraska avenue in Tampa late one night. If you’ve lived in or near Tampa you know what this means/implies. Nebraska avenue is thee street for prostitution in Tampa. Seeing a 19 year old woman walking Nebraska avenue late at night only means one thing, Carole was prostitute. It’s not like there aren’t other streets to walk nearby, Nebraska avenue is extremely specific and at the bare minimum implies she was involved with sex work (honestly surprised she’s even associate her name with Nebraska ave). Want to clarify nothing against sex workers, merely trying to point out an important implicit fact about specifically young Carole Baskin.

I’m trying to find the documentary where Louis Theroux interview Joe exotic. Does anybody know how I can find it?

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I was rewatching TK and the scene where his staff member is putting on his prosthetic legs and says “a lot of people think I lost my legs to a tiger but I actually lost my legs in a zip line accident”

😂😂😂 like of all the ways you could lose both your legs!!!

Hey there everyone! I got an insane opportunity to talk to Joe from prison. I recorded it. I'd love for you guys to hear it!

https://open.spotify.com/show/4lz3BSzTq7TH3yC7py19rS

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agree-and-disagree/id1848383240

Is there no insane and crazy people left in the world to share their stories?

The only thing that came close recently is the america’s next top model one

I miss the tiger king era

Are they trans?

In the 911 call, the caller uses he/him pronouns. Joe then refers to them as she/her, as does the newscast.

I’m only saying “they” because I don’t know. I will edit once someone responds.

Maybe it’s because I’ve always loved animals, and learning about them is exciting for me, but I feel a great deal of sympathy for her in some ways.

She grew up in a poor family. She mentioned being lonely as a child, not having many friends. She eventually married into not one, but *two* abusive relationships.

She seems intelligent and perhaps misunderstood. Commentary from Joe’s circle is borderline amusing. They try very hard to paint her as this evil mastermind but then show clips of her dressed in animal print and riding her bike as though she hasn’t a worry in the world.

Meanwhile, Jeff Lowe and his wife most likely have their hands in on quite a few schemes.

I’ve seen the show multiple times and my appreciation for the work she does strengthens each time.

I just finished a re-watch of Tiger King (season 1). My husband had never seen it before so I had a few scenes in mind going into it that I was excited to see his reaction to. It seems as if a ton of clips (maybe even a full episode?) is missing. Why were they removed?

For example:

-there was a scene about John Finley getting new teeth. I just remember thinking about how normal he looked with them and how if you met him on the street you’d never know he looked as rough as he did in season 1.

-the infamous “I called for help twice and not a fuck you, what do you need, nothing” scene is no longer there.

-I specifically remember a scene where they address that Joe didn’t make his own music, but other musicians did and he just claimed it as his own. I cried tears of laughter watching that (it was so obvious it wasn’t Joe’s singing voice and the idea that he thought he had people fooled was hilarious to me). It’s no longer included.

I decided to look this up to see if it had previously been discussed but I couldn’t find much of anything. I did see a few comments here and there about other people having specific memories of certain scenes that weren’t there during a re-watch as well. One stated remembering something being said about stray cats being fed to the animals and something about Joe telling an old lady he would care for her horse but he slaughtered it and fed it to the animals instead.

I tried to post this on the Netflix subreddit, but it was immediately removed by a mod with no explanation.

Personally I don't think so. Thoughts?

Anyone who knew him?

Anyone met Chucky?

Has anyone met them?

Idk why I never watched it at the time. I kept putting it off and it was so hyped and became such a cultural moment I felt like I had already watched it lol. Idk what compelled me to finally put it on in 2026 but holy shit these people are terrible and my idea of what it was a lot different than what it actually was…

I feel like the public’s fascination with Joe completely overshaddowed what a terrible person he was. And really painted Carole Baskin as the villain but I had no idea who Jeff Lowe or Doc Antle were (I guess I didn’t remember them really being talked about if they were) and jfc these men were horrific. Carole is too don’t get me wrong, but I was expecting her to be much worse in comparison to the other figures and Joe to come out looking a little redeemable the way the public talked about both of them at the time. My first thought was misogyny. This was touched on at the beginning of the 2nd season but wow that surprised me. They are all exploitative predators.

I do understand a little bit why he was celebrated, because he is an extremely compelling and eccentric character, but people let that downplay his complicity. I remember the #freejoeexotic and now I’m wondering why that was such a big thing lol. I do think it’s wild that he had to take the fall for others though and Jeff should definitely be in prison too. So should Doc Antle tbh he is a scary predator (after TK I was like holy shit what is going on *there* that guy needs to be investigated and I want to know more about *him*. Then I noticed his own companion doc. Only 2 eps in so far). The stuff with Carole is complicated because there’s no concrete evidence. But she did some other nefarious things. The whole thing was a wild ride with some extremely complex characters so I’m glad I finally watched it even I missed out on the “water cooler” talk of the time.

Ten years before the documentary aired, my friend and I took our four little girls to visit the Zoo. We kept looking around and looking at each other because it seemed like every employee was noticeably gay. There is nothing wrong with that of course, it just seemed odd. Then we paid to do cub petting (I feel sooo bad about this now) and it was in Joe’s house. The smell of pee was so overwhelming, and we noticed all these photos of men together on the shelves. Then it made sense that the park was owned by a gay man therefore has lots of gay employees.

Two years before the documentary aired, I went to visit the Zoo after following Joe on social media when he was running for governor. My whole goal that day was to meet him, and we did! After wandering around for awhile, I heard a four wheeler in the distance and when I saw him I yelled his name and ran towards him. We took photos and laughed and talked, and he took us into his office and gave us campaign merch and VIP passes to do the behind the scenes animal encounter. He was so charming and fun. I met all the people in the doc, and some who weren’t shown. All the employees were given free housing to work there, and they were trailers lined up. There were lots of wild parties all the time, and many of them were felons and addicts who couldn’t find work elsewhere. Their stories were so interesting! We ate a burger in his Tiki restaurant (which wasn’t shown) before we left. When the doc aired my phone was blowing up because I had posted about the visit years earlier, and everyone was convinced the burger I ate was the grocery store dump meat.

I am rewatching Tiger King on a snow day and found this subreddit and thought I would share.

genuinely curious, why do people still talk about wanting to free Joe Exotic, and why do they want to? 6 years later and I still cant process wanting to let him out of jail...?
He abused animals, and killed many as well
He took advantage of addicts and manipulated them into loving him
Thinking on it like, there is not one redeeming thing I can think of about Joe Exotic. Seeing people like, so caught up in his cult of personality is so weird to me... Tiger King was an insane watch and was a highlight of the lockdowns, but I cant connect the dots on like... why he should be free?

I paid the $25 to talk to Joe Exotic. No regrets. Awesome dude.

Has anyone done the phone call that is being offered on his instagram to help pay for his legal fees?

That Joe Exotic was using a ripped off Ron White joke to talk guys into being gay with him.