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911, what's your emergency?
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We've got an employee
that was attacked by a tiger.
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And he's hurt bad.
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They will not send a helicopter
until the ambulance gets here.
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The arm is completely gone.
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We do not have time to wait.
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Go get the gurney here.
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Get everything out of the driveway.
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- Give me a stretcher. How's it coming?
- They're... they're getting it.
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Fuck the fire extinguisher.
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You all right? Stay with me.
Stay with me, Saff.
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Make a sweep through the park
and make sure there's no other customers
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somewhere else in the park, please.
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Ladies and gentlemen, before you hear it
on the news, I'm gonna tell you.
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About an hour ago, we had an incident
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where one of the employees stuck their arm
through the cage
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and a tiger tore her arm off.
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I can give you your money back,
or I can give you a rain check.
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Why don't you come back another day?
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What do you want me
and Paul to do right now?
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- Do chores. Be safe.
- Do chores.
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- Okay. Back to it then. All right.
- Do not stick your hands in any cages.
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Oh, my god.
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I'm never gonna financially recover
from this.
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A woman is fighting to keep her arm
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after it was mauled by a tiger.
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The victim was airlifted
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to OU Medical Center
for lifesaving surgery.
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The story hit the news.
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It was a tiger mauling
in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
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Tiger attack, blah, blah, blah.
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The fence ripped the skin off the bone.
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Joe and John Reinke
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had already come to the hospital
to see me,
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and I specifically remembered
Reinke handing me a pen,
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and I picked it up and I wrote my name,
and then I handed it back to him.
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So my hand was still a functioning hand
at the time,
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just really bandaged up
and in a lot of pain.
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But the next morning,
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the surgeon came in and said,
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"Hey, Saff, it's gonna be, you know,
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about two years
of reconstructive surgery."
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He said, "Or you can amputate it."
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And I said, "Amputate it."
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My biggest thing, and it was...
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derived from Joseph...
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he said, "Our mission is to give
these animals a fighting chance."
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So I knew...
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if I stayed in that hospital,
the media wins.
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Is this a reflection
of what's not getting done right
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at your zoo? That's the question.
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I seen how much they blew it up
into this horror story
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that I felt like the best thing to do
was get right back to work...
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to kind of set things right.
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I was back on the park
in five days after my amputation.
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It was a total of seven days
in the hospital.
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Yeah!
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This had to have been
the most terrifying, traumatic event
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a human being could experience.
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- And yet...
- Some would say.
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Yet, you're back on the park today,
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still loyal, still working,
still loving these cats.
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I was the first person that she talked to
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about losing her arm,
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and amazingly, she held no bitter,
ill feelings.
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This was just another day for me,
um, to overcome.
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Uh, my attitude is
nothing can bring me down,
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and it's really easy
to do that here, Rick,
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and you know this because
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I work with a man that also has no legs.
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A lot of people think tigers took my legs.
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No, it actually happened
from a zip line accident.
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I fell 50 feet, landed on my feet...
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crushed my feet, broke my hip,
broke my back,
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tore all my insides up.
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I was paralyzed from the waist down,
but I could move a big toe,
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and that's when I said, "I can do this,"
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so I took it on myself
to learn how to walk.
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Usually you build up muscles,
you build up calves,
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you build up your heel,
you know, your ankle.
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Well, I couldn't build all that up,
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so I was literally walking on bone.
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I bet I walked 20 miles a day
at that zoo...
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12 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Give me a kiss! Good boy!
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Over time from walking on them,
I just ended up losing my feet.
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He loves Daddy.
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It wasn't the zoo's fault.
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I mean, it was all my fault.
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Now, I just got these cool looking legs.
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It's hard to explain
the addiction of exotic animals.
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I felt it when I got to hold a tiger
in my hands,
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when I got to get in a cage
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with six,
eight-month-old tigers and lions.
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There's something very addicting about
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the feeling of power
being around these animals.
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Hey, Doc, how's it going?
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♪ When you walk through the garden ♪
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♪ You gotta watch your back ♪
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♪ Well, I beg your pardon ♪
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♪ Walk the straight and narrow track ♪
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♪ We just got to keep the devil ♪
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♪ Way down in the hole ♪
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So you want to see them walk around?
You want to lay on that couch with them?
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What do want...
What do you think the shot is?
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Nothing is cooler, sexier,
and more significant
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to the world we live in today
than a tiger.
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It has this primordial calligraphy
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that tells a message
just in its very image.
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Everyone loves them.
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Anyone who says they don't
is just insecure and broken.
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The minute you meet one of these people
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that has an exotic cat,
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the first thing they do is
they whip out those pictures.
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Look at me, I'm holding this cub.
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Look at me, I'm petting this tiger.
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Look at me, I've got this cat on a leash.
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It's all about "look at me."
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They want to use those cats
to elevate their status.
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- Oh my god!
- They're only an hour old.
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I breed more tigers
than anybody in the country.
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Breeding was his whole thing.
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The whole idea was to keep baby tigers
being born.
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Joe had so many animals
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that he sold them
to a lot of these little animal parks
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around the country.
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Selling the animals was
the biggest moneymaker for him.
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I drove lions, tigers, bears...
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ligers, all kinds of different animals.
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I can't really tell you
all the places I've been.
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Let's just say
that I've been to 38 different states.
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But if I wanted to just buy
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a regular baby tiger...
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- …from a breeder, how much would it cost?
- Two thousand bucks.
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And keep in mind, it's illegal now.
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This is organized crime.
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Criminal enterprises are operating
under the radar illegally
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because the Endangered Species Act
forbids selling a tiger.
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You can't buy, sell, trade, or barter
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anything endangered,
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but there ain't a damn zoo out there
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that ain't buying cubs
when they don't have 'em.
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Some of the places
that the cubs have actually went to,
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you got Doc Antle in the Carolinas,
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you got Brown Zoo, you got Tim Stark.
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According to Thomas Jefferson,
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any law that you think's unfair
or unjustice,
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it is your obligation,
it is your responsibility
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to stand up against that bullshit law.
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If people are concerned about tigers,
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they should be donating their money
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to places like mine, where we breed them.
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Number one, they're endangered species.
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Duh. What's the first thing you should do
to protect an endangered species?
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Make more.
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Not eliminate the source.
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I bought shitloads from Joe.
Hundreds of thousand dollars worth of 'em.
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I posted online, 28 different places
that are all part of this whole...
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what I call the bad guy network,
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of people that are breeding cubs
and selling cubs.
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I think, honestly...
you're gonna...
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The woman's just obsessed with me.
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Carole, goddamn it,
you've missed out on it again.
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For each one
of these people Joe traded cats to,
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there's more information about them,
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in the hopes that with law enforcement
taking this serious and going after it,
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that they'll actually search out
some of those connections
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and see that it's this big network
of people.
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Mario Tabraue in Miami
has a criminal history.
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His claim to fame
is being one of the biggest drug dealers
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that our state ever knew.
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But despite having
this criminal background,
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he operates a wildlife menagerie.
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I don't know of anyone
who has ever been able to infiltrate
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Mario Tabraue's facilities.
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Oh, shit, what is this? Hey!
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Good morning, how are you, sir?
Do you have a reservation?
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- I don't.
- You don't?
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Well, unfortunately, I can't let you go,
because it's a private place.
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I've been trying to call
and they... You know, we wanted...
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This is a private property.
You actually have to have permission, sir.
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- All right. thanks a lot. Okay. Shit.
- Thank you. Have a great day.
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You're never
going to get into a place like Mario's,
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because they're just not going to allow
the public to see
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what really happens there.
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Probably around 1982,
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I went to work for Mario's place.
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I would have people come up and go,
"I can't believe you work for that guy,
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why would you work for that guy?
Aren't you scared?"
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I says, "He has the coolest animals,
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I don't care about anything else!"
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He had cheetahs, he had leopards,
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he had tigers, black jaguars,
snow leopards, cloud leopards,
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and this is his private collection
at his home.
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Come on, Johnny!
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I got food.
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Pretty much any way
they would smuggle illegal drugs,
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they would do the same with the animals...
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but the penalties for that were far less
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than if you were busted
for smuggling drugs.
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Open up the snakes,
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stick bags of cocaine inside of them,
stitch them back up.
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Did not really care
if the snake lived or died,
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it's just to get it in there.
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Why is it so hard
to get into these places?
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I'll try to put in a call
for you to get into Mario's place.
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Everything's super... secure.
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We try to make everything stupid-proof
'cause people will do stupid things.
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Come out! And don't go for my leg.
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Come out! Come on out! There you go.
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Can I take it from you? Yes.
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Can I throw it? Go get it. Go get it.
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We interact with our animals.
We give them love and passion.
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If you can't keep them in the wild
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that they supposedly deserve,
that doesn't exist anymore,
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you give them as much happiness
as you can.
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And they do get bonded with humans.
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People like Carole Baskin,
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they use me as a poster child.
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I shouldn't have animals
because I was a convicted felon.
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Smile, give a big smile. There you go.
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But I did my time for what I did.
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People used to drive by his house
and scream out, "Tony Montana!"
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and drive on.
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I'm Tony Montana! You fuck with me,
you fucking with the best!
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Sometimes they say that
I'm the prototype for Scarface.
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Mario Tabraue and his father Guillermo
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are accused of operating a ten-year,
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top-dollar family drug enterprise.
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The money coming in suitcases
to the bank? I did that.
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But not with a fat guy in a van.
It was a Corvette. I did it by myself.
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I would call the bank in advance,
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and they would have ten tellers
sit there and count it.
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There was no counting machines.
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Back then, I sold drugs
to maintain my animal habit.
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I got to a point where
I was on the phone saying,
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"Mario's Drugstore, specializing
in marijuana, cocaine, and quaaludes.
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Anybody interested come and get it.
Including you...
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Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau."
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They got me on tape.
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Working out of
Zoological Imports Unlimited,
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Tabraue is also accused of covering up
the murder,
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mutilation, and cremation
of a federal drug informant
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seven years ago.
245
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His name was Larry Nash.
He was an ATF informant.
246
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A guy who worked for me shot him,
247
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and they panicked
and dumped him on my farm.
248
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I had a crazier partner than me who said,
"Let's just cut up and burn him."
249
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So we burned him.
250
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You know, I really didn't do most
of the stuff,
251
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but I carry the stigma of it.
252
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What am I gonna tell the feds now,
or the judge?
253
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"Your Honor, I did not shoot him,
254
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and I did not use the circular saw
on his neck. It was somebody else."
255
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What difference does it make?
I was still there.
256
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Come here. Come here.
257
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Come here. Hello.
258
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The judge gave me 100 years,
259
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but I won the appeal.
260
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It cost me 12 years of my life.
261
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It's okay.
262
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It's okay. Down. Down.
263
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Oh, now you're gonna...
264
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Animals don't judge you
as long as you're really good at heart.
265
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They don't care who you are
or what you've done in your past.
266
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Mario's always treated me with respect,
267
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and, you know, everybody's got a past.
268
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Since I was a child,
I had an affinity for animals.
269
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My mother was anti-pets.
270
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So when I got out of my house,
the first thing I did was
271
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I went and bought not one,
but three Great Danes.
272
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It was like, I'm gonna... It's like
you can't eat chocolate, but now you can.
273
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Then I went to a pet shop
selling a cougar. I bought a cougar.
274
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Then it was legal.
That was my second animal.
275
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The third animal was a guy
killed by the lions,
276
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and I got those six lions.
277
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Then, I got a tiger from a lady
that had it in a houseboat illegally.
278
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Next thing I know,
I had a whole bunch of shit.
279
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Here! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up!
280
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I used to acquire them from Doc Antle,
a friend of mine.
281
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Those are my four girls.
282
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- How did you meet Doc?
- He came to see me.
283
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- What year?
- 1982... 83?
284
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So you guys have known each other
a long time.
285
00:15:46,570 --> 00:15:48,072
Yeah, I have pictures of it too.
286
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There's your Doc Antle, look.
287
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That's how I met him.
288
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He would bring the tiger
in the parking lot or inside the business.
289
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- Damn, look at his mustache.
- He looked like Yanni.
290
00:16:00,542 --> 00:16:01,794
That's Doc Antle in my office.
291
00:16:02,836 --> 00:16:06,215
So of all the cat people,
you're possibly closest to Doc Antle?
292
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Yeah, because we learned a lot
from each other,
293
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and he did a lot of things for me
when I came out of prison.
294
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That's my wife and me.
This is Doc Antle's place, T.I.G.E.R.S.
295
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- Is she from Cuba too?
- Yeah.
296
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We have 28 species of primates.
297
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And you nurse these
298
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and actually, literally,
raise them in your own house?
299
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Right now this is the only one I have,
but at times,
300
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I have seven or eight that we raise.
301
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- In your bedroom?
- In our bedroom at night.
302
00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:40,082
I usually go to Babies "R" Us
and buy the preemie clothes.
303
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Like, every occasion.
304
00:16:42,584 --> 00:16:45,045
Let's say Easter. See, this is the boys.
305
00:16:45,754 --> 00:16:48,215
Feels like you love them
as much as your children.
306
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Yeah, I think even more.
307
00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:54,430
This here is Mario's office.
308
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This is things he has collected
through the years.
309
00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:02,146
This book is Doc Antle, actually,
Bhagavan Doc Antle.
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- What kinda doctor is he?
- Mystical science.
311
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- Mystical science?
- Yeah.
312
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Who's that?
313
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One of his wives.
314
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One of his wives? Oh, I like that answer.
315
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He's very eccentric. Like...
316
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How many wives does he have?
317
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- I would say that he has three.
- He has three wives?
318
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- Yes.
- Wow.
319
00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,006
Doctor Antle, he has four or five wives.
320
00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:33,719
Well, he has three or four girlfriends.
321
00:17:33,802 --> 00:17:35,304
He has, like, nine wives.
322
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How many wives does Doc Antle have?
323
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I don't fucking care.
324
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Operating the T.I.G.E.R.S. preserve here
325
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takes place by
a great, big, cohesive family unit.
326
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We have people that have joined
our apprentice program over the decades.
327
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These are apprentices that come on
generally as teenagers,
328
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live on the preserve,
329
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many of whom have stayed on
for decades themselves.
330
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Look at the camera and smile!
Over there, babe!
331
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This is my longtime
girlfriend-partner, China,
332
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the blonde lady running the stuff here.
333
00:18:12,758 --> 00:18:14,301
Since she was 17 years old,
334
00:18:14,384 --> 00:18:16,553
she's been living here
and taking care of my stuff.
335
00:18:17,137 --> 00:18:18,597
Rajnee, the little Italian lady,
336
00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,225
20 years ago, when she was a young woman,
337
00:18:21,308 --> 00:18:24,103
she came and lived with me,
has been staying there ever since.
338
00:18:24,353 --> 00:18:26,355
Moksha, the pretty blonde
with the big teeth
339
00:18:26,438 --> 00:18:27,731
and the bright, big smile,
340
00:18:27,815 --> 00:18:31,610
she's going on 16 years of living here
and taking care of all that stuff.
341
00:18:34,738 --> 00:18:36,740
My girl China's house is there,
342
00:18:37,074 --> 00:18:39,243
and my Italian partner there.
343
00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:42,162
She lives in that house.
And then Moksha is on the front,
344
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the big home there in the front.
345
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Every day, you're really gonna care for
the animals first,
346
00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:50,754
and that has always been very difficult
for my kids
347
00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:52,965
and the ladies of my life.
348
00:18:54,341 --> 00:18:55,551
Everybody's jealous.
349
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Do you live in the house with others?
350
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You can't get into my complex lifestyle.
351
00:19:01,390 --> 00:19:02,599
It's not for prime time.
352
00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,279
I know I'll always love Doc,
353
00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:18,490
because he meant so much to me
for so long.
354
00:19:20,492 --> 00:19:25,581
I worked there from 1999
until I left in 2007.
355
00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:28,041
When I read what it was like there,
356
00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,710
it sounded like a utopia.
357
00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:33,380
And I stumbled upon
the T.I.G.E.R.S. website,
358
00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:36,300
and they talked about
how everyone was vegetarian
359
00:19:36,383 --> 00:19:40,179
and how they used, like,
principles of yoga to train animals.
360
00:19:40,262 --> 00:19:42,681
These were all things
that I was already into.
361
00:19:42,764 --> 00:19:44,391
Perfect, you know?
362
00:19:44,474 --> 00:19:47,769
I'm gonna go be a... yoga animal trainer.
363
00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:48,937
That sounds great.
364
00:19:51,648 --> 00:19:54,359
I packed up everything, I sold my car,
365
00:19:54,443 --> 00:19:56,445
and I convinced my dad to drive me down.
366
00:19:57,070 --> 00:19:58,906
This is me when I first got there.
367
00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:01,574
My dad left.
368
00:20:01,950 --> 00:20:03,869
He actually... What he said to me was,
369
00:20:03,952 --> 00:20:06,163
"Goodbye.
Don't fall in love with your boss."
370
00:20:06,246 --> 00:20:08,916
Because back then he was, like,
371
00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,251
"Oh, my god, this guy is a chick-getter."
372
00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:12,878
You know what I mean, he's... Anyway.
373
00:20:14,922 --> 00:20:17,642
Why do you choose to call him
Bhagavan, is that how everyone...
374
00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:20,469
- That's what we called him.
- Bhagavan, which means what?
375
00:20:20,594 --> 00:20:23,013
"Lord." It means "lord."
376
00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:25,474
- Bhagavan means "lord."
- Yeah.
377
00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:26,934
What does the name Bhagavan mean?
378
00:20:27,017 --> 00:20:29,269
Bhagavan means
that you're a friend of God.
379
00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:33,355
The Bhagavan is the master
of the universe.
380
00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:36,443
It's the all-knowing,
all-seeing kind of guy.
381
00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:38,987
And your dad is that guy?
382
00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:42,115
For... Certainly in his universe
he definitely is that character,
383
00:20:42,199 --> 00:20:43,242
no doubt.
384
00:20:44,618 --> 00:20:45,869
It's Shangri-La here.
385
00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:48,956
It's an unbelievable, unprecedented,
386
00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:52,417
magical place
where incredible things happen
387
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:55,963
and where everything is neutral
and happy and going well.
388
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,970
You know, we lived
in these terrible horse stalls, basically.
389
00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:05,973
Like, with sliding doors
with bars on them.
390
00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:08,058
It was full of cockroaches.
391
00:21:08,141 --> 00:21:10,811
I mean... everywhere.
392
00:21:10,894 --> 00:21:13,790
Like, I would go to make a sandwich,
my bread would be full of cockroaches
393
00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:16,024
and it was like, nothing,
just throwing the co...
394
00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:18,151
I mean, it was just...
That's the way it was.
395
00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:22,155
Doc says, "You're this garbage person,
396
00:21:22,239 --> 00:21:25,367
but if you listen to me,
I'll make you great."
397
00:21:26,618 --> 00:21:27,953
If they wanted to...
398
00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:30,622
get to the top really quickly,
399
00:21:30,706 --> 00:21:32,124
they should sleep with him.
400
00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:36,712
I certainly didn't want to sleep with him,
but I was thinking about it.
401
00:21:39,923 --> 00:21:43,051
There was a certain personality
of woman that he wanted.
402
00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:45,470
They were virgins or close to virgins.
403
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,392
He would become
that... sex partner for them,
404
00:21:50,475 --> 00:21:52,602
the first,
and then they would be bonded to him
405
00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:55,897
in this way, where he felt like
he could get them to do anything.
406
00:21:59,484 --> 00:22:02,112
According to them,
it was like his Shaktipat.
407
00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:05,115
So there's this concept
where a guru will touch you
408
00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:06,742
and you'll become enlightened.
409
00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:08,243
So essentially, it's...
410
00:22:08,327 --> 00:22:10,954
Shaktipat with penis.
411
00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:12,873
Well, I guess, I don't know.
412
00:22:12,956 --> 00:22:16,501
His touch brings them up
to his level of enlightenment.
413
00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:22,591
Doc Antle is like...
414
00:22:23,633 --> 00:22:24,760
my mentor...
415
00:22:25,218 --> 00:22:26,553
in the animal industry.
416
00:22:27,804 --> 00:22:30,849
When I met him, I had two husbands,
whatever you want to call them.
417
00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,393
He had three girlfriends or wives.
418
00:22:34,644 --> 00:22:37,856
Are we running a competition?
I don't think so.
419
00:22:39,983 --> 00:22:45,697
♪ You were my first love
The one that's gonna last ♪
420
00:22:46,823 --> 00:22:48,825
Joe's had a pretty good cast of characters
421
00:22:48,909 --> 00:22:50,035
as far as husbands go.
422
00:22:50,952 --> 00:22:54,456
He's had John as a husband
since I've been around.
423
00:22:55,457 --> 00:22:59,169
John's a muscled-up bully kind of guy.
424
00:23:00,253 --> 00:23:02,381
Doesn't come off to me as being gay,
425
00:23:02,464 --> 00:23:05,592
but, you know, he lives with Joe.
426
00:23:09,679 --> 00:23:12,557
Hey, don't show all my secrets now.
427
00:23:13,183 --> 00:23:16,019
It's a... it's a unique relationship.
428
00:23:17,145 --> 00:23:18,355
And then there's Travis.
429
00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:21,983
Travis is another
musclebound skateboarding guy.
430
00:23:22,692 --> 00:23:23,693
Hi, I'm Travis.
431
00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:27,072
- Maldonado.
- Hi, I'm Travis Maldonado.
432
00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:28,949
Tell me more about your feet!
433
00:23:32,327 --> 00:23:34,454
My feet? My feet? Size 16.
434
00:23:34,788 --> 00:23:36,039
I've got some big hands.
435
00:23:36,123 --> 00:23:38,667
The day Travis came to the park...
436
00:23:39,751 --> 00:23:40,751
he looked like...
437
00:23:41,503 --> 00:23:43,505
just a little, innocent person.
438
00:23:44,131 --> 00:23:47,467
I'm 19 years old,
and I am from Southern California,
439
00:23:47,551 --> 00:23:50,804
and I am tall, tan, and beautiful.
440
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:57,269
He arrived and, my god,
it was this 6'6"...
441
00:23:58,228 --> 00:24:01,148
dark-complected gentleman
442
00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:04,276
with the most god-awful big hands
you've ever seen in your life.
443
00:24:04,943 --> 00:24:07,863
Joe immediately is, like,
love-struck by this.
444
00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:10,949
So we're taking the trash trailer down
one day. John's driving the truck.
445
00:24:11,032 --> 00:24:13,493
Me, Joe, and Travis are in the back
of the trailer.
446
00:24:14,077 --> 00:24:16,413
And, uh, Joe says...
447
00:24:16,496 --> 00:24:17,998
"How straight are you?"
448
00:24:18,081 --> 00:24:19,749
And he goes, "Pretty straight."
449
00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:22,419
And I said, "You watch porn?"
450
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:25,213
He says, "Yeah."
451
00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:27,299
I said, "Well, do you enjoy...
452
00:24:28,133 --> 00:24:30,594
the guy with the little one doing her,
453
00:24:30,677 --> 00:24:33,555
or do you enjoy watching
the guy with the big one doing her?"
454
00:24:34,431 --> 00:24:37,351
And he says, "Well, obviously you want
to watch the guy with the big one."
455
00:24:38,059 --> 00:24:39,936
I said, "Well, you ain't that straight."
456
00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:47,986
It wasn't weird to share Joe
with another guy because...
457
00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:52,324
Joe had tried for many years
to bring other people in,
458
00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:55,327
and one day Joe asked me if...
459
00:24:56,453 --> 00:24:58,788
Travis could be in a relationship
with us too, and...
460
00:25:00,123 --> 00:25:01,123
I wasn't...
461
00:25:02,459 --> 00:25:04,127
I didn't really know any better.
462
00:25:05,128 --> 00:25:06,630
I didn't care.
463
00:25:11,301 --> 00:25:14,554
In our society today,
no wedding is really normal,
464
00:25:14,638 --> 00:25:19,059
but even by modern standards,
this is an unusual wedding.
465
00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:26,691
Today, we have gathered to witness
the union of Travis, John, and Joe.
466
00:25:28,276 --> 00:25:30,153
Go with love. You may now kiss.
467
00:25:32,072 --> 00:25:38,119
♪ You'll know
By the wind in my eyes ♪
468
00:25:38,203 --> 00:25:41,498
♪ And the beat of my heart
I'll be there ♪
469
00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:45,377
♪ You'll know ♪
470
00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:51,258
♪ 'Cause you'll never be lonely again ♪
471
00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:54,052
♪ Anytime, anywhere ♪
472
00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:57,806
I haven't had much of a life before this,
473
00:25:58,390 --> 00:25:59,766
but when I did come here,
474
00:25:59,849 --> 00:26:02,352
I started experiencing
a lot of different things.
475
00:26:05,981 --> 00:26:10,443
I enjoy being around Joe and John
and all the animals.
476
00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:12,946
I think what's going on around here
is great.
477
00:26:14,364 --> 00:26:15,365
Uh...
478
00:26:23,623 --> 00:26:26,668
People like Joe have
an amazing grip over people,
479
00:26:26,751 --> 00:26:29,671
generating an affection and a devotion
480
00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:31,214
that is totally irrational.
481
00:26:37,846 --> 00:26:40,307
Frequently, these people
that have these animals
482
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:42,851
will use them as a lure
to bring in young people
483
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:44,936
that really haven't had
the opportunity yet
484
00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:46,354
to build a lot of relationships
485
00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:49,941
and understand how badly
they're being abused themselves.
486
00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:54,946
And they're using those animals
as the way of forcing these people
487
00:26:55,030 --> 00:26:57,198
into... labor camps.
488
00:27:03,538 --> 00:27:05,040
It has to supersede
489
00:27:05,123 --> 00:27:07,584
all of your other hopes, wants,
dreams and desires.
490
00:27:07,834 --> 00:27:11,087
It's what you're gonna wake up doing,
it's what you're gonna go to sleep doing,
491
00:27:11,171 --> 00:27:13,965
and it's gonna happen 365 days a year.
492
00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:19,346
Weddings, funerals, and relationships
at Christmas fade away
493
00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:22,891
because the 80 tigers
will still be standing there
494
00:27:22,974 --> 00:27:25,101
waiting for you to deliver
their next meal.
495
00:27:25,935 --> 00:27:27,646
I just work all day.
496
00:27:27,937 --> 00:27:30,398
- I'm kinda like a stay-at-home...
- Like 8:00 to midnight.
497
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:33,401
- 8:00 a.m. to midnight. Yeah.
- You're working every day.
498
00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:37,113
It sounds insane,
it sounds intense and whatever,
499
00:27:37,197 --> 00:27:39,699
but it's, like... it's my lifestyle,
it's what I want to do.
500
00:27:43,453 --> 00:27:46,289
So many of us are programmed
to believe that, you know,
501
00:27:46,373 --> 00:27:49,501
we need weekends off,
we're only working 40 hours a week.
502
00:27:49,584 --> 00:27:52,212
Um, that, you know, in some ways,
503
00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:54,923
this is, you know, the military.
504
00:27:55,131 --> 00:27:59,552
Except instead of having, you know,
hand grenades, we have tigers.
505
00:28:00,512 --> 00:28:02,847
The only survivors here look at it
506
00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:04,849
that they're getting to do
something they like,
507
00:28:04,933 --> 00:28:09,062
and it's not a job,
it's a lifestyle they have dove into.
508
00:28:12,941 --> 00:28:14,693
We worked so hard...
509
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:18,321
- for so long.
- How much did people get paid?
510
00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:20,115
A hundred dollars a week.
511
00:28:20,990 --> 00:28:22,283
A hundred dollars a week.
512
00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:26,079
Good morning, everybody. Hi!
513
00:28:26,162 --> 00:28:27,580
Oh, thank you for coming.
514
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,126
I don't pay anybody to do animal care,
515
00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:32,836
because people will do that for free.
516
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,299
Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue has
an army of people working for free.
517
00:28:38,383 --> 00:28:39,884
She is not a stupid woman.
518
00:28:39,968 --> 00:28:42,095
She makes everybody else
do her dirty work.
519
00:28:43,221 --> 00:28:45,221
Because we're gonna have so many people
here today,
520
00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:47,726
we have brought in 76
of our own volunteers,
521
00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:49,269
and they brought their families.
522
00:28:49,352 --> 00:28:50,830
- This is Regina and Bonnie...
- Hello.
523
00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:54,274
...and Bonnie has the best pants
of the entire place so far that I've seen.
524
00:28:54,357 --> 00:28:55,442
I love those.
525
00:28:58,695 --> 00:29:01,281
Our volunteers wear
a color-coded shirt system.
526
00:29:01,364 --> 00:29:03,658
Red shirts primarily function as, like,
527
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:07,078
your beginner, like, keeper trainees
and partner trainees.
528
00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:09,998
If you get all your classes done,
you can apply for yellow shirt.
529
00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:12,292
It takes about almost a year
to get your yellow,
530
00:29:12,375 --> 00:29:14,461
then you have to have your yellow
for a full year.
531
00:29:14,544 --> 00:29:17,714
Then you can apply to be a green shirt.
You have to have a minimum of two years.
532
00:29:17,797 --> 00:29:20,008
And it goes by so quickly.
533
00:29:20,091 --> 00:29:22,131
After they've been here for, like,
five years or so,
534
00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:24,179
they can graduate to a master keeper.
535
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:26,306
- And that's blue?
- That's a navy blue.
536
00:29:26,389 --> 00:29:27,766
- Navy blue.
- There's royal blue.
537
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:29,017
I'm actually an intern.
538
00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:31,102
I work six days a week, twelve hours days,
539
00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:33,271
basically fast-pacing
through the volunteer program.
540
00:29:33,354 --> 00:29:35,732
Are you super hands-on with the interns?
541
00:29:36,274 --> 00:29:38,193
Sadly, I hardly ever know who they are
542
00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:40,629
until they've been here, like...
They're here for level five,
543
00:29:40,653 --> 00:29:42,573
and it's, like,
"I've seen you around here a lot.
544
00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:46,242
You keep coming back,
you're getting older."
545
00:29:46,326 --> 00:29:49,954
You know, that's when
they really start showing up on my radar.
546
00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:53,750
You definitely don't work regular hours.
547
00:29:53,833 --> 00:29:55,877
So Christmas could be a bummer
for some people?
548
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,088
Yeah, no, I don't take Christmas.
I'm here Christmas.
549
00:30:01,424 --> 00:30:04,803
How does she brainwash
all of them volunteers
550
00:30:04,886 --> 00:30:06,346
into the same bullshit?
551
00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:09,933
She can make all these people think
552
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:14,562
that everybody else in society are
abusers but her.
553
00:30:14,979 --> 00:30:18,274
I mean, she's a master marketer,
I'll give her that.
554
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:23,363
I noticed that you have
a huge presence on social media.
555
00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:26,866
We've got
over two million fans on Facebook,
556
00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:29,911
but in a given week,
we can reach three million.
557
00:30:30,370 --> 00:30:33,581
Hey, all you cool cats and kittens,
it's Carole at Big Cat Rescue.
558
00:30:33,665 --> 00:30:37,752
Max and Marianne the bobcats' enclosure
got finished and it looks great.
559
00:30:37,836 --> 00:30:40,630
Every two weeks,
we get a check from Facebook,
560
00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:43,508
and last two weeks were, like, $23,000.
561
00:30:43,591 --> 00:30:46,845
And every two weeks it's going up
by thousands of dollars.
562
00:30:47,387 --> 00:30:48,787
Hey, all you cool cats and kittens.
563
00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:50,557
It's Carole from Big Cat Rescue.
564
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,310
I am about to go live on the Dodo Impact.
565
00:30:56,229 --> 00:30:57,063
All right.
566
00:30:57,146 --> 00:30:59,649
She rode the first wave of social media.
567
00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:03,069
Her YouTube channel has 200 million views.
568
00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:07,115
Her accounts have ten million people
watching them.
569
00:31:10,618 --> 00:31:12,287
We're kind of popular.
570
00:31:14,747 --> 00:31:17,792
♪ You see them in the jungles ♪
571
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:20,879
♪ In the forests, on the plains ♪
572
00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:24,799
♪ And you can feel their spirits... ♪
573
00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:26,926
People see that logo,
they know who we are.
574
00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:29,220
The first thing they'll say is,
"I love your videos!"
575
00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:31,639
We get that everywhere we go.
576
00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:37,687
♪ Living beautiful, wild and free ♪
577
00:31:39,397 --> 00:31:46,154
♪ Oh! Beautiful, wild and free ♪
578
00:31:46,988 --> 00:31:52,035
♪ And just like them, I see ♪
579
00:31:53,536 --> 00:31:55,288
High-quality social media,
580
00:31:55,997 --> 00:31:57,832
duping tons of teenage children
581
00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:02,211
to devote their days and times
to the cause that she has.
582
00:32:02,754 --> 00:32:04,547
And so they go to Big Cat Rescue,
583
00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:09,135
a derelict, rundown,
backyard collection of 12 cats,
584
00:32:09,218 --> 00:32:12,513
and think they're going
to the world's greatest big cat sanctuary.
585
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,724
Come a little closer.
586
00:32:15,350 --> 00:32:17,350
- Did you get the big cat?
- Yep.
587
00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:22,148
Hi, I'm Joe Exotic,
and this is Big Cat Rescue.
588
00:32:23,024 --> 00:32:25,985
We went to go on a tour
of Big Cat Rescue,
589
00:32:26,194 --> 00:32:30,073
and I paid my fees to go on a tour,
and I videotaped the tour.
590
00:32:30,823 --> 00:32:32,992
We are accredited as a true sanctuary.
591
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:35,161
We are totally hands off.
We don't touch them at all.
592
00:32:35,244 --> 00:32:38,206
Her sanctuary is probably worse
than most people's backyards.
593
00:32:38,289 --> 00:32:40,875
I mean, the cages are tiny,
594
00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,752
the weeds are shoulder high.
595
00:32:42,835 --> 00:32:47,548
It is literally a wire jungle
in a mess of trees.
596
00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:50,259
USDA do not care.
597
00:32:50,343 --> 00:32:53,596
They kept giving her a perfect inspection
where we couldn't get one.
598
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,181
And it just aggravated Joe.
599
00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:58,476
She advertises she has
over 100 big cats,
600
00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:00,520
and on this tour, we only saw 12.
601
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:04,691
So I wanted to see
where she's hiding the other 100 big cats.
602
00:33:04,774 --> 00:33:06,494
We're going to to the gift shop.
603
00:33:06,526 --> 00:33:08,486
Feel free to look around
as much as you want.
604
00:33:08,569 --> 00:33:11,906
I went to the gift shop
and introduced myself, you know,
605
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:14,200
and I said,
"Well, in a couple hours, you know,
606
00:33:14,283 --> 00:33:15,326
look up, it'll be me."
607
00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:19,497
So we went to this little airport
outside of Tampa
608
00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:22,583
and rented a helicopter,
and I flew over Big Cat Rescue.
609
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,588
He wanted to get footage
of the cages and the enclosures
610
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:28,798
and all of that,
611
00:33:28,881 --> 00:33:31,926
but he had clearly done it
to antagonize us.
612
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:37,390
In the course of doing
613
00:33:37,473 --> 00:33:40,476
this low-flying buzzing
over the sanctuary,
614
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:41,644
we have a cat who,
615
00:33:41,728 --> 00:33:45,106
if she hears any kind of, like,
motorized sound, has seizures.
616
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,359
I wish that helicopter would go away!
617
00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:50,445
When Joe rented that helicopter,
618
00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:53,740
it gave him a lot of really bad ideas.
619
00:33:53,823 --> 00:33:55,825
He was talking about dropping grenades.
620
00:33:57,118 --> 00:34:00,580
Pulling the pins and just dropping them
out of the helicopter.
621
00:34:01,914 --> 00:34:06,544
We always have
a level of worry about these people,
622
00:34:06,878 --> 00:34:09,547
but if we were to say, "You know what?
This is dangerous.
623
00:34:09,630 --> 00:34:10,798
Let's just stop,"
624
00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:12,008
we'd be miserable,
625
00:34:12,091 --> 00:34:14,218
because it causes us so much pain
626
00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:18,639
to see these animals treated this way.
627
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:22,351
My email says, "Judge me
by the enemies I have made."
628
00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:25,688
So I really appreciate the fact
that none of these people like me.
629
00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:32,361
Hi, little man. Hi, little man.
630
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:34,197
Now this is a liger?
631
00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:37,283
This... well, I always don't say
they're ligers,
632
00:34:37,366 --> 00:34:39,285
'cause there's like an anti-liger vein,
633
00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:41,871
so I just pretend
they're all big cats.
634
00:34:41,954 --> 00:34:44,457
But yes,
this is a nine-month-old liger child.
635
00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:46,042
And how big will this cat get?
636
00:34:46,125 --> 00:34:49,378
If he hits the giant size,
then he's gonna be 900-plus pounds,
637
00:34:49,462 --> 00:34:51,547
and he's gonna be 11 and a half feet tall.
638
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:54,092
And his chain's not been cleaned properly,
639
00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:55,218
so my shirt's ruined.
640
00:34:55,301 --> 00:34:56,301
I'm sorry.
641
00:34:57,678 --> 00:34:59,238
He had to see his girlfriend.
642
00:34:59,847 --> 00:35:02,225
Me and Doc were friends,
you know, for years.
643
00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:03,851
I kinda idolized him, you know.
644
00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:05,903
Hell, number one,
not just because of the way
645
00:35:05,978 --> 00:35:07,480
he had the animals and stuff he had,
646
00:35:07,563 --> 00:35:09,023
the way he had them women trained.
647
00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:10,775
For his own damn, you know...
648
00:35:12,026 --> 00:35:13,111
harem and shit, you know.
649
00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:15,589
The first time I ever met...
First time I went to Doc's place,
650
00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:18,813
first time, I told him, "I don't need you
to teach me a damn thing about animals.
651
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:20,546
How the fuck you got these women trained?"
652
00:35:23,329 --> 00:35:25,748
He's good at getting what he wants
out of things...
653
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,208
people and animals.
654
00:35:29,752 --> 00:35:31,170
He chose all of our outfits.
655
00:35:33,339 --> 00:35:37,176
We were supposed to be sexy,
because we're luring people in.
656
00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:41,055
China came right after I came.
657
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:42,557
Her name was Michelle.
658
00:35:43,224 --> 00:35:45,518
Moksha was named Meredith.
659
00:35:45,601 --> 00:35:47,937
Rajnee, when I met her,
her name was Renee.
660
00:35:48,896 --> 00:35:52,900
I had my name legally changed to Bala
for many years.
661
00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:57,947
Changing your name is a very quick way
to change everything else about you.
662
00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:04,287
He controlled every aspect of our day
663
00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:06,289
and what we were allowed to do,
664
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:08,416
what we were, you know...
665
00:36:08,499 --> 00:36:10,602
Definitely what we were allowed to eat
as vegetarians,
666
00:36:10,626 --> 00:36:13,129
but also,
they were pushing me to get implants...
667
00:36:13,212 --> 00:36:14,297
um...
668
00:36:15,631 --> 00:36:18,301
which I don't remember agreeing to.
669
00:36:19,218 --> 00:36:20,469
It was more like...
670
00:36:20,928 --> 00:36:23,764
the appointments were made
and they had decided,
671
00:36:23,848 --> 00:36:28,352
and I was too... scared to say
I didn't want to do it.
672
00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:32,440
And also, I got to sleep for a few days...
673
00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:34,317
to heal from that,
674
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,821
and that looked so good
after working so hard
675
00:36:38,905 --> 00:36:41,449
for so many hours with no break.
676
00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:42,532
No break.
677
00:36:42,575 --> 00:36:44,952
Nothing else but work, work,
work, work, work.
678
00:36:45,161 --> 00:36:46,787
It was like, I'll do anything...
679
00:36:47,413 --> 00:36:49,624
I'll do anything to just rest.
680
00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,336
It's not every day
that you're asked to have a job
681
00:36:53,461 --> 00:36:55,421
where you can't take any time off,
682
00:36:55,504 --> 00:36:56,881
because people do have lives
683
00:36:56,964 --> 00:36:59,425
and they do have families
outside of creating...
684
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:02,220
You're leading me down a road
where people are just gonna say,
685
00:37:02,303 --> 00:37:04,764
"You have to join a fucking cult
to be a tiger trainer."
686
00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:09,352
Promise you. Been here 35 years.
Heard it all forever.
687
00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:10,811
Ho!
688
00:37:14,690 --> 00:37:17,193
He would say,
"They're free to leave at any time."
689
00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,115
But that's the way it is in all cults.
690
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:26,118
I mean, they're free to leave,
they're usually not locked up.
691
00:37:26,744 --> 00:37:29,830
They're being held by a thousand,
like, social ties
692
00:37:29,914 --> 00:37:32,333
and by the idea of losing everything,
693
00:37:32,416 --> 00:37:33,876
and how are they gonna even go
694
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,170
and where will they go when they leave?
695
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:38,130
- What?
- I'm gonna do something.
696
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:42,760
He's got his little cult,
and I've got my little cult, you know.
697
00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:47,014
It's just two complete opposite,
different worlds.
698
00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:50,518
You know, he's a little more upscale,
699
00:37:50,601 --> 00:37:53,104
and I'm working with people
that just got out of prison.
700
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:56,274
But it tends to work for him,
701
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,985
and the way I do it tends to work for me.
702
00:38:02,196 --> 00:38:05,700
Joe definitely liked to hire people...
703
00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:08,953
who... that was their only option.
704
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:10,997
Don't try this at home, kids.
705
00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:13,582
And his reasoning for it was,
706
00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:16,877
if this is all they have, and it's decent,
707
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:19,255
they'll work hard enough to keep it.
708
00:38:19,755 --> 00:38:22,508
It's kept me sober and not drinking.
709
00:38:24,135 --> 00:38:26,262
Keeps me from getting into trouble.
710
00:38:26,721 --> 00:38:28,806
He had people in the community saying,
711
00:38:28,889 --> 00:38:31,851
"Hey, I saw someone come in
at the bus station in Midwest City...
712
00:38:33,227 --> 00:38:35,229
and they're still sitting there tonight.
713
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:39,734
They have no family, nowhere to go,
and now they're on the side of the road."
714
00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:43,029
You wanna trade a place to live
that you can call your own
715
00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:44,905
in one of them trailers
out there at the park
716
00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:46,782
in exchange to work at the Burger Barn?
717
00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:48,409
Yeah, I can do that.
718
00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:50,453
- Give you a start.
- Yeah.
719
00:38:51,495 --> 00:38:53,622
- Yeah.
- Give me a start. Thank you!
720
00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:58,753
- He pays the staff $150 a week.
- Twenty dollars a day?
721
00:38:58,836 --> 00:39:01,922
For 12 hours.
Ten to 12 hours every day of work, yeah.
722
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:06,552
One hundred and thirty-eight dollars
and twenty-six cents, to be precise.
723
00:39:07,803 --> 00:39:12,725
This is probably gonna get me in trouble,
but... we just eat off the meat truck.
724
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,647
There was a truck that picked up meat
from all these Walmarts in the area
725
00:39:18,731 --> 00:39:20,816
that had expired to feed the animals.
726
00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:24,278
If you go to Walmart
and you put a brisket in your basket
727
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:25,446
and a couple t-bone steaks,
728
00:39:25,529 --> 00:39:26,572
and you go to the register
729
00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:29,200
and your credit card declines
or your check declines,
730
00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:31,285
it can't go back, it goes to the trash.
731
00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:34,747
And once it leaves that cold shelf,
it cannot go back.
732
00:39:35,331 --> 00:39:37,166
Oh, man! This stuff is still frozen.
733
00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:38,875
Take that home.
734
00:39:38,918 --> 00:39:41,396
Staff was world's worst
about going through the truck.
735
00:39:41,420 --> 00:39:43,422
You know, to render it,
it needs to go to the cats,
736
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:47,426
but they would all go through it
and get 'em something to eat.
737
00:39:49,929 --> 00:39:52,723
Ain't nothin' wrong with it, man.
I like my shit medium rare.
738
00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:56,727
Lobster tails
and bad-ass cuts of beef and shit.
739
00:39:57,686 --> 00:40:00,231
Joe would let them pick out
what they wanted first,
740
00:40:00,314 --> 00:40:05,319
and they'd carry bags of this expired meat
and foods back to their mobile home,
741
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,905
and that's what they ate,
because that's all they had.
742
00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:10,908
There were four mobile homes
inside the zoo.
743
00:40:10,991 --> 00:40:12,868
The washing machine didn't work.
744
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,496
The water didn't run in the bathroom.
745
00:40:16,330 --> 00:40:18,541
One air conditioner for the entire thing.
746
00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:21,752
It can be 120 degrees in there at night.
747
00:40:21,836 --> 00:40:23,045
That was the nice one.
748
00:40:23,129 --> 00:40:24,964
Whoa, motherfucker!
749
00:40:25,047 --> 00:40:27,341
- What's in there?
- Fuckin' rat, right there.
750
00:40:27,425 --> 00:40:28,425
Oh, shit.
751
00:40:29,051 --> 00:40:30,428
Oh, my god, there he is!
752
00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:31,762
Oh, fuck!
753
00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:38,602
If you talk to the people
who have escaped some of these situations,
754
00:40:38,686 --> 00:40:42,940
what they'll say is
that they were treated so abusively.
755
00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:47,027
But not only are they abusing the people
that worked there...
756
00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:49,572
they're abusing the animals there as well.
757
00:40:52,741 --> 00:40:54,994
Those people feel like
they can't talk about it
758
00:40:55,077 --> 00:40:59,331
because they could be accused
of having done it for their leader
759
00:40:59,415 --> 00:41:00,875
that they were so enamored with.
760
00:41:06,046 --> 00:41:08,606
I was really looking for somebody
to tell me what to do.
761
00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:13,846
Doc said men are pigs and women are sheep.
762
00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:18,767
I was a sheep, I guess,
ripe for the slaughter.
763
00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:23,647
What I did, basically,
when I was there was raise tiger cubs.
764
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:26,484
At first, it was only, like,
a couple of litters a year,
765
00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:28,527
and they were only for a certain time.
766
00:41:29,945 --> 00:41:30,945
By the time I left,
767
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:33,157
there were always multiple litters
768
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,242
just... all over the place.
769
00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:41,749
There's all of us. The family.
770
00:41:45,878 --> 00:41:48,464
Oh, this was my favorite tiger ever,
771
00:41:48,797 --> 00:41:49,797
Lakshman.
772
00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:52,259
Such a sweetheart.
773
00:41:53,135 --> 00:41:54,135
And he...
774
00:41:54,845 --> 00:41:57,306
That was like a turning point
for me there.
775
00:41:57,389 --> 00:42:00,434
Doc saw how well I did with Lakshman.
776
00:42:00,976 --> 00:42:04,230
You know, just being gentle,
just following Lakshman's lead
777
00:42:04,313 --> 00:42:06,774
and just making suggestions, you know,
778
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:09,318
and he was...
He would do anything I asked him to.
779
00:42:09,401 --> 00:42:11,111
He just trusted me so much.
780
00:42:12,279 --> 00:42:14,573
- He was a good tiger.
- What happened to him?
781
00:42:14,657 --> 00:42:16,700
Um...
782
00:42:16,784 --> 00:42:19,620
We don't... We didn't really ask,
783
00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:20,954
because...
784
00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:24,250
only he's like, "I know where they go."
785
00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:27,586
We didn't see that,
and we weren't really part of that.
786
00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:33,676
One of the main things he told Joe Exotic:
787
00:42:34,885 --> 00:42:36,136
"You can't keep 'em all."
788
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:38,556
That's a bad business decision,
because, you know,
789
00:42:38,639 --> 00:42:41,141
once a tiger gets out of the stage
where you can use 'em,
790
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:42,810
they're nothing more than a bill then.
791
00:42:46,230 --> 00:42:47,982
There's always been a rumor out there
792
00:42:48,065 --> 00:42:51,819
that Doc Antle euthanizes his cubs
when he's done with them.
793
00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:54,747
We've had whistle-blowers come to us
794
00:42:54,780 --> 00:42:57,259
and say that they've heard a gunshot
in the middle of the night
795
00:42:57,283 --> 00:42:58,784
and the next day there's no cat...
796
00:43:00,244 --> 00:43:02,037
but they don't know where the cat went.
797
00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:04,415
And I think
that these people are smart enough
798
00:43:04,498 --> 00:43:09,128
to only use their very closest circle
of people that they've got good dirt on...
799
00:43:09,211 --> 00:43:12,006
That they would use to dispose of a body,
800
00:43:12,298 --> 00:43:15,384
because it takes a few people
to lift a big cat.
801
00:43:15,467 --> 00:43:17,636
Unless you part 'em out right there,
I guess.
802
00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:23,350
She thinks
she's the Cleopatra of big cats.
803
00:43:25,352 --> 00:43:28,522
And to tell you the truth,
she's not that good.
804
00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:31,859
And any time anyone attacks her,
805
00:43:31,942 --> 00:43:34,069
she goes after them with her millions,
806
00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:38,324
which she inherited from her husband
that's dead and missing for years now.
807
00:43:39,617 --> 00:43:42,161
Wait. How does
someone's husband just go missing?
808
00:43:42,953 --> 00:43:45,289
- Like they just go missing?
- He just vanished.
809
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:48,876
Carole Baskin is full of shit,
in my opinion.
810
00:43:50,252 --> 00:43:53,339
She's got a missing husband
that's supposedly buried in her property.
811
00:43:53,422 --> 00:43:54,715
That's a real true story.
812
00:43:54,798 --> 00:43:56,300
Her husband disappeared.
813
00:43:57,217 --> 00:44:01,221
The lady who runs Big Cat Rescue,
who seems, in my opinion
814
00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:03,140
to be completely out of her gourd,
815
00:44:03,223 --> 00:44:04,642
and seems, in my opinion,
816
00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:06,935
to have killed her own husband,
potentially.
817
00:44:07,603 --> 00:44:10,939
Carole Baskin's third husband,
they can't find his body.
818
00:44:11,523 --> 00:44:13,692
We believe that she fed him to the tigers.
819
00:44:14,652 --> 00:44:18,781
It just makes for wonderful sales
of newspapers, I'm sure...
820
00:44:19,531 --> 00:44:22,660
for them to speculate
that I fed him to the tigers, which is...
821
00:44:23,243 --> 00:44:24,243
crazy.
822
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:26,142
And Mike says his children
823
00:44:26,205 --> 00:44:28,624
from a previous marriage
and former secretary
824
00:44:28,749 --> 00:44:33,045
have been quoted as saying that
they believe Carole fed him to a tiger.67438
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