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Holy mackerel. Yes, ma'am.
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I'm ready.
I don't want to cut y'all short.
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You guys are ready... for the party.
Get the chimp, and I'll walk right in.
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I don't even know
what a chimp birthday party is.
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Yes you do. It's exactly
a five-year-old's birthday party.
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It's got crappy little decorations
we bought at a store,
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and it has chimps who are going to be
hilaritly happy about it,
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and if you got too close,
they're gonna tear your fingers off.
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Oh, look at them!
They look fucking fabulous.
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They look fucking fabulous.
Scoot closer to Gina.
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Our social media these days is just
in the millions a week.
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Millions of people a week
are following it.
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- How do you do that?
- Our content is so unique.
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No one's got the content
unless it came from us these days.
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Make noise.
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Where's the other one?
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Don't let them bite it.
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Easy. Don't bite. Don't bite.
Hit it. Hit it.
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It wasn't the zoo anymore.
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It was nothing but a big scam.
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Paws will come out of that.
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Jeff conned everyone.
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Because he's jealous.
He's a little man with a little dick...
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and a limp, and he's bald,
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and he's got to pay everybody
to have sex with him.
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This man has got more criminal shit
going on than you can imagine.
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Well, sooner or later he's going to jail.
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From the time Jeff came into the picture,
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the whole dynamic of the park changed.
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Joe only cared about one man's opinion,
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and that man didn't do anything on park.
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He didn't clean cages.
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He didn't do book work.
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He didn't check in customers.
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He didn't feed cats.
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Nothing.
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Jeff somehow seduced Joe
by hook and crook.
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Joe fell in love with the premise.
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Joe handed over the keys to the kingdom
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to prevent Carole
from taking the keys to the kingdom,
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and then through that,
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Jeff proceeded to try and circumvent
Joe's opportunity authority
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and separate him from his wealth.
In my opinion.
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Everybody was loyal to Joe
when we got here...
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and I think they kinda were skeptical
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that these two people were gonna
come in here and make things better.
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Jeff Lowe fired half the staff
when he walked through the door,
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called a couple of them "fucking faggots"
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and stirred up a bunch of shit.
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I had a guy
who worked for me for years,
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a great guy.
I called him when we moved here,
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and we couldn't find anybody good
around locally.
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I said, "Allen, what would you think
about moving out here?"
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I said, "I'll give you a place to stay
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and you just take care of the park.
Be a handyman for me."
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When I first got to the zoo,
I didn't know anything about the zoo.
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I don't think I've ever
really been to one, so...
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Jeff said, "I'll give you money
and a place to live and whatnot,"
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so I was like,
"I'll take him up on his offer."
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Allen was kind of a transient
all of his life.
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Great worker and very, very loyal.
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Let it down.
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I went to prison
when I just turned 18.
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Did my time for that.
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I've had many other encounters
with the police,
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but... moving on with life.
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- Let's go.
- I've got the primate kennel.
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We were doing okay the first year,
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and we made some improvements
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that Joe didn't have the resources
to make.
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I wanted to operate a family zoo,
a nice zoo...
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but they required a lot of money.
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So, we met this guy named James Garretson
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through Joe, who I trusted.
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He had some pretty lucrative strip clubs
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and restaurants and bars.
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Done a little of everything.
I've been in the bar business.
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I ran strip clubs. Worked in the circus.
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You name it, I've done it.
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I got into cats when I was about 17.
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Bought a lion cub
out of the Dallas morning newspaper.
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Been around them ever since.
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I've known Joe a span of about 20 years.
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Not great friends with him, but friendly.
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He introduced me
to a gentleman named Jeff Lowe,
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and then that's when
me and Jeff became friendly,
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and then Jeff talked me into giving him
$14,000 to open a pizza restaurant.
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You can sit down on the patio
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right next to real-life tigers,
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and you can have some of the best pizza
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that I make from scratch.
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And that's a Joe Exotic promise.
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He used the Walmart donation program
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to lower the food cost.
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They have the best pizza here.
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Do you think most of the meat
was from Walmart?
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Yeah.
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Mmm. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
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Joe was always trying to be
bigger than what he was, you know,
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and that's just how Joe does business.
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Joe told me several times.
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He says... "People don't come
to see the tigers. They come to see me."
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Joe was the entertainment director...
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by title.
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Even though
Jeff was the owner of the park,
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Joe was the star of the show.
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Jeff was the star of his show,
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so which one was gonna rule this world?
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Joe Exotic is how many people know him.
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He mailed off this form to the federal
election commission last Friday,
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announcing his intent to run for president
as an independent.
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Mic check. Check, check, check.
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Whenever you're ready.
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Brr!
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Hello, America. Let's see, fuck this.
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen of America.
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Let's try that again.
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Hey, can you shut that off for a minute!
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When he said he was gonna run,
for president, it about floored me.
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I said, "Holy crap, man."
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"I got a chance. I got a chance."
He actually thought he had a chance.
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He didn't have a chance.
He ain't got a chance in hell.
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Joe Exotic for the people of America.
How was that?
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
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are among the most disliked
presidential candidates in history.
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And... and luckily, there are a great many
third-party options out there.
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There's independent write-in candidate
Joe Exotic,
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who claims to run the world's largest
private zoo for tigers
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and produces incredible campaign videos.
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I'm not changing the way I dress.
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I refuse to wear a suit.
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I am gay.
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I am broke as shit.
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I have a judgment against me
from some bitch down there in Florida.
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And this is all paid for by the committee
of Joe Exotic Speaks for America.
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Wow.
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Just wow.
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Joe Exotic is truly the candidate
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you'd want to sit down
and have a beer with,
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then another beer,
and then several more beers
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until you're drunk enough
to try meth for the first time.
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Whenever that clip went to John Oliver,
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Joe got a big head.
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Even though they were making fun of him,
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Joe... was the star.
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Everybody was adding him on Facebook
and stuff,
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so he thought he was a celebrity
from that point on.
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Is America ready for the first redneck,
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gun-toting, mullet-sporting,
tiger-tackling, gay polygamist president?
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You know, I think they are.
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I'm outspoken, good-looking.
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Mm-hmm.
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- I love to party and have fun.
- Hello.
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- Let's go blow some shit up.
- Blow some shit up?
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Anybody that wants to threaten
an American citizen
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- by cutting their head off...
- Yeah?
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...deserves this kind of treatment.
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We're getting a good look
at your national defense program.
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When he's ready, Travis.
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Ahh!
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Whoo!
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That's how we take care of ISIS
right there, buddy.
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Dude, that went right through me.
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I was Joe's campaign manager
for about a year and half.
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Uh, it was
the worst experience of my life.
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It was horrible. Horrible, horrible.
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I'd like to introduce my friend today.
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Joe Exotic for president was 100%
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a complete and total publicity stunt.
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It was all about outrage.
Get as much views as possible.
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I'm as gay as a three-dollar bill,
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and I'm standing in a cage with five
full grown tigers and lions, and I...
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When that fell apart...
he decides to run for governor.
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Next best thing.
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I think his exact words were,
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"I couldn't wait another four years,
so I decided to run for governor."
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When I got the job offer to work for Joe,
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I was like, "You know, what's the job?"
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He said campaign manager,
and I was like, "Holy shit,
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that's my dream job. I'm going to take it.
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I don't care what he is."
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And I already knew he was bat shit crazy
from our conversations at Walmart.
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I was a manager at Walmart at the time,
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and I worked at the ammo section,
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and he'd come in and buy bullets,
you know, like, every day damn near.
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Tannerite, which is something
you can shoot and it explodes.
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I'm using nothing more
than what I can buy legally
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over the counter at any gun shop.
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I know a lot more than he knew
about politics,
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and that was my main value to him.
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Primary elections are next month...
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Joe Exotic for governor,
he thought he was going to win.
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...could become our state's next governor.
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What did people think
of Joe running for governor?
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- Locally?
- Yeah.
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It was a source of entertainment.
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You are a political anomaly,
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and on Twitter, you know,
you're not afraid to respond to viewers
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with expletives.
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Guess what, motherfucker,
even the day is...
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When people are running
for any election,
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there's a lot of glad-handing,
there's a lot of baby kissing.
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Joe passed out condoms
with his face on them.
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Political condoms.
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Vote for me, or you need this
'cause you're screwed.
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And of course, if you put it
to social media, the comments are endless.
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Probably got more hits talking about him
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than really than content
of everyone else who was running.
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It's more entertainment.
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What are you doing?
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- Watch it.
- We had nothing to...
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Watch your back.
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What a wild interview!
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This is one of my stranger interviews.
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Joe was running
for governor of Oklahoma as a Libertarian.
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...Joe Maldonado aka Joe Exotic.
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He had no idea what a Libertarian is.
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He still has no idea
what a Libertarian is.
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I'd like to introduce my wife,
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but my husband's at home
feeding my brand-new baby kangaroo.
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Always wanted to say that.
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Our eventual platform was my platform,
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and that was less government,
less spending, less bills.
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There's two laws that they're introducing
into Congress this year to try and pass.
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One of them's the Big Cat Safety Act.
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The only problem is it's all a fraud.
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Just spending millions trying to decide
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whether or not I should own
a fucking tiger or not?
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This is my way of living
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and nobody's gonna tell me any other way.
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The only people who opposed
the Big Cat Public Safety Act
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are those who are breeding these cubs
and using them as pay-to-play props.
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This is a sweeping federal bill.
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It will cover all of those states,
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and nobody will be allowed to be keeping
these big cats as pets any longer,
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or breeding them,
or using them as pay-to-play props.
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You want to know how come
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these people can get everything
that they want introduced into law?
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Carole Baskin and Howard Baskin
spend most of their time and money...
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sucking ass to the politicians.
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They wanna take it all
away from us.
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This seems entirely un-American,
entirely unconstitutional to me.
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Doc Antle brought exotic cats
into the halls of Congress,
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because if you can get somebody
to sit down and pet a cheetah
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and have their picture made,
then when I come in there
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and say, "This is really cruel,
and that's why it's cruel,"
247
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they've already done it,
248
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so they're like,
"Well, if I say this is cruel,
249
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people are gonna say I'm a hypocrite."
250
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And so, our opponents are really smart
251
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in the way that they get out there
ahead of us
252
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in a way that we just can't.
253
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I mean, we're not gonna take wild animals
into public buildings to make our point.
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Watch this ride, Johnny!
255
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Here's your bumper sticker.
256
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I'm running for governor.
257
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Put a bumper sticker on the horse
258
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and let's keep the animal rights people
out of Oklahoma.
259
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Want a free shirt?
260
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We're gonna change this state.
261
00:13:18,964 --> 00:13:21,801
It's time that somebody
as broke as me and you get in there.
262
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Joe, he had a lot of charisma.
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Uh, anyone that I could get him
in front of, we had their vote.
264
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Do you still have the exotic farm?
265
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Yep, yep. Up to 227 tigers.
266
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I got 22 coming in on Sunday.
267
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- It's huge.
- I have to see it.
268
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It is huge. Do!
269
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- Pleasure seeing you.
- Good seeing you.
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I'll give it to her. I'll give it to her.
271
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Joe thought
that his political aspirations
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would lead to more business at the park,
273
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which it didn't, you know, of course.
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It actually... I think it hurt us
more than anything else.
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And he had signs up on the gift shop,
he was gonna run for president in 2020.
276
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And I made him take those down.
I said, "You know what?
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The park isn't gonna fund
your political campaign,
278
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and I think it's time to focus
back on the animals."
279
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Just get the front on them,
is all we need first.
280
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You guys lift.
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- Don't jam it.
- Drop back.
282
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Joe turned into a little bitch
283
00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:23,237
and started griping and complaining
about Allen every fucking day.
284
00:14:23,612 --> 00:14:25,447
When I first met Joe...
285
00:14:25,781 --> 00:14:27,491
things were all right, I guess,
286
00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:29,743
and then it turned like to shit quick.
287
00:14:30,828 --> 00:14:33,868
Joe would ask him to do something,
and if Allen thought it was stupid,
288
00:14:33,914 --> 00:14:36,625
he'd say, "Fuck you, Joe.
I don't work for you. I work for Jeff."
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00:14:37,209 --> 00:14:39,295
So Joe calls me up.
"Allen was telling me..."
290
00:14:39,378 --> 00:14:41,418
Well I said, "Well, technically
he does work for me.
291
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He doesn't work for you."
292
00:14:43,007 --> 00:14:46,468
I think Joe thought that I put Allen here
as a plant
293
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to report back to me what was going on.
294
00:14:48,846 --> 00:14:51,473
Tell them if I have to come in there
one more time
295
00:14:51,557 --> 00:14:53,726
and tell 'em to answer that radio,
they're going home.
296
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Goldilocks bitch.
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00:14:57,104 --> 00:14:59,666
Allen calls me and says,
"I'm cutting some trees down today
298
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and Joe's behind me."
299
00:15:00,649 --> 00:15:02,943
He says, "Is it okay if
I dropped a chainsaw on him?"
300
00:15:03,027 --> 00:15:05,487
Allen wanted to take Joe out.
He hated him that much.
301
00:15:06,071 --> 00:15:07,156
Fucking...
302
00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,034
Unimaginable, man, he was hateful.
303
00:15:10,117 --> 00:15:12,786
Communication! Stay alive!
304
00:15:12,870 --> 00:15:14,496
Call you names over the radio.
305
00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:16,749
It did... Not just me. Anybody.
306
00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:19,585
God damn, girl. Feed the goddamn animals!
307
00:15:19,668 --> 00:15:22,755
Never in my life ever
put up with anything like that.
308
00:15:22,838 --> 00:15:24,398
And I've worked for quite a few people.
309
00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:27,509
He tops it off.
310
00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:28,593
Ready?
311
00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:31,180
There was just a lot of
burned bridges, man.
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00:15:31,972 --> 00:15:33,015
You got sound?
313
00:15:33,390 --> 00:15:35,893
The fucking staff
tried to get me killed in a cage.
314
00:15:36,393 --> 00:15:40,522
Hello, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome to video message number 113.
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They put cologne on my shoes.
316
00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:45,778
We heard that Joe was
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00:15:45,861 --> 00:15:48,822
out in the arena while he was filming
one of his stupid campaign videos.
318
00:15:48,906 --> 00:15:51,575
And this cat was sniffing his shoes
and sniffing his shoes.
319
00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:52,952
Okay, well first of all,
320
00:15:53,035 --> 00:15:55,245
you haven't recognized
the rest of us 40 people
321
00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:56,205
that are running.
322
00:15:56,330 --> 00:15:58,791
She was just fascinated
by his shoes that day.
323
00:15:58,874 --> 00:16:02,169
And the list goes on. Ow, son of a bitch!
324
00:16:10,552 --> 00:16:12,137
God damn you!
325
00:16:15,557 --> 00:16:18,227
Here's all these people filming
Joe being dragged around,
326
00:16:18,310 --> 00:16:20,646
and nobody's going in there to rescue him.
327
00:16:20,729 --> 00:16:21,981
Get down! Go!
328
00:16:22,523 --> 00:16:23,607
Get!
329
00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:28,821
Ain't nobody help me. Nobody.
330
00:16:28,904 --> 00:16:31,323
Get out of here, you bitch!
331
00:16:33,742 --> 00:16:35,160
He came out with a story.
332
00:16:35,619 --> 00:16:40,290
"Somebody put something on my shoes
to get that cat to attack me."
333
00:16:41,458 --> 00:16:44,586
I'm gonna shoot you right between
the fucking eyes, bitch.
334
00:16:45,337 --> 00:16:48,382
What scent makes a liger attack your shoe?
335
00:16:48,966 --> 00:16:51,301
I were gonna... you know,
if somebody wanted to kill you,
336
00:16:51,385 --> 00:16:55,139
then they would put, like...
sardine oil all over you.
337
00:16:55,222 --> 00:16:58,600
Something the cat wants to eat,
not something the cat wants to drool on.
338
00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:01,579
'Cause the perfume, that's all they want
to do, is just drool all over it.
339
00:17:01,603 --> 00:17:03,814
They're just like...
340
00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,317
All of the confusion
that the Carole Baskin lawsuits
341
00:17:07,401 --> 00:17:10,362
were causing him, and all the money
it was costing him...
342
00:17:11,196 --> 00:17:12,656
Somebody like Joe just goes crazy.
343
00:17:13,907 --> 00:17:16,285
His mood swings were significant.
344
00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:17,661
I don't give a shit.
345
00:17:17,911 --> 00:17:19,955
Next time you're in jail
and you're homeless,
346
00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:21,457
be sure you don't call me.
347
00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:26,140
- You wanna see how crazy...
- He didn't care who he hurt.
348
00:17:26,962 --> 00:17:28,672
He didn't care who he stepped on.
349
00:17:28,756 --> 00:17:30,758
Okay, don't... This is my fucking...
350
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:32,483
Yeah, Joe was very controlling.
351
00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:35,932
If John Finlay went to visit his brother
in Texas, or anything like that,
352
00:17:36,013 --> 00:17:37,723
he... didn't want him to go.
353
00:17:37,931 --> 00:17:39,725
If he went, he wanted him back
the same day.
354
00:17:40,392 --> 00:17:42,102
I don't know how much love was involved,
355
00:17:42,186 --> 00:17:44,605
but I'm sure it was the cars
that he bought John Finlay,
356
00:17:44,688 --> 00:17:45,981
the guns he bought John Finlay,
357
00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:47,665
the four-wheelers he bought John Finlay.
358
00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:51,361
This gun right here, Joe bought for me.
359
00:17:51,779 --> 00:17:53,864
I mean, I like pink camo.
360
00:17:53,947 --> 00:17:56,283
Lot of people make fun of me for it,
but you know what...
361
00:17:56,992 --> 00:17:58,827
it's just something I like.
362
00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:03,791
He was...
showering me with gifts and stuff.
363
00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:06,752
He bought me a truck.
364
00:18:06,835 --> 00:18:09,797
Actually bought me, like,
four or five different trucks.
365
00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,590
If they wanted it, they got it.
366
00:18:11,673 --> 00:18:13,383
I mean, all they had to do was ask,
367
00:18:13,467 --> 00:18:15,969
and I think that's how
he kept them close to him.
368
00:18:17,179 --> 00:18:20,224
John and Travis were both 19
when they met Joe...
369
00:18:20,891 --> 00:18:22,392
and at 19 years old, man,
370
00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:26,355
the one thing that a 19-year-old guy
wants to do is party,
371
00:18:26,438 --> 00:18:29,066
have fun, live it up.
You know, no tomorrows.
372
00:18:30,651 --> 00:18:32,528
Travis, he didn't really work at the zoo,
373
00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:34,613
he just rode his four-wheelers
and shot his guns
374
00:18:34,696 --> 00:18:36,448
at the lake and the river.
375
00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:41,578
Travis was a pothead from hell, and...
376
00:18:41,662 --> 00:18:42,996
Which... Who cares, you know,
377
00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,249
that's all Travis had in his life.
378
00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:49,086
He was trapped here in Wynnewood,
a boy from Cali,
379
00:18:49,169 --> 00:18:51,463
and Joe kept him pumped full of weed
380
00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:55,676
to keep him from waking up and realizing
this isn't a life to live.
381
00:19:03,725 --> 00:19:06,019
I knew there was drug use going on...
382
00:19:06,687 --> 00:19:09,064
because of statements made
by John and Joe.
383
00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,024
Oh, girls!
384
00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:14,027
I've always been worried
about you being a spy. Run!
385
00:19:14,111 --> 00:19:15,696
No, don't... Ahh!
386
00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:17,322
I've had my days of coke.
387
00:19:17,406 --> 00:19:19,074
I had my days of drinking.
388
00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,243
I had my days of meth.
389
00:19:21,326 --> 00:19:23,579
And this is my mother-in-law. Run!
390
00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:31,003
One thing that meth does:
391
00:19:31,086 --> 00:19:34,923
somehow or another
it concentrates in your teeth.
392
00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:37,009
We call it meth mouth.
393
00:19:38,302 --> 00:19:42,389
Meth was the main one that we did.
394
00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:44,892
It was starting to really fuck me up
in the head.
395
00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:48,645
I mean, I'm still kinda fucked up
in the head from it now.
396
00:19:50,314 --> 00:19:51,648
When Travis came around,
397
00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:54,151
Travis would smoke his meth.
398
00:19:59,948 --> 00:20:03,452
I guess Joe was smart enough
when he walked up and seen a young boy.
399
00:20:03,535 --> 00:20:05,579
"Hey, he's on meth.
400
00:20:05,662 --> 00:20:08,123
Come here. I'll provide your meth.
401
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:11,376
I'll give you everything
if you come over here and marry me."
402
00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:13,879
You know.
So I guess that's how Joe did it.
403
00:20:14,254 --> 00:20:16,423
Travis, he would always say
404
00:20:16,506 --> 00:20:18,306
that he wanted to go
to the strip bar with us,
405
00:20:18,383 --> 00:20:20,583
but he said Joe would freak out
if he left the property.
406
00:20:20,636 --> 00:20:23,388
I mean, he told me with his own mouth
that he wasn't gay.
407
00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:28,310
I told Joe at least three times
Travis was not gay, okay?
408
00:20:28,393 --> 00:20:31,146
Travis was banging every girl in the park,
409
00:20:31,688 --> 00:20:34,650
and I find out later,
John Finlay came out and said,
410
00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:36,985
"Look, I gotta tell you,
I'm really not gay.
411
00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,321
I've been sleeping with the girl
at the front desk,
412
00:20:39,404 --> 00:20:41,198
and we're going off to get married."
413
00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:45,869
All through school, I was dating girls.
414
00:20:46,453 --> 00:20:48,664
From the time of kindergarten
till I graduated,
415
00:20:48,747 --> 00:20:51,500
I had a girlfriend... every time.
416
00:20:52,626 --> 00:20:57,756
He actually slept with the secretary,
Amber, there at the zoo.
417
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:01,551
And Joe was pretty close to Amber
because she'd been around for a long time.
418
00:21:04,012 --> 00:21:05,889
He left me for a girl,
419
00:21:05,973 --> 00:21:08,267
and the hardest part I had
in dealing with that was...
420
00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:10,519
I can't compete with that, you know?
421
00:21:10,602 --> 00:21:13,313
Leave me for a man
and we're game on, okay?
422
00:21:13,397 --> 00:21:15,437
But leave me for a woman,
I can't compete with that.
423
00:21:16,191 --> 00:21:18,777
Come to find out
John Finlay got her pregnant, so...
424
00:21:20,153 --> 00:21:21,405
I've seen a few fights.
425
00:21:22,572 --> 00:21:25,701
I think the saving grace
in that situation was Travis.
426
00:21:26,201 --> 00:21:28,996
You know, Joe wasn't alone.
Joe still had Travis.
427
00:21:29,621 --> 00:21:31,957
Neither Travis nor John Finlay were gay,
428
00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:34,084
and Joe admitted that to me.
429
00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:36,378
Fell in love with straight guys,
430
00:21:36,461 --> 00:21:39,548
because there's not too many gay guys
in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
431
00:21:41,508 --> 00:21:44,177
You guys edit this shit.
I want you to show it to him.
432
00:21:45,137 --> 00:21:46,763
He maybe asks me what's wrong,
433
00:21:46,847 --> 00:21:49,933
but he only spends five seconds listening,
and then he'll walk out on me.
434
00:21:54,604 --> 00:21:55,772
Pretty fucking sad.
435
00:21:55,856 --> 00:21:58,567
He doesn't give a fuck about
any of my problems, like...
436
00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:03,113
Is he trying to make me blow my top?
437
00:22:04,406 --> 00:22:05,406
I don't know.
438
00:22:07,367 --> 00:22:08,535
I don't know what he wants.
439
00:22:12,956 --> 00:22:14,833
There are people out there.
440
00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:18,545
They will look at a person who is
in desperate, dire need of something.
441
00:22:18,628 --> 00:22:21,381
In Travis's case, he was addicted to meth.
442
00:22:22,049 --> 00:22:25,677
And they take that need
and they fulfill it...
443
00:22:26,094 --> 00:22:29,181
until they become the only person
that can fulfill that need.
444
00:22:29,264 --> 00:22:30,557
And in exchange,
445
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,686
that person gives them whatever sexual
or any other favors they want.
446
00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:37,356
That's the relationship Joe had
with Travis.
447
00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:41,401
What?
448
00:22:42,069 --> 00:22:43,904
- You know what? You know what?
- What?
449
00:22:43,987 --> 00:22:45,030
What?
450
00:22:46,406 --> 00:22:47,866
Bad dream, baby.
451
00:22:47,991 --> 00:22:49,451
That ain't even funny.
452
00:22:50,077 --> 00:22:52,162
That's not even funny.
453
00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:58,460
Travis came into the office
and started complaining to me.
454
00:23:00,712 --> 00:23:04,800
Travis was sitting underneath the camera,
but it was pointing directly at me.
455
00:23:10,263 --> 00:23:13,183
He complained that there was...
That he was a prisoner,
456
00:23:13,517 --> 00:23:16,144
that he was never allowed
to leave the park.
457
00:23:16,353 --> 00:23:17,771
He wasn't allowed to get a job.
458
00:23:17,854 --> 00:23:19,606
All this was true, and frankly,
459
00:23:19,689 --> 00:23:21,691
he was upset
that he didn't have enough pot.
460
00:23:24,528 --> 00:23:26,113
My last cigarette before I die.
461
00:23:28,865 --> 00:23:30,945
He's smoking his last cigarette
before he dies.
462
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:36,415
He'd always pointed guns at people
all the time out there at the park.
463
00:23:40,001 --> 00:23:42,587
Sometimes he'd wake you up
pointing the gun at you.
464
00:23:42,796 --> 00:23:45,632
He'd done that to me
on multiple occasions.
465
00:23:45,715 --> 00:23:48,135
So, he'd done that to me again
in that office that morning
466
00:23:48,218 --> 00:23:50,554
and said, you know,
"Freeze, motherfucker,"
467
00:23:50,637 --> 00:23:53,098
which is just what he did, and I told him,
468
00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:54,808
"Dude, you know not to point guns,"
469
00:23:54,891 --> 00:23:57,853
'cause I've told him before,
don't point a gun at me,
470
00:23:58,103 --> 00:23:59,703
and he said, "Aww, man, this is a Ruger.
471
00:23:59,729 --> 00:24:02,607
There's no clip in it. You know
a Ruger won't fire without a clip."
472
00:24:07,654 --> 00:24:09,698
I was sitting in the chair,
you know, looking at him
473
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,324
when he put the gun to his head.
474
00:24:24,254 --> 00:24:25,755
It's not like...
475
00:24:26,506 --> 00:24:27,549
on the movies.
476
00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:33,656
I knew he was dead the second
that he pulled the trigger, but...
477
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,517
at the same time I didn't, you know?
478
00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:41,062
I thought it was a joke,
479
00:24:41,354 --> 00:24:42,994
because, you know, Travis was a jokester.
480
00:24:43,023 --> 00:24:45,150
He was a prankster.
He liked to play pranks on people.
481
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,196
But when I showed up at the zoo that day
482
00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:51,406
to get some order going on,
483
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:53,700
Joe's passed out
on the front porch, shaking.
484
00:24:54,242 --> 00:24:56,620
Uh, the ambulance is there
taking care of Joe.
485
00:24:57,204 --> 00:24:59,084
Sheriff's department's got everything
shut down.
486
00:24:59,164 --> 00:25:01,404
I mean, you had to climb...
I almost had to climb a fence
487
00:25:01,458 --> 00:25:03,502
to get in the place
to find out what was going on.
488
00:25:03,585 --> 00:25:06,265
Garvin County officials
are investigating the incident...
489
00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:07,422
This fucking clown?
490
00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:12,344
I... Goddamn, one of the best people.
I've... know him four years, man.
491
00:25:14,137 --> 00:25:15,680
Joy, a joy.
492
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:19,684
Absolute joy of life.
493
00:25:19,768 --> 00:25:22,088
Joe is now thanking the world
for the support...
494
00:25:22,145 --> 00:25:25,982
I just kinda felt like I was
attached by pain to Joe.
495
00:25:26,650 --> 00:25:28,193
Like we had a bond of pain...
496
00:25:28,652 --> 00:25:31,905
and I couldn't leave him,
because of course I wanted to leave.
497
00:25:31,988 --> 00:25:34,866
You know, why do I want to come back
to the office every day that,
498
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,202
you know, a horrific accident happened?
499
00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:40,705
Um, but, you know, he really loved him.
500
00:25:50,465 --> 00:25:51,883
We're gonna try and make this
501
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:55,220
not a day of mourning,
but a day of celebration
502
00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:59,099
to celebrate the life
of Travis Michael Maldonado.
503
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,603
We spent the last four years
of our lives together.
504
00:26:04,145 --> 00:26:05,564
I asked him every day,
505
00:26:05,647 --> 00:26:06,648
I said, "Why me?"
506
00:26:08,358 --> 00:26:12,821
And he said, "Because God put me here
to make you smile, and that's my job."
507
00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:16,199
And it didn't matter how stupid
he had to get...
508
00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:22,372
or if I was sittin' there concentrating
as hard as I could... on the computer
509
00:26:22,455 --> 00:26:25,083
to write a letter
to a senator or a congressman
510
00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:28,378
or something else, he'd come
and rub them balls in my face.
511
00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:33,842
Everybody that works here
knows exactly what I'm talking about,
512
00:26:33,925 --> 00:26:35,176
'cause you've seen his balls.
513
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,390
They were like golden nuggets to that boy.
514
00:26:41,766 --> 00:26:46,688
♪ This old town is where I want to be ♪
515
00:26:46,771 --> 00:26:49,316
♪ Is where I'm gonna be ♪
516
00:26:50,775 --> 00:26:54,821
♪ I moved up here
And I took a chance here ♪
517
00:26:54,988 --> 00:26:57,991
♪ Started my brother's dream ♪
518
00:26:59,242 --> 00:27:01,244
♪ Ain't much left here ♪
519
00:27:01,369 --> 00:27:06,499
♪ Aside from some beat up cars
And the one satellite ♪
520
00:27:08,168 --> 00:27:10,295
He has to do dramatics, you know, drama.
521
00:27:11,421 --> 00:27:14,716
He has to do a show wherever he goes,
whatever he does.
522
00:27:16,551 --> 00:27:18,720
He was even acting there.
523
00:27:20,889 --> 00:27:23,850
It's the worst thing ever
in my whole life.
524
00:27:25,852 --> 00:27:27,103
My son being gone.
525
00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:31,191
I miss him greatly.
526
00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:38,990
You know, we got married
when he was 19 years old,
527
00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:41,743
and there was 32 years difference
between us.
528
00:27:44,287 --> 00:27:45,789
Joe is a year older than me.
529
00:27:46,623 --> 00:27:49,292
And... yeah, I thought it was very odd.
530
00:27:49,918 --> 00:27:52,128
I don't know,
I just didn't think that was right.
531
00:27:54,422 --> 00:27:58,510
But if Travis was happy, I was gonna
accept it, no matte, you know...
532
00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:04,641
This was right before he came to Oklahoma.
533
00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:07,102
He came to see me, and...
534
00:28:07,977 --> 00:28:09,771
see how young he is?
535
00:28:14,234 --> 00:28:15,402
I don't know...
536
00:28:15,819 --> 00:28:17,696
I don't know what happened.
537
00:28:18,154 --> 00:28:19,781
I don't know how he ended up with Joe.
538
00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,535
Joe changed when Travis shot himself.
539
00:28:23,618 --> 00:28:25,286
Joe's whole demeanor changed.
540
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,293
Come on in.
541
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:38,550
I do this every year,
Christmas and Thanksgiving.
542
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:41,553
I've been cooking all night.
543
00:28:41,636 --> 00:28:43,638
- Yes, sir.
- Jesus.
544
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:45,807
Please, Lord, look out for those...
545
00:28:48,143 --> 00:28:50,103
who are spending this holiday alone...
546
00:28:50,937 --> 00:28:52,147
without their loved one...
547
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,817
and are going through the same rough time.
548
00:28:56,860 --> 00:28:58,862
Jesus' name, Amen.
549
00:28:58,945 --> 00:28:59,946
Amen.
550
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:02,991
Guys, start at this end
and enjoy your meal.
551
00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:07,829
- This is the only family I ever have.
- Man, this is great. I appreciate it.
552
00:29:09,456 --> 00:29:11,708
I am third in the polls right now
out of 12.
553
00:29:11,791 --> 00:29:13,460
- Oh, wow, that's good.
- Yes.
554
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,808
I... have tried all day
to hold this together.
555
00:29:40,779 --> 00:29:45,033
The local biker clubs all came
and helped me build this memorial.
556
00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:46,534
They actually built this...
557
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,789
and it's got his four-wheeler
and his go-cart, and...
558
00:29:51,664 --> 00:29:53,291
I had a little different vision.
559
00:29:53,374 --> 00:29:56,294
I was gonna tier step it,
and then they decided
560
00:29:56,377 --> 00:29:57,857
to do it with the rocks and concrete,
561
00:29:57,921 --> 00:30:00,041
and I actually like
the way it turned out they did it.
562
00:30:00,089 --> 00:30:02,050
Built the signs and everything else.
563
00:30:03,843 --> 00:30:05,678
Every morning before I open the park,
564
00:30:05,762 --> 00:30:08,056
I sit out here with him by myself,
565
00:30:08,431 --> 00:30:09,974
and smoke a cigarette. And...
566
00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:12,227
people think I'm crazy,
567
00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:15,855
but I take pictures of the sky
while I'm doing it.
568
00:30:16,439 --> 00:30:20,026
The word "hi" in clouds has floated by
569
00:30:20,109 --> 00:30:22,779
that I've got pictures of.
I've got pictures of perfect angels.
570
00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:28,117
It was after Travis's death
that Joe really completely lost it.
571
00:30:30,036 --> 00:30:32,831
James and I would go off
into the dark spots of the park
572
00:30:32,914 --> 00:30:33,915
and talk about Joe...
573
00:30:34,457 --> 00:30:37,836
and just how bat-shit crazy he had gotten.
574
00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:40,255
And he was so devastated, and...
575
00:30:40,338 --> 00:30:41,965
cried about it for forever,
576
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:43,675
and... he was playing this part,
577
00:30:43,758 --> 00:30:45,552
which I think he was playing a part.
578
00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:48,096
I think he probably had some onions
in his pocket,
579
00:30:48,179 --> 00:30:50,974
rubbed his eyes or something.
It's all bullshit.
580
00:30:53,351 --> 00:30:56,187
He wanted so much to support me
581
00:30:56,938 --> 00:31:00,358
in my political career running
for governor of the state of Oklahoma
582
00:31:00,441 --> 00:31:06,614
because he always said, "Hon, if anybody
could get the people in this state
583
00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:09,409
to love and respect each other,
it would be you.
584
00:31:09,909 --> 00:31:12,912
I told Lauren, I said, "You know,
if he wants to run this zoo,
585
00:31:12,996 --> 00:31:15,915
we have to get away from here
because I'm gonna kill this guy."
586
00:31:15,999 --> 00:31:19,752
So, I said, "Let's go lease this spot
right on Las Vegas Boulevard,
587
00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:21,754
and we'll do this there."
588
00:31:26,801 --> 00:31:27,969
Vegas was crazy.
589
00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:31,347
We had the big Vegas mansion,
590
00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:34,475
and we had the Vegas parties
and we had tigers in our house.
591
00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,813
He decided he wants to stay in Vegas
and try and make money out there.
592
00:31:39,564 --> 00:31:42,942
He talked a sponsor into buying a bus,
and they called it the jungle bus.
593
00:31:43,818 --> 00:31:45,695
Like a party bus with animals.
594
00:31:46,362 --> 00:31:48,865
He could actually haul people
from casino to casino
595
00:31:48,948 --> 00:31:50,948
and let them play with cubs
while they're doing it.
596
00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:57,980
We thought it would be a good idea,
but we were wrong.
597
00:31:58,958 --> 00:32:00,543
That was a big fucking mistake.
598
00:32:01,502 --> 00:32:06,382
All right, I got 15 minutes,
so we gotta get them cats loaded,
599
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:08,968
and I got to change clothes.
600
00:32:10,386 --> 00:32:11,906
He's right up the gate.
601
00:32:14,098 --> 00:32:16,267
The white one I named Travis,
602
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:19,395
was born two days after Travis died.
603
00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:23,065
Come on in.
604
00:32:23,858 --> 00:32:26,778
I got his lamp that they made me
605
00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:30,323
that stays on 24 hours a day,
and then his ash box.
606
00:32:34,535 --> 00:32:36,496
Gotta get the Prince Albert in there...
607
00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,383
How long have you had
a Prince Albert?
608
00:32:38,456 --> 00:32:39,456
Oh, hell.
609
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:41,584
Eighteen years?
610
00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:45,621
And believe it or not,
them padlocks there on the side,
611
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:47,392
I wear those on the end
of my Prince Albert.
612
00:32:47,465 --> 00:32:50,343
You wear the padlocks on the...
Oh, my god.
613
00:32:50,426 --> 00:32:52,095
Because they don't make a ring that big.
614
00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:56,849
First date since Travis died.
615
00:33:01,729 --> 00:33:04,732
I'm gonna get the curls out,
'cause that's my sex appeal.
616
00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:12,407
A jacket for the date.
617
00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:24,168
- Excited?
- What?
618
00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:25,086
Excited?
619
00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:26,087
- Yeah.
- Cool.
620
00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:27,530
- You ready Joe?
- I'm ready.
621
00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:31,676
Now we gotta go find where the parade is
'cause that's where I gotta...
622
00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:33,886
that's where I gotta do the news thing
real quick.
623
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:36,097
I met Dillon in a chat room.
624
00:33:37,223 --> 00:33:39,934
Took me a couple days to talk him into
going to dinner,
625
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,689
and, you know, you can believe
what you want to believe...
626
00:33:47,233 --> 00:33:48,484
about whether or not...
627
00:33:49,777 --> 00:33:52,905
things are sent to you
or people are sent to you or whatever,
628
00:33:53,489 --> 00:33:56,701
but we went to dinner
and he never went home.
629
00:33:57,285 --> 00:33:59,645
Are you gonna ride...
Where do you wanna ride in the parade?
630
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:00,955
In with the tigers?
631
00:34:01,831 --> 00:34:02,832
- Yes.
- Do you really?
632
00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:04,459
- Yeah, that'd be cool.
- Okay. Deal.
633
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,142
- I'll ride with the tigers.
- All right.
634
00:34:06,627 --> 00:34:07,670
If you're gonna ride here,
635
00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,298
I need you to stand here
and let them get used to you.
636
00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:12,800
They're not gonna bite you.
They're just babies, so.
637
00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:13,885
When Travis died,
638
00:34:13,968 --> 00:34:15,970
he didn't give a fuck about the campaign,
639
00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:18,097
about his family, about anything.
640
00:34:18,181 --> 00:34:22,101
All he cared about was that
he find a companion,
641
00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:24,520
and he was not satisfied until then.
642
00:34:25,938 --> 00:34:27,732
Yeah, thanks for having me.
643
00:34:27,815 --> 00:34:30,443
When he found Dillon,
he started to bounce back.
644
00:34:32,987 --> 00:34:35,323
His energy
was just so strong, you know,
645
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:37,033
and like, when he proposed to me,
646
00:34:37,116 --> 00:34:39,118
it was one of those things
I couldn't think about.
647
00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:41,788
I just had to, you know...
just gonna go with the flow.
648
00:34:41,871 --> 00:34:44,874
It was like, my whole life
I've just overthank everything, you know?
649
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,376
When he proposed, I just... I said yes.
650
00:34:49,212 --> 00:34:52,507
Two months after my son died,
651
00:34:53,132 --> 00:34:54,759
he married Dillon.
652
00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:58,096
Invited me to the wedding.
653
00:34:58,179 --> 00:34:59,939
Okay, I thought
it was going to be a wedding.
654
00:34:59,972 --> 00:35:01,349
No, it was the cameraman,
655
00:35:01,891 --> 00:35:04,102
me, and... the flower girl.
656
00:35:04,977 --> 00:35:06,521
So on the social media...
657
00:35:06,604 --> 00:35:09,690
"Well, Travis's mom is fine with it,
so everybody else should be."
658
00:35:11,067 --> 00:35:14,821
Then I didn't hear anything
from him again.
659
00:35:15,279 --> 00:35:16,823
He was done with me.
660
00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:28,584
My name is Joseph Maldonado
A.K.A Joe Exotic,
661
00:35:29,335 --> 00:35:32,380
and yes, I'm running for governor
of the state of Oklahoma as well.
662
00:35:32,463 --> 00:35:35,550
I mean, not everybody gets the opportunity
to see a tiger, you know,
663
00:35:35,633 --> 00:35:37,009
especially in a parade.
664
00:35:37,593 --> 00:35:41,264
They're not mine.
I don't have to, like, raise them, do I?
665
00:35:47,728 --> 00:35:49,397
Take these bags of snow
666
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,234
and kinda just fluff it up
to where the lights glow.
667
00:35:53,317 --> 00:35:56,237
- No, the lights glow under it. Okay?
- Oh, all right.
668
00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:40,405
Merry Christmas.
669
00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:43,701
Let's free Oklahoma for a change.
670
00:36:44,327 --> 00:36:45,887
Towards the end of the campaign,
671
00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:50,374
when I felt like we were probably surging
because he started listening to advice,
672
00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:52,960
he asked,
"Josh, what are we going to do if we win?"
673
00:36:56,756 --> 00:37:00,301
Joe Exotic will make just as good
a governor as we ever had.
674
00:37:00,384 --> 00:37:02,303
He's not afraid to say
what he wants to say,
675
00:37:02,386 --> 00:37:03,846
and do what he wants to do,
676
00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:06,390
and sorry if he steps on some toes,
677
00:37:06,474 --> 00:37:08,184
but he does it anyway, so...
678
00:37:08,267 --> 00:37:09,352
Well, who knows, you know?
679
00:37:09,435 --> 00:37:12,855
I mean, I would say
stranger things have happened.
680
00:37:15,775 --> 00:37:16,859
Better mental health.
681
00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:18,402
Let all the potheads out of jail
682
00:37:18,486 --> 00:37:20,780
and put them crooked bastards
where they belong.
683
00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:24,242
Close to 2,000
across Oklahoma...
684
00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:27,036
We don't have this yet.
685
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:29,163
Among those
that they are casting votes for,
686
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:30,581
the next governor of Oklahoma.
687
00:37:30,665 --> 00:37:33,209
Breaking down the numbers,
Karen, let's start with you.
688
00:37:33,292 --> 00:37:34,452
What do you see numbers-wise?
689
00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:43,844
- Joe, what happened tonight?
- What happened tonight?
690
00:37:44,929 --> 00:37:46,055
We fucking lost.
691
00:37:47,848 --> 00:37:49,558
You do everything against the odds!
692
00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:52,270
I do, I do. I'm gonna jump off
this fucking roof here in a minute.
693
00:37:54,605 --> 00:37:56,941
Don't say that.
We're worried about that.
694
00:37:57,817 --> 00:37:58,817
Fuck.
695
00:38:00,194 --> 00:38:02,863
It's been great running against you.
You've done a tremendous job,
696
00:38:02,947 --> 00:38:04,949
- and I'm glad we're friends.
- We had fun.
697
00:38:05,032 --> 00:38:07,243
- How many death threats did you get?
- A couple.
698
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:09,578
Okay, that's the sign
of a successful campaign. Trust me.
699
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:11,664
- A couple. Yeah.
- It's fear.
700
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,335
His governor campaign,
701
00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,879
I think that's where he kinda lost
his path,
702
00:38:19,338 --> 00:38:21,966
as far as what was the priority.
703
00:38:22,591 --> 00:38:24,427
It wasn't about the animals anymore.
704
00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:29,015
Everything was falling apart,
705
00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:33,352
from finances to animal care to employees.
706
00:38:36,605 --> 00:38:38,733
The passion was there, but he lost it.
707
00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:42,153
I don't know where and how he lost it,
but he lost it.
708
00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:06,093
You could always read Joe.
709
00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:10,139
He didn't have a poker face.
710
00:39:12,975 --> 00:39:15,853
We knew something was going on.
711
00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:20,816
You know,
he was already a paranoid person...
712
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:24,945
throwing people out, accusing them
of being spies and stuff.
713
00:39:30,242 --> 00:39:32,703
But the paranoia was not unfounded.
714
00:39:35,956 --> 00:39:39,502
We found a microphone and an antenna
on top of the gift shop roof.
715
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:44,715
It was about that tall, you know,
little metallic base with a short antenna.
716
00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:48,928
I don't pretend to be a technical wizard,
717
00:39:49,011 --> 00:39:51,597
but I could tell
it was a listening device.
718
00:39:55,101 --> 00:39:58,354
That's when I knew that there was
something serious going on.
719
00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:01,941
She told me, she says,
720
00:40:02,024 --> 00:40:04,360
"I hear Joe is under some kind
of federal investigation."
721
00:40:05,027 --> 00:40:07,571
And I said, "What did you hear?"
722
00:40:07,696 --> 00:40:09,256
And she says, "I don't know." She says,
723
00:40:09,281 --> 00:40:11,081
"They were talking about it here
one morning."
724
00:40:11,158 --> 00:40:12,952
- And that was... Okay.
- I got it...
725
00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:16,956
Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Bye.
726
00:40:21,961 --> 00:40:23,671
Sorry.
727
00:40:25,297 --> 00:40:29,093
So we just interviewed Jeff Lowe
and the entire time,
728
00:40:29,176 --> 00:40:33,931
he had incoming calls from a federal agent
over and over.
729
00:40:34,223 --> 00:40:38,269
Like, who the hell still talks to Joe
that would even...
730
00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:41,313
He told me that Joe's going down,
731
00:40:41,397 --> 00:40:43,023
Joe's... it's over for Joe.
732
00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:45,276
Oh, my god. I can't believe...
733
00:40:45,359 --> 00:40:47,695
I mean, it was sort of funny
when they started,
734
00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:50,448
but it's gotten really dark.59703
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