Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness

You have a prepaid call from...

Joe Exotic.

...an inmate at a federal prison.

I'm sitting on a trash can.

You're sitting on a trash can?

You know, it would be nice

if I could actually see me being famous out there.

But I mean, I've seen these same four walls for a year and a half now.

I would love to be able to watch the documentary.

Maybe later down the road, I can.

But, you know, with all of the guards,

they're singing my music videos, and...

you know, wanting autographs,

and saying they're gonna buy my underwear off the internet.

It's fun. You know, it's cool.

I would love to be able to walk out of here,

but I can't.

Selfies are 15.

Everybody from the zoo is out there making money

using "Joe Exotic" and talking shit.

I'm paying the price for every one of them people.

I'm done with it.

I will die making sure that they end up in prison.

Yeah. Welcome to my world of bullshit.

I'm sorry, who are you?

This is private property.

This is private. Who the fuck are y'all?

We're subcontractors...

- For who? - For a production.

- Uh, we're not at liberty to say. - Then you can get the fuck off.

Quit pointing this fucker at me!

There's an innocent man in prison because of Jeff Lowe.

It's insane. I gotta get the hell out of this jail.

Dillon turned into a little monster,

because he wants his five minutes of fame.

This is the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

I am part of a Facebook group for that thing that came out on Netflix.

Okay.

And there's threats of hundreds of people

bum-rushing the owner and hurting the owner.

Carole, it's an emergency.

I found an injured bobcat on the corner of...

I know you murdered your husband, you...

Free Joe Exotic! Free Joe Exotic!

You put a hero behind bars.

- Hello? - Hey, what are you doing?

I constantly get bad reviews on my jet ski business

because of the Tiger King show.

My reviews went from a five to a three. So I'm getting fucked with all the time.

A couple weeks ago.

Youngest police chief in Texas.

Joe screwed over a million people.

I don't understand why all these bullshit lawyers

ain't ever talked to the right people.

Everybody says, "What do you think about the Tiger King show?"

It's like, "Dude, I have never watched any of it."

When you live 20 years of it, you don't want to see it anymore.

I was born in Garden City, Kansas

and stayed there on the farm until I was 13.

I used to pick up the medicine bottles

from Mom and Dad and everybody working the cattle,

and I would fill those with colored water.

And that was my veterinarian medicine.

My dad hit me with an irrigation shovel,

and he almost drowned my brother.

Every time my dad done something wrong, it was always our fault.

I've been in a broken family my whole life. It's all I know.

I was raised in an abusive situation at home,

and I was gonna break that abusive cycle.

One of the guys I graduated high school with

was a cop in another town.

And I was like, "You know, this would be kind of cool."

So, I decided to become a police chief because I wanted to help people.

At the age of 19, I graduated the academy,

and I was the youngest cop in the state of Texas.

Save the world, you know? From drugs, and alcohol, and all that good shit.

I was dating the fire chief's daughter

and lived with her for several years.