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We were already living through this stranger than fiction time.

And this was a stranger than fiction escape.

Tiger King was an addictive Netflix documentary series that premiered just as

COVID pandemic shutdown was happening. Over 60 million households have been

tuned into the show. The Tiger King documentary came out at the perfect time

and you think is that Joe Exotic? That's Joe Exotic. Tiger King centers around

Joe Exotic. I name Joe Exotic and this is Sarge.

At Noclahoma based animal cat owner and his sworn enemy, his rival Carol

Baskin. Talking about a woman down in Tampa, Florida,

nine Carol Baskin. Joe Exotic is this wild cartoonish flamboyant openly gay

mulleted tattooed gun to large animal owner. Kind of the Mick Jagger I'd say of

the large cat animal world. Carol's more a hippie new age vibe

wears flower crowns. Hey, are you cool cats and kittens? It's Carol, a big cat rescue.

Carol has fashioned herself as more of an animal activist. Big cats don't belong

in cages. She says that what Joe was doing is not humane and should be stopped. Joe

saw this as an attack on himself, his business. At a bad cold day in hell before you

completely stop me. And he stops at nothing to get back. But also woven into

the center attainment was this cold case. John Lewis, the owner of Wildlife on Easy Street,

disappeared. Carol's second husband, Don Lewis, disappeared under very mysterious

circumstances. It was in 1997 and he just vanished. There have been all sorts of theories.

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