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DISGRACELAND

Joe Exotic: Tiger King, Budding Country Star, Confidence Man Extraordinaire

DISGRACELAND

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.613.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Joe Exotic, the gun toting, mullet wearing, polyamorous subject of the hit Netflix series, Tiger King was more than just a murder-minded conman. He could sing! You saw those videos. We did too. As a singer, Joe’s voice belied the tortured Everyman experience of some of the best country music crooners, hinting at deep trauma resulting from unspeakable loss, assault and violence. Most of which was for the most part, left on the cutting room floor of the popular Netflix series and is on display in this special Covid-19 bonus content episode of Disgraceland.

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0:00.0

Double Elvis

0:05.0

How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect?

0:10.0

Was it because he saved 35% on Trainline and bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive

0:16.0

pet where he saw something that said,

0:19.0

I don't actually hate you.

0:22.0

His Trainline to thank for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect.

0:26.0

We hope so. We really do. Great journey start with Trainline.

0:31.0

Loverts savings from advanced fairs, rail cards and split save wear available versus equivalent flexible fair TNC's apply.

0:37.0

Discrease land is a production of Double Elvis.

0:42.0

Hey guys, do my best to bring you as much content as I can during this COVID-19 lockdown.

0:48.0

So here's a special unplanned bonus episode I decided late Friday afternoon right.

0:53.0

Once I learned the music news about Tiger King's Joe exotic like the rest of America,

0:58.0

I too binge Tiger King and was excited to come at the story from a music angle.

1:03.0

So my team and I jumped into action and we pulled this together in three days so you can have some content on this disgrace land off week.

1:11.0

For context, it usually takes two weeks to produce an episode of disgrace land and that doesn't include research.

1:18.0

So I not only relied heavily obviously on the Netflix documentary as a source for this episode,

1:23.0

but I also relied on the New York magazine Intelligence Air article on Joe exotic entitled American Animals

1:30.0

that was reported in partnership with Over My Dead Body Season 2, Joe Exotic by Wondery.

1:36.0

These and the rest of the sources used for this episode are available on my website as are the sources for all of my episodes.

1:44.0

Finally, if you have some extra coin lying around and want to donate to help prevent the type of animal cruelty depicted in this episode,

1:51.0

there are numerous animal rights organizations out there worthy of your donation.

1:55.0

And if depictions of animal cruelty, rape or suicide trigger you in any way, then you might want to skip this.

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