Joe vs Carole | John Cameron Mitchell on Becoming Joe Exotic | S2-E11
Over My Dead Body
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4.5 • 28.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Robert Moor talks with actor John Cameron Mitchell about what it was like to step into Joe Exotic’s cowboy boots for “Joe vs. Carole”. The two discuss the effects of Tiger King mania, how Mitchell nailed the Joe Exotic accent and how a pair of ass-less chaps may just have won him the role. The TV series based on the second season of Over My Dead Body premieres on Peacock March 3rd.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the entire series and listen to exclusive bonus episodes of Over My Dead |
| 0:06.2 | Body. |
| 0:07.2 | Join Woundery Plus in the Woundery app or on Apple Podcasts. cast. |
| 0:20.0 | From Wunder, I'm Robert Moore, and this is a special episode of Over Mydory, I'm Robert Moore, and this is a special episode of Over My Dead Body. |
| 0:23.7 | Tell me his name now. |
| 0:27.2 | I put him six feet underground. Back in 2019 I hosted season two of the podcast about a gay gun-carrying zoo owner from Oklahoma named Joe Exotic. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm Joe Exotic, otherwise known as a tiger king. |
| 0:49.0 | And the zoo is his kingdom. |
| 0:51.0 | When taking care of all these animals and baby-seck my employees. |
| 0:54.9 | They can get a little crazy around here. |
| 0:58.1 | Joe's main source of income, which involved breeding, selling, |
| 1:01.8 | and exhibiting tiger cubs, earned him an enemy with a checkered history all her own. |
| 1:07.0 | The operator of a big cat sanctuary in Florida named Carol Baskin. |
| 1:12.0 | This dumb bee down in Florida. |
| 1:14.0 | Some bitch down in Florida. |
| 1:16.0 | He would just always call her names like that crazy bitch. |
| 1:19.0 | Carol Baskin. |
| 1:20.0 | Carol Baskin down there in Tampa, Florida. |
| 1:22.0 | She's a sick bitch. Carol Baskin down there in Tampa, Florida. |
| 1:22.8 | She's a sick bitch. |
| 1:24.8 | Now, the feud between Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin |
| 1:29.4 | has been brought to life in a hilarious, gritty, addictive new television series on Peacock called Joe versus Carol. |
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