REWIND: Tiger King calls from Prison & Kyle calls from Iowa to discuss the call from Prison

Laugh with Me

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Comedy, Stand-up

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Host Jeremy Odem is BACK with a REWIND episode of the chart topping, world wide sensation, Laugh with Me Podcast! This week we look back to when Jeremy welcomed the Tiger King, Joe Exotic! Joe Exotic called into Laugh with Me from the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas where Joe is serving a 21 year sentence. We also have the recap episode that came later that week when Jeremy and his brother, Kyle Odem, broke down all things Tiger King.

Joseph Allen Maldonado, is known professionally as "Joe Exotic" and "The Tiger King". Exotic is an established American media personality, businessman, former Chief of Police, magician, musical, model, actor, minister, politician, and world-renowned animal expert. Nominated for Emmy Awards in 2020 in America and four awards in Britain, Joe Exotic also won the Social Media Superstar Award in 2021. Find out more about Joe Exotic on his website joeexoticofficial.com

In this episode:

-Update on Joe's Pardon attempts

-Tiger King on Netflix

-Does Joe know he's a pop culture icon?

-Movie offers?

-Music career update

-Find love in Prison

-Thoughts on Doc Antle's prison sentence

-Kyle and JO break down the Joe Exotic interview

-Telling Joe he's been in prison for 2,503 days isn't appropriate to start the interview?

-Is Joe's Washington contacts any good?

-Joe Exotic wrote a book

-Any hope moving forward for Exotic?-AND SO MUCH MORE

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0:00.0	Welcome back. This is Laugh with me, a podcast with Jerry Odom. I'm your host.
0:36.0	J.O. And this is a very special rewind edition of Laugh with me, the podcast. This is where we take some of our greatest moments and we bring it, we bring it back.
0:40.1	We want to put it front and center.
0:42.0	Maybe you missed it.
0:43.9	Maybe you missed out on our major announcement that we put out there on our socials this week, which is we are joining iHeartRadio.
1:01.9	So with that being said, Johnny, we're going to have a whole new audience listening to us.
1:07.3	So we're going to put, we're going to put out in front of the people some things that
1:11.3	catch you up on what is exactly laugh with me.
1:16.1	Let's start with the man behind the ones and twos.
1:18.8	That is Johnny Palermo, our esteemed producer, not a joke.
1:24.2	He's very good at what he does.
1:26.2	He's been with us from the get. And then the man behind the mic himself, that's me. I'm J.O. And we've been doing this for a few years now. You can find us at the tippy top of the iTunes comedy show podcast charts,
1:44.6	but you're here on IHart Radio listening,
1:49.2	listening to the pod.
1:51.4	And maybe you missed out that we had a very special guest call us this past July
1:56.5	from prison.
1:59.3	The Tiger King himself himself Joe Exotic.
2:03.6	He called in just to kind of update us on where he's at with his part in which,
2:08.9	from all accounts, shows it just appears that there's been no groundmate on this.
2:14.8	It does not appear.
2:15.6	Outside of the president has mentioned his name. We have heard
2:22.0	that he knows of the attempts for the pardon. We do know this. And we know that there are a lot of people
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