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🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Netflix's "Tiger King" is everything we never knew we needed to make it through the COVID-19 pandemic. While the documentary was filmed primarily in Oklahoma, a surprising Mid-Michigan tie has been uncovered.
Case: Tiger King
Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Intro/Outro Edits: Ben Goldman
RESOURCES:
WILX (Rachel Sweet, 3/31/20)
Lansing State Journal (Sarah Lehr and Megan Banta, 3/31/20)
wynnewoodzoo.org
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0:00.0 | This is a scream queen production. |
0:13.1 | I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is So Dead podcast. |
0:17.9 | Hey all you cool cats and kittens, Jen here. |
0:40.7 | I'm sorry, you guys, I had to do it. Just one time on the podcast, I had to do it. And it was either that or, yes what, motherfuckers. Which now that I think about it, that's probably actually a little bit more on brand for me. Anyway, I am confident that about 90% of you know what I'm talking about right now. But for those of you feeling a little bit lost in the |
0:44.8 | sauce, I am talking about Tiger King, of course, the Netflix documentary currently taking the |
0:50.5 | world by storm. What's it about you ask? Who's asking that? Because even if you haven't |
0:57.3 | seen it, you've heard about it. And yeah, everything that you've heard is true. It is as crazy as it |
1:03.5 | sounds. Tiger King centers around the life and times of Joe Exotic, a gay, redneck, polygamist, |
1:14.3 | country music plagiarizing, gun-totin, animal enthusiast with political aspirations that raises big cats and operates a zoo in Oklahoma. |
1:20.9 | His arch nemesis is a middle-aged woman named Carol Baskin, aka That Bitch Carol Baskin, |
1:31.7 | a pretentious animal activist that runs a big cat rescue in Tampa, Florida. |
1:35.3 | One thing to know about Carol, she may be, probably, almost certainly murdered her millionaire |
1:41.9 | second husband and fed him to her tigers. |
1:44.7 | But that is another story. |
1:47.0 | So I was locked into everything going on in Tiger King from Minute 1. |
1:52.2 | But I have heard a few people say that they thought it was boring. |
1:56.0 | I don't know how anyone could find a documentary in which the man who literally inspired the character Scarface has only a minor role boring. |
2:05.7 | But hey, to each his own. |
2:07.9 | And you know, I suppose that it's possible if you go in expecting a traditional true crime documentary. |
2:14.5 | Because this is not that. |
2:16.7 | True crime actually plays a very small part in the fuckery |
2:19.8 | that goes down in Tiger King. It is more of a train wreck reality show with a little bit of |
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