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BONUS Interview: Josh Mankiewicz and Joe Exotic

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Shortly after his April 2019 conviction on two counts of murder for hire, “Tiger King” Joe Exotic spoke from prison with Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz. Watch Josh’s interview with Joe Exotic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-KBOpkoM2s&t=2s

Transcript

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0:00.0

How did you get the name Joe Exotic?

0:06.0

5 years ago back in 2003, 2004, I started doing that.

0:12.0

It's a case where showies and bears and festivals and stuff like that.

0:16.0

Little kids, I could never say my little name once was Joe's Schwaddle.

0:21.0

So they called me Joe.

0:25.0

And over the years we just took the rounder and what was Joe's side.

0:31.0

There you go. And a brand was born.

0:36.0

And a breastverse born, yes sir.

0:39.0

How does one become the Tiger King?

0:42.0

You know people on social media have actually had one, two branded people with the Tiger King.

0:49.0

This is sort of the marketplace that work, right?

0:54.0

I mean people don't really want to show up and see deer, but they do with tigers.

1:00.0

Tigers and bears are very fascinating for people.

1:05.0

You know what I mean?

1:07.0

They can feed the tigers with a pole and a jumpsomeat and they can feed bears with a tube and Mars and all those equipment.

1:15.0

Are those things good for bears?

1:17.0

That kind of food?

1:19.0

Well, I said, you know what I'm saying?

1:22.0

I mean, we want to make that a knowledge diet.

1:24.0

So part of our diet plans were eroding, we've got to sell so much junk food every day.

1:35.0

Tell me about combed padding.

1:37.0

We started that back in probably 2003 and it actually started on in schools.

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