Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin | 74

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness debuted on Netflix early in the pandemic, no one could have expected the cultural moment it would mark around the globe. Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names and popular memes thanks to their vicious rivalry and oddball personas. But what happened to their rivalry AFTER Tiger King premiered is a story that’s still unfolding today. In this episode, we’ll take a look at the world’s most meme-able pair of criminal big cat owners, and see how their feud has carried on to the modern day.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to diss and tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.1	Matt, I don't have a vague question for you today.
0:18.1	I actually have a hyper-specific question.
0:20.7	Love that. Where were you when you
0:24.2	saw Tiger King for the first time? Do you remember what you were doing? Does not everybody remember
0:30.4	where they were when Tiger King came out? I remember where I was. I wouldn't hear where you were first.
0:36.2	This was two weeks into COVID, so I was firmly planted on my couch, which I hadn't left for two weeks.
0:45.7	Yep.
0:46.3	Just desperate for anything.
0:48.1	Exciting to happen.
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:49.7	I was the same way.
0:51.5	I was sitting on my bed in Brooklyn, listening to the sirens from the
0:55.4	geriatric hospital across the street, hoping Tiger King would give me some reprieve. And it did,
1:03.2	because it was crazy. I do recall being titillated. I remember being like, there's no way I'm
1:09.5	going to enjoy this. No part of this is
1:11.7	appealing to me. And then every part of it appealed to me. It just hits all the right notes of like
1:18.2	weird, dramatic, true story, great characters. It's got it all. Yeah. And we were all so obsessed
1:26.8	with it. And then we were just done with it.
1:30.1	Well, for good reason. We want to forget that period as much as possible, slash, our brains are
1:35.5	repressing it. True. Yeah, we were ready to move on from both that and the pandemic, even though
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