Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh
Speaker 1: with Me, a podcast with Jeremy Oda by Beer Oh Jo.
Speaker 1: It is the Friday Happy Hour, end of the week.
Speaker 1: Time to crack open that first Friday beer an unwind
Speaker 1: from the week that was. This week, We've got special guest.
Speaker 1: He's been on the show many at times. He's my
Speaker 1: brother Kyle Odum. We're gonna call him to so he's
Speaker 1: not he's not live quite yet, but we're calling me
Speaker 1: here a second. Here's what we're doing. We had the
Speaker 1: Tiger King Joe Exotic calling in live from prison earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. I know he's got some thoughts about it,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna talk about it and uh, just kind
Speaker 1: of unwind from the week. So let's uh let's get
Speaker 1: the fellow a call right now. Let's see what's up.
Speaker 2: Yo yo. That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I wish I could say I've been working on it,
Speaker 1: but I absolutely have not.
Speaker 2: Well, that was pretty president, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I was just doing the intro for Friday Happy Hour
Speaker 1: and I was just saying, it's it's Friday Happy Hour,
Speaker 1: we're unwinding. It's from the week that's been and this
Speaker 1: week I had the Tiger King and Joe Exotic calling
Speaker 1: in from prison, and I know for a fact you've
Speaker 1: got some thoughts. I've got some thoughts.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be I thought it would be
Speaker 1: fun to talk about it if you're down.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's do this.
Speaker 4: What you got?
Speaker 1: First? First thing? I first thing, if you remember, like,
Speaker 1: because I know you've listened to the episode, and I thought,
Speaker 1: and I just saw it literally seconds before he called.
Speaker 1: I saw on his Instagram it said day two thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and three of being wrongly imprisoned. And I thought, okay, well,
Speaker 1: this is It's on his Instagram. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: running the Instagram, like I don't, you know, I and
Speaker 1: I he kind of made that clear because he had
Speaker 1: no idea what I was talking about.
Speaker 2: But it is clearly, but it is.
Speaker 1: He's his official Instagram. And I thought, what a way
Speaker 1: to kick off the conversation with you've been in prison
Speaker 1: for two thousand, five hundred and three days. In hindsight,
Speaker 1: that sucks, right, Like why if you're.
Speaker 2: Going to hear that? Thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 1: If you've been in prison for twenty five hundred days,
Speaker 1: you probably don't really want to be reminded of just
Speaker 1: how long you've been in there.
Speaker 2: Oh, He's like, yeah, and it's been awful everything on
Speaker 2: one of them. Thanks Jeremy Glad I called you.
Speaker 1: I know, I felt so bad. I instantly was like,
Speaker 1: that was a mistake, little way to kick this off.
Speaker 2: I got the vibes that he didn't even know what
Speaker 2: Instagram was. He's like, oh, is that what they put
Speaker 2: up there? Yep? All right, well I guess I've been
Speaker 2: in here. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I tell you that's fair because he was picked up
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, and who knows. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he didn't even have an Instagram then, so who you know.
Speaker 1: He obviously was on top of some things online because
Speaker 1: he had an online TV show, you know he did.
Speaker 2: He was on the internet, his choice, hold on his
Speaker 2: own thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe all right.
Speaker 2: So remember, no, I never heard of this guy until Netflix.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know so and me too, like I've and
Speaker 1: much like probably most of the people in the world
Speaker 1: had never heard this guy until twenty twenty when the
Speaker 1: Netflix show came out. But it locally, you know, in
Speaker 1: his like in his world, he had his online show
Speaker 1: where he would read Carol Baskin's diary and and update
Speaker 1: people on what they kind of documented a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, so he's he wasn't unfamiliar with the Internet,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't unfamiliar with like memes and and things
Speaker 1: in that you know sense. But he probably has no
Speaker 1: I mean he even say he has no clue how
Speaker 1: big he is. But he has no clue that like
Speaker 1: the world of social media today and just kind of
Speaker 1: how it wraps are it's our world, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no idea, but here's the deal. So he made
Speaker 5: a big impact, right, that was the whole thing. The
Speaker 5: whole world's talking about it. Yeah, but now it's gone.
Speaker 2: Right. But he's like, okay, listen to him. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: when I get out of here, I'm gonna buy one
Speaker 2: of them. Okay, let me back up. He's like, I
Speaker 2: got no money to see these people. I got no
Speaker 2: money to do any of this, right right.
Speaker 5: And then he's like, when I get out, I'm buying
Speaker 5: one of them Trump five million dollar gold cards so
Speaker 5: I can move my husband to America. It's like, homie,
Speaker 5: you have five dollars, Like, where are you getting this
Speaker 5: five million dollars?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 1: So and that goes back to like I was telling him,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, dude, thirty four million people watched
Speaker 1: The Tiger King on Netflix in the first ten days
Speaker 1: of release, and they had a season two. How many
Speaker 1: documentaries do you know get a season two and a
Speaker 1: season three? So on there's Yeah, it's not really about him,
Speaker 1: it's about it's about that guy, doc Annel that just
Speaker 1: got sentenced to a year in prison for animal trafficking,
Speaker 1: and he's in you know, the first two seasons. But
Speaker 1: it's more about like his world, but still the brand itself.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he hates all those people. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: like I think he's banking on I get out of prison.
Speaker 1: I have incredible value to my name, or at least
Speaker 1: he believes he does, to the point that he can sell,
Speaker 1: you know, certain rights to stories or he says he's
Speaker 1: got three awesome movie deals right now on the table,
Speaker 1: but he needs to be out in order to make
Speaker 1: this deal work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's not out. So he's been in there
Speaker 2: for how long do we say, so he's been in years?
Speaker 1: Yeah, more than that. He's been in since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: He's on a twenty one year sentence.
Speaker 2: How far back is twenty five hundred days. Okay, so
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: So you got a wild guy fifteen years Like, what
Speaker 5: do you who's this is wild?
Speaker 2: He's gonna yeah, We're gonna make a movie when I'm eighty.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Well, playing is kind of a whack.
Speaker 1: That's if you're basing it on. He's gonna service twenty
Speaker 1: one years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. We've got the pardon situation on the table,
Speaker 1: where he feels that he was wrongly accused, that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of evidence out there now where the witnesses
Speaker 1: are backtracking the things that they said in core or
Speaker 1: on the record, and that the president is going to
Speaker 1: give him a full pardon and he's gonna be out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, that was one of my favorite
Speaker 2: parts of the thing. I feel like he here's the deal.
Speaker 2: He thinks that he's innocent.
Speaker 5: Like, if you watched that thing, you know his feelings
Speaker 5: on Caroll Basket. He straight up is hiring folks to
Speaker 5: kill her. Yeah, Cecainly He's like, he's like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna get pardoned. Proceeds to name off the worst folks
Speaker 5: in the world and he's.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, they're gonna get me out of here. It's like, dude,
Speaker 2: you are what is happening right now? What is happening?
Speaker 1: He does have the like the ear of the core
Speaker 1: people that you would think of when you when you
Speaker 1: think maga.
Speaker 2: You know, do you think that's real though? Do you
Speaker 2: think like people are actually like those people? Do you
Speaker 2: think they're like, we got to get the Tiger King out.
Speaker 2: That's just what this comes down to.
Speaker 1: Well, it's tough. Who knows who knows how like active
Speaker 1: they actually are in you know, you only get the
Speaker 1: president's ear for what seconds probably if you do, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: And then is Joe Exotic the name that comes up
Speaker 1: when you do have his ear, But they definitely get
Speaker 1: asked about it, Like you can find press clippings of
Speaker 1: you know, the press asking these very people about Joe Exotic,
Speaker 1: and they are certainly aware of what's going on, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that they're actually actively you know, working
Speaker 1: on the behalf of the Tiger King to get him
Speaker 1: a pardon?
Speaker 5: No, And are they asking that in the year of
Speaker 5: our Lord twenty twenty five? Right, maybe twenty twenty maybe
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you catch my beeal juice joke.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was like lost on the bed, like I
Speaker 2: don't know anything about it. Okay, you were like, You're like,
Speaker 2: she really likes beal juice and he did. It was
Speaker 2: now he was like, okay, I get brag.
Speaker 1: I did not think he would get the joke. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessary. It wasn't for him. It was for
Speaker 1: the audience. But so Lauren Bobert she a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, she was on a first date and she
Speaker 1: went to see Beetlejuice the musical, and she may or
Speaker 1: may not have been caught doing something inappropriate to her
Speaker 1: first day while she was watching the show.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, now knowing that and now he's just like, okay,
Speaker 5: that's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so man, that's uh yeah, So that's I never
Speaker 1: thought he would get it, because you know, he's probably
Speaker 1: the amount of information he gets, I mean, it's very minimal, right.
Speaker 5: I would think. So, I don't know, we got to
Speaker 5: do an investigative. How do they get How much TV
Speaker 5: can they watch to day? How can they how much
Speaker 5: can they read what's going on in there?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I mean he wrote his book.
Speaker 1: He has a book. I didn't talk about the book
Speaker 1: on the pod, but he does have a book out,
Speaker 1: and what do you do that? Well, I just I
Speaker 1: knew I had limited time. So that's the other thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't know how much time I was going to
Speaker 1: have with him. I just knew I had until they
Speaker 1: cut us off. So it ended up being fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I had fifteen minutes. I thought I
Speaker 1: could have seven, I could have eight, Like I I
Speaker 1: didn't know, right, I just knew it wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be a lot. So I had a list of questions
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to as mini as I could.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask follow ups where appropriate. But I
Speaker 1: also knew I had limited time. So the music, to me,
Speaker 1: was more important to talk about than the book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you turned to the music. What's that all about?
Speaker 1: Have you? You mean? His music is a big part
Speaker 1: of the of the documentary Tiger King.
Speaker 2: Where's Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I was just so interested of is he writing
Speaker 1: more music? Is this something he wants to do outside
Speaker 1: when he gets out? Is this something he performs inside
Speaker 1: for his for I almost said classmates, for his for
Speaker 1: his inmates, like for me for the prisoners, Like is
Speaker 1: this something he's doing and he's entertaining the masses inside?
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like that is a hard no.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, yeah, I just I was intrigued
Speaker 1: by it because I just imagined sometimes all right, it
Speaker 1: goes back to Seinfeld and the finale, the Seinfeld finale
Speaker 1: when they end up in prison and then the very
Speaker 1: like the very last scene, Jerry's doing stand up you know,
Speaker 1: for yeah, that's fair for the population. And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: do entertainers do that? Like is R Kelly performing, you know,
Speaker 1: like in prison? And they're just like, I can't wait
Speaker 1: for this week's R. Kelly concert, you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: We just found out that's a definite no.
Speaker 5: And you did you hear his his answer that you're like,
Speaker 5: you're on new music And then he goes on this
Speaker 5: thing and then when he comes back, he's like, actually,
Speaker 5: I'm writing it and send it off to my girls
Speaker 5: out there and they just put it in the AI
Speaker 5: and it does the music and the vocals. So like
Speaker 5: this dude's writing like three lines of words and he's
Speaker 5: calling that writing music nowadays?
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 1: I know? AI just think of the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: he could get out there right now if he was
Speaker 1: out and he had a to do a lot of that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's a scary thought.
Speaker 1: Oh he'd he'd be a monster, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I want some Carole Baskin songs, So I get that.
Speaker 2: I'm ready if the world is ready.
Speaker 1: I think if I hit the hell k as hip part,
Speaker 1: like all right. So I asked him about Doc Annel
Speaker 1: and he he was very open about how that guy's
Speaker 1: getting what he deserves to an extent, he's only got
Speaker 1: one year. He's he's like almost jealous of it, you know,
Speaker 1: he only got one year, whereas Joe Exotics in there
Speaker 1: for twenty one. But like, it does seem like the
Speaker 1: people around him that were in that documentary Tiger King,
Speaker 1: they were all involved in something, yeah, and they're all
Speaker 1: starting to now. It's just all kind of catching up
Speaker 1: to him in one way or another. Man, I'm interested
Speaker 1: to know if Carole Baskin, who seems like the cleanest
Speaker 1: of the bunch, but there's all that rumor and inn
Speaker 1: window that she killed her ex husband, so who knows.
Speaker 2: She definitely killed her husband. She's definitely a terrible person.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
Speaker 5: When you're dealing with folks who own actual tigers, everything
Speaker 5: is sketch. No part of their life can be queen.
Speaker 5: Everything is all sketch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's oh so funny story. So I had, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm doing research for the for the interview, So I'm
Speaker 1: watching Tiger King right and uh, Branden. He comes in
Speaker 1: and he sees that there's like these people that just
Speaker 1: have tigers, and he's like, holy cow, you could do that.
Speaker 1: Is that the guy you're going to talk to? Can
Speaker 1: we get tigers? And I'm like, we are not getting tigers,
Speaker 1: Like this is not a thing. Did you not catch
Speaker 1: the part where he's calling from prison, like this is
Speaker 1: not happening, dude.
Speaker 2: I love You're like, you guys are just having an interview.
Speaker 2: He's like telling us stories. Whatever's Like this call is
Speaker 2: that's my favorite? I love.
Speaker 1: I debated. I'm like, do I take that out? Like
Speaker 1: do I edit that out? Or is that kind of
Speaker 1: like sets the tone for what is actually like because
Speaker 1: there is a reality to this, Like he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's a re reality TV personality of sorts. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: but there is reality to this, whereas the the consequences
Speaker 1: of his actions that we saw unfold, you know, in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty with the Tiger King or why he is
Speaker 1: where he is right now?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, that was great. That was great.
Speaker 5: And you gotta understand, when you hire somebody to kill somebody,
Speaker 5: you're going to jail.
Speaker 2: And not only are you going to.
Speaker 5: Jail, you're gonna be in there and you're going to
Speaker 5: be somehow sad that somebody else got a lesser sentence.
Speaker 5: You're just gonna completely ignore that you hired a human
Speaker 5: to kill a human and be like, well, that guy
Speaker 5: only got a hear what is going.
Speaker 1: On here, right, you know? And so and one of
Speaker 1: the guys, it's uh, I forget his name, but he's
Speaker 1: in the documentary and he's one of the people that
Speaker 1: worked for Joe at the zoo. But it's that guy,
Speaker 1: you know that they kind of chronicle like that he
Speaker 1: you know, allegedly paid to go down to Florida wherever
Speaker 1: and try to kill Carol, right yeah. And one of
Speaker 1: his stances right now is that that guy allegedly lied,
Speaker 1: you know, in his in his testimony or whatever. And
Speaker 1: that's some of the facts. But I was when I
Speaker 1: was reading about the case. He also made uh pay.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he made payments or offer to
Speaker 1: make payments to somebody to go do this murder for
Speaker 1: hire to and undercover FBI like agents. So yeah, what
Speaker 1: even if this guy, Yeah, that's tough. That's tough. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what more he has, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of lawyer like team he's got because
Speaker 1: that's not cheap, right, So.
Speaker 5: Well, he has five dollars, so his lawyer team cannot
Speaker 5: be very good, although they could be doing the game
Speaker 5: where like they're actually great lawyers because they know at
Speaker 5: the end of this thing, hopefully they'll get paid.
Speaker 2: So you never know. You never know. But here's the deal.
Speaker 5: It's really not fair that he's in there for twenty
Speaker 5: one years because he's just fixing babies faces.
Speaker 1: So he does that's.
Speaker 2: Just fixing babies faces. I don't know why they're broken,
Speaker 2: but he's fixing them.
Speaker 1: That's the part that a lot of people are forgetting
Speaker 1: is that he did do a lot of good and
Speaker 1: he did this way before any of the criminal things.
Speaker 1: He was fixing babies faces, you know, helping families that
Speaker 1: couldn't afford that kind of medical procedures. And then he
Speaker 1: also fed the hungry quite often.
Speaker 2: He said on Carol Baskin, cut her up.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, She's still alive. So that's the he
Speaker 1: probably would do more of the good. You know, when
Speaker 1: he gets out of prison. I would think, Johnny, we
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Speaker 2: He was just, what are you gonna do out of prison?
Speaker 2: Fix more babies faces? Okay, all right, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's smart on his behalf, though, to just if that's
Speaker 1: the question, you know, what are you gonna do to
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta get the job done.
Speaker 2: Dude. That would have been awesome. That'd have been a
Speaker 2: great answer.
Speaker 1: Actually, he was, you know what, I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to expect. I didn't know he's been in there a
Speaker 1: long time at this point. I didn't know if we
Speaker 1: were gonna get a beaten down. You know, he's sick,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a special treatment facility for cancer
Speaker 1: right now. So I didn't know what we'd get or
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Speaker 1: when when he's gonna get released. I was happy I
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Speaker 1: Epstein list. That was good. We got that out of
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: That was hilarious. I don't even know who Epstein is.
Speaker 1: All he knows is that that name is in the
Speaker 1: news and it's not good for Trump. That's all he knew.
Speaker 1: It is not good, sir, oh man, what a what
Speaker 1: a day?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: He's man, it sucked because like the call just abruptly ends,
Speaker 1: right yeah, and then I'm like, well, dang. I was
Speaker 1: enjoying talking to him, like I need more time, Like
Speaker 1: where'd you go? Like I just I was left wanting more.
Speaker 5: Well, in fifteen years, you got to send alarm fifteen
Speaker 5: years from now he's out.
Speaker 2: You gotta be like, Joe, you're my guy. We talked,
Speaker 2: let's talk for longer, yep, do this.
Speaker 1: I did email him after and I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you need to call in and you want to go
Speaker 1: back on laugh with me. You let me know you
Speaker 1: are back, Like that was that I didn't get enough,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: I like when you're like, you know, we find out
Speaker 5: he's remarried or whatever, and it's like.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. You fell in love in prison. He's just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it happens.
Speaker 1: You don't know where it's gonna with. Love's gonna hit you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sir, we don't know what happens in there. We'll
Speaker 5: tell us.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I missed it that his his new husband was was
Speaker 1: released from prison and then immediately deported, Like I must
Speaker 1: have missed that whole thing. So then I go back
Speaker 1: after and I'm reading about it. Sure enough, it's he's
Speaker 1: in Mexico and he's doing the work for Joe. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get Joe pardon and get the word out.
Speaker 1: And then and Joe I've even seen. He's willing. He's
Speaker 1: like Trump doesn't want bad people in America anymore. Great,
Speaker 1: I'll buy my own ticket. I'm heading to Mexico. Like
Speaker 1: he's ready to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pardon me, and I'm out. I'm out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, he's uh, he's he's pretty honest about it,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: He is he is. I liked it. I liked it.
Speaker 2: It makes me want to check out his book. He's
Speaker 2: an interesting guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah like that one. Oh so what I was saying
Speaker 1: about the book is, uh, he he wrote it while
Speaker 1: he was in prison, and he used his thirty minutes
Speaker 1: of computer time a day in order to write the book.
Speaker 1: So it was quite the process.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But that's uh, at least that's what you know. He said.
Speaker 1: So he he has. Yeah, so he's got a book out.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it other than he's got
Speaker 1: a book and he used his thirty minutes a day
Speaker 1: to write it. That's all I know.
Speaker 2: That's that's the info. You're gathered this book all you know.
Speaker 1: That's all I know. But we should learn more about it.
Speaker 2: For when we have the follow up interview years.
Speaker 1: In fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like it. I like it. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 2: I need to know. Did you not hit up Carol
Speaker 2: Baskins Instagram and.
Speaker 5: Just shoot a message and be like, hey, I got
Speaker 5: this podcast if you would like to come on.
Speaker 1: You know what, that's a hell of an idea. That's
Speaker 1: a hell of an idea.
Speaker 2: That's what I bring to the table here.
Speaker 1: I think I think I should have you know what,
Speaker 1: and you know what's great about Carol, She's gonna have
Speaker 1: more time. Oh yeah, and right, so yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: great idea, cop I am going to hit up Carol
Speaker 1: Baskin and uh now that's that's kind of my goal
Speaker 1: is to care.
Speaker 2: Going down here, you know, taking on the world. Yep,
Speaker 2: one one Netflix star at a time.
Speaker 1: That's right awesome. Can you imagine thirty four million people
Speaker 1: watching your watching your show your life in like the
Speaker 1: first ten days of a release about it?
Speaker 2: Like, that's insane, that would be crazy. I wouldn't I
Speaker 2: would crumble. I would curl into a ball and never
Speaker 2: come out of my house again.
Speaker 1: Like how many hundreds of millions by now have seen
Speaker 1: this story and everything they know about you is this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 1: It is wild, It really is.
Speaker 2: I can't even think like that. I can't even think
Speaker 2: that big. That's crazy. Gosh, we got to get.
Speaker 1: A Netflix show, we really do. What what would we
Speaker 1: call it?
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. Just to dudes, all right, that's
Speaker 2: that about. I don't know two dudes.
Speaker 1: All they do is talk about the Tiger King.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll come up with a better Now.
Speaker 2: That these shows. I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it turns out they put a lot
Speaker 1: of work in the TV shows, like they don't just
Speaker 1: come up with it on the fly, burn a podcast.
Speaker 2: I thought it just kind of happened. I was I
Speaker 2: was wrong. Today's the day I learned, folks, I got smarter.
Speaker 1: Uh Joe exoticofficial dot com. If anyone listening wants to
Speaker 1: find out more information about him, or even to donate,
Speaker 1: because he's he's using the money that he raises from
Speaker 1: the website to help with his own expenses inside and
Speaker 1: then also to help with awareness, to help get that pardon.
Speaker 2: Cool? Do you hate that book on there?
Speaker 1: I think you can.
Speaker 2: Can you get an autographed book on there? Oh?
Speaker 1: I highly doubt it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to smuggle it in, sign us, smuggle
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: It's the whole process. If you know a guy I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe maybe find a guy I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's always that guy inside that could just get things.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a guy that can bring in books, get
Speaker 1: them signed, get them out.
Speaker 2: You know, I got we gotta find out about it.
Speaker 2: We gotta figure out how to do this. If he's
Speaker 2: not doing this, just.
Speaker 1: Sink how much money he can make if he could
Speaker 1: actually figure that out. Because you're lawyers, everybody like you're
Speaker 1: gonna buy the book, right, I'm probably gonna buy the book.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, I gotta I gotta check it out.
Speaker 2: We're all in now, all right.
Speaker 1: Final thoughts on The Tiger King Joe Zac on Laugh
Speaker 1: with Me.
Speaker 2: I freaking loved it. I did not know what to expect.
Speaker 2: I think I told you. I was very frightened when
Speaker 2: I first saw load onto my phone. It was awesome.
Speaker 5: I kind of want to go rewatch the Tiger King.
Speaker 5: I want to see how that goes down. Gotta see
Speaker 5: him get not pardoned, Gotta see him putting in his time,
Speaker 5: get out, go to Mexico, buy some sort of weird
Speaker 5: gold card for money that he doesn't have, and then
Speaker 5: get back.
Speaker 2: I want to see how all that works out. I'm
Speaker 2: invested now, I'm invested. There you go.
Speaker 1: Joe's got a new fan in Kyle all from his
Speaker 1: call in on Laugh with Me. I I do don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like a curiosity.
Speaker 1: Okay, not all right, that's fair, you know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I fully understood that the the video
Speaker 1: coverage was from a mostly footage that he was having
Speaker 1: filmed that Netflix purchased or the producer's purchased, and then
Speaker 1: did the interviews and testimonials at things after he's in prison.
Speaker 1: I don't think I when I watched it, I understood
Speaker 1: all that, and I don't think I grasped that even after.
Speaker 1: But then when he's talking about it, we'll shoot and
Speaker 1: I go back and watch, like the first couple of episodes,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this is like a whole different spin
Speaker 1: on it now, knowing that all these people are talking
Speaker 1: about him, knowing that he's in prison right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I never thought about that either until he
Speaker 2: said that. It's like, what some thing you got to
Speaker 2: think about? Who who did he put in charge of
Speaker 2: his estate? And that person obviously signed something to just
Speaker 2: release all his stuff.
Speaker 1: They sure did.
Speaker 2: It's not good. It's a mess.
Speaker 6: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's the South. That's the South, baby, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the South.
Speaker 2: That's what we're doing in the South. Eric knows about that.
Speaker 1: Eric, Yeah, he knows all about that. He's uh, he's
Speaker 1: as far north as you can get right now.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, He's like vacationing in like North Dakota or something.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, that's yeah, that's the tip of the tip
Speaker 2: of the earth there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so all right, well, thanks for calling in and
Speaker 1: giving us your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for calling Get more, get that, Carroll Baskin. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll do the recap. I'll do the recap. I'll answer
Speaker 2: the phone.
Speaker 1: It'll be great, awesome. I'm I'll work on it right now,
Speaker 1: all right, see it later. But yeah, that's uh, that's Kyle,
Speaker 1: and uh, he's not a fan necessarily a Joe exotic,
Speaker 1: but he is certainly very intrigued. Now, I did just
Speaker 1: brought up that Eric is on vacation. So Eric, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been on the show many a times, as often
Speaker 1: as just a couple of episodes ago, and he's he's
Speaker 1: in like North Dakota or something like that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Eric is called in. He left me a voice memo.
Speaker 1: I have not listened to it yet, so I have
Speaker 1: no idea what he's gonna say, but we're gonna listen
Speaker 1: to it right now and just see how vacation is going.
Speaker 7: Hey, Jo, this is this is audiologue number one of
Speaker 7: my grand tour of.
Speaker 4: Really two states.
Speaker 5: But all the states.
Speaker 7: Tonight, I'm in Fargo, North Dakota, and you might be asking,
Speaker 7: where is Fargo.
Speaker 1: Well, it's way fucking.
Speaker 7: North, Like it's all the way north, and don't give
Speaker 7: you it with the movie. The movie happened in Minnesota.
Speaker 7: There are no people getting wood chippard in Fargo. Spoiler
Speaker 7: alert for a movie that was twenty years ago. So
Speaker 7: tonight I proceeded to go to a bar where I
Speaker 7: played blackjack, and you might be.
Speaker 4: Asking yourself, hey, how does one.
Speaker 6: Go to a bar and play blackjack?
Speaker 7: Well, in North Dakota, you can play blackjack at a bar.
Speaker 7: The bar just can't run the blackjack table. The blackjack
Speaker 7: tables run by a charity, whether it's Boys and Girls
Speaker 7: Club of America or it's you know, the Salvation Army.
Speaker 7: Somebody's running that blackjack table and collecting the profits, and
Speaker 7: the bar is just selling you the drinks. So in
Speaker 7: some ways, in retrospect, when I look back at tonight's actions,
Speaker 7: I'm very charitable because I proceeded to set down one
Speaker 7: hundred dollars on their fine black check table, and I
Speaker 7: proceeded to leave with none of that money. Which it's
Speaker 7: a bad it's a bad.
Speaker 6: Omen for a couple of for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 6: Number one, you never want to start a vacation. I mean,
Speaker 6: this is going to be the first of perhaps twelve
Speaker 6: travelogs that I'm going to be shared with you, and
Speaker 6: I do not want to start with a loss. And
Speaker 6: number two, how can I have any confidence gambling after
Speaker 6: this point if I haven't won?
Speaker 8: Because you know, as much as we talk about the
Speaker 8: strategy of gambling, winning is so much better than losing,
Speaker 8: and especially when you're at.
Speaker 4: These tables where perhaps you have lost.
Speaker 3: Uh you know what, what what fountain of luck is the.
Speaker 4: That just you have that one gambler there that's.
Speaker 6: Just they're too drunk to play, or they're too dope
Speaker 6: to play, and they just happened to always at that
Speaker 6: Ace nine or that you know, not even the perfect blackjack,
Speaker 6: they just happened to like just luck into it. So
Speaker 6: at the table tonight, I had that, I had that
Speaker 6: that that bimbo himbo guy sitting all in the left,
Speaker 6: he's playing two hands at a time, He's not paying
Speaker 6: attention at all.
Speaker 4: He's constantly happened to be reprimanded by the dealer to
Speaker 4: just pay attention, just to wave his hand over his
Speaker 4: pair of faceguards. Yet this guy is just raking it in.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, you're truly playing by the book, probably maybe, but
Speaker 6: playing you.
Speaker 4: Know, very straightforward. Nothing, can't can't catch a card.
Speaker 6: To save my life, drinking, you know, Budweiser after Budweiser,
Speaker 6: trying to rejuvenate that luck and nothing. But there's for
Speaker 6: a good cause, so you know, perhaps there is something
Speaker 6: to that question when he's heavy on my mind though,
Speaker 6: am I going to be able to get up tomorrow
Speaker 6: morning to spend the day with my family and then
Speaker 6: go to a casino a bar in North Dakota and
Speaker 6: do it again?
Speaker 4: Chances seem pretty likely. Well, do you know how it goes?
Speaker 1: There? You go Eric's first trouble log on vacation and
Speaker 1: he's losing his ass at the blackjack table at bars.
Speaker 1: Which is an interesting situation that you can just walk
Speaker 1: into a bar in North Dakota and be able to
Speaker 1: grab a seat at the table and have them sponsored
Speaker 1: by local organization. It's kind of like so like here
Speaker 1: in Omaha over Fourth of July, you had fireworks tents everywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's selling fireworks. You had to pick which
Speaker 1: one you want to go to not based on the
Speaker 1: deals that they were offering, you know, by eighteen or
Speaker 1: buy one, get eighteen free or whatever it is. No,
Speaker 1: this was like go to this tent because it supports
Speaker 1: the local library, or go to this tent and it
Speaker 1: supports the Little League team that plays down the street.
Speaker 1: Like it's just stuff like that. It'd be crazy if
Speaker 1: you walked up to a bar in North Dakota and
Speaker 1: you walk up to the one of the tables and
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, all winnings or all losses in your case,
Speaker 1: Eric go towards fixing kids' faces. Courtesy of Joe Exotic
Speaker 1: the Tiger King, Like, don't you think that would be
Speaker 1: cool that you knew even if you lost, even if
Speaker 1: everything that the house won that night went back to
Speaker 1: fixing kids' faces, that'd be pretty neat. That'd be pretty neat,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, thanks Kyle, Thanks Eric, and thank you
Speaker 1: Joe Zada for calling in earlier in the week. This
Speaker 1: is the Friday Happy Hour. Enjoy your weekend.