Joe Exotic's YouTube channel and makeshift reality TV show Joe Exotic TV had new videos posted only two months ago, despite the infamous former zookeeper and star of Tiger King being jailed. Fans were wondering how the channel would have acquired a new format while the host is locked up in prison.
Joe Exotic has taken the world by storm thanks to his eccentric, one-of-a-kind lifestyle. The Netflix documentary showed the Oklahoma native’s love for big cats. Joe made it clear numerous times that he would shoot a human before he ever shot one of his tigers (evidence on his property points to the contrary, although supposedly for euthanasia). The enthralling documentary's troubled protagonist was caught up in a murder-for-hire mystery. Joe Exotic was found guilty by a jury of an unsuccessful plot to kill his arch-nemesis Carole Baskin, who testified against him to clinch the conviction. The suspicious disappearance of Baskin's first husband disappearing years ago will be re-examined now that a Texas sheriff has reopened the case; Exotic has accused, without any evidence, that Baskin murdered her first husband, even getting a look-a-like actress in one of his music videos to feed big cats meat, baselessly suggesting Baskin used the large felines to dispose of the body of the unfounded crime.
Fans of the streaming service who have binged Tiger King were shocked to find out that even though Joe Exotic had been sentenced to 22 years behind bars, his TV channel was still uploading new content two months ago. Viewers can still go to his YouTube channel, Joe Exotic TV, and pick from numerous videos. The new videos appear to be old footage repackaged or published for the first time.
One was a message to President Donald Trump, saying that he would try to boost his polls in Iowa for him. The polls being referred were when Trump was running for election in 2015. The reality TV star also addressed the law that was set to be voted on in Ohio, which would take big cats away from American owners.
Another newly released video again addressed politics, this time for the State of Michigan. Joe Exotic is shown walking around one of his tigers preaching about the importance of him keeping his animals. Exotic also brought up Flint, Michigan's drinking water scandal.
The YouTube channel was started in 2012 and does not look to be monetized. There are no advertisements played on any of the videos. One man who thought he would make a bundle off of Joe Exotic was Rick Kirkham. Kirkham was a producer for Joe Exotic’s professionally-made reality television show, but the footage was lost in a mysterious fire. Shortly before the studio with all the footage went up in flames, Exotic filmed him visiting his lawyer, explaining he was worried Kirkham had damaging footage of him and his employees' daily operations at Joe's tiger zoo. Kirkham started his career on Inside Edition according to Variety and also had a previous drug addiction to crack while working on that show. According to Facebook, he now lives in Norway and is working on a new project that is about a man who is living a double life (sounds vaguely familiar). Kirkham’s reality show was angled to be much more of a standard, full-length reality TV show that had cameras following Joe Exotic all around his wildlife zoo. A stark contract from the YouTube channel which just shows videos of Exotic babbling inside a tiger cage or unstructured videos without a director and editor's touch.
The gift of Tiger King was welcomed by audiences, as they have been forced to quarantine themselves due to the pandemic. Even though most of the “new” footage was put up only two months ago, fans have discovered that it is indeed old news and many of his soliloquies refer to dates and issues that have passed. It just goes to show you how important the storyteller's role is in telling a story right. Sadly the world will never get to watch the bizarre Joe Exotic's reality TV show with the same name as Netflix's explosive, wildly popular doc. Either way, fans are thrilled to have more insane videos to sift through while stuck in coronavirus quarantine for the foreseeable future.
Source: Joe Exotic, Variety
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