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Clips from Tiger King - Cult of Personality (S01E01)

"if I stayed in that hospital, the media wins."
Tiger King
"Is this a reflection of what's not getting done right"
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"at your zoo? That's the question."
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"I was back on the park in five days after my amputation."
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"Yeah! [laughs]"
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"a human being could experience."
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"-And yet-- -Some would say."
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"still loyal, still working, still loving these cats."
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"[man] I was the first person that she talked to"
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"about losing her arm,"
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"This was just another day for me, um, to overcome."
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"Uh, my attitude is nothing can bring me down,"
Tiger King
"and it's really easy to do that here, Rick,"
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"and you know this because"
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"[man] A lot of people think tigers took my legs."
Tiger King
"No, it actually happened from a zip line accident."
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"I fell 50 feet, landed on my feet..."
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"crushed my feet, broke my hip, broke my back,"
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"and that's when I said, "I can do this,""
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"Usually you build up muscles, you build up calves,"
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"so I was literally walking on bone."
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"He loves Daddy."
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"I mean, it was all my fault."
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"Now, I just got these cool looking legs."
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"[Kirkham] It's hard to explain the addiction of exotic animals."
Tiger King
"with six, eight-month-old tigers and lions."
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"the feeling of power being around these animals."
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"-[car horn honks] -[man] Hey, Doc, how's it going?"
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"♪ Well, I beg your pardon ♪"
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"♪ Walk the straight and narrow track ♪"
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"So you want to see them walk around? You want to lay on that couch with them?"
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"What do want--  What do you think the shot is?"
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"-[grunts] -[tiger yowls]"
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"Nothing is cooler, sexier, and more significant"
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"to the world we live in today than a tiger."
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"that tells a message just in its very image."
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"Everyone loves them."
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"[tiger yowls]"
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"that has an exotic cat,"
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"the first thing they do is they whip out those pictures."
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"Look at me, I'm holding this cub."
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"Look at me, I'm petting this tiger."
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"Look at me, I've got this cat on a leash."
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"They want to use those cats to elevate their status."
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"-Oh my god! -They're only an hour old."
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"I breed more tigers than anybody in the country."
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"Joe had so many animals"
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"that he sold them to a lot of these little animal parks"
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"I drove lions, tigers, bears..."
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"And keep in mind, it's illegal now."
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"anything endangered,"
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"but there ain't a damn zoo out there"
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"Some of the places  that the cubs have actually went to,"
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"you got Brown Zoo, you got Tim Stark."
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"[man] According to Thomas Jefferson,"
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"any law that you think's unfair  or unjustice,"
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"to stand up against that bullshit law."
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"If people are concerned about tigers,"
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"Number one, they're endangered species."
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"Duh. What's the first thing you should do to protect an endangered species?"
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"Not eliminate the source."
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"[big cats growling]"
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"[Stark] I bought shitloads from Joe. Hundreds of thousand dollars worth of 'em."
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"I posted online, 28 different places  that are all part of this whole..."
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"what I call the bad guy network,"
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"I think, honestly... [chuckles] you're gonna--"
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"Carole, goddamn it, you've missed out on it again."
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"[Carole] For each one of these people Joe traded cats to,"
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"there's more information about them,"
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"in the hopes that with law enforcement taking this serious and going after it,"
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"that they'll actually search out some of those connections"
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"that our state ever knew."
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"But despite having  this criminal background,"
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"he operates a wildlife menagerie."
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"Mario Tabraue's facilities."
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"[guard] Good morning, how are you, sir? Do you have a reservation?"
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"-I don't. -You don't?"
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"This is a private property. You actually have to have permission, sir."
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"because they're just not going to allow the public to see"
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"I went to work for Mario's place."
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"I would have people come up and go, "I can't believe you work for that guy,"
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"I don't care about anything else!""
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"He had cheetahs, he had leopards,"
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"and this is his private collection at his home."
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"Pretty much any way they would smuggle illegal drugs,"
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"Open up the snakes,"
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"stick bags of cocaine inside of them, stitch them back up."
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"[man] Why is it so hard to get into these places?"
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"[engine roaring]"
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"Everything's super... secure."
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"We try to make everything stupid-proof 'cause people will do stupid things."
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"Come out! And don't go for my leg."
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"Can I take it from you? Yes."
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"that they supposedly deserve, that doesn't exist anymore,"
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"People like Carole Baskin,"
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"I shouldn't have animals because I was a convicted felon."
Tiger King
"Smile, give a big smile. There you go."
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"People used to drive by his house  and scream out, "Tony Montana!""
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"and drive on."
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"I'm Tony Montana! You fuck with me,  you fucking with the best!"
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"[reporter] Mario Tabraue and his father Guillermo"
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"are accused of operating a ten-year,"
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"top-dollar family drug enterprise."
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"But not with a fat guy in a van. It was a Corvette. I did it by myself."
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"Back then, I sold drugs to maintain my animal habit."
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"Anybody interested come and get it.  Including you..."
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"Metro-Dade Organized Crime Bureau.""
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"They got me on tape."
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"seven years ago."
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"but I carry the stigma of it."
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"What am I gonna tell the feds now,  or the judge?"
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""Your Honor, I did not shoot him,"
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"and I did not use the circular saw  on his neck. It was somebody else.""
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"What difference does it make? I was still there."
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"Come here. Come here."
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"Oh, now you're gonna--"
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"Mario's always treated me with respect,"
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"and, you know, everybody's got a past."
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"[Tabraue] Since I was a child, I had an affinity for animals."
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"My mother was anti-pets."
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