Okay, there is so much to unpack here, but let’s start with this: I would not trust Joe Exotic to take cheery photos of my toddler next to a tiger cub.
And yet, somehow, this is what the titular character of newest bingeable true-crime documentary series has done! For decades!!
As a career!!! Joe, the owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in rural Oklahoma, looks exactly like the type of dude you’d take specific pains to steer your children away from.
He has fake bullet holes tattooed across his chest. He carries a gun on his hip at all times, which he describes as specifically for “people,” not animals. (Excuse me?!) I will give him credit for his truly awe-inspiring bleached-blonde mullet.
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