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Clips from Tiger King - Playing with Fire (S01E01)

"She wanted everything in assets."
Tiger King
"From vehicles to four-wheelers to... everything."
Tiger King
"She can take everything away from me."
Tiger King
"Joe, he turned over what he had to."
Tiger King
"'Cause a lot of it was possessions."
Tiger King
"She took the semitruck, and she took the tour bus,"
Tiger King
"because he couldn't do road shows anymore, not without the equipment."
Tiger King
"He had already spent a quarter million dollars fighting her."
Tiger King
"Carole had him by the balls, and he hated her."
Tiger King
"Did I hear you say you wanted my fucking watch?"
Tiger King
"[explosion]"
Tiger King
"[Reinke] He'd say, "Here's your assets, come get 'em,""
Tiger King
"He never stopped antagonizing her."
Tiger King
"All I did constantly was:"
Tiger King
"to get all that shit on tape."
Tiger King
"We were negotiating with a network..."
Tiger King
"'Cause it's the only way  he was gonna pay that million dollars."
Tiger King
"[man] Oh, shit."
Tiger King
"[Cowie] Yeah, I got woked up  at six o'clock in the morning."
Tiger King
"The blast was so big that it blew the doors open."
Tiger King
"Joe had gone to Chicago for a funeral,"
Tiger King
"and it was me and Reinke on the park with the other crew,"
Tiger King
"I want it looked at.""
Tiger King
"[Kirkham] It had burned so hot,"
Tiger King
"there was nothing left."
Tiger King
"and I hadn't backed up anything outside the studio."
Tiger King
"and set fire to not only my recording studio,"
Tiger King
"but the studio that houses our alligators,"
Tiger King
"which caused them all to burn up and perish,"
Tiger King
"boiling alive in a--"
Tiger King
"[Finlay] For somebody to burn down an alligator house,"
Tiger King
"they gotta be a pretty sick person."
Tiger King
"take it up with me, like a man."
Tiger King
"We're not really liked by the animal world, you know,"
Tiger King
"animal rights people hate us."
Tiger King
"We get constant threats on the phone, e-mails, letters."
Tiger King
"We're offering a 10,000-dollar reward"
Tiger King
"If it is tied to any animal rights organization,"
Tiger King
"we are going to double that reward."
Tiger King
"the first time, to make you squirm around on the ground."
Tiger King
"[Joe] To get all the footage and set fire to my studio."
Tiger King
"I had sent Rick Kirkham a Facebook message and I said,"
Tiger King
"but we never made him any kind of offer"
Tiger King
"I got him on videotape."
Tiger King
"I was like, "Are you out of your fucking mind?""
Tiger King
"It was like, "That's my retirement that just burned, okay?"
Tiger King
"I got everything invested in that project that no longer exists.""
Tiger King
"As far as the footage, I don't know who's got it."
Tiger King
"I suspected Kirkham of taking all of his material."
Tiger King
"because I was shooting everything in his personal life..."
Tiger King
"[Joe] There was all kinds of shit on there."
Tiger King
"We had cameras"
Tiger King
"just saving it for a rainy day."
Tiger King
"A scenario was thrown at me:"
Tiger King
"Because when that happened..."
Tiger King
"Nobody would have ever suspected him"
Tiger King
"of calling to have it burned down."
Tiger King
"Follow me. Don't ever put that camera down in there."
Tiger King
"A week before the studio burned to the ground,"
Tiger King
"I can go on.""
Tiger King
"And I pulled out our contract."
Tiger King
"I own all of your Internet footage"
Tiger King
"from the time I came here that I produced.""
Tiger King
"[Joe] My producers are filming a reality show."
Tiger King
"[lawyer] So they want to do a show related to your park up there?"
Tiger King
"[Joe] They actually got it filmed."
Tiger King
"-[lawyer] Do they? -[Joe] Mm-hmm."
Tiger King
"[lawyer] And how are you protecting that?"
Tiger King
"[Joe] What do you mean?"
Tiger King
"[lawyer] Well, if they've got it filmed, what do they need you for?"
Tiger King
"He was like, "You don't own me!""
Tiger King
"-[lawyer] Where is the film? -[Joe] In my recording studio."
Tiger King
"Do you see what I'm saying, Joe? -[Joe] I hear you."
Tiger King
"-Just pisses me off, dude. -[camera operator] I know."
Tiger King
"I'll find somebody that needs ten grand."
Tiger King
"[engine starts]"
Tiger King
"[Kirkham] After the studio burned, whether he destroyed it or not,"
Tiger King
"And he said, "Yeah, might as well go on home.""
Tiger King
"I left everything I owned, and I drove, and I left and went back to Dallas."
Tiger King
"I had a complete nervous breakdown."
Tiger King
""If you step foot on the park again,  we'll have you arrested for trespassing.""
Tiger King
"[Rhodes] This fire happened at about the time"
Tiger King
"were going to be under subpoena."
Tiger King
"And that was some hard drives and... and some videotape"
Tiger King
"and thing like that, and that might have been a motivation"
Tiger King
"to maybe destroy some evidence."
Tiger King
"but let me tell you, they've awoken a monster."
Tiger King
"Be sure and get online"
Tiger King
"and help us rebuild the voice of you, the people,"
Tiger King
"to bring Joe Exotic TV back to the air."
Tiger King
"Was it for..."
Tiger King
"the attention?"
Tiger King
"Oh, yeah."
Tiger King
"I only charged him $8,000"
Tiger King
"to rebuild that $120,000 building."
Tiger King
"[Goode] You didn't make any money."
Tiger King
"[Joe] Five months ago,"
Tiger King
"an arsonist poured enough accelerant in there"
Tiger King
"to where it completely exploded the building"
Tiger King
"who don't even know us that dug deep in their pockets"
Tiger King
"We're gonna expose the lies, the corruption, and we are..."
Tiger King
"that held information that we were seeking."
Tiger King
"I suspect that Joe was responsible"
Tiger King
"but I have no firsthand knowledge, and I can't prove it."
Tiger King
"[Goode] How much has this cost you, this lawsuit between you and Joe?"
Tiger King
"We've spent over a million dollars in legal fees."
Tiger King
"You'd say this is not economic,"
Tiger King
"And we're not going to allow him to abuse the system"
Tiger King
"and wear us out and cause us to go away and succeed at that."
Tiger King
"[Corkill] You know, if you've got the money..."
Tiger King
"I don't know if she wants the facility, or if she wants the facility shut down."
Tiger King
"But any way you look at it, she wants to take over the zoo."
Tiger King
"[tiger huffs]"
Tiger King
"[Finlay] When Joe pretty much maxed out all the credit cards"
Tiger King
"is when he asked me if I wanted to put the zoo into my name,"
Tiger King
"and at the time, it sounded like a good idea."
Tiger King
"[Joe] I'm John Finlay, and I'm president of the G.W. Zoo."
Tiger King
"Three, two, one."
Tiger King
"They've done so many transfers and quick claim deeds, you can't--"
Tiger King
"If you just say the last name Schreibvogel,"
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