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Clips from Tiger King - Cult of Personality (S01E01)

"So when I got out of my house, the first thing I did was"
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"It was like, I'm gonna-- It's like you can't eat chocolate, but now you can."
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"Then, I got a tiger from a lady that had it in a houseboat illegally."
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"Here! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up!"
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"Those are my four girls."
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"Yeah, I have pictures of it too."
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"There's your Doc Antle, look."
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"He would bring the tiger in the parking lot or inside the business."
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"-[man] Damn, look at his mustache. -He looked like Yanni."
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"That's Doc Antle in my office."
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"We have 28 species of primates."
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"Right now this is the only one I have, but at times,"
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"Like, every occasion."
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"Let's say Easter. See, this is the boys."
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"[laughs]"
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"-[woman] What kinda doctor is he? -Mystical science."
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"[man] Who's that?"
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"One of his wives."
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"[man] One of his wives? Oh, I like that answer."
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"-[laughter] -He's very eccentric. Like--"
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"[woman] How many wives does he have?"
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"-I would say that he has three. -[woman] He has three wives?"
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"[man 1] Doctor Antle, he has four or five wives."
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"Well, he has three or four girlfriends."
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"He has, like, nine wives."
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"[man] How many wives does Doc Antle have?"
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"I don't fucking care."
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"[Antle] Operating the T.I.G.E.R.S. preserve here"
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"takes place by  a great, big, cohesive family unit."
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"live on the preserve,"
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"many of whom have stayed on for decades themselves."
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"[Antle] This is my longtime girlfriend-partner, China,"
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"the blonde lady running the stuff here."
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"she came and lived with me,  has been staying there ever since."
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"Moksha, the pretty blonde with the big teeth"
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"and the bright, big smile,"
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"and my Italian partner there."
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"She lives in that house. And then Moksha is on the front,"
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"Every day, you're really gonna care for the animals first,"
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"and the ladies of my life."
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"Everybody's jealous."
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"[man] Do you live in the house with others?"
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"[Antle] You can't get into my complex lifestyle."
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"I worked there from 1999 until I left in 2007."
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"When I read what it was like there,"
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"it sounded like a utopia."
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"And I stumbled upon the T.I.G.E.R.S. website,"
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"and how they used, like, principles of yoga to train animals."
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"Perfect, you know?"
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"I'm gonna go be a... yoga animal trainer."
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"That sounds great."
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"I packed up everything, I sold my car,"
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"This is me when I first got there."
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"My dad left."
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"Because back then he was, like,"
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"[man] Why do you choose to call him Bhagavan, is that how everyone--"
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""Lord." It means "lord.""
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"What does the name Bhagavan mean?"
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"Bhagavan means that you're a friend of God."
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"[man 1] The Bhagavan is the master of the universe."
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"[man 2] And your dad is that guy?"
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"For-- Certainly in his universe he definitely is that character,"
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"magical place where incredible things happen"
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"and where everything is neutral and happy and going well."
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"You know, we lived in these terrible horse stalls, basically."
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"I mean... everywhere."
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"I mean, it was just-- That's the way it was."
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"Doc says, "You're this garbage person,"
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"they should sleep with him."
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"[Antle speaking indistinctly]"
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"They were virgins or close to virgins."
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"He would become that... sex partner for them,"
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"the first, and then they would be bonded to him"
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"in this way, where he felt like he could get them to do anything."
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"According to them, it was like his Shaktipat."
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"Shaktipat with penis."
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"Well, I guess, I don't know."
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"His touch brings them up to his level of enlightenment."
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"[Joe] Doc Antle is like..."
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"my mentor..."
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"in the animal industry."
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"[chuckles]"
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"Are we running a competition? I don't think so."
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"♪ You were my first love The one that's gonna last ♪"
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"as far as husbands go."
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"And then there's Travis."
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"Travis is another musclebound skateboarding guy."
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"[Joe] Tell me more about your feet!"
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"[both laughing]"
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"My feet? My feet? Size 16."
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"[Joe] He arrived and, my god, it was this 6'6"..."
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"dark-complected gentleman"
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"Joe immediately is, like,  love-struck by this."
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"So we're taking the trash trailer down one day. John's driving the truck."
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"Me, Joe, and Travis are in the back of the trailer."
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"And, uh, Joe says..."
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""How straight are you?""
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"And he goes, "Pretty straight.""
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"And I said, "You watch porn?""
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"I said, "Well, do you enjoy..."
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"[laughs]"
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"[Finlay] It wasn't weird to share Joe with another guy because..."
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"Joe had tried for many years to bring other people in,"
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"Travis could be in a relationship with us too, and..."
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"I wasn't--"
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"but even by modern standards, this is an unusual wedding."
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"[Maldonado] I haven't had much of a life before this,"
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"I think what's going on around here is great."
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"[Howard] People like Joe have an amazing grip over people,"
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"generating an affection and a devotion"
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"to build a lot of relationships"
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"into... labor camps."
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"It's what you're gonna wake up doing, it's what you're gonna go to sleep doing,"
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"waiting for you to deliver their next meal."
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"-8:00 a.m. to midnight. Yeah. -You're working every day."
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"that they're getting to do something they like,"
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"and it's not a job, it's a lifestyle they have dove into."
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"We worked so hard..."
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"-for so long. -[man] How much did people get paid?"
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"A hundred dollars a week."
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