During the early days of stay-at-home orders, a documentary took over all the conversations entitled The Tiger King. In this episode we try to figure out the actual reason why so many flocked to it.
00:05:45 — A quick discussion of Joe Hill's book Heart Shaped Box
00:10:45 — Finishing up Lord of the Flies on audio book and really thinking about the darker side of our human nature. Cody doesn't think that the part most people talk about (Piggy's death) is even the worst part of the story.
00:14:00 — How the theme within Lord of the Flies is scarily related to things going on in the world today.
00:15:10 — Community question of the week and discussion. Why is it that covers are so common in music and remakes in films? Why does this not happen as frequently in literature? We have a discussion of the works we would like to see jump genres.
00:30:00 — Speculation on how Ray Bradbury and George Orwell would interact with social media.
00:31:30 — Discussion on the Tiger King Begins.
00:32:40 — The film that the team set out to make isn't necessarily what was made. The exotic things that happen throughout the show is more interesting than the original pitch was.
00:34:11 — From the beginning it seems that the documentary crew was on the side of Carol Baskin, but then the story started to get a little different.
00:39:00 — The Tiger King's success and people's draw to it, is definitely due to the fact that the team making the documentary understands storytelling.
00:43:00 — Once the show started, it had a magnetic and addictive draw to it. Just like reality TV.
0047:40 — The way that the story panned out made it feel like fiction... but it wasn't
00:52:00 — Examining what it is that draws us in to reality TV. The Tiger King seems a lot more like a reality TV show rather than a legitimate documentary.
00:57:00 — If you are interested in understanding the point of the documentary, but don't want to watch all 6 episodes, the whole documentary and its purpose can be found in episode 1 and episode 6.
01:03:00 — Nobody that the documentary focused on could really be considered a very good person.