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The ‘Tiger King’ Informant Was My Coworker at Petco

A pet store-y about animals, friendship, and pot brownies

April Swartz
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readApr 14, 2020

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A promo still from Tiger King showing Joe Exotic with a tiger.
Photo courtesy of Netflix.

Feast your eyes upon the inexplicably idolized, habitually repulsive Joseph Maldonado-Passage, street name (yes, like a hard drug) “Joe Exotic.” He’s the one in Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness with whiskers…

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April Swartz
Human Parts

Austin, TX-based writer, wardrobe stylist, costumer, and designer for television and film.