Movie-ocrity: the Pretty, Dumb Films of the Pacific Northwest
Release Date: 05/29/2023
2024 in Review: Doomed Planet's Frightening Fifth Season
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#119: A celebration of the great and not so great people that left us last year. The lovely thing about obituaries is that they are a joyous remembrance for those that made the world a better place. Obituaries fill us with even more joy by reminding us that people who were evil can no longer inflict pain and suffering upon humanity. PLUS: A look back at Doomed Planet season 5, where we tackled unpleasant subjects such as the America's Most Wanted reboot, PornHub, the new Road House movie, Kamala's crusade of cringe, fentanyl voyeurism and Zapped - a story about aliens who assassinate bad...
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Here Comes the Memestock Presidency
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#118: Those who expected genocide supporting cop Kamala Harris to win the presidency are now unburdened by the November that has been. The memestock presidency of genocide cheerleader Donald Trump and his crypto-fascist crypto enthusiast sidekick Elon Musk begins on January 20. Kamala Harris voters chose to put their blinders on and ignore the horrors of the Biden/Harris presidency and now they are sad. The billionaires that run things will now ramp up their avaricious pillaging. The dying American empire has become a chaotic torrent of speculation, fraud and genocide. Caitlin Johnstone said...
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Halloween Interview with RFK Jr.
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#117: Doomed Planet host Alex chats with his old prep school buddy Robert F. Kennedy Junior. A ghoulish journey through RFK's life as a druggie, environmentalist, anti-vaxxer and animal carcass fetishist. When Trump wins next week RFK Jr. (according to RFK Jr.) will take control of both the Agriculture Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. What could go wrong?
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Fentanyl Voyeurism
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#116: Alex takes a walk through fentanyl hell and talks with some people holding crack pipes and torches. Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood is experiencing unprecedented drug activity - great fodder for right wing media pundits and politicians who are quick to blame but have no solutions. Meanwhile, local residents go on with their day.
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Killer Kamala: the Kris Kringle of Cringe
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#115: Holocaust Harris exists in the context of all the genocides she has lived and all the genocides that came before her.
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Goodspaceguy Shoots for the Moon
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#114: Tough on crime! Ruff on fentanyl! A freaky look at the right wing liars, kooks and weirdos running for office in Washington State. PLUS: Our exclusive interview with Senate candidate Goodspaceguy! Cut from one hour to ten minutes because he is ridiculous. See also:(Doomed Planet #109) (Doomed Planet #39)
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Beer Violence! Product Placement in Road House 2024
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Viewers of the Amazon MGM Studios remake of Road House are bombarded with images of beer brands including Blue Moon, Coors, Hamm's, Hop Valley, Miller and Pilsner Urquell - all owned by conglomerate Molson Coors. We have a gay old time reminiscing about the original Road House (1989) starring Patrick Swayze before examining the product placement strategies of Molson Coors. Road House 2024 is trashy, brilliant schlock with great acting, a silly story and countless scenes of brutal violence. Jake Gyllenhaal as a charming muscle-bound meathead punching his way through a beer intensive scenario...
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The Israel Experiment is Ending
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The genocidal Zionist settler colonial state of Israel is failing rapidly. The genocidal Zionist-supporting settler colonial state of America is failing rapidly too.
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Infamous Ithaca College Weirdos
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#111: Alum and ad agency psychopath Jason DeLand will give the commencement address at Ithaca College next month, but did you know people even more famous than him also went to the school? Rod Serling taught there and ABC News hair farmer David Muir is an alum. The coolest guy to ever walk the halls of Ithaca College was, of course, Gavin MacLeod - captain of the Love Boat.
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Zapped!
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#110: Friend of the pod Elaine joins us to talk about Zapped! - the wild new (yet to be written) science fiction movie about space aliens that murder people they consider to be bad for the future of the human race. Politicians, abusers, polluters, corporate criminals ... they all get ZAPPED!
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If you fetishize Pacific Northwest movies you'll go hard for Filmlandia!