Notorious Seattle Junkies: Ginny Burton
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#135: Ginny Burton's mother gave her marijuana when she was 7 and soon after she was abusing meth and crack. After a lifetime of addiction and incarceration Ginny got clean, got a degree and is now a darling of right wing media. Like unsavory local characters Kevin Dahlgren and Andrea Suarez, Ginny Burton creates online engagement by filming homeless people during their lowest moments. Ginny's associate and fellow ex-con Alex Peder runs Corrio, a player in the exploitative for-profit prison telecommunications industry. Ginny's kooky pro-cop story of recovery and its "pull yourself up by your...
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100 Seattle Psychopaths
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#131: A dredge through the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Seattle’s Power 100.” Former real estate mogul Martin Selig (he developed Columbia Center - Seattle’s tallest building, and once owned much of Belltown’s commercial office space) is off the list. Also no longer on the list is Jeff Bezos, who f*cked off to Miami (party on, bro!).
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Bald King of Rock Star Podcasts Billy Corgan
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#134: PODCAST SHOUTOUT: 90s Alt-Rock superstar Billy Corgan has a new podcast called The Magnificent Others. Billy has pulled an impressive list of A and Z-list guests from the creative asylum known as the music industry to come on his show, including Nancy Wilson of Heart, guitar shred-god Steve Vai and wealthy widow Courtney Love.
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Not Dead: Survivors of Seattle's Music Scene
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#133: Daniel House's new podcast, The Creative Asylum, has an impressive lineup of guests from the glory days of the Seattle music scene. House was in 80s grunge band Skin Yard and went on to run C/Z Records. The bands that claim that C/Z shortchanged them on royalties have yet to be interviewed for his pod, but an outstanding lineup of magnificent others have appeared to dish some dirt, including documentary filmmaker Doug Pray, grunge historian Adam Tepedelen, alleged sex pest Ken Stringfellow and original Nirvana drummer Chad Channing.
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Horsey Sex - A Seattle Cartoonist's Bestial Erotic Novel
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#132: Seattle editorial cartoonist David Horsey's baby boomer centrism has long been the subject of ridicule. He's published a novel, which makes him fair game for podcasts that review ridiculous books.
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Seattle's Racist Salmon Gutting Machine
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#130: The Iron Chink revolutionized the salmon canning industry. It increased cannery profits by throwing thousands of hard working Asian immigrants out of work. The machine made inventor Edmund A. Smith rich. Smith would not live to enjoy his wealth. He perished in a fiery car accident while on his way to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
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Communist Teen Ain't a Teen No More
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Communist Teen (you may remember them from ) is back! And they ain't no teen no more, but they are still Communist to the bone. Join us as we discuss classics of modern cinema like Return of the Living Dead, Flushed Away and Elmo in Grouchland. We also go down the rabbit hole to explore unknown underground gems like the story of Seattle cults (2000) and the anti-surveillance epic (2003). Want hope for the future of humanity? Know that every elderly conservative that dies is more than likely gonna be replaced by someone like Communist Teen.
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Halloween Hootennany 2025
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A frightening, prurient peek into some books that will scare the hell out of you. The Darkening Age - The Christian Destruction of the Classical World reveals that intolerance, cruelty, vandalism and tax evasion have been a foundation of the Christianity cult since the beginning. Dancing with Death - The True Story of a Glamorous Showgirl, Her Wealthy Husband, and a Horrifying Murder is the typical tale of a mentally ill stripper who got greedy and careless. In No Regrets KISS guitarist Ace Frehley (April 27, 1951 - October 16, 2025) dishes out one rock star cliche after another. The women....
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The Summer of Death 2025
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OBITUARIES FOR THE DAMNED #127: A recap of who died this Summer from Doomed Planet Podcast host Alex R. Mayer. The beloved entertainer Ozzy Osbourne had a glorious sendout, as did media personality Charlie Kirk. Countless victims of America's support for war and genocide also perished, obviously.
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The Bezos Sanchez Wedding Catastrophe
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#126: As the USA begins bombing Iran billionaire Jeff Bezos is set to marry his surgically enhanced girlfriend Lauren Sanchez in a ceremony featuring helicopters, yachts, celebrities and mounds of pure uncut Peruvian cocaine. What could go wrong? One scenario: Jeff is beheaded by a helicopter blade and when Lauren tries to reach for him she accidentally knocks his head into the ocean, where it is devoured by sharks.
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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?