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Obituaries for the Damned

2024 in Review: Doomed Planet's Frightening Fifth Season 12/30/2024

2024 in Review: Doomed Planet's Frightening Fifth Season #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 people in a mission to help save the human race. Prescient! Doomed Planet - Obituaries for the Damned. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/34442885

Here Comes the Memestock Presidency 11/30/2024

Here Comes the Memestock Presidency #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 recently that "What we all want, deep down, is a truth-based relationship with reality. We might not be aware that this is what we are seeking from life, but it is. And everything in our society is stacked against our ever getting it." You think reality sucks now? Just wait until next year. PLUS! Roll out the guillotines! A quick peek at Town & Country magazine, which has been poisoning the minds of the rich — and the people who wish they were rich — since 1901. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/34185445

Halloween Interview with RFK Jr. 10/31/2024

Halloween Interview with RFK Jr. #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? /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/33695132

Fentanyl Voyeurism 10/01/2024

Fentanyl Voyeurism #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. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/33272327

Killer Kamala: the Kris Kringle of Cringe 08/31/2024

Killer Kamala: the Kris Kringle of Cringe #115: Holocaust Harris exists in the context of all the genocides she has lived and all the genocides that came before her. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/32816162

Goodspaceguy Shoots for the Moon 07/30/2024

Goodspaceguy Shoots for the Moon #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) /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/32343272

Beer Violence! Product Placement in Road House 2024 06/23/2024

Beer Violence! Product Placement in Road House 2024 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 provides the perfect vehicle for advertising alcoholic beverages to underage future consumers. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/31850782

The Israel Experiment is Ending 05/31/2024

The Israel Experiment is Ending The genocidal Zionist settler colonial state of Israel is failing rapidly. The genocidal Zionist-supporting settler colonial state of America is failing rapidly too. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/31542592

Infamous Ithaca College Weirdos 04/30/2024

Infamous Ithaca College Weirdos #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. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/31044853

Zapped! 03/24/2024

Zapped! #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! /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/30520218

Doctor of Death Dave Reichert 02/29/2024

Doctor of Death Dave Reichert #109: The person who spent 20 years not catching the Green River Killer is running for Governor of Washington State. Dave Reichert will lose - further burnishing his legacy as an incompetent cop and ridiculous right wing blowhard. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/30087438

Surveillance Pornography: The Horrors of Pornhub 01/29/2024

Surveillance Pornography: The Horrors of Pornhub #108: What is Pornhub doing with our information, and what are we doing with their information? The truth will shock you and make you feel gross - like you just crawled out of a septic tank. From the days of Playboy to our current era of phone porn, the host of Doomed Planet has seen it all in real time, a unique qualification for leading this dark journey into Pornhub - one of the world's most popular websites. PLUS: Seattle food Porn! Microsoft jillionaire Nathan Myhrvold's obsession with cookbooks for the rich, and a restaurant that serves organ meat to customers willing to pay $200 to sit in a tiny room facing a wall. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/29669123

America's Most Wanted: America's Least Wanted TV Show 01/25/2024

America's Most Wanted: America's Least Wanted TV Show #107: A rebooted America's Most Wanted features original tough guy host John Walsh and his son, wearing matching leather jackets. The first episode opened with the story of the murder of Adam Walsh, of course. We allege that the case is unsolved and that John Walsh is still a suspect. Kidnap/rape victim and child safety activist Elizabeth Smart was trotted out. Actors pretended to work the phones in the background. PLUS: Fox-TV copaganda minister Stephen Chao helped create America's Most Wanted and Cops - where is he now? In hell? AND: The origin story behind the Nirvana t-shirt with the smiley face logo that has taken TikTok by storm. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/29637403

2023 in Review: Doomed Planet's Foul 4th Season 12/24/2023

2023 in Review: Doomed Planet's Foul 4th Season #106: A year of toxic train disasters, graffiti wars, billionaire romance fiction, Danny Bonaduce's retirement, the premiere of cult film Fantasy A Gets a Mattress, the last KISS concert, phallic clams, Seattle restaurant wage and tip theft, Instacart's Satanic IPO and the debut of Genocide Joe. Yuk! /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/29159458

A Bloody Generation X Thanksgiving 11/23/2023

A Bloody Generation X Thanksgiving #105: My lesbian friends and their degenerate black criminal associate arrived at my junk food feast. Then the bible-thrasher neighbor kid said a prayer thanking the aboriginals for dying of European diseases in great numbers before the settler-colonials from that part of the world were able to slaughter them, saving money on bullets and concentration camp construction costs. Parents in 1973 were giving their kids copious amounts of LSD - the only explanation for how I thought a beagle and a tiny wild animal could cook toast on Thanksgiving. Luckily, most suburban families back then owned nine toasters. I'd learn later that the dog and the bird had captured the bird's mother that day, killed her and then devoured her raw mutilated corpse. They fought viciously over her last remaining bone, then devoured a pumpkin pie flavored with her blood. This is Doomed Planet's contribution to Mechanical Freak's 5th Annual Thanksgiving Pageant Spectacular. Listen here: --- Doomed Planet /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/28709783

Say Hello to Genocide Joe 10/29/2023

Say Hello to Genocide Joe #104: Surprise - the current President of the United States is a war criminal! /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27895455

The High Times and Short Life of Thomas King Forcade 09/15/2023

The High Times and Short Life of Thomas King Forcade #103: Uncle Grandpa joins us to talk about Agents of Chaos - Sean Howe's great new biography of drug dealer, raconteur and High Times publisher Thomas King Forcade. Forcade was involved with many happening scenes: underground publishing, drug smuggling, the yippie movement, hippie capitalism, punk rock and, of course, High Times magazine, which was a culmination of all of those things, especially the drug smuggling. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27895434

Instacart's I.P.O. Disaster 09/13/2023

Instacart's I.P.O. Disaster #102: Gig economy food delivery startup Instacart has finally filed for an initial public offering. Sales peaked during the pandemic and are now flat, with little realistic growth on the horizon. An exploitative business model continues to harm the company's image and alienate employees. Formidable competitors have emerged, and relationships with supermarket corporations are tenuous. The founders and their venture capitalist sponsors will cash out, but not at the levels they dreamed of even a year ago. The Instacart I.P.O. will be a disaster for the drivers too - they get nothing. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27987546

Did Curt Cobain Eat Food? 09/02/2023

Did Curt Cobain Eat Food? #059: Seattle rock god Curt Cobain lived on strawberry milk, candy and cigarettes for years. Plus heroin. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/19544426

Better to Burn Out: Dead Seattle Rock Stars 08/31/2023

Better to Burn Out: Dead Seattle Rock Stars #101: Seattle rock musicians who didn't live to see old age include the fabulous four - Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Layne Staley and Chris Cornell. We also pay tribute to lesser-known artists Andrew Wood, Stefanie Sargent, Mia Zapata, El Duce, Michael Dahlquist, Mike Starr, Mark Lanegan, Van Conner and Tom Hansen. PLUS: Honorable (not from Seattle) mentions to Kristen Pfaff, Shannon Hoon, John Saunders and Scott Weiland. SEE ALSO: #098: #065: #059: #045: #058: #025: #029: This episode is dedicated to writer and musician Tom Hansen. (September 22, 1961 August 24, 2023) #024: /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27895152

The Seattle Restaurant Wage and Tip Theft Hall of Fame 08/22/2023

The Seattle Restaurant Wage and Tip Theft Hall of Fame #100: Cheating workers from their pay is a common practice at restaurants. In Seattle, a new law has helped lawyers win big settlements for wage and tip theft victims. A mom and pop business engaged in this sort of fraud will probably not get sued, but if your food empire gets too big get ready. Canlis, Tom Douglas, Red Robin, Zeeks Pizza, Lowell's, Great State Burger and Pagliacci have all found out. Who is gonna be next? PLUS: A teen was hit and killed by the Seattle monorail while doing graffiti, which brought the trolls out from the wormwood. Greg & Brian from Mechanical Freak join us to ask "who is this hateful annoying voice saying awful things about a dead kid? Local right wing crank Ari Hoffman, of course!" R.I.P. ANOM https://youtu.be/14LO6KpUqDw Mechanical Freak https://mechanicalfreak.website/ /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27776475

Evicted In Seattle! 08/01/2023

Evicted In Seattle! #099: Jane was bad with money, had a partner behind on child support and had substance abuse issues. Her downward spiral through our predatory financial system ended with a stay in rehab that her insurance didn't fully cover - putting her deeper in the hole. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27589083

Visiting Jimi Hendrix at Greenwood Memorial Park 07/28/2023

Visiting Jimi Hendrix at Greenwood Memorial Park #098: We tour a cemetery and see rabbits, gated communities for the deceased and a lavish monument to Seattle guitarist Jimi Hendrix. PLUS: Mulletsploitation films American Movie, The Dancing Outlaw, Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Demon Lover Diary. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27589011

Graffiti-Ravaged Seattle Has Burnt to the Ground: The Fantasy A Story 07/02/2023

Graffiti-Ravaged Seattle Has Burnt to the Ground: The Fantasy A Story #097: Fantasy A Gets a Mattress is a charming guerrilla horror comedy that, like any great art, creates an oddball mood. This celebration of postering and graffiti set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle dreamscape populated with endearing social outcasts is a triumph of no budget filmmaking. More info about FAGAM: https://www.drcleanproductions.com/graffiti /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27345906

Notorious Seattle Boozers: Duff McKagan 06/22/2023

Notorious Seattle Boozers: Duff McKagan #096: Friend of the pod Elaine joins us to discuss the lies in tough on crime rich guy rock star Duff McKagan's autobiography It's So Easy and Other Lies. Has the world finally had enough of Duff? Find out as we dish out the Duff love. See also: /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27241119

Even Bums Get Hungry - The Chauncey Wright Story 06/18/2023

Even Bums Get Hungry - The Chauncey Wright Story #095: Chauncey Wright turned his Klondike gold rush grub stake into a profitable Seattle restaurant empire despite being known to never deny a broke, hungry man a free meal. He pioneered the eight hour restaurant shift and paid his staff the same rate as they had been earning for a ten hour day. He died young, his widow Annie married a drunkard, and the Chauncey Wright Restaurants Company was taken over by Hazen J. Titus - a marketing guy from the Northern Pacific Railroad who promoted giant baked potatoes and Wright-branded fruitcakes. Annie continued to maintain the Wright restaurant in the Smith Tower - at the time the tallest building West of the Mississippi and the tallest building on the West Coast until the space Needle was completed in 1962. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27188343

Giant Phallic Clam Worship: The Gooey Duck Song 06/13/2023

Giant Phallic Clam Worship: The Gooey Duck Song #094: The Gooey Duck Song was a regional hit inspired by the geoduck, a giant mollusk named by aboriginals for it's phallic appearance. ALSO: Evergreen college claimed the geoduck as it's mascot in 1971. The Gooey Duck song became a standard campfire ditty for Washington State summer camp kids. Koch brothers lackey Mike Rowe defiled a geoduck corpse on his reality TV show. PLUS: Obituaries for the damned! We asked Chat GPT to write farewell songs for Berlusconi, Watt and the Unabomber. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27132543

Kiss and Tell: Rock Groupie Carrie Stevens 06/08/2023

Kiss and Tell: Rock Groupie Carrie Stevens #093: Model and actor Carrie Stevens writes about her long-term open relationship with Kiss drummer Eric Carr in Unrated: Revelations of a Rock 'n' Roll Centerfold. This unabashed autobiography fits squarely in the "rock groupie with a poor understanding of feminism" genre. If you're a really good-looking but not talented young person looking to leave small town America for a career in big city showbiz read this book first before making any decisions. Some of her sage advice: Don't drop out of school, don't join a harem and don't pose for Playboy. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/27085491

Movie-ocrity: the Pretty, Dumb Films of the Pacific Northwest 05/29/2023

Movie-ocrity: the Pretty, Dumb Films of the Pacific Northwest #092: A dive into Filmlandia! - David Schmader's hilarious guide to Pacific Northwest movies, including Class of 1999 (1990) - about a violent Seattle high school staffed by cyborgs, and horse bestiality art film Zoo (2007). Richard Pryor's "star-packed garbage picture" Bustin' Loose (1981) was shot in Washington State. War Games (1983) is about "a teenage computer whiz presciently located in a Seattle suburb." John Wayne played a "hippie-stomping" Seattle cop in McQ (1974). If you fetishize Pacific Northwest movies you'll go hard for Filmlandia! /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26974749

Sam Zell's Highway to Hades 05/21/2023

Sam Zell's Highway to Hades #091: Billionaire owner of trailer parks and destroyer of newspaper worlds Sam "the grave dancer" Zell has taken his last ride. PLUS: Podcast shoutout to Ironweeds out of Troy, New York. One of the hosts is the author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. ALSO: Anti-abortion goblin Mark Gietzen lost his right to life in a plane crash. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26902575

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