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Obituaries for the Damned

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

Behind the Bastard: Radio Mogul Lowry L. Mays 05/06/2023

Behind the Bastard: Radio Mogul Lowry L. Mays #090: Journalist Robert Evans of the Behind the Bastards podcast probably won't ever do an episode about the late Clear Channel Communications founder Lowry L. Mays because Evans sold his podcast empire to iHeartMedia, formerly known as Clear Channel Communications. A wise man does not bite the (posthumous) hand that feeds him. In this episode I throw shade on right wing Christian Texas billionaire and radio homogenizer Lowry L. Mays while showering appreciation on controversial writer, activist and podcaster Robert Evans. Much of the iHeartMedia-sponsored left-leaning content Evans produces nowadays would make Lowry L. Mays turn over in his grave, and that is cool news. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26761533

Wall Street Predator Thomas H. Lee R.I.P. 03/20/2023

Wall Street Predator Thomas H. Lee R.I.P. #89: Private equity billionaire Thomas H. Lee is best known for buying and flipping Snapple, a sugary tea brand, and working with Wall Street ghoul Mitt Romney to acquire Dunkin Donuts. He profited from an investment in Aramark, which provides food services to prisons. Lee (was) living proof that Wall Street is predatory, parasitic and inhuman. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26275755

J.P. Morgan's Enormous Appetites 03/20/2023

J.P. Morgan's Enormous Appetites #088: Red-nosed robber baron J.P. Morgan chain smoked eight inch cigars and ate three dozen oysters every morning. PLUS: Ray Dolby made a billion bucks using his great brain (and money-loving heart) to revolutionize the music industry. Do his heirs who now control the family fortune pay their fair share in taxes? /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26275632

The Sordid World of Billionaire Romance Fiction 03/19/2023

The Sordid World of Billionaire Romance Fiction #087: Olivia Hayle has made millions of dollars selling her formulaic billionaire romance novels on Amazon. This is her smutty story. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26275425

Howard "Daddy Starbucks" Schultz 03/19/2023

Howard "Daddy Starbucks" Schultz #086: Our Bad Billionaires series continues with a peek at union-buster, misunderstander of basketball, irritating neighbor and producer of crappy coffee Howard Schultz. The great Seattle SuperSonics player Gary Payton once said that "Howard Schultz doesn’t know sh*t about basketball." Schultz also doesn’t know sh*t about being a decent human being. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26274720

Seattle Graffiti Wars 02/24/2023

Seattle Graffiti Wars #085: Special guest Graffiti Teen joins us to discuss Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's misguided, performative battle against graffiti, how African-American themed murals in the Central District are window dressing for real estate developers, the arrest of EAGER and SATN, and Banksy's pro-NATO propaganda. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/26030757

East Palestine's Toxic Mayor Trent Conaway 02/19/2023

East Palestine's Toxic Mayor Trent Conaway #084: On February 3rd a train derailed in East Palestine Ohio, catching fire and spilling hazardous chemicals. Three days later officials released vinyl chloride from the wreck in a "controlled burn." The disaster thrust Mayor Trent Conaway into the media spotlight, where he was caught between angry citizens and multiple government agencies insisting the town's water was safe to drink. In a stunt reminiscent of Obama's sip of Flint, Michigan water Conaway, Ohio EPA Director Anne Vogel, the Police Chief and Congressman Bill Johnson drank East Palestine faucet water. Conaway, a Trump supporter, is in way over his head. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/25975941

Seattle Real Estate Sleaze Clarence Hillman 01/24/2023

Seattle Real Estate Sleaze Clarence Hillman #083: The Wild World News podcast network headquarters is located dangerously close to Seattle's Hillman City neighborhood - developed by lifelong bunco artist Clarence Hillman. During his scammy life Hillman ripped off countless gullible investors in Seattle and Southern California. He briefly served time in the notorious McNeil Island Prison, but was pardoned by President Howard Taft. NOTES: We talked about McNeil Island in episode #3 - Sex Offender Island. Hillman City is adjacent to Columbia City, partially developed by another scammy bunco guy - Craig Dieffenbach, the subject of episode #30 - Seattle Scam Artist Craig Dieffenbach. Check out our new podcast: Bad Billionaires! /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/25707396

TikTok Star Waffler69 Flames Out 01/14/2023

TikTok Star Waffler69 Flames Out #82: Genial TikTok star Taylor LeJeune, who achieved fame by posting junk food consumption videos, died of a heart attack on January 11th. Taylor, known as Waffler69, lived in rural Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the USA, was obese, and had no teeth. Heart disease ran in his family. ALSO: Why fame will be fleeting for all TikTok stars, especially Cuttheactivist - a boozing comedian with a drinking problem that is no joke, and Nate Petroski - an off the grid homesteader with a $2500 espresso maker and a sponsorship from DoorDash. /episode/index/show/doomedplanet/id/25605417

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