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Doomed Planet
by Wild World News Network
Obituaries for the Damned
Episodes
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Down on the Slopside: How AI is Poisoning the Legacy of Grunge
#137: "KIM THAYILL - The creative journey of a guitare legend who redefined alternative rock" might seem like a legitimate book to those who don't recognize typos or the image of "Kim" that looks nothing like him. The cover art of this fake slop also shows that one of "Kim's" hands has a pinkie...
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Over a Barrel: Seattle's Toxic Sanft Family
#136: Louie Sanft's Seattle Barrel Company has a long history of environmental violations. In 2019 they were busted for a ten year scheme that illegally diverted caustic waste into Seattle's sewer system using a hidden drain. After a jury trial in Federal court, Sanft and Seattle Barrel were...
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Notorious Seattle Junkies: Ginny Burton
#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…
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100 Seattle Psychopaths
#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,...
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Bald King of Rock Star Podcasts Billy Corgan
#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...
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Not Dead: Survivors of Seattle's Music Scene
#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...
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Horsey Sex - A Seattle Cartoonist's Bestial Erotic Novel
#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
#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...
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Communist Teen Ain't a Teen No More
Communist Teen (you may remember them from episode #56) 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…
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Halloween Hootennany 2025
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…
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The Summer of Death 2025
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
#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…
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Fake Feminist Melinda French Gates
#125: In her new book, billionaire heiress Melinda Gates tries to present herself as a good human being with an interesting life and the same challenges normal people face. The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward is a banal self-indulgent brag rag crammed with cliches and soured by...
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Off With Their Heads: The Forbes 2025 Billionaires List
#124: Proud to announce that the Doomed Planet podcast has a new sponsor: Chop Mart! Earth burns while Billionaires earn We're living in tents Fuck the government Society's deranged Time for radical change Sharpen the blades We're going to Hades It's guillotine time! Get in line! Chop Mart -...
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The Serial Killer who Murdered Ivar Haglund's Mom
"Sadistic and greedy quack" Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard starved people to death at her makeshift sanatorium, called "Starvation Heights" by the locals. Hazzard's nonsensical, dangerously misguided book Fasting for the Cure of Disease (1908) was a best seller. Among her victims was Daisey Maud...
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Electric Car Boogaloo: Lucid's Saudi Sponsored Scheme
#122: Saudi-financed Lucid Motors is losing the race when it comes to providing electric cars for rich people. Lucid's former CEO received a 379 million dollar pay package and then resigned, and the stock tanked. Amazon-backed Rival car producer Rivian's stock is also doing poorly, and the share...
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My Bodyguard: Security Goon Gavin de Becker
#121: Security consultant to the stars Gavin de Becker provides protection for cartoonish billionaire supervillains Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and contributed millions to Robert F. Kennedy. He claims that his secretive MOSAIC threat assessment surveillance system can predict violence before it...
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Sleazy Wealth Worship: Reagan Era Magazine Editor Tina Brown
#120: British social climber Tina Brown spent the 1980s in New York City thriving in a decadent world of crass rich people so repulsive that they would make today's gilded age plutocrats blush. Her book The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) is a horror show of celebrity worship, Kissinger worship and...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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....
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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.
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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: Doctor of Death Dave...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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…
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Say Hello to Genocide Joe
#104: Surprise - the current President of the United States is a war criminal!
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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…
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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.…
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Did Curt Cobain Eat Food?
#059: Seattle rock god Curt Cobain lived on strawberry milk, candy and cigarettes for years. Plus heroin. Owners of Cobain-related intellectual property turned his legacy into a lucrative industry. Everything Curt Cobain produced – from million-selling records to juvenalia scribbled in high…
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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…
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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: Notorious Seattle Boozers: Erica C. Barnett…
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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.…
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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Obituaries for the Damned
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