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#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 convicted of conspiracy, 33 counts of violating the Clean Water Act, and making false statements. Seattle B...

#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 ass...

#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!). 

#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. 

#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...

#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.  

#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.  

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 explore unknown underground gems like the story of Seattle cults Doomed Planet (2000) and the anti-surveilla...

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 typica...

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.

#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...

#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 boring, bad writing. It betrays a profound lack of self awareness. Being a billionaire is not a feminist...

#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 - America's Guillotine Superstore

"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 Haglund, the mother of Seattle restaurateur and king of publicity stunts Ivar Haglund.  

#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 price of crazy guy Elon Musk's Tesla has plummeted as well. The most offensive aspect of these American...

#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 happens. The title of his best selling pseudo scientific pop sociology advice book The Gift of Fear says i...

#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 Reagan worship. It's a slavish hagiography that deifies her former corporate masters and their Wall Stree...

#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 unp...

#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 ar...

#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 Diseas...

#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.

#115: Holocaust Harris exists in the context of all the genocides she has lived and all the genocides that came before her. 

#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 Reichert (Doomed Planet #109) Spacing Out with Goodspaceguy  (Doomed Planet #39)

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 trash...

The genocidal Zionist settler colonial state of Israel is failing rapidly. The genocidal Zionist-supporting settler colonial state of America is failing rapidly too.