Doomed Planet

#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.

#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!

#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.

#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 po...

#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...

#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!

#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...

#104: Surprise - the current President of the United States is a war criminal!

#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...

#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...

#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 school notebooks – has been monetized. So who is raking in these Cobainbuck$? And did Curt Cobain eat food?

#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 Saun...

#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...

#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.

#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.

#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

#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 Notorious Seattle Junkies: Tom Hansen Notorious Seattle Junkies: Mark Lanegan

#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 take...

#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 th...

#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 sh...

#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 Se...

#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.  

#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 billionair...

#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.

#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?