Doomed Planet

#087: Olivia Hayle has made millions of dollars selling her formulaic billionaire romance novels on Amazon. This is her smutty story.

#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.

#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.

#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...

#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...

#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...

#081: Fake charities, Curt Cobain's bad art, Margaritaville, mass murder, Anne Heche's grisly demise, suburban lawns, beheadings, dying weekly newspapers and dive bar owning sex offenders: Our 3rd season lampooned the worst of America. The Doomed Planet Podcast: Documenting the dastardly deeds of criminals in Seattle and beyond since 2020.

#080: The Mecca Cafe was once owned by curmudgeon Dick Smith and is now run by entrepreneur and accused serial-rapist David Meinert.

#079: Stuart Elway has been practicing the dark art of polling since 1975. Elway has worked for almost every major local corporation, advancing their pro-business agendas with often misleading push polls containing deceptive questions and incorrect information. PLUS: Podcaster, writer and expert on the history of American policing Brian Platt examines a recent Elway poll about Seattle crime. "Poll...

#078: In March 2020 Seattle alt-weekly newspaper the Stranger published their last print edition. We take a look at that issue (warning: Katie Herzog alert) and also examine the paper's late 1990s golden age. ALSO: R.I.P. Seattle raconteur Tom Chamberlin, and a sneak preview of our episode about unscientific local pollster Stuart Elway.

#077: Halloween Special! An airplane's propeller killed Robert J. Scoggins Baby Eddie Bosley was beheaded by a train Thaddeus Ward lost his noggin to a sawmill Ruth Demerritt's body was found in the rain Seattle hunters noticed a head that was chopped An "Oriental" died on an execution block Ida Hartley was decapitated with a bolo knife While the neighbors screamed Seattle Mayor Gill symbolically...

#076: Why suburbs and the lawns that go with them are insane. PLUS: Caged meth babies, Uncle Grandpa reviews the Impossible Sausage, shoutouts to the Mechanical Freak podcast, J. Paul Getty's disease and an obituary for the guy who invented McMansions.

#075: Capitalism is the cause of declining frog populations and the solution is not more capitalism. According to the Syngenta corporation, manufacturer of the Kermit-killing herbicide Atrazine, it "plays a significant role in feeding the world, but it also protects the environment and critical wildlife habitats." Yeah right.

#074: We can thank capitalism for the catastrophic worldwide decline of insect populations. PLUS: Queen Elizabeth II died today after close to a century of witnessing the decline of the British Empire. Her last public appearance was with outgoing ghoul Boris Johnson and incoming vampire Liz Truss.      

#073: The most horrific Hollywood death ever.

#072: On the day Roe v. Wade is overturned our podcast goes terribly wrong after interruptions from NBC Nightly News, the Island Boys, three Seattle teenagers and some dogs.

#071: The journalist surveys the slaughter The worst in years without a doubt He pours himself a gin and water And wonders how it came about -Edward Gorey Bonus material: an original song called "I Hate Cops."

#070: American Willy Cancel was working for a private military contractor in Ukraine when he was killed by Russian forces. Court-martialed and jailed by the Marines, Cancel was most recently employed as a prison guard. He leaves behind a wife and 7-month-old son.

#069: Jimmy Buffet's resort empire just benefited from a puff piece in The New Yorker. Are "apolitical" residents of Margaritaville better than the openly Trump chuds of The Villages? And how can we trust a magazine that pumped the Iraq War, Elizabeth Holmes and Chuck Lorre, and is now cheerleading for a war with Russia? RIP: Wall Street goon Ned Johnson, GIF creator Stephen Wilhite, war criminal...

#065: We found a book that reprinted notorious Seattle junkie Curt Cobain's high school scribblings. A horror. Ghouls are selling Curt Cobain NFTs. Mark Lanegan (Doomed Planet episode #029: Notorious Seattle Junkies: Mark Lanegan) died.

#068: A sex offender and a man once falsely imprisoned for rape run an elaborate panhandling scheme in Seattle. PLUS: Washington State Trooper Robert LaMay told Governor Jay Inslee to "kiss my ass" when he resigned from the force after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Guess what life event just happened to him.

#067: Did Curt Cobain eat food? Is communist teen still a commie a year later? Did friend of the podcast and suicide victim Jeff Tilroe's brother cause the financial crisis? Was car dealer Billy Fuccillo a coke dealer? Did Herman Cain Award Winner and former Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen celebrate Christmas in Heaven? A look back at a sleazy and disease-ridden 2021.

#066: Trump supporter, anti-vaxxer and Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen died of COVID-19. In this episode we cycle through various phases of schadenfreude as we gleefully examine his short and unproductive life.

#064: A hundred years ago Halloween was an important event for Seattle goblins, ghouls and witches. We surfed old newspapers to find out more. PLUS: A creepy peek at goblin Seattle Mayoral candidate Bruce Harrell and ghoul City Council hopeful Sara Nelson. ALSO: An endorsement for possible future abolitionist City Attorney and good witch of the Northwest Nicole Thomas-Kennedy.

#063: People are dying young from drugs in the Appalachian town of Athens, Ohio. PLUS: Seattle's upcoming election pits do-nothing servant of plutocrats Bruce Harrell against sender of cherries Lorena Gonzalez in the Mayor's race. Fearless abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy is running against clueless right wing nincompoop Ann Davison to become City Attorney. Sweet times!