Doomed Planet

#035: A review of Erica C. Barnett's somewhat dishonest but definitely squalid contribution to the addiction recovery genre: Quitter. Erica doesn't name names so we do it for her. Her boyfriend "Nick" is environmentalist Alex Steffen. Her guardian angel "Josh" is writer Josh Feit. A "former Mayor" is Mike McGinn. A "city councilperson" is Peter Steinbrueck. Erica blocked us on Twitter when she hea...

#034: Seth Warshavsky invested his phone sex fortune into Club Love - a website that harvested money from people unwise enough to give him their credit card information. He marketed the notorious Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape, was lauded by an uncritical media and helped pioneer the art of the Internet publicity stunt. He escaped legal trouble by moving to Thailand, where he lives a life...

#033: The All In WA benefit was a confusing blend of Covid porn, drone footage, celebrity shtick from local media personalities and corporate propaganda. Bill Gates got a cameo. Macklemore and his people dominated the program. Pearl Jam proved once again and hopefully for the last time that they suck. Overlord Jeff Bezos matched all donations. The winner - Amazon!

#032: Medical pot dispensary owner Brionne Corbray was convinced to plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana by prosecutor and current Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Corbray claims he was singled out because of his race. "What Jenny did to me changed my DNA. Black people are so tired of the racist drug war that we are ready to kill. We don't want to, but what else can we do?" EXCLUSIVE INTE...

#031: Seattle artist Charles "Charlie" Krafft was many things. Ceramicist. White Nationalist. Holocaust denier. In 2013 he was outed by the Stranger, a weekly newspaper. His far right affiliations were common knowledge long before the article came out, but many in the Seattle art community looked the other way.

#030: U.S. Attorney and current Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan took down Craig Dieffenbach for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering in 2013. Craig's colorful career also includes a failed attempt to market a Jimi Hendrix-branded vodka, some cocaine dealing and other audacious schemes.

Last night, less than 24 hours after declaring a 30 day pause on tear-gassing the citizens of Seattle, Jenny Durkan's cops unleashed flash grenades and pepper spray on Capitol Hill protesters. Fascist cop Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan must resign immediately. Our episode planned for this week has been postponed: we were gonna talk about medical pot entrepreneurs Craig Dieffenbach and Brionne Corbray....

#029: The rock star autobiography genre is full of poorly written doggerel and Mark Lanegan's new memoir is no exception. The front man for Seattle band Screaming Trees has a new book - Sing Backwards and Weep - where he trudges though every sordid overworked junkie cliche imaginable (yawn). Mark says the book was painful to write. We've saved you the pain of reading it by reviewing it here. PLUS:...

#028: Scarface and Miami Vice inspired Michael Santos to become a cocaine smuggler. He moved to Florida to coordinate shipments of the white gold to Seattle, then served hard time. Santos is currently caught up in what the FTC says is "the largest overseas real estate investment scam it has ever targeted." ALSO: RIP Felix Martinez. In prison for drug crimes, he ended up with a death sentence. He d...

#027: Raised in a gated community in a fancy Seattle neighborhood, owner of a construction company, a theater and a popular pizza parlor ... David Mendoza had it all. He was also addicted to pot smuggling. He started with hockey bag-sized loads, then graduated to trucks and helicopters. After being busted prosecutors promised to extradite him to Spain in exchange for a guilty plea, then double-cro...

#026: Why Facebook is evil and how the host of this podcast beat a ten year addiction to the platform. PLUS: Horror stories from the Seattle restaurant industry, and podcast shout-outs to Seattle Sucks: who cover Seattle politics with granular precision, and Behind the Bastards: creators of an an episode called Mark Zuckerberg: The Worst Person of the 21st Century (So Far). Sponsored by Chop Mart....

#025: Long before Scott Weiland married his third wife and then died of an overdose, his second wife wrote a tell-all biography called Fall to Pieces. She starred in a music video of the same name promoting Scott's band Velvet Revolver. It's method acting - she plays herself in the video. A rock star wife tormented by her husband's substance abuse issues. Mary had issues of her own. Lots of them.

#024: Many Seattle musicians from the 1980s punk rock scene fell into addiction and never made it out. Guitarist, user and dealer Tom Hansen survived. After over a decade of mainlining he ended up in the hospital and was near death, but he recovered, went back to school and became the well-respected writer of American Junkie: his brutally honest autobiography. WARNING: This episode contains graphi...

#023: In 1928 Decasto Eugene Mayer and his mother Mary Ellen Smith murdered a guy, chopped him up, and stole his car. The body was never found, but Mayer confessed after being subjected to relatively new interrogation techniques - injections of truth serum and the lie detector. On the eve of his almost certain conviction ten years later he killed himself - Epstein-style - in his cell. Smith lived...

#022: Will Amazon and Boeing be nationalized? Will there be food riots? One thing's for sure - Seattle faces a future of biometric surveillance capitalism. ALSO: Introducing our new sponsor: Chop Mart. Torches, pitchforks, guillotine supplies. You'll find it at Chop Mart!

#021: Ralph "Vitvan" de Bit, Dr. Pierre "Oom the Omnipotent" Barnard and Rev. Albert "Heliga cult" Dahlstrom all had the same business plan - seduce wealthy women and take their money.

#020: Rusty the media watchdog eviscerates The Club King: My Rise, Reign and Fall in New York Nightlife, by drug enthusiast and club owner Peter Gatien. It's a story about an American dream (sex, drugs, fancy cars, cocaine, lack of class consciousness) that was eventually shot down by Rudolph Giuliani.

#019: Bloody nightmares from Seattle's sleepiest neighborhood - the story of four gruesome axe murders that took place on Queen Anne Hill.

#018: Socialists battled sailors during the Potlatch riots of 1913, ruining what Seattle business leaders hoped would be an annual tradition. And yet the tradition lives on in much the same form: a celebration of civic pride and military power known today as Seafair. The "aeronauts" of yore, with their biplanes, have been replaced by Navy propaganda squad the Blue Angels. And Seattle's corporate t...

#017: It's the year 1020, and you are gathering oysters at low tide. You are also a slave. In the land of the headhunters. The person that owns you is having a party - a Potlatch. He will prove how rich he is by gifting and also by just burning stuff. PLUS: A recipe for abalone chowder, an interview with Fred of Fred's Guillotine Supplies in Sedro-Woolley, Washington and a salute to former child T...

#016: Our Seattle-centric take on the Instacart strike, Dick Cheney's encounter with a box jellyfish ... and a presidential gout attack. PLUS! The pandemic hits the Amazon ecosystem and billionaires Bezos, Gates and Geffen form a new hip hop group: Tone Def.

#015: "We interrupt this program with a special bulletin: America is now under martial law. All constitutional rights have been suspended. Stay in your homes." Remember Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys delivering those lines for his pal Ice-T in the song "Shut Up, Be Happy?" Well ... Hours ago Washington Governor Jay Inslee ordered us to shelter in place. So remain calm, shut up, be happy and fin...

#014: Radical change comes to Seattle as a deadly virus exposes capitalism for what it is - a scam. A for-profit corporate human storage facility for the elderly becomes a death house. Boeing and the airlines beg for more corporate welfare. Restaurants are shut down. Alt-biweekly newspaper the Stranger stops printing. Schools close. This is grim, people. And guess what - everything you have ever b...

#013: Doomed Planet podcast host Alex had a brief career as a pirate radio talk show personality, and we dredged up the tapes. Featuring: Mr. Sparkle, Errol Vagrom, Jim Hogshire, Transsexual Tofu, Powerman 5000, Cookie Puss, Louie Free & Biff - in 1997.

#012: Jeff always fills his ballroom. The event is never small. The social pages say he's got ... the biggest balls of all. ALSO: The Amazon (penis-logo-branded) Banana stand! AmazonGo - the union-busting robot grocery store. OBIT: Two Seattle tech guys who died in tragic freak accidents.