Obituaries for the Damned
#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 finger so small it looks like a birth defect. His thumb looks bent at a ninety degree angle. Not optimal anatomy for one of rock's great guitarists. Predatory, parasitic Amazon Inc. will do anything if it makes even one penny and that is why hideous offensive fake garbage like this is allowed on their platform.
9/6/26 • 32:52
#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 Barrel is still a going concern, and the Sanft family is still very rich.
5/26/26 • 19:25
#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 associate and fellow ex-con Alex Peder runs Corrio, a player in the exploitative for-profit prison telecommunications industry. Ginny's kooky pro-cop story of recovery and its "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and say no to methadone" narrative is eaten up like candy by right wing media outlets like unDivided with Brandi Kruse, Sinclair Broadcasting's KOMO and Fox News.
4/26/26 • 38:13
#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!).
4/19/26 • 44:28
#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.
4/9/26 • 38:17
#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 documentary filmmaker Doug Pray, grunge historian Adam Tepedelen, alleged sex pest Ken Stringfellow and original Nirvana drummer Chad Channing.
4/4/26 • 31:27
#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.
4/2/26 • 40:08
#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.
11/15/25 • 31:47
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-surveillance epic Hell Hole High (2003). Want hope for the future of humanity? Know that every elderly conservative that dies is more than likely gonna be replaced by someone like Communist Teen.
10/30/25 • 48:10
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 typical tale of a mentally ill stripper who got greedy and careless. In No Regrets KISS guitarist Ace Frehley (April 27, 1951 - October 16, 2025) dishes out one rock star cliche after another. The women. The booze. The never reading any books or contributing to society in any meaningful way. The horrible music that made him and numerous others rich as kings. Lame! The scariest horror story of all comes from Independent - A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, the new book from Genocide Joe's press secretary and certified satanic Halloween ghoul Karine Jean-Pierre.
10/26/25 • 37:38
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.
9/20/25 • 53:07
#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 devoured by sharks.
5/29/25 • 28:26
#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 concept - especially if you are known to fight capital gains taxes that would directly benefit working mothers. Sponsored by Chop Mart - America's Guillotine Superstore!
4/30/25 • 30:06
#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
4/19/25 • 25:05
"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.
3/28/25 • 24:10
#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 electric car companies is their marketing. Is buying a $100,000 sports car or SUV really going to save the earth?
3/27/25 • 20:51
#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 it all. The more paranoid people become the more money he makes.
3/26/25 • 26:10
#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 Street cronies. Also: Introducing Wild World News - a new segment about the insane neoliberal technofeudalist agendas being pimped by politicians and the corporate media on behalf of their billionaire overlords. Or, you could also just call it a monthly wrap-up of the opinions posted to our Twitter/X feed, which can be found @wildworldnews.
1/30/25 • 48:17
#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 unpleasant subjects such as the America's Most Wanted reboot, PornHub, the new Road House movie, Kamala's crusade of cringe, fentanyl voyeurism and Zapped - a story about aliens who assassinate bad people in a mission to help save the human race. Prescient! Doomed Planet - Obituaries for the Damned.
12/30/24 • 36:02
#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 are sad. The billionaires that run things will now ramp up their avaricious pillaging. The dying American empire has become a chaotic torrent of speculation, fraud and genocide. Caitlin Johnstone said recently that "What we all want, deep down, is a truth-based relationship with reality. We might not be aware that this is what we are seeking from life, but it is. And everything in our society is stacked against our ever getting it." You think reality sucks now? Just wait until next year. PLUS! Roll out the guillotines! A quick peek at Town & Country magazine, which has been poisoning the minds of the rich — and the people who wish they were rich — since 1901.
11/30/24 • 48:22
#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 Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. What could go wrong?
10/31/24 • 20:41
#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.
10/1/24 • 10:18
#115: Holocaust Harris exists in the context of all the genocides she has lived and all the genocides that came before her.
8/31/24 • 35:55
#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)
7/30/24 • 43:25
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 trashy, brilliant schlock with great acting, a silly story and countless scenes of brutal violence. Jake Gyllenhaal as a charming muscle-bound meathead punching his way through a beer intensive scenario provides the perfect vehicle for advertising alcoholic beverages to underage future consumers.
6/23/24 • 47:38
The genocidal Zionist settler colonial state of Israel is failing rapidly. The genocidal Zionist-supporting settler colonial state of America is failing rapidly too.
5/31/24 • 26:04
#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.
4/30/24 • 21:31
#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!
3/24/24 • 35:42
#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.
2/29/24 • 18:40
#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 popular websites. PLUS: Seattle food Porn! Microsoft jillionaire Nathan Myhrvold's obsession with cookbooks for the rich, and a restaurant that serves organ meat to customers willing to pay $200 to sit in a tiny room facing a wall.
1/29/24 • 41:44
