Doomed Planet

#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. They were prosecuted by ... Jenny Durkan. So you have this trailer for now. See you soon. AD SPONSOR: Chop Mart. Torches. Pitchforks. Guillotine Supplies. You'll find it at Chop Mart.

#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.

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#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 died of Covid in a privately owned facility.

#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-crossed him.

PLUS: A peek at the obscene wealth of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.

#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).

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#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 graphic drug use, gruesome hospital scenes and grim anecdotes about Seattle rock stars who are no longer with us.

#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 to be 100.