Doomed Planet

#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.

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#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 The "aeronauts" of yore, with their biplanes, have been replaced by Navy propaganda squad the Blue Angels.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 tycoons still hate socialists.

#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 TV star and Seattle radio personality Danny Bonaduce, who we will now and forever more refer to as "Il Duce."

#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 find out how everything you have ever been taught is a lie.

#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 been taught by the powers that be is wrong.

#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.