Doomed Planet

Discover how capitalism’s winners spend their fortunes and evade their taxes!

Enter their dazzling, decadent world of luxury and excess!

Money. Power. Yachts. Mansions. Private jets.

Gold! Stocks! Bonds! Doomsday Bunkers! World domination. Eternal life! FAME!

BAD BILLIONAIRES!

Hi this is Alex R. Mayer, host of the brand new Bad Billionaires podcast.

In 2005 I made a video movie called Paul Alien. It’s a mockumentary about the now deceased Seattle Billionaire Paul Allen … but my fascination with the richest of the rich goes way back to my childhood. I had a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records and there was a picture of John D. Rockefeller giving away dimes. And even as a five year old I thought: “this motherf*cker is the richest person in the world and all he can give away is dimes?”

And then of course I became obsessed with J. Paul Getty. Probably as depraved and evil as Elon Musk but at least Elon Musk is peddling electric cars. Getty’s business was oil. And look where that has led us.

I hope you tune in to Bad Billionaires. Coming soon.

#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. "Polling is marketing. Polling exists to justify the already existing political positions of the customer who ordered the 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 beheaded the city rat catching team

#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.