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Doomed Planet

May 31, 2020

#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...


May 28, 2020

#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...


May 26, 2020

#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...


May 16, 2020

#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...


May 15, 2020

#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...