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Creators to come experiment and to make their own. ♪ >> anthony: oh and weed is legal here. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: seattle has always been a place where you can go to reinvent yourself. its a place that, on th...

In the bathroom in the fetal position paranoid or what? >> budtender: not like that crazy. >> anthony: ok, good. i think, lets do um, some of both. >> budtender: some of both? sure. >> anthony: what do you have on offer here? >> budtender: we do have a deal on our pack of three today from hollingsworth. which they have the blueberry kush, the alaskan thunder -- and also a dutch treat which will be >> anthony: i mean, i have to -- alaskan thunder -- you kind of have to. this is from our friends a...

Surface, would seem to require commitment. famously gray, rainy, not particularly friendly and all the way up there, in the far corner of the country. a place you could get work in the aircraft industry, or make music or rather notoriously, become a serial killer. whether outfitting prospectors during the alaskan gold rush or looking for some kind of cred from the music scene, its always boom or bust. now its a new kind of boom. microsoft, google, twitter, expedia and amazon are the big dogs in ...

From wherever you are. >> anthony: so, a convenient body dump? >> knute: body dumping, yes. i mean thats got to be part of it. you have all that lush greenery. >> anthony: if youre looking to dump a body, seattle. >> knute: ive always thought the rain was kind of part of it. you get to that stretch from maybe october to february and by the time youre in february, i mean, you want to become a serial killer. i mean -- >> anthony: apparently you can. [ laughter ] >> anthony: is seattle a teeming hi...

"the hill" has become the new weekend stomping ground of breeders from the tech companies and the locals are displeased. john criscitello, street artist that is waging a one-man war against the rent hikes that are pushing people like him out of the neighborhood. >> anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? >> john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. >> anthony: and, so whats happening no...

Too. the taylor family has been farming more than 12,000 acres of tidelands in the puget sound, willapa bay and the hood canal for over five generations, since 1890. with three restaurants in town, they know what theyre doing. >> anthony: are you eating this whole? head, tail, bones and all? >> knute: yes. ♪ >> anthony: whole local smelt, flash-fried and served with pepperoncini sambal aioli. local dungeness crab, cooked and chilled with pickled ginger sauce. and oysters, lots of oysters. >> a...

Not just the pike place market but every neighborhood has a market that -- >> anthony: has a green market. >> knute: yeah, and so those entrepreneurs have a place to sell, they can go to all the markets or just some of them. but its really fantastic. >> anthony: so, everybody born and bred in seattle? >> knute: i was. yeah. >> anthony: born here? >> jack: yes. >> fred: bellingham, which is -- >> anthony: oh sure, serial killer capital of the world. i was in a bar there where both ted bundy and t...

Now all of a sudden the entry point is $1500. which is considerable for artists -- anybody. you know, thats the sort of lament now is, "where are you going to go? where are you going to go? where are you going to go?" >> anthony: right. so, all these outsiders are coming in, renting expensive apartments. what kind of businesses are opening to accommodate these new arrivals? >> john: well, in this neighborhood, that construction over on that side is a whole foods. >> anthony: oh no, thats a sign ...

The total dollar generating space on the internet is occupied by porn? >> john: well, you know, this is todds expertise, so ill defer to him. >> todd: historically the adult industry, even if its not completely dominating the economics all the time, it is the leader of technology. its the first with hd, its the first to try out a new wave of 3d technology, virtual reality, augmented reality. and you see it over and over again, the latest is vr and ar. >> anthony: yeah. do you know the number one...

And short rib dumplings topped with pickled shallot and scallion salad. ♪ >> anthony: of course im hearing from a lot of people who are bemoaning the loss of the old seattle. uh, this invasion of outsiders. >> john: certainly the community is going through a lot of growing pains, and there is an element of the city here that is rebelling against the progress. especially as we talk about a company like amazon that controls massive amounts of the downtown real estate footprint now. and thats wha...