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His songs and lyrics reflective of a long, hard life cut me right down to the bone. his career has spanned two decades beginning with the screaming trees in the 90's and continuing through numerous brilliant collaborations with artists like queens of the stone age, pj harvey, kurt cobain, unkle, mad season, the gutter twins, isobel campbell and massive attack. maybe you know him from such theme songs as -- this show. ♪ >> mark: wow. spicy. >> anthony: yeah, that's good. >> anthony: dinner with mark and touring guitarist jeff fielder at ocho in ballard, where they serve up generous drinks and...

>> anthony: what percentage of the total dollar generating space on the internet is occupied by porn? >> john: well, you know, this is todd's expertise, so i'll defer to him. >> todd: historically the adult industry, even if it's not completely dominating the economics all the time, it is the leader of technology. it's the first with hd, it's 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 search term on porn websites for the seattle area? ♪ step-mom...

Change. "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 what's happening now? >> john: old, big tech corporations that have moved into the city -- people need some pl...

It's a place that, on the 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, it's always boom or bust. now it's a new kind of boom. microsoft, google, twitter, expedia and amazon are the big dogs in town. a flood of them. tech industry workers, mostly male, derisively re...

>> astra: well, we're generalizing now, tony. >> anthony: i'm all for that. [ laughter ] everybody in seattle is a musician, a serial killer or a chef as far as i'm concerned, so. >> anthony: in a lot of ways, this was always a company town. you know, boeing, before boeing it was a logging town. the new company is tech and it is flooding money into the place. i look out my hotel room window and i mean there are cranes as far as the eye can see. >> dustin: you realize, like, okay, all those cranes out there are for high-rise condos, they're for a certain type of person. they're envisioning a ce...