"Silence, Dirt" w/Rax King (Live in New York) (preview)
We're still on the road, so we thought we'd release our live set from New York last sunday. We start off with a tour of reactionary Seattle media, including ABC special "Seattle is Dying," (an absurdly cruel attack on the homeless) and right-wing talk show host Jason Rantz lashes out at a plan to allow social workers to respond to mental health crises with an incredible cautionary tale. We end our set with The Ballad of Based Dirt, starting at reactionary, trad religious facebook groups and leading all the way to a right-wing outrage-mill blog feeding off the anguished souls of its readers. Thanks to New York for having us, and thanks to Pod Damn America and Antifada and Ani for helping us. We just did Philadelphia last night with Well There's Your Problem and Antifada. Had a blast. Ate some great food. Saw a great record store. Hopefully we'll get a recording of that episode as well. Thanks to everyone who said hi and bought merch Sign up at htp://patreon.com/miniondeathcult to hear the full episode
It's our first time in New York City Tony's first time as well.
First time in New York City.
I had to stop him from doing Jay-Z shit.
I was this close to marrying Beyonce.
I was so close to making beautiful babies with her.
But I said, I can't do it.
That's being a class traitor.
She wishes.
Yeah, first time in New York City.
You know, we've... You hear about how much better everything is in New York City.
Something about the water.
The pizza, the bagels.
I don't know, you know, not to talk shit.
Not my experience.
I've only been here a day so far.
I've only tried one thing.
Not as good as from West Coast, where we're from.
Okay, alright, so it was the pizza?
You prefer California Pizza Kitchen?
Still?
No, it was the Trader Joe's Chicken Pesto Wrap.
Not as good as what we have in Seattle.
Yeah, I mean, I believe it, I believe it.
I think that it's more lush up there, the chickens are probably a little happier.
I've actually never eaten it in Seattle, but my girlfriend has, and that's what she said, and I stand behind her 100%.
I mean, I mean, she clearly has a good taste, so... Right.
So obviously, yeah, we're gonna believe her when she says it's good stuff.
Well, bad taste up until three years ago.
Now it's good taste.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, so we're gonna do a show for you guys.
Could run, though.
Could run.
We're going to do a show for you guys.
You know, you're New York.
You're privileged.
You're the center of attention for American media.
We thought you might like a change of pace.
We're going to talk about our hometowns, specifically my hometown in Seattle.
Seattle is dying.
Bad, bad, bad times.
Bad times.
You moved from Southern California to get away from the heat, but according to this, You're fucked, so... It's not the heat, Tony.
Seattle is like other big progressive cities, big populated liberal cities, in that it wants to liquidate the homeless for being living reminders of the failures of liberal capitalism.
Yeah, Seattle's Dying.
This is an actual news broadcast from Como News, ABC, of Seattle's Dying.
It's an hour-long special that's infamous in Seattle, and it's on YouTube.
You can watch it, but you don't need to because we've got the highlights here.
It's important to point this out because we don't usually get to tout something like ABC as the source material.
Yeah, this is what's happening in like real time, real life.
Right, we're on little sketchy waters here.
Let's see what happens.
Alright, this is how it opens.
This is the opening of Seattle is Dying.
Let me ask you something.
What if Seattle is dying and we don't even know it?
This story is about a seething, simmering anger that is now boiling over into outrage.
It is about people who have felt compassion, yes, but who no longer feel safe, no longer feel like they are heard, no longer feel protected.
Oh, God, I'm sorry to try to bring it down.
I know that if you were to like watch this without commentary, you would think this is some sort of like, we gotta help these folks out.
You'd be like, well, I mean, they're kind of fetishizing them a little bit, but the heart's got to be in the right place, right?
Yeah, you'd think they're trying to appeal to our compassion, but not so much.
This is about people who no longer feel safe, who no longer feel heard, and you show a photo of a homeless person Bundled up in a wheelchair, and you're like, yeah, I do feel that anger.
Yeah, I'm very mad for them.
Yeah, and it's like, then you hear, what does it say?
People who used to feel compassion.
They used to.
It's like, wait, wait, who's the focus?
The focus of the story is not the person living on the street.
It's the person mad at the person living on the street.
Yeah, who has now lost compassion and is terrified of this.
Yeah, in Seattle, the local news does do personal interest stories, but the personal interest is getting homeless people arrested.
Margaret, she doesn't get around quickly these days.
She has trouble simply waking up.
Why is she mocking us?
Why is she speaking to us if she's not having a job?
...is about a beautiful jewel that has been violated.
Let me start that over.
Sorry, it got clipped in the beginning.
...is about a beautiful jewel that has been violated and a crisis of faith amongst a generation of Seattleites falling out of love with their home.
The Emerald City has been buttfucked.
Mind you, ABC is running a thing right now where it says that the jewel, the Emerald or whatever that Seattle is has been violated while literally showing somebody's ass without their consent.
Like, on national TV.
And they're like, the city's been violated.
Imagine, if you will, a comely bride in the shape of a port city with glistening waters.
Now imagine the largest black man you know.
Little did you know that you were also vacationing with several D1 athletes.
I fucking love it, man.
It's like this is a horror story about people whose city no longer sparks joy.
Did you ever feel like your city just put you in a chair in the corner?
