So here we are broadcasting out from a little place here in Seattle. I don't know if we've got proven answers to any of the issues we might bring up tonight but perhaps you can take 'em home and sort 'em out. Think about how you feel.

Perhaps the beginning of change begins right in your head. Letting your attitudes evolve, and this evolution takes place when there's input.

And the reason we bring this up, well, we've noticed that our society here in America is opening up their homes to some folks who are overflowing with input, and we've seen potentially dangerous attitudes embraced and we're seeing blatant mistruths treated like the gospel, and we're just doing our little bit here...far from equal time...maybe to remind a few of you out there that you are not alone in your opposition and that you are not in the minority when you vote for change. Perhaps the silent majority is gonna have to make some noise.

I've never claimed to be a socio-political expert. I guess I feel compelled to speak out on some issues for no other reason than the fact that I've lived through them. You know, "live through this," well, I have.

And it's tough. It's tough out there and a lot of people are just trying to do their best to survive. And I think some of the situations being created, or that there are situations being created, that can make that impossible.

Again, I could sound like a politician and I'm not. I'm just a guy.

And we've got politicians here. We've got musicians. All local neighbors and friends. And we're gonna play for you. They're gonna play for you. Live.

In fact, what you've just endured is probably the longest I'll speak all evening. A couple issues might resurface, like protection of women's reproductive rights, and even the safety of women in society - our mothers, our sisters, girlfriends, wives.

But everyone came to play. And I'm not gonna tell you, or divulge just yet, who is playing but I'd say you're pretty lucky.

We're glad you tuned in. We'll just spin records kind of in between the bands and make calls and take calls and Jeff and Stone will come through and it should be a real interesting night.

Anyways, I got a record player in front of me and I'm gonna start playing some songs.

I'm gonna play a song now that probably didn't get much airplay back in the day but it's off the Daydream Nation record by Sonic Youth and it's track one, side one and it's called "Teenage Riot."

Talk to you guys in a bit.

I hope they don't mind me playing these songs. These are songs that maybe wouldn't be played on regular radio, all the time anyway. But that was "Don't You Ever" off the Dischord [?] record, again by Slant Six, "Soda Pop Rip-Off."

We're gonna go back, and I think we can go into this little house here. Explain the setup here. There's a little trailer and I'm in here with, like, a tape deck and a turntable. And then we got this little house. And the bands are kinda hanging out in the house and we got a room set up, so I think we're gonna go in there.

And I think we're gonna play first, first two songs and come back and play some more records, and then the bands are just gonna keep coming.

So I know we talked about taking phone calls but let's keep - you know - save your fingers for later. And right now we just got a lot of music to take care of.

And, why don't - I'll let you know later when and if we're gonna do that. We'll definitely do it, and we'll keep the lines open for, like, a couple days. And, you know, I'll take your calls tomorrow, or whatever. But, you know, I'll be around.

But let's do the music now. And this - speaking of the little house and how much fun we have in it - this song's, this song's like about having your first house, and it's by Klark Kent and it's called "Away from Home."

Let me put the needle on the record here.

There's another band setting up in there right now and I'm gonna play you the B side of that single we just listened to - that was the A side, and it's called "West Seattle Acid Party" - and that's by a band called Zeke. And here's the B side, and it's called "Schmidt Rid"

You could've let that keep going, you know. We can do whatever we want for three hours. That's what they told us. That's what I heard. That's what we agreed to.

[by the woman]. Okay, I'm cutting Kirk off.

New answering machine segment, man's voice: Uh, I don't know if you fuckers are in town or not but Peters is having a little gathering for a little, little New Year's Eve, a little New Year's Eve party. Nothing, nothing huge, just a few people over to get drunk and fall down. But don't think you guys are in town, but just in case you are I thought I'd let you know.

Anyway. Yeah, I hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and, whatever else, I'll continue hating the world and everybody else in it for the next year or two.

Hadn't started off too good, I went out to my recycling bin to take some shit out there and noticed that the neighbors have been filling their fucking shit - putting their shit in it. So I searched through all their fucking McDonald's sacks and I found a couple of envelopes with their address. So I think I'm just gonna wheel it down to their house and put it in their front yard, spread it in their front yard.

Anyway, I'll be talking at you guys later. Later.

New answering machine message [man's voice]: And, well, yeah, Beth, I'm in L.A. so there's no more Seattle number for me right now. I'm here just wondering what I'm doing now because I put six months of hard work into nothing.

So, yeah I'm just kicking it, and, you know, just chilling out here in Los Angeles where the weather's not great and the people aren't either. But, that's cool. Hope you're having fun up there and everything's cool. And hope you had a good New Year's and all that. I got wasted and threw up under the table at a Mexican restaurant, it sucked. It was just, ah.

Alright, give me a call sometime and I'll tell you about my firing. They said I was too loud and - get this, I have it written on my board - too much of a risk taker.

New answering machine message [man's voice]: Hey. What's up? It's Mike. It is Christmas Eve. I'm at home, my parents, about to fucking kill my family. It's fuckin', I hate my family.

Just calling up and trying to get ahold of someone. If you wanna talk to me when I'm drunk alone at home tonight you can. Call me there if you guys are up to it or, if not, don't even worry about it.

Have a good Christmas and talk to you soon. Bye.

We're honored to have - humbled, honored, excited - the Fastbacks are here, and they're in the house and they're ready to play so let's let 'em play.

Anyway, here's Gas Huffer

So it was a pleasant stroll down 12th street til I came upon 6th Avenue and I saw this shithead getting out of his car. I could tell immediately that he was a shithead because the back of his t-shirt said, "As a former fetus, I oppose abortion."

My first instinct was to shout at him, "As a fellow former fetus, I wish you had been an abortion." But I let him walk on ahead of me because I'm not a violent man. I'm not a violent man but I could already picture myself jumping him from behind and punching him, and punching him until my knuckles and his face were a barely distinguishable bloodied, mangled mess.

So I figured, let him walk ahead of me. Get away from me. Get, get away from me. I don't even wanna look at you, you ugly, smarmy pig because I figure, what good would it do for me to get arrested for beating on this one guy so I could sit in jail while he continues to walk the streets, closing down clinics, shooting doctors, attacking women. Oh, don't get me started.

So, so, so I sat on a stoop for a minute or two til I cooled off and then I set fire to his car and just walked away feeling good about myself 'cause, for once in my life, I showed a little restraint.

It's been confirmed that it was a guy named Mike playing the drums. Mike Mussberger. He used to play with The Posies and that's - that fills up the lineup for the Fastbacks, which we heard before that.

And then there was Gas Huffer, and that's off of the One Inch Masters record.

Okay, we're gonna talk to ya in a second with something pretty important so, this is The Gits.

This is a pretty unique opportunity to be able to go on the radio like this and it - we appreciate you listening. Give you information on that, it's information that goes with that last song by The Gits and even the one spoken word thing before that and what they have in common is that they're gonna be on this thing called Home Alive, which is a compilation being put together here in Seattle, and the people who are putting it together are with me now so I thought we'd talk about it for a little bit and then maybe play another thing or two off it.

So, we have Val Agnew here, drummer from Seven Year Bitch and her friend, Greta, who they've worked together on this pretty tightly. And another guy who's helped out is Dave Meinert. And they're all sitting here right now.

I guess I'll just throw out a question or let you talk about it. I guess that - get into it, like this is kind of heavy - but I'll just bring it up. The singer in that last band that we listened to, The Gits, she's no longer with us. And, uh [laughs], there you have it. It's really hard to deal with but you're, you are dealing with it and this is, this is one of the ways, right?

And so Home Alive is not only a record that's gonna to be coming out to raise money for the organization - the organization is a non-profit, it's a collective here in Seattle, and it's to raise awareness about violence in our community and to try to make people aware of the ways that they can individually make decisions how to take care of themselves.

And if you don't like it then relax. [laughter] Because - you know sometimes even with - just to go off the subject for a - you know with - I don't know - this is, this is the vocabulary of the real world, so some of you are just gonna have to deal with it.

Anyway, some of the people that are on this record, besides the spoken word, things that we mentioned, there's Soundgarden, Joan Jett, X Scene [?], our band...Letty Lunch [?] is gonna be on there?

Let's go ahead and play this Bobby Miller spoken word, and then the last band is DFL48 we're gonna play after and that's The Gits - who are all the people that are still playing?

This is dedicated to all the women who walk any street in our country. It's called "Keep your mouth off my sisters."

Sometimes you begin to wonder if it's a conspiracy of men asleep at the wheel...the way they spit out words at women they don't even know...that they will never know. And it scares me to think that compared to the things they say, what must be going on inside their brains?

And I wanna scream at them "Hey, keep your mouth off my sisters! Your words cause emotional blisters!"

Did something happen at birth that caused this malfunction, or did they learn it or earn it in some archaic male ritual? "What's the matter, bitch? You a dike?"

Years spent vomiting out abuse at women and men still don't get it? I want to bend each one of them over and fuck the misogeny out of them. [laughter] To wash their mouths out with my dick and let them feel the collective humiliation of women everywhere to be unable to walk the streets safely without feeling like this served [?] up fresh and piping hot. "Oh, yum. And give me a six-pack to wash it down. Oh, you're the man, man. You're the man. You're the big man, man."

You ever notice there's always two of them? They're never alone - like the coward's tag team match of sexual harassment. "Hey, man, does it make you feel like a man? Hey, man, keep your mouth off my sisters."

Judgment, Rage, Retribution and Thyme.

This is a second song off our new record. It's called "Generation Spokesmodel."

Generation Spokesmodel

"What Moves the Heart"

Well, that's super cool. Thanks to all the guys and their wives and everybody.

Okay, this is - I should slow down for a second. Stone, are you ready? Do you wanna play some...

[Recording by unknown male:] Home grown in my backyard is the best herb you could ever find. [laughter] Home grown in my backyard and the public knows it's mine. If you come over to my place...

[Tape plays]

The laughter, you say, is the most important thing. Not at others but at yourself, huh? That's the great thing.

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Let's look at the way the media operate, the way the public relations industry operates, the extensive thinking that's been going on for a long, long period about the necessity for finding ways to marginalize and control the public in democratic society.

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[from Willa Wonka] [sung by Veruca Salt] ...donuts and fruit cake with no nuts so good you could go nuts...

Veruca's father: you can have all those things when you get home.

Veruca Salt [sung]: No, now. No, now [repeat].

I want a...

father: [?]

Veruca Salt [sung]: Now. I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket. It's my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now. I want...

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I look as the man that I am. The confused man. The negligent man. The lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.

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It's been accumulated about the way the major media, the sort of agenda-setting media - in the national press, the television and so on - the way that they shape and control the kinds of opinions that appear, the kinds of information that comes through, the sources to which they go, and so on. And I think that [Jade ?] will find some very surprising things about the democratic system...

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...language and human cognition demonstrate, to me at least, what remarkable creativity ordinary people have. The very fact that people talk to one another is a reflection - just in a normal way, I don't mean anything particularly fancy - reflects deep-seated features of human creativity which, in fact, separate human beings from any other biological system we know.

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Iggy: Wow. Almost forgot. Listen, I worked with this drummer the other day.

Tom: Yeah. Really?

Iggy: And this guy, man, his name's Giant Robo.

Tom: Yeah.

Iggy: And he clanging and banging and - really hard. Man, I thought of you. I mean, maybe you wanna - this is somebody, I think you oughta check him out.

Tom: Oh, really? You mean - you think I need a professional drummer? Like, I'm not good enough? What are you talking about?

Iggy: No. No. But I'm just - you know - it's a musician. I thought - I just wanted to tell you about this guy. It'd be great, man. I mean - you know, it's like hard and industrial and he's beating, you know and I just thought...wow.

Tom: Well, you know, what - what are you trying to tell me? I need a drummer? I could use a drummer? Because I'm not - my drumming on my record sucks? What are you saying?

Iggy: [pause]. Ah, forget it, man. Forget it.

First of all, one of the ... uh ... affiliates in this thing called Voters for Choice. Uh, it's a little different than Rock for Choice is uh ... Gloria Steinem. Uh. I've read a lot about her, and uh just knowing her work with Ms. magazine. Uh I don't know if you've ever noticed when you pick up a magazine like Rolling Stone or Spin uh. Boy you can ... you can count the pages that you've spent your hard-earned money on in advertisement. Before, that's how I kinda read magazines. You know, I pick them up and count the pages of ads before the first article. You know, give me some text. And I want to know, you know .... How few and far between it is. And ideally I like a very dense magazine, you know. But anyways, Rolling Stone, or uh even Spin, you know, fine people ... [laugh] 20 pages, 23 pages ... I think was one of the Rolling Stone ones. They're gonna be very upset, but no this is the truth. And uh. Uh. They can talk to me about it or whatever they want. Uh. But you look at a magazine like Ms., and Gloria Steinem and some other people started this thing. And there are no advertisements in Ms. magazine. Um. One of the ... probably the main reason isn't just to be cool. Uh, it's because if you have ... uh. Let's say you have a ... I'm just gonna throw out a name, not to get in trouble but let's say you have an agreement with Chanel to run some ads and they, uh, write you after they see an article about lesbians in your magazine. In your Ms. magazine. And they say "We're not very comfortable with you using the word 'lesbian', talking about 'lesbian'." I shouldn't have said Chanel because it could have been anybody. I don't know if it was them. I'm just ... It could have been, you know, Heinz ketchup or whatever. But they - the advertisers - call and let people know they're very uncomfortable with this, And that they won't advertise in your magazine if they continue to keep talking about "lesbians ", for example. And this is the reality. This is reality. We all have to deal with it and educate ourselves. And this whole contradiction between not educating ourselves and yet at the same time expecting.... What is it? Celibacy? Or ... uh ... um. "Just say no?" It's gotta be education. You know, we have to have educated people out there, and from a young age. And they're gonna learn about this stuff one way or another. And they might as well be educated to make a correct decision when the when the dilemma comes up ... when the issue comes up.

Anyways, I'm gonna go ahead and read you uh...a memo from Voters for Choice. Now this was written on December 30, 1994, from Julie Burton, who's the national director. I'm just gonna read it here. You can turn this off if you want or whatever. It's no big deal. I'm not preaching. I don't give a fuck. I'm just gonna read it.

"I can't believe it happened again. How much do we have to bear? And the sad thing is it's not going away. There are fanatics out there who will stop at nothing including murder to force their views on us all. Today ..."[aside: Again, this is December 30] "Seven people were the victims of yet another brutal anti-choice attack. Two women are dead, five are wounded. The assassin entered the [Ed pauses and breathes disparagingly] assassin entered the Planned Parenthood Clinic of greater Boston shortly after 10 AM, pulled a 22-caliber semi-automatic rifle from a duffle bag, killed the receptionist and wounded three other people. He continued the carnage a mile down the road at the Pre-Term Health Services Clinic where he killed one person and wounded two more. The women killed today join an ever growing list of individuals assaulted for providing critical - and legal - health services to women. Dr. David Gunn, murdered, shot in the back 3/10/93. Dr. George Ti ller, attempted murder, shot in both arms, 8/19/93. Dr. John Britton, murdered, shot in the head, 7/29/94. James Barrett, murdered, died escorting Dr. John Britton, 7/29/94. June Barrett, attempted m-murder, widowed and wounded, 7/29/94 [aside: That was her husband that was killed]. And Dr. Gary Romales, attempted murder, shot in the legs, 11/8/94."

[Pausing] That's besides the, uh, the seven people last week or whenever it was -- a week and a half ago.

"How many more victims will there be before patients, personnel, and doctors won't have to face the intimidation of terrorists? Pro-Choice forces long have contended that there is a national strategy of murder within the Pro- Anti-Choice community. Recently we discovered a "how-to terrorist handbook" - the third edition in three years published by the Army of God and distributed nationally. The book provides step-by-step instructions on how to assault clinics with bombs, chemical agents and other violent means. Since it was first published, attacks on clinics have tripled. Many Anti-Choice leaders continue to refuse to take responsibility for their rhetoric and the violence it encourages. [aside: If you can listen close to this part.] Operation Rescue's Reverand Pat Mahoney blamed today's violence on the freedom of access to clinic entrances law [aside: That's the Face Law] for opening the doorway to vigilante actions by harassing and intimidating pe aceful process...protesters. As you know the Face Law is the only law on the books to protect family planning clinics from violence. The solution is not to take away the one small protection of afforded clinics."

What they're saying is that by protecting them they're ... they're urging them to protest in a more violent way. By...by not letting them walk in the front door, they're saying that they create a more violent situation on the sidewalk. hmmm

"Now ..."

I'm gonna go back to this

"Now more than ever..."

Well, let me go back.

The solution is not to take away the one small protection of afforded clinics, but to expand and add to it. That's what we just talked about. "Now more than ever, we must fight the conservative tide that has taken over Congress. We must elect progressive leaders who will vote for federal funding of U.S. Marshalls at all clinics... [aside: This is our ... we're protecting what we voted for [exasperated laugh] who will push for more clinic protections and who will advocate better and swifter investigations of anti-choice criminal extremists."

Um, it's kinda heavy. I mean, you know we're having a good time on the radio and whatever, but it's good to take care of this stuff and you guys should know. And uh anyway here was a quote from Gloria. Actually this was a ...a note and it said: "Gloria hadn't heard about the shootings until she got my note yesterday." Good thing we did. Here's her quote.:

"Nothing could be more clear..." ... and this, this takes it to another level so if you're still with me, then listen close. "Nothing could make more clear than this Massachusetts massacre than the deepest message of the anti-abortion movement ... the deepest message of the anti-abortion movement is not pro-life, but anti-women; not mutual respect, but terrorist control. These anti-abortion terrorists continue to show us what they will do. The question is what the U.S. government will do and its voters will do. When we finally make clear that the lives and freedom of women of all races are as important as the airlines, that the...World Trade Center and other targets that threaten male...uh male - as well as female - life and business as usual."

What they're saying is we've totally, you know... there was problems with the World Trade Center, we took care of it. When there were problems at the airlines with terrorist activity we took care of it. Nothing has been done so far. And there's there's... these these clinics are obvious targets. It goes on to say:

"Will crimes against women finally be taken as seriously as others? Until we see culprits punished and crimes prevented, every man and woman in America must make the protection of our community and our clinics a personal priority. If we have to stand guard outside their uh doors ourselves we must make sure this never happens again. I pledge myself to that end. I send my deepest sympathy to all who have suffered from this terrorism and my support to all who protect freedom in spite of it."

Well, there you have it. So we're gonna go play next week and see what we can do ... do a little press conference. You know. It's something we all ... it's just a right. We voted on it, it was taken care of and ...um I don't know, uh, it's hard stuff to think about. Well, I think we're uh...I think we're just about out of here. I'm gonna play one more song and say goodbye. Thanks for listening and we'll try to end it on a better note. But Jeff's right here. Wanna say goodbye?

Um. Again, I wanna go back and real quick ... sorry. Thank the crew. We couldn't have done it without them and uh all these radio stations pages of them. WNEW - New York, Pittsburgh, Utica, Dover, Pough[keepsie]...it goes on for a few pages. I don't know if any of them pulled out.

I'm talkin' too much, but uh, I just, it's not uh... we appreciate being able to broadcast to ya, so uh, hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you guys next time. See you in dc. Goodnight!