Topic: Live Theater

Adam Curry reflects on the romantic appeal of radio as a "theater of the mind" and explains why he prefers audio over video for his podcasting. They reference the theories of Stan Freberg regarding the power of audio imagery and discuss the decline of localized, personality-driven radio in the age of corporate programming.

During a 1996 corporate roadshow in Amsterdam, a host was invited into the Casa Rosso theater, a venue famous for being among the first to stream live adult content on the internet. While attending with Wall Street underwriters, the host was pulled onto the stage for an audience participation segment. The anecdote describes a humorous and humiliating stage act involving a performer in a monkey suit.