One is because it feels like a throwback to very early old-school Radiolab when every episode was about neuroscience. LATIF: But there's sort of two reasons I'm playing it. LATIF: Instead what we've got planned for tonight is something a bit different. The vast majority of the people in the audience had not seen the show. LATIF: You don't need to have seen the show for it to make sense. LATIF: So what I want to do today is play for you and for everyone some of that conversation. There were 900 people in this giant ballroom, and I was on stage with David Byrne, and the neuroscientist Thalia Wheatley from Dartmouth College. LATIF: So basically it was this-it was a live conversation. Please welcome to the stage Latif Nasser. to introduce our moderator for this evening. Latif Nasser.ĪNNOUNCER: And now it is my great pleasure. And then it's also very kind of-it involves a lot of neuroscience. LULU: And, like, hear things and see things. LATIF: It's like a giant warehouse where you walk through. LATIF: There was an article about it, and it basically just said-it's like the headline was "Take A Trip Through David Byrne's Head." Which is basically what it is. It's an event? I don't know what you call it.ĪNNOUNCER: We are here tonight to celebrate the world premiere production of Theater of the Mind, an experience many years in the making. LATIF: So the reason that they asked me to do an event with him was that he created this immersive theatrical-it's like a happening. You know, you've probably seen him, like, on HBO or on Broadway or. LATIF: Oh, man, it was-it was-well first, let me say if you happen to not know who David Byrne is, he was the front man of and co-founder of the band Talking Heads. LULU: What was getting the call to do that like? And I moderated a conversation with the one and only literal rock star David Byrne. LATIF: So I wanted to tell you about one of the projects that I-that I did, which is a few weeks ago our executive producer Suzie Lechtenberg and I went to Denver, Colorado. I've been down in the musical, nature, children's trenches. Lulu, you have been out there making your chart-topping new series Terrestrials. LULU: Yeah, do the thing and then-because I'm still like, I don't quite get it. LATIF NASSER: Well, let me just-let me just do the thing. LULU MULLER: Yeah, I don't know the program. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab () today.įollow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and share your thoughts with us by emailing. Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. Special thanks to Charlie Miller and everyone else at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Emily Simoness and everyone else at the Arbutus Foundation, Boen Wang, and Heather Radke. The trio talk about how we don’t see what we think we see, don’t hear what we think we hear, and don’t know what we think we know, but also how all that… might actually be a good thing. This episode, co-Host Latif Nasser moderates a live conversation between Byrne and Neuroscientist Thalia Wheatley at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. That’s what inspired him - along with his collaborator Mala Gaonkar - to transform a 15,000 square-foot warehouse in Denver, Colorado into a brainy funhouse known as the Theater of the Mind. It all started when the rockstar David Byrne did a Freaky-Friday-like body-swap with a Barbie Doll.
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