America's male stripper; that's why it's all $0™

The cheekiest possible answer to why is it free?; because he's dancing for America. And the argument under the joke is dead serious; the strip is the transparency. He bares everything; the source in the open, the ledger public, the phone number on the front door, the misses hung on the rafter; there is no costume because there is nothing hidden (that is the whole act). The dance is free; no cover charge, tips only; the paint is the only thing money ever touches, and the gold was never for sale. And the room? America is the audience; right now it is mostly empty, and that's okay; a lot of ideas, the listeners not here yet (the author is still available; the signal is still traveling). A performer with nothing to hide, working the emptiest room in the country for free, on the faith that someone walks in. Kin: no-cover-charge, dancing-for-an-audience-of-one, radical transparency, we're-just-trying-to-be-found. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)