Celebrate Creativity
This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way, as well as some of the greatest historical figures whoever lived, as well as some who never did!
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The Pineapple and the Playbook
It was agreed that every week the church people would bring roughly 4 bags of groceries– food that was certainly welcome at first. It may not have been the greatest food, but that is not really an issue when you're hungry. Then the food pant...
Did Bob Dylan Cause My Seizures?
Hello, my name is George Bartley, and I'd like to welcome you to Celebrate Creativity–this is basically the introduction to a six part series called The 700 Pound Pineapple - and if that title doesn't make much sense right now, stick with me...
Pineapple Promo
What does a pineapple weigh?And no, due to the incredibly personal nature of this podcast series, I will leave the wax museum format for several episodes to talk about an actual experience and how I responded and did not respond to a ramifi...
Monster?
Welcome to Hall of Wonder - part of Celebrate Creativity. Today I want to start exploring Shakespeare's play–Macbeth.And here is the wax figure character of Macbeth, himself. You know Macbeth, I will get directly to the point. Some people call ...
The Island Speaks!
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination - and today I'm speaking with one of the characters of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. And today's episode is entitled “CALIBAN: THE ISLAND SPEAKS”First I better briefly fill you in on the openin...
Plagues!
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination for the episode “Plagues”The strange thing about an invisible enemy… is that you can’t glare it down.You can’t bargain with it.You can’t even boo it off the stage.WILL (dry):...
A Fascination with Language
Welcome to the second and final episode of Master Shakespeare and myself as we discuss parallelism, and a few other matters. We begin in the Hall of Imagination in a Chicago wax museum at night.Mr. Bartley: Master Shakespeare,There...
Words Become Music
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination for an episode with William Shakespeare called words become music. And here is Master Shakespeare himself as as he explains one of the most commonly used rhetorical devices of them all.Mr. Bar...
WHERE PASSION RULES
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination - this episode is called Opposites!Tonight’s rhetorical device is antithesis.You might say that the rhetorical device of ANTITHESIS is a perfect “Shakespeare in conversation” device because ...
Repeating at the Beginning
This podcast is Celebrate Creativity and this series is Hall of Imagination. My name is George Bartley.GEORGE (Host):Now—quick note for listeners: today we’re talking a little bit more about a rhetorical device that S...
Persuasion on the Stage
And this person here must be shakespeare’s teacher.-Hic Latīnē tantum loquimur.Pardon me.I said that we only speak Latin here.But I don't know Latin. Could you speak in English?Well, yes, ordi...
One, Two, Three!
Welcome to Hall of Imagination–and this is the first in a series of episodes about William Shakespeare. And here we have a wax figure of the BARD himself. And personally, let me say as an actor that I am really excited about the prospect of lea...
Love Me Tender
Mr. Presley, I'd like to begin in Tupelo, move through Sun Records and the explosion of the 1950s, and then spend time with Vegas ., the pills, the isolation, and the wreckage.Mr. Bartley, it seems that you really knew about m...
Rock’s First Guitar Hero
Permit me to tell a very short story about something that really happened. Years ago, I saw Chuck Berry live at the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. I later learned that a few years after that, the Paramount Theater was completely sh...
Allegations
I'd like to begin the final part of this two part series regarding Michael Jackson by looking at late 1993. Yes, Mr. Bartley, in 1993, I proposed to Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, over the phone. We were married i...
Becoming the King of Pop
Welcome to the hall of imagination, and I can't believe what I'm seeing. This is the first time that I have ever seen a wax figure who is now deceased that I saw in real life.Yes, I am Michael Jackson, and you say that you have seen m...
Pineapple Promo
Christ said to feed the hungry, not to give them food poisoning! This will all make sense in September.You see, In early September, I'll be sharing a special series called The 2000 Pound Pineapple. I am announcing it now because the even...
Being Alive!
In the previous episode, we walked with Walt Whitman down the open roads of America, hearing the chorus of ordinary lives. Whitman’s poetry celebrated the sweep of America, the chorus of countless lives, and the boundless possibilities of freed...
I Contain Multitudes!
Welcome to Hall of Imagination. - in your previous episode I mentioned my suspicions that I would be having some more episodes dealing with Walt Whitman very soon. Well that time has come, and I'd love to talk a little bit more with the wax fig...
Just Call Me Walt
Welcome to the hall of imagination. Tonight I was looking up at the wax figure of the writer Walt Whitman– And I was not surprised in the least when he looked down at me and began speaking.George, I was most commonly known as "Walt" ...
Milton
Hello this is George Bartley, and I was walking through the wax museum when I ran across the figure of John Milton. Naturally I had to stop, and I watched him as he came to life and began speaking.Mr. Milton, this is indeed an honor! Do...
The Golden Key
In the previous episode, I talked about an exhibit of the inklings– Token, Williams, and Barfield. But I would like to devote this entire episode to an individual who is arguably the most well-known of the inklings–CS Lewis. ...
What Were the Inklings?
What Were the Inklings?Today’s episode deals with four people instead of one individual. They are often classified as one group because they were a band of university friends who argued, challeng...
