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Celebrate Creativity
by George Bartley
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!
Episodes
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The Black Cat
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the Hall of Imagination. My name Is George Bartley, Here comes the wax figure of Mr. Poe - always making a grand entrance. Greetings, Mr. Bartley Mr. Poe, I would like to start off by saying a few words about black cats in history and society....
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VAMPIRIC ENERGY?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the Hall of Imagination -` My name is George Bartley, and in this podcast episode I want tof into a house that might not make it into Better Homes and Gardens - but is often classified as Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest work. The story is definitely...
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Perversity?
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity– This is the House of Imagination. My name is George Bartley, and this episode has the night watchman talking to Edgar Allan Poe about his creativity. In future episodes, Mr. Poe will talk specifically about a few of his most famous works. Hello…
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Most Influential
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity– My name is George Bartley and here I'd like to talk with Mr. Poe about the most influential person in his life– And buy influential, I don't necessarily mean that in a good way. Now, many scholars have claimed that the most crucial element of…
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The Will
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the Hall of Imagination. Today I would like to talk about a man who played a crucial role in the family fortune surrounding Edgar Allan Poe. This wealthy individual was known as William Galt, and he was a wealthy businessman in Richmond,...
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Mommy Issues
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity and the Hall of imagination– This episode is called Mommy Issues. It begins with a conversation between Mr. Poe, and myself, the night watchman. Now Mr. Poe, we want you to be comfortable here, and I spoke with the museum supervisor and we agree…
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Poe at UVA
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the Hall of Imagination. You know, I have been thinking a great deal about the wax figure of Edgar Allan Poe education was one of Jefferson's constant preoccupations and this is where Edgar Allan Poe comes in. And the supervisor of the museum...
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Alone
Send us Fan Mail In a few nights, the clock would strike midnight. The museum would become still. Those dark eyes would open. And I would have to find a gentle way to tell Edgar Allan Poe that death had not silenced him. It had only kept him from hearing the applause. Mr. Poe, you famously wrote...
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Fighting Words
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity and the hall of imagination– This is the second episode regarding Edgar Allan Poe for the month of October. And the proceeding episode, the night watchmen had been called to the office of the supervisor for the wax museum. We begin with the night...
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The New Exhibit
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to *Celebrate Creativity*. I am the Night Watchman here at the Hall of Imagination—the finest wax museum in the whole world, at least during the hours when respectable people are awake. After midnight, it may still be the finest wax museum in the world. But it is not…
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Fallingwater Dreams, Part Two
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the what should be the second of two episodes looking at Fallingwater from a musical perspective– and this episode is Fallingwater Dreams. Part two This podcast episode begins with the night watchmen– Roughly pattern after yours truly–talking to the wax figure of Frank...
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Fallingwater Dreams, Part One
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the what should be the first of two episodes looking at Fallingwater and the house from a musical perspective– and this episode is Fallingwater Dreams. Part one This podcast episode begins with Mr. George Bartley talking to the wax figure of Frank Lloyd Wright, about a...
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Tragedy Strikes
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the second episode in this miniseries about Frank Lloyd Wright. This is George Bartley in a wax museum in the city of Chicago, and we are talking to a wax figure of .the great architect himself. When we left Frank was talking about his trip to Europe with his–how shall…
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The World's Greatest Architect
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Hall of Imagination –my name is George Bartley and today I'd like to talk with one of my heroes. And seated behind a desk is a rather elderly gentleman and a suit and straw hat. Could you tell me who you are sir,? I am Frank Lloyd Wright –the architect. This is…
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The Weight
Send us Fan Mail Finally! This is the concluding episode for The 700-Pound Pineapple There are moments when an ordinary object stops being ordinary. It becomes a symbol. It gathers meaning until it weighs far more than any scale could measure. That is what happened to the pineapple in this…
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The Unfinished Story
Send us Fan Mail In the previous episode, I talked about Dostoevsky, but I want to emphasize that the author does not offer a cheerful slogan. He offers recognition. He knows that illumination and darkness can occupy the same life. And in this episode, I want to explore some of Dostoevsky's ideas...
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The Idiot
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity. This is Part Five of The 700-Pound Pineapple, an episode I call “The Idiot.” In the first episode of this series, I talked about my own experiences with epilepsy. I do not intend to tell that entire story again. It is already part of the journey…
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The Wheelchair as Freedom!
Send us Fan Mail I had never expected a wheelchair to feel like freedom. That may sound strange. Most of us grow up thinking of a wheelchair as a symbol of limitation. In movies, television programs, and even ordinary conversation, someone is said to be “confined to a wheelchair” or “bound to a...
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A Pig on Ice
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - and this is the third of a series called the 700 pound pineapple - an episode that I call Pigs on Ice. Whereas in the last episode, I ended on a relatively elevated tone with musings about creativity - in this episode at least I wanna start out…
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The Pineapple and the Playbook
Send us Fan Mail 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 pantry– And I will not use any…
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Did Bob Dylan Cause My Seizures?
Send us Fan Mail 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 and I can guarantee you that by the…
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Pineapple Promo
Send us Fan Mail 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 ramifications– But getting back to that...
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Monster?
Send us Fan Mail 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 you a monster. Mr. Barley, I would…
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The Island Speaks!
Send us Fan Mail 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 opening plot of The Tempest. So: there’s a man named...
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Plagues!
Send us Fan Mail 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): Oh, you can boo it, sir. The heavens will not care— but you may…
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A Fascination with Language
Send us Fan Mail 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 is still another meaning of parallelism that...
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Words Become Music
Send us Fan Mail 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. Bartley: Master Shakespeare, there is a word that...
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WHERE PASSION RULES
Send us Fan Mail 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 he loves thinking in opposites. And this episode is...
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Repeating at the Beginning
Send us Fan Mail 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 Shakespeare would've learned in school. Don’t run away....
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Persuasion on the Stage
Send us Fan Mail 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, ordinarily all of the class is communicated using Latin. But I assume I can make one...
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One, Two, Three!
Send us Fan Mail 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 learning more about what makes William...
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Love Me Tender
Send us Fan Mail 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 my life. Mr. Bartley, I was born January 8, 1935, in...
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Rock’s First Guitar Hero
Send us Fan Mail 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 shut down. Anyway, that night Chuck Berry was on a...
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Allegations
Send us Fan Mail 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 in La Vega, Dominican Republic, in May of 1994…
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Becoming the King of Pop
Send us Fan Mail 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 me before? Yes, I saw you with your brothers…
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Pineapple Promo
Send us Fan Mail 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 events that comprise The 2000 Pound Pineapple...
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Being Alive!
Send us Fan Mail 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 freedom. Across the ocean and slightly...
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I Contain Multitudes!
Send us Fan Mail 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 figure of Walt Whitman Walt, are you...
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Just Call Me Walt
Send us Fan Mail 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" among friends, family, and in much of my...
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Milton
Send us Fan Mail 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 you mind if I speak with you tonight?...
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The Golden Key
Send us Fan Mail 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. Mr. Lewis, how do you believe the inklings influenced…
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What Were the Inklings?
Send us Fan Mail 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, challenged, and inspired each other—the Inklings.” You see, the Inklings were largely a…
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Guttenberg
Send us Fan Mail I sincerely hope that you are enjoying the episodes that make up the Hall of Imagination. A wax museum is a wonderful metaphor. During the day, the figures are silent exhibits. At night, they become people again. That gives me tremendous freedom to let them explain themselves,...
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Freedom!
Send us Fan Mail Mr. Douglas, I think it would be very interesting for our listeners if you could relate the part of your life when you finally succeeded in making your escape from slavery. But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not to...
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Baltimore
Send us Fan Mail Could you describe your voyage to Baltimore? Frederick Douglas: We sailed out of Miles River for Baltimore on a Saturday morning. I remember only the day of the week, for at that time I had no knowledge of the days of the month, nor the months of the year. On setting sail, I…
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NO EXCUSE!
Send us Fan Mail Did these apparently incoherent songs mean anything to you? I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of these songs. These songs told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer...
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Slavery
Send us Fan Mail Now I was walking in the hallway through the wax museum when I looked up at the wax figure of an Afro-American individual. He looked down at me, and his features came to life as he said–As I hope you realize, my name is Frederick Douglass, and I want to tell you about my life.…
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Practical Paper
Send us Fan Mail Night watchman: Welcome to another night at the wax museum– Or Hall of wonder–step sound–and what do we have here. It looks like the wax figure of a Chinese person, and the identifying plaque says that his name is TI Lon Mr. Bartley: pardon me for coming to life, but that name is...
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Tilting at Windmills
Send us Fan Mail Before we begin, let me emphasize that today I'll be talking with a wax figure that never existed– In this case, a figure from literature that was never flesh and bone, but the author of the literary work from which she came created a character that is extremely lifelike, and...
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The Curious Mind of Einstein
Send us Fan Mail The museum was unusually quiet. The lights glowed softly across the polished floor. I made my rounds through the gallery of scientists. There stood Isaac Newton. There stood Marie Curie. And there, at the far end of the room, stood a familiar figure with wild white hair and kind...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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!
HOSTED BY
George Bartley
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