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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.

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27:40

Romeo and Juliet in New York

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/05

Send us a text Today I’m taking that same Shakespearean blueprint and placing it in a new world: the 1961 film West Side Story. I’m going to do this in the simplest and clearest way possible: I’m going to tell the film’s story in a straight line. As we go, I’ll point out the matching Shakespeare “parts” — not as trivia, but as the engine that makes both stories run. And one clear rule: no lyrics, no musical quotations. I don't wanna get in trouble, and besides We don’t need them. This stor...

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28:20

The Accelerants

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/04

Send us a text Welcome back. Verona is split by a feud. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love, marry in secret, and attempt to outrun a culture trained for violence. Then comes the turning point: Tybalt confronts Romeo, Mercutio fights, Mercutio falls, Romeo kills Tybalt, and Romeo is banished. Juliet faces a forced marriage to Paris. A desperate plan depends on a message. The message fails. Tragedy follows. Tonight we interview three figures who did not cause the feud—but who, in ...

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22:37

Story of Woe

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/03

Send us a text JULIET (calm, surprising firmness): They call me a child because I am young. But children don’t usually bury their own futures with their own hands. George (gentle): Then let us speak plainly, Juliet. Not as an emblem. Not as a tragic ornament. But as a mind at work inside a storm. George If you’re joining us now: Verona is split by a feud between Montagues and Capulets. At a Capulet feast, Romeo Montague meets Juliet Capulet. They fall in love at speed, marry in secret, and ...

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15:42

A Conversation with Romeo

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/03

Send us a text Welcome back. But first, If you’re joining us now for the first time, here is what you must know. Verona is split by a feud between two houses: Montague and Capulet. Romeo Montague meets Juliet Capulet at a feast, and they fall in love with reckless sincerity. They marry in secret—hoping, perhaps, that love might stitch together what hatred tore. However the city runs on pride and sudden violence. A street fight ends in death. Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished. Juliet faces ...

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33:34

Romeo, Romeo

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/03

Send us a text A large National Council of Teachers of English teacher survey reported by Education Week lists Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet among the most frequently assigned texts in U.S. And Folger Shakespeare Library notes its edition sales (a good “what schools buy” proxy) had Romeo and Juliet first, followed by Hamlet, Macbeth, then A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, and Julius Caesar. But before I start talking about British school subject matter, I better describe one certif...

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27:23

Shakespeare 3

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/02

Send us a text Mr. Shakespeare, in our previous episode, you were talking about your life and your literary career. Could you briefly remark on the uniqueness of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, as well as their importance to literature. Shakespeare Now I could not speak to this assemblage without addressing the subject of my play Hamlet. Many individuals have called it my greatest play. Here is a prince torn between revenge, morality, and his own inaction. With the simple, ye...

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25:55

Shakespeare 2

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/02

Send us a text You see, by 1582, when I was only eighteen, I married a lady by the name of Anne Hathaway, Some scholars Believe that my wive's name was actually Agnes. In any case, our first daughter, Susanna, was born the following year. Twins, Hamnet and Judith, followed in 1585. Unfortunately my dear son Hamnet later died. And then comes the mystery: the so-called “lost years.” Between 1585 and 1592, I completely disappear from the historical record. No plays, no mention...

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16:05

Shakespeare 1

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/02

Send us a text Greetings Mr. Bartley. Let me begin by saying that if you visit the city of Stratford-upon-Avon in England today, the first thing you’ll probably hear is that I was born in 1564. We don’t actually know the exact day, but we do know that I was baptized on April 26th at Holy Trinity Church. Since baptisms usually happened a few days after birth, tradition has settled on April 23rd — St. George’s Day — as my birthday. A fitting coincidence, since St. George is England’s patron sai...

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13:46

A Working Paywright

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/01

Send us a text Now when I started this podcast I knew that I wanted to use a somewhat similar device WHERE I interviewed THE characters in Shakespeare's play - that could be very instructive and lots of fun. But first I wanted to get the relatively tedious stuff out of the way first - starting with rhetorical devices. And then I DELVED into several episodes dealing with the plague in England during Shakespeare's time. Interestingly enough topic the all important subject of the plague was not ...

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11:29

Shoreditch

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/31

Send us a text Last episode we placed you in the Bishopsgate area by documentary footprints. Now we move a short distance to the engine room: Shoreditch—where purpose-built theatres rose. Two key playhouses defined the neighborhood: The Theatre (built 1576) — built by James Burbage in Shoreditch. The Curtain (opened 1577) — also in Shoreditch, near Curtain Close. Both sat outside the City of London’s jurisdiction, in a zone where entertainment could operate with fewer city res...

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13:26

First Footsteps in London

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/30

Send us a text GEORGE: Before we start, I want to be fair to the truth. We do not have a neat, signed lease saying: “William Shakespeare, here is your first London room, congratulations.” In fact, Shakespeare’s early London years are famously foggy. What we have instead is a trail of documents — tax records, parish lists — the kind of evidence that proves you existed in a place even if doesn’t give you a cozy story. WILL: History often remembers a man not when he is dreaming, but when he is...

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16:20

What We Owe the Dead

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/29

Send us a text GEORGE: The Bills of Mortality—weekly printed tallies—turned death into public information, something people watched like weather. (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) WILL: And once death is printed, it becomes “real” in a new way. But it also becomes… manageable. A column of numbers fits neatly on a page. A grave does not. GEORGE: That’s the paradox: a bill can keep the dead visible— and it can also teach the city to normalize loss. WILL: Yes. A repeated tragedy becomes background noise...

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16:40

How Plague Trained Us

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/29

Send us a text GEORGE: Today: How Plague Trained Us How plague trained Elizabethan culture—audiences included— toward certain fears and reflexes… and how COVID trained us in remarkably similar ways. GEORGE: Quick reminder: my Shakespeare can look back from the present day—films, scholarship, modern claims— but he cannot predict the future. No prophecy. WILL: Memory, yes. Foresight, no. GEORGE: Now, When I say “habits of mind,” I mean the reflexes that become automatic: how you interpret a...

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16:40

Plague Habits of Mind

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/28

Send us a text GEORGE: Now, When I say “habits of mind,” I mean the reflexes that become automatic: how you interpret a cough how you feel about crowds what you do with your hands what you believe when you’re afraid what you do to feel safe who you trust, and how quickly you withdraw trust WILL: An epidemic trains a person the way war trains a person— not by speeches, but by repeated fear. GEORGE: Exactly. Repetition makes instinct. GEORGE: Will—give me the plague-trained mind in your wor...

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17:54

The Audience of Survivors

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/28

Send us a text GEORGE: In this series we’ve treated plague as a character. We’ve treated fear as a character. We’ve treated rumor, policy, numbers—characters. Today I want to treat the audience itself as a character. Not a passive crowd. A living organism. WILL: Yes. A crowd is not merely many people. It is one creature with many hearts. GEORGE: And after plague, that creature is wounded. WILL: Wounded—and hungry. GEORGE: Hungry for what? WILL: For company. For permission to feel. For a...

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15:06

After the Plague

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/27

Send us a text WILL: When the theatre reopened, the audience came in carrying private funerals. They had lost parents, children, friends, patrons, rivals. They had seen doors marked. They had heard carts. They had watched the city grow quiet. So when they watched tragedy, they were not merely entertained— they were rehearsing mortality in public. GEORGE: That aligns with scholarship arguing that early modern tragic drama helped audiences imagine and process mortality—that theatre became on...

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14:35

Trust and Betrayal

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/27

Send us a text GEORGE: Today: trust and betrayal— why people cling to rumors, why institutions lose credibility, and why truth-telling has to be humane… or it fails. GEORGE: Reminder: my Shakespeare can look back from today at his life on earth—films, scholarship, modern claims— but he cannot predict the future. No prophecy. WILL: I may remember what was. I may observe what is. But I may not speak of what shall be. GEORGE: During COVID, the WHO used a word that nailed it: “infodemic.” They...

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14:53

The Social Contract

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/27

Send us a text GEORGE: Today: the social contract. Who bears the risk, who gets protected, who gets blamed, and who gets forgotten— in plague-time England and in COVID-era America. Quick reminder: my Shakespeare can look back from the present day at his life on earth—films, scholarship, modern claims— but he cannot predict the future. No prophecy. WILL: Memory, yes. Foresight, no. GEORGE: When I say “social contract,” I don’t mean a philosophy seminar. I mean the unwritten deal we make in ...

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16:05

Numbers and Narratives

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/26

Send us a text GEORGE: Today: Bills of Mortality in plague London— and COVID dashboards in our century. How counting the dead can help a society tell the truth… and how counting can also numb the heart. GEORGE: Quick reminder: my Shakespeare can look back from the present day. He can read scholarship, watch modern productions, react to modern claims— but he cannot predict the future. No prophecy. WILL: I am allowed memory. Not foresight. George, one might say that numbers become a characte...

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17:29

Cures, Quacks, and Miracles

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/01/25

Send us a text GEORGE (quiet): Now When people get scared, they don’t only ask, “What is happening?” They ask, “What can I do?” And if the honest answer is “not much,” we don’t accept it. We reach for something—anything— a charm, a potion, a ritual, a headline, a miracle. Isn't that true Master Shakespeare? WILL (dry): Yes, Humanity’s oldest hobby: bargaining with reality. GEORGE: Today: cures, quacks, and miracles— plague time versus COVID time— not as medical instructions, but as a portra...

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