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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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15:52

The Color of Thinking

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/22

Send us a text NARRATOR: In the center of the case sits a classic 3×3 Rubik’s Cube— a pocket-size universe that has humbled presidents, professors, and perfectly confident ten-year-olds. It’s the kind of toy that whispers: “Go ahead. Touch me. I will teach you something about yourself.” [SFX: A TINY CLICK. LIKE PLASTIC TURNING—JUST ONCE.] NIGHT WATCHMAN (startled): …Did you just…? RUBIK’S CUBE (CALM, PRECISE): You heard correctly. NIGHT WATCHMAN: You talk? RUBIK’S CUBE: Only when the bui...

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15:52

The Hidden Reel

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/21

Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, LOW): Welcome to Celebrate Creativity… and Conversations with Toys. This episode is VIEW-MASTER: CLICK INTO WONDER. This podcast is a dramatization that blends historical research with fiction, satire, and imagined conversations between people, toys, and other objects. It is not a documentary and not professional advice of any kind. No character, toy, product, or brand depicted in this podcast is authorized by, endorsed by, or officially affiliated with a...

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23:52

Practice Baby

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/20

Send us a text NIGHT WATCHMAN (reading): “Betsy Wetsy. Vintage baby doll. A ‘practice baby’—a caretaking toy reflecting changing ideas about childhood play and domestic life…” NARRATOR: He pauses, as if the next line might argue back. NIGHT WATCHMAN (continuing): “Please do not touch the exhibits.” That last part—I wrote myself. [SFX: Another tiny plastic creak.] BETSY WETSY (bright, polite, slightly prim): Mr. Smith. NIGHT WATCHMAN (not surprised, just tired): Evenin’, Betsy. BETSY WET...

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21:29

The Tell Tale Toy

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/19

Send us a text The alphabet blocks are gathered around the bobble head figure of Edgar Allan Poe - complete with Raven. The alphabet blocks seem to be fascinated by Mr.Poe’s use of language and are clearly intrigued by his words until the night watchmen makes an announcement. Block a You are famous for your work of terror. Could you share with us your scariest poem. Mr. Poe. That really depends on your opinion - what you believe is scary. Many people believe my poem The Conqueror Worm...

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25:32

Poe and the Stars

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/18

Send us a text Tonight we leave the playhouse wing and walk—quietly—into a different kind of stage: a mirrored room, a window, and a tube of glass and brass pointed at the sky. Because when Edgar Allan Poe looks up, he doesn’t just want a story. He wants an explanation. SFX: soft footsteps, a faint “gallery hum,” a distant night security beep. Different exhibit tonight, folks. Same rule, though—no touching the artifacts… even when they start talking back. Now a telescope, such as the o...

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23:15

Jealous Angels

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/17

Send us a text NARRATOR / NIGHT WATCHMAN (gentle, amused): It’s amazing what feels different in a museum at midnight. In the daytime, the lights are bright, the brochures are tidy, the gift shop is cheerful… …but when the doors are locked and the echoes stretch a little longer… you start to notice the small things. The way the glass cases hold their breath. The way the EXIT signs glow like tiny red moons. And, sometimes… the way one little plastic head keeps nodding… long after everyone’s go...

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33:52

Bard's Curtain Call

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/16

Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING) Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys, our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— where the lights are low, the alarms are set, and words wait quietly on the shelves… until someone notices them. Narrator And we see the action figure of William Shakespeare - complete with quill - surrounded by a group of alphabet blocks. He continues to talk about his life and literary career. Shakespeare Ma...

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26:59

Plague & Playhouse

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/15

Send us a text Shakespeare Hello Mr. Smith. This is William Shakespeare the action figure, and I would be most remiss if I did not continue my narrative regarding my education in Stratford. You see, like many boys of my station, I probably attended the King’s New School in Stratford. It has been so long that I must admit I am a bit foggy. The curriculum would have been heavy on Latin, rhetoric, and the classics. Day after day, I was been drilled in the works of Ovid, Seneca, and Plautu...

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21:46

Quill After Midnight

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/14

Send us a text Night watchman I must admit that my first impression of the William Shakespeare action figure was - what is all the big deal. I even have a background in Shakespeare acting - though I don't have a job with that training. But if you look at the William Shakespeare action figure - even though he has a scroll and quiil - your first reaction is what is all the fuss for? Narrator As the narrator of this podcast episode, my suggestion is to look at the history of the character...

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18:27

Words at Play

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/13

Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING) Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys, our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— where the lights are low let's get the disclaimer out of the way this podcast behind every line of Shakespeare behind every Erie sentence from Poe behind every every the alarms are set, and words wait quietly on the shelves… until someone notices them. NARRATOR (WARM, WRAP-UP): The alphabet b...

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18:34

Alphabet Blocks

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/12

Send us a text NARRATOR (WARM, INVITING) Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and Conversations with Toys, our after-hours visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts— where the lights are low let's get the disclaimer out of the way this podcast behind every line of Shakespeare behind every Erie sentence from Poe behind every every the alarms are set, and words wait quietly on the shelves… until someone notices them. NARRATOR (WARM, WRAP-UP): The alphabet b...

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18:50

The Pillow Everyone Cries Into

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/11

Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum isn’t all hard plastic and sharp corners. Some shelves are quieter. Softer. Places where the edges give way and the labels blur a little. Tonight, the Night Watchman has wandered away from Barbie’s high heels and Ken’s molded hair into a part of the museum that feels more like a pillow aisle. [Footsteps slow. There’s a soft rustle, like fabric against fabric.] NIGHT WATCHMAN: Okay. This… is new to me. NARRATOR: The shelf in front of him doe...

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19:11

Click, Click, Bamboo

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/10

Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum remembers everything. It remembers the first teddy bear sewn by an immigrant. It remembers Barbie striking a pose at a 1959 toy fair. It remembers dragon trucks that eat cars and tiny supermarkets where children practice being grownups. But tonight, the museum is thinking in rectangles. Bricks. Studs. The quiet click that has become one of the most recognizable sounds in the toy world. The Night Watchman has wandered into the construction win...

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21:03

And Ken

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/09

Send us a text The Toy Museum has its own kind of gravity. Once you’ve visited a shelf, it tugs at you. Tonight, the Night Watchman finds himself back in the Barbie gallery. Same pink glow. Same tiny shoes. But the spotlight is different. It’s shifted to the left. [Soft click of a case light turning on.] NARRATOR: Onto a smiling man, molded hair, permanent tan, and a wardrobe that never quite decides what he does for a living. NIGHT WATCHMAN: All right, then. Your turn. KEN (slightly n...

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25:06

Barbie and the Closet

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/08

Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum never really sleeps. It sighs. It settles. It adjusts its labels. But somewhere, between the glass cases and the security cameras, the night gets… strange. Previously, the Night Watchman met a bear who smelled like home. Tonight, he’s walked into a different kind of dream— one made of high heels, sequins, and an alarming number of tiny pink shoes. [Footsteps slow. A light switch clicks. A faint, glamorous “whoosh” of spotlights.] NIGHT WATCH...

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25:42

Aisle 3: Imagination

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/07

Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum KNOWS how to roar. It has dragons that eat cars, tiny metal racers that dare gravity, and shelves of toys that glow and beep and shout. But sometimes, the museum does something much quieter. It turns the dullest errands of adult life into a stage for children. Tonight, the Night Watchman has wandered away from speeding cars and plastic teeth, into a corner of the museum that feels… suspiciously like a grocery store. [Footsteps sl...

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18:21

Speed, Teeth, and Two Lanes

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/06

Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum has currents, like an ocean. Soft shelves, hard shelves, loud shelves, quiet ones. Last night, the Night Watchman nearly fell asleep leaning against a Squishmallow— no-questions-asked softness in pastel colors. Tonight, the current drags him somewhere else. Somewhere harder. Sharper. Louder. Footsteps NARRATOR: He’s entered the vehicles area. Rows of tiny cars. Trucks. Motorcycles. Helicopters frozen mid-rescue, race cars mid-victory lap. A...

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17:48

Hot Potato with a Bird

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/05

Send us a text NARRATOR (GEORGE): The Toy Museum has its quiet corners— where Squishmallows wait to be hugged, and where a teddy bear smells like home. Tonight is not one of those corners. Tonight, the Night Watchman has wandered into the game aisle— the place where toys don’t just sit and get held. They demand players. They demand rules. They demand noise. [Footsteps on carpet, then a slightly hollo w thunk as he bumps a shelf.] NARRATOR: Board games stare at Mr. Smith from every...

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22:54

Conversations with Teddy

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/04

Send us a text Ebenezer is back. This is the second night for Ebeneezer Smith as the new night watchmen at the Metropolitan Museum of toys and childhood artifacts KEY in lock. DOOR opening.] EBENEZER (muttering to himself): Well, I’m here. Again. This time I doubt I’ll meet any human beings I can talk with… The toys might be a different story. But honestly? I don’t understand what happened last night. I have no idea if that conversation with Slinky was a one-time...

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21:28

Conversations with Slinky

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/04

Send us a text Hello my name is Ebeneezer Smith Thank you for staying with me.(mutters to himself) All right. Let’s see what kind of neighbors I’ve got. There is a set of plastic building bricks. There is a board game whose box I remember arguing over with my cousins. And in the “Comfort and Companions” section, a bear that looks suspiciously like something I once slept with every night until I was far too old to admit it. [SOUND: Footsteps slow.] And I admit this is the kind of atmosphere t...

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