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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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18:10

Museum Interview

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/03

Send us a text Our story tonight doesn’t start in a toy store. No bright aisles. No sales. No blinking “Buy One, Get One Free” signs. Instead, we begin on a quiet city street, just after closing time, in front of an old stone building most people walk past without ever truly seeing. During the day, it’s a respectable institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts. But tonight… it’s dark. The front doors are locked. The lights are dim. And a slightly nervous job applic...

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26:19

Pre Conversations with Toys

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/02

Send us a text Now today’s episode is a little different. Usually, we spend our time tracking the lives of composers, musicians, and artists—people whose names end up in history books, or on album covers, or carved into theater walls. We talk about how they changed the sound of a century, or rewired what pop music could be, or turned their lives into performance. But for a while now, I’ve been quietly working on something a bit… stranger. For December, I’m moving us into a different kind o...

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30:14

Ryan’s Rocket Man

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/12/01

Send us a text In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits — they rewired popular music itself. Some of them crashed. Some of them burned out. Some of them never got old enough to figure out who they might have become. In the previous episode, we talked about Michael Jackson — a man whose genius was wrapped in pressure, pain, and dependency, and whose life ended in an overdose in a rented mansion in Los Angeles. Today’s story easily could have ended the ...

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24:44

The Price of Being Michael

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/30

Send us a text Today, we’re going to spend some time with a figure who shaped pop music, dance, music videos, and the idea of celebrity itself—only to become a tragic warning about what happens when that level of fame collides with a fragile human body and mind. Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana—a working-class steel town in the Midwest. He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, packed into a small house where money was tight, tempers could be h...

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19:34

The Carter Code

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/29

Send us a text Today, I want to put two lives—and two mythologies—side by side. Not as gossip. Not as tabloid spectacle. As a question: What happens when two Black artists rise from a Houston salon and a Brooklyn housing project to a place where they can rewire the business, the sound, and the story of popular music—and do it as a partnership? Let’s start in Houston. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles grows up in a middle-class Black family. Her mother, Tina, runs a salon. Her father, Mathew, works i...

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21:44

Radical Control

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/28

Send us a text In this current series, we’ve been living in the neighborhood of giants—artists who didn’t just have hits, but re-wired what popular music could be. Today… someone different again. A man who refused categories, ignored rules, blurred gender lines, shredded guitars, whispered falsettos, wrote anthems for other people in his spare time, and turned a small Midwestern city into the center of a new universe. Prince. Not “Prince the nostalgia act.” Prince the problem. Prince the...

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22:50

Divine Miss Moment

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/27

Send us a text In this series, we’ve spent time with giants—singers, songwriters, bands, entire movements. Some of them changed my life from a distance, through vinyl and radio and the accidental sacrament of a TV set in the living room. Today’s subject changed my life at arm’s length. Not in a stadium, not in a Broadway theater, not on a movie screen, but in a small brick house in Richmond, Virginia—the Edgar Allan Poe Museum—where a visiting diva looked across a desk and aimed one very sha...

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16:41

The Jersey Gospel

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/26

Send us a text This is the story of Bruce Springsteen—“The Boss”—a kid from a working-class town who turned everyday American lives into epic songs, who built a career on sweat, loyalty, doubt, faith, and three-hour marathons onstage that left entire arenas wrung out and grinning. Let’s walk through where he came from, what shaped him, how he broke through, who he’s influenced—and why, decades in, Bruce Springsteen still matters. Picture central New Jersey in the 1950s and 60s. Bruce Freder...

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19:14

American Mirror

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/25

Send us a text Today we are stepping straight into four decades of controversy, choreography, and calculated control. Madonna. Not just “the Queen of Pop,” but an artist who has treated her own life as a long, shape-shifting performance about power—who gets it, who’s allowed to keep it, and what happens when a woman refuses to sit down, shut up, or age politely. I’m George Bartley. Let’s begin. Madonna Louise Ciccone was born August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in the Detro...

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16:04

Inner Visions

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/24

Send us a text If you've been following this series of modern day musicians, you may remember a concert I mentioned with the Rolling Stones. It is true that the Stones were able to hold the audience and follow their hands, so to speak. But even before Mick Jagger strut out on stage, the opening act was Stevie Wonder = a living definition of a hard act to follow. If I had just seen his opening act, I could've left knowing that I had seen a great show = but I admit I would've definitely been di...

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19:29

World's Favorite Alien?

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/23

Send us a text Today, we turn to an artist who never seemed entirely earthbound.David Bowie.For some listeners, Bowie is the sound of discovery: that first moment you realize a song, a costume, a performance can make the world feel bigger than the town you’re standing in. For others, he’s a gallery of snapshots: Ziggy Stardust in orange hair and stardust makeup. The Thin White Duke in a waistcoat and a stare like a searchlight. Jareth in Labyrinth, juggling crystal balls and rewiring childhoo...

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24:44

The Price of Being Michael

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/23

Send us a text Today, we’re going to spend some time with a figure who shaped pop music, dance, music videos, and the idea of celebrity itself—only to become a tragic warning about what happens when that level of fame collides with a fragile human body and mind. Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana—a working-class steel town in the Midwest. He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, packed into a small house where money was tight, tempers could be h...

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16:40

Tears in Heaven

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/22

Send us a text Tonight we turn to a musician whose name has become shorthand for guitar mastery, blues devotion, and, depending on who you ask, the very idea of the rock “guitar hero.” Eric Clapton. For some listeners, he is the ultimate guitarist: the Yardbirds prodigy, the “Clapton Is God” graffiti on London walls, the molten solos with Cream, the aching beauty of “Layla” and “Tears in Heaven,” the tasteful bends and vocal-like phrasing that defined what an electric guitar could say. For...

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23:28

Who Are You?

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/21

Send us a text In this podcast episode, we’ll walk through where they came from, what shaped them, how they crashed into the United States—and then spend some real time inside Tommy: not just as an album, but as a story that refused to stay put, leaping from vinyl to concert halls, movie screens, and the Broadway stage. Imagine that it is Post war England and you are in West London Bomb sites are turning into parking lots and playgrounds. Teenagers caught between their parents’ memories of w...

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15:42

Riffs and Myth

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/20

Send us a text In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits—they changed the language of modern music. Today, we turn to a group that took blues, folk, volume, and mystery… and built a sound so iconic that entire genres still live in its echo. Led Zeppelin. Not just “loud.” Not just “wild.” Four musicians who fused session-honed precision, deep musical curiosity, and a taste for the epic into something that still feels massive generations later. Tonight,...

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23:00

Both Sides Singing

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/19

Send us a text Today we meet an artist who doesn’t blow the doors off with volume or choreography, but with something quieter—and in many ways, just as radical. A woman alone with a guitar in an open tuning. A voice that can sound like a bell, a blade, or a diary you were never meant to read. A songwriter who refuses to keep her feelings, or her harmonies, inside the lines. But inwardly a mother with empty arms carrying shame that didn't belong to her and grief she poured into songs that peo...

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23:00

Supreme Intentions

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/18

Send us a text Our story begins not with sequins but with a housing project. Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard both grew up in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass projects, one of the first federally funded housing developments for Black families. Diana Ross, who grew up nearby, joined that same orbit. Detroit in the 1950s and early 60s was a complex place: Automobile money and factory work. Northern promise and stubborn segregation. Church choirs, street-corner harmonies, jazz clubs, rhythm & b...

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22:15

Feedback and Fire

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/17

Send us a text Today, we turn to a musician whose care there were moves separations long stretches were Jimmy simply simply had to figure things out on his own no one was buying but whose shadow is so long that every electric guitarist since has had to walk through it. Jimi Hendrix. He didn’t just play louder. He didn’t just play faster. He changed what the electric guitar meant. He changed the expectations for sound, for performance, for what a song could hold. In this episode, I want to ...

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23:33

The Queen of Soul

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/16

Send us a text Today we turn to a voice that has become a kind of measuring stick. A singer you can’t ignore, can’t casually imitate, and certainly can’t replace. Aretha Louise Franklin. You can line up all the adjectives: legendary, iconic, incomparable. But with Aretha, those words almost sound lazy. The real story is more interesting. It’s the story of how a shy, brilliant preacher’s daughter walked out of a Detroit church and, without surrendering where she came from, changed what mains...

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19:36

Dylan and the Fall

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/15

Send us a text If you grew up in a certain era, his name isn’t just a performer on a poster. It’s a weather system. A shift in air pressure. A bulletin from the fault line where art, politics, faith, doubt, youth, age, and trouble all collided. And at the end of this episode, I’m going to tell you about one night—one Bob Dylan concert—that coincided with the most frightening turn my own life had taken up to that point, and how, in a way, it nudged me toward paying attention to people many ot...

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