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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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32:16

The Falling Sickness?

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/12

Send a text What we honestly have is ancient testimony, not “medical proof. What the ancient sources actually say Two major biographers written well after Caesar’s death report episodes that sound like seizures: Suetonius (writing ~150 years later) says Caesar was “twice attacked by the falling sickness” during his campaigns, and also mentions fainting fits and nightmares later in life. Plutarch also describes Caesar as having episodes of illness and uses them at times to explain his b...

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28:02

Man, Myth, and Problem

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2026/02/11

Send a text The Caesar Shakespeare gives us is not a cardboard tyrant. That’s important. If Caesar were obviously monstrous, the play would become an easy sermon: “Kill the tyrant and save the republic.” But Shakespeare refuses the easy version. He makes Caesar impressive, admired, and also irritating. He makes Caesar popular, and also proud. He makes Caesar capable of generosity, and also capable of dismissing people. He makes Caesar a public figure, and still a man who likes being told he i...

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23:43

Macbeth Is Not Hard

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/10

Send a text Macbeth is not hard. It’s human. Here’s the whole play in one simple truth: Macbeth made Macbeth. Let me say that again: The witches tempt. Lady Macbeth pressures. But Macbeth chooses. They light matches all around him—but Macbeth decides to set the house on fire. This story is not fate winning. This story is choice repeated until it becomes character. HOST: Here is Macbeth in five easy steps. Temptation — an idea enters. Choice — a line is crossed. Habit — violence becomes a met...

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23:51

Macbeth’s Last Days

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/09

Send us a text Macbeth’s tragedy ends when fear disappears—not because he becomes brave, but because he becomes numb and falsely certain. Now let’s locate ourselves. HOST: We’re in the final stretch. Act 4 Scene 1: Macbeth returns to the witches for more prophecy. Act 5: the kingdom turns, the signs pile up, the “impossible” begins to happen, and Macbeth faces the end. This is the arc: uncertainty → prophecy → false certainty → collapse. And that’s exactly what happens to a human mind wh...

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22:36

Hell Is Murky!

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/07

Send us a text HOST (George): In Macbeth, evil rarely arrives waving a pitchfork; it arrives wearing a suit and offering a reasonable argument that elections are no longer necessary. That’s how it works in public life—and it’s how it works in this play. And Lady Macbeth is the clearest example. Here’s the main idea of this episode. Lady Melania - I mean lady macbeth -doesn’t begin as a monster. She begins as a person who treats conscience like a problem to solve. Let me say that again, be...

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21:34

Macbeth's Morality

Celebrate Creativity ·

2026/02/07

Send us a text Macbeth does not become evil because he’s confused. He becomes evil because he learns to call evil “reasonable.” Let me repeat that, because that’s the whole episode: He starts using good logic for a bad purpose. That’s how a smart person goes wrong. Shakespeare makes Macbeth understandable on purpose. He shows you the self-talk. We’re picking up right after the witches in Act 1 Scene 3. Macbeth has heard “king hereafter,” and now his mind is buzzing. Then: Act 1 Scene 4:...

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29:47

Macbeth and the Witches

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2026/02/06

Send us a text People call Macbeth a monster. But Shakespeare’s trick is sharper than that: he shows you a man who can still choose—and then shows you the exact moment he starts outsourcing his choices to ambition, marriage, and prophecy. Macbeth—thane, hero, newly honored… and about to discover that wanting something is not the same as deserving it. Now to most of you in the United States, the word THANE might be unfamiliar. It simply means a basically a Scottish noble—a trusted local lord...

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27:40

Romeo and Juliet in New York

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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

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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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