About this podcast
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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- Dreams of Poe · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 669Send us Fan Mail Poe - bold text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity, and this is the Hall of Imagination. Now I am curious which wax figure wants to speak with me tonight. Mr…
- Dracula Two · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 668Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Part Two of a conversation with Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. We begin in this podcast episode with some observations by Mr. Stoker. Stoker: It…
- Dracula One · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 667Send us Fan Mail [A clock strikes midnight. Footsteps approach, then stop.] Night Watchman: Well, now. Somebody has put a new gentleman in the hall, and nobody thought to tell…
- The First Lesbian Vampire Story · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 666Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Hall of imagination– A part of Celebrate Creativity. In this episode, I would like to talk with a new exhibit to the wax museum– The figure of…
- Vlad the Impaler · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 665Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Hall of Imagination. I especially want to think all of you who listened to the episodes regarding the wax figure of Edgar Allan Poe which was a…
- Lonesome October · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 664Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Lonesome October episode of this three podcast episode series regarding Edgar Allan Poe. NIGHT WATCHMAN: October has a sound. NIGHT WATCHMAN: It…
- Intimacy with Terror · 17 min · Season 6 Episode 663Send us Fan Mail Welcome to celebrate creativity–this is the second of three in a series regarding Edgar Allan Poe and Halloween. And this podcast episode begins with Mr. Poe…
- Poe at Halloween · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 662Send us Fan Mail HALLOWEEN ONE NIGHT WATCHMAN: There are nights in this museum when silence is merely silence. And there are nights when silence appears to be listening.Tonight…
- Poe and Hope · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 661Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity- Poe’s Words of Hope Hello, my name is George Bartley, and I am here with the wax figure of Edgar Allan Poe. Since Poe has…
- The Pit and the Pillow · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 680Send us Fan Mail Night Watchmen - Mr. Bartley - plain text Edgar Allan Poe – bold text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the Hall of Wonder. Glad you're there Mr. Poe. You know…
- Nevermore! · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 681Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the Hall of Imagination- Poe Explains the Raven. Hello Mr. Poe Greetings Mr. Bartley Very welcome to see you today Mr. Poe. I…
- The Black Cat · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 680Send 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…
- VAMPIRIC ENERGY? · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 679Send 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…
- Perversity? · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 678Send 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…
- Most Influential · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 677Send 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…
- The Will · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 676Send 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…
- Mommy Issues · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 675Send 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…
- Poe at UVA · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 674Send 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…
- Alone · 14 min · Season 6 Episode 673Send 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…
- Fighting Words · 12 min · Season 6 Episode 672Send 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…
- The New Exhibit · 13 min · Season 6 Episode 671Send 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…
- Fallingwater Dreams, Part Two · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 670Send 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…
- Fallingwater Dreams, Part One · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 669Send 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…
- Tragedy Strikes · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 668Send 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…
- The World's Greatest Architect · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 667Send 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…
- The Weight · 28 min · Season 6 Episode 666Send 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…
- The Unfinished Story · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 665Send 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…
- The Idiot · 28 min · Season 6 Episode 664Send 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…
- The Wheelchair as Freedom! · 28 min · Season 6 Episode 663Send 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…
- A Pig on Ice · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 662Send 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…
- The Pineapple and the Playbook · 39 min · Season 6 Episode 661Send 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…
- Did Bob Dylan Cause My Seizures? · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 660Send 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…
- Pineapple Promo · 16 min · Season 6 Episode 659Send 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…
- Monster? · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 658Send 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…
- The Island Speaks! · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 657Send 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…
- Plagues! · 19 min · Season 6 Episode 656Send 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…
- A Fascination with Language · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 655Send 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…
- Words Become Music · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 654Send 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…
- WHERE PASSION RULES · 19 min · Season 6 Episode 653Send 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…
- Repeating at the Beginning · 17 min · Season 6 Episode 652Send 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…
- Persuasion on the Stage · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 651Send 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…
- One, Two, Three! · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 650Send 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…
- Love Me Tender · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 649Send 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…
- Rock’s First Guitar Hero · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 648Send 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…
- Allegations · 19 min · Season 6 Episode 647Send 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…
- Becoming the King of Pop · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 646Send 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…
- Pineapple Promo · 4 min · Season 6 Episode 645Send 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…
- Being Alive! · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 644Send 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…
- I Contain Multitudes! · 28 min · Season 6 Episode 643Send 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…
- Just Call Me Walt · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 642Send 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…
