Celebrate Creativity

George Bartley
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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.

  1. Voice Control - Promo Two

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    Voice Control - Promo Two

    Send us Fan Mail Now I believe I mentioned that at one time I was doing up to two and three podcasts episodes a day.  As a teenager I had a series of epileptic seizures, and was told that I should not swim - but after I started taking a new medication at that time - Depakote - my seizures became a thing of the past. And I'll talk about a little bit more about that later.  I also started interpreting for the deaf, especially Shakespearean plays. And when I realized that I could swim safely, I started swimming 2 miles three times a week. Of course at the time I thought all this was cool, but I never thought about the fact that my activities were devastating my hands and fingers. I realized recently that I needed to take a break and learn a brand new way of communicating with a computer.  I don't mean to say this was just a choice I made - I would wake up in the morning with agonizing pain. So I decided to take that break - for the sake of my hands and arms - and especially because I know that so much of the information regarding voice control requires me to try out the steps myself and see if they work. I would hate to have to go back and say this will work but this doesn't really work. I want get it right the first time or as much as I can!  I wanna be sure and give you information that you can depend on!With something like Voice Control, the difference between sounding informed and being trustworthy is often very small on the surface, but enormous in reality. I hope that you will see the delay not as wasted time at all and I   I would like to think that listeners are not looking for just glossy theory. They are looking for someone who has gone into the weeds, made mistakes, tried the steps, hit the snags, and come back with something dependable.Because what I what I am building here are not just a series of episodes. I would like to think that along with the information, I am building credibility. A listener can forgive: “This took me a while to figure out.” “I had to test this several times.” But it is much harder for a listener to forgive advice that sounds certain and then fails the moment they try it. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    12 min
  2. Voice Control - Promo One

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    Voice Control - Promo One

    Send us Fan Mail Hello this is George Bartley. And no, I have not fallen off the face of the Earth.  In fact, my podcast Celebrate Creativity - with its current emphasis on William Shakespeare was in high gear - at one point I was doing two and even three episodes a day. Currently Celebrate Creativity has over 32,000 episodes globally. But that rate of output really couldn't continue very long and I started experiencing excruciating pain in my wrists and hands.  As a result, I became fascinated with a way of communicating with a MacIntosh that was totally new to me - a sophisticated way of dictating and controlling all the icons and buttons that you normally work with totally by voice.  So I am starting a new podcast series called how to talk with your MacIntosh - later on we'll get into operating iPads and iPhones by voice. And this is one podcast that I am really working hard on - because I definitely do not want it to be a series of flashy comments that end up teaching you nothing. After a bit of practice, I want you to be able to use your MacIntosh, almost as though you were talking with a friend.  In other words I want to show you vocal commands that work and are easy to use.  It may take practice, but it is sooooo worth it! My goal is to teach you how to sit back and tell your Mac what you want it to do using only your voice.  I have never worked as hard on a podcast, and plan to start the podcast on the first day of the lusty month of May. In the meantime I will have more promos on April the 10th, 17th, and 24th - each on a  Friday - regarding the buildup to this very important podcast - I want to be sure that you gain a strong foundation in learning Voice Control for a variety of reasons, not the least is that your hands will thank you.   And watching all those files and folders move across the computer screen to obey your voice it's about as close to magic as I have ever experienced! So join me May 1, 2026 for a solid introduction to voice control that combines the definitely practical with the seemingly magical! Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    4 min
  3. The Mouse Trap

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    The Mouse Trap

    Send us Fan Mail Up to now, Hamlet has lived inside questions. “Did my uncle really do it?” “Can I trust the Ghost?” “Am I being manipulated?” “Am I losing my mind—or pretending to?” Act 3 Scene 2 is the moment Hamlet says, in effect: “I’m done being uncertain. I’m going to test the truth.” In other words, Hamlet creates a situation where Claudius either sits calmly… or cracks. What makes this scene so powerful is that Hamlet is doing two things at once. One: He wants evidence. Two: He wants to feel power again. Because Hamlet has been watched, managed, and fenced in. So now he decides to flip the arrangement. Now he watches. Now he controls the room. Now he designs the moment. And that leads us to one of the best surprises in the play: Hamlet suddenly becomes a director. He lectures the actors about how to perform— not too big, not too fake, not too showy. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    25 min
  4. Get Thee to a Notary!

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    Get Thee to a Notary!

    Send us Fan Mail Master Shakespeare, are you ready? SHAKESPEARE: As ready as any man may be, entering a room where love is examined like evidence. GEORGE: That’s exactly it. Because what happens here is not romance. It’s a controlled experiment—and Ophelia is the instrument. GEORGE: Let’s start with the setup. Claudius and Polonius plan to spy. They stage-manage Ophelia. They put a book in her hands. They position her. What’s the moral temperature of this plan? SHAKESPEARE: Cold. And convenient. They call it “care for her.” They call it “care for the prince.” But the act is simple: they use her presence to harvest Hamlet’s secrets. GEORGE: And what’s chilling is how normal it seems to them. “We’ll just hide over here.” It’s like a household trick. SHAKESPEARE: Power always wishes to be ordinary. If it feels ordinary, it feels permissible. GEORGE: So right away, Ophelia enters a room where her feelings aren’t the point. Her feelings are the bait. GEORGE: Now—Ophelia. I want to underline something for listeners: she’s not “weak.” She’s trained. She has been coached to obey father, brother, court—every authority that tells her what “good” looks like. SHAKESPEARE: A young woman in that world is praised for being governable. They call it virtue. But it is also control. GEORGE: So when Polonius gives her instructions, it isn’t just advice. It’s a system: “Speak when told. Hold this. Stand here. Offer the tokens.”Four Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    21 min
  5. Spies and Players

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    Spies and Players

    Send us Fan Mail GEORGE: So right away: the scene begins with the king and queen acting like concerned parents. But it feels… staged.   SHAKESPEARE: Because it is staged. Mark their language: they crave a cause, a label, a tidy diagnosis — “What ails him?” Yet their hands are already in the plot. They have hired watchers. Concern and control wear the same cloak here. GEORGE: And the watchers are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — Hamlet’s old friends. Let me ask bluntly: are they villains? SHAKESPEARE: They are instruments. Not grand villains with black banners — rather men who wish to please authority and keep their place. In a court like this, friendship becomes employment. And employment demands a report. GEORGE: So Claudius says, “Spend time with Hamlet, figure out what’s wrong,” but the real job is: Find what he knows. Find what he intends. SHAKESPEARE: Aye. And I make it plain: they are sent for. They are not there by chance. They are summoned, instructed, rewarded. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    24 min
  6. Short But Loaded

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    Short But Loaded

    Send us Fan Mail Part 1 — Polonius coaches surveillance (Polonius + Reynaldo) Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris with money and messages for Laertes. But Polonius doesn’t say, “Go check on my son like a normal person.” He says—basically—“Go investigate my son.” Here’s the tactic, and it’s nasty in a very realistic way: Polonius tells Reynaldo: Don’t ask directly, “How is Laertes behaving?” Instead, casually drop mild accusations and see what sticks. Not monstrous lies. Little “reasonable” hints. He’s teaching Reynaldo to do this: Talk to people who might know Laertes. Suggest that Laertes has been seen drinking, gambling, getting into trouble. Keep it vague—lightly scandalous. Then watch how the other person responds. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    16 min
  7. The Ghost Speaks

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    The Ghost Speaks

    Send us Fan Mail Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5 — the scene where the ghost finally speaks. And I want to emphasize something from the start: The ghost’s message doesn’t just give Hamlet information. It changes Hamlet’s operating system. It changes what Hamlet thinks the world is. It changes what Hamlet thinks he must do. And it changes what kind of person Hamlet is allowed to be from this moment on. [Music sting] Segment 1 — What happens in the scene (plot, slowly and clearly) GEORGE: Master Shakespeare, let’s begin with the basic plot of Act 1, Scene 5. Hamlet has followed the ghost away from Horatio and Marcellus. What happens next? SHAKESPEARE: The dead speaks. The son listens. And the world is no longer the same. GEORGE: Here’s the plot in plain language: Hamlet is alone with the ghost. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    20 min
  8. Follow It!

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    Follow It!

    Send us Fan Mail Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4. Act 1, Scene 2 gave us the court saying, “Get over it.” Act 1, Scene 3 gave us family advice that’s really control. Now Scene 4 takes us back to the battlements — the cold night air — where the play asks a different question: When truth appears in an unsettling form… Do you follow it? GEORGE: Master Shakespeare, we’ve moved from court politics and family warnings back to the night watch. Why return to the battlements now? SHAKESPEARE: Because the day has done its work. Now the night may speak. GEORGE: Let me paraphrase that for listeners: Daytime Denmark is where people control the story. Nighttime Denmark is where the story refuses to be controlled. And Hamlet arrives here already loaded. He’s grieving. He’s disgusted. He’s isolated. And now he’s standing in a place where the living expect the dead. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    19 min
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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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  • Creator
    George Bartley
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    612
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Celebrate Creativity
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    Celebrate Creativity