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Hot Potato with a Bird
Season 5 Episode 530
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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 Nig…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Conversations with Teddy
Season 5 Episode 529
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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 (m…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Conversations with Slinky
Season 5 Episode 528
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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…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Museum Interview
Season 5 Episode 527
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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 …
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Pre Conversations with Toys
Season 5 Episode 526
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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 cove…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Ryan’s Rocket Man
Season 5 Episode 524
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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 o…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Price of Being Michael
Season 5 Episode 523
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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 t…
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Carter Code
Season 5 Episode 521
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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…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Radical Control
Season 5 Episode 520
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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 …
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Divine Miss Moment
Season 5 Episode 519
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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 sacr…
Published on 4 weeks ago