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Tricolon: List of Three
Season 5 Episode 563
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SHAKESPEARE:
Aye. The mind loves threes.
Beginning, middle, end.
Birth, life, death.
Knock, knock, knock.
GEORGE:
I knew you’d do that—thre…
6 months ago
Say It Again, Will: Anaphora
Season 5 Episode 561
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GEORGE:
Master Shakespeare, are you with us?
SHAKESPEARE (warm, amused):
Indeed, sir. I am ever at your elbow—though I confess, your age…
6 months ago
Rhetoric Gym
Season 5 Episode 560
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GEORGE (to mic, playful):
All right. Confession
Some people hear the phrase “rhetorical devices” and immediately reach for the nearest…
6 months ago
Shakespeare's First Home
Season 5 Episode 559
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George:
Stratford-upon-Avon is not London. Not even close.
London is noise—argument, urgency, ambition. London is a place where a man c…
6 months ago
Transitions
Season 5 Episode 558
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Welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley.
For the next section of this podcast, I’m beginning a new series I’m calling Con…
6 months ago
We Need to Talk
Season 5 Episode 557
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NARRATOR:
New Year’s Day.
The museum is quiet the way a room gets quiet after somebody says,
“We need to talk.”
Last night the toys lit u…
6 months ago
The Patio Rebellion
Season 5 Episode 556
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NARRATOR:
The Night Watchman rises from his desk and follows the sound—past the exhibits, past the quiet corridors, toward the patio d…
6 months, 1 week ago
Blank Slate
Season 5 Episode 555
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NARRATOR:
In the museum, toys do not age the way people age.
They don’t get older, exactly.
They get… remembered.
And on the last nights …
6 months, 1 week ago
String Theory
Season 5 Episode 554
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NIGHT WATCHMAN (to mic, mock-host energy):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Late Night at the Toy Museum.
Tonight’s t…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Color of Thinking
Season 5 Episode 553
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NARRATOR:
Welcome back to the Metropolitan Museum of Toys and Childhood Artifacts—where the lights dim, the doors lock, and the exhibi…
6 months, 1 week ago