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In this episode, we engage in an energetic discussion about creativity. Covering topics from music and art to technology and cooking, we examine how creativity manifests in various areas of life. Hear personal stories, learn tips for nurturing creativity, and understand the value of thinking outside the box.
Often, we forget that creativity isn't just an artistic pursuit; it's a way of living. By incorporating creativity into our daily routines, we can enrich our lives and motivate those around us. So, take what you have and create what you want—creativity is all around us, waiting to be unleashed.
Key Points:
The role of creativity in music and art. How technology and creativity intersect. Personal stories of creative expression. Encouraging creativity in everyday life.
Often, we forget that creativity isn't just an artistic pursuit; it's a way of living. By incorporating creativity into our daily routines, we can enrich our lives and motivate those around us. So, take what you have and create what you want—creativity is all around us, waiting to be unleashed.
Key Points:
The role of creativity in music and art. How technology and creativity intersect. Personal stories of creative expression. Encouraging creativity in everyday life.
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00:00we want to know what do you have to say oh what do you have to say oh there's no time to wait
00:12what do you have to say together we lift our voices and let them ring
00:18oh oh yeah yeah yeah talking about life we got stories to reveal
00:24how you doing yes uriah how are you you know what i'm i we were talking a little bit before
00:34right i was i was having me a little nap before we did this here so i'm feeling good i and you look
00:44good and your smile is bright so i know you rested well i me on the other hand i just got off the
00:52road so i um i'm a little worn but uh in order to do this i'm i'm i'm in uh all the way so uh
01:02you know about what do you have to say and uh we have just a really great topic this week
01:07you know and um what do you have to say no it's not about food because i'm hungry
01:15i'm thinking about getting a burrito
01:19as long as it is you know one of those good homemade burritos you know that uh oh a burrito
01:32from a food where are you going to go down the street you know i say i'm i grew up in kansas but
01:40i'm from california so i'm looking for uh authentic mexican restaurant to give me a burrito that i'm
01:48used to okay um and i know this is off topic but i ate the best burrito in cal in san diego
01:59california um off a food truck it was the you know i just can't even explain it how how good it was
02:08it was uh but if the food truck it didn't look so you know but they were serving it up because
02:16the line was you know the line was down around the corner and now it's like oh okay i gotta stop here
02:22because it didn't look like it was a new food truck and modernized and everything but i feel you that
02:28sounds so good burritos i i know we're gonna talk about something but yes yes yes was it yesterday
02:36yesterday yesterday i waited an hour for a hamburger
02:41i did listen so when i now that i'm here i'm i'm trying to find the best things pizzas hamburgers all
02:55the staples that i'm used to oh the staple pizza is
02:58i haven't heard that one okay yeah okay you haven't heard pizza's a staple i didn't know it was part of
03:08the food groups okay all right all right uh my aunt rose said she said well did you try this place
03:15it's called um sport burger so yellow building they're only open from five o'clock to eight o'clock
03:23they don't take nothing but cash is that i know them places yes and so i got there and i was
03:31i was there before five i was waiting the parking lot because i thought you could go into order but
03:37you can't you can only go through their drive-thru so i'm sitting over here in this parking lot
03:42and i see the lady finally come out and she goes over to the drive-thru and she removes this little
03:47thing and there's somebody there already like i'm like darn it so i go around the block
03:52and now i'm third in line
03:55fourth in line fourth in line and it took me from five o'clock to six o'clock
04:03to order my food oh my gosh and let me tell you i'll never do it again no okay was it good though what's
04:14okay it could have been really good the hamburger wasn't seasoned i wanted a burger like them places
04:24where they have have so much salt and pepper and onions on that grill that it's automatically seasoned
04:31it's already it's the move they got the grease on the grill if your grill don't have no grease on it
04:36it's just you you can't do it can't do it uh wow now you're talking about food and you have to talk about
04:44the hamburger place that is in arc city that it is it's on why do i want to say it's right it used
04:53to be right by a liquor store across the street from the liquor store madison madison yes what is it
05:01called that's the kind of place i'm looking that's the that that that's the yeah um that yeah and uh
05:08they have one like that in winfield too and uh they have it it's the same taste it's that it's got
05:16that grease on that grill and that's it with them fried onions and uh and pickles and mustard and it's
05:24like yeah yeah yeah now yeah now i'm thinking i'm okay okay i am too we're gonna have dinner after this
05:31you know just um what uh what do you have to say about creativity i'm anxious to hear what you got
05:40about creativity yeah i don't know well i mean both i would say both of us are creative people
05:50um in similar and dissimilar ways um
05:54um creativity is uh i i think that a lot of people don't realize their creativity
06:04i have to agree with you oh i think they don't realize their creativity because
06:13what's the right word judgment we look at other people and what they're doing
06:17okay i'm an artist and if i if i can't be like leonardo da vinci or van gogh or monet then or
06:26if i can't do my thing like this musician or actor or writer right what can i do do so i think we don't
06:35realize our creativity and i don't think that creativity is necessarily encouraged i think
06:47in western culture maybe i don't know if it's around the world well i know in eastern some eastern
06:57cultures you do it this way go along with the flow let's go if you tend to stand out right for whatever
07:06reasons a lot of times it's because you think outside the box which i think is a part of creativity
07:12then you seem as odd and so some people dim themselves and then some people embrace
07:18that creativity or the difference right right right so i mean that's just one little aspect
07:25there's a lot to talk about but that's my intro the creativity yeah i i believe that creativity
07:32and like you say i don't believe that it is fostered and if it is not fostered then it it will not
07:39uh in that person it will either they'll press it down or they're the mission diminish it you know
07:46or dismiss it and um i see it but i i i love creativity and i believe that it is thriving in
07:57areas where we just we don't really um look for it i mean i just think about kids since i teach children
08:06that they're i mean can you remember it did not take much for us to be entertained as children
08:13it does not take much as all because they have that creativity and to uh they could take a towel
08:21and put it around their neck and they could be a superhero that you know and imagination and creativity
08:28um uh just kind of go hand in hand but um just thinking back when i was a child
08:34and it did not take much uh to be creative and create whole worlds in our mind and take um playing
08:43with uh army men and just create a whole scenario so being creative is always with us i think that
08:52as adults like you say maybe culturally they may not um may not um not condone that but may not
09:01encourage that but i think creativity is just alive and well all around us i mean like you say we're
09:09creators and i think as um many people that creator that create um i don't think that it's going away
09:19for a while we hear that creativity may diminish because of ai or anything like that oh yeah you
09:25know i think creativity is alive and well as so many so many creators well i think it needs to be fostered
09:34i remember when i was young and having to you know my mom put me in piano lessons amongst a lot of other lessons
09:46um the my first piano teacher was bobby lynn from from church oh and initially my mom was going to allow
09:59her to teach me how to play by ear and then she switched because she wanted me to
10:06you know read music and you're not limited from uh playing by ear and if you do that you can't read
10:15music you can do both of them and it's often enhanced and so because my mom wanted me to read
10:22music i went to other music teachers and i i'll never forget i had one music teacher and i wish i
10:30could remember what the song was but she was teaching me that and i was like well why can't i play it like
10:36this and she goes because that's not the way it's written and i was like but i like it when i do this
10:42right right so right there there was something about me that wanted i liked what i heard and that
10:50was now had i been with a teacher that could have understood that themselves right they might have
10:58willing hey well let's try that this way but let's do it what's written on the page right and you know
11:05um i taught piano uh for at least 10 years 15 years something like that um and i allowed that
11:16my students to their interpretation of it um of a piece if they heard something else uh we would have
11:23to play it like it was written if it was a bach piece or a mozart piece we played it as written but
11:31if you could wanted to embellish this theme uh some more if you heard um the the uh the melody the
11:40melodic line going somewhere else and you wanted to uh just enhance it then on your own i just i
11:47really encourage that um for that creativity to come through and uh not so structured uh but for
11:55recitals yeah right yeah well another thing i'm thinking because you're taking me back to
12:01how we learn as a child what would you learn oh even with your coloring books stay within the line
12:09in the lines yes that that right there is um uh is something that i think hinders people because
12:18they think now what's good is when i stay within the line and i color as opposed to i went outside or
12:27my tree has to look like this or whatever right right right right right it is and i see it now um
12:35even uh that comparison you know i see students looking over at someone else's drawing in fact today
12:43we were drawing um we had constellation we had a constellation uh like about five or six stars
12:50and you could connect the stars and then create a creature from those five stars and so everyone like
12:59uh in a row of three they had all of the same creature um but on the other side of the room it was
13:06different so that creativity and that comparison um the ability to think for themselves i think
13:15it's um like we it goes back to what he said even it may not be encouraged or may not be fostered from
13:22that um but there is so much created creating going on um from small creators and um if you'll go with me
13:32and look think about an iceberg so what we see from uh social media or um you know those the big five
13:43creators kind of platforms we just see the iceberg i mean we just see the tip of the iceberg what is
13:50above the water but beneath that you know you have smaller creators you have um uh other people with
13:58smaller smaller smaller audience is creating a lot you know what you see above is doesn't compare
14:06with what is the iceberg underneath and what what we do get to see is i don't know if it's artificially
14:14but it's what is approved by oh somebody you know i always liken this and i'm i'm gonna hopefully
14:23remember tied to this other place okay but i always think about and this is creativity but i think of
14:31singers who are fantastic and one of the the first ones that come to my mind are um are i'm gonna say
14:40like layla hathaway now there is something in our culture that when people are really good singers
14:50they don't get to rise to the top they are that piece that is supports the iceberg it's yes it's
15:01underneath now yes there are people like whitney houston and i will never take away that she's not
15:07because it's not true but there was something about her that appealed to the masses
15:13yes yes yes i think that when you are really good at what you do it doesn't look like what you're
15:24just like saying well my grandma don't my grandma cooks that it don't look like that you don't want
15:29to eat it necessarily you are exactly right right but you miss it because that would be really good and
15:37you you you've missed it i think we do that in so many different ways absolutely absolutely i think
15:44about um feel uh even just keeping in that genre filmmakers and um even uh poets and and writers and
15:54um that are um don't are not mainstream but they are powerful um i've heard plenty singers that can
16:06can uh stand toe-to-toe with some mainstream artists that just get propelled to that platform or whatever
16:16platforms and there are and they're i would have to say mediocre some of them are mediocre and some of
16:23and it is marketing um that has put them in that place not that they are not creative but i know
16:31this their marketing was creative creative okay exactly exactly and they had a heck of a team that could
16:38put it together um and um the ones that like you say layla hathaway she enjoyed um now i mean she has
16:48gained that respect um you know um and even uh there's a word i can't think of it but it regardless
16:56of her father you know and that um and she's not writing that name but she she is i mean i i would see
17:07her anytime that she comes near um because uh she she is going to deliver every time and um it's a lot
17:16of artists i was thinking when i was really listening to artists and uh artists that aren't on the
17:23charger they're just doing their own thing and having their own audience and creating um or you know
17:32like uh there's this lady michelle negaluga michelle and dig your cello and dig your cello
17:40thank you so much she you know she had a hit you know for a while and uh she just left this that scene
17:51that um uh and the forefront of uh whatever that the scene and uh but she was still creating because
18:01and i heard something new from her maybe not new from her but i heard um another person asked me oh have
18:09you heard this person michelle could you say the name please and dig your cello thank you so much
18:14um that right there and i was like of course i remember her from blah blah blah and he played
18:22something for me and i was like yeah that's it right there she's she's got it you know but that
18:28creativity it does not leave um well now that you brought her name up
18:32her the one album that i can listen to from top to bottom bottom to top
18:43is and i love the artwork is bitter it's the album yes bitter yes i i got it yeah i'm gonna
18:50access that right quick yes bitter and okay she also there's a a live album um she did well there's live
19:00and it's recorded but she does a cover of let me love you down
19:08and it's the tempo is like
19:12let me love you down
19:19okay okay okay i got you i got i got it right here i can't spell it but in
19:27uh yeah okay oh wow but i i something about even artists um uh uh graphic artists and uh like you
19:44mentioned painters and they they're still creating i mean i don't think it's going away and people are just
19:54you have it's in here and once it is brought for it it has to it has to have an outlet you know
20:03you'll find a way creators find a way yeah well we'll have to get off music because we can talk
20:08music but i have to get another person one please okay i wasn't i had never been like the biggest fan of
20:17tracy chapman in the beginning fast card all that stuff but she has an album this is again one of those
20:24albums i can listen to from the top to the bottom and it's called new beginning okay i got you i got
20:31you and no she was talking about new beginning um i you were talking about music that you could throw to
20:38mm-hmm it is that is the album i can't even listen to any other tracy chapman because
20:46yeah powerful yeah yeah that's creativity creativity and i um i appreciate her musicality
20:56now i did not um on that me in a fast car i did not until i heard it
21:03i i heard her something and do it live and i was like oh that's what that's about you know and it
21:13was just really rich even okay macy gray i did not i was like macy gray but then i heard her
21:25her differently and i was like okay this is this what yeah about so that creativity and it's there
21:35and um uh they're still singing she's uh you know i i don't well we're gonna go ahead i want to talk
21:45about that but okay yes yes yes but music mm-hmm creativity uh those composers in that
21:54romantic period my favorite debussy come on oh man oh man absolutely and mononov those yes chords
22:06they're just so beautiful and there's so much emotion so way i mean back in the time back they
22:14didn't have tv they weren't distracted by radio and things like that they they're playing was people
22:23going out to the club to watch them play watch them play watch them play yes and there was so
22:30so much emotion so creativity i know come on now yeah yes absolutely and so yours yours my person is
22:39chopin so and um he he does it for me um all of this uh his opus 28 is that just the whole gamut and
22:51um i just wonder did they know that that's what they were creating that we would still be listening
22:59to these timeless pieces and being moved um uh you know regardless of age grace where just weird
23:14it's just touched our lives because it it reaches here um and it moves us there so that creativity i
23:21wonder did they know well let's not leave john williams out of it oh man you know he's very popular but
23:29you listen you cannot listen right to the and not know what the superman theme sounds like
23:39star wars almost anything that he writes you you know that he has written this right right creative
23:47his uses of the horns and uh counter melodies that just knock you down the voicings right come on right
23:58right i know and i i uh i played in orchestra and we played those themes you know uh
24:06uh because that was in my my junior high and high school you know we played those uh themes and
24:14the french horns i can still just hear the french horns playing just in the cello and uh just incredible
24:22pieces and weaving it all together yeah do you have to have that that ear all right what did you play
24:30in orchestra i played um clarinet bass clarinet and my first instrument was cello my first string
24:39instrument was cello huh see i didn't know that or we hadn't really oh wow my first my first my very
24:48first instrument was cello yeah in elementary school and that was probably my favorite um favorite
24:55instrument you know i'd like the clarinet you know for marching band and everything and bass clarinet
25:01during uh symphony or um orchestra but um cello i i'm to this day i i'm a cello person you know i in
25:11fact i put on yo-yo ma box cello suites yesterday for my class i was like we need some calm up and
25:17through here let me put on some yo-yo ma yo-yo ma and i got the chance to see him i was like third row
25:27from from the stage and i just sat there just like just yeah it was it was uh it was spiritual
25:37and just the way he displayed that yes creativity um you said you wanted to talk about tech and what
25:47well think about that there is so much creativity in tech i think we don't assign creativity to those
25:55individuals because it's very technical and mathematical but for these individuals to think
26:03out of the box to come up with some of the things that they they do phones and bluetooth devices and
26:10how we can get our the android automotive our the music and stuff from our phone into our cars that
26:18is high level of creativity it is it is and writing that code for that and creating the software for that
26:27i mean hey hey you you took a ride in a driverless car okay that was i mean and i played that for my
26:37students and they were just they were blown away they were like where's the person at mr perry i was
26:43like this it's a driverless car and they were like just blown away from it but that writing that code
26:53can you imagine the uh the technical skill that it takes to the know-how to do that that everything
27:03is mapped out you said everything has to be mapped out and coded and i mean that's that's beyond our
27:11it's beyond think about this it's beyond it is beyond and that creativity but you know and i looked at
27:17my students and i was like you you're going to be experiencing it if not you your children are going
27:23to be experiencing this and um sooner than you think they will be experiencing or even helping
27:31create and write that for that i think that's you know i've i have known a handful of people who uh
27:40like create video games and just hearing them talk about it it is i was like oh you have to do all of
27:47this for the artwork and all the layers and all of this and then the code and then all those people
27:54have to come together to create this thing and i i i mean i know a lot of people enjoy a really good
28:02crafted well-written uh beautiful looking um um a video game but there's a lot of creativity that's in
28:13there it is a lot of layers i didn't realize you know just how how um intricate and how um precise
28:24and precision that it has to everything has to line up um even um just for a person to move their hand or
28:35their arm or their arm or you know um technology and creativity man it's crazy well it is i was just
28:43thinking i'm sure we'll probably talk about cooking or something down the line but uh i was i love
28:49watching competition cooking shows because you know especially the ones that say okay we're going to give
28:56you baking soda and a day-old piece of bread come up with something and i love watching these people
29:06who love how to cook and understand cooking come up with stuff because that's not me right i love to
29:13watch it all right right i love seeing i love seeing that i'd and um see my show is the british baking show
29:22so i have to watch that every time the season comes out um i'll even watch the old seasons um because
29:29of the creativity from them they can come up with something you know like uh they have some secret
29:36ingredients you know under a towel and you have to and create this or you have the recipe to and to um
29:44to make this out of this these ingredients ingredients and i just like seeing people create
29:52um take what you have and my dad he always he always said take what you have and make what you want
30:01and it just that has just stuck with me uh for my life that just take what you have you may have just a
30:09a few things in your hand you may just have a three few things here you know but take what you have
30:16and uh that's creativity that's i think it is i think it's also creative you know growing up
30:24not having much at all oh man you learn how to to make do with stuff and i think sometimes people
30:33thought we had more than what we did but my mom was going to uh uh garage sales and getting stuff and
30:42finding things and putting together and you know i i learned i could go for a very long there was a
30:51period of time where i didn't have a myself a pot to fish in and i i'll never forget i worked at this
30:58uh restaurant as i was a manager and i had to have um wear suits and i'm like i don't have the money to
31:06buy a suit that looks as nice as what i see them wearing and i think creativity too is the eye so i
31:16i will i remember i was out in la i just went to the uh goodwills on the west side of town and
31:24on the west side of town on the west side of town and just look around and i would see oh
31:30calvin klein hugo boss this and that and i would go is this me is this me just look like me and i'll
31:36never forget so i'm gonna go oh where did you get that suit and i told them oh at the goodwill and
31:41they go no you didn't first off i'm like why would i ever tell you tell you
31:49that i got the suit and my shoes at the goodwill not the shoes too okay okay okay i got you have to
31:59have a creative eye to go like what am i gonna do how could i put this together and this together
32:04right right right absolutely creates yeah i'm taking with taking what you have
32:12what you want you know you did not well you talked about your creativity a little bit but
32:17where are you create creative um
32:23initially you know i play so um writing songs composing songs my creativity lies there but it's
32:33just not there you know i have moved to uh working with clay um where i've let my creativity
32:42working with clay come through which this weekend since i have time i'm going to work on some clay
32:48i already have my balls ready to go and um that's what i'll be doing but um i i painted um for a while
32:56i went through this phase where i painted um oil and water uh watercolors um and i like you know i
33:07don't think creativity is just limited to um uh the arts or that but gardening i i grew some tomatoes
33:17do some uh uh some bell peppers and some things which i'm i'm doing that as soon as spring hits
33:25um so creativity i think that it's just it's just like i say woven into even who we are i mean because
33:34are you still playing yes you're still you're still playing you're i got like i i'm just now feeling
33:42like i'm myself again after moving but yeah i got a uh a fabulous oh uh is it the casio electronic
33:50piano those sounds uh it was nice when yes i played it yes yeah yeah yeah it has a nice sound
33:58it really did yeah i i wanna i'm wanting to get back there because i think my creativity
34:04is in um in my voice i know that sounds odd but it's not just singing but my there's something there
34:12and i do want to start singing again yeah and i want to start um i have not co-written um anything
34:21lately but that's my my goal and in fact on my calendar uh that i have on my wall that um it has
34:31get back to open mic so uh in february um just to either write something or sing something but just get
34:41back to open mic and that creating is uh wow i i yeah and i miss recording honestly yeah i really do
34:53awesome i love it it is you know and just the preparation for it getting you know getting my
35:00recording voice back and getting in shape for that i i miss that yeah it's coming back around it's
35:08coming back around being correct yes what i would like is to it probably won't be me to have a like a
35:15a gospel r&b oriented pianist and just take i'd love just take uh standard songs or old folk songs
35:27lend themselves to a modern interpretation and just do light covers just like michelle and degio cello
35:36let you let you down she's done it away stuff like that yeah yes yes you're here differently i'm ready
35:45for it so just let me know um i'll i can do do up do up and do a background for you and you know make the
35:54video and it will make happen you know i do i do well we have uh talked about creativity i think we're at the
36:05end here today but we're yes we're gonna do this again absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely
36:11and just keep moving but uh that's it for today okay well i'll keep creating whoever hey you have
36:19i don't think you cannot create i don't no i don't think we can't we can't we can't do it wow all right
36:26man until the next time i'll see you next time all right
36:39that's like go time right now whatever
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