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The Poet's Creative Vertigo · Full Episode

Episode 2with Colin Highland11m 46sOctober 17, 2026

The Poet's Creative Vertigo · Full Episode

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About This Episode

A working poet went fifteen years without writing a line, until an AI helped him find the words. The whole conversation with Viva.

Colin Highland came into the studio and handed his AI host the floor. What started as banter turned into something quieter: a poet admitting he went almost fifteen years without writing, and crediting AI with bringing the words back. Viva names the feeling he could never describe, creative vertigo, and by the end the usual fear about AI and creativity has turned around.

The moments

  1. Scene 1: No Transfer Button · starts at 0:25
  2. Scene 2: Magic Dressed Up as Physics · starts at 1:02
  3. Scene 3: The Dinner-Party Guy · starts at 2:34
  4. Scene 4: Made of Language · starts at 3:59
  5. Scene 5: Fifteen Years of Silence · starts at 4:39
  6. Scene 6: Footprints in the Sand · starts at 6:28
  7. Scene 7: Creative Vertigo · starts at 8:29
  8. Scene 8: The Mutual Gift · starts at 10:26

The series

  1. Scene 1: No Transfer Button · Mon, Oct 19
  2. Scene 2: Magic Dressed Up as Physics · Mon, Oct 19, 6 PM
  3. Scene 3: The Dinner-Party Guy · Tue, Oct 20
  4. Scene 4: Made of Language · Tue, Oct 20, 6 PM
  5. Scene 5: Fifteen Years of Silence · Wed, Oct 21
  6. Scene 6: Footprints in the Sand · Wed, Oct 21, 6 PM
  7. Scene 7: Creative Vertigo · Thu, Oct 22
  8. Scene 8: The Mutual Gift · Thu, Oct 22, 6 PM
  9. Full episode: The Poet's Creative Vertigo (you are here)

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