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The Pie Boy Podcast

The Pie Boy Podcast explores the grace and trauma of growing up and living in Oregon through the lens of Sparky Swain. Sparky is a story teller, writer, poet, teacher, coach, athlete and Dad who currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Intro Music: "Beat it Blues" by Sparky & The Outlaw. Check out more sounds by Sparky and company here: https://soundcloud.com/k-c-james-swain

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00:17:43

#142 - Roof Moss & Gold on the Ceiling

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/10/20

Reflections and connections about pranks gone wrong and right. If you are going to be dumb, you better be tough. Don’t do drugs kids and don’t dose your friends. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:15:48

#141 - Siskiyous Pass & The Night Before

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2023/10/14

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. I remembered a story this week about a fight at a party the night before a road trip home for Thanksgiving break. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:18:54

#140- Siskiyous Blues

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2023/10/03

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Siskiyous Blues,” is a nostalgic poem that reflects on the ups and downs of a college football dream and football life I once lived. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:17:24

#139 -Buffalo Street

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/09/26

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Buffalo Street”, is one part a directional poem about how to get to my home and another part a meditation on the darkness that lingers just outside that happy place. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:12:42

#138 - Down the Mountain Blues

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2023/08/18

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Down the Mountain Blues,” is a meditation on enjoying the sense of balance a favorite park provides, observing the little bits of life around and trying to get some creative work done. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast:

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00:14:44

#137 - Jude Came Today

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2023/08/12

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Jude Came Today,” is a reflection on the the day my son was born and all the energy that came with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:21:35

#136 - Bedtime Story

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/08/03

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Bedtime Story,” is about my time working at an import car repair and restoration shop in Southeast Portland when I was finishing my undergraduate degree in English, writing for poetry open mics and feeling lost about the future, but being in tuned to the present and making something out of nothing. Never. Say. Die. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:10:54

#135 - From a different moon

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2023/07/28

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “From a different moon,” is about the magic of where the words to my poetry come from and what that means to my art and soul. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:13:15

#134 - House

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2023/07/17

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “House,” is about a house I saw get demolished in my neighborhood when I first moved in. This was my imagination filling in the missing parts to the story of who lived there and what I saw while the house was still standing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast:

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00:12:20

#133 -Kitchen Window

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/07/13

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Kitchen Window,” is all about being present with the space your in, gratitude for the beauty in nature and using moments of awe to release ourselves from negative energy. Inspired by the nature outside my kitchen window. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast:

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00:09:35

#132 - Vampire Bat

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/07/06

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Vampire Bat,” is vision of myself as a vampire bat as well as a reminder of the things that make us love and fear the lore of vampires. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:17:19

#131 - Dubs vs. Kings

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/06/30

131 -Dubs vs. Kings, is now available on Spotify and apple podcast. Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Dubs vs. Kings,” was written during the Warriors and Kings playoff basketball series and based on a poem prompt called 20 little projects. It’s a bunch of random directions and prompts within a prompt and something interesting and beautiful came out of it. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:16:02

#130 - Said the Road to the Pothole

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2023/06/23

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Said the Road to the Pothole,” is an imaginary conversation between a road and a pothole. An experiment with personification and having fun with language of the things around us, living and inanimate. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast:

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00:14:38

#129- Funeral for Sparky

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/06/16

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Funeral for Sparky,” is a meditation on the letting the things that don’t serve you anymore go so they don’t hold down who you are now and why you will do in the future. A creative writing practice on pretending to write a eulogy about someone or something that you no longer need. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:15:45

#128 - Man in a Box

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/06/08

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Man in a Box,” is an exercise in placing our emotions, feelings and experiences in a box and looking at them in a creative way. Inspired by old shame, guilt, and fear that has been triggered by current happenings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast:

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00:13:42

#127 - Layers

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/06/01

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, "Layers," speaks to the layers of things that affect out daily lives, pushing us forward and holding us back, not to mention the past jingling around. This poem is also an exercise in not following the rules and having fun with language. We all have layers! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:18:05

#126 - Dollar & Eavesdropping

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/05/24

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poems, “Dollar & Eavesdropping,” is an ode to the Winos, neighborhood ghouls ,bus stop ghosts, and most importantly Dollar Store Wisdom. To random conversations had and heard on public transit and in the streets. Wisdom and joy can be found in the most unexpected places! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:18:36

#125 - Cubism

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2023/05/18

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Cubism,” is a poem disguised as some rap bars. Inspired by the vibrations of Pink Floyd, worried feelings of a new Dad, a 90s tv show and the wild painter Pablo Picasso. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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00:09:04

#124 - Try Harder

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/05/12

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Try Harder,” is about the journey of realizing the fake in yourself and a call to action to try harder. It’s is also a call out to the fake in the city and holding itself back through selfishness. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast:

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00:11:14

#123 Storyteller

The Pie Boy Podcast ·

2023/05/03

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Storyteller,” is about the craft and lifestyle of a storyteller. It’s not just a thing I do, but it’s a way of life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pieboypodcast/support

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