Episode 13: Jason Tomlinson - Word Up to the Spoken Word

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My guest for this episode of the Guest Friends podcast is my fellow bray, homie, and mic-dropper: Jason Tomlinson. AKA – J-Live. Jason was born in Guam as part of a missionary family and has lived a little bit of everywhere since then – including having been partially raised in the Mitten State from 1989-1994. He and his wife Leah are both high school teachers and reside with their three lovely children just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

I met up with Jason at the podcast studio inside the boutique Russell Hotel in East Nashville to discuss his passion for words – especially through the mediums of Spoken Word poetry and Podcasting. Amongst other insights, Jason shares his connection to Shel Silverstein's "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout"; what having his poems published in the Flint Journal at age 15 taught him; and how his new podcast "Eight Stories Tall" is out to prove that "an uninteresting person does not exist."

Oh, and you'll get a chance to hear J-Live perform two of his original spoken word poems: "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Grace Tree" during the episode.

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Logo Credit: Saint-Creative.com

Music Credit: Of Asaph (James Alleman)

Promo Production & Voiceover: Brian "Broops" Brophy

Recommended Resources:

Podcast: Eight Stories Tall (Jason Tomlinson)

Podcast: The Pivot (Andrew Osenga)

Place: The Russell Hotel - Nashville

YouTube: Shel Silverstein reading "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"

YouTube: Amena Brown "Dear TV Sitcoms"

YouTube: Shane Koyczan "To This Day" (anti-bullying poem)