The Boy I Buried | A Podcast Memoir

In Episode Four of The Boy I Buried, Jaime returns to Chicago for his brother’s graduation, but the city has other plans for him. What begins as a trip home becomes a walk through memory, grief, and the streets that still seem to know who Jaime was. Back on Malden, the past doesn’t feel buried. It feels close. Alive. Waiting. This episode is about returning to a place that shaped you, wounded you,...

Episode Three begins with a poem about rooms, memory and the ghosts that continue to live inside them. From there, Jaime reflects on his childhood bond with his mother, his fascination with transformation, and the growing realization that he was different in ways that frightened the adults around him. Set against the backdrop of communal fear surrounding homosexuality, Exile and My Mother’s Arms e...

In Episode Two, Jaime returns to a childhood memory that should have ended very differently, a moment on the side of a highway that he still cannot fully explain. From there the story moves to the Missouri farm where childhood wonder slowly gave way to isolation, longing and exile.   Between forests, Phantom of the Opera cassette tapes and an endless ache for home, Jaime begins discovering that ev...

The Boy I Buried is a memoir podcast by Jaime Prater told entirely in his own voice. Through immersive narration, sound, memory and confession, Jaime retraces his childhood growing up inside Jesus People USA, an intentional religious community on Chicago’s north side. What begins as memories of a room called 317 slowly unfolds into something larger: a story of confinement, identity, grief, music,...