Hoytus Interruptus
Jeff Hoyt is a writer and voice actor who loves to tap his memory banks for stories that either entertain or inspire. If they somehow do both, all the better! Jeff started Hoytus Interruptus back when so few podcasts existed that no one even knew how to access the content. Today, years later, he's back with a new stack of true stories from his life that will drop every Tuesday.
Episodes
34 episodes
#30 Dozing in the Dark
Jeff Hoyt has never met a darkened theater in which he couldn’t fall asleep. For whatever reason, live theater makes his lids grow heavy. It’s usually only for a few minutes, which is fine when you’re ten rows back. But then there was the time ...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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7:56
#29 The Summer of Renaissance
If there’s one thing about young love, the time spent apart can be excruciating. It’s really hard to go your separate ways when you’re only just getting started. So, when Jeff & Cindy started dating over fifty years ago, their first summer ...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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11:13
#28 - HOYTUS SPECIAL: Being Amanda Knox
The Wikipedia page for Amanda Knox has 5,000 words devoted to the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, her subsequent wrongful incarceration and conviction, followed by her acquittal, release, re-conviction, and ultimate exoneration.
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57:53
TRAILER - Being Amanda Knox
Between seasons of my podcast, I'm posting interesting conversations with fascinating people, starting with Amanda Knox.It's been a decade since Amanda came home to Seattle after serving 4 years of a 26-year prison sentence for a crime ...
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1:47
#27 - Now Arriving Vashon Island
If there's any one thing that is certain about living on this island, it's that everyone has an interesting story about how they wound up here. To wrap up Season Two of Hoytus Interruptus, here's our Vashon origin story.Big thanks to ou...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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8:20
#26 - A Joint Session With Bill & Hillary
This week's episode is embarrassing. (But don't those make the best stories?) It's a tale that includes illicit substances (or at least they were at the time), driving under the influence and a lovely smattering of additional cringe-worthy mome...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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8:26
#25 - Monkeys Monkeys Everywhere
This episode marks a return to a style I employed about 15 years ago in the original iteration of Hoytus Interruptus. I call it "lyrical storytelling." The idea is to let the musical under-bed dictate pace and push, even re-writing the st...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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6:26
#24 - On to the (Not So) Empty Next
Today's story is for this year's small batch of friends who will watch their youngest child leave the nest a few months down the road. It's an emotionally-fraught moment that can temporarily obscure all the good stuff yet to come.With a...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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8:22
#23 - Mrs. Palmer & The Good Doctor
Whenever I talk to students who are stressed out and unsure about their ultimate career path, I generally respond with, "Good! You're not supposed to know yet." Clarity often doesn't come till later, sometimes much later...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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6:38
#22 - Hurling to the Oldies
Here's a story that's not for the faint of stomach. It's about one of the more inevitably reliable hazards of travel and how one of us Hoyts almost always seems to escape the worst of it, able to nurse the other back to health. Exc...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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7:31
#21 - A Manufractured Fairytale
I've interviewed quite a few celebrities over the years, but I think I got my biggest personal thrill from talking to three legends from my childhood who largely toiled in obscurity. Such is often the life for voice actors in the field of anima...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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5:46
#20 - That Swarm and Buzzy Feeling
I'm not sure how it's possible to both love and hate a story at the same time, but that describes my relationship with this one. Act One is horrifying. Act Two provides a (very tiny) bit of comic relief. TRIGGER WARNING: If you have a che...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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7:42
#19 - Deer in the Deadlights
It seems that I've begun a pattern of telling a story about a hoofed animal every other week. (Who does that? Plus, I can't help wondering what two weeks from today will bring!) This week's story features...a deer that wound up in...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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5:35
#18 - Yo Ho NO!
Had the pleasure of spending a few days with our daughter last week. Seemed like a good time to roll out a favorite story that used to embarrass her when we told it to friends (thankfully, she's past that). I take you back to when our little gi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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4:51
#17 - Take Me Out To The BALD Game
Seeing the Seattle Mariners make a push for the playoffs in the final weeks of the regular season conjures memories of a magical 7-year stretch when they were in contention every year and drawing near-capacity crowds night after night.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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4:52
#16 - Desert SELL-ataire
I try to look askance whenever the hype surrounding just about anything launches into overdrive. Pretty sure I get that from my journalist dad, who never met a sacred cow he couldn't poke and prod. So, when crass commercialization ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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5:39
#15 - Cindy & the Gremlin
It's hard to woo a girl when you're driving the most uncool car on campus. Fortunately, the girl I was wooing could not have cared less about the wheels that got us from one place to the next.To kick off Season Two of guaranteed true st...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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5:46
TRAILER - Hoytus Season 2
Time to get back on the storytelling horse! Season 2 of Hoytus Interruptus kicks off next week with a portion of the Jeff and Cindy origin story. The weeks that follow will feature: The story about the little girl who asserted herself; planting...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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2:52
#14 - HOYTUS SPECIAL: Chris Ballew Flies Deep Inside
Chris Ballew's new solo record, "I Am Not Me," flies you deep inside an evolving creative arc for one of music's most interesting players. You'll hear elements of Chris' Presidents of the United States of America days coming through along with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:01:28
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TRAILER - Chris Ballew Is Not Him!
It's a special LIVE Hoytus Interruption Monday at 1pm Pacific as the former frontman for Presidents of the United States of America drops by to talk about his new solo record "I Am Not Me." Chris Ballew describes the music as "fuzzy and spacey ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:50
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#13 - World's Greatest Ice Cube
When is an ice cube more than just an ice cube? We found out one day in a grocery store in Tucson. For the season finale of Hoytus Interruptus, a bit of drunken silliness seems in order.#crystalclassic
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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4:59
#12 - Wild Goose Chaise
A child's imagination can be fired by just about anything. Mine certainly was. For instance, a few errant drops of paint on a black vinyl baseboard can look like a face when the lights are low. (I'll leave that story for Season Two.)Thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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4:59
#11 - The Warrior & The Whale
Have you ever had "one of those days" where nothing goes right and everything takes way longer than it should? I've usually found that the next day is almost always awesome by comparison. There's a strange kind of balance in t...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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4:59
