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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.
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S3E38 #38 Bottom of the 9th
The idea for this episode came to Jeff in the middle of a recent recording session, when his client on the other end of the line heard a strange sound and asked about it. From there, the episode…
S3 HOYTUS CLASSIC: The Bald Truth
Jeff was recently reminded of this 20-year-old Hoytus episode while officiating a wedding with a warm Joshua Tree desert wind starting to have its way with the perfectly-coiffed hair of the assembled…
S3E37 #37 Poems That The Earth Writes Upon the Sky
Jeff has been thinking about trees lately (and Kahlil Gibran quotes, judging from the title of this episode). The beautiful maple that Jeff has been staring at from his studio window for a quarter…
S3E36 #36 Synaptic Anarchy!
In this episode, Jeff laments the demise of the comedy album. Once upon a time, they were huge sellers. No longer, though. This fact did not, however, dissuade Jeff from joining a collective of…
S3E35 #35 A Whale of a Tale UPDATE
Two decades ago on this very podcast, Jeff told the story of an orphaned baby orca named Springer that got separated from its family, forcing volunteers to attempt a daring rescue, rehabilitation and…
S3E34 #34 Death Takes a Pie in the Face
Jeff’s parents passed just two years apart during the first week of April back in the late 90's. He and his sisters still refer to those seven days as “Death Week.” And it’s a clue into how the Hoyt…
S3E33 #33 The Robin, the Snowball, and the Porcelain Horse
The Hoytus Interruptus Apology Tour continues with three stories from when Jeff was just twelve years old. He could have listened to the voice in his head trying to steer him clear of doing stupid…
S3E32 #32 Smoky Mountain Slowdown
Global tourism has more than made up for time lost to the pandemic. The hot spots are teeming with record crowds these days and the pushback from the locals is starting to get ugly. Here in America,…
S3E31 #31 Presidents of the Babypants of Chris
Every now and again, Jeff breaks away from telling his own stories to tell someone else’s. In this episode, you'll hear from former Presidents of the USA front man Chris Ballew. Interwoven with music…
S3E30 #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…
S3E29 #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…
#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,…
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…
S2E13 #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…
S2E12 #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…
S2E11 #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…
S2E10 #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…
S2E9 #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…
S2E8 #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…
S2E7 #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…
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Hoytus Interruptus has published 43 episodes since March 2021, covering topics in Arts, Comedy.
Hoytus Interruptus is currently moderate with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 7m.
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