Hoytus Interruptus

By Jeff Hoyt

Jeff Hoyt sees stories everywhere he looks. They unfurl from the island in the upper left-hand corner of the lower 48 that Jeff calls home. For years, he's told his stories in a radio show segment cal... more

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February 01, 2022 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.As for Amanda's life since returning home from Italy a decade ago to live the rest of her life? Well, that gets just 216 words.Therein lies the yawning gap in her story that I try to fill during this extended conversation with Amanda, who still to this day dea...
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January 31, 2022 Being Amanda Knox - TRAILER
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 she did not commit.Putting down roots took some time but she went back to school, got married, had a child and now lives right here on our island. Here's a tiny slice of my hour-long conversation with Amanda that goes up on the interwebs this coming Tuesda...
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December 14, 2021 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 our island friends Pete Droge and Elaine Summers for providing the music in this episode. Happy holidays to you and yours. I'll be back with more stories and new ways of telling them in Season Three sometime after the new year.
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9min
December 07, 2021 HOYTUS CLASSIC: From Mom to Mary
On this, the 80th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, I'm putting up one of the most popular episodes of Hoytus Interruptus from its original incarnation as a podcast some 15 years ago.

It's a story from my long-time friend (and sound design wizard) Jim Wilson about that fateful day in 1941 and his mother's struggle with Alzheimer's years later.

Because of the music featured in this episode, I can only leave the link up for 72 hours.
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18min
November 30, 2021 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 moments......all played out in the presence of a Future World Leader. For reasons about to become obvious, I didn't share this story with our kids for a time, at least not while they were immersed in their school's DARE program. Wouldn't have been a good pa...
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9min
November 25, 2021 Thanksgiving in Plymouth
Here's a special Hoytus episode from years ago. I can only put it up for a couple of days but it's full of Thanksgiving memories from my childhood. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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16min
November 23, 2021 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 story as needed to bend it to the rhythm and feel of the music.Many thanks to good friend Chris Ballew for letting me poke around inside his "Sampladelic" collection to find just the right grooves for this story about communing with monkeys.
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7min
November 16, 2021 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 snippet of end music by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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9min
November 09, 2021 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.Years down the road, when you have a chance to look back at the forks in your road, you can usually point to at least a couple of people who nudged you along in the proper direction. This week's story is about two of the people who steered me right.
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7min
November 02, 2021 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. Except for that one time.
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8min

FAQs about Hoytus Interruptus:

How many episodes does Hoytus Interruptus have?

The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.