Voice Of Vashon

With Super Bowl LIII just over a week away, Jeff remembers the one Super Bowl he actually attended. There was just the tiny matter of having to impersonate a car salesman in order to go.

Jeff Hoyt gets it about all the lights at Christmastime. In fact, he has a long history with lights at Christmas – the professional grade, television variety.

Long ago on the island of Bali, Jeff had a somewhat negative encounter with a tribe of monkeys. While in Morocco recently, he entered a particular cedar forest with a bit of trepidation. The Barbary apes of the Middle Atlas Mountains who lived there were of a similar variety to the macaque monkeys he remembered […]

Today’s show was cut short so Jeff could meet their daughter Natalie at Safeco Field for their first game together in several years. Jeff wonders whether a game they attended back in 1996 might have contributed to Natalie’s lack of enthusiasm for the sport.

Jeff performed this story years ago on stages at the Blue Heron and Open Space, but for anyone who’s gone through the process of losing their parents, here’s a story that may resonate.

Five years ago this month, a meteorite exploded over Russia, blowing out windows in cars and buildings and injuring over a hundred people. On the same day, as asteroid passed close enough to the Earth to be called a “close call.” In this Hoytus Interruptus, Jeff asks the big What If questions.

When Jeff & Cindy moved to Vashon Island, they left behind a little slice of hidden heaven in Seattle’s north end. Carkeek Park was the only place the Hoyts felt they could live inside the city limits and feel like they were actually living in the country. Now, though, the park has been zoned  for substantial multi-family, […]

Jeff wonders why there are so many different opinions around the protests by NFL players during last week’s national anthem. Perhaps it could be that we have so many different opinions about where patriotism ends and disrespect begins.

Many years ago, before the show entered syndication, Jeff re-united the three voice actors behind almost all of the characters from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show. With the recent passing of June Foray, who voiced both Rocky the Squirrel and Natasha Fatale, Jeff wanted to tell the story of the day these three iconic […]