Voice Of Vashon

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 […]

 Jeff’s day job as an audiobook narrator often finds him searching the internet for the pronunciation of some insane word or name. What do you do, though, when you still can’t pronounce the word, even after having it laid out for you phonetically? Jeff kept his most embarrassing outtakes.

Not one to get too terribly esoteric, Jeff found some metaphorical enlightenment during a recent walk along Quartermaster Harbor.

Jeff tells the story of the day he and Cindy bought a bag of ice cubes that went to great lengths to make sure we knew we had bought the most magnificent ice cube the world had ever known.