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 deals with death threats and hateful attacks on social media. But she has also moved on to plant roots, build a family and fight the good fight on behalf of the wrongfully convicted.

(And special thanks to Rob & Naomi of Moody Little Sister and to Pete Droge for the music heard in this episode!)

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 Tuesday.

(Music in this trailer by Moody Little Sister - thanks Naomi & Rob!)

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.

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 parental look. Now that the statute of limitations has expired, and with permission from Brent (my good friend and former business partner), here's a story that's funny now...

...but was pretty dumb in the moment.

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.

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.

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.

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.