008 Chris the Brain Hoyt - The Smartest Guy in the Room

Chris the Brain Hoyt is one of our most fascinating interviews to date.  Chris is a local Marketing Strategist with a gift for words and creative concepts.  Chris is also the Owner of Apprenace - a forward-thinking internship and apprenticeship company. Started Fat Atom Marketing with a partner. Is a naturally introverted person. Being a "smart person" can be a threat to others.  Chris' person is a way to diffuse the situation and poke fun at himself, thus disarming naysayers. Chris doesn't think that he is "better than everyone else," but that we all have our own special gifts. There is currently much pressure in society to be like everyone else.  Chris prefers the term "Hypernormalization" to describe this. Tony mentioned Abraham Loncoln's 1859 speech to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, also known as the "Mudsill Speech." Chris' podcast is called "Post-Modern Living," and is his way to vent about "all the lies adults tell children." He went into marketing because it's the place he "saw the most chaos and disorder in the world." Apprenace - Chris has always loved working with young people, and had lots of great experience with internships. Tony mentioned that Chris would enjoy learning more about John Taylor Gatto Apprenace is not a college alternative.