Happy New Year! We Welcome You With Open Arms, 2020!
The new season begins with a hearty handshake, a warm embrace and an emotional look backwards and forwards with more words untoward towards all that can be!
The winter break is over and we are back! In this premiere inaugural first debut episode for 2020, Swinky and I take a look back at 2019 and a look forward at 2020 (which is where, incidentally, we plan to spend the next year). We’ve got a lot planned (and a lot unplanned) for The Hollywood Fishbowl and we hope you’ll join us on the journey. It’s a wide open road ahead of us with guests au gusto and talking to taste. I just wrote that! With my brain and fingers! As always, thank you for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 01
Happy American New Year! We Welcome You With Open Arms, 2020!
Recorded on January 12, 2020
Released on January 14, 2020
Episode Duration: 00:44:34
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
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The Thrilling Conclusion of The Inaugural Annual 2019 Hollies Woodies Fishies Bowlies!
Goodbye 2019! Goodbye Season 2 of The Hollywood Fishbowl! Hello Longest Episode Ever! Part II!
CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve found the second installment of the Inaugural Annual 2019 Hollies Woodies Fishies Bowlies Awards Ceremony! New and returning guests abound on this year-end spectacular including first-timer Alan VanDyke, a two-header with our two most aliased guests ever, Miss Spent Youth and Solar Yellow Human, and a close-out conversation with Jacquie Waldman. The categories are hotter than suns colliding as we finally give out our awards for Best Scene To Take Place In A Moving Vehicle, the Most Hippy Thing Solar Yellow Human Has Done This Year, Best Drug Story and, of course, Best Picture. Jesse’s got an ax to grind with Solar Yellow Human and Jacquie Waldman and he does-so, leaving all of his axes as ax dust at the end of the year. As always, thanks for listening!
The Hollywood Fishbowl can be found…
On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hollywood-fishbowl/id1382358699?mt=2
On Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jesse-koester/the-hollywood-fishbowl
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Season 02 Episode 54
The Thrilling Conclusion of The Inaugural Annual 2019 Hollies Woodies Fishies Bowlies!
Released on: December 31, 2019
Episode Duration: 03:08:09
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Silent Moly! Holy Moly! It’s The Holiday Spectacular! PART I
Dust off those tuxes and evening gowns! It’s the Hollies Woodies Fishies Bowlies!
CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve found the Inaugural Annual 2019 Hollies Woodies Fishies Bowlies Awards Ceremony! To celebrate, we bring on the best guests of the last two years and a couple of new voices (in this episode, we check in with Aaron Ross, Kat Street and Dave Perloff). These are the biggest, best and most competitive categories to date. What’s the best street in LA? Who made the best cup of coffee? Where do you get the best falafel? All this AND more categories AND the very hottest takes of 2019 can be found here! Well, half of them at least. With the rest landing in Part 2. As always, thanks for listening!
The Hollywood Fishbowl can be found…
On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hollywood-fishbowl/id1382358699?mt=2
On Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jesse-koester/the-hollywood-fishbowl
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Season 02 Episode 53
Silent Moly! Holy Moly! It’s The Holiday Spectacular! PART I
Released on December 28, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:40:58
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Faith-Based Film: Paul Long Seeks Direction, Not Perfection
Paul Long, founder and president of Kappa Studios, shares his thoughts on not just post production but also faith-based filmmaking and even faith.
Paul Long is a native Angelino but not a native post guy. His first college experience was for architecture. It wasn’t until a bit later in life that he got into post-production and eventually founded Kappa Studios (you know it, down on the corner on Magnolia). On this episode, Paul shares the genesis of Kappa, from the early days through to today and their current slate of projects, which includes a move into producing faith-based films. After all of that, we dive into the fishbowl and pull until our hearts content.
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Season 01 Episode 21
Faith-Based Film: Paul Long Seeks Direction, Not Perfection
Recorded on September 26, 2018
Released on October 2, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:09:13
Paul Long can be found on Twitter @kappastudios, Instagram @kappastudios and on the web at http://www.kappastudios.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl
Faith-Based Film: Dallas Jenkins Knows The Danger Of Exceeding Expectations
Faith-Based Film Director Dallas Jenkins shares his ups, his downs and his all-arounds as a filmmaker with an uncommon openness of what he’s getting right and what he’s gotten wrong.
Dallas Jenkins has learned the hard way what it means to exceed expectations. Sometimes it’s a good thing, sometimes it’s not. And, sometimes it can bring a multi-year project to a screeching halt. Not only does Dallas take us on the deep-dive into that screeching halt, he also talks candidly about how he got the next project off of the ground, a task that was only possible after he picked himself up first. Then we turn to the Fishbowl and the conversation continues forward with the same positive energy but in more bite-sized chunks.
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Season 01 Episode 20
Faith-Based Film: Dallas Jenkins Knows The Danger Of Exceeding Expectation
Recorded on September 15, 2018
Released on September 25, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:15:50
Dallas Jenkins can be found on Facebook at dallas.jenkins, Instagram @dallas.jenkins and on the web at www.thechosen.tv.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and atwww.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl
Storytelling: Kathie Fong Yoneda Has Had Her Feet On Every Rung Of The Ladder
Kathie Fong Yoneda has climbed from typist to executive but didn’t do so in a straight line (because there is no such thing as a straight line when it comes to life). Exactly how does an early interest in journalism and art lead to top-level employment at major studios? We’d answer that but Kathie does so better than we ever could.
One of the common themes among our guests is empathy. While this isn’t a competition, Kathie was the first guest to ask about Neo’s wellbeing after he finished fighting Morpheus. So, that’s where the bar is now, future guests. From there, the conversation takes off, touching on community college, art, journalism, affirmative action, and storytelling. Specifically, we focus on how to think about storytelling when addressing executives. How do you best package an idea for studios? How do you rework a project for pitch and for sale? All that and more on this episode of The Hollywood Fishbowl!
Storytelling: Hilliard Guess Has Game, Shares Game
Hilliard Guess can pinpoint the exact moment he became a writer. It was when he started writing. Of course, no story is so simple and few are this well told. As always, thank you for listening.
Hilliard Guess knows his way around a microphone. And a podcast. And a writers room. And a screenplay. And a film set. And a stage. So, where do you even start the interview? We start at the relationships he cultivated with the local skinheads (Neo-Nazi and traditional) growing up in the ‘hood, as a gay, black kid in the 80s Mod/Rudeboy/Punk Scene. From there, we wind our way into the writers room with a torrent of gold wisdom on how to navigate that environment. Our belated arrival at the fishbowl gives us solid three-act structure with the pulls Baby Writers, Autobiographies and Death.
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Season 01 Episode 11
Hilliard Guess Has Game, Shares Game
Recorded on July 8, 2018
Released on July 17, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:12:11
Hilliard Guess can be found on Twitter @hilliardguess & @screenwritersRR, and on the web at https://www.patreon.com/ScreenwritersRantRoom
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl
Storytelling: Naomi Beaty Also Has A Very Specific Set Of Skills
Stories need structure too, ya know! And, who better to talk structure with than a teacher, writer and podcaster? On a normal day, we’d have to find 3 people to meet all that criteria. But no day is normal when Naomi Beaty is around. Enjoy the wisdom!
Naomi shares a name with a couple of heavy-hitters in the entertainment industry, including Naomi, Naomi and Naomi (listen to the full episode for specifics). She also shares her knowledge and wisdom with us as we do a deep-dive into the mechanics of storytelling. As a long-time collaborator with Save The Cat, a podcaster and a teacher, she’s certainly a contender for this type conversation. As a kind person with a passion for supporting others in their endeavors, she’s a shoe-in. To illustrate the reliability of story structure, we compare two nearly identical films - Taken and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. When we get to the Fishbowl... Guest Host with Swinky! Whooo!
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Season 01 Episode 10
Naomi Beaty Also Has A Very Specific Set Of Skills
Recorded on June 28, 2018
Released on July 10, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:18:16
Naomi Beaty can be found on Twitter @NaomiBeaty.
Save The Cat can be found at www.savethecat.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl