Potpourri: Landing In LA & Straightening Out With J-John
Arriving in LA wasn’t easy for J-John (like it is for anyone…) and getting on his feet involved a bit more hustle than our average guest. He started his first businesses down in Skid Row and it wasn’t long before legal intervention prevented his enterprises from growing as wide as he’d like. Writing on the wall, J-John straightened out and has been keeping clean since then. As always, thank you for listening!
EPISODE NOTES
Season 03 Episode 12
Potpourri: Landing In LA & Straightening Out With J-John
Recorded on February 26, 2020
Released on April 9, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:20:38
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Potpourri: The Wisdom of a Childhood Fully-Lived with J-John
In part 1 of a 2-parter, J-John discusses growing up in the dirty south, the foster care circuit and the hell a kid can raise on a bicycle.
J-John is our first guest to be booked by Swinky! J-John is a charmer always ready with a yarn about growing up in the dirty south. His stories are so plentiful that we’ve had to split this conversation into two parts. The first half covers his childhood and time in the foster care system. The second half (which will be released Thursday) covers his arrival in LA, his early days here hustling on the street and going straight. As always, thank you for listening!
Episode Notes
Season 03 Episode 11
Potpourri: The Wisdom of a Childhood Fully-Lived with J-John
Recorded on February 26, 2020
Released on April 7, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:16:13
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Music: Life In The Mix With Burt Blackarach
Producer Burt Blackarach discusses music promotion in the age of the internet, the evergreen magic of the 808 and what to do when your dad sells your bass.
Producer and DJ Burt Blackarach grew up in the thick of the Los Angeles music scene and he never really left. The list of people he’s worked with is indeed formidable. It’s so beefy, in fact, that we decided not to list it here because it would just look like we were trying to butter up to Google’s keyword algorithms. Instead, we decided to let the man speak for himself. It’s not here for lists anyway. You’re here for insight into the world of music, DJing, producing and MCing, which Burt brings in spades. That’s right, MCing. You can call this episode Fort Knox for all the gold bars you’ll find inside. And, just when you think it’s over, Swinky jumps on the mic and styles freely. This episode is brought to you by Who’s The Ross?, a late-night talk show that can be found on the web right here: https://whostheross.com/. As always, thank you for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 09
Music: Life In The Mix With Burt Blackarach
Recorded on February 23, 2020
Released on March 10, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:36:09
Burt Blackarach can be found on Instagram @blackarach and on the web at https://www.burtblackarach.com/.
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Storytelling: Confessions Of A Dangerous Deer With Megan Rippey
Actor/dancer/writer/performer Megan Rippey discusses pole dancing, skinny dipping, tipping etiquette and leporidae reproductive cycles. That’s right. It’s one of the sexy episodes.
We sat down with actor/dancer/writer/performer Megan Rippey as she was in the process of moving her solo show Deer Woman from the showcase stage of The Whitefire Theatre to The Fringe Festival circuit. Having gotten the nuts-n-bolts perspective of directing the show from Valerie Hager, we were thrilled for the chance to find out how the play was written and, of course, which parts were true, which were lensed truth and which were fabricated. The story of the origins of Deer Woman turns out to be one that spans her entire life (up until now at least). Along the way, we get into her work as an exotic dancer, her time as a student earning her MFA and the ingredients that had to come together to make Deer Woman possible. As always, thank you for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 07
Storytelling: Confessions Of A Dangerous Deer With Megan Rippey
Recorded on February 5, 2020
Released on February 25, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:54:04
Megan Rippey can be found on Instagram @meganrippey and on the web at http://www.meganrippey.com/.
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Magic: Excavating Introversion With Tina Lenert
Magician/Mime Tina Lenert discusses storytelling as a magician, how The Great California Mime Menace affected her career and yoga… but with goats.
Introverts called to a life-long career of public performance, this episode is for you! Magician/Mime (/many other trades and skills) Tina Lenert identifies as a life-long introvert but is also a career performer. As the conversation unfolds, we discover that she’s not a magician in spite of her social traits but more because of it. Tina walks us through her early days as a guitarist, her other early days as a mime and her other other early days as a magician. Oh, and there’s goat yoga. To find out how we get there… well, you’re just going to have to listen to the whole episode. Sidebar - The full title of this episode was going to be Excavating Introversion For Inspiration Before Expiration but it was too long and blah blah blah-y.
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Season 03 Episode 04
Magic: Excavating Introversion With Tina Lenert
Recorded on January 12, 2020
Released on February 4, 2020
Episode Duration:
Tina Lenert can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tina.lenert.
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Storytelling: Harnessing The Power Of The Solo Show With Director Valerie Hager
Director Valerie Hager discusses getting a solo show up on its feet, drug addiction (and recovery), and what it’s like growing up with a father who’s a mime.
Director Valerie Hager brings a new phrase into The Hollywood Fishbowl ecosystem and it’s one we’ve needed for a long time - “Beast Forward”. Whether she’s acting, dancing, directing or sitting on our sofa chatting, that phrase definitely functions as a beacon for Valerie. While there’s a lot to learn from what she’s working on now, including Deer Woman (a solo show written and performed by Megan Rippey), there’s just as much to be learned from the stories of her earlier years as the daughter of a mime as well as the time she spent living the life of an addict. As always, thank you for listening!
Deer Woman information and tickets can be found here: http://www.meganrippey.com/deerwoman
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Season 03 Episode 02
Storytelling: Harnessing The Power Of The Solo Show With Director Valerie Hager
Recorded on January 16, 2020
Released on January 21, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:17:50
Valerie Hager can be found on www.nakedinalaska.com and www.valeriehager.com.
Jesse can be found on Instagram @jjkoester and on the web at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Magic - Simone Turkington Is A Tiki Doll Come To Life
In which Simone digs to the very bottom of The Hollywood Fishbowl!
It’s the final interview of 2019 and we’re going out with a bang. Simone Turkington is a magician and an aesthete and we were thrilled to have both of her on the program. While the main focus of this conversation is magic and how she kicked off her career (and kept it growing), we also get into her overarching aesthetic, how she came into it and how it informs her work as an LA artist. Of course, life is so much more than work and art. It’s also travel, family and 60’s tiki and we touch all of those bases as well. When we turn to The Fishbowl, we do something unprecedented in the history of the show - we empty it. We pull questions on dream collaborators, Starbucks drinks and demotivation before closing out the interview portion of 2019. As always, thanks for listening!
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
NOTES
Season 02 Episode 52
Magic - Simone Turkington Is A Tiki Doll Come To Life
Recorded on November 30, 2019
Released on December 17, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:17:44
Simone Turkington can be found on Twitter @tikidoll, Instagram @tikidoll and on the web at https://www.magicsimone.com/.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Magic - Hannibal Unpacks The Emotions That Birth The Art
In which Hannibal brushes off the title of raconteur and then proceeds to tell one hypnotic story after another.
This episode weaves a dense web of stories, from Hannibal’s time growing up in North Carolina to finding his footing in LA and at The Magic Castle. It wasn’t a straight line from a kid content to spend time inside his head to the world of parlor performance, with his magic career beginning proper in his mid-twenties. We cover a lot of ground in this conversation, including how Hannibal creates his art and what pivotal life moments inform everything he does. When we turn to The Fishbowl, we pull questions about life on mars (@riceperloff), worst mornings and a bonus conspiracy theory just for good measure. As always, thanks for listening!
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
NOTES
Season 02 Episode 51
Magic - Hannibal Unpacks The Emotions That Birth The Art
Recorded on November 21, 2019
Released on December 10, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:51:03
Hannibal can be found on Twitter @magicartist on the web at http://chrishannibal.com/.
Swinky can be found on Twitter & Instagram @swinkymusic and on the web at www.swinkymusic.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Magic - Cover To Cover With Micah Cover
In which Micah Cover shares 17 years of insight into the LA magic scene.
The world of magic can be a tough one to navigate - socially, creatively and ethically. Micah The Magician takes us through his insights and opinions on how to best approach the profession and the challenges that still creep up 2 decades into a fruitful career. Micah also gives us some inside information about his upcoming performance at The Magic Castle (including a celebrity guest he’s expecting). Don’t worry if you missed that show. There’s another one coming up in a year. When we turn to The Fishbowl, we pull questions on fighting strategies (courtesy of @darwinfinch), regrets (courtesy of @themagicalkatrina) and what you need to do (courtesy of @weikolin). As always, thanks for listening!
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Season 02 Episode 50
Magic - Cover To Cover With Micah Cover
Recorded on November 14, 2019
Released on December 3, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:18:32
Micah The Magician can be found on Twitter @micahcover, Instagram @micahthemagician and on the web at http://micahthemagician.com/.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
Magic - Katrina Kroetch Talks Magic, Juggling, Small Business and So Much More
In which we kick off our mini-series on magicians with the one and only Magical Katrina.
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, The Magical Katrina is no mere magician. She’s a business woman, a juggler, a writer and a burlesque performer (and that’s a truncated list). Having worked the magic circuit in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Katrina has a lot of insight into finding work, keeping work and growing your business. This episode is a little longer than the average because Katrina spills all the beans. Whether it’s creative craft, website optimization or networking etiquette, this episode has got you covered! When we turn to The Fishbowl, we pull questions on backup careers, advice to our young-selves (courtesy of @darinmaki) and the very purpose of life itself! As always, thank you for listening!
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Season 02 Episode 49
Magic - Katrina Kroetch Talks Magic, Juggling, Small Business and So Much More
Recorded on October 28, 2019
Released on November 26, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:39:21
Katrina Kroetch can be found on Twitter @amagicalkatrina, Instagram @themagicalkatrina and on the web at www.katrinaspartycharacters.com and www.magicalkatrina.com.
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.
