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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.

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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.

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Mini-Sode 002 - The Great Hollywood Settle Continues

To paraphrase Michelle Obama, when they go maxi, we go mini.

We take a break from the hustle and bustle of booking guests to catch up with Swinky on her ever-evolving journey as an LA transplant. It can be a struggle to get your feet on the ground in Hollywood and Swinky’s convinced the process is going all too slowly. Jesse’s convinced that Swinky is doing everything correctly and moving forward faster than most. The beautiful thing about The Hollywood Fishbowl is that they can both be right! As always, thank you 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

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Season 02 Episode 48
Mini-Sode 002 - The Great Hollywood Settle Continues

Recorded on November 14, 2019
Released on November 19, 2019
Episode Duration: 00:27:35

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.

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Our First Mini-Sode (miniature episode)!

Some episodes are maxi. Some are normi. This is mini.

Join us, if you will, on a simpler edition of The Hollywood Fishbowl. There are and will be times that we just don’t have a guest booked. Instead of throwing in the towel and calling it a loss for the team, when that happens we’ve decided to promote Swinky to the honored guest spot. This is our first Mini-Sode (miniature episode) and as they continue, we’ll use them to get a view of what it’s like for a world-class singer to come to LA and start from scratch. As always, thank you for listening!

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Season 02 Episode 44
Our First Mini-Sode (miniature episode)!

Recorded on October 6, 2019
Released on October 29, 2019
Episode Duration: 00:24:17

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.

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Indie Musicians: Phoebe Silva Shreds The Violin For Fun And Profit

Phoebe Silva was a triple threat (violinist/singer/songwriter) until today. Now, she’s a quadruple threat (violinist/singer/songwriter/Fishbowl guest).

From New York to Alaska to Los Angeles, violinist/singer/songwriter Phoebe Silva has been performing for three decades, making her a triple-location-triple-threat. That’s exactly why the episode is as long as it is - she brings a lot of game in all areas of grinding, from keeping the confidence up when you’re feeling down and keeping the bank account up when you’re unemployed. This isn’t an interrogation though. It’s a conversation. Phoebe takes over the show and gets the skinny on Swinky and Jesse and their coupling. When we turn to The Fishbowl, we pull questions about who we’re missing, the sexiest thing we’ve done on set, the most annoying thing we’ve seen at work and our greatest influences. As always, thanks for listening!

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Season 02 Episode 40
Indie Musicians: Phoebe Silva Shreds The Violin For Fun And Profit

Recorded on June 17, 2019
Released on October 1, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:58:04

Phoebe Silva can be found on Twitter and Instagram @phoeborama.

Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.

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Indie Musicians: Tony Glaser Is The Love Doctor

Host Jesse needs help with an incoming wife... STAT! And Love Doctor Tony Glaser is just the prescription that the doctor ordered to be filled by the doctor of love!

Bass player, singer and man about town Tony Glaser has just completed one year of Morning Bass Lines, a new single and a cracking music video. How does he celebrate? By coming on The Fishbowl, of course! We chuck it all down, from love to art to music to cooking and then we build it all back up. When we turn to the bowl for questions, we pull an @iamkatefaust classic about Seal, a question about compromised morals from @rksuttle and one from @charlesjensen about friendly betrayals. As always, thank you for listening!

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Season 02 Episode 34
Indie Musicians: Tony Glaser Is The Love Doctor

Recorded on July 24, 2019
Released on September 3, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:47:51

Tony Glaser can be found on Instagram @tonyglasermusic and on the web at https://www.tonyglasermusic.com.

Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.

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Indie Musicians: A.R.S.N.K. Is An Artist, Musical and Otherwise

A.R.S.N.K made Jesse sweat with anxiety the first time he shot her performing live. Clearly, they’ve managed to scoop the friendship up since then and it’s good that they did. Had they not, we wouldn’t have this conversation on being invisible in your art, living homeless, sleep paralysis, and phenomenology.

A.R.S.N.K made Jesse sweat with anxiety the first time he shot her performing live. Clearly, they’ve managed to scoop the friendship up since then and it’s good that they did. Had they not, we wouldn’t have this conversation on being invisible in your art, living homeless, sleep paralysis, and phenomenology. After we get through all of that, we turn to the Fishbowl, pulling questions from previous guests, Craft By Maki, Pamela Jaye Smith and Non-Fishbowler Shiz. Other than that, we have three questions that rhyme (a fabulous first, if ever there was one)! ‘When did you last cry’, ‘how do you want to die’ and ‘what animal do you want to be and why’? As always, thank you for listening!

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Season 02 Episode 10
Indie Musicians: A.R.S.N.K. Is An Artist, Musical and Otherwise

Recorded on February 6, 2019
Released on March 12, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:38:42

A.R.S.N.K can be found on Twitter & Instagram @a.r.s.n.k and on the web at www.arsnk.com.

Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.

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Potpourri: Kate Faust Is Having An In-Body Experience

We were lucky enough to catch Kate about two and a half decades into her most recent in-body experience. Join us as we discuss art, music, landing in LA, love, being corporeal and comfort foods.

You can relax. Kate Faust is our guest today. In fact, you should relax (because there’s really no reason not to). From her early days in rural Pennsylvania to her arrival in LA, Kate seems to have lived an entire life. So, why does it feel like she’s hardly a quarter of the way done? Perhaps because the scope is so broad, Kate’s innate curiosity feels limitless. She talks about everything from coming into one’s body as a child to reclaiming that body after experiencing trauma, from discovering one’s voice as an artist to finding the means to manifest that voice on a public stage in Los Angeles. And, of course, we turn to The Fishbowl. When we do, we pull Comfort Foods, First Memories and Crying Time.

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Season 01 Episode 27
Potpourri: Kate Faust Is Having An In-Body Experience

Recorded on November 9, 2018
Released on November 13, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:17:56

Kate Faust can be found on Instagram @iamkatefaust and on the web at http://www.katefaust.com/.

Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.

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Indie Musicians: Ashley Lowry Mini Concert

For those of you who wonder what Ashley Lowry (AKA Solar Yellow Human) sounds like with just a guitar and a mic, you need wonder no more. This is EXACTLY what she sounds like with just a guitar and a mic.

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For those of you who wonder what Ashley Lowry (AKA Solar Yellow Human) sounds like with just a guitar and a mic, you need wonder no more. This is EXACTLY what she sounds like with just a guitar and a mic.

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Season 01 Episode 15B
Ashley Lowry Mini Concert!

Recorded on August 17, 2018
Released on August 23, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:05:01

Ashley Lowry can be found on Instagram @solaryellowhuman and on the web at https://soundcloud.com/solaryellowhuman.

Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.

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Indie Musicians: Ashley Lowry Knows The Truth About Pawns

Singer/Songwriter Ashley Lowry doesn’t just know the truth about pawns, she shares it with us, but not before opening up about her life, which goes from LA to Nashville and back, her music and how she contends with the vulnerability inherent to being an artist.

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Ashley Lowry has been in the music game for quite some time. She started her journey with The Lowry Sisters, playing guitar and providing backup vocals. Ashley didn’t stop making music after the trio split. In fact, she did just the opposite and produced a full album independently and is on the cusp of releasing it single-by-single as Solar Yellow Human. Not only does Ashley tell the whole story on this week’s episode but she also performs two songs off of the upcoming album. There’s a lot to sink your teeth into on this episode. Enjoy!

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Season 01 Episode 15
Ashley Lowry Knows The Truth About Pawns

Recorded on August 17, 2018
Released on August 21, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:05:01

Ashley Lowry can be found on Instagram @solaryellowhuman and on the web at https://soundcloud.com/solaryellowhuman.

Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.hollywoodfishbowl.com.

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