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.
Mini-Sode: The Esther/Koester Sequester Fest!
In which Swinky and Pyuu distance themselves from everything except for the laundry room and mailbox.
We’re on voluntary lockdown! Won’t you join us? No, really. Please join us. We’d love love it if we all came together (separately, of course) in an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19. In this episode, we talk about what a unique week it’s been, breaking the developments down day by day and the impact the virus has had on our lives and our hearts. The highs have been high. The lows have been low. But on we go and on we go. As always, thanks for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 10
Mini-Sode: The Esther/Koester Sequester Fest!
Recorded on March 16, 2020
Released on March 17, 2020
Episode Duration: 00:51:59
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.
Mini-Sode: Parasite In Paradise (Spoilers, obviously...)
In which we discuss the best Best Picture we’ve seen in ages, Bong Joon-ho’s isntant-classic Parasite.
Swinky and Jesse have co-hosted co-ghosted with the co-mosted before. In a different life… In a different world… Back in Japan, they produced a movie-review podcast called What A Movie(?). In celebration of Bong Joon-ho taking home Best Picture at The Oscars this year, we’re reviving that old format. If you like what you hear here, you can listen to every single episode of What A Movie(?) ever recorded here: https://sunshinepicturesllc.com/wam. As always, thank you for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 08
Potpourri: Parasite In Paradise
Recorded on February 16, 2020
Released on March 2, 2020
Episode Duration: 00:57:40
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.
Musicians: Pancakes, Music and Light Conversation with Robert Parker Jr. and Jennifer Foster
Musicians Robert Parker Jr and Jennifer Foster discuss finding ones network, contending with imposter syndrome and whether or not Prince was a phony.
The ever-growing network continues to grow! And grow again! If you follow our non-Fishbowl work, you’re already familiar with Robert Parker Jr. and his collaborations with Swinky (at Babylon Cabaret and strolling down the beach). We finally do the deep dive with Robert and midway through the conversation, who should jump on mic but Jennifer Foster. Swinky, Robert and Jennifer chop it up on the music front while Jesse tries to name all of the 7 dwarves. Get out your pen and pad because we’re going to be talking about a lot of musicians that you may not have heard of but will certainly want to check out. As always, thanks for listening!
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Season 03 Episode 06
Musicians: Pancakes, Music and Light Conversation with Robert Parker Jr. and Jennifer Foster
Recorded on January 26, 2020
Released on February 17. 2020
Episode Duration: 01:50:44
Robert Parker Jr. can be found on Instagram @robertparkermusic.
Jennifer Foster can be found on Instagram @jfoonthego.
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.
Comedy: Santina Muha Takes Us From The Shores Of Jersey To The Halls of UCB
Comedian/writer Santina Muha discusses hosting her monthly UCB show Rolling With My Homies, best practices for people getting into improv comedy and her hard-boiled days as a reporter for Tiger Beat Magazine.
We’d love to introduce Santina Muha but you likely already know about her from shows like the impossible to spell Spontaneanation, the strangely punctuated Comedy Bang! Bang!, the slightly difficult to spell and slightly strangely punctuated Assscat! and the easy to spell and punctuate One Day At A Time. Santina walks us through her early life in New Jersey, her college career studying sociology and her early jobs before moving to LA (including her time reporting for Tiger Beat Magazine). When she got to LA, she went straight to UCB to try her hand at comedy and hasn’t looked back since. From hosting her own shows (the always well-photographed Rollin’ With My Homies and Aunt Tina & Deena Celebrate) to stand-up to one-woman shows to this very podcast, Santina brings a singular wall-of-energy aesthetic to everything she creates. Does that include the show Pretty that is currently in development over at CBS? Well, you’re going to have to listen to find out. As always, thanks for tuning in!
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Season 03 Episode 05
Comedy: Santina Muha Takes Us From The Shores Of Jersey To The Halls of UCB
Recorded on January 15, 2020
Released on February 11, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:11:28
Santina Muha can be found on Twitter & Instagram @SantinaMuha.
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.
Music: Navigating Cultures of Competition With Miss Charity Lockhart
Miss Charity Lockhart discusses family, putting together a tribute show and how compassion can get you the edge in an industry rife with competition.
In the history of The Hollywood Fishbowl, this conversation is easily the most likely to never have happened. Swinky first met Miss Charity Lockhart in Korea at a swing festival where the two were booked as co-headliners. While Charity was tearing up the stage and Swinky was contending with some serious imposter syndrome. To hear the story of what went right, you have to listen to the episode (spoiler: by dint of this episode existing, you can guess that there’s a happy ending). As always, thank you for listening!
Season 03 Episode 03
Music: Navigating Cultures of Competition With Miss Charity Lockhart
Recorded on January 5, 2020
Released on January 27, 2020
Episode Duration: 01:39:09
Charity Lockhart can be found on Twitter @charitylockhart, Instagram @charityclockhart and on the web at https://charitylockhart.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.
