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This episode is hosted by Trevor and Vida. In this second installment of White Canon, Trevor and Vida are joined by Matt Christman, cohost of Chapo Trap House. Jared Ball, Prof of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan University, host of the podcast I Mix What I Like, and co-host of The Remix Morning Show on Black Power Media. Josh Olsen, a screenwriter, and co-host of The Movies That Made Me and The West Wing Thing.

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Champagne Sharks

CS 375 Preview: White Canon: Network

Today we have David Sirota on the show to talk to Trevor about his new podcast Meltdown soon to be available on Audible.  The 2008 financial crisis - and the government’s botched, multibillion-dollar bailout - is the skeleton key that unlocks almost every big thing that’s gone wrong in America in the 21st Century, from climate change to the all-out assault on democracy, to the rise of white nationalism.  In this thrilling, 8-part podcast, investigative journalist David Sirota explores why the financial crisis happened, how the bailout went so wrong, why politicians covered up Wall Street’s crimes, and what the lasting impact of the meltdown was on America’s political, social and economic fabric.

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Champgane Sharks

CS 418: David Sirota - Meltdown

Today's episode is all about entertainment. Vida and Ken start things off with a conversation about what plagues the modern era of television. Then Mario drops in and things get even more into the depths of what is happening in today's world of entertainment and how it differs from that of the past. Comparing how old shows are viewed by new audiences with how they were viewed in their own respective time, alongside the sustainability of current television, the sharks have plenty to chew on.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=D2008C3A7F286EAB83D553B19B6337F3&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL

https://nned.net/955/

https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/race/

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CS 434: To Be Young, Mediocre and Black

!!!WARNING THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MULTIPLE TV SHOWS!!!

Today Vida, Trevor, and Ken chop it up over the good things in life.  Must-watch TV shows, top-rated cooking hacks, and newly discovered exercises, just to name a few.  So put on your favorite slow jams and get that ultimate good-time vibe going as we dive into the positive waters.

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CS 438: The Things We Like

In todays episode, Vida and Trevor chop it up and play a little bingo.  Trying to understand why recent Black articles seem to always be about assimilation or authenticity anxiety, Trevor and Vida read through and analyze multiple articles looking for answers.

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CS 445: Whack History Month pt 1

Today the West Coast Sharks reunite!  Vida, Ken, and Mario all jump on to talk about the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees.   The times and the ways of dating have changed since the old days and the Sharks are here to guide you on the Do's and the Dont's in this modern Twitter dating era.

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CS 447: Dating Games pt 1

Today we are very honored to have Timpthoy Golden on the show to talk about Critical Race Theory.  Timothy Golden has earned a Ph.D. in philosophy and has more than twenty years of experience as a lawyer. His areas of scholarly research include African American philosophy and critical race theory. Golden is currently editing a book titled Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism. He has also published philosophical essays and teaches African American philosophy and critical race theory at Walla Walla University.

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CS 449: Critical Race Theory pt 1

Today we are very honored to have Dr Timothy Golden on the show to talk about Critical Race Theory.  Timothy Golden has earned a Ph.D. in philosophy and has more than twenty years of experience as a lawyer. His areas of scholarly research include African American philosophy and critical race theory. Golden is currently editing a book titled Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism. He has also published philosophical essays and teaches African American philosophy and critical race theory at Walla Walla University.

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CS 450 Critical Race Theory pt 2

UNLOCKED PT 2

In this episode, Vida and Trevor chop it up and play a little bingo.  Trying to understand why recent Black articles seem to always be about assimilation or authenticity anxiety, Trevor and Vida read through and analyze multiple articles looking for answers.

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CS 445 Whack History Month pt

Today the West Coast Sharks, Vida, Mario and Ken, gather together to discuss the politics of protection. It took just one slap to shake up a national dialog that has as many arms as a consortium of octopi.  From what it means to protect Black women, the cult of personality and the religion of celebrity... It's so much to parse out it takes 3 great brains combined to even break the surface of the situation at hand.  Lucky for us, those 3 brains just happen to be guiding the conversation you hear today.

DISCLAIMER: Due to issues with the recording platform used for this episode and a desire to get new content out as soon as possible Vida had to record her audio remotely.  There will be moments where she is hard to hear, or the audio will have background artifacts distorting the image.  We tried to remove as much as possible without removing the context of the conversation, but unfortunately, we were not able to remove it all.

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CS 452: Protection Politics pt 1

Today Vida and Ken use the movie Hollywood Shuffle as a jumping-off point to discuss what it means to be Black in Hollywood. Hollywood Shuffle is a 1987 American satirical comedy film about the racial stereotypes of African Americans in film and television. The film tracks the attempts of Bobby Taylor to become a successful actor and the mental and external roadblocks he encounters, represented through a series of interspersed vignettes and fantasies. Produced, directed, and co-written by Robert Townsend, the film is semi-autobiographical, reflecting Townsend's experiences as a black actor when he was told he was not "black enough" for certain roles.

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CS 454: Hollywood Shuffle previ

Today we have returning guests Yasmin Nair, Mtume Gant, and Chris Jesu Lee in the studio to talk about the new movie Death on The Nile.  Breaking down the already broken movie, Yasmin, Mtume, and Chris join Trevor in a delightful romp of bashery asking the question, "when the book and original 1978 movie were so good, why change the formula?" 

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Chapmgne Sharks

CS 455: Death On The Nile pt 1

Today Vida, Trevor and Ken sit down to talk about body positivity.  Being big, not being big, healthy versus unhealthy.  Sometimes the 2 things can get confused.  It can be tough to tell the difference but sometimes you're not supposed to be able to tell the difference, and thats how they get ya!  Pivoting between other online phenomena movements that control the online conversations, the Sharks use this episode to really dig in to what is and isn't healthy about todays lifestyles.

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CS 457: Are You SAVEd pt 1

Today we have Katie Way on the show to talk with Trevor about, among other things, Brazilian Butt Lifts. Katie Way is a senior staff writer at VICE who writes about internet culture, policing, prisons, drugs, and work. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/k80way and her newsletter All Cops Are Posters can be found at https://acap.substack.com/. Her article on how Miami became a hotspot for Brazilian butt lifts can be found at https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb5qb/how-miami-became-a-hot-spot-for-brazilian-butt-lift-bbl-recovery.

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CS 459 Brazillian Butt Lift Cultire preview

Today Vida and Ken sit down to talk hip hop, LA life, and of course the new Kendrick single, The Heart pt 5. In pt 2 the conversation switches to Kevin Samuels; so if you are not subscribing, now is the time to do so you can get this extra bonus material and hear what the Sharks are saying.

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CS 460: Kendrick Spirits pt 1

Today Mario, Ken and Trevor sit down to discuss the Buffalo shooting, social justice in general, and then take a break from the heavy stuff to talk about Kendrick's new album as well as past trends in the world of hip hop and end the conversation with a round of movies from the past and present.

DISCLAIMER: Due to issues with the platform used to record this episode there are brief moments where the conversation is dropped. We were able to successfully edit the audio back together but there will be brief moments of the conversation that get dropped. We thought this conversation was too important to scrap the episode over a small portion being missing and we hope you agree. Please know we are continuing to look into this issue so that it no longer interrupts your listening experience and we thank you for your patience.

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CS 462: Buffalo Shooting and Social Justice pt 1

Ken, Trevor and Mario sit down in this episode to talk about the aging of hip hop. Or rather, the age that hip hop has become. Utilizing the new Kendrick album as an anchor point, the Sharks discuss where hip hop is, and where it has been. One thing is for sure, it's hit middle age.

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CS 464: Grown Up Rap pt 1

DISCLAIMER: We are still figuring out our audio issues and in this episode, you may notice that Vidas audio is digitized and choppy. We are sorry about this and will continue to work towards resolving this and other issues.

Today Vida and Trevor sit down for a casual chop-it-up session on everything from stepping away from social media to Joe Buddon and Top Gun. Later Mario jumps on to join the conversation and add his insights to the mix. It's a laid-back affair, so get your slippers on and keep your coffee hot because this week the Sharks are keeping it casual.

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CS 466: Casual Round Table pt 1

Today Mario sits down for a unique, solo show. He catches us up no how he's doing, whats been going on in his zone, and also what he been thinking about. On topics of politics, health and healing Mario takes a full 16 bars and raps out the worlds issues like only he can. It's a short episode with a whole lot packed in so don't skip this one! Shout out to turning 40 y'all.

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CS 468: Mario On The Mic

Today Vida, Trevor, and Ken sit down to talk about body positivity.  Being big, not being big, healthy versus unhealthy.  Sometimes the 2 things can get confused.  It can be tough to tell the difference but sometimes you're not supposed to be able to tell the difference and that's how they get ya!  Pivoting between other online phenomena movements that control the online conversations, the Sharks use this episode to really dig into what is and isn't healthy about today's lifestyles.

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CS 458: Are You SAVEd pt 2

On today's episode, Teen (Escape From Plan A, @mont_jiang on Twitter) and Chris (Escape from Plan A, @JesuInToast) join Trevor to discuss the life and death of "The Great Awokeness". The basic idea of this episode is that the economy was good for a while, so people had money to waste and also wanted to talk about a lot of hot-button issues involving marginalized groups thanks to events in the news that were kept in the forefront via social media and protests. Now money is tight and people are out of patience for a lot of these social issues, but many in academia, politics, and media didn't get the memo and are in for a rude awakening.

Links to the two Twitter threads discussed:

https://twitter.com/ChampagneSharks/status/15344065473837670422

https://twitter.com/champagnesharks/status/1538189516682436612?s=21&t=01TCki9I0alQg27tNDEzKg

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CS 469: RIP The Great Awakening, 2014-2020 pt 1

Today we have returning guests Mtume Gant and Josh Boerman on the show to talk about the play Fat Ham. Mtume Gant is Director/Actor/Writer and Asst Professor of Film at Purchase College. Josh Boerman is co-host of the podcast "Worst Of All Possible Worlds". The Worst of All Possible Worlds (@TWOAPW) is a weekly podcast of case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. Co-hosts Josh (@boshj) and Brian (@spocks_brian) grew up evangelical in Michigan and New Mexico, while A.J. (@thefuzzymask) grew up Catholic in California. Together, they deconstruct how narrative and artistic choices in popular media reflect or subvert the ongoing reactionary project in contemporary America and the world at large.
TWOAPW official website: https://www.worstpossible.world
TWOAPW on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll

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CS 471: Fat Ham pt 1

My episode all about why I hate Hamilton the Musical. This is a double sized episode clocking in at over two hours, but we'll be back to 1 hour episodes from this point forward. Since I didn't post any episodes last week consider this making up for last week's missed episode.

Update: This is an edited version to fix sound issues that were there previously.

Link to the full notes at: http://champagnesharks.blubrry.net/003-full-show-notes/

Champagne In Seashells EP

CS 003: Why I Hate Hamilton the Musical

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Today we discuss the work of Franz Fanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon (@lewgord on Twitter), Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, with affiliations in Judaic Studies and Caribbean, Latino/a, and Latin American Studies, at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His bio can be found at http://www.lewisrgordon.com/biography/.

He is the author of What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (http://amzn.to/2rtzdha). We talked about the worldview of Fanon and how he still matters today.

CS 006: What Fanon Said feat. Dr. Lewis Gordon (06/13/2016)

Consider this a backdoor pilot of the 503*305 Podcast, which is Kenny's sports podcast. Mario and T. guest star on Kenny's sports podcast. We cross-posted the episode to the Champagne Sharks feed, but try more episodes of the 503*305 at https://soundcloud.com/user-977466961.

CS 229: 503 305 Podcast: AJ & The Fat Man (DOUBLE EPISODE)

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This episode is hosted by Ken, Mario, and T. Today we have on Dale Beran (http://twitter.com/daleberan), author of a book about "chan culture" called It Came From Something Awful (https://www.amazon.com/Came-Something-Awful-Accidentally-Donald/dp/1250189748/). The book discusses sites like 2chan, 4chan, 8chan, Tumblr, and how much of the online culture involving memes, the alt-right, irony twitter, and SJWs got their start at a site called Something Awful.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 238: Is The Whole Internet Becoming 4Chan? Pt. 1 feat. Dale Beran (01/23/2020)

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This double-sized episode is hosted by Trevor with guest co-host Andray Domise. Today we welcome Sam Vaknin. Sam Vaknin has a PhD in philosophy and Physics and is a Professor of Psychology in Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don in Russia and a Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS. He served as economic advisor to governments and multinationals and founded the Healthcare Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Macedonia. Collaborated with IMF, WB, and WHO. His website is http://samvak.tripod.com/, his Twitter is https://twitter.com/samvaknin?lang=en, and his Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/samvaknin/about.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 267: Antisocial Media fear. Sam Vaknin (04/24/2020)

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This episode is hosted by Trevor with special guest cohost Andray Domise. Today we have Matt Christman from the leftist comedy and commentary podcast Chapo Trap House https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse/.  We discuss the role of Chapo and the shape of the "New New Left" after Bernie Sanders' campaign has ended, Matt's interesting new Cushvlog livestream series on Twitch and Youtube, the pros vs. cons of being online, the alienation and isolation of modern life, capitalism, the 1619 project and the class vs. race debate, what socialism looks like in practice in a postmodern world, Protestantism, and the French Revolution.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 276: The Futureless Now feat. Matt Christman pt. 1

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This episode is hosted by Mario, Trevor and guest co-host Andray Domise. Today we welcome Ishmael Reed. Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, lyricist and essayist and his biography is too extensive to fit in the show notes, but you can go over to https://ishmaelreed.org/drupal/node/1 to read it all. We talk about his new play "The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda" (https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ishmael-reed-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-play-review/) and also his other work throughout the years as well as thoughts on Black literature and movements past and present. Malcolm X, James Baldwin, RIchard Wright, and Langston Hughes get mentioned, as well as a litany of underappreciated greats. 

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 289: Why I Still Hate Hamilton feat. Ishmael Reed pt. 1

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have returning guest, Ken Klippenstein.  Ken is an American journalist working in Washington, DC as the DC Correspondent at The Nation. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Daily Beast, Salon, The Intercept, and other publications.  He is a former correspondent on the online news program The Young Turks and reports on U.S. federal and national security matters as well as corporate controversies.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsrec.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 307: King of Leaks feat. Ken Klippenstein preview

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