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This week Trevor, Ken, Mario, Vida, Jason England and Michael R Jackson coterie together to talk shop about, review and rate the new movie Sinners. SPOILER FILLED REVIEW EPISODE. This is a patreon only episode for paid subscribers. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the full archive of subscr…
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CS 640B: Parasocial Personality Disorder
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2:11:51This week Trevor is joined by guest, Monia Ali to discuss fandom, shipdom and the business that surrounds both. Monia is a fandom critic and researcher, documenting the consecration & corporate exploitation of fandom, and contextualizing the rise of stans in our cultural ecosystem. You can read more from Monia on Medium at https://exiledfan.medium.…
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CS 640A: Parasocial Personality Disorder
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2:05:58This week Trevor is joined by guest, Monia Ali to discuss fan-dom, ship-dom and the business that surrounds both. Monia is a fandom critic and researcher, documenting the consecration & corporate exploitation of fandom, and contextualizing the rise of stans in our cultural ecosystem. You can read more from Monia on Medium at https://exiledfan.mediu…
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CS 639: Stale Breadtube and Sinners PREVIEW
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15:02This week, Trevor and Ken kick it off will the Diddy trial as an example of a new type of person who likes to be the defacto expert on whatever is trending in the media. Then the conversation turns to the new movie ‘Sinners’ and the buzz its creating around the net. This is a preview for a full patreon only episode. Become a paid subscriber for $5/…
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This week Trevor Mario and Ken gather up and open the show with a conversation on conspiracy in Hollywood – what would you do for fame? And of course when you get the Three Amigos together some time will be spent on hip-hop and basketball. All of these topics plus more combine to create a narrative of the “spam-a-fication” of modern American life. …
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This week Trevor is joined by Teen Sheng to talk about his new article and the Vibecession we are finding ourselves in. Links for this episode can be found at: •Teen’s Substack Article – https://interarma.substack.com/p/the-potemkin-economy-and-the-origins •The Onuha Brothers Scammers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecTFUjch_g&ab_channel=Spencer…
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This week we continue the conversation Trevor, Mario and Ken began in episode 633 on the current culture of deciding actions are not worth trying if it gets too difficult. Using LeBron and Drake as examples and focusing on the player commitment level in the NBA and in modern era hip-hop, the Sharks dive deep on why these people act the way they do.…
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This week Trevor is joined by returning guest Jacob Silverman to continue the conversation surrounding Silicon Valleys current self-imposed role in politics and in running the government. Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist in New York, the co-author of the New York Times best seller “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the …
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This week Trevor, Mario and Ken get together to chop it up on the current culture of deciding its not worth trying if it gets too difficult. Using LeBron and Drake as examples and focusing on the player commitment level in the NBA, the Sharks dive deep on why these people act the way they do. This is part 1 of an extended conversation available for…
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CS 632: Ludicrous; The Unvarnished Story Of Tesla Motors
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1:53:48This week Trevor is joined by guest Edward Niedermeyer to discuss his book ‘Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors’. Edward is an American author, analyst, and critic who focuses on the automotive industry and mobility innovation. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Truth About Cars, and The Wall Street Journal. Nied…
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This week Trevor, Vida and Ken squad up to talk about the movie ‘Blink Twice’ and its relationship to the every day occurrences it attempts to depict. A psychological thriller[5] film directed and produced by Zoë Kravitz (in her directorial debut) from a script she wrote with E.T. Feigenbaum. The film stars Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Christian Sl…
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This week Trevor is joined by guest Jacob Silverman to discuss Silicon Valleys role in politics and Elon/Zuckerberg’s interests in “getting” political. Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist in New York, the co-author of the New York Times best seller “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud” (Abrams, 2023),…
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CS 629: The Power Beta Revolution PREVIEW
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18:37This week Trevor and Ken sit down to chop it up about the over-inflated male ego and the beta-alpha relationship a “certain type” of fan likes to fall in to with a “certain type” of celebrity. Continuing the fun fest of dragging drake for his inability to correctly handle any situation he puts himself in, the cult of personality around elon musk, t…
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