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September 17, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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We discuss Deray McKesson getting chased out of Ferguson at his own book signing event by an actual Ferguson organizer and protester, Michael Hassell, and how it backs up much of what we’ve said about Deray all along.

Mentioned in this episode:

Darren Seals’s (RIP) original 2016 Twitter thread accusing Deray and Black Lives Matter or being protest crashers and opportunists https://twitter.com/KingDSeals/status/756072813702762496
Profile of Darren Seals that came out after he died: https://thecorrespondent.com/5349/meet-darren-seals-then-tell-me-black-death-is-not-a-business/1512965275833-fe73c5b1
Death of Edward Crawford, the figure in the iconic Ferguson protest photo https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ferguson-protester-edward-crawford-subject-iconic-photo-found-dead-n755401
Michael Hassell’s Facebook Live video documenting his crashing of Deray’s event: https://www.facebook.com/city8670/videos/1749923361771582/?hc_ref=ARSnknTaPOeMK389_XirUhRb9Uglnp8N0D8Qh1m0MdeAsYnfRmHOMMJwUr2D2B4mSa4&__xts__[0]=68.ARCz8gR-s-d2FtZG7N-x6YYyiGBgQA-QbzVb4UB4puvpw_ctb8XVlPtM6FBxllL0K07TL9n1EoHMVNL0B_alAuapwAB5dF6YQWfBvz47iMuZzOKivKrimt-tLyFlRNARjjW6zMtlXQ1bZxlOYKMpBfJZFLrjuYlNAJMHdvmRzsrWRI2afp6SA5M&__tn__=FC-R
Yonasda Hill’s interview with Michael Hassell after the incident asking him why he did it and his relationship with not just Deray but also with the three founders of Black Lives Matter, https://www.facebook.com/city8670/videos/1749923361771582/?hc_ref=ARSnknTaPOeMK389_XirUhRb9Uglnp8N0D8Qh1m0MdeAsYnfRmHOMMJwUr2D2B4mSa4&__xts__[0]=68.ARCz8gR-s-d2FtZG7N-x6YYyiGBgQA-QbzVb4UB4puvpw_ctb8XVlPtM6FBxllL0K07TL9n1EoHMVNL0B_alAuapwAB5dF6YQWfBvz47iMuZzOKivKrimt-tLyFlRNARjjW6zMtlXQ1bZxlOYKMpBfJZFLrjuYlNAJMHdvmRzsrWRI2afp6SA5M&__tn__=FC-R
Drew Franklin’s first expose article about Deray, Ferguson, and Teach For America http://www.orchestratedpulse.com/2015/10/the-movement-lives-in-ferguson/
Drew Franklin’s second, even more in-depth and target expose of Deray, “Why DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore Campaign Looks Like It Comes Right Out of Teach for America’s Playbook” https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-deray-mckessons-plan-baltimores-schools-looks-it-comes-right-out-teach
Thread by activist Ashley Yates about the shenanigans done by Deray and the Black Lives Matter founders in the past: https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1040690422710861824
Article showing Black Lives Matter press statement where the founders, after getting run out of Ferguson by the original activists, accuse the traumatized community of being “bullies.” http://websterjournal.com/2016/03/03/update-black-lives-matter-event-cancelled-due-to-threats/

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Teaser for CS 115: Deray: Watch Wackness Work feat. Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii)

September 16, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Today Leslie Lee III from the podcast Struggle Session joins me to discuss a recent book excerpt from Deray McKesson’s memoir that appeared in NY Magazine titled “I Was Raised by Storm”.

Struggle Session is a podcast that wades into the reactionary hellhole of modern pop culture in America and talks video games, movies, TV, wrestling, comic books, music, anime, and all of your problematic faves. They can be found and supported over at https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession

Discussed in this episode:

“I Was Raised by Storm” by Deray McKessons http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/i-was-raised-by-storm.html

The song playing in the intro is “Slippery People by The Staple SIngers. There is now a Champagne Sharks Spotify playlist where you can find all the songs used in our episodes and others we plan to use later
open.spotify.com/user/tbilzie/pla…qsRgGCs-7nPw-cHA

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 114: Home Alone (08/31/2018)

September 4, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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D. and Mike host an episode without me. It’s pretty good.

Discussed in the episode:

The Curious Cat question I was asked that gets discussed https://curiouscat.me/ChampagneSharks/post/612723514
The babysitters who let the kids in their car smoke week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQsM52oec0Y and https://www.kron4.com/news/national/babysitters-force-kids-to-smoke-weed-post-video/1408035844
Videos on why Saturday morning cartoons died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LO5887HVg and also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryI7JJ2GHQ
Gizmodo article on Saturday cartoons D. mentions https://gizmodo.com/saturday-morning-cartoons-arent-dead-theyre-everywhere-1642859147

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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 112: Luvvie Ajayi and Black Blackface (Double-length) (08/26/2018)

September 1, 2018Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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We discuss the recent fiasco surrounding internet “comic” personality Luvvie Ajayi. We made this double length, so hopefully this makes up partially for the long break we had due to my operation and injuries.Mentioned in this episode:

The NY Times profile of Luvvie https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/style/luvvie-ajayi-blogger.html
A breakdown of the Luvvie vs. Tevin Campbell controversy that took over Black Twitter for a week https://thegrio.com/2018/08/18/tevin-campbell-aretha-franklin-tribute-twitter/
Amanda Seales’s strawman filled rants on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmum4wUnbxL/?taken-by=amandaseales and also https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm5_wGGHVqE/?taken-by=amandaseales
Luvvie’s rambling, circuitous, strawman-filled response essay claiming people were denying her blackness due to her being African https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2018/08/about-blackness-africanness.html
Twitter thread of an African conservative commentator on Twitter who used a Black liberal’s attack on her for being conservative as an excuse to launch into a totally unrelated rant bashing Black Descendants of American Slaves, and the Africans and white racists who jumped in her replies to cheerlead her https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1031917218408411136
My Twitter thread about the Luvvie controversy: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1032395205348155392
Bozoma St. John, the Ghanian-American PR person who recentyl was appointed to help Papa John’s rebreand after a controversy involving it’s founder being racist and using the N-word: https://www.blackenterprise.com/bozoma-saint-john-is-helping-papa-johns-re-brand/. St. John has also been hired in the past to help rebrand Uber, another terrible corporate actor that had its own racism controversies even after hiring her. She also was hired as a human racism shield to help rebrand Apple’s image on diversity issues after they got in trouble for racism.
Bozoma jumping in on Twitter to defend Luvvie, a fellow African-American, against slander in a way she never has for Black Descendants of American Slaves: https://twitter.com/badassboz/status/1030621722268057601. Note she even name drops and humblebrags meeting Tevin Campbell and attending the Soul Train Awards, even as she simultaneously joins Luvvie in shading him and by implication Black American culture.
Bozoma St. John repeating the strawman that Luvvie and all her defenders kept saying, claiming that people were questioning Luvvie’s blackness due to her being African https://twitter.com/badassboz/status/1030632447527010304

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 110: Nail Gunn feat. Shannon Strucci (@plentyofalcoves) (08/06/2018)

August 13, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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We welcome Shannon Strucci, an editor who runs the YouTube channel StrucciMovies and is currently working on a video essay series about parasocial relationships called FAKE FRIENDS. The latest installment of Fake Friends can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLA-uFKjQ-g

Mentioned in this episode:

“Dylan Sprouse And James Gunn Accused Jared Leto Of Creepiness On Twitter” http://dlisted.com/2018/05/17/dylan-sprouse-and-james-gunn-accused-jared-leto-of-creepiness-on-twitter/
Dave Bautista May Not Do Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Without James Gunn’s Script https://io9.gizmodo.com/dave-bautista-may-not-do-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-1828138248
Director James Gunn Apologizes for Anti-Gay and Sexist Comments on Blog Post https://www.glaad.org/blog/director-james-gunn-apologizes-anti-gay-and-sexist-comments-blog-post
ArenaNet throw two Guild Wars 2 writers to the wolves https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/07/06/arenanet-throw-two-guild-wars-2-writers-to-the-wolves/
Guild Wars 2 writers fired following heated Twitter exchange with streamer https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/guild-wars-2-writers-fired-following-heated-twitter-exchange-with-streamer/?__twitter_impression=true
James Gunn’s firing shows we’re still living in the Gamergate era https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/2018/7/24/17599132/james-gunn-fired-gamergate-guardians-of-the-galaxy
On James Gunn, Fake Outrage and Letting The Bad Guys Win https://moviebobcentral.com/2018/07/23/on-james-gunn/
The Maniac Who Conquered Marvel https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/james-gunn-guardians-of-the-galaxy?utm_term=.sl7QVRM56E#.pikgYro8Z5
The “controversy” over journalist Sarah Jeong joining the New York Times, explained https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17644704/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-tweets-backlash-racism

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_)

Teaser for CS 109: Stand Your Ground (07/23/2018)

July 30, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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This episode we discuss a recent shooting of a Black man in Clearwater, Florida, where the gunman got off on a stand your ground defense.

Mentioned in this episode:

“Gunman in death of father not charged based on Florida’s ‘stand your ground’ law” https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/gunman-in-death-of-father-not-charged-based-on-florida-s-stand-your-ground-law-1283708995875

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_)

Teaser for CS 108: Clermont Twins and Other Stuff (07/21/2018)

July 29, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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This episode we discuss a recent criminal controversy involving reality stars and Instagram models and apparent escorts, the Clermont Twins. We end up also discussing some other hard-hitting (not really) topics along the way.

Mentioned in this episode:

“She was in reality TV’s ‘Bad Girls Club.’ Now she’s charged with stealing a dead man’s identity.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/12/she-was-a-reality-tv-bad-girl-now-shes-charged-with-stealing-a-dead-mans-identity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d6b8a7130b20
The C.O.W.S. podcast discussing Black Mirror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtzwwNLM4bk
“James Gunn Slammed After His Horrific Tweets Joking About Pedophilia Surface” https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/07/20/james-gunn-old-tweets-pedophilia-rape-offensive-jokes-deleted-apology/

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 107: Sorry to Bother You feat. Michael Brooks (@_michaelbrooks) (07/22/2018)

July 28, 2018Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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We welcome Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of The Majority Report with Sam Seder to discuss Sorry to Bother You, the recent movie by Boots Riley of the rap group The Coup. The Michael Brooks show can be found and supported at https://www.patreon.com/TMBS.

Opening intro song is “Guillotine” by the Coup.

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_)

Teaser for CS 106: Straight, Single, and Smashing (07/19/2018)

July 21, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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This episode we talk about several things, particularly my “Straight, Single and Smashing” theory of Black (and other nonwhite) male characters in action and drama movies and shows. Then we segue into the new wave of articles involving coining catchy dating trends.

Mentioned in this episode:

“Mosting’: When People Come On Strong, Then Ghost” https://melmagazine.com/mosting-when-people-come-on-strong-then-ghost-cafec9b78254
“8 2017 Dating Trends Defined, From Ghosting To Zombieing To Benching” https://www.elitedaily.com/dating/dating-trends-defined-from-ghosting-to-zombieing/2045686
“From ghosting to breadcrumbing, the new glossary of love” https://www.hindustantimes.com/sex-and-relationships/from-ghosting-to-breadcrumbing-the-new-glossary-of-love/story-u90mzJPhZcfoU1gQqP02OM.html

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 105: Curious Catastrophe (07/18/2018)

July 18, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Today we discuss a theme that has obsessively been plaguing the Champagne Sharks Curious Cat (the site people go to to ask questions that we answer on the show), my supposed views on interracial dating and the fact my wife is of Indian descent. You can find the Champagne Sharks Curious Cat here: https://curiouscat.me/champagnesharks.

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)_