Champagne Sharks

As is now the norm for our free episodes, this episode was available only to $5/month subscribers for the first 24 hours, and is now unlocked to the general public. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode hosted by Ken, Mario, T., and special guest co-host Andray Domise. Part 2 is available to $5/month Patreon subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-231-black-jr-32464337 The guest is Bill Fletcher, Jr., a Black Socialist who is an ex-Black Panther and a current labor activist. We discuss what socialism means to him and what it has to offer Black people today. We also ask him some listener questions, including one about his feelings on the ADOS movement and their push for reparations. Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web. 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_)

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.

This was a premium episode previously only available only to $5/month Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-228-end-of-11-31930028. It is now unlocked and free to everyone. Show notes to this episode are available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/show-notes-for-32013027. This episode was hosted by T. (http://twitter.com/rickyrawls), Andray Domise (https://twitter.com/andraydomise), Daniel Bessner (https://twitter.com/dbessner) and Courtney Rawlings (https://twitter.com/__acadame). We discuss Daniel's recent papers on the state of the job market for history phDs and how it relates to the precarious state of knowledge work in general in America under neoliberalism. You can find a prologue to this episode as well here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31929590. 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_)

As is now the norm for our free episodes, this episode was available only to $5/month subscribers for the first 24 hours, and is now unlocked to the general public. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This episode was hosted by T. The guest is Courtney Kaye Rawlings (https://twitter.com/__acadame), a phD candidate in Art History at Emory University. We discuss an episode of the show, episode 228, which we recorded together with Andray Domise and Daniel Bessner and can be found here https://www.patreon.com/posts/31930028. The link Courtney mentions at the end where she wants people to flood the National Labor Relations Board with their comments is here http://seiufacultyforward.org/graduate-workers-attack/. The site also explains the background of the conflict. 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_)

This is a preview of a Patreon-only episode. This episode is hosted by Kenny and Mario, continuing their conversation from part 1.

This episode will be available only to $5 subscribers for the first 24 hours, after which time it will be unlocked to the general public. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. Subscribing not only gets you access to our archive of over 100 subscriber -only episodes,  but also access to our Discord server, which allows you to do voice and chat with the podcast hosts and other premium subscribers to the podcast. This episode is hosted by Ken alone. You can find Ken at http://twitter.com/503305podcast Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). 

This is a teaser for part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs222-harriet-pt-31378616.  Show notes to this episode will are available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/show-notes-for-31828956. This episode has Kenny, Mario and Trevor as hosts, and Andray Domise (http://twitter.com/andraydomise) as a guest host. We review the new movie "Harriet" starring Cynthia Erivo and directed by Kasi Lemmons. 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_)

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month.  This episode will be available only to $5 subscribers for the first 24 hours, after which time it will be unlocked to the general public. However part 2 will remain paywalled at https://www.patreon.com/posts/31378616. Show notes to this episode are available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/show-notes-for-31828956. This episode has Kenny, Mario and Trevor as hosts, and Andray Domise (http://twitter.com/andraydomise) as a guest host. We review the new movie "Harriet" starring Cynthia Erivo and directed by Kasi Lemmons. 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_)

This is a teaser for part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and the full version of Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-219-tin-foil-31150918.  Show notes to this episode are also eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/episodes-218-and-31152505. This episode has Kenny, Mario and Trevor as hosts. We talk about an attempt to be woke online about the topic of continual consent that backfired for an online activist as well as the topic of how a lot of the people who make hating straight Black men a core part of their online identity are actually mad about an idea they hold about straight Black men being more popular with the white kids in high school than they were, and how much of their "ideology" is just residual jealousy that originates in that notion. Then in part 2, T. breaks out a psychological theory about Mandingoism and Mapplethorpism that grosses out the other sharks. 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_)

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month.  This episode will be available only to $5 subscribers for the first 24 hours, after which time it will be unlocked to the general public. However part 2 will remain paywalled at https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-219-tin-foil-31150918. Show notes to this episode are available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/episodes-218-and-31152505. This episode has Kenny, Mario and Trevor as hosts. We talk about an attempt to be woke online about the topic of continual consent that backfired for an online activist as well as the topic of how a lot of the people who make hating straight Black men a core part of their online identity are actually mad about an idea they hold about straight Black men being more popular with the white kids in high school than they were, and how much of their "ideology" is just residual jealousy that originates in that notion. Then in part 2, T. breaks out a psychological theory about Mandingoism and Mapplethorpism that grosses out the other sharks. 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_)

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month.  This episode will be available only to $5 subscribers for the first 24 hours, after which time it will be unlocked to the general public. However part 2 will remain paywalled. Show notes to this episode are also eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/31014838. This episode has Mario and Trevor as hosts. We talk about a variety of issues in the news in this one including Black capitalists vs. Black socialists and how toxic social media is, as well as a disgusting rapist of Black girls and women who recently came to light named Jason Roger Pope AKA DJ Kidd. 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_)

This is a teaser for part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and the full version of Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/posts/30917213.  Show notes to this episode are also eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/30918362. Professor Heidi Matthews researches and teaches in the areas of international criminal law, the law of war, international legal history and political theory. Her work theorizes contemporary shifts in the practice and discourse of the global legal regulation of political violence, with particular attention to history and gender, as well as political, critical and aesthetic theory. Today Heidi and I talk about two of her articles, one about whether #MeToo can be deemed a modern sex panic and the other about the concept of creeps and the ways in which being deemed a creep fits into the presumption of being a sexual threat and pariah. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com).

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and Part 2 is available only to premium Patreon subscribers who subscribe at a rate of $5/month.  Show notes to this episode are also eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/30918362. Professor Heidi Matthews researches and teaches in the areas of international criminal law, the law of war, international legal history and political theory. Her work theorizes contemporary shifts in the practice and discourse of the global legal regulation of political violence, with particular attention to history and gender, as well as political, critical and aesthetic theory. Today Heidi and I talk about two of her articles, one about whether #MeToo can be deemed a modern sex panic and the other about the concept of creeps and the ways in which being deemed a creep fits into the presumption of being a sexual threat and pariah. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com).

This is the teaser to part 2 of a 2-part episode. The first episode is free, the second one is available to premium subscribers at at patreon.com/champagnesharks, specifically https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-213-shit-show-30576345. This episode is hosted by Ken, Mario and T. This is part 2 of a 2-part episode. The first episode is free, the second one is available to premium subscribers who subscribe at the $5/month level over at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This episode has a couple of firsts and was originally going to be called "Shooting the Shit" but then we realized we already titled another episode that, so we gave it this title instead. 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_)

This episode is hosted by Ken, Mario and T. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode. The first episode is free, the second one is available to premium subscribers who subscribe at the $5/month level over at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This episode has a couple of firsts and was originally going to be called "Shooting the Shit" but then we realized we already titled another episode that, so we gave it this title instead. 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_)