Champagne Sharks
A podcast about race, politics, and pop culture, through the lenses of humor and psychology.
Episodes
April 9, 2025 • 17 mins
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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March 30, 2025 • 162 mins
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=SpencerCornelia
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March 19, 2025 • 14 mins
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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March 12, 2025 • 45 mins
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 Golden Age of Fraud” (Abrams, 2023), and the author of “Terms of Service: Social Med...
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March 5, 2025 • 15 mins
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 patreon memebers.
Links in this episode can found at:
How Not to Talk to Your K...
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February 26, 2025 • 113 mins
This 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. Niedermeyer cohosts The Autonocast, a podcast about autonomous vehicles technology and ...
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February 19, 2025 • 17 mins
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 Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan, Geena Davis, and ...
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February 12, 2025 • 46 mins
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), and the author of “Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connect...
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February 5, 2025 • 18 mins
This 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, the tech industry concept of “disruption”, trump coin and g6 priests stalling out; it...
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January 29, 2025 • 84 mins
This week Trevor is joined by guest Dr. Jesse Smith to discuss his article ‘Sociology in the Age of Trump: The Clash of Deep Stories on the Left and Right’. Dr. Smith received his PhD in sociology and demography from Penn State University in 2023. Prior to his graduate training in sociology, Dr. Smith obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work. He spent several years in south-central Indiana working in the fields ...
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January 15, 2025 • 90 mins
This week Trevor sits down with Alex Skopic to talk about his article on Vivek Ramaswamy, and what he means to the new political landscape. Alex Skopic is presently Associate Editor at Current Affairs and you can find his writings both fiction and non-fiction on his website https://alexskopic.com/
Links for this episode can be found at:
Alex’s article https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/12/the-lessons-of-vivek
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January 5, 2025 • 107 mins
This week Mario and Ken talk tech as elon lets it be known what he thinks of american workers. The future of education and certain jobs both have a chance of disappearing with elon and trump coming in to power, and The Sharks got some thoughts about that.
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December 24, 2024 • 67 mins
This week Trevor sits down with Nitish Pahwa (https://www.nitishpahwa.com/) and Mo Diggs (https://supculture.substack.com/) to talk about what to expect over the next 4 years when Trump jumps back into the oval office while comparing it to what we’ve had in the past.
Nitish Pahwa is an associate writer for business and tech at Slate.com. He's also written for the New York Times and Passion of the Weiss, and he lives in Brooklyn.
Mo...
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December 21, 2024 • 53 mins
This week Trevor sits down solo to discuss the scams being run on both sides of the aisle; but how they are ran are grossly different. With a deep dive into examples, this episode looks into the concept that just because you cant see the grift, doesn't mean its not there but now it appears the average American is hoping to get in on the con.
Links mentioned in this episode can be found at:
The girls who screamed at Bernie Sa...
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December 7, 2024 • 87 mins
This week Trevor, Ken, and Mario gather up and start the show with a breakdown on the current political goings on in the online discourse, then for part 2 the Sharks get into Drakes UMG petition that has only added fuel to his downfall. Its an extended session so get comfortable because the Sharks are feasting for the holidays.
Links mentioned in this episode can be found at:
The Case for Myron from Fresh and Fit being closeted ...
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November 24, 2024 • 44 mins
This week Trevor and Ken sit down to talk about the continued fall out of post election america. As the online conversation continues to be an echo chamber of 2016 The Sharks are here to talk sense into ya.
Links mentioned in this episode can be found at:
VP Harris' 'coronation' was an 'epic disaster,' says DNC official: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alzdNWoylQ
Harris Campaign DEEP IN DEBT After MILLIONS WASTED on Celebrity Ev...
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November 8, 2024 • 85 mins
This week we have all the Sharks; Trevor, Kenny, Mario and Vida are all here to discuss what went down on Tuesday night. Thats right, its an election special!
Links mentioned in this episode:
Behavior Altering Parasites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfaQ-NUeLM&ab_channel=NewYorkPost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-4f41Gaf8&ab_channel=Frankenscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vijGdWn5-h8&ab_channel=NationalGeograp...
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October 30, 2024 • 93 mins
This week Trevor and Ken welcome guests Mischa Webley and Hasaan Thomas on to the show to talk about about their new web series 'Hasaan Hates Portland’. Hasaan Hates Portland is a dark comedy web series about a black man trying to navigate his way through the whitest - and weirdest - city in America.
You can check out the show at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGpHvieaXM&t=5s
https://www.tiktok.com/@hasaanhatesportland
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October 12, 2024 • 104 mins
This week Trevor, Ken and Mario kick off the show with a little bit of sports talk and then kick the conversation over to the FBA.
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September 29, 2024 • 86 mins
This week Trevor takes a solo trip down the rabbit hole that is Wall Street. Thinking what others may think others are thinking is the name of the game and the price to play depends on how liquid you can get. So bust out the financial times because this episode is all about stocks.
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