Fight Club Club w/ Jason & Daniel

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jason, Daniel, and Andy talk about Fight Club to celebrate to the 25th anniversary of the movie and the Battle of Seattle that followed it. We look at the history of the book and Chuck Palahniuk's situationist influence and his embrace of his rightwing fans, the Gen-X ennui behind the creation of Tyler Durden, the politics of Project Mayhem, and Marla Singer's character as the story's ethical core.

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Check out Jason's essay on Fight Club and his New York on Earth substack: https://newyorkonearth.substack.com/

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0:00.0	And you open the door and you step inside.
0:02.8	We're inside our hearts.
0:04.8	Now imagine your pain is a white ball of healing.
0:07.2	Welcome to Fight Club Club.
0:10.0	The first rule of Fight Club Club is, no shoes, no weapons. If this is your first time at
0:19.6	Fight Club Club, you have to podcast. I'm joined today by foot soldiers of Project Mayhem,
0:25.1	Jason from the New York on Earth Substacked,
0:28.2	and Daniel, our mysterious anarcho-punk film critic. How's it going today? Space monkeys. I'm doing well. Thank you very much Mr. Durden, sir.
0:38.3	Yeah, shirtless and shoeless. Yeah, we're all we're not wearing shirts. We're not going to post the video to confirm that, but let's have to imagine that that's the case. We are in a basement. Jason and I are in the same basement. Daniel's in a different basement, and we are ready to not fight.
0:56.6	We are going to, well maybe we will fight a little bit, but we're not going to fight like they do in Fight Club.
1:01.5	We're going to talk about the movie and the book Fight Club.
1:05.4	It's the 25th anniversary of the film coming out. I will make my argument that it's a incredibly important film politically and we'll just sort of go through it and then in the second episode we'll talk about Joker 2.
1:20.8	So let me get started by asking you to your history with Fight Club. Like when did you see the movie? What was your the impact of it on you when you first saw it? And let's start with Daniel. Yeah, I mean I saw it. And let's start with Daniel. Yeah, I mean, I saw it on home video, probably
1:38.3	right as the home video came out. We likely got it from Blockbuster. My friend definitely had it as a VHS tape and we would watch it every single time I slept over at his house, which was basically every weekend.
1:51.0	Okay, Unk. Yeah, and between no effects breaking up and watching Fight Club last night at three in the
1:59.9	morning, I really, really brought back some uncomfortable teenage feelings for sure.
2:06.8	Yeah, it was my favorite movie.
2:08.9	Full stop.
2:09.5	Yeah, me too.
2:10.3	What about you, Jason?
2:11.3	I'm trying to remember the exact context. I saw Fight Club. I was probably around 20 years ago also won VHS.
2:19.0	I saw it probably around the time I was getting into movies. A bunch of my friends worked at an independent video store where, you know, not Blockbuster, but one of the Indies where the longer you hang out there, the more you realize that it's being subsidized by
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