Episode 40: Fight Club
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We start 2020 with what was meant to be our 2019 Christmas Special, a very roundabout chat about the disturbingly-relevant-to-today 1999 film Fight Club. Not a typical episode, if you're new around here... but we do this sort of thing from time to time.
Content Warnings.
Notes/Links:
Dan Olsen's video on Fight Club and Toxic Masculinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td88z08a_4c
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | I don't speak German the anti-Fascist podcast in which I Jack Graham and my friend Daniel Harper have conversations about the far rights conversations |
| 0:10.4 | Daniel tells me what he learned from years of going where few of us can bear to go and listening |
| 0:15.8 | to what today's far right, the alt-right, white nationalists, white supremacist, Nazis, |
| 0:20.6 | etc. |
| 0:21.6 | Talk about and say to each other in their safe spaces, their |
| 0:24.6 | podcasts, their YouTube videos, their live streams, etc. The Waffle S.S. I call |
| 0:29.7 | them and do they Waffle. Daniel listened so we don't have to. Needless to say, these are terrible people |
| 0:36.0 | and they say terrible things. So every episode comes with a big content warning. Daniel and I talk freely about despicable opinions and acts and sometimes |
| 0:45.3 | we have to repeat the despicable things that are said, including bigoted slurs. |
| 0:49.8 | So be warned. |
| 0:51.6 | And welcome to the second year, and I don't speak German. It's episode 40, our first |
| 0:56.2 | podcast of 2020. Happy New Year everybody. And yeah, here we go. The first rule of I don't speak German of you don't speak German is you do not speak German and the third rule of talking about fight club is that you have to start with stupid jokes. This is Jack's |
| 1:13.7 | podcast and here's Daniel. Shiesa. Anyway we got the stupid jokes out the way, so we're now legally obligated. |
| 1:25.0 | We've fulfilled our obligation we can talk about. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, now, now, uh, now we get to wait just do like 90 minutes of silent audio not not blank you know not just a blank file |
| 1:37.1 | where you and I just sit here and breathe into the microphone for an hour and a half |
| 1:39.9 | that will be the rest of the episode that's Well, of course, everybody else realizes this, but I'm only just |
| 1:46.6 | starting to realize that you don't really exist, you're just my imagine friend. |
| 1:50.5 | So every single one of these episodes, which I've never really listened to is just me talking to myself obviously |
| 1:55.6 | Exactly. Yeah, no how we got that famous I'm not sure I don't know it must be must be compelling for for somebody to listen to I don't know right so yeah this is the |
| 2:05.0 | episode where we talk about fight club as you will have gathered from the stupid |
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