Ep 46 - Fight Club

Swole Cinema Episode 46 is here, and it’s time to break the first two rules… because Ryan and Mark are talking about "Fight Club"! Starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter, this mind-bending, adrenaline-fueled classic is as intense as it is thought-provoking.

From underground brawls to psychological twists, we’re breaking down everything that makes "Fight Club" one of the most unforgettable films of the late ‘90s. Is Tyler Durden the ultimate antihero? Does the film still hit as hard today? We’ve got A LOT to say about it!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up, everybody, Swell nation, We're back. This is Swoll Cinema.
I am Ryan, I am Mark, and we are back
for another fun filling episode of your favorite nineties eighties,
you know, action genre movies.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's right tonight. We're gonna freaking fight our imaginary friend.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah. This is like, this is a this is what
nineteen ninety six I would see here. I am dB. Yeah,
it's nineteen ninety nine, all right. I just squeaked it
in there, all right. This was one of those I
guess I think I mentioned at the end of the
last one. This was a movie I didn't watch when
it first came out for a little while because it

(00:53):
was a Brad Pitt movie and Brad Pitt at that
topic at that time, Brad Pitt was all great, stated
Brad Pitt, No and jealousy. I was super jealous. Oh okay,
he was. He was all the rage, so all the
like every girl wanted to like wanted Brad Pitt. He
was just the sex symbol of like nineteen ninety nine.
Is that those for years and I just I was like,

(01:13):
I'm tired with this fucking pretty boy. I don't need
to watch a movie with him. I didn't know what
it was about. It was like fight club. Yeah sure,
but like this pretty boy's in it. Like then all
the girls like fuck that. I don't want to watch it.
So I didn't for like a year or two, and
then when I finally did is like fucking Brad Pitt
killed it in this movie. I went Brad Pitt in
now right he was he like like they they dressed

(01:35):
him up and put him out here and put him
out there in like thrift store type clothing, but made
him still look cool as fuck. He uh yeah, he
looked really cool. He had a swagger, right, yeah, it was.
It was perfect like the the the button down Edward
Norton persona and the exact opposite of the like in
like if you watch the movie before, I mean yeah

(01:55):
spoiler orders, oh yeah, spoiler yeah, you know that was
that was the soonification of exactly the guy that's you know,
a button down, straight laced smaller dude would want to
look like that, he'd want to look like Brad Pitt,
act like Brad Pitt, like because he was. He was
the coolest of the cool Like that's just all it
was to it, man. He just oozed the cheeze.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Mos, Brad pit Is, Tyler Dirdin, and Edward Norton. You
know that.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
In the movie we never really get a name.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I mean, supposedly, he's Jack, that's his name.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
One thing he goes by, but also goes by Tyler Durham, right,
but in the credits only listed his narrator. Oh yeah, yeah,
so he never we never get like his actual name.
Supposedly when he keeps from referencing like these weird journals
he found that fucked up house Jack's smirking revenge. Yeah,

(02:49):
then he starts saying that internally internal monologues was like Jack's.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anger, supposedly because I was looking some stuff up and
I saw like a piece of script. That's the things
that like somethinge people refer to him as Jack. They're
like like his name's helped fucking Jacket's toller, Like like, well,
here's some script, and Tyler durdan is is Brad Pitt,
Jack is Edward Norton.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Edward Norton is narrator.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah. Uh, there's actually a website out there where a
guy just deep dives hard into it and he's uh,
it's Jack Durdon dot Com. Jack Durton dot com.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
So, yeah, if you want to kill some kill some
time ago that go there and a deep dive into
his that guy's fan theory of Tyler Fight Club and
what he thought.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, now the movie before it really goes off the rails.
It it's one of those movies that is like super cool.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
So we have Ed Norton.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
His character is has wicked bad insomnia and he somehow
finds comfort and going to uh what do you call
these It's like group therapy therapy because once he meets Bob,
Bob had bits bitch tits played by a meat loaf.

(04:09):
Once he was able to crack his Yeah, he went
to a testicular cancer that's where he met Bob. And
because of the hormone therapy for Bob losing his balls,
he got big boobs. But he cried in Bob's big boobs,
and once he had that release, he slept like a
baby and then he started going all these things.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Now, but at that point we know he's working this crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Job where he inspects cars that were in accents to
see if there's something liability to the car manufacturer, which
already sounds like a fucked up job, like where you're
gonna like, uh, we felt like it wasn't a defect,
so sorry, we're not going to pay for anything. Then
he did this cool thing where he's all about his

(04:54):
Ikea possessions in his apartment.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
He's very very consumerism type.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, I think that's kind of uh becomes a theme
about you know, we're most held captive by wanting to
buy these items this movie.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Like, I've watched this movie a lot. It's been a while,
but I watched a lot, and like, there's so many
lines that whenever they pop up, I love them. And
that's like the one point Tyler and when he first
when he first meets quote unquote meets you know it
goes out for a beer with Tyler, he says, the
things you own end up owning you. Yeah, yeah, because
they Yeah. I always love that line too.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Kind of guys like us know what it is.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
But uh, just to back up just a second, Like
the opening credits, Uh, it kind of reminded me of
Batman a little bit, like whenever it's circling through the logo,
but this one's coming through like the synapses And I
love I love movies that always fuck with you where
they open the scene at the end of the movie,
but they and you completely forget about it. You're thinking

(05:54):
you're already forming your theory of what's going to happen,
and then then you remember, like and that brings it
back and your ship they already showed me. I was
way off, like yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Because it opens with uh, Tyler Jurden has a gun
and in Dora's mouth and he's talking. He's like, oh, wait,
I guess we should tell you how I even got here, right,
we should back up a little bit. It's great when
we finally get back to that scene and he was like,
I'm pretty sure, Okay, this is where we came in, right,
and they look. The movie is like extremely stylized. The

(06:22):
editing is awesome. But I gotta tell you, like Brad,
Brad Pitt and Norton obviously carry the movie, but they're good. Yeah,
And it's one of those movies like you probably don't
pick up on Ship until you know, oh what's up?
And then you know because watching it last night, you know,
I can't you know, every little time Tyler Dirden would appear,

(06:46):
you don't know. If you didn't know what was happening,
you just think, oh, what's this weird thing David Fincher's
doing with editing?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Right? I was like yelling Tyler Durton, and list was like, what,
she hasn't seen it for so long?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And She's like, I'm pretty sure I always fall asleep typical.
She's like she wasn't, she wasn't kind of grasping it until.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I know. She still ended a famal sleep mass.
Probably still doesn't know.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
She may never know.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Legend has it, she'll never know.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Spoiler it's uh ed Nord's uh what do you call that?
Make believe friends?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
He had just alter ego, imaginary friendaginary friend. Yeah that
I guess manifested from his insomnia. Well, yeah, his insomnia
and he's just he was definitely had a psychotic break
at some point. He had to him. It was just
like a guy that just hated his life and needed
an escape. So he created the guy that he wanted

(07:42):
to be and just slowly but surely like kind of
was living through him.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Like the guy he wanted to be, though was not
a good guy.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
He's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I thought, Oh, Brad Pitt was awesome, but he was
doing a fund up ship. Oh of course, like work
at that one restaurant Peen in the one suit.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
But that's that was the best part because it was
all about like that's that's a restaurant where average jows
don't go, you know, like it was a very high
class like had big balls for rich people and everything else.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Right, yeah, rich people. So yeah, you don't want about
the clam chowder whatever, mushroom cream of mushroom soup. That's right,
because there's one scene where he orders food with the
love interests. Oh, and he stops the guys like we
went clean food. Oh, then I would suggest don't get
that right, uh, because he knew.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
This movie is kind of hard to talk about in
a for me in a linear way because I just
want to keep recalling like all these fun scenes.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
But fun fact about that one. Sorry didn't rup the
fun before because it's not a big deal. But fun
fact about is the waiter is actually ed K, the
lead singer of Live from right around here, like.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
From New York.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Wow, I didn't I didn't know that, right.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
I didn't know it till very recently when something completely unrelated.
I think I was like listening to live or something
on Spotify and I was looking something up about the
band and it was like Ed Kay and his like
spot in fight Club. I was like, fight Club? What
the fuck was he in fight Club? Yeah, he's that.
He's the waiter that's like, yeah, may I recommend you
don't order that? That's him. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, if you if you watch the movie, if
you don't know what's happening, it doesn't really matter if
you love the movie, it still works this way, right, But.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
He's having trouble sleeping.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
He's this insurance adjuster typejuster type thing to see if
it's it really was a car, if they were actually.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Going to pay out right. I love the people that
died in a.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Horrific car accident because a break failure or something like that.
I love that when he like talks about the formula
to the lady on the plane, his single serving friend,
the single serving whole, single serving thing. Great, Yeah, that's clever.
How's that working out for being clever? Yeah? Like that
that formula he tells her, And I'm like, of course
that's the formula. You don't even be. You don't even

(09:52):
know need to be like someone that works there to know, like, yeah,
if they think they're not going to whichever one they're
going to pay out more on. That's the one are
going to one less, that's the one I'm gonna do. Yeah,
like because because you know, there's a there's soulless giant corporations.
They do what they do, soulless key word.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
But yeah, they're fine.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
So he's after one of his you know, adjusting insurance
gigs another state because he does a lot of traveling.
He's on an airplane, uh, and meets Brad, meets Tyler
Durton and then again there's one of those things too
where they're talking and he reaches down to get his briefcase.
He's like, oh, you got the exact same briefcases I

(10:35):
do again, one of those things like yeah, because it's you.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
But Tyler Dirton works, he makes soap paper, paper, Street
Soap Soap Company, Paper, Street Soap Company. Uh. But they
talk and you get this fun scene where he has
to get to go to the bathroom. He's like, Okay,
now do I give you the ass we say in
the back of the front or the ass and the
air the balls or whatever you have? Yeah, so does
he gives Edward the ass, but it was he passed.

(11:01):
They want Steward the balls and yeah, it's this is
one of those lines. It's like hilarious, right, because it's
it is. It's one of the things you think about there.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
But I love the fact that they like continue on
to be like, yeah, he's going to give you the
ass and then like crouch us up against.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
When you've ever been in a situation, do you go
would you go ass every time? Uh?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Probably exactly.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I've never been in a movie theater and then excuse me,
you got to go to the bathroom and then turn
around and off the and give everybody balls.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's like because you'd be like kind of just looking
in the eyes, right.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I think it's easier to in that situations here to
give ass in a row. It's you got to give
ass because then you can lean forward and still have
a little bit of room. Like if it gives you
more if you're your giving balls.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, I think if you get up out of your
seat and then face.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
You're gonna make it weird for everybody. Maybe I'll do
that next time just to see how it goes.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
You imagine like if I didn't, somebody's like, ha, fight club,
I'm like, yes, I'll.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Buy you a beer when the high five immediately high.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I don't want to do that. That's like asking to
be punched in the.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Balls, right, oh yeah if if.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, movie theaters now have much bigger seats, like you're
not you're not too worried about it.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
But back in the day, man, it's a little cramped.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh yeah, we're definitely getting the ass with the balls. Yeah. Stuff,
I'm just stuff stuff. If you're a lady, you got
other stuff. I assume other stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
That was a funny scene, but that's our introduction to
Tyler Durdam. And then when he gets off the plane, yeah,
his apartment, Yeah, there's a fire exploded.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, and he doesn't know what to do and he
still has Tyler's phone number.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
I love that he first called Marlowe and it's like, oh,
that's right, I forgot about it. We didn't introduce marl.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yes, she's not a main character really per se, barely
a love interest, but she is a connection.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Uh as you follow the thread, uh Ed Norton being
Tyler Dirton. Right, she's way more interesting after you've seen
the movie once. Yeah, you know, like I mean, obviously
plays a big role in the movie, but when you
realize like, oh, she's fucking ed Norton the entire time
and not Tyler Durton.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Like it's their interactions become so much more really, it
makes more sense when she's like he's like, what the
fuck is wrong? What the fuck is wrong with just
the whole time She's like what the fuck is wrong?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Fuck you whatever? Always like pissed off at him in
her whole interactions because he's like, she's you know, she's
banging Tyler, but what am I doing with her? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
After they just had sex off, like all, yeah, what
do you?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Was one scene where brad UB's door because he's standing there,
he's like, hey, what's up? And he had he has
like a latex level, like man, you want to finish
her up? And he's like what now, Like what are
you doing in there?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
But even that scene like Marla's like falling off the
bed there and she looks like who you talking to?
Shut up and just close the door, Like that scene
like oh yeah, because she had to look over and
see him open the door talking to no one.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right, They did do a really nice job having a
few scenes where we get to see what it really
was like. And I was reading that they it took
a lot when they were filming to make sure that
they set up so like there were certain shots any
over the shoulder shots of Ed Norton, you wouldn't see

(14:31):
Tyler Durton. And these are things you just you notice.
After you see it a couple of times, you can
start picking up on it. But I really love that
because again, the first time I saw it as everybody,
Tyler Derton's a character and you don't realize that it's
it's a figment of his imagination. And then again when

(14:54):
you rewatch it, like all the all the things are
there just kind of what just like the sixth sense, right, Yeah,
if you see the SIXTHSS you watch it again, you're like, oh,
you can start seeing.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Right, you pick up why they everything a little weird,
why the interactions are odd like that.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, but that's like you know, my wife made a
comment like oh no, like but once you know it,
you can't really watch this movie again, like you getting wrong,
that's wrong number when you keep going asleep number two, Like.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, this this movie like it's it's.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Really good, but it gives you more to watch, watch
and more to understand, right, because again I think it's
a really uh, great piece of cinema, editing, directing, even
color grading. It.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, has a freaking great look. It was.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
I noticed it in the so they get to that
one point where they're doing their homework. Their first homework
assignment is go out, like the whole scene to lot
we'll get. I mean if I've talked about attle little
bit with Loo and everything, But I noticed that the
first really noticed it whenever he was having his quote
unquote fight with his boss. Like I was like, man,
I didn't notice in Town now, But I love how
everything just has almost a washed out look like there's

(16:08):
nothing is Everything is just kind of like just washed
out worry. There's nothing that sticks out in his virus.
They call it a leach bypass. Yeah. I think it's
just a way of desaturating.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
But you can also have like a consistent like tone
to it, like like this this film had like a
lot of like like green Yeah, yeah, David, if you
watch his other movie, well, he has a bunch of
movies by now. But seven, okay, seven had a similar
desaturation with Brad Pitt.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, I say Brad Pitt, Yeah, but yeah, like yeah,
I'll look back and I went, yeah that and but
it kind of matches for this one, especially with the
whole like insomnia thing, the whole like after you think
about too, like oh yeah, because he's going through his
whole life never never asleep or never awake like he
says at the beginning, when you haven't saw me and
you're never awake or never never asleep.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
And uh yeah, So he's going to these therapy classes,
his his apartment is on fire, his order stay calls
Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt meets him at a bar. Yeah,
and this is where we kind of kick off the
concept of a fight club because they hang out, they
drink beers.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Brad schools him a little bit on you.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Know, being owned by his own right you know, uh
items he's buying, and when he got in the parking lot,
h Brad's like, hit me.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, it hit me as hard as you can. Yeah,
and you tesk, you do my favor, hit me as
hard as you can. And yeah, apparently the uh the
part where he's like in the ear, that was just
ad lib there, Like they didn't tell they didn't give
Edward Norton any direction of like where where am I
supposed to hit him? He just clocked him to the
whole like, fuck in the ear. Seriously, that's like genuine Actually, God,

(17:54):
what which is right?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
He actually hit him right, which is against any punches. Yeah,
which was a mistake, right unless they were like because
I did read, Yeah, he hit him hard in the air,
so he must have fucked up because they're not really
supposed to hit each other.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, I mean it could have been for this movie, like, uh,
go for it. Yah, it might have just been go
for because.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, but the ear.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
You cut your hand again martial arts technique, you cut
your hand and hit someone out of the ear like
you're forcing that air in there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, that's not good. No, So I can see how
brad Pitt was like fuck right, but it was great.
Then he clocks him in the in the in the
stomach and the gut, and then fight closes the beginning
because then they just want to fight the fight the
parking line, they're like uh and then they're like bonding.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Or so happy again.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Brad Pitt's not really there, but yeah, then it just starts.
So then again, because he ed Norton does a lot
of there. He that's why he's just titled the Narrator.
We'll talk about after that night we did this and
we found this bar and we went there, uh, and
it just grew.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
So there's there's a scene after that where they he moved.
So also I love the line right before that where
he goes, you know, so he told him this whole
story about how his apartment got blown up and this
that and the other thing, and it's it's so late
when I had to go to get a hotel and
blah blah blah, and he's like, like Jesus, just ask.

(19:26):
He's like, what do you mean. He's like three pictures
of beer and you still can't ask, and he's like,
what do you mean. He's like, you're looking for a
place to stay, you obviously wan, It's like just fucking
ask And he's like, well is that a problem? Is
a problem for you to ask? That whole exchange so
good a bar scene was.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
It was just great.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, But that's that's weirdly not. It's rarely a thing
that I appreciate about the movie is the dialogue, especially
especially this genre that we talk about like the action stuff,
Like dialogue isn't usually like the strong point, but in
this movie, it fucking is so good.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, But yeah. And but then the scene after that
they like one of the scenes he moves in, he
goes like stays the night but ends up moving into
the paper and paper street.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
To this house is the big That house is a
fucking disaster.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh it's it's so funny because it's such it's practically
a mansion, but it hasn't been maintained in like, yeah,
multiple decades. It's just a ship house.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
It is a ship house.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
There's got to be rats everything. Oh yeah. Because and
then there's like just the out even the outdoor of
the yard is just like just junk everywhere. And there's
a scene where they're they're hitting golf balls. Everything's abandoned
around them, like no one is living in that and
they're just outside crushing golf balls. And so I was
looking for like stupid stuff about the movie, and apparently

(20:43):
in that scene, like they hit them and one comes
flying back at him and Brad Pitts is like like
almost like beat like, and so supposedly they were actually
hammered hitting golf balls on the set at that point
where they're filming and they're hitting the case during van
that was right there, Oh shit, out of sight and
That's why one game flinging back at M.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Dude, I want to get Can we go to like
an abandoned area and get drunk and hit golf balls?

Speaker 3 (21:09):
I totally what if I could do that?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Right? I mean that's if you've ever been to Top Golf,
That's why I love Top Golf. I never been to
I never heard of it.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Top Golf is a it's just a place where there's
multi stories and you go and it's just, you know,
it's just a tower with levels where you hit golf
balls out of and you go to like what place
and it's a restaurant, so you well, I mean kind
of a restaurant, but you order food and beer and
the able deliver it to wherever you're hitting. But it's
just like a driving contest type thing.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
You just hit it out there, so you're just drinking beers,
drinking eating food and that's your turn.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're just crushing golf balls out there. And they have
a weird little like digital points system like for your
hitting stuff like that sounds awesome. I was there one
time and I fucking loved it. Go to TopGolf dot com,
slash Swalt Cinema.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Can't you know what it sounds like we just cut
into a commercial there, Like that's how smooth you would
do it, Like they're playing golf.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
That we just cut in our top golf.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Who's our monster this week?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
We need a movie not sponsored by top coff. We
could be yeah, hey, yes, we could be. See how
easily worked that scene into the commercial.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
You're welcome, all right, then.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
You talk about making night your glissling. We probably don't
want to work that into a commercial. Hey, we have
guys in black suits that be wanting to talk to
us next week.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hey guys, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Mister Anderson, Yeah no, but that scene was hilarious. And
again they're bonding. Jacks given starting to give little ships
about Jack or the narrator. We're starting to give two
ships about his job. Right, you can say having a
good time here in fight club as it really has
liberated him, right And yeah, because that's if they start

(22:48):
out in what the parking lot of lose tavern, Yeah,
where it's just somehow it ends up being one guy
beating himself up in the parking lot to just gets
a crowd to start fights. Like yeah, you know, Rachel
will say, well, she watched it with me, and she goes,
what about the guy that said, can I be next?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's like, well, at that point there was more people,
but there had at some point there had to be
one guy who going in the parking lots and the
some dudes came out and they were like, get.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
A load of this.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
We thought it was you know, you see both of them?
Do you see both of them? But if it's just
Ed Norton beating it, would would say like, I don't
know what's this guy doing? Yeah, I have nobody to fight.
You guys want to fight, but yeah, I guess maybe
that's a like he want to fight. But he did
build it built he built an empire essentially, right. Oh yeah,
now there's what I love too. There's a lot of

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moments where when he's talking about after meeting Tyler, everything
that Tyler does, which is actually everything Jack does. Right. Uh.
That's where we get the peene in the soup. Because
he's a he's a he's a server. We he works
at a theater. He likes to splice in a frame
of porn or in this case, a big dick in

(23:59):
the middle of Like did he say Cinderella.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh, I just didn't have family films or whatever and
that way like he was like, Uh, you're watching.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
His family film and that frame comes up and you
don't realize you saw it, but everybody kind of knows.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
They saw something.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
They know.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
And they did it to us at the end of
the movie. Oh oh well the roll credits they flashed
that dick. Oh yeah, like for more than one frame.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, it was definitely.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I think every time they did it was more than
one friend, right, but I had to laugh as I
laughed playing it and then my wife is asleep. Damn,
you missed you missed the dick. They brought that joke back.
They brought it back a right.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
But I love because before that, when you were first
watching Fight Club, they they they're splicing like before before
Tyler's introduced, they're splicing him into it.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
That is one of the coolest things to see quick
like flash like what and I don't Yeah, that's the thing.
If you don't know the the twist, right, you just
wondering like is it weird editing or is it because
ed said he can't sleep right. Uh, But once you
know it's Tyler, he's starting to start he's starting to
see flashes of Tyler Startler, Tyler is starting to manifest

(25:09):
to Ed Norton because of this insomnia situation, I guess.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
But I also imagine he hates his job.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
There's a lot of things that were causing like him
to manifest an imaginary.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Right, just yeah, just general unhappiness, just you know, possibly schizophrenic.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Definitely didn't like his job.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, but even the sequence where he explains his job
and they're just talking about you know, the fat melted
onto the seats, the way people are treating it like
people died in this car. They're just treating it like, yeah,
so nonchalant and making jokes like fuck, people are dead.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
You guys are right, and then you guys are just
acting like assholes.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
And sometimes in my head like that it is fucked up.
But sometimes there is one of those things where there's
jobs out there where you have to be that kind
of person probably you know, like it was like the
corner and shit like that, Like you're going to see
some real fucked up shit like not good. I'm not
it's not all just like people don't always pass peacefully
in their sleep, you know, so you're gonna see some
fucked up shit, and you have to have people that

(26:08):
are a little dissensitized that to be like, yeah, it sucks, man,
but you know, I got a job to do, gotta
get out of here.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
That worked out for me.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
I worked or I didn't work.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
I uh.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I knew a kid like that, and he was probably eighteen.
I was probably like twenty couple with the time. And
he worked helped the corner. And this is definitely not
in the movie. Uh, but yeah, he was. It's one
of the things I always remember, Like he said that
he worked with the corner and I had to go
get the bodies and you know, do all that stuff.
And he goes, he goes. Yeah, the other day, we
had a guy who committed you know, who put a

(26:40):
gun in his in his mouth and he was on
his recliner in his living room and so he's like
I had to walk around like pick up the brain,
like pick up pieces of his brain and head and stuff.
He goes. It was kind of like jel I was
real squishy, he goes. But it was cool because we
like were able to like put the put the body
bag like kind of under his button stuff and then
just tilted the decline up and he slid right in.
Like what the fuck was like? So yeah, Like and

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he was a really good kid. I like, he was
a really good dude. And I was like, so, yeah,
there's just people that it doesn't bother.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I think it bothered me.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah I couldn't do that. Uh, but I definitely want
one to do his job, you know, having.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
To make a report.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
And it could go either way like yeah, we're not
gonna cover insurance because again, fuck insurance companies. Like I know,
I couldn't work for an insurance company, right, Sorry, if
you work for a insurance company, say bad, my bad,
say don't say don't say stuff too loud because you know,
some ship just happened with.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
An insurance company. Oh ship, you'll get on the list.
Oh damn.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Like then we get to uh it goes. It goes
from outside in the parking lot to IRV the bartender
who lets them use the basement and so they're in
there and then we get this fucking awesome scene with
Lou of Loo's tavern, which Lou was like just an like,
you're he's one of those guys. I've seen him a
couple of things, but yeah, he.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Recognized is like a character actor, right, he he's kind
of hew out of ship bro. He kind of looks
like a stereotypical like almost like Italian type mobster type guy.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
He kind of reminds me of something that Steven Sigall
probably beat up.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Now. Yeah, like in in that one movie where he
was a bartender and see me he.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Was a bartender. I don't know this movie look the
same kind of hairstyle. Steven Sagall was a bartender.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, it was it Alfred Justice or I don't remember that.
He walks an Italian bar and he oh because yeah, no,
the first one above the law, above the law. Oh,
he was a master one. We that's the drunk episode.
That's the drunk episode. We have never released, maybe for
April Fool's Day to release it. But uh, but yes,

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and Lou like Glu comes downstairs, like what the fuck
is going on here?

Speaker 1 (28:58):
This is like I love them. He's like, what the
fuck's going on down here? He's like, oh, you know,
we have agreement with her. He's like, well the sons.
He's like, who are you. He's like, well, the sign
up there says lose tavern. I'm fucking Lou. Yeah, just
another just stupid, great line for I don't know why,
just to me like this is like, that's just great.
I'm fucking Lou. But yeah, he like starts to beat
the ship out of target. He doesn't fight back, just

(29:19):
lets him beat shit. He keeps laughing. But it was
great because he's like, he's like you hear me now,
and he's like, he's like, you got it, and you know,
boom cracks in one. He's like he's like yeah, yeah,
ah fuck I lost it. And that just just makes
him keep beating the shit out of him until he's
just a fucking red face mask and then jumps on
top and in his face and finally Lou agree. He's like, fuck,

(29:40):
you're crazy. Yeah, just use the goddamn basement. Just don't
ever fucking just don't ever mess with me again. It's
so messed up.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, it's a really good scene. Like I think Brad
pittennailed it.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, he's just kind of like letting blood, laughing, almost
crazy like joker, like, oh yeah, just completely insane.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Everybody stands back, even the guy lose bodyguard who has
a gun doesn't do ship, and I think he's like,
what the fuck is happening?

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Right, He's well, he's trying to Eventually, he's trying to
pull him off of Lou, and he's just grabbing a
hold like he's like, you.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Can use me. He's give me a word like again.
And it's not even like like the lighting and everything.
It's not red like blood.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
It's a brown looking like just goole like this, and
he's just shaking his head over over. Lou is getting
them covered in blood and everything else and grossing the
mouth the guys. There's one guy puking in the back.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Again. I didn't mean Lou. The bartender hit a little
bit longer. Yeah, yeah, uh, he looks like the guy
that was.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
In above the Low. It's a bar, not not Lou.
That was Lou's only say.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
He came in, tried to act tough, realize he's out
of his league with these crazy fuckers. Oh yeah, these
guys usually I don't care. He fucking took off, right.
I love He's like, oh, come on, we really love
this place because it was a great place to hold
their fight club.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah I was. I almost said fight Court because I
made a movie called Fight Fight Court, Fight Court. I did.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's a great short film, won a award for it.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
People's Choice.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
No, what's it?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Well, it was a contest we won five hundred bucks
for it. Oh nice, not necessarily an award to go
on to the next level. And then the next thing
we produced and show, they're like, no thanks, it's.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Well, it's like a Christmas story. It's a major award.
We won a major award that that movies for another time.
But it was fine. Yeah, And I think you need
to pick a Fight Court for your pick sometime, you know.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
I Fight Court was supposed to be like an ongoing
and we can make a sequel.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
All right, I'll give you a queen.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
I'll break it down almost, I said, queen for a second,
I'll break it down for you. It has nothing to
do with the movie you're talking about. But uh, in
the future, uh uh, when society is as sick of everything,
it's universally determined that lawyers of the fucking problem and

(32:13):
all the lawyers are exiled into the desert.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
And then uh, there there was peace.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Then there was peace around, but eventually things started, you know,
problems around. You know, you still got a little bit
of crime or problems that needs solved, and it was
determined that they was solved in the boxing rings. And
then the whole thing was like judges become uh referee Yeah,

(32:44):
uh testimony and whatever becomes body blows and uppercuts. So
if you need to solve a problem in this future,
you need to fight it out nice in fight court.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Uh. And that was the basis. Now.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
The funny part is when I wrote it when I
was getting divorced, because I was like, you know what,
fuck lawyers do nothing but.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Taking my money, And I thought, wouldn't it be funny?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Right? Yeah? And you know it kind of rings even
funnier today considering considering other stuff, right, PA, can't bring
it up. Yeah, that's why I started laughing again.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
But again, it was supposed to then continue on fight
court and then out in the Old West.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Nice. It would have been awesome.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
It got spurs.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Turns out it takes money to keep making things like that.
I have to show it to you sometimes. Actually it
was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, yeah, man, Okay, you should we take a break.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
We should take a break.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
I gotta use the restaurant.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Okay, fight court.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
And we're back, all right.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
I feel much better, Okay, lighter, even lighter, as they
would say. Yeah, when last we left you speaking lighter?

Speaker 3 (34:10):
They light some shit on fire in this movie.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, that's I was thinking about Projack Mayhem's say.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
We just got into like the like the one explosion
of the movie, one or two maybe not a lot
of explosions stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Most of the action was just literally just fighting. Yeah,
which you know, it was really super cool that way.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I you know, on first time watch, I thought it
was called fight Club, right, I didn't know how much
it was going to escalate into some really insane shit.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah. Again, nothing I love about the movie, Like I
did subvert your expectations?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Is that the right thing to do? Because I didn't
know how batshit crazy it was going to get.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, it's yeah, because like literally the first half is
the first half three quarters is fight Club, and then
fight Club evolves into Project Mayhem, which is just basically
a kind of like a gorilla warfare unit in the
in the Paper Street Soap company.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, they Tyler dirtin starts recruiting people. They come over
and when they got spend three days. Yeah that part
is crazy with no food, no water and getting harassed
and no encouragement. And if they don't, if they make
it three days, they can have a bunk. Yeah, they
can be part of Project Mayhem.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
I guess, which is hilarious because I don't like it's
It's one of those things where you don't know what
was said at the fight club to get these people
to like say like, yeah, I'm going to join up. Yeah.
It starts happening like just one day. You're just introduced ed.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Norton's introduced to your own Jack whatever's introduced to a
guy just standing on their porch. Yeah, and Tyler Jurten
goes out and tells him you're too young to get
the fuck out of here, blah blah blah, and he's like,
what what's happening. Then you're told like, oh, they have
to stand, they have to stand there for three days.
But if they can give no food, no water, no encouragement,
they can they can come in. But you're like, what
was hold of them beforehand? Like are they there's going
to be a test forever because yeah, we never we

(36:04):
never know. And Norton, as Tyler told these people, because
he doesn't really there's one thing when he's when he's
Tyler mode when he turns back to Jack, right, he
doesn't really know what Tyler's fucking telling people, right, Yeah,
Because it is really like a massive split personality for sure.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah. Yeah, it's basically, and it's one of the things
that once you look back at it again, you're like, oh,
that's the that's the letting go process of him going like, yeah,
this is I like this guy better. So I'm just
that personality is taking over more and more and where
eventually if he would have been cool, if if he
wouldn't have had that jack side or whatever, eventually it's
huge has been he would have been tell it her
and he would have been this crazy bastard full time,

(36:49):
you know, because that's the weird thing is on the
third day that the first guy sits on her porch,
there comes Bob and Bob's up there and all's Bob
sees it is okay that guy got in and he goes,
you're too old, fat boy, your tits are too big,
and he starts to walk away and he's like, no, no, Bob,
Bob come, It's it's a test. It's a test. But

(37:12):
so eventually I laughed, it was like does that does that?
What like the breaking point because he realizes then like
he was solely responsible for Bob's death because he's the
one that Bob would have left Bob would have been
gone back in fight club, back into sticular group therapy, whatever.
If he wouldn't have told him this was a test,
Bob like, like, you know, he would have been gone,
wouldn't been part of that. He wouldn't be dead.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Right now, right if Bob died. Yeah, and so we
get the whole scene. Like his name in death you
have a name in project name Mayhem, you have no name.
Right in death, you have a name. His name was
Robert Paulson.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
That whole scene is so good for like cultist type shit,
you know. And even when the leaders even gone like, fuck,
this is might be out of my control. At this
point it was. It was getting caled just because he
was doing the whole thing with the lie.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
In the before.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Again, we don't know what's happening, but tyber Dirtan grabs
his hand and kisses it and it pours lye on it.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I didn't think I understood it the first watching, but
definitely uh or even remember. But when I was why yesterday,
I'm like, oh, the whiteness from the lips, that's why
it's shaped like lips.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
I didn't pick up on that the first time. I
just wondered, like, how painful was that eye on that? Yes?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Right, yeah, it's chemical burn. But they that's what they say. Yeah,
we did say to Hint where he said to himself,
look at it. You could run water on it and
make mega worse. Yeah, but why wouldn't you just tell himself,
like put vinegar on it. Why would say you could
run water on it mega worse? Right, Like that's well,

(38:46):
the choice is easy.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
It's vinegar.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
But then he started doing to everybody, yeah, kissing their
hand and then dumping Lye on it, and they're all
so proud of it, like it was a badge of honor.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Right, even the dude like the blondie that he beats
the living Yeah, Jared Leto, is that who that is? Yeah?
Now I'm happier, you know, like Jared let him joker, Yeah,
has to say. I just know he's like thirty second
to Mars. He was his least least favorite joker. That's
all I remember, his favorite joker. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
You know what the you know, the the actually can
sing the band thirty seconds. They have a song bury
me that yeah, can sing stan Lane Jared let Yeah,
I don't know nothing against the dude.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, but yeah, but he's a very pretty blonde boy
in this movie, very pretty dyed blonde boy, and he
gets uh ed Norton.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
That's the ship out of it.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's what I love. If you notice in the movie
and Fight Club is when he's Tyler Durton, he always wins.
When he's Jack, he loses every time until he fights Blondie.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I never picked up on that.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, he gets like he because he fights Bob, he
fights one other guy. Like every time he's fighting as
Jack or ed Norton, he loses the fight. When he's
Tyler durt he always wins. Ah and what But the
interesting the only time he wins is whenever he goes
batshit crazy? Is Jack?

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Right, and then Tyler says to him like, yeah, where'd
you go crazy?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Or whatever?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Where'd you go psycho boy? Yeah, he's like, I just
wanted to destroy something beautiful.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Right, which is Tyler's words. Like that's like, that's Tyler's
words coming out of Jack's mouth the first time. I
never picked up on that.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Uh that Ed Norton loses, right, because that Syler doesn't.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
That's the only that's the side of the character has
a little bit sympathy or whatever, like because that one
fight he's fighting that big black dude and here he's
just starts punching the fuck out of his nuts, just
gets like gets in between it and just starts hammering
down between his legs. There's no sympathy, there's no anything,
because there's only now there's only eight rules in fight
club and two of them are the same. Yep, but

(40:50):
there's nothing. It's not it's literally like a street fight.
There's not like no punching below the belt or anything.
It's like you're just you're in a fight. You're in
a fight to see who's the baddest motherfucker in this moment.
And yeah, so he's punching that dude in a dick
like everything that time. But yeah, whenever he's he's fighting
Bob and stuff, you could tell he's he's hesitant, he's
has pity whatever. So heah, he always gets his ass kicked.
His ja.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well, he starts building a whole fight club. He builds
fight clubs around the country, right, because that was a
he got because.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
He doesn't know he's Tyler Durton doing it. But what
did he say? He gets like forty eight free flights
a year, or something like that, because he goes into
like that's the scene thought was allude to earlier. Was
uh after after lou Tyler starts giving out homework. That's
the kind of the beginning of Project Mayhem. He starts
giving out homework assignments.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Yeah, it was the first one.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Oh pick a fight and lose, Yeah, which was a
great montage.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah, it was kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, especially Bob, who's just like Meatloaf, is a big dude,
and he's chasing these guys on his bike and stuff
in this like mall of this like big big building,
and everybody's just screaming running away from him because he's
this monster. Run after him with giant boobs. The dude,
the dude like the mechanic whatever that spraying the hose down.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Right, he got the he got the pastor preacher to
start swinging at.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Him, slaps the preacher's bible onto the ground, starts. That's
so ignorant, so funny, it's fun.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
I even like when he uh, for no reason, randomly,
Tyler goes into convenice store.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
He says, me me out back. Then he drags the
employee out back.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Raymond k Hassel is that who was, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
He has a gun to his head and he he
gets his idea, ask him what he what do you
really want to do with your life?

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Right, you didn't want to work in convenience store. What
do you want to do?

Speaker 3 (42:40):
He wanted to be a vet.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
He said'm gonna keep your license and I'm gonna come
back with six weeks, six weeks and if you're not
on your way to be in a vet and we'll
kill you.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
But he didn't even start talking like, hey, man, I'm
jealous of that guy because tomorrow morning wakes up, that's
gonna be the best breakfast he ever had right his
life or starts again.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Because when I first when the first few times I watched,
it's like that's true, man, you'd be like so happy
to be alive or now you know, like, fuck, I
have the psychopath who's gonna come back and kill me
weeks and possibly kill me if I'm not enrolled at
my job. Right, this guy has a move like it's
like that part is like it's fun to think about,
Like that's true on a light level, but then you

(43:20):
dig down like, no, this guy could be traumatized, possibly
for the rest of his life. Oh yeah, I would
be right, because because he looks at the gun, then
the gun's empty. Like he's never intended on killing this guy.
He was basically trying to force people to be better.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
And there's this there's a scene where he opens something
or a door, but he has a whole bunch of
drip and because he kept that guy's license, but he
has a whole He's done this whole bunch of times
of people.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like I think it says like human
sacrifices or something like there's a label above them it
says human sacrifices whatever. And then they like, that's all
the people that he's fucked with. I was gonna say,
I assume he did this a whole bunch of times,
telling people like, oh, go live a yeah, stop living
this shitty life. Yeah, and do better yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Yeah uh again.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Then the fight when when it changes from fight club,
then it changes into like straight up.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Oh yeah, terror terrorists. Right, they're like a terrorist cell
project Mayhem becomes a terrorist. It's it's literally built off
like this this army of blue collar guys that feel
disillusioned with the fact that you know, there's a one
percent that they'll never be you know, it's kind of like, yeah,
it's kind of like, hey, all of us here in

(44:32):
our ship jobs are never going to be them, so
let's fuck with them.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Well, and they're playing is to blow up what six
buildings that are all like credit card companies?

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yeah, set every once you destroy those records.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
I'm like, all right, so nineteen nine, so was it
not in computers are like your records are all over
the place.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah, the concept was right, the concept burn it down.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Everybody's back to Z zero and uh now your debts
are raised, their debts erased, right, and fuck the.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Credit card companies. Right. But I'm sure there's backups after
backups after backups at some at one point, I'm sure
there was. This was free two came they say, But
that was probably right on that verge of like a
lot of paper copies of ship. I'm sure there's the
obviously if it was computers in ninety nine, but that was,
like I said, that was kind of the beginning of

(45:27):
electronic records, you know. Yeah, So I don't know. It's
it's fun to look back on and speculate, like, oh,
how far were we into the digital age at that point?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
If it would would that plan have worked, and if
credit card debt.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
If there would have been a small like little loan
company or whatever and it got blown up with my
records be gone, they'd be like, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Who owns us owes us what?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Like I got that.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I'm down with that, Like right, that's and that's how.
That's how you can get everybody on board. And you
go like we're we're getting here worth of downtrodden, but
we can all be we can all start over. Fuck
yeah's it's actually not a bad thing. See in your
basement next week? Were some ear padding? Yes you don't

(46:18):
want calf here, so where's some ear padding? I mean,
I'm gonna punch you there, right, Really.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
It's a first.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
For so bad. Oh the fucking ear seriously, anywhere the ear.
But yeah, they so so we get into uh project
Mayhem full Sea, and some of the stuff they do
is so funny, like this stupid ridiculousness is like they
reverse like the one night Tyler and uh Jacker out

(46:50):
by themselves quote unquote by themselves and they were like
they they do the tire damage thing for going out
of a parking lot without paying, and they just reverse it.
So when you're going and they're and they're walking down
the street both with baseball bats, just clubbing cars and
the bumper to set off their alarm and air bag
because that's expensive as ship to replace, like uh and

(47:14):
I love, I just fucking love because that was right
when they first came out as they get to that
like new VW Bug and both just laughed before they
just giggle about like this fucking guy bam. Because right
before that, they get to some car and I would
I tried to see what it was and I didn't. Yeah,
they skipped it. They're like no, no, no, leave it
and I couldn't figure out what it was. And I

(47:34):
was like I was looking, I was like, what is it?
What was the car that they left? And then they
went to the Bug and just laughed and like yep
and boom. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Project Mayhem was a ship show. Yeah, but he had
like they had. They ended up having the like they're
a little cault. They were all like out gardening. They
all had what was the one thing, like you got
uh two black shirts? Yeah, pair of black pants, two
pairs of black socks, two players of.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Black underwear, Like they had a whole thing and that
that they had their uniform and three hundred dollars of
personal barrow money.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Personal barrow money.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
I love that they just overlooked that. And I was like, well,
if you're going to bury him in the garden, what
was that three hundred dollars? Even when she goes south
with Jack's like what the fuck?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Like he whatever? He set up as Tyler Durton. It
like everybody the colt is so.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Big that it's gonna mine.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Even when he tries to report the problem with the cops,
they're all part of the calt right. They're like, you
said you would say that, sir. You definitely said you
would say that, sir. And he's like, no, fucking stop it.
And then I think he's one of like, look I
am Tyler dirty and I'm telling you right now we're
not gonna do this.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
He's like, you definitely said it's like that call. The
members were like just loyal to a fault, right, Oh yeah?
Like And I guess that's where because.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
I guess everything they weren't. Everything's a test.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Yeah, that's I mean, I guess that's where it starts.
Because at that point he can tell he's losing control
and his Tyler's taken over. Yeah, his main brain like
starts to reject it, basically because that's when he starts
the fact finding, like, oh shit, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Where's Tyler? Because Tyler's just gone? Because yeah, he doesn't
know shit. Actually yeah, well he's in jack mode. But
I loved he doesn't know anything. But I loved how
they they.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Did kind of elude that you don't you don't realize it,
but has He's like, fuck, wor's tyle? Tyler hasn't been
here forever. I haven't seen him. All I know is like,
these guys are just autonomous at this point. I needn't
figure out what the fuck's going on. And he's like
finds all the plane tickets, use plane tickets, which I
don't know why you keep that many used plane tickets,
but hey, here we are, and he starts going to

(49:45):
all the cities, right, I mean, because he got those
tickets because.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
You keep to write them off back of the day
because you know, again we were pre right, yeah's electronic
and on your computer.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Right, because technically I did love that scene where he like,
the first homework assignment was to get beat up by someone.
So he goes and once tries to start a fight
with his boss, but ends up.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Beating the shit out of himself, which is hilarious, Oh
so good, like because that cause his boss is such
the douche looking guy that probably would never like, would
be scared shitless to get into a fight.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
But at the same time, I was like, if you're
that boss, like aren't you just a god around that office?
Then like all they know, all everybody else knows is
that Jack went into your office. Next thing you know,
he comes out, just blood streaming down his face, glass
into him, his office destroyed. My boss just beat the
shit out of that guy.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
I do love it because he convinced him, like, you know,
I'll just work from home, right, I can do this
job from home. Is basically not telling yo, we got
sponsorship because it does work for him, And that's where.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
He gets all this never come back in the office again.
He just keep giving you a salary and he gets
that's that's the overlook part that I love is he's like,
I got, however, many like forty eight plane tickets a
year to go wherever I want to. So that leaves
Tyler to set up these French is where he finds
these plane tickets and that's what I'm saying. They lean
into it where he goes Like all I know is

(51:06):
I go to the city and I just start looking
for die bars basically, but I seem to know where
they're at, like because he was there, Like like it's
that it's I'm Tyler. But I don't know yet, but
I just seem to know I walk into a bar
that this is the place that Tyler's been.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
He meets Smart Lena at a restaurant and they're like,
you know, well they wore something like yeah, of course there's.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
No charge for you, sir, Like what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (51:28):
And I just realized right now, just dawn to me,
like oh shit, in the movie Old School, Yeah, where
they have that same exact scene in restaurant and they
call him the Godfather. Yeah, I'm like, here, no ship,
that's where they got it. How could I have just
realized that now after all these years.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Even the set looks very familiar in that mood.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Yes, Like god, when I was watching last night and
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I can't believe I never knew that.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
And if I did, that brain cell was gone died somehow.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I'd be from if I don't know if Wilson would
have asked for Luke Wilson would ask for like clean food,
that would have.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Just doubt even hold more hilarious.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Yeah, no, that seemed I can see how they copied that,
you know, trying to think, is there any movies that
really copied this, but maybe like with stylisation.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
Yeah, certainly not. This story. This story is like unique
unto itself.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Really well, the this is what got me into reading
books by Chuck. I don't know how to pronounce his
last name, but yeah, yeah pollok something right now for
that one. I'm not going to try no idea, but Chuck, Yeah, Chuck.
This is called Chuck Chuck.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Uh. Like, after watching this movie because I liked it
so much, I read the book then, which is slightly
different but still very good.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Uh. And even even Chuck was like, apparently I read
some stuff and he was like even he didn't like
they connected some certain certain things about the book because
again it's not it's not exactly like the book. It's
adapted from the book, you know. And uh, he said,
he's like they connected some certain things that even I
didn't think about. That was so good. That's but I

(53:04):
read this book and then that lead me to read
some of his other stuff because he's like he's a
nihilist and he writes some fucking, really crazy, fucked up
fun enjoyable ship. Yeah, I went to look at I
always wanted to read this book. Yeah, it's just to compare.
I mean, if you're gonna if you want to read it,
I won't tell it like we can get to when
we get to the ending. I won't tell you about
the book ending because it's different but also fun. Yeah.

(53:26):
Well the ending, Uh it was it interesting? Yeah? I
mean yeah, so we go through Project Mayam. They like,
I mean, we we've kind of covered just about it
all the important Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Well yeah, we we weaved. We weaved in and out
of the story, not totally.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
What do you call that?

Speaker 3 (53:45):
No, it wasn't linear, but it was not linear for sure.
Don't actually do anything.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
I like talking about it better this way anyway. Let's
just talk about the fun ship and the ship, and
then you watch it, and if you're listening, then if
you haven't watched it, go watch it and you'll learn
about the fun ship.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Yeah, go watch it.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Fun it. Yeah. So yeah, we get to the ending
then where he that he goes to he I love
that he goes, Yeah, he goes to the cops. The
cops are in on it. Then he goes to one
of the buildings escapes from the cops. I love the line,
like anybody walks out of this room, I'll give him
a lead salad. That's a good one.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
But he goes to one of the buildings that's marked
in the paper street building and starts having a fight
with Tyler, like a brutal fight, not just like he's
getting his ass kicked by himself.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Threw himself down two flights of steps, yes, like cement
steps has whipped some stuff, and that's when like that
was the end of the fight. But yeah, like I
do love the fact that he that's when he has
the realization that like right before that is when he
has that realization that like, oh yeah, I'm you, you're me.
But so he's in this in this van just loaded
with nitro glucer and shoots at Tyler and I love that.

(54:58):
But he's like, whoa, you are shooting your imaginary with
pounds of night you clos whoa, whoa whoa. But that
part where he then he like gets him and drags
him by his hair and like, yeah, I love that.
It's so stupid and throwaway scene but like minute but
I like grabs him and throws him down and then
like opens his hand and blows like this handful of

(55:20):
hair out. So stupid, pointless whatever, but I will always
remember that. Just I love it.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I like to see like when they're he takes him up,
throws him in the chair, has his gun, because this
is where they're gonna be able to watch. Yeah, they're
bringing the crew is bringing beers and everything. Oh yeah,
but you know when he's like, wait, if I am you,
then that gun, yeah, is in my hand.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Is in my hand that he his.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Hand comes up and frame has the gun, even like look.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
At that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
They keep it going like the imagine your friend is
now in full effect for us just to watch the
craziness in Ed Norton's head. Yeah, because he's like because
tyls and he's like that that means nothing, okay whatever,
you have the gun now. Yeah, but he did he
found a way to kill his imaginary friend, which is
just I'm like, okay, yeah he I mean he goes

(56:14):
in like we just want to say, my eyes are
open and puts it in his mouth, pops off and.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
It does it shoot out. I don't know where he
shoots out right, It's it's like right on his like
lower left jaw, like it's just flapping there, like that's
where all the blood looks like it's just pouring out.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Of Yeah, it's pouring out. And because like smokes come
out of his mouth. Yeah, well, uh, Tyler had smoke before.
He kind of yeah, it was done. But then even
they cut that Norton, he still has like some smoke
I guess from the gun coming out. But he's like
talking like this, and then as people keep asking okay,

(56:50):
he's like yeah, no, I'm okay. He keeps starting normal,
trying to sound better, like wow, that's probably not how
it would work.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Yeah, that's one of the few parts I was like,
I mean, I can you had me on everything that.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Man, how's the gun angled in there?

Speaker 1 (57:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
But he does manage to survive, survive killing Tyler, yeah,
because he even told Marla like I'm okay, I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, because they drug Marla there because eventually they seem
the killertice she knew too much or whatever.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
But he doesn't do anything to stop the plan. They
still blow up all six of those buildings. Yeah, as
the song from the Pixies, I didn't get to it yet,
but this soundtrack was so good.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Soundtrack was so good.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
And the ending song where is My Mind? Yeah, it
couldn't have been a better choice.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
It was. Yeah, just a nice, very real, kind of
relaxing song. It's like, you know, you're not not too
amped up?

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Yeah, what do you call that?

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Like there's a bit of a juxtaposition with all these buildings.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Blow up and this is the dude, dude, this is
a song playing like yeah, and then again they they
run the whole song on over the credits.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
The credits were probably some of the shorts I've ever.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Seen, Like, I guess I'm getting used to the day
era of Marvel when it's like.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Yeah, there's five hundred people, Yeah, yeah, five hundred thousand people,
five thousand people working on stuff. The credits were short.
It was I found interesting, but no, Yeah, the soundtrack
was killer. The ending song is like it works so
well with the extreme situation happened around him and what

(58:32):
just happened with the gun not killing himself but killing Tyler.
I remember I downloaded I for watched that. I downloaded
like back in the days when when you could do
napster and stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
I think that statue, I think the statue of limitations
are gone on that one. No, I never used lime wire,
but I down and it was like it was just
like all Dust Brothers and then the Pixies with their
lot songs end. I was like, man, this was because
it's a lot of techno type ship almost like Matrixy Dude.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
I learned that that song on the guitar because of
this movie.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
There's a there's a professional wrestler who uh he couldn't
get the rights to his original song that came out,
and he's a very if you'd watch him, he's a
very like he'd fit in with the this kind of
like goofball ness. But he came out to the Pixies
where's my mind for a while, and I was like,
it's like hell, yeah, like I like you. I don't

(59:22):
even know you, but I like you just from your music.
Battery less getting low, we probably should start rapping this. Yeah, yeah,
I don't have a favorite.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
I mean the battery left the computer that's charging the soundboard,
not me. My battery is good.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
No, yeah, yeah, so I don't really have a favorite
shot or anything. It was just there's really too much
in the movie that I just really like exactly. There's
so many great scenes.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
The acting is killer. Even like even me love every character.
It just brings something weird.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
And interesting and and like when they're on screen it
works just so well. There's a there's a scene where
he after he does the group therapy that he stops
going because he's doing fight club and out and he
meets Bob again on the street and it's just such
a funny, stupid scene where but again I love it because, uh,
he meets Bob. He's like, he's like, because he used

(01:00:19):
fake names and all his all the group therapies, he's
like Cornelius and he is he recognized right away. He's
yelling for him. He's like Cornelius. He's like what He's like,
oh hey Bob, and he's like but he's like, I
got I got another He's like, well, the first rule
of the of the he's because he's very quiet and
very Timy's like the first rule of the new club
I'm in is that I shouldn't talk about it. And
the second rule is and he's like, Bob, Bob, I

(01:00:40):
remember he's like, that's that's fucking and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
He like covers his mouth like he shouldn't say that's
yeah fucking great, a fucking great. Yeah, I love it,
but I can't remember, like was it was people starting
up satellites. It was just Tyler starting up satellites, like, oh,
that's right. There was this scene like all right, I
see a new memories, which means you're breaking the first
rule of fight club.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
But that's when you don't think about it, but you
realize that Tyler's setting up salaites because he only thought
it was Saturdays. Bob would on Tuesdays and he's like, ah,
I go because it's like there's if you go back
and look, it's like he has this confusion, look like
I go Saturdays because he only thinks it's Saturday. He
doesn't realize Tyler has been setting up Tuesday Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
It wouldn't oh maybe Bob wouldn't know, like you know,
but I'm not supposed to talk about it, but I
see you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Right, hey man, I know you're cool. Yeah. So a
quick theory that on this Jack Dirton dot com is
and apparently more people think it and I never thought
about it, but supposedly. The one theory is like this
is all dream. This is all just a crazy man
like the like Jack that's dreaming up Tyler, like Jack's

(01:01:52):
not or Tyler's not real, Marlo's not real. No one's real,
this guy's it's just a crazy man's dream. That was one.
I was like, well, I don't want to believe that,
so I'm not. I don't like that, right, It doesn't
bring me as much joy to believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
I could see, Like if you had in soundy and
you finally get a good night's sleep, maybe you would
have some fun, especially you took some ambient or whatever
it's called to get a sleep, maybe you would have
a fucked up dream.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
I had a fucked up dream about you. Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Ah, I might as well explain otherwise it sounds really
weird to make sure it wasn't nothing sexual.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Well now I'm disappointed.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
I sorry somebody find it funny.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
But I was like, there was people being murdered and
I was trying to like solve the case, and then
at one point I almost got attacked, but I couldn't
see the killer's face. You know how dreams can morph too.
Then all of a sudden, like it was on a train. Yeah,
I was like, all right, no train, we got a
killer after us. But then all of a sudden here
comes the killer and I look and it's you. You're

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in like these like cut off overalls, so like the
this is so good, cut off overalls, no shirt on.
Of course that's true a characters.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Yeah, weird this.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Gold blade you're trying to stab people with. And I
feel like even in the dream, like, oh, ship, that's right,
it's weird. I think I might have woke up so
I never got to stop the killer. Oh and then
you had like Timberlind's on.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
If you have said what you gave me a guess
like what forward or you out? Is it like yeah,
boots of some sort?

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Right? Yeah, so I think I even told like, that's
a weird dream, right, that's awesome if you want to
go as a weird Halloween character, like really cut off
but overalls, right, yeah, short in Timberlin's and a gold knife.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
I find a gold knife, not even sure what what
the whole thing was the gold knife.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I think that's your next movie, The gold Bladed Killer
of the what the X nineteen to Toronto?

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
So yeah, sorry that I had a dreaming melt you
when a cut off.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
I don't apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
I was great killer parts fine, but I don't know
why you had to be in like such short short overalls.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Has nothing to do with fight.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Club, all right, So I'm going to go quick. I'll
give nine to five. I'm ready to hear your rating
in your in your movie went nine five? Yeah, there's
you can't get much more enjoyable for that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Yeah. Me, I'll go nine five two. I'm not sure
I'm shaving off a point five, right, I guess, because
if you give a perfect score, then what's there?

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Yeah, it's just it's so good editing, acting, visuals, the
craziness of it, the concept of it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Yeah, the reveal. It's just so dirty too. The movie
just feel you feel like you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Got dirt on you after you watch it does a
great job visually, they did it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Good on the set decorators.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Yeah. Yeah, everything about it is awesome. Yeah. Cool. So
what's next?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
I thought we'd keep it going with nineteen late nineties
and fighting and guns and whoa the matrix?

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Ah, I know, as you said, for some reason you
said in nineteen nine, no, I was like, there's only
one other badass movie that I can think of the
top my head from ninety nine. Yeah, what was that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
The matrix matrix Okay, matrix, sweet, okay nice, the first matrix.
We'll talk about the rest of those matrix all right, just.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
The first one, all right, that's it. Keep lifting that weight, bitches.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
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