It’s easy to reduce Fight Club’s legacy to a few pop-cultural bullet points: The First Rule, the Second Rule, Brad Pitt’s abs. But in 2022 hindsight, this radical 1999 sleeper hit feels more relevant than ever. We’re looking at the messed up crystal ball that is Fight Club and what it still has to tell us about capitalism, masculinity, and the human yearning to fuck shit up.

TRANSCRIPT: HERE

CREDITS:

Host, Writer: Alex Pappademas

Showrunner: Colin McNulty

Producers: Sabrina Fang and Taylor Jones

Production Assistant and Fact Checker: Stella Hartman

Composer, Sound Designer, Mix Engineer: Alex MacInnis

Studio Direction and Theme Music: Dan Leone

Executive Producer for Western Sound: Ben Adair

Editor: Jamie York

Executive Producers for Higher Ground: Dan Fierman, Anna Holmes, Mukta Mohan, Janae Marable

Editorial Assistant for Higher Ground: Jenna Levin

Executive Producers for Spotify: Daniel Ek, Dawn Ostroff, Julie McNamara, Corinne Gilliard

Special Thanks: Joe Paulsen and Eric Spiegelman 

Archival tape provided by: SBIFF (Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

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