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Are there real-life fight clubs? · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: staff writer, Charles Bryant. Charles W. Bryan Right, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll welcome Chuck. How you doing. I'm doing great, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: How about you? I'm doing pretty good, Chuck. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 1: a little jacked up. I actually kind of feel like
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  Speaker 1: punching you right in the face. Well, you know what, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: if you did that, I would I would probably just
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  Speaker 1: would take it like a past Like every good pacifist,
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  Speaker 1: I would take it. I see, I'm not. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily pacifist. I'm more fear pain me too. Yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I think that means that neither one of us
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  Speaker 1: should actually join a fight club. No, I've never been.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been hitting the face, and I don't plan
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  Speaker 1: to start now at my advanced stage. It's been many
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  Speaker 1: years since I was hit in the face, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think that was the first and only time, and
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  Speaker 1: I quickly became scared of being hit in the face,
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  Speaker 1: which is my fear of pain that you know. It
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  Speaker 1: explains that. So fight clubs not for us off limits,
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  Speaker 1: but they are for some people. Yeah, and actually they
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  Speaker 1: are real. Surely you've seen the movie Fight Club several times. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: every guy you know that's a real man's man, I think,
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  Speaker 1: has seen Fight Club at least three times, at least
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  Speaker 1: maybe four. Even you read the book. I did. I
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  Speaker 1: read the book. I saw the movie. I uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I put on a one act play. The Fight Club
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  Speaker 1: was great. I'll bet, I'll bet it was your own interpretation.
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  Speaker 1: It was so. The author of the book, Chuck Palin
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  Speaker 1: yuck right, I think, uh, he has been accused many
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  Speaker 1: times over, especially after the movie came out, because I
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  Speaker 1: think most people who start fight clubs don't read necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: But he was accused of of starting a trend of
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  Speaker 1: conceiving of these fight clubs, which he says that he
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  Speaker 1: made up, um and on the real thing. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: lots of lots of people who like to fight, um
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  Speaker 1: start to their own fight clubs. Yeah, and actually, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there are some out there. I found some when I
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  Speaker 1: wrote the article are their real life fight clubs, um,
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  Speaker 1: and found that a lot of them really mirror some
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  Speaker 1: like the rules in the setup that that you find
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  Speaker 1: in the book. Like, Um, did you read about Bloody Knuckles. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Bloody Knuckles in San Francisco is they have their one rule,
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  Speaker 1: which is the famous rule from fight Club. If you
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  Speaker 1: show up, you have to fight. You can't just be
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  Speaker 1: a spectator and you have to say it like that,
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  Speaker 1: yeah exactly or else it's just you know, loses his
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  Speaker 1: meaning and it kind of you kind of wonder like
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  Speaker 1: what exactly would happen if you're like, Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Bloody Knuckles fight club. He he
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  Speaker 1: lives in a hotel. I imagine a really run down,
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  Speaker 1: weird hotel, UM, and everybody meets in his room. There's
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  Speaker 1: like a secret knock you have to know somebody, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and they take you down to a sub basement to fight. Right.
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  Speaker 1: What happens if you get to the sub basement You're like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to fight, right, I don't. It might
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  Speaker 1: quickly turn into a pulp fiction scene, you know, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: get they get might Oh yeah, yeah yeah that scene. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bad one. And I think I'd rather fight.
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  Speaker 1: I would too. I would too, you know, like just
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and go through with it, because you're either
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  Speaker 1: going to be beaten and maled or you know, just
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  Speaker 1: you know, fight somebody else whatever. Yea, So California seems
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  Speaker 1: to be the place to be for real life fight club. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was another one in Oakland, just on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the Bay called the sp Rats or or
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  Speaker 1: a gang of motorcycle tuffs or Vespa tuffs, and they
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  Speaker 1: they use it actually as a formative initiation. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: apparently like hundreds of people show up to these fights
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  Speaker 1: so you can be a spectator. Yeah, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: a form of initiation. They they and there are like
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of people. It's like the place to be on
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  Speaker 1: Friday nights if you ride a motorcycle. Right. Um, So,
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  Speaker 1: some gangs, including I think the Rats, use it as
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  Speaker 1: an initiation for prospects. They basically throw him in the
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  Speaker 1: ring and have him beat the tar out of one another,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess whoever's left standing is the new member.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of thing, right, And if you lose, then
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what remember what happens either. And actually
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  Speaker 1: there's a really extensive article in UM the I think
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Guardian, Bay Guardian something like that. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: like an underground kind of newspaper or alternative press at least.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy chronicled UM this night, Friday night at
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  Speaker 1: the S A S B Rat fight club, there were
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  Speaker 1: girls fighting one another. He went up and interviewed one
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  Speaker 1: of them, and she got about halfway through this quick
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  Speaker 1: interview and turned and started vomiting because she was beaten
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  Speaker 1: so badly. Some prospects got jumped in. And that's when
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  Speaker 1: you're earning your money as a journalist. Yeah, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: this guy, you could tell it was very thrilling, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, when you're writing about a fight club,
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  Speaker 1: the best way to do it is to go yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I unfortunately didn't have time to do that, right. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't find any in Atlanta. Right, although it would be legal.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you found out that as long as two
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  Speaker 1: dudes or two women or whoever, adults, adults have adults
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  Speaker 1: and they have to be not paid. They can beat
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  Speaker 1: the snot out of each other and there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: no repercusion as long as as long as you're concending, right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And actually I also ran into something that didn't make
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  Speaker 1: it in the article. It's called the pillow fight Club.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard of this? I've heard of National Pillow
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  Speaker 1: Fight Day. They have every year. They have like flash mobs, um.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one in Tel Aviv, iFund one in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: um where everybody just shows up at a predetermined time
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  Speaker 1: and starts beating one another pillows. That sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: lot more at my allien, it's much more of a
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  Speaker 1: loving Yeah, as a lover, I think you'd appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: I think anybody would appreciate are their real life fight clubs.
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