1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: from How Stuff Works dot Com? Stuff you should know 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: is brought to you by Visa. We all have things 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: we like to think about. Online fraud shouldn't be one 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 1: of them, because with every purchase, PISA prevents, detexts, and 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: resolves online fraud safe Secure Visa. I am welcome to 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, as staff writer here at 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: How Stuff Works dot Com. With me is my fellow 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: staff writer, Charles Bryant. Charles W. Bryan Right, that's right, 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: we'll welcome Chuck. How you doing. I'm doing great, Josh. 12 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: How about you? I'm doing pretty good, Chuck. I'm feeling 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: a little jacked up. I actually kind of feel like 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: punching you right in the face. Well, you know what, Josh, 15 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: if you did that, I would I would probably just 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: would take it like a past Like every good pacifist, 17 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: I would take it. I see, I'm not. I'm not 18 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: necessarily pacifist. I'm more fear pain me too. Yeah. Okay, 19 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: So I think that means that neither one of us 20 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: should actually join a fight club. No, I've never been. 21 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: I've never been hitting the face, and I don't plan 22 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: to start now at my advanced stage. It's been many 23 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: years since I was hit in the face, and uh, 24 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: I think that was the first and only time, and 25 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: I quickly became scared of being hit in the face, 26 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: which is my fear of pain that you know. It 27 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: explains that. So fight clubs not for us off limits, 28 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: but they are for some people. Yeah, and actually they 29 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: are real. Surely you've seen the movie Fight Club several times. Yeah, 30 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: every guy you know that's a real man's man, I think, 31 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: has seen Fight Club at least three times, at least 32 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: maybe four. Even you read the book. I did. I 33 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: read the book. I saw the movie. I uh, you know, 34 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: I put on a one act play. The Fight Club 35 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: was great. I'll bet, I'll bet it was your own interpretation. 36 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: It was so. The author of the book, Chuck Palin 37 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: yuck right, I think, uh, he has been accused many 38 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: times over, especially after the movie came out, because I 39 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: think most people who start fight clubs don't read necessarily. 40 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: But he was accused of of starting a trend of 41 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: conceiving of these fight clubs, which he says that he 42 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: made up, um and on the real thing. Yeah, like 43 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: lots of lots of people who like to fight, um 44 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: start to their own fight clubs. Yeah, and actually, uh, 45 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: there are some out there. I found some when I 46 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: wrote the article are their real life fight clubs, um, 47 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: and found that a lot of them really mirror some 48 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: like the rules in the setup that that you find 49 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,119 Speaker 1: in the book. Like, Um, did you read about Bloody Knuckles. Yeah, 50 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: Bloody Knuckles in San Francisco is they have their one rule, 51 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: which is the famous rule from fight Club. If you 52 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: show up, you have to fight. You can't just be 53 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: a spectator and you have to say it like that, 54 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: yeah exactly or else it's just you know, loses his 55 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: meaning and it kind of you kind of wonder like 56 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: what exactly would happen if you're like, Okay, you know, 57 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Bloody Knuckles fight club. He he 58 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: lives in a hotel. I imagine a really run down, 59 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: weird hotel, UM, and everybody meets in his room. There's 60 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: like a secret knock you have to know somebody, UM, 61 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: and they take you down to a sub basement to fight. Right. 62 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: What happens if you get to the sub basement You're like, 63 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to fight, right, I don't. It might 64 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,119 Speaker 1: quickly turn into a pulp fiction scene, you know, yeah, yeah, 65 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: get they get might Oh yeah, yeah yeah that scene. Yeah, 66 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: that's a bad one. And I think I'd rather fight. 67 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: I would too. I would too, you know, like just 68 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: go ahead and go through with it, because you're either 69 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: going to be beaten and maled or you know, just 70 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: you know, fight somebody else whatever. Yea, So California seems 71 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: to be the place to be for real life fight club. Yeah, 72 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: there was another one in Oakland, just on the other 73 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: side of the Bay called the sp Rats or or 74 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: a gang of motorcycle tuffs or Vespa tuffs, and they 75 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: they use it actually as a formative initiation. And you know, 76 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: apparently like hundreds of people show up to these fights 77 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: so you can be a spectator. Yeah, it's not just 78 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: a form of initiation. They they and there are like 79 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: hundreds of people. It's like the place to be on 80 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: Friday nights if you ride a motorcycle. Right. Um, So, 81 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: some gangs, including I think the Rats, use it as 82 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: an initiation for prospects. They basically throw him in the 83 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: ring and have him beat the tar out of one another, 84 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: and I guess whoever's left standing is the new member. 85 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: That kind of thing, right, And if you lose, then 86 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what remember what happens either. And actually 87 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: there's a really extensive article in UM the I think 88 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,799 Speaker 1: San Francisco Guardian, Bay Guardian something like that. It seemed 89 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: like an underground kind of newspaper or alternative press at least. 90 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: And this guy chronicled UM this night, Friday night at 91 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: the S A S B Rat fight club, there were 92 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: girls fighting one another. He went up and interviewed one 93 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: of them, and she got about halfway through this quick 94 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: interview and turned and started vomiting because she was beaten 95 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: so badly. Some prospects got jumped in. And that's when 96 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: you're earning your money as a journalist. Yeah, yeah, and 97 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: this guy, you could tell it was very thrilling, you know. 98 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: But I mean, when you're writing about a fight club, 99 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: the best way to do it is to go yourself. 100 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: I unfortunately didn't have time to do that, right. I 101 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,559 Speaker 1: didn't find any in Atlanta. Right, although it would be legal. 102 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: I know, you found out that as long as two 103 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: dudes or two women or whoever, adults, adults have adults 104 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: and they have to be not paid. They can beat 105 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: the snot out of each other and there's you know, 106 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,559 Speaker 1: no repercusion as long as as long as you're concending, right. Yeah, 107 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: And actually I also ran into something that didn't make 108 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: it in the article. It's called the pillow fight Club. 109 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: Have you heard of this? I've heard of National Pillow 110 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: Fight Day. They have every year. They have like flash mobs, um. 111 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: But there was one in Tel Aviv, iFund one in Seattle, 112 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: um where everybody just shows up at a predetermined time 113 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: and starts beating one another pillows. That sounds like a 114 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: lot more at my allien, it's much more of a 115 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: loving Yeah, as a lover, I think you'd appreciate that. 116 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: I think anybody would appreciate are their real life fight clubs. 117 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: So you should go read it now or else Me 118 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: and Chuckle find you and stay tuned to find out 119 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: what the Brady Bunch and Hurricane Katrina vacumies have in common. 120 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: Right after this stuff you should know is brought to 121 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: you by Visa. We all have things to think about, 122 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: like say, what's the best sight to buy a new 123 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: leather jacket? 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I'm finally going to reveal it to 133 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: you what they're both exposed to from alde hyde through 134 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: particle board. Do you know anything about this now? But 135 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: how does the Brady Bunch figure in? Well, the Brady 136 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: Bunch had that faux wood paneling in their in their 137 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: living room. Uh, and Hurricane Katrina evacuees were exposed to 138 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: it through um female trailers, which the government recently ordered 139 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: them out of because of health issues. Right. Yeah, yeah, 140 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: that's a bit of a reach, but I'll buy Actually 141 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: it's not. I found that the combination. 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