We start 2020 with what was meant to be our 2019 Christmas Special, a very roundabout chat about the disturbingly-relevant-to-today 1999 film Fight Club.  Not a typical episode, if you're new around here... but we do this sort of thing from time to time. Content Warnings. Notes/Links: Dan Olsen's video on Fight Club and Toxic Masculinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td88z08a_4c  

Episode 40: Fight Club

Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces!  In this timely and shocking - but entertaining - anti-fascist podcast, Daniel tells his friend, online writer Jack Graham, all about it.

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We continue our election year series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama-satire(???) Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President, kindasorta accidentally pulling off a (well-meaning) one-man coup d'état, enmeshed in the plots of the evil White House Chief of Staff (Frank Langella), and falling in love with the First Lady (Sigourney Weaver).  Full episode exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan;_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

BONUS PREVIEW: Bonus Ep34 Dave (1993)

We begin our celebration of America's months-long presidential election with the first in a projected bonus series on movies about the US President. In this edition, we look at 1997's Air Force One. Exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan;_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1  

BONUS PREVIEW: Bonus Ep33 Air Force One (1997)

An entire episode of Cantwell news.  And it ain't nice. Content Warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan;_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1 Episode Notes: Previous episodes about (or heavily featuring) Cantwell:  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-5-christopher-cantwell-part-1  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-6-christopher-cantwell-part-2  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-33-nazi-infighting-news-roundup  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-43-cantwell-news-special-with-emily-gorecenski  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/68-the-trial-of-christopher-cantwell-with-hilary-sargent  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/96-catching-up-with-cantwell-and-the-failures-of-the-prison-industrial-complex https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/99-sines-vs-kessler-verdict Images from new episode: 

125: Cantwell on Grindr

Daniel is joined by friend-of-the-pod and regular guest/collaborator Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (Polite Conversations, Woking Up,  @nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky ) to talk about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and in particular about some questions that have come up around IDSG's public response to it.  Jack was sadly unable to attend the recording but was fully there in spirit.   Our X Space on IDF / Israeli 'dystopian propaganda' with Eiynah:  https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/hangin-out-with-eiynah-6-dystopian-propaganda Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan;_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1  

PUBLIC BONUS: Talking About Gaza, with Eiynah Mohammed-Smith

Another free public bonus in which Jack steps sideways a little from the usual IDSG focus.  In this episode, Jack hosts a conversation with comrades Twilight O'Hara & Rowan Fortune of Anti-capitalist Resistance about their blistering and important essay A Trans* Guide to Cis Solidarity: Beyond Oppression. This conversation was recorded in January before the show's return from hiatus.    https://anticapitalistresistance.org/a-trans-guide-to-cis-solidarity-beyond-oppression/ Rowan on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rowantree.bsky.social Twilight on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:az4mtz2vt545x2mlifptup2r Rowan on Mastodon https://mstdn.social/@rowanfortune * Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan;_landing=true IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's (Locked) Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ Jack's Bluesky: @timescarcass.bsky.social Daniel's Bluesky: @danielharper.bsky.social IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

Episode 40: Fight Club

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