Journalist Alex Pappademas takes us on an epic journey that spans genres, mediums, and generations to explore what happens when a wildly successful piece of pop culture gets so big that it changes the world. This show is about how big hits get dreamed up, how they get made, and what happens when we make them our own.
There were two verdicts on Fight Club: the opening-weekend box office numbers (spoiler alert: yikes) and the judgment of history. We’ll look at how Fight Club channeled the anti-consumerist politics of its moment, and explore some of the more provocative arguments made in the ensuing years about this still-contentious cult classic and its take on modern men.
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: WTF with Marc Maron
Pawn Stars footage courtesy of A+E Networks
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