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Andrew Callaghan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3400 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And Burning Man is where they go to take off, you know, to take the edge off and basically become their burner persona. On the playa, they become reborn. And they take ketamine and they wear kaleidoscope glasses and steampunk hats and they, you know, snort MDMA and they run around the sand. Listen to tech. Do you snort MDMA?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Yes, you can.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Yes, you can.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Yes, you can.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

I didn't know. It's better to take it in a pill or water, but you can snort MDMA.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

I didn't know. It's better to take it in a pill or water, but you can snort MDMA.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

I didn't know. It's better to take it in a pill or water, but you can snort MDMA.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Yeah, don't snort it because it'll only last you like 90 minutes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Yeah, don't snort it because it'll only last you like 90 minutes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

Yeah, don't snort it because it'll only last you like 90 minutes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

So anyways, we didn't know what to do because we tried to film. Don't snort. The initial idea for All Gas No Brakes was to, instead of asking people, what's your deepest, darkest secret? It was, what's the craziest trip you've been on? So the idea was to not satirize drunk people, but satirize people who are fried on acid.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

So anyways, we didn't know what to do because we tried to film. Don't snort. The initial idea for All Gas No Brakes was to, instead of asking people, what's your deepest, darkest secret? It was, what's the craziest trip you've been on? So the idea was to not satirize drunk people, but satirize people who are fried on acid.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

So anyways, we didn't know what to do because we tried to film. Don't snort. The initial idea for All Gas No Brakes was to, instead of asking people, what's your deepest, darkest secret? It was, what's the craziest trip you've been on? So the idea was to not satirize drunk people, but satirize people who are fried on acid.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And so we went to Boulder real quick, did a test interview with some lady who talked about seeing ancestral aliens during a peyote retreat. And so it's pretty easy to extract trip reports from hippies and, you know, gutter punks and stuff like that, or oogles. So... We go to Burning Man. We start asking people, like, you know, what's your craziest trip story?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And so we went to Boulder real quick, did a test interview with some lady who talked about seeing ancestral aliens during a peyote retreat. And so it's pretty easy to extract trip reports from hippies and, you know, gutter punks and stuff like that, or oogles. So... We go to Burning Man. We start asking people, like, you know, what's your craziest trip story?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And so we went to Boulder real quick, did a test interview with some lady who talked about seeing ancestral aliens during a peyote retreat. And so it's pretty easy to extract trip reports from hippies and, you know, gutter punks and stuff like that, or oogles. So... We go to Burning Man. We start asking people, like, you know, what's your craziest trip story?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And they didn't have the same type of free-flowing storytelling style that, like, an on-the-street cross-punk in New Orleans might have, where they're like, I don't give a fuck, I'll tell you whatever. These people were very bottled up about... they were willing to disclose. So we went on Burning Man Radio and we did a broadcast and we said, hey, we're doing, we're psychedelic journalists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And they didn't have the same type of free-flowing storytelling style that, like, an on-the-street cross-punk in New Orleans might have, where they're like, I don't give a fuck, I'll tell you whatever. These people were very bottled up about... they were willing to disclose. So we went on Burning Man Radio and we did a broadcast and we said, hey, we're doing, we're psychedelic journalists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

And they didn't have the same type of free-flowing storytelling style that, like, an on-the-street cross-punk in New Orleans might have, where they're like, I don't give a fuck, I'll tell you whatever. These people were very bottled up about... they were willing to disclose. So we went on Burning Man Radio and we did a broadcast and we said, hey, we're doing, we're psychedelic journalists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#425 โ€“ Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

It was me and my friend CL at the time. I said, we're psychedelic journalists. We're parked on Tan and I, which is a cross street in Black Rock City. And we said, we have a 1998 Catalina Coachman Sport. It's an RV. We've set up a podcast studio. We're doing a show about psychedelic voyages. Yeah. So lo and behold, two hours later, we had 10 people lined up at the RV. Willing to talk.