Andrew Callaghan

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2,527 appearances 8 recordings 6 series first heard Apr 2024 last heard 22 Jun

Andrew Callaghan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Louis Theroux Podcast · S8 EP3: Andrew Callaghan on the ‘cancelverse’, lizard people, and whether he’s being sued by Melania Trump · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, I think that the thing about rage baiting is whenever you rage bait, even if people are mad, they're talking about you, which gives you room for like a redemption arc or like some sort of other thing that you can do.

Provoke outrage.

I think that's especially true if you don't have a marketable skill or a talent to present to the world.

For us, I think people appreciate the documentaries.

So I don't think we need to create some kind of beef.

We don't have to call people out.

I don't have to squirt lime juice into my eyes and run naked through shopping malls.

I think your earliest work had a sprinkle of more satire in it than it does now.

And my early work had more like... I don't want to say more of a...

pompous attitude, but I would definitely look into the camera like Jim from The Office and I would definitely apply crash zooms to people and it felt like the people were sometimes the butt of the joke and that's changed.

I mean, it's hard to even look back at that public statement because, I mean, to be in that moment, you know, within, I think, a four-day period, you lose all of your support.

You know, you get dropped from your agency, lose every sponsor, your best friends evaporate.

your DMs on Instagram have like tens of thousands of messages.

And half of them say, you know, kill yourself, you're a piece of shit.

And the other half just say, take accountability.

And so I didn't feel that what was going on made any sense.

Certainly didn't match up with my lived experience of what they were talking about.

But I wanted to do the right thing.

You don't ever want to be someone who's hurt somebody.

And you just want to try to move forward and

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