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Andrew Callaghan

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

Honestly, probably that stuff. There's also a lesser known interview show called Brushstrokes with Norman Van Amy. Oh, I've totally heard of it. So random. It's done by a graffiti writer named J.A. Is this on YouTube? It's on YouTube. It aired 16 years ago. He has two characters.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

One's called Shams the Baron, which is like Ali G. One of them is Norman Van Amy, who's supposed to be an asshole like Paris art gallery collector. And so he would go to different art galleries and just troll people. That was a big influence. Early Daily Show was super good when it was Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver and that shit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

One's called Shams the Baron, which is like Ali G. One of them is Norman Van Amy, who's supposed to be an asshole like Paris art gallery collector. And so he would go to different art galleries and just troll people. That was a big influence. Early Daily Show was super good when it was Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver and that shit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

One's called Shams the Baron, which is like Ali G. One of them is Norman Van Amy, who's supposed to be an asshole like Paris art gallery collector. And so he would go to different art galleries and just troll people. That was a big influence. Early Daily Show was super good when it was Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver and that shit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

It's bullshit. I used to think that my magic was like doing for net shots every night and partying and that I had to be in an RV getting drunk. But actually, when I stopped doing that, I got 10 times more creative. Addiction has a weird way of embedding itself in your creative... In telling you, I'm doing something good for you. Yeah, in your creative pursuits. Like, you need me.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

It's bullshit. I used to think that my magic was like doing for net shots every night and partying and that I had to be in an RV getting drunk. But actually, when I stopped doing that, I got 10 times more creative. Addiction has a weird way of embedding itself in your creative... In telling you, I'm doing something good for you. Yeah, in your creative pursuits. Like, you need me.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

It's bullshit. I used to think that my magic was like doing for net shots every night and partying and that I had to be in an RV getting drunk. But actually, when I stopped doing that, I got 10 times more creative. Addiction has a weird way of embedding itself in your creative... In telling you, I'm doing something good for you. Yeah, in your creative pursuits. Like, you need me.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

It's almost like a bad friend who's like, you need me to succeed. Once I cut out alcohol, I was able to start this five cast. I'm putting out three episodes a week. We've expanded the newscast to Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, England, Lebanon, and Canada. And I'm not even stressed out. I just have all this free time that I was spending on my second job, which was... Drinking.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

It's almost like a bad friend who's like, you need me to succeed. Once I cut out alcohol, I was able to start this five cast. I'm putting out three episodes a week. We've expanded the newscast to Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, England, Lebanon, and Canada. And I'm not even stressed out. I just have all this free time that I was spending on my second job, which was... Drinking.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

It's almost like a bad friend who's like, you need me to succeed. Once I cut out alcohol, I was able to start this five cast. I'm putting out three episodes a week. We've expanded the newscast to Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, England, Lebanon, and Canada. And I'm not even stressed out. I just have all this free time that I was spending on my second job, which was... Drinking.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

I mean, a lot of these greats who rationalized and I'm not saying that Hunter wasn't doing anything at the end of his life. Hunter S. Thompson's widow, Anita, she told me that his biographer was jealous of him and he hijacked Hunter S. Thompson's story. And he said, oh, he was unable to write because at the end of his life, he was just doing all this cocaine and.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

I mean, a lot of these greats who rationalized and I'm not saying that Hunter wasn't doing anything at the end of his life. Hunter S. Thompson's widow, Anita, she told me that his biographer was jealous of him and he hijacked Hunter S. Thompson's story. And he said, oh, he was unable to write because at the end of his life, he was just doing all this cocaine and.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

I mean, a lot of these greats who rationalized and I'm not saying that Hunter wasn't doing anything at the end of his life. Hunter S. Thompson's widow, Anita, she told me that his biographer was jealous of him and he hijacked Hunter S. Thompson's story. And he said, oh, he was unable to write because at the end of his life, he was just doing all this cocaine and.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

So they published this schedule that was like Hunter S. Thompson's daily routine. It was like grapefruits in the morning, go shoot shotgun shells in the backyard, do a bunch of whippets and cocaine all day, coffee, write a little bit. And they used that when explaining why he ended up taking his own life, saying, look at this poor man at the end of his life.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

So they published this schedule that was like Hunter S. Thompson's daily routine. It was like grapefruits in the morning, go shoot shotgun shells in the backyard, do a bunch of whippets and cocaine all day, coffee, write a little bit. And they used that when explaining why he ended up taking his own life, saying, look at this poor man at the end of his life.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

So they published this schedule that was like Hunter S. Thompson's daily routine. It was like grapefruits in the morning, go shoot shotgun shells in the backyard, do a bunch of whippets and cocaine all day, coffee, write a little bit. And they used that when explaining why he ended up taking his own life, saying, look at this poor man at the end of his life.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

He wasn't able to muster up any creative energy because he was incapacitated by addiction. Hunter S. Thompson's wife, Anita, she told me, no, that was bullshit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

He wasn't able to muster up any creative energy because he was incapacitated by addiction. Hunter S. Thompson's wife, Anita, she told me, no, that was bullshit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

He wasn't able to muster up any creative energy because he was incapacitated by addiction. Hunter S. Thompson's wife, Anita, she told me, no, that was bullshit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self

sports reporter he hated the character that he had built with fear and loathing he hated that he had built himself into this gonzo hero of doing drugs and traveling and he had built up this character because that character made it so that he couldn't get jobs from ESPN and other trade publications like Rolling Stone surprised by that he was writing more in his final years about baseball statistics and sports information than any other time in his life