Andrew Callaghan

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

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1156: Andrew Callaghan | Documenting America's Shadow Self · 20 May 2025 podcast

Yeah, but still, this is like federal plus state. And now I'm thinking like, dude, I love it here so much, but is this worth it? Because I can hire more people and pay less for rent money in a different state.

Yeah. I wouldn't mind the taxation if we were living in a utopia. They actually took care of people, created tunnels under the freeways that alleviated traffic, and you just saw lots of people coming here for business. Yeah. But in turn, it feels like they're, I don't know if they're embezzling it or just giving it to nonprofits who are doing nothing with it.

But it's crazy because it's like you look at other states that have reinvested their money properly and it looks great. Even if you go to Vegas right now, you're like, damn, this place is booming. It's cool to be around somewhere where there's young hustlers and people getting to it as opposed to here.

I have an office in Universal City and my janitor was mopping the floor and pointing to empty offices and being like, Michael Jackson once recorded Beat It right there in 1995. It feels like I'm in Detroit after GM shut down.

I also, this is a controversial take, but I believe Texas is for Texans. And I say this as a guy who loves Texas and respects the culture there. They have a different way of life. I just don't think that California bag chasing mentality works too good out there. I can definitely see that being an issue. For them. Yeah. Florida, I feel like it's for everybody.

It's like a mutual American place where you can just go to start a second chapter. Texas people belong there. You can feel it in the way they talk, the way they dance, the way they just think about things. The pace is meant for them. It's not meant for LA comedians looking to turn over anyone.

Obviously, your underlying opinion, if you were already kind of like a staunch Reagan-style conservative, you'd be more likely to gravitate toward MAGA conservatism. Of course, some people have less media literacy than others, and that has to do with intelligence and not so much with their upbringing. Yeah, you're right.

There's plenty of people who get their homes foreclosed and don't go straight to the Capitol on January 6th.

Yeah, and there's also plenty of kids who grew up in broken homes and don't join gangs. So there's a bunch of factors. Some are cultural, but some do have to do with media literacy and intelligence.

There wasn't like WWE showmanship. There couldn't be like a Romney adjacent Proud Boys, you know, and there couldn't be like Antifa during Bill Clinton.

And also the politicians are on the same damn phones as we are. So now we're in an era back in the day was like politicians were the ones who traveled. They were more engaged with the public. They're also on Twitter being hypnotized by the same social media platforms that the average person is. And that goes for like left and right. So that's why there's such little conversation.

I actually think that the generation after Gen Alpha, so in the current 12, 13 year olds who were in elementary school during COVID, once they are at the age where they can have kids and Their kids are going to be anti-technology because their parents are going to be so hypnotized by like watching live streamers and just being engaged with this AI generated brain rot content.

So I think all kids born in 2040 are going to look at people with phones as like, you guys are dumb. Don't you know those things destroy your mind?

Yeah, they're like, dude, put that damn phone away. Kids are going to want to kick the can around. I grew up throwing sticks around, chasing squirrels.

Because I think that already now they did a survey. I think it was like related to the new Madden games. where people actually preferred to play Madden 2007 to 25. Because it turns out that people were at this point now where people prefer nostalgic video game graphics to hyper-realistic graphics. Because it makes them feel like a loser.

They're like, here I am controlling this man who looks real and stronger than me and playing a fake game. Back in the day, now there is actually more of a demand for a regression. So back when things were more fun and arcade-like. And we're going to see that more and more. There's an anti-tech movement that is brewing. And it just hasn't hatched yet because Gen Alpha doesn't have any kids.

So your kids might be that anti-tech generation.

Yeah.

Dude, honestly- In the same way that a lot of parents don't let their kids have social media until they're 13 or 14, we should do a similar thing with people after they turn, like, 80. Yes. Or maybe even, like, 75, like, where they have to be supervised on Facebook. Because I've seen some old people fall for some real, like, terrible computer art that anyone can tell is fake.

Like, Hillary Clinton eating a baby. And it's just so obviously, like, a dead baby photoshopped as, like, on Microsoft Paint over, like, an AI Hillary Clinton with, like, giant jaws. And they're like...

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