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. And you can't help but feel bad for people like this. But then when they make their problems, everyone else's problem, that's where it gets bad.

I don't exactly know. Everybody will have situations in their life where everything they care about falls apart. It's a matter of rebounding from that in a healthy way. And that's a thing that some people can't do. A lot of people live in perpetual victim mindset about certain things. And I think that he was like that to an extent, too.

As much as the Trump conservative crowd wants to be like, we're not victims. We're not going to say that we were ever disadvantaged in any capacity. A lot of them are stuck in anger about an enemy of the past who's no longer even thinking about them.

Yeah, furries are chill. They're not even weird.

Furries are people who dress in anthropomorphic fursuits that cost a lot. Like Chuck E. Cheese. Chuck E. Cheese, but it's connected to an anime-adjacent fandom of nonverbal animal interactions.

Okay, it's verbal, but you don't use your real voice when you're in the fursuit.

But a lot of them have a lot of them are on the spectrum and they're just chill. Okay. I thought they were going to be all like zoo files. The sort of rumor about it is it's all a bunch of weird sex stuff. They do some sex stuff, but it's mostly just like playing around.

You should get a fursuit. It's going to run you like four grand then.

Well, I feel like you kind of have to be given a fursona. You have to develop it. They can tell if you're a poser, like if you go to a country music concert, you know, and you have your cowboy hat. Right. Like one time I wore a cowboy hat to an event in Virginia City, Nevada, that was camel racing. I didn't know I had a women's cowboy hat on with a bedazzled cross on the front.

Like they were not fucking with me. So with the fursuit, you'd have to really grow into it and develop your voice. So for me, I'm a scaly. I'm not a furry. So you're a reptile. Yeah. Because I was close with a reptile back in the day who passed away during the American Idol finale in 2006. That was when Bo Bice lost, who was my favorite. So Bo Bice loses. I go into my room.

Snakey, the gecko, was dead. It was the worst night of my life. So I felt like when I was becoming a scaly at the Midwest Fur Fest, I was channeling the spirit of my lost brother.

Kind of, but you might come up with a couple names yourself. But if you have a real certified furry homie and you bounce it off them, they'll be like, nah, that's not you. At first, I was Franklin the Fantastical Falcon. And they were like, nah, you're not a falcon. Because everyone's got a spirit animal and I'm not a falcon.

No, I have pretty bad memory. Conversationally, I can remember a lot of stuff, but I've just experienced so much. I don't really remember anything unless someone's talking about an event and I have a thousand stories. But if you were to ask me straight up, what's a crazy ass interview you've done? I would say like, I don't know.

If you were to say like, what's your favorite interview you've ever done in Tulsa, Oklahoma or Las Vegas at night? Or like with a cop.

I can drive, but my night vision is kind of bad. It's called hallucinogen persisting perception disorder. Researchers are not that sure about what causes it. If you want to get ocular real quick, it's caused from psychedelics like LSD, MDMA, peyote, all that. MDMA is a- Ecstasy.

Yeah.

No, it's very specific. It happens between 4% to 4.5% of psychedelic users, so something like 1 in 30. That is a lot. Check this out. If you have HPPD at home and you have visual snow, palynopsia, and all of the things that we have, it's not an eye problem. It's a brain problem.

It has to do with the visual processing system. So it's a little bit of ocular science here. There's 130 milliseconds between your eyes seeing something and sending that information to your frontal lobe to be processed. Before it goes there, it goes through four steps.

So it goes into the eye, through some sort of stem to the back of the brain, to the occidental lobe, and then from there to the front where it's registered in the mind. So there's like, we're actually living in the past in a very micro way at all times. So they think that HPPD is something similar to epilepsy, where, you know, when epileptics, when they see strobe lights, they can have a seizure.

I remember the Nintendo issue. So this is something like that where they don't know quite yet because nobody wants to put up the money to help people with this condition. But it's something about the occidental lobe and the visual processing center being basically disinhibited by psychedelics.

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