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

We're here together. And I'm like, you're the hallucination.

I didn't even think about that.

This guy thinks he's the fucking center of the universe.

Yeah, it sounds like I'm justifying sociopathic behavior.

Yeah, we're all just a hallucination for you to enjoy.

But I remember I would look at cars driving by the window of my mom's apartment and I would just try to imagine myself being the driver of that car and being like, they're here too. You know what I mean? Like, it's not just me. And I would convince myself and I'd be like, no, it is just me. And I would stare at my own eyes in the mirror and being like, who is that fucking guy?

And I'd go, oh, that's me. Wait, if that's me though, then there's no one else. But it leaves. Hard work and consistently working towards something tangible on a shared planet with others. When I walk in the street and people say, I love your video, that's them saying, your derealization symptoms are an illusion.

Psychedelic use causes the HPPD, which sort of starts the chain reaction that leads to that. I see. Remember that if you're derealized, that's the final boss. You're not going to be depersonalized again. So it can feel like the scariest part, but it's like the final boss in a video game because once you defeat that shit, you're good.

Just find something that gives you value in your community. Volunteer at the food bank in a small town. Move to Aberdeen, Washington and give out moon pies to homeless people. And then you come back a week later and they're going to go, yo, thanks for the sandwich, bro. I love moon pies. Maybe that's an extreme example. You could do something. It doesn't have to be homeless people.

You could become a street magician in Venice Beach. I don't know. There's so many ways.

He liked Dear Kelly. That was the person that I was most stoked about is he texted me. He got my number. It was a plus four for a British number, and he was like- It's Louis. Fantastic film. I was on the edge of my seat. Really?

I was like, yes, that was the sickest compliment. Louis Thoreau, big inspiration. I was inspired by a lot of other shit that's not journalism, like Chief Keef Music. He's a rapper from Chicago. Fallout New Vegas, the video game on Xbox. Lil B. Random stuff. It has nothing to do with journalism. It was inspirational.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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