Andrew Callaghan

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

And they wouldn't buy his columns or pay him a fair price per word because they said, you're the drugs guy. We don't want you in our newspaper. And he'd say, I'm not the drugs guy anymore.

And then the people who used to buy his columns like Fear and Loathing, the drug stuff, were like, hey, can you go back to the Kentucky Derby again and do some ether and do a bunch of ketamine and talk to some horse jockeys? And he was like, dude, I have a wife and kid now. I don't want to do that.

So I think that part of the reason he was so depressed and took his own life is because he felt that he had to live up to this character that he no longer identified with.

Yeah, I said this incorrectly in a news broadcast because I mixed up different information, which happens when you're speaking off the cuff. But there was an FBI counterintelligence program that had something to do with incentivizing car ownership where they were trying to stigmatize hitchhiking. Sounds like a conspiracy theory. It's real. I think it was J. Edgar Hoover.

He's the one who did all the bad stuff. It was this whole idea of the danger on the side of the road. If you look at some of the films that were made during that time, i.e. Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1972, it kind of seems like there was a concentrated effort to... take hitchhiking culture away and incentivize car ownership. If you look at LA, they destroyed public transit. Detroit did that too.

Yeah, exactly. And now look at these cities. They're such low social cohesion. But yeah, hitchhikers are like the enemy of the state back in the day. Yeah.

Now they're just like escaped convicts.

Yeah, and you're like, shouldn't they be in the prison though? It's like, why did you guys let him get out?

But I used to hitchhike every summer when I went to college in New Orleans. I would just hitchhike back to Seattle after every semester.

There's still places in the U.S. that you can hitchhike. If you're in the Colorado mountains west of Denver during ski season, the Pacific Coast Trail, the East Coast is just a no-go, obviously. Can you imagine trying to hitchhike from Philly to New York? No one's picking your ass up.

Yeah, I just want some chicks in the car.

I mean, I have a lot of female friends who are hitchhikers. It's weird. The gender stuff is so intense nowadays. When I tell people I hitchhike, I remember one time I had a live show. I think it was Richmond, Virginia. And I told this story about hitchhiking. And this lady raised her hand in the audience.

And she was like, don't you feel like it's kind of a male privilege thing for you to be able to hitchhike? And I was like, first of all, most dudes don't have the nuts to hitchhike. Secondly, yes. However, that doesn't disqualify my story from being interesting.

Also, female privilege, you got to pay five bucks. I had to pay 100.

Well, I just was the youngest person on the road in a place called Crowley, Louisiana, and a gay Honduran man thought that I was a gay prostitute, took me to a little place where you have sex with gay prostitutes, and then I told him I wasn't, and he was hella chill. Oh, he wasn't like, oh, dang.

He couldn't believe it because apparently the place that I was at was a cruising truck stop where a lot of lizards of the male variety would procure clients. But he was chill. I think he just wanted like a handjob.

No, I didn't provide the handjob, but I was like, good luck. And he was like, it's all good. I'll find one by the end of the day.

Yeah, respect.

Dude, I'm so happy you brought that up. Because when I was hitchhiking, I would use couchsurfing almost every night to find a place to stay. It was easier back then because you could just bomb applications. I could hit like 100 people up in one night. Now I think it's 10 per day, which makes it harder.

Yeah, I mean, I only had one bad experience on couchsurfing. What happened? I didn't read in the description that this place I was going to in Dallas was clothing optional. For me, that just meant like you can walk to the bathroom naked. Like I'm not going to be pissed if I see you walking around naked. But I didn't realize that was like obvious code for a nudist colony. Oh.

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