Andrew Callaghan

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

Well, I firmly believe that most people are good, and I definitely believe that almost everyone thinks they're doing the right thing. I don't think anyone wakes up aside from a select few sociopaths and says, you know what? I'm going to do something bad today that I think will hurt people. There is Ted Bundy's out there.

But so I just naturally felt like most conservatives and people that I disagreed with had coming from a genuine non-hateful place for some people. Now I'm just as empathetic, but I don't think that people are as good as I used to think.

Just finding money and success, man. You see a dark side of people when you succeed.

Interesting.

Whenever I put it like this, whenever you're like a regular person who hasn't achieved some level of like clout or money that people want. There's some people that like you and there's some people that don't like you, but no one feels particularly strongly about you. You got your friends in high school. You don't have any extreme enemies.

When you become famous and successful in any capacity, bro, it could be at a company. It doesn't have to be on TV. The margin goes like this. The polarization, yeah. And people either love the fuck out of you or they hate you and they want to see you go down.

They're either your best friend because they see you online every day or they hate you because of the same reason, because they see you on the media and they don't like what you say. Even the people you grew up with. I can't tell you how many times I hear, yo, bro, I just met your homie. He said he went to high school with you. He said you guys were best friends. What's his name? Josh Danielson.

I'm like, I have never heard that name in my fucking life. Or reversed, yeah, bro, my homie went to high school with you and he said you were like a total piece of shit. And I'm like, what's his name? Mark Fairhaven. And I'm like, I don't know who that is either. So all of a sudden everyone's your homie or your enemy and it's just there's no one normal in my life anymore.

That's kind of depressing. Does that cause you any sort of struggle personally? Yeah, it's fucking annoying. I can't find any real friends. Really? It's hard. All my friends either work for me or are working against me. Most of my friends work at Channel 5 and I love them. And I have nothing against them. I love them. I love my family too.

But every friendship I have seems poisoned by some ulterior motive, whether it's, oh, yeah, like it's just this augmented enthusiasm. It doesn't make any sense. Like all of a sudden I make a friend and they're a fan. And I'm like, can we be friends if you're a fan? Are you perceiving me as a regular person? If I let you down in some way, are you going to come for me?

I just try to stay away from people. That's why I want to move back into an RV in the middle of the Mojave Desert and just stay the fuck away from people.

I understand that you have to ask about it if you're doing a podcast. So what happened? Sexual misconduct, shit like that.

Yeah, it was.

I don't want to speak too much about it because I've talked about it before, but pretty much I was on really good terms with somebody who a long time ago I had hooked up with. And at one point it felt like they said I had a good time. I enjoyed the experience. But looking back, I have these texts. I just didn't put them out because I don't want to release texts without people's permission.

That's fair. And she was like, yeah, looking back, I felt more pressure to agree than I realized at the time. I still want to be friends. I have no ill will towards you. I don't feel like anything happened. And then we made amends at that point. And then two and a half years later.

Eight minutes before the release of the film on HBO, she asked if I could give her a portion of my HBO paycheck to pay for therapy. Hadn't heard anything about this before. I don't know if it was coming from a genuine place.

I'm not opposed to the idea if you've harmed someone of helping them out if they need help, but just because of our interaction before, it wouldn't make any sense I would come at that time, especially no communication, no defined amount of money. I learned a little bit later that she was connected with a lawyer here in the LA area who was trying to basically get a confession of guilt from me.

So they hit me in court for money. Yeah, after that came out, some more stuff piled on, most of which is not true.

And that's why I haven't gone super hard on clearing it up because obviously this person went through some trauma. They disclosed to me that they had PTSD from a childhood incident and for whatever reason attached onto me as the cause of that. It probably has something to do with the fact that I was on the media all the time. I don't know. It's hard to get in people's minds.

But yeah, as far as like people being scared, I don't like when people say like, you can avoid allegations by this. If I was treating people perfectly and being really cautious and not rushing things and not hanging out with fans, that wouldn't have happened to me. So I just look at it as what did I do to put myself in that situation? Because what else am I going to do

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