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

No one wants to see some successful guy, especially after a rebound, talk about how like you got to be careful around these women because I don't think it's like a women thing. I think you would have to be careful hanging out with dudes who you don't know who are fans who are possibly compromised in some capacity.

I don't think that the person is lying because you have your own experiences if that's how you experience something. I do know that them asking me for money is inconsistent with our correspondence up to that point.

Yeah, I would say avoid that altogether, especially if you think that you're going to find success at some point in life. But just in general, avoid hookup culture. I think it's bad. Maybe have fun, I guess, when you're younger. But it's a spiritually dark, negative experience for everybody involved. You end up regretting it.

I had a lot of fun being young partying, but the pain that situation caused is much greater than the excitement of hooking up with someone new. So I just look at that and I think seeing your mom cry reading the newspaper with your name in it is not worth the best hookup in the world.

Instantaneously. Didn't have anybody there for me except for a couple. But you got to think when I first got the request, me and my friends are like, you know, what the fuck? This is crazy. You work something for years and someone just sees you on TV and thinks I'm going to ask them for money at this strange juncture. My friends were like, oh, well, we can't tell if it's genuine.

People in Hollywood are like, just pay it. Get the paperwork signed.

I said, no, I'm not going to be in this NDA sphere that you guys are in. Once someone's got that on me, they could probably use it to control me at some point down the line and limit the messaging. So, I mean, it was a pretty compromising position. Yeah. I will say that like there was journalists who were writing shit. It was like total and utter bullshit after that initial thing.

But also that initial allegation is what broke the headlines immediately. So that kind of freaked me out. That kind of weirded me out too. Why is that being covered by NBC, Fox? They never covered me before.

Yeah. The hardest thing was like people making it seem like I had this like longstanding pattern of,

When I was actually in really good standing in every community that I've been a part of. And anyone saying otherwise is lying.

Fair to say, because there's two things happening. Like a lot of people always comment. Do you think that you got set up after CNN or NPR? No, I think that there was something that was posted that wasn't architected by the deep state. But I do think that the news machine latched onto it as a perfect chance to try to get me out the way.

I just think that the casual nature of podcasts is what people connect with. I think that mainstream media is so fixated on crossfire and arguing between people. There was actually a show called Crossfire back in the day. I think Jon Stewart broke it down perfectly.

It was a Tucker Carlson show on CNN back in the day where he would just get two people of opposing viewpoints and get them to yell at each other because he knew people would watch that because it triggers cortisol.

Most news media today is based upon the deployment of microtraumatic digital media, which you might not be traumatized by it, but it is pulling on something through messaging, through words and images that triggers a fight or flight response and makes you want to engage with it.

They know what they're doing. They know what words and phrases can be used to cause someone to have an association. And so if you watched Fox during 2020, it was all cops putting old ladies in headlocks for not wearing their mask at the grocery store. And on CNN, it was all cops brutalizing black and brown people. And so you're collectively traumatizing the public.

And the George Floyd video was extremely traumatic for a good reason. But that is a microcosm of what the media has been doing for a very long time. And podcasters don't do that. However, I do think that alternative media is following the exact same incentive structure as the MSM, if not worse.

Most of these people were like, we're not the mainstream, but we're going to give you an alternative perspective when it's just the mainstream.

Absolutely. Absolutely. And also corporate media is figuring out how to own alternative channels through sponsorships and investment and stuff like that.

Yeah, the crash zoom was like, the reason the crash zoom and the slapstick stuff is gone is because of what I call the Borat effect. I'd wear the tan suit and I would do essentially what were ambush interviews.

And the Borat effect was when Sacha Baron Cohen couldn't go film Borat skits anymore because everybody would either know that he was Borat and they would overact or they would see that he was Borat and avoid the cameras because they didn't want to be embarrassed.

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