Andrew Callaghan

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

It got to the point where I would be going into the field and half the people would be running up to me yelling viral catchphrases from the show. Or they would see me and say, don't talk to that guy. He's going to make you look stupid. So undoing those editing choices was a way of me earning back public trust to be able to do my job in the field.

I just had to pivot.

I think it's just deep guilt. It's a way of putting a Band-Aid over it. When you know you are something, you can posture yourself as like a Superman against that thing so that nobody suspects you. It's like really basic two-dimensional shit. Yeah. Because it becomes really obvious.

But you always see like the Mormon anti-gay people in Utah are like caught with a gay prostitute getting a blowjob in the bathroom at the Senate. Yeah. It literally repeats itself every single time. You know what I mean? Every accusation is sometimes a confession, but it's particularly just like those who are fighting for the kids oftentimes are pedos. But not always.

I mean, the Boys and Girls Club, those people are chill. I don't think they have any... It's not like the Catholic Church.

Get off the damn phone. That's the first thing. But no, things are going to have to get worse before they get better. There's just so much collective hypnosis and polarization that I can't even perceive what that would look like.

Yeah, I'm actually pitching two things on like a studio level because the studios have accepted me again, which is great. And one is a Native American directed TV show. It's like a Breaking Bad, but on an Indian reservation in Arizona. It's a narco drama. So I'm pretty stoked.

Yeah, I'm executive producer of it. It's like a sick ass thing. I'm playing like an alcoholic journalist who's like on the trail of a corrupt tribal official. in Arizona. It's like the first time I've acted. That's been really fun.

I'm pitching a separate documentary about a man who lost his parrot in his search for the lost bird.

Yeah.

What are those all about? Okay, this is the space needle. Yeah. Because I'm from Seattle, but I didn't want it to take up the whole arm. I got this because we used to joke back in middle school that all the kids from the suburbs would get space needle tattoos because they felt like they weren't from the city and they wanted to live up to it. And so I said, you know what?

I'm going to take that back and get the needle blasted myself. Shout out to Thomas from Liberty for doing this. This is a Mount Rushmore tattoo, which might go against what I just said about directing and helping Native Americans break Hollywood. Sure. But when I was younger and I was drinking a lot, I got arrested in Sturgis, South Dakota for vandalism. I was really drunk.

Vice was following me around making a documentary about me. And Vice said that it was their protocol at the time that they had to wear N95 masks because they would get fired if they were like in a red state at that time without a mask. And if you know that during that time, wearing a mask in a red state was like wearing a MAGA hat in Portland, Oregon.

So they were following me around with these masks on and it was making people in the Sturgis Spike Week environment think that I was a liberal that was there to shame them for not being masked while they were outside. So one night I figured, OK, I'm going to get Vice to leave town by spray painting. Vice News was here all over this historic town.

So that they kind of hit the streets in the morning and get chased off by bands of vigilantes from this town. I grew up writing graffiti, so it was kind of an impulse. And that's why I'm happy I'm so sober. So I write Vice News on a historic building. I went, Vice was here. Fuck the police. Then I go over and I do a tag.

I think I wrote Crazy Horse over a mural of Mount Rushmore with black spray paint. Because I was like, I was so drunk that I was like... Fuck Rushmore. Like, I'm not even particularly well versed in the history of the Black Hills, but I was like, oh, yeah. And so I get arrested by the police chief on scene. I spray painted the side of a Domino's pizza as well.

So I had to write an apology letter to Domino's corporate.

So the chief of police arrest me. He takes me to jail. I'm thinking because I'm from Seattle that I'm not going to get in that much trouble. I go to my court date and they say you might have up to like a year in the state jail. So they gave me a court date for defacing the Mount Rushmore mural. They had put me in the newspaper as like Seattle anarchist activists, Target came to Sturges, whatever.

They're a few years too late for the anarchist activist thing. And so during my court date, I say to the judge, I got my tattoo before my court date. I say, how could I have spray painted a Mount Rushmore mural if I have Mount Rushmore tatted on my arm? I have respect for it. Look, I even put it on my body. Took it from one year in jail to five days. Five days.

So I served five days in the slammer.

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