Andrew Callaghan
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard 22 Jun
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That's sick that you have a journalism degree, though.
And then they wonder why like YouTube and digital media is doing bigger numbers. It's like, it's because we don't have to have this corporate oversight because you're trying to make it like advertiser safe and But real advertisers will take risks for enjoyable, controversial content. So it's like, who is the advertiser you're talking about? Is it Pepsi? Is it Dasani?
So for those who don't know, it was supposed to be called America Shits Itself. Which is great.
Everybody on the team was like, let's do this. Even Jonah Hill was going to bat. He was telling HBO, he was like, we're calling it this. I'm fucking drawing a line in the sand. And they were just like, you got to change it or it can't go out.
They were like, you know, the S word's going to ruffle some feathers. I was like, come on. Dude, it's everywhere now. Shit is everywhere.
You kind of like let them follow their own path, especially like somebody who goes through the process of going to Office Depot or Staples, getting markers, getting a cardboard sign, going home, writing shit on it that sounds funny, physically going to a location, holding it up and screaming. Yeah. That's insane. It's insane. No matter what you think.
So when I talk to somebody at a protest, they're ready. They're just waiting for the right person to ask them, hey, what's on your mind? And as soon as you ask them that, boom, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. In terms of content. Not saying that I want to shoot them.
Yeah, I cut a part of that interview out where I was talking to the guy because he was saying like, we need to abolish public schools. And I'm like, dude, what kind of school did you go to? He's like, a public school. Yeah.
and i'm like did you like any of your teachers he's like no they fucking suck yeah and i was like which teacher in particular was the worst and he's like my fucking wrestling coach he would like never let me get on varsity and like made me show up early to practice and now i'm showing him that i'm tough and strong yeah but no i'm saying that is similar to the kelly equation which is like you take a tragic personal situation some political movement comes around that like has this really binary view of the world like good versus bad angels versus demons hard-working red-blooded american patriots being robbed blind by this like nebulous dark force yeah and you're
Elon's not doing nothing shady. And you're like, that's wild. Dude, it's crazy. I really think the best example of actual solidarity that threatened the government itself was the Occupy movement. Yeah. Because that wasn't even necessarily left versus right. It was like the collective people, working class people versus the richest in the country.
I think the last Occupy-style point of solidarity was like the mid-1960s, civil rights movement, that time period where it was like, you know what, we're done with this shit. You had almost every single movement that we see today, social movement, formed in the 60s. Animal rights, Chicano rights, black, even white working class union shit really started back then.
And if you look at it, the FBI strategically deployed like programs to take the leaders out, to disrupt the solidarity between a lot of these communities and kind of turn them against each other. And it actually worked. And by the 80s, you had Reagan come in and be like, anyone complaining is a fucking pussy. Pick yourself up. Are you an American? Go to work and you're going to become me one day.
Yeah. And then now you're kind of seeing, I look at the period between 2012 Occupy Movement and 2016 as our FBI infiltration moment. Because all of a sudden 2016 comes around and you've got these smart dudes who happen to be white. And someone's like, can you please hold space for the people who are marginalized? And they're like, what? I have a great idea.
And someone's like, I know you have a great idea, but your heteronormative positioning is making you unable to actually have a good idea. Yeah. I think that a lot of that is, like, you're taking people when they're 18, 19, and they're kind of awkward. They're trying to figure out who they are in the world, you know, whether they're black, white, man, woman, or whatever.
And you tell someone you can have an automatic leg up socially on, like, all these fucking white dudes if you just posture yourself as, like, a super hardcore, like, it's my moment type of person.
an american thing a very american thing is to go like break a treaty go profit absolutely and if you look at the actual ownership structures they're not changing no like if you look at you know all these colleges that are pushing this like hardcore like rich leftist gentrifier agenda like liberal agenda which is like you know what i mean put up a black lives matter yard sign give your cash app go move to bushwick and push people out of their area
And that is like, if not the most, that is like the most pressing social class issue in the US right now.
And like, but it's the one thing they're not like canceling each other for it
Dude, I'm from Seattle, it's the exact same thing.
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