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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Specifically to dismantle the Black Panthers.
Yeah, they actually protected Oakland and Compton.
Oh yeah, that's our shit.
Yeah. Dude, they were pretty nuts back in the day.
So if you were on like 24th and international in the sixties, you're saying that was a white neighborhood. I'm pretty sure that it was like white working class, young parents. Yeah. Cause I read a hell's angels by Hunter S Thompson. And just like ethnographically, I was like, wait, what? there's these like tough white fools from Oakland that like act white as fuck.
I feel like Cocoa County kind of absorbed like the last remnants of whatever that was.
Yeah. And a lot of it has to do with like self mythology. I think that can be one of the most damaging things to people's life and recovery. is a lot of people think of themselves in a certain way that's not necessarily how they are, but the character of how they want to be perceived. Kelly has this idea of like, I never complain. I never ask for help.
I am like an alpha buff businessman who gets it done and takes care of his family. And so that kind of conflicted with the reality of like, I lost my house and I can't provide for them. How do I maintain this bravado while simultaneously accepting my sort of downtrodden situation? And he wasn't able to do that. So he was able to channel that alpha mentality into the political shit.
I mean, I just think they're I wouldn't say so much like accountability, but the Reagan era toxic positivity of like, I'm doing great. Everything's totally fine. I don't know if it's like a response to like their their parents being like, I went to World War Two. What the fuck do you have to complain about?
Yeah, I think part of it has to do with that of like any complaint they leverage is like, well, your grandpa was at Omaha. So I don't know what you're complaining about.
But I think part of the reason that the 60s became such like this fucking crazy moment is because World War II, we were like the good guys. So you got home from World War II, and everyone was like, thank you, man. You defeated the Nazis. I think that from what my grandpa told me, he was in the Air Force.
He told me he was wearing his uniform on the subway in Philadelphia, and there was these hippies cursing at him, trying to spit on him. And I think he still looks at that as one of his worst memories. Because, you know.
Yeah. And he was 19. He comes home and these kids are, you know. Baby killer. They're looking at him like he is the manifestation of, like, imperialism.
Unnecessary wars against communism. But the reality is, like, we've came a long way since then. I don't think that you still see protesters spiting service members. Sure. When you're against the Iraq war, you don't see a soldier in uniform and think, like, Fuck you. You say, fuck George Bush. Yeah. You go like, fuck the old guy that sent you to do that.
So I think that also like that really drove a generational wedge that made way for like that Reagan era.
In terms of the VA benefits?
Yeah, I mean, I will say there is like certain small town environments that I've been in. Freeport, Pennsylvania, Algona, Iowa. Some outskirts of Duluth, Minnesota.
Where these are towns with like a thousand people or less.
You got veterans wearing their, you know, full fatigues or whatever they wear in Iraq. And they walk around town and they are the shit. Good. They walk into Waffle House or a diner and everyone stands up. They clap. They salute. They give a salute. They give them a... free food. They go out to the bars at nighttime. The chicks are all over them. Their life is awesome.
I think that sort of like coming home from war dream does exist in small town America.
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