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Andrew Callaghan

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“Guess that's why it just seems like it's gone. And the ideas of QAnon have just bled into mainstream standard conservative thinking.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't want this to sound. Rude or anything. I just don't care about QAnon. You know what I mean? I've put so much thought into it I just can't seem to care about it.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, dude. Honestly, there's some pretty dope Trump rap out there. I'm serious. Yeah, like you would think, oh yeah, MAGA, there's no rappers there, but there's rappers, and they do a pretty good job. Delivering the messaging they want to deliver. Yeah, I mean, they think of stuff that I'm like, that's clever.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For even following QAnon so militantly because he was like, I felt like they let my dad down. I feel like they let our family down, you know, because January 6th was supposed to be the day, according to QAnon, that the storm happens and that the military is supposed to mobilize and arrest the members of the deep state. Clinton, Soros, all that. Trump was supposed to go into a helicopter. You know what I mean? And take control of the country back from the swamp. And it didn't happen. In fact, the next day he was like almost denouncing it. Now he doesn't, but then he did. And it was really, I think it hurt people's pride a lot. My friend Forgiotto Blow, he's a Trump rapper. He describes it that way. He says, a lot of people's pride got hurt by January 6th.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just an all encompassing worldview. That family that I talk to, I call them a QAnon family, but it's called the Spencer family. You know, they were non-political up until the Stop the Steel movement began in September of 2020. And within four months, their entire life revolved around the mythology and lore of Q. And I've never seen in my life a Psyop just devour people's minds in such an intense way in such a rapid period of time.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is just a mindfuck. It's like, why'd you get everyone so hyped up? Just weird to think about how so many people's lives are drastically altered forever because of that just bizarre moment in time that we'll always live on.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it really broke the fourth wall, or I would describe it because if you were at January 6th and the lead up, it felt like it was the beginning to a series of similar riots, but it just popped off so much that that was it. You haven't seen anything like it since. It was supposed to be a second one on January 20th. It was the actual inauguration. It never happened. It was a crazy time to be alive and around, and especially the relationship that I developed with Enrique Tario, who's the former chairman of the Proud Boys. He's now facing 23 years in prison. It's like a trip because I went to his house in Miami maybe two weeks after January 6th and talking to him, it seemed like he didn't think anything was going to happen. He was just like, yeah, man, that was crazy. I'm glad I wasn't there. Like they're dumb for doing that. He even told me he doesn't think the election was stolen.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But even in the background, like they get shit done. There's no wait time. They have some of the best heavy hitters on their team for trailers, for posters, all the promotional apparatus they have is like super solid.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the positive note, HBO is great to work with. They're the most professional, respectful company I've ever worked with pretty much.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, we filmed the HBO project from November 2020 up until April 2021, damn near. We were just like, you know, picking up the pieces, going back for individual interviews, stuff like that.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The thing is, those Walmart cracker barrel and big five are supposed to technically all let RV. Campers Park overnight. But if there was like a crime problem in the city where they're at, they can lobby individual Walmarts can lobby with the corporate to take that away. So all the Portland Walmarts, you can't sleep there anymore. Any city with significant homelessness and like petty property crime, the Walmarts are a no-go.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I remember all three of us who worked on all gas no brakes got fired at the same time, and we were in the RV that Tim and Eric's company bought for us, which was a bigger RV in the parking lot. Parking lot of a Walmart in South Philly and the propane had just ran out and it was 15 degrees outside. So like the RV was getting really cold really fast. And I just looked at my phone and it was like, you're fired. And I was just like, God, help me. I've had a couple moments like that. And God does help me.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In a way, I have sympathy because I can't relate to that because I've always been the front man of my own projects by design. So I'm not sure what it's like to be someone's owner from a content perspective. I don't understand the challenges they face. Maybe there was something that I didn't understand. I don't know.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People think like that, man. People who are. The word I use is like sidekick syndrome. Like when people are kind of a part of the production, but they're not integral, they start thinking that the front man doesn't matter or something and that the brains of the operation are actually the people on the periphery. And so they start to believe that they can just shift things around and the audience won't care. Not realizing that I was actually the one who created the show and that the lore of the show is connected to my rise outside of their jurisdiction, if that makes sense. The people who watch all gas no breaks watched quarter confessions and read the book. And so”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think all betrayal and anything like that is motivated by self interest, whether that be economic success, social stability, whatever it is. They figured that because I was being such a burden in asking for the profit that they could just release me and find someone equally talented and not split them in so they could make more money.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so too, but they didn't see it that way because they figured we made the initial investment, we discovered him as how they looked at it. So it wasn't Reed, but it was the other partner who wasn't Reed who said, we have tons of verbatim. He said this. I have tons of connections in the comedy world. We can replace Andrew overnight. I'm not sure why he made that miscalculation. I wish he would have thought about it twice. I wish he didn't have to end like that. But it did.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fired us immediately. Me and my two childhood friends who I hired to work on the show with me were all out of a job. As we were filming for the now HBO project, we got our fire notices.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So they said, okay. And so to begin filming in late October, you know, during the campaign trail, maybe mid October, up until November and then in the following months to see what would happen. This meant that I couldn't film anything for all gas no breaks, the digital show because I had to dedicate 100% of my time to making this perfect movie. Still, one of the partners at doing things media was demanding that I not only produce the movie, but also more content for the show. And I told them there's only so many hours in a day, man, that's going to be impossible. And I said, if you want it to be possible, I can make it work, but I want to have half of the monetization from the show. 50% profit split, which I thought is fair. If you want me to do double work when I was getting almost nothing before, split me in on the profits.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So Jonah Hill says A24 films wants to do a movie instead of a show. And they're going to let you keep the digital brand running. So this meant that I could keep doing my Instagram stuff with doing things media slash allgas no breaks while making an A24 movie with Jonah Hill and Tim and Eric. So it was just like I was excited. It sounded perfect. So they said, okay, what do you want to make a movie about? And I told them, okay, here's what's going to happen in 2020. If Trump wins, there's going to be riots across the country. Major cities are going to burn down if Trump loses, the militias and his loyal supporters are going to try to have a coup in DC. That's what I said. And I said, so I'm going to follow the lead up to whoever wins the election and I'm going to document what happens after.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And basically, the TV networks were like, why would we buy a show if the digital brand's going to be running at the same time? Because they didn't want to stop doing all gas no breaks to make a TV show. They wanted all gas no breaks to continue as a web show, while all gas no breaks as a future TV show at Showtime or Hulu or somewhere like that was also concurrently running, which is impossible for one man to do. And so every TV network said, okay, we're not doing that. We want an exclusive rights contract with this guy. Next, oh, yeah, this is”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Enjoying hell. And yeah, we just pitched it around every single TV network rejected it. I don't know why. And they mainly did that because I was in this weird situation where I had signed a contract with doing things media that I didn't realize was called a 360 deal. That's what they use in like the rap world basically means that I can't do anything outside of them without them getting 100% of the money. So if I was to go work at Sabaro or Quiznos while I was working for all gas no breaks, they would get my 500 bucks a week from the sandwich spot. I was unable to earn any outside income. I didn't read the fine print because I was 21 and like I told you 45k a year RV sounds sick.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, right as the country's reopening, I get a DM from Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric. And I'm covering something called the UFO Mega Conference in Laughlin, Nevada, which is a beautiful river town. And he DMs me and says, let's make a show. And I'm like, oh shit, is this real? You know, I grew up such a big fan of Nathan for you and Eric Andre show. And those are produced by their company, absolutely. So I was like, hell yeah, let's do it. Three days later, I get a call that says, Jonah Hill wants to hop on board. And I can't believe this. I'm still in the RV and I'm in Laughlin, Nevada. So I'm like, Jonah Hill, super bad. Are you shitting me right now? So I was excited. And Moneyball. Jonah Hill's a great actor.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Interviewing someone at a riot like you would me interviewing a furry or a drunk dude in Alabama. It doesn't work the same. So it was a lot harder to monetize, not just because of YouTube censorship, but also just because of the sensitive nature of the content. So Reed was looking out for himself as a businessman. There was a different partner, I'm not going to say his name that was more connected in Hollywood. I think he's responsible for the collapse of the show.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I want to clear up a few things read the CEO of doing things. I actually think he's a good guy. I think that he was just trying to run a business. He saw what was working for his brand, which is very college-centric, very festival-centric. And he was right to think that journalism and especially coverage of sensitive topics like COVID or police brutality would definitely not work on merch. You're not going to sell a picture of me.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The lizard furries And there was a big division in the community where they think scale is or kind of douchebags, you know, because the scaly suits are more expensive. They're about seven grand, whereas a first suit is $3,600. And they're also taller. So, when the scalies pull up to the fur fest, it's like, ah, fuck the reptiles.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The only downside of fame really is that you can't really be anonymous again. And you have to seek out more strange environments to be anonymous in. Like right now, I live in the desert, basically, and I want to live in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert. Not because I'm scared of people, but because I just want to be curious me again. People don't know, and I can ask questions to people that I'm interested in without them going. I remember, I seen you here, or I seen you there. That's the main thing. That's what I loved about hitchhiking.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the country was basically closed It wasn't like there was a street to walk down where people were like, There's that guy. So getting famous during COVID made it so when the country reopened, it was as if my life really changed because I was like, oh, all these fans I made during COVID are like seeing me out of the bar. This is cool. At first, famous the best thing ever because you can go anywhere in the country, and these spaces that you normally feel a bit insecure in, like a local dive bar, a cool restaurant, a coffee shop, where you just be another guy. All of a sudden, they're like, oh my God, I'm a big fan. They give you free stuff. You get this sense of acceptance that you never would have gotten before. But there's also.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't even know if that's a symbol. I didn't make journalism to become famous I made it to give people a platform to share their stories. It just so happens that people liked it enough where I became sort of famous. But, you know, if I could go back and not be the on-camera guy and just platform the stories, I would. But the reality is people need a face to attach to stuff they like. And so that's just how it is. But yeah, I would say right around Minneapolis protest, Portland protest, Proud Boys rally time when I was really in there is when I started to be acclaimed as more than just like a ambush meme, Lord.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think he's done the best job, though. If someone in that Obviously Democrat connected. Corporate media economy. He seems to be the freest talker.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To do your part in social distance American, not a wave your Trump flag in the back of your pickup truck, American, just a guy who genuinely stands up for what's right.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My favorite John Stewart moment that illustrates that perfectly is whenever he went on the Colbert show. And he was just joking around with Stephen Colbert, who I think is a full-blown propagandist, about the Wuhan Lab League theory. He was just goofing around. He was like, it's called the Coronavirus Lab, and they had it before. And now what do we have? And it was like, you could see in Stephen Colbert that he was like gunned to his head type shit where he's like, John, John, stop joking about that. And that made me realize, oh, everything that John Stewart did, especially for the 9 11 first responders, he's a true American, and not in the sense of like a. Want you to believe is an American?”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thing about Jon Stewart is like, I generally like to say that anybody who works for corporate media, whether it be Comedy Central or anything owned by Tyrner, Fox, MSNBC, they can't say what they want. Because in order to climb up in those organizations, you have to appease the narrative of the company that you're working for to rise in the ranks. John Stewart, I feel like has so much clout in the media world that I'm pretty sure he can say whatever he wants. Like I actually don't think that Jon Stewart is controlled by anybody. I really don't. I think that he can go on his show and talk about whatever.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And then after that, I posted the video and it was very well received. And that was the pivotal point where I realized that everything was going to change.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“White Castle. I also saw all these dudes rip this ATM out of a bank and hit it with sledgehammers. They were a group of friends hitting it with sledgehammers, right? They're hitting it with sledgehammers. Boom. All of a sudden, money starts sprang out of the ATM. Like I've never seen some shit like this, like pouring out of it. And then these group of friends who were just united and getting it open start fighting each other for the money as it's flying out of it. And so it was like a... Joker from the Batman's army type vibes, but I got shot in the ass by the National Guard, it was no good.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I noticed that aside from a group called Unicorn Riot, there was no one else actually interviewing the protesters. The local news was on the bridge fifteen, not fifteen, but five blocks away. You know, filming just the scene itself, just the fire. But I saw some crazy things off camera too. I saw, so there was kind of two groups there. There was like the anarchists, more mobilized protesters. And then there was just mostly African-American community members who were just pissed, who had nothing to do with the organized resistance. And they were all kind of joining forces to riot. And there was this anarchist kid who ran up to White Castle with like a Molotov cocktail. And he's about to throw it at White Castle and this black deer ran up to him and grabbed his arm and he's like, nah, we fuck with White Castle.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She has the Sony A7. She gives me a microphone, and she's like, go talk to that guy. And that was a guy with a Molotov cocktail in his hand who had just burned Kmart down. And so I go, what should I ask him? She goes, what's on your mind? So I walk up to him and I'm like, what's on your mind? He said something like, everything that was happening here was supposed to happen. This is how we feel. Is it right? No. Is this going to benefit the community? No, but this is how we feel.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The one in the airport. And on the speaker, they say, if you're arriving here right now, you are not permitted to go anywhere outside of the airport. National Guardsmen will escort you to your Uber or to your car. They're going to take a picture of your ID. They're going to figure out where you're going. You are not permitted to go outside tonight. And so Lacey picks me up. There's two people in the back, two of her homegirls wearing like shisty masks. I'm like, what are we doing? Where are we going? And she goes, we're going to go film the riot. We're going to Lake Street. And so we drive down there. Kmart is burning. Target is burning. Everything is on fire.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's called the sausage castle. So I'm watching Minneapolis unfold On Lake Street, where it was burning. And I got to the Orlando Airport and I booked a flight. I booked it on my own card. I didn't consult my boss or anything. And I was sitting in my seat on the flight. And he straight up told me, he's like, if you fuck this up and this destroys the brand Getting a different host. This, if you mess this up and you turn our show away from a party show about drinking and drugs and all that stuff and you make this a social justice show, You're But I was like, I just turned my phone off. I got to the Minneapolis airport on the second night of the riots. When I got to the airport, there was National Guardsmen in the airport, and there was a, it was like a Call of Duty mission.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I had a friend named Lacey, who I went to college with, and she told me she was like, bro, this is your chance for you to do something serious. You can actually create a meaningful piece of reporting like you always wanted to before quarter confessions, and you can turn all gas gnome breaks into a new source. So I called Reed, who is the CEO of the company that owned all gasnobrakes. And I was like, look, man, I want to go to Minneapolis. I was in Orlando at the time. I was actually at the sausage castle. And he said.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so that's where you really run into problems when you have two polarized groups who both think that their cause is for the common good. Mutual understanding is impossible at that juncture. And so after three months of Almost everybody being locked down. George Floyd And I remember I saw the third precinct burning on my phone in Minneapolis, and everyone says. Injury, you have to go cover this. I'm somebody, like I said, police violence has been close to my heart since I was a kid. And my first thought is I can't do that. I'm a comedic reporter. I can't go to Minneapolis and cover this. It'll be the end of my career.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know if you remember, but I was actually scared when the pandemic started. I thought that this is something that might kill us all based upon what I was consuming. And so I'd ask people, what do you think about this lockdown? And I've had people say, you know, I'm immune compromised. If I get exposed to COVID, I have a 95% fatality rate. But guess what? I'd rather be free and dead than alive living in fear. And I was like, wow. So it was just stuff along those lines. You had some San Diego surfers there complaining about the beaches being shut down when such awesome waves were coming.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You had this polarization that led to more division. And that's when the anti-vax protests started. And I went to Sacramento and the passion was unreal. This is about two months after the COVID lockdowns began. And that was my first political video. Was it the Sacramento, the California State Capitol in Sacramento documenting the, they called it the freedom rally, but that's typically like anti-vax stuff. And it was real intensity. And that video was my most successful to date at that time. And so I was like, okay, am I a political reporter now? Am I covering politics? Like, what's going on?”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was the craziest thing about that period of time when COVID hit, I'm sure you remember, everything turned political. Overnight. In Seattle, if you went to a house party, you can get canceled. Because people were like, oh, you're a super spreader. So if you wanted to socialize, even with a group of four or more, you had to do so with your phone's damn near turned off. And a lot of people were doing hyper social policing at that time. Beyond that, in the south and in more conservative places, they were doing the opposite. They were trying to prove that they could hang out five hundred deep with no mask to make a statement against the establishment.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing's happening anymore. There's no more parties or Talladega races or Burning Man's to go to. So I went back to Seattle in the RV and I just spent four months just depressed living in the RV trying to figure out what would happen.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was lots, it was really fun making it, and then we started all gas snowbreaks in September of 2019. Six months later, the country shuts down and everything just hits the fan. I was actually here in Austin when it shut down. I was on 6th Street. I remember I don't just hang out on 6th Street all the time, but I was just here. I do like Sixth I like East Austin better, but I like 6th Street 2. So, anyways, the NBA shuts down, everything's shutting down. So I went down to the Dirty Streets and I asked this doorman. I was like, are you guys ever going to shut down? He was like, fuck no, bro. The dirty six never closes. And I was like, all right, we'll see about that. Next day, plywood. And then I was like, all right, I thought my career was over when COVID hit. I was like, what are we going to do?”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, the rooster. There's a place in Ibor City in Tampa where roosters walk around all the time, and we had a rooster park there right by the main drag for, did I say we had a rooster parked? We had the RV parked in Yibor City for a long time and the rooster laid eggs in the undercarriage. Back to the August No Break”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Swearing's okay sometimes when I got last time I was on the Chinatown bus there was like a rooster walking down the aisle”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People are just so friendly down there, and it's warm year round, and people are. Non judgmental is just great. The South gets hated on a lot, especially in the coastal states, Mississippi and Alabama are kind of like the butts of a lot of jokes and stuff, but those are great states.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They get satirized a lot, but I got love for the clowns. And also, so when all gas snow breaks transitioned away from rich elite drug parties and into the south, that's when the fun really started to happen. Living in your RV in Alabama and Florida and stuff is the best.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the hatchet man is the most common one, so it's a psychopathic records logo. It's a cartoon of a clown wheeling a hatchet. It's actually a pretty sick logo.”
2024-04-13 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source