Name: Andrew Callaghan | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #414
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Andrew Callaghan | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #414

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i want to let you
know that we have some new tour dates to announce january 11th and 12th in
grand junction colorado
we've added a new show there january 13th pueblo pueblo colorado january 14th
denver we have two
shows there january 15th down in fort collin colorado we're excited to be at
the fort
and march 1st 3rd and 4th in boston massachusetts and march 2nd in medford massachusetts
those are all
available at theovon.com slash t-o-u-r and that will be the return of the rat
tour today's guest um is a
connector he's a man that that that bridges space between two things he's a
bridge he's a you know
he might be a drawbridge at times i don't know we're going to learn just how he
connects people
um and we're going to talk about just his journey in journalism um you may know
him from all gas no
breaks uh from french quarter confessions um or from his own channel five today's
guest is andrew callahan
that has been on some deodorant today i haven't yeah
i just got back into putting deodorant on yeah i actually didn't wear it for
like a year but then
like just the past couple months i don't know if my diet changed but like the
bo is back
really so i actually just gave myself a hand soap like uh armpit bath and you're
in the podcast
bathroom oh wow i like that i didn't i didn't know how close we're going to be
sitting so i was like
damn i don't want you to be holding your tongue about my armpit odor the whole
time yeah you know
because that might send the interview in a different direction subconsciously
yeah that's a good point man i i hadn't thought about that i think uh there are
people you get
around them and when they got that that odor sometimes it repels you sometimes
i notice it
it's almost like a well it feels a little bit like uh not welcoming but there's
a human
yeah space in there that's kind of okay like you're fallible like you smell
like i do
yeah yeah yeah like okay i'm gonna ride this guy you know i'll give this guy a
chance yeah smells
like yeah yeah yeah we a couple couple stench bunnies i'll rock with this homie
right here dog
um but i just you know i took a couple years off too and just the other day i
put it on
yeah and i was like you know i think there's something it was a casual and it
was like mint
and something else it was one of those more like uh one somebody made in the
woods or made at their
house yeah and i was like i can i like this a little organic style yeah not
like a typical axe
chocolate or like old spice swagger or any of those like super heavy chemical
ones yeah that's the
one that started getting scary yeah i used to collect all that all the axe
flavors you did when i was a
kid dude they had a wife you collected i think i was a victim of the axe
marketing like they had the
yeah axe chocolate commercial was like he walks out of the house and all the
ladies are just like
all over him and i was like that's gonna be me dude i was in seventh grade i
was like just gotta keep
stacking up axe deodorant flavors and see which one works for me yeah boy you
get them axes boy you get
as much fucking deodorant as you can yeah i remember something like that dude
being young and this they
had this fella in our uh class named michael and people used to beat him up a
lot and his dad could fix
computers or whatever and where i was from if somebody could fix computers it
was almost like
they worked for satan you know like yeah people didn't want that you know can
you fix a truck
boy you know what i'm saying like get out of here with your damn wires you know
and uh and he i think
felt like deodorant would give him power and i remember he would put it on his
whole body
really up and down his limbs and everything yeah and it really didn't help him
much it made him you
know it made him enjoyable to be around kind of but i don't think it helped him
in like the emotional
sense that he was looking for for like a parent you know yeah because he would
put like and he would
put that old spice the splash stuff on just all over his entire body yeah like
on the front of his
hands yeah yeah like a face too i'm not sure how much he did on that young skin
it would probably
really burn him i'm sure he smelled great oh dude he was but i think what he
was looking for he's like
if i get enough maybe this positive smell maybe my father will love me so you
said that like a
computer programmer is like the least honorable profession where you grew up in
louisiana
at the time it was what do you think at that time was like the most respectable
line of work
probably tire care yeah fixing them patching them up yeah yeah you could roll
in there and roll out
in about 12 13 minutes you know yeah is this before discount tire kind of like
took the mom and pop tire
spots out of business yeah back in the good old days yeah back when you rolled
in there and a guy
could he would a guy would he wouldn't even have to he would smell around the
tire and know what was up
i love tire shops oh dude they were so good that one of the guys tried to make
love to my mother for
a while and i think that also made me think oh these guys are heroes yeah why
because it was somebody
that cared about my mom i guess you know it was like oh man these guys they
could change the tire on
your life you know yeah they're heroic for sure by being like you know someone
that loves you but um
um anyway man andrew callan thanks for being here bro uh thanks man so some of
my audience might not
know you right you are certainly like you are a wizard in your own and in a
very huge world of journalism
but in your own world like take me through a little bit of where you started
out so andrew's kind of
like this i don't i'm labeled like this hunter s thompson kind of like this you
know this like uh
you're a journalist that's safe statement yeah you told me one time when i met
you you said i follow
the vibe or the heat i follow where the energy's at yeah definitely yeah and so
you're like a seeker
kind of yeah um where do you where do you kind of start out i i first saw you
on french quarter
confessions because i'm from louisiana that was my first video project i was a
doorman on bourbon
street in the quarter and i would get off work and like interview drunk people
for late night
confessionals like when they were out partying on bourbon and royal and any
surrounding streets
sometimes i'm frenchman sometimes you got a little crazy but i mean i started
uh i wrote for my high
school newspaper and then like i had this cool ass high school teacher i didn't
really like school too
much but i had a journalism class and this teacher calvin would let me like
leave school for the whole
day and i would come back at the end of the day like before the bell rang at
like 3 25 and he said if
you had a story of a cool person that you talked to or someone interesting out
there i'd give you school
credit so i was able to just roam seattle like free roam throughout the day and
i would come back with
like stories about juggalos that i would meet downtown yeah you know like how
to buy some
shit off the silk road i would go to the occupy movement tent city and
interview people there and
just come back and just like write a write a little article or write up and i
got school credit and then
he helped me that kind of experience like propelled me to go to college in louisiana
on a full scholarship
to loyola oh wow so they gave you that's where you went down at loyola yeah
yeah you know about
the wolf pack dude i went to loyola for one semester no you didn't yeah dude
you live in beaver hall in
the dorms uh no i tried to do cocaine with a girl one time and i couldn't get
an erection and i and i
i've always felt horrible about that that one experience is the reason you
dropped out of college
uh it made me i think leave i was like because it was a small campus i didn't
want to see her oh
that's a small campus you know you see every student every day at loyola yes
yeah yeah there's no like
there's no place to hide over there yeah and if you go to the boot or the palms
or like snake and
jake's or one of those like college bars you really see the same people every
day yeah and somebody
usually i feel like there's a sex crime there every night like it almost should
be like sex crime sunday
you know it should be like a thing for sure yeah like i gave them a clue they
kind of like give you
like a little check off sheet yeah those particular bars like on the corner of
like broadway and zimple
are a fucking nightmare yeah people are peeing and drinking at the same time
like it's peeing and
fighting and making out and grinding which i didn't really know continued into
adulthood i thought
grinding was like a middle school sort of like uh you know like it's like but
at the boot like right
now there's someone at the boot grinding with a stranger with their eyes closed
just like the
song candy shop is playing and they're just like yeah straight up vibing it out
making out why is that
why is there something about and that's i think i love that is that dirty louisiana
thing where it's
like let's just get together and just let our oysters touch you know there's
something about that
i mean i didn't know because i did some grinding my freshman year at loyola you
know because everyone
else is grinding and i didn't know at that time but that would be the last time
i'd ever grind yeah you
know what i mean i wouldn't have believed you if you told me at that time yeah
but then i was in the boot
and i was like this is weird and it never happened again i wonder if it'd be
like a good grinding
championship that would see something that would be something i could see going
to interview i think
jamaica would win have you seen the dagger dancing they're like jumping up and
down each other like
like dramatic air humping like you have to look it up i'll send you some videos
it sounds like some of
the maasai warrior stuff is it like that like when those got like they do a lot
of that it's just like
that oh wow that's interesting yeah um okay so you you came through french
quarter confessions
that's where a lot of people i think that's where i first heard about you from
being from louisiana
yeah and um did you miss that do you miss that louisiana energy kind of so much
man i think about
it all the time like like when i dream it's like they all take place in the
streets of like new
orleans like it's like my mental map you know what i'm talking about it's a
special place
once once you connect to it and like never leaves you yeah you know but it's
also hard to find work
out there like it's hard to build a career in media out there yeah i think it's
really really
hard yeah like there's like the news channels and then there's like crime yeah
or you play for the
saints i feel like there's not a lot of yeah avenues to to build a name for
yourself for sure i mean the
one time i tried to get involved in like local uh like local tv stations in louisiana
i decided i had
to sign an nda and they're like we're not going to tell you what your
assignment is but just sign
this and we're going to get you on tv and i'm like all right cool so i sign it
and they send me in like
a sprinter van to covington louisiana and they're like you see this woman her
house just burnt down
she doesn't know this yet but her two dogs are dead inside the house you got to
go walk in that
house with her and write about it i was like this is the worst job ever it was
like maybe a gender
reveal but not like that yeah it was the saddest thing i've ever seen yeah and
so i was like i don't
want to do this but after quarter confessions like i would uh hitchhike around
the u.s a lot like by
myself i'm like oh you did so you guys so after that you then you made it into
hitchhiking yeah pre