Andrew Callaghan: Andrew’s Theory of Radicalization | Doomscroll

You're not going to believe what Andrew Callahan said. Andrew Callahan spills the beans. I see no problem with that at all. Okay, man.

I just had to tell somebody. You're the first person I've told that at the Million Magga March, which is like the proto January 6 gathering and dudes are trying to go live on Facebook and instantly getting their channels taken down. So that's like their Tianaan Square moment, you know what I mean? Where they're like, we're like, we must be telling the truth because they are removing our [ __ ] from the internet.

all these late night TV shows basically being like anti-Trump programming that's reaching the living rooms of a lot of Trump supporters. So imagine your Facebook's taken away. You turn on the TV and it's Jimmy Kimmel being like and the orange [ __ ] said this today. You're like everything is [ __ ] against him.

Like this is crazy. And that's the thing is like some liberals are so annoying that you become a conservative just by sheer, you know, just by that cuz you're like God I don't want to be whatever that guy is, bro. Whatever they are, I'm the opposite. Yeah.

No, but like real [ __ ] And I've never said this on a podcast. Well, one week after getting cancelled. Welcome to Doomscroll. I'm your host Joshua Citerella.

My guest is Andrew Callahan, a filmmaker, a documentarian, and the host of Channel 5. You mentioned at the beginning of the film that you had a why that you wanted to answer from your previous work, This Place Rules. Yeah. Tell me about this why that I mean the why is kind of like the pipeline between like how does a regular otherwise normal person fall like really deep down the in particular conservative Qnanon rabbit hole to the point where it like takes full control of their life and alienates them from their family.

And I think I look for easy solutions with the HBO thing like oh they're consuming this like this media source or they're buying t-shirts from Enrique Tario and they're like you know wrapped up in this economy and you know information economy too. Yeah, but I think that uh what I learned through Kelly is that a lot of times like a traum like a traumatic family situation ...