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The Qanon Shaman and the Downside of Psychedelics
Can psychedelics make us more suggestible, delusional, and inflate our egos? The story of the Jake Angeli, the Qanon Shaman, as a cautionary tale.
Andrew Callaghan is not the Qanon Shaman but he is where this story starts. Callaghan is the guy behind the Youtube channel, All Gas, No Breaks and Channel 5 News.
Callaghan travels the country in an old RV, sleeping in Wal Mart parking lots, and does his interviews dressed like an ’80s small-town news anchor, shoulder pads and all.
In an interview with Vice, he bills himself not simply as “A young creative with his finger on the pulse, 3.4 GPA, multimedia journalist, interested in creating anthropological road-based study of American…oddity.” That’s about as good a description I can give, besides his frizzy hair, stoner affect, and effortless cool.
He’s talking to the Qanon Shaman, Jake Angeli (AKA Jacob Chansley), in a rare phone interview from prison.
Angeli exploded into the spotlight of American pop culture on January 6th, 2021, where he took part in the Capitol Riots, wearing the iconic outfit that’s now been parodied by SNL, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and is sure to be the best-selling Halloween Costume…
