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Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Andrew Callaghan

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Andrew Callaghan (Channel 5, All Gas No Brakes) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks.  00:00 Intro 1:13 Origins of All Gas No Breaks 3:40 Approach for Interviews 6:00 Avoiding Exploitation  10:20 Stories he prefers covering 16:17 Reaction to Hunter Biden Interview 18:00 Scaling up Channel 5 21:49 Sponsor: BetterHelp 23:38 Sponsor: Huel 25:49 HPPD 29:05 Navigating Fame 33:55 Flat Affect 35:47 Mixing work & friends 41:25 Workaholic 47:57 Sued by Trump 48:57 Cortisol Burnout 52:55 Sponsor: Mando 55:07 Sponsor: Superpower 57:42 Substance Abuse 59:53 Cancellation 1:04:58 Dear Kelly 1:10:12 Building relationships on the road 1:15:50 Empathy 1:17:00 Hunter Biden 1:18:30 Work vs. Relationships 1:19:55 Future plans   1:23:00 Worried about Nothing ---------------------------------------------------------- ​Follow  @Channel5YouTube  and  @allgasnobrakesshow   Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected])  Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. Visit https://www.Huel.com and use promo code NEAL to get 15% off for new customers. Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Mando and get 20% off + free shipping with promo code [NEAL] at https://www.shopmando.com! #mandopod  Visit https://www.SuperPower.com for a special $199 price. Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm as excited about this episode as I've been a long time. This guy I admire a lot. He's got a comedy team with Hunter Biden. You don't tip it in and out. I do. What? You tipping it in and out? Yeah, they have to wear those hats. You know what that feels like? That's sweeping the internet right now. No, he's got a, it's got a YouTube channel. Channel 5. Channel 5 live worldwide, Hollywood and And we don't fuck what cost us.

0:01.4

10.05, he has another YouTube channel called All Gas, No Breaks. Everybody feel like that. Which apparently bought back from who knows who. Doing things media. Anything else you got that's popping? No, I think that pretty much covers it. So it's Andrew Callahan, it's my point.

0:37.9

Thanks for having me. Of course, bro. So as somebody is way older than you, I'm very excited

0:44.7

about what you do because it's like homemade. And I would like to talk to you about the, obviously,

0:54.0

the huge downside of everything being homemade.

0:56.2

Yeah.

0:56.7

The huge toll, which is a lot of your blocks, but also, like, what was your plan?

1:01.7

Because now you have 3 million followers on Channel 5 and or subs, whatever you want to call it.

1:07.4

Like, what did you think was going to happen?

1:10.3

Well, at the very beginning, I went to school for journalism, and I wanted to be a traditional, like, newspaper reporter or just work for maybe, like, vice or somewhere cool. By the time I graduated college, there was no media jobs left. Like, probably out of my class of 100 people in journalism school, 10 people had jobs. And those jobs were like

1:28.2

45K a year working at TV stations? And were they like hooked up? No, it was like 45k a year.

1:34.7

I'm saying were the kids hooked up? How'd they get those jobs? Just through like random like job

1:38.6

feeder programs. Oh, okay. But they were in like shithole second rate cities because the company was

1:42.7

called gray media that everyone was getting jobs with. And they exclusively had stations in the worst cities imaginable like Elk City, Oklahoma, Panama City Beach, Florida, Lansing, Michigan. It was like everywhere on the map that has less than 100,000 people, gray media controls the media market. So I wanted to just do my own thing and not have to do that. Started hitchhiking around the country and then convinced a company to buy me in an RV and then got new... So hitchhiking, you have a camera. Yeah. Do you have a crew? Yeah, it's like me and one other dude. The first concept for all gas, no brakes was a hitchhiking road show where it would be like taxi cab confessions except the person

2:18.8

being interviewed as the guy who picks us up off the side of the road yeah but then we realized

2:23.1

that was just like equipment wise so hard to do because it's like we're gonna go pro to the the mirror

2:28.6

and shit you will drive us that's cool okay can we take 15 minutes and rig your car? It's a nightmare. That's exactly

2:34.9

what it was. And we didn't know how to rig anything. So we're like trying to use a suction We don't know how to do it. Can you help us rig your car for our content? So we tried to put like these suction mounts on the hood of the car and use like a road lab mic to put in the guy's pocket and be like,

2:30.9

oh, so where are you from?

2:32.0

And he was like, I don't like this anymore.

2:33.3

I want to drop you guys off.

2:34.6

So an RV was like the upgraded version of the hitchhike. Mike to put in the guy's pocket and be like, go, so where are you from? And he's like, I don't like this anymore. I want to drop you guys off.

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