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The Colin and Samir Show

Why Andrew Callaghan is the last honest man in News.

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Thomas Callaghan is an American journalist known for his former work on the YouTube series All Gas No Brakes and his current show Channel 5. On March 9, 2021, he announced his departure from All Gas No Brakes, along with his crew consisting of Nic Mosher and Evan Gilbert-Katz. In April 2021, Callaghan launched Channel 5 via Patreon and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Colin.

0:00.9

And I'm Samir.

0:01.7

We're creators who've been working together for the last 10 years,

0:04.0

and every Monday we break down the business of creators.

0:06.9

Today's episode is about Andrew Callahan.

0:09.4

He's a creator who built the channel All Gas No Breaks all the way up to 1.7 million subscribers.

0:15.2

And then he lost it all.

0:17.0

So today on the show, we're going to tell you the story of how he built back from scratch

0:20.3

and how he's reinventing the news on YouTube.

0:27.4

So Andrew Callahan is like a one-person news organization. He has a small team. He has two friends helping him. But all we see on his channel is basically him interviewing all types of people at some

0:38.4

of America's craziest events.

0:40.5

He's dressed in like this oversized suit, which gives him this funny anchorman kind of feel.

0:46.9

And one of the most interesting things about Andrews, he barely speaks in his videos.

0:52.0

And I think that's some of the most interesting parts of watching Channel 5.

0:56.0

We're used to being told the news. You can hear the voices in your head of the anchors on CNN

1:01.6

on Fox because they're speaking all day 24 hours long. Like that's how we are used to consuming the

1:08.2

news. He flips it on its head and just holds the mic and says,

1:12.4

What's on your mind? What's on your mind tonight? Bro, what's on your mind? What's on your mind right now?

1:16.4

Andrew's biggest X factor is silence. It's the best storytelling tool that he has that we don't see

1:22.6

in news. I don't know why they say crazy shit. I don't say anything. I just stand there with the microphone.

1:28.5

I look at the camera and they keep going and going.

1:31.1

When was the first time you came across one of his videos?

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