WALD: What are three places on the internet where you spend an embarrassing amount of time?ĬALLAGHAN: I watch vlogs about a lot of rap drama. The Philly MC domain name was the first one I bought. I started rapping when I was in fourth grade, and my rap name was Philly MC. JACKSON WALD: Do you remember your first screen name?ĪNDREW CALLAGHAN: So, it was actually my grandma who taught me how to buy domain names.

Below, Callaghan sat down with us to divulge his online habits. To mark this new venture, Callaghan sat down for the inaugural installment of Search History, our new questionnaire about the rabbit holes, back alleys, and strange corners of the web in which our favorite internet figures operate. Today, Callaghan-now based in L.A-has full creative autonomy over the stories he shares with Channel 5‘s more than 1.3 million subscribers, and recently announced that he’s in the process of making a movie on the 2020 election with AbsoLutely.

Callaghan, and his collaborators and friends Nic Mosher and Evan Gilbert-Katz went independent, creating their own Patreon show: Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan. But all things must come to an end: following the pandemic’s onset and the murder of George Floyd, Callaghan felt it impossible to continue his loopy, cockeyed coverage, and split with his media partners to cover more complex social and political issues. For the last few years, the trio roamed the country in an RV, interviewing Americans of all stripes-from Furries to rowdy spring breakers and QAnon diehards. Callaghan’s deadpan sense of humor and frank interviewing style made waves online, and it wasn’t long before the 24-year-old Seattle native inked a media deal and took his show on the road under a new name- All Gas No Brakes. The fruit of these nocturnal labors was Quarter Confessions, a DIY video series made by Callaghan and his college friend Michael Moises.

Andrew Callaghan’s journey began on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where the YouTube sensation worked as a doorman by day, while interviewing drunk tourists by night.

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