Andrew Thomas Callaghan was born on April 23,1997 and is an American journalist and YouTube personality.
15 Facts About Andrew Callaghan
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Andrew Callaghan is the creator and star of the YouTube series Channel 5 and formerly All Gas No Brakes.
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Andrew Thomas Callaghan was born in Philadelphia on April 23,1997, and grew up in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
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Andrew Callaghan has said that he "hated every class from the first day of kindergarten to [his] last day of college" except for a journalism class he took in his junior year of high school.
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Andrew Callaghan later relocated to New Orleans, where he studied journalism on a full scholarship at Loyola University and worked as a doorman on Bourbon Street to support himself.
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Andrew Callaghan was a contributing writer for The Maroon, Loyola's university newspaper.
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Andrew Callaghan quit his job and began interviewing people on the streets of the city about their darkest secrets while they were intoxicated, which he compiled into a YouTube and Instagram series called Quarter Confessions, named after its location in the French Quarter.
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In 2019, Andrew Callaghan published All Gas, No Brakes: A Hitchhiker's Diary, a memoir-zine recounting stories from a 70-day hitchhiking trip across America that he undertook two years prior at the age of 19.
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Quarter Confessions led to a partnership between Andrew Callaghan and Doing Things Media, who agreed to fund All Gas No Brakes.
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In early 2020, Andrew Callaghan started an All Gas No Brakes podcast in response to travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In March 2021, Andrew Callaghan announced that he and his team were no longer involved with production of All Gas No Brakes nor the television adaptation that was in development.
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On March 23,2021, details of Andrew Callaghan's contract emerged in The New York Times.
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Andrew Callaghan was required to produce a set amount of content, but was otherwise granted creative freedom.
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Andrew Callaghan has said that he excessively used psilocybin around the age of 13, and suffers from hallucinogen persisting perception disorder as a result.
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Andrew Callaghan will utilize every option he has in order to clear his name and protect his reputation.