Asmongold Reacts to "Why he's the only honest man left in News."

i need your breaking news this time vladimir putin oh my god the title of the video is why he's the only honest man left in news i'm excited to see this because uh i i agree in general with what i believe the premise of this video is going to be here we go that's stressful news war in ukraine every time the syrian is here i just tell her that it's a fireworks because she's like five years old this is andrew callahan and at 25 years old he's seen more than most people have in their lifetime i'm always very impressed with where he's willing to go isn't this a white lives matter rally he also at one point lost all 1.7 million of his subscribers isn't that crazy about that i don't give a [ __ ] i've been talking about it today we're going to tell you the story of how he got him back and how he's reinventing news on youtube [Music] so andrew callahan is like a one person news organization he has a small team yeah there's only a few people that do this basically like for anybody who doesn't know um andrew had a channel before channel five called all gas no brakes and because he was in some weird uh like [ __ ] like channel deal with some big company they basically took control of the channel away from him so he had to completely use an entirely new channel and like it was a big drama thing like a year and a half ago it was a contra yeah it was a contract scam he got machinima yeah pretty much new friends helping him but all we see on his channel is basically him interviewing all types of people talking to america's craziest events he's got a drink out of his shoe yeah he's dressed in like this oversized suit which gives him this like funny anchorman kind of feel like he's a little bit too big one of the most interesting things about andrews he barely speaks in his videos and i think that's something i think that's the best part about it because he lets the people tell the story themselves because a lot of times what happens in like media is that they have like the news anchors that are talking about something and then they play a 10 second clip and that's the narrative the most interesting parts of watching channel 5. we're used to being told the news you can hear the voices in your head of the anchors on cnn on fox because they're speaking all day 24 hours long like that's how we are used to consuming the news yeah he flips it on its head and just holds the mic and says what's on your mind what's on your mind what's on your mind tonight bro what's on your mind what's on your mind right now andrew's biggest x factor is silence it's the best storytelling tool that he has that we don't see in news i don't know why they say crazy [ __ ] i don't say anything i just stand there with the microphone i'll be like i look at the camera and they keep going and going that was the guy that um man that was from the flat earth convention video and he was the guy that said that he wanted to unlearn everything that he learned about conspiracy theories and go back to watching britney spears concerts yeah it's like well that that's what makes sense right and like to an extent like you have to understand this that uh why i mean it's yeah globe's hearts i know it's just so [ __ ] stupid don't we all he had a good point i mean what i think it is is that like it you can create a narrative just by interviewing people and i think that you have people like mark dice that does this right where like he does a petition for like hey uh here's a petition to um uh make it to where like cats can vote and like he'll finally he'll interview people all day and he'll find like three people that are just absolutely [ __ ] crazy or they just want to play along with it for whatever reason or they're just really stupid and they just [ __ ] talk about how they want to let cats vote and they sign their name there sure and like that does kind of create a narrative but i think also like the the channel 5 videos are entertaining at the same time and i think that's a big factor for it too but of course you can create a narrative without adding in your own personal uh opinions all you have to do is emphasize certain things this time you came across one of his videos i don't particularly remember the first video i watched i do remember when he lost all of his subscribers and he lost his channel that's nuts oh wow that's awful like this can't believe that happened still his channel and now it's all gone it was fun to you bro what are you talking about man they took your show trees like [ __ ] dude you created it from ground floor boom we're gonna get to that just not right now i remember coming across this content just because they're titled in this way of these like wild environments that you want yeah to learn about like nascar events and the thumbnails are always like some crazy looking person and then curates this experience of being on the ground at these events in a way that's funny there's comedy marketing majors but then there's also this observational feeling where he he shows you both sides of it definitely different than well i think he 100 does and i think really the power and the value of the channel 5 videos is that it humanizes people in a way that the mainstream media and like traditional media doesn't really provide like for example i think that two of the best examples of this is like [ __ ] mac and the hoff twins is it [ __ ] mack and the hof twins like these are i mean these guys are clowns they do some bad stuff but they're also good guys in other ways too and it takes somebody who you know would be probably completely [ __ ] demonized by like media or something like that and then it turns them into a real person and it makes them less one-dimensional than the words they use or what tattoos are on their face and i think that's really what the value of the channel five videos is is it takes somebody who's like a flat earther or something like that and it just asks them questions it has them talk about stuff and it has a a real a human element to it and it's not taking a person and turning them into the worst 10 minutes of their life and then pretending that's all they are talladega nights a lot of the dudes here are very professional there's a person driving every one of these race cars by the end of the video you get to this point where you're like i laughed i kind of learned like there's some so many emotions that you go through watching his videos just watching other human beings the editing is very intentional it is edited in a way where it should be entertaining they're doing crash zooms oh yeah sound effects because this is talladega and even the placement of the interviews are really intentional you'll get someone who's very conservative next to someone who's very liberal and so what you're getting is entertainment yeah like to say you guys come up with your own opinion and you see in the comments that's what people love about his work yeah it's it's about letting people come up with their own opinion i think that's a really big factor because like also a lot of times like yes it's very clear that some videos do paint a narrative in a direction so like for example uh it does paint the narrative like for the ukraine video it did not really paint any of the elements of ukraine in a bad way like for example there's conversations about like nazi relations to ukraine and stuff like this that was not really included that had nothing really to do with it but i think it's more about talking to real people because one thing i noticed is that like so whenever i was a kid like this is an example i can use right is it like so i was uh i heard about like you know the american medical system and i understood that right and then i met somebody on wow and i was like 15 or i was like 16 years old maybe 17 and he was the guy that lived in canada actually it was rob rob he and i who like ninja the guild banks together well we were this was like three years ago before then and we were like kids at that point and i asked him i'm like so you know like i hear that like socialized medicine and like the way it works over there like do you have to wait a long time to get to get treated because he like broke his arm or broke his hand or some [ __ ] right and he's like no i just went in and they took care of my hand i'm like it was free he's like yeah pretty much and i was like so that was it there's no like weird thing and it was fine he's like yeah it was fine because you hear something and and there's a narrative that's painted but what who are the people saying this like who are the people like do you trust the people saying this so like that's what i did is i would just ask them i'd be like so yeah it's the same thing like i had people that like lived in like a qatar for example and i asked them like so what is it like like how like what happens like somebody does this or somebody does that like how do they really treat gay people there right and i actually asked the questions this is one of the best things on the internet that you can do is you can ask like do they actually throw people off buildings and you have like you can just ask that and like you ask that to somebody and there's no like there's no cameras on really or anything you just do it and like that is so [ __ ] valuable that is so good i think that is the best thing that the internet does one of the best things is that it gives people like from completely two entirely different cultures the ability to just communicate with each other and there's no stakes to this there's no uh you know loss to be had this is just an honest conversation with neither people having any real reason to lie they're just talking to each other about their life and that's it and i think that people spend so much time talking about all the bad things about gaming but nobody ever brings this up it's such a disappointing thing and it's just yeah it's just it's crazy the news right now is opinion as entertainment and i think that's what people have been fed up with i come for the news and all i'm getting is opinion with andrew he's showing us real life in a way that i can connect with and a lot of news anchors are not doing that they're they're they're treating it truly as like show business the 24-hour news cycle well they're treating it they have an objective like i i think the best example of this is to remember whenever that fox news guy i forgot who it is interviewed the um the moderator for the r slash anti-work and he's like constantly talking over him he's constantly degrading him he's constantly like pushing a narrative the whole way and it's like how much of a [ __ ] [ __ ] jesse waters yeah exactly how much of a [ __ ] [ __ ] do you have to be that you manage to make yourself look like a bigger clown than a 30 year old balding dog walker reddit mod how do you turn that person into looking sympathetic because of how [ __ ] obnoxious you are and they managed to do it it was awful i i it was a three minute video and i made a 50-minute react about it because i was so [ __ ] annoyed cool since 9 11 is all about being like got to keep watching it's like real i don't know if it's since 9 11 or not i think andrew's 25 i'm 31. so like we grew up and that's pretty much all we really knew i wonder what it was like in the 80s or like the 90s i'm not sure because i feel like it was probably like this for uh for years and we just didn't we weren't aware of it audio tv it's like close it's la ryan yeah there's a really big lesson for all creators in how andrew is okay creating his content and that is show don't tell yeah exactly people don't want to be told something they don't want to be like oh this is what it is you have to listen to me like this is the world the way that you that you have to see it like that's why i try to show graphs and [ __ ] you know what i mean i try to show like graphs and like actual evidence rather than just like oh believe me like i i hate saying believe me i i absolutely hate saying that because it's like why would somebody believe me i an oversized large suit that too like this looks professional doesn't it check it out show don't tell suggests that rather than him standing in front of the camera and telling you about this event he's out yeah telling you what happened there he's just showing you one video that really stuck out to me from his recently is from the protests in minneapolis after george floyd oh yeah this like visual of him on the ground with these people and see it's like look at this bro like he's actually in the store [ __ ] talking to the people while they're looting and burning down the store this is real [ __ ] and like i can always respect somebody who's willing to [ __ ] to actually have skin in the game effectively right he's willing to put himself on the [ __ ] line this is actual and like where's the other news people like maybe there's like a fox news van that's like five miles out talking about how they're burning down the capitol you know or something like that like you don't really see that uh it's just crazy man and so like it's like going to ukraine is like it's just insane and this is like i mean somebody could have stabbed him or hit him or attacked him or whatever like he probably didn't have that many people with him the riots were some of his best work full stop yeah visual of him on the ground with these people and the way they're talking shopping cart we tried we tried pizza protesting we tried every different direction and this is our this was our last resort everyone everyone feel like and like that's the thing is he's not telling the story he's letting them tell the story and he lets the audience i think also like a big factor too is that he lets the audience make up their mind and that's something that news usually doesn't let people do anymore is that like news presents one side of the story and they say this is the right side and that's all there is to it and there's never like a cut at the end of the video of andrew talking about how wrong x or y person was in the video or anything like that or trying to explain like why this person's wrong he just shows what happened and then at the same time he goes and he lets the people make up their mind including his last resort i've i've said this many times i don't support any of the looting or any of the vandalism i think it was completely unnecessary and did nothing positive uh i think it actually like served to like push things back a lot more i i'm absolutely completely against it it was disgusting feel like that everybody feel like that that's all i got to say and you're getting a real pulse of what's going on on the ground actually get that episode where he's just walking through the store yeah like was just burned and was looted holy this is just on fire he's just letting the camera walk on fire and experience it and in that moment for me i felt like whoa i'm actually getting placed like i'm actually there because like yeah it's like you hear about like oh wow there are these really bad riots and they're burning things down but like like you don't see that like do i really trust a mainstream media organization or really any sort of large organization of media either whether whether it's like you know infowars or the young turks right these are not mainstream media they're online media but do i trust them not necessarily like and you just have a person that's going through with a video camera and saying like what do you think and that's it that's what people want it's authentic yeah this environment i'm actually getting a feel for what this is like and he's not saying if he agrees with it or doesn't agree with that there's actually a ton of videos that's what i'm saying in that piece about what's going on [ __ ] those other media outlets because they're gonna try to portray us in a bad light by only showing what's going on over here right now we are heard this is the only thing it doesn't really make sense to me to be honest i think there's a right way to protest and that's peacefully complete police reform this is our future we stand up for we're making history right now and in his videos yep he sometimes will show the traditional news camera and how far they are from the actual people who are being talked about are you guys allowed to interview people uh yeah yeah we are person yeah sorry we're about to go on air here so i gotta that video too was really significant for him wow guys damn like they're really trying they're pulling out all the stops there holy [ __ ] what a [ __ ] well no he's just this is a guy he's you know got a mid-level job at the uh at the the company and he just doesn't really do a whole lot that's about it yeah it's just their [ __ ] that don't want to do anything they don't want to take any risks they don't want to provide and the truth is they don't have to the mainstream media doesn't have to go down and interview people because they just make up their own narrative in general yeah there's no reason for there to if it's something big like a protest uh sure you trust the media why why wouldn't you give me one example where they lied about something big except for world wars um were they lied about something big um i think that oftentimes it's not necessarily a lie it's an exaggeration or a misrepresentation like for example they um they don't say a and not b they do capital a instead of whenever it's actually lowercase a or vice versa because up until that point he had pretty much just done comedy videos yeah where he is wearing that yeah oversized suit which yeah just goofball and that suit stands for the take that he has on journalism that he's almost like poking fun at what traditionally the biggest thing like world war ii besides that protest video he's wearing his normal clothing yeah if you ever see me with no suit on with like his black sweatshirt like this it means that i'm not there to make jokes i want to be able to make actually comedic [ __ ] and then actually do real reporting at the same time that is his attempt that was his attempt to start a serious dialogue and now he's at this point where he can do both well i think that the best part about it was the fact that like the videos even the ones they did with the suit on they were still newsworthy even though it's funny it's still uplifting and it still adds something to like what people know about a person like this like the hof twins or something like that and i think that's exemplified through his recent trip to ukraine yeah how are you doing today i really want to go home but i think it won't be safe for my daughter so we will stay somewhere here and just wait he brings out the human element it really does feel like the modern day exactly journalism in a way that we want it which is well i think that he's exactly right about this and i think that this is one of the better things that like social media and like the internet provides people is like now you don't have to rely on you know this massive media conglomerate to tell you what to think or how to feel or what's going on you can just actually look and find the information for yourself and i think that's why they're trying so hard to discredit independent media that's why they're trying so hard to do this kind of stuff because they are losing their stranglehold on the uh the control of the american mind and like just the mind of the people in general because they don't have to listen to them anymore is let us observe let us observe other people and then let us formulate our own opinions one of my favorite things about the ukraine trip was that some of the help that he needed the first video i've ever watched the community so if you're a fan of his you're starting to be a part of the team it is like community made content that's quite risky uh i hope nothing bad happens i i know ice poseidon had situations with that that turned out to be pretty weird and so uh i think on youtube it's a lot different the reason why it's different on youtube is because there's a much higher value of doing something like that on a live stream because they can't edit it out i'm sure andrew has probably had clowns that come up to him and try to like you know do weird stuff and they see his posts that he makes etc but i think that that probably doesn't go anywhere and you don't have as many of them because you never see them in the video that's the best thing about youtube videos is like you don't have like you can just cut out the bad part like the person where somebody scream snipes you or something like that we just cut that part out it's not there anymore yeah yeah this got cut out they got worse for ice on youtube i i i i don't mean youtube versus twitch i mean live stream versus uh produced video because on a produced video you can edit out those people and so the reward that those people have which is getting on camera and being 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future of the creator economy now i unironically think that's a great idea like that actually seems really good that you can make an app and then have people download that specific app yeah that's it's unironically a really good idea channel 5. at this so if you go back to the smart he is a journalism student at loyola university in new orleans making like traditional news pieces he decides to hitchhike across america and he starts a zine the first time i went hitchhiking i was like 19 after my freshman year of college and spent that entire summer with like a recorder at different bus stations and motels just like talking to people i guess on like the fringe of society like real like road people this is you know like i also want to emphasize what he's talking about right here is that like a lot of people think that success like this is overnight like oh man like he just came out and his videos were really good and it's like how did this happen it's like that's obviously not true right like this guy grinded for years and years and years he went to school for this he worked his [ __ ] ass off he was doing this before he was really making any money for that and i think that like every time that you hear a backstory like this it's important to emphasize that there's like a massive like [ __ ] it's like it's like in like the shows like a [ __ ] anime or like a you know an 80s karate movie where like they play the [ __ ] uh eye of the tiger and it's like the training montage but it's for creators and the training montage doesn't have the eye of the creator it has the eye of the um uh let me think of the landlord trying to get your [ __ ] get you evicted because you can't pay your [ __ ] bills while you're trying to uh trying to [ __ ] make a living doing this and it goes on for years it's not just three minutes it's brutal so yeah i think that it's important to keep this in mind especially with uh with andrew and with anybody is it success like this doesn't doesn't happen overnight it very rarely happens overnight this is a story from my first massive amount of ride hitchhiking that was mistaken for a male sex worker so that was pretty funny yeah he pitches the magazine device and it's like a very ballsy move he like walks into their office i'm in a big apple to do big business and [Music] no i couldn't pitch anything it just kind of gives you a sense for who he is and the fact that he is kind of unopposed it's not it's not a bad idea for him to go to vice because vice actually used to do the same thing and i think that they still do it sometimes is that they come out like they've had a lot of really great documentaries vice has done a tremendous job of like especially going around the world and like interviewing people yeah that vice really me like i i know that like some of their [ __ ] falls off like absolutely but they do still have hits i mean to be fair like they do actually still have hits we watch this guy and he's willing to go places and he's willing to put himself in situations that other people wouldn't put him in also i just have to say like someone told me they were starting a magazine i'd be like okay if someone told me they were starting a zine i'm like i'm in yeah whatever that is zine carries a lot of weight zine is the coolest thing to start coming out of college zine what's the difference between a magazine and a zine very different very one's hip one's not a magazine structurally is there a difference big difference a magazine is what you find at the doctor's office in the waiting room women's health a zine magazines you know who's on the front page of magazines dr oz every single one any [ __ ] health thing or anything like that dr [ __ ] eyes every time yeah yeah and when it's not it's amber heard there you go is delivered to you at a coffee shop got it totally done and that's it yeah totally different and a zine is always limited run limited maybe a one of one it's less pages and you don't actually open a zine you just kind of have it with you and look at it zine he hitchhikes across the country stories turns it into a zine and then ends up striking a deal with doing things media a company that has a bunch of popular meme pages to fund it and turn it into a video series right you give him a salary they fund his production expenses they buy him an rv and they agree to a revenue share on patreon i was a young dude i was 21 yeah planning the hitchhike and make a documentary about it and this company was like i will buy you an rv these are the guys that finesse them and give you 45 grand a year now this deal feels pretty exciting for a young creator you get paid a guaranteed amount of money to make the show you want to make and doing things had told him he would have creative freedom he just had to make a certain amount of content and for a period of time it's great he turns the show all gas no breaks into a hit show a hit youtube channel over a million subscribers but what ends up happening is that as he starts getting into more political content doing things wants him to scale back and just focus on the comedy stuff the party stuff he's not interested in that doing things is like hey hey we make memes yeah like we have meme pages just about dogs we're not trying to make another crazy discourse happen here yeah just trying to make people laugh just put their butt basically what he's saying is that they're a bunch of [ __ ] there are a bunch of [ __ ] who are afraid of backlash i am so sick of [ __ ] man like it's so annoying and so exhausting for me like yeah it's just a little good little safe content that never goes over the line or offends anyone get the [ __ ] out of here oh yeah so they want him to scale back he's not interested in that and at this time he signs on to make a movie with doing things as a partner as i started shooting for the movie like full-time i wasn't able to make instagram and youtube and patreon videos because i was overloaded they were like no you got to make more and so basically i was like all right how about this if you guys want me to make more videos while i'm making a movie for you guys i need more than 20 they said uh no okay and so i said okay i'm not going to make any videos i kind of like went on strike for all gas snow breaks that's smart that's what you have to do is that you have to put your dick on the table like that's what you have to like you have to just put your dick on the table and say listen [ __ ] this is how it's gonna be and like that's how it works like it's because again if you don't do that the thing is a lot of these places rely on you rolling over and that's what it is yeah and it didn't happen didn't work eventually they lock him out of the accounts and he doesn't even have access to the all gas no brakes social accounts youtube channel everything and it goes dark now there's one very critical piece of information that andrew didn't realize when he signed this deal doing things media owned a hundred percent of the intellectual property of all gas note breaks i didn't and that's what's [ __ ] that's what [ __ ] happens because they get guys like this is a guy he's a journalism major he probably doesn't know about contracts and [ __ ] like that now obviously for me i would have known about that because i scammed people and so like i knew like okay you have to read the fine print because that's where they're gonna scam you and so that's the first place i'd look but there's a lot of people that didn't grow up doing this [ __ ] degenerate [ __ ] that i did so yeah like they just get taken advantage of this same [ __ ] happened to uh i think it was brain deadly with machinima back in like 2009 and then it's happened to a bunch of other creators over the course of time where they get locked into these like in perpetuity contracts or non-compete contracts and you have somebody who's doing incredibly well dave chappelle there's one of them i'm pretty sure i don't know the details to that uh is it like a lot of this stuff happens and what they're expecting is they basically they go with a buckshot method is they pay a bunch of people 45k a year right for example like with andrew and what they do is they hope one of them does really well and then they make a lot of money off of that person in a way that i think is not really fair although the person didn't contractually agree to that and i think that's fair right i think that the worst part of this kind of stuff is the uh the non like not only do they own your videos it's like the intellectual property rights is like the main thing but the other thing is like your ability to leave the contract like that's the bad stuff that really really is predatory in like some of these contracts it's awful didn't that happen to tifu uh tifu's contract with faze uh what happened with that i'm trying to remember that had to do with his tournament winnings and i don't remember exactly what happened get its capital s like stolen i signed a shitty contract when i was 21 yep which i didn't realize gave me no you didn't know and technically he was an employee he signed an employee and that's what they they do that on purpose they do that on purpose to get people that are young that have talent that have ambition to take advantage of them and farm them out contract for all creators this is a very important thing to recognize when you get employed by a company like this you typically sign a work for hire agreement that means anything you make any idea you have yeah is property of your employer not too dissimilar to if you're an engineer at a software company like youtube and you make a feature it's yeah it's automatically owned by youtube there are some exceptions to this but this is generally what the the case is for youtube you don't own that feature that's the property of youtube and that's right i've heard that that actually only applies if you do that inside of the exact scope that your business is in and also if you do it on company time and with company resources i'm not sure exactly if it's just a all-encompassing thing or not but that's my understanding of it yeah it's during build hours yeah really confusing to creators and to our i think our industry as a whole because we're dealing in these intangible goods which are ideas yes you have a great idea and you're like that's why idea and in this instance you may be the face of the idea which makes it even more difficult right sean evans came up with the idea for hot ones but complex owned it and they still do the key learning for creators here in andrew's story is a get a lawyer or get someone to read your contracts before you sign a contract like this yeah this is something that like because also it's bad for it can be bad for both parties especially if there's like a misunderstanding about something it's very common to have like a lawyer or an agent or somebody like that uh you know to look over everything and figure it out get a lawyer at 21. um and that's that's a very good point is because retaining a lawyer or actually having having them review a contract with you like this like i think like bare minimum this is like a hundred to two hundred dollars i i would say and it's like a lot of those people probably don't have that resource right that's why they're coming there in the first place yeah probably like 500 i'm talking about like bare bones uh like just can you review this contract for me like usually uh they get billed per hour uh that's usually how it works and like i don't know how legal fees are now i'm not 100 sure but it's usually like a hundred to four hundred dollars based off of the uh uh the amount of time i think it would probably be like yeah a hundred hour like probably like one hour one to one point five hours um and b you know the trade-off of employment is be independent luckily for him because of his format and because of the relationship he built with his audience he was able to start again well it has nothing to do with the original content creator company like it has nothing to do with them so it doesn't matter breaks goes dark yeah andrew re-launches with channel five right and supported by patreon and his community coming over and being like yeah we're with you we're not with all gas no brakes we're with you yeah those people dude you're still out here doing it that's what they try to do is they try to have people they try to have people make an ip and then take the ip away from them and then try to hold on to the ip and own that independent of the person because that's just what's most beneficial for them financially and the fact that he built back to almost the same amount of subscribers within a year is truly one of the most incredible things that's happened in media on youtube i mean it's it's content is king that's why if you give the good content you will have people that watch your videos it's actually not that complicated everybody thinks oh you have to do this you have to do that you have to go and do this you have to interact with these people you have to like network all these people nope good content you're done that's it make good content and you're going to be fine now obviously sometimes good content is not as financially lucrative as doing other types of content absolutely however like for example i think streaming in general makes more money than youtube does unless you're at like a really really really high echelon of streaming or sorry youtube unheard of yeah you take the l but at the same time that arrangement led me to this current situation so i guess read your contracts but also like i'm not that pissed at the company i mean what do you expect a meme company to do they literally make a living off of taking people's memes and somehow yeah trademarking them and there's a lot of learning lessons yeah and that's what it is right it's like a lot of these companies they are like they provide it's not that they don't provide value it's that their business model is to eventually have you provide more value than they do and have that become disproportionately more the case and then make money off of you like in in my opinion i like doing sales i like doing everything off of a percentage like whether it's paying people or anything because if you pay people off of a percentage you get the best people like that that's my opinion yeah pay them off a percentage it's in that story but one of the primary ones is that people follow people that's a really important thing to learn for the whole industry is that everyone went to follow andrew when you talk about the news industry of course there's these big networks but it's actually a lot of the hosts that we're engaging with on those networks and then you take it a step further when it went i would actually disagree with this with the mainstream media argument because you can actually use bill o'reilly as an example whenever bill o'reilly was like effectively excommunicated from fox news i feel like a large amount of his audience didn't really follow him to his own show yeah i don't really think that that's the case i think it's the it's the case with some people and it's not the case with other people i don't think it's necessarily a a guarantee like how many other people broke off and did their own thing uh you could say like uh stephen colbert whenever he was because stephen colbert and also uh uh [ __ ] uh john oliver uh both of them were contributors to the daily show with jon stewart and then john oliver went and he did his show and then colbert went and did the colbert report too yeah uh megan kelly i don't know how she's doing i've got no idea and uh let's see here let's [ __ ] it we'll do it live yep there it is that's him conan o'brien howard stern um howard stern yeah i guess that's probably true whenever he got acquired by sirius uh this was like maybe what 10 15 years ago or something like that sure and uh it really depends on the person and the quality of their content yeah are you hassan did that he left the young turks uh yeah maybe you could say that maybe with hassan maybe you're right it's old audience that's actually a really good point it's yeah younger audiences are much more likely to follow than older audiences because older audiences are conditioned into the normal uh mainstream like way of consuming media they're not going to go online to follow a podcast they're not going to do that kind of stuff but the younger audience will do that uben and social where right now the way i understand the news is through a mix of andrew callahan johnny harris cleo abram like these are individual people that we're learning the news i haven't seen not networks and that is what youtube has unlocked what's interesting is that when asked about what he wants his legacy to be he didn't say reinventing journalism yeah he actually said he just wanted people to travel the us and learn about all of the different subcultures that are there that hopefully he inspires people to get in a van and travel like he did it's nice i think that's a big factor too is that you have a lot of people who only get their information about somebody and this is what i was saying before about like the internet right it's like they only get their information about canada from uh you know cnn or fox news well that's not the same as going to canada and being there and this is what i've said before like remember like many times people have asked me about like what do i think about you know x or y european conflict and i always say i don't really know like this is what it seems like to me but i don't live there i don't speak their language i'm not in their culture i don't know anybody that lives there how the [ __ ] can you really understand what the problems of another country is if you can't even speak the language that they use there you know you can't understand the real nuances yeah of course you can it makes sense right it's like you've got the mass of bad things right it's like you know that like joseph kony's child army is bad regardless but i think that in general it matters more uh kind of like what like how in tune you are with the culture much that people come out to jump like hating different people but it's hard to break out of unless you travel and talk to people that you might not be used to talking to as long as you're spending you're safe and able to do it obviously i with what i'm we're going to get i've been given it's easier for me to talk to people than maybe other people or most people and that's another thing it's like there is a certain level of survivorship with this is because for every person who's andrew there's plenty of other people who move away from like their mainstream company and uh or their uh their like holding company or whatever you want to call it and they uh kind of fall off because they can't fund it they can't do what they want to do and it just doesn't work out so yeah you do have a certain level of survivorship bias but i do say that a lot of people that um like anybody who's successful works hard not everybody who's successful uh sorry not everybody that works hard is successful but everybody who's successful works hard pretty much so it's like it's not like oh it's a guarantee it's gonna go well if you work really hard and you have a good idea sometimes people don't get lucky but at the same time you have to try as hard as you can because if you don't that's not it cap no well mal inherited wealth oh i'm talking about like on the internet right yeah of course right somebody inherits a billion dollars right if your dad sam walton i think that you've got a pretty big advantage in life absolutely that's not what i'm talking about i'm talking about like making content online et cetera uh if people i think a lot of people want to say that it's luck or something like that and i think that obviously like there are things that are lucky uh for example like somebody can be you know like more attractive which can help them or they can be better with speaking which can help them and you know that has to do with socioeconomic factors like yeah sure like you have things like that that's with anything uh but at the same time uh you also have a lot of actual work and hard work and i think that was the emphasis that i was putting on earlier with like him having that magazine and everything is it like this guy was grinding before it was paying out a paycheck it wasn't like doing anything like that he was grinding at the very beginning and people don't see that i appreciate your careful language well it's just true yeah i mean i'm not telling everyone yeah plunge into the heart of alabama you know i'm just saying yeah even if you are very politically minded get to know your enemy a little bit and just travel the country before you go internationally yeah that's the main thing all right so that's the story of andrew callahan and why we think he's such a profound creator here on youtube make sure to check out mighty networks the link is in the description community is one of the most important things that a creator can have we want to be building this show with you so drop someone in the comments a creator that you think we should profile all right see ya welcome welcome welcome give me one second let me go back and watch this uh welcome jesus christ train come on give me a second i'll just open it up again uh it's not that big of a deal oh my god i'm messing my thing up okay uh where's it here there it is okay all right we got it so yeah this video was really good i actually was impressed by this i thought it was really well put together and uh generally i agree with pretty much everything they said in the video i've never watched their stuff before uh colin and samir but uh honestly if they have like more videos like this about different content creators and like more of an analysis of them especially like their background i think that's really useful so yeah i mean if you guys want to watch the video and follow their channel that you guys go i think it's great uh i do i think it's really really good but yeah i do think that luck obviously plays a factor and this is like a very common conversation that people make uh luck is where hard hard work meets opportunity yeah i think so and like the more that you take uh the more that you take risks and the more that you try to work hard and do something uh the better your chances of getting lucky obviously there are some people that just simply don't do well and uh there's a lot of reasons and like there's obviously the odds are stacked up against you pretty much no matter who you are in one way or another but they have to like you have to at least try to do something and i think that the idea that like oh well because some people get lucky or you know you feel like oh this person had an unfair advantage that doesn't really mean that like it's the right thing for you to do to not even try you know like work harder it also means work smarter too i think that's another big factor is there's a lot of people out there that try really really hard to they they try really really hard to do something but they don't actually know how to go about it in the smartest way it's like you have some people that like they stream 14 hours a day and they have three viewers it's like well maybe you should do something different because this clearly isn't working it's almost like if you're trying to like hammer in a piece of wood if you use your head instead of a hammer to hammer in the nail does that make you smarter because it worked because you worked harder no it doesn't probably the opposite so i don't think that working harder is uh always a good thing it's always about outcome and the effect that you have so it doesn't matter if you work really hard or you don't work hard it doesn't make a difference as long as you are generating an outcome that's positive that's what matters it doesn't matter if you spend an hour to do that or uh you know 10 hours to do that setting expectations yeah makes your way for opportunity get lucky is mcconnell around where the [ __ ] is mcconnell yo we're gonna do this thing or we're gonna watch another video here where the hell is mcconnell uh i'm gonna message him right now i'll talk a little bit more about this in a second where the [ __ ] is mario judah who the [ __ ] is mario judah ooh you don't want to say that big guy what am i missing out on [Music] you

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