Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan (fka All Gas No Brakes)

hes back

https://digg.com/video/the-all-gas-no-brakes-guy-interviews-miami-spring-breakers-and-things-get-a-little-uncomfortable

we're all gonna die

Correction: we're all dead already, and that video is proof.

watching that weirdly felt like an eternity.

Further proof that we are all dead.

Nah, we're just a bunch of aging counter-normies.

(A good thing imo.)

spring break is eternal, you could go back to 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011 and get the exact same type of dipshits doing the same stupid shit

Possibly even worse tbh.

I know it feels like it, but the pandemic isn't eternal

also there probably weren't straight frat dudes publicly advocating ass-eating parties in 1981

he played that bigdog bs perfectly

Not sure I get the whole 'white boy summer' thing.

I mean more the attitude, drunk entitled destructive assholes, they never change

pom I could provide lengthy annotations but it’s still an almost entirely content-free meme even with them

Now I'm even more curious.

Well that was horrifying.

Finally watching the Spring Break video and I hate it.

It's great but I hate it.

incredible stuff here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGWNX1GNzJo

the guys who made off with AGNB wanted him to do LESS political stuff, what astonishing fools

yeah like “hey can u be more of the LIVE FROM SPRING BREAK MIAMI guy and less PROUD BOYS OHIO guy? we’ll get more monster energy ad dollars”

I don't know the guy's process, but just letting people talk is such a good strategy. "You got a shotgun in your car, you got a pistol on your hip, you got a Taser on the other side, you around this bitch looking like Batman, and you scared?! If you scared, then quit!" OTM.

with just a little tightening he could have gotten this down to 9:29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqjR8b_HvQ

Whip-its without having to actually steal cans of whipped cream seems wrong.

That 19-y/o at the end rules

I love the way he just stands aside and lets people talk, and lets them keep talking. So simple and yet almost no one does this.

That animation is an amazing touch.

mushroom guy is good peoples

The questions he does ask are spot on. How would you feel if someone tried to tell you that you gave a fuck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMswepvHBAA

gonna need a stiff drink for this one

It's mercifully short and the far-right cranks he dredged up aren't as overt in their racism as I expected. Also, you need to hear the TRUTH about the Clinton-backed MURDER of Kobe Bryant.

boy those El Salvadorans are great workers, therefore there is no racism

The flag dude in the photo seems to have undergone some traumatic financial ruin (not of his own making, naturally), and that seems to be a pretty common thread among these people.

shrieked like a banshee at "fish tacos!"

The Lynchian drones underneath select speakers are an underrated element

I really love the developing "Channel 5" aesthetic with the little dedicated intro + still freely folding in/repurposing mainstream news as appropriate.

As usual the best moments are when things veer outside of the point - bill joiner of shady canyon, fish tacos are white food, kobe bryant was assassinated by the clintons etc

peaks at the 13 second mark though

Kevin Smith with dreads is quite the mashup

'what's the best way to make a racist feel uncomfortable?'

'fuck em up'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfu08ULFK88

big things poppin

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"...every day, a hundred bucks. I love them."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wH2YySpoXE

An excruciating watch. Ooft.

Return of the twins had me cackling. Both they and the PUAs have such a weird 8th grade understanding of sexuality. “Most make out sessions”? What?

there's no way that guy ain't a Sacha Baron Cohen character

I know the twins doc was released first, but it can't be a coincidence they show up here. maybe they were discovered here and the doc was a follow-up?

they're channel 5 ip, so they'll just be rolled out whenever they think its funny to have them around

Beheading for anyone who says “As a father of daughters”

well yeah if you didn't think about "this stuff" at all before than that's on you

Callaghan's response is especially shitty because he thinks that one text is the smoking gun that this was a shakedown (which it didn't quite read that way to me and also doesn't preclude the facts that the things he's accused of happened), but the accusor also posted another video with tons of messages from other women who had similar things happen to them and he's seems content to ignore all those to try to portray this as made up extortion

I thought it was bullshit of Variety to publish her name, especially if you're gonna mention the extortion claims. I am guessing you could find it if you were looking but still dont do that

xp RIGHT only i would omit "at all" and swap for "closely/deeply enough"

i just searched ILX for threads about consent and the one i clicked on (about alcohol use, rape, and consent) contains what may be the angriest posts i have ever posted
it's from 2006!!

use your parental status to teach your kids about consent (i am not in favor of beheading)

One possibility that the ability for people to articulate almost any position at all, as well as inability to defend that position if questioned, has degraded to the point where any statement gets crouched in personalized Appeals to Identity.

And so you get the “As a” construction for declaring one’s position or opinion on anything far more often that would think one should. It’s not that somebody didn’t believe a thing before having that identify, it’s that they add that in as extra moral weight to the argument. You can’t make appeals to some sorta universal value or norm because those have lost credibility.

Of course, this changes when it comes to reactionaries, who really don’t see the problem with a thing that affects other until it has some palpable impact to someone in their sphere if not themselves.

non-discussed point and tangential to the larger issue so forgive me but: one of the many unpleasant and tin-eared elements of the "as a father" construction is that it presumes that having a child imbues the speaker with a level of compassion and insight unavailable to the non-breeder which has been disproven by many if not most of the parents i know.

well right I mean when Uvalde happened when talking about it with people who aren't parents I wouldn't bring up the fact that I myself have kids because I don't want to imply "it hits me different because I'm a father". though in reality it kinda does! like, not compared against other people, but to myself before I had kids, especially since I drop my kids off at an elementary school that is also by a wide margin Hispanic, so yeah I have to think about it constantly

part of the objection is not that your perspective isn't valid, just that it's not necessary or helpful to invoke it in a situation where you and your experience simply isn't the story. cf "i have lots of black friends" or "my cousin is gay" or "i can say it because i grew up around here"

perhaps it's an "as a me" rather than an "as a father"

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That's valid, but we're moving away from the crucial point that the father/daughter statement isn't really about being a parent (though I agree with forks on that aspect), it's about gender and othering. Why do you relate to the abstract category of "woman" differently after you've fathered a woman? Why didn't that happen when you partnered with one? Or via the relationship with your own mother? When you hear about men being assaulted does that feel different from hearing about women (and if so, why)?

sure but parenthood IS different than those things, when your kid gets hurt and goes to the ER it's a hundred times worse than having to go for yourself even though you aren't feeling any actual physical pain, which I don't think you would say about your black friends or gay cousin. totally agreed that saying it out loud isn't ever really helpful but I'll still defend Tim Heidecker here because he clearly just doesn't know what to say besides "I believe them and we aren't working with him anymore"

That's valid, but we're moving away from the crucial point that the father/daughter statement isn't really about being a parent (though I agree with forks on that aspect), it's about gender and othering. Why do you relate to the abstract category of "woman" differently after you've fathered a woman? Why didn't that happen when you partnered with one? Or via the relationship with your own mother? When you hear about men being assaulted does that feel different from hearing about women (and if so, why)?

I mean if it happened the other way around I'd probably feel the same way but when you're talking about this sort of sexually predatory behavior it is like 99% men. either way idk if it's so much that you "relate to women" now as it is the idea of someone taking advantage of your child in a way that scars them is a sickening and infuriating thought, as is the thought that Callaghan was only like 17 when he started doing this which is still pretty damn young, and it also terrifies me to think my son could somehow turn out that way

Oh, well tbc, thinking about the actual parenting aspects of this problem seems like a normal, good, and responsible reaction to me!

But that isn't really what saying "as a father of daughters" signifies in the wider world, as La Lechera already addressed. Even if one means it to indicate parental concerns, it would be better to find a more precise way to say that—the shorthand implies a belated and doubtful arrival at basic human empathy, which also inadvertently (?) gives men who aren't parents, including abusers, permission to postpone feeling or acting on that empathy until they're adults, or possibly never.

Well fuck. I was hoping this dude was better than that. Especially as an aspiring reporter working in the social media medium. Kill your idols indeed.

he's put out a video response which I watched 10 seconds of it before closing it

nm just watched it

better than I expected which is not saying much because the bar was right above the earth's molten core

he asks if his victims would reach out for an apology - well the last time one of them reached out, you framed it as extortion, fuck you

I thought it was a good apology.

Seemed to take actual ownership which to me, is the only bar for a good apology and sadly is not hit by a lot of celebrities in these situations. If he does what he says he’s going to do re: 12 step, therapy, stepping away from public life, then it seems like he has himself on a good track to change.

I don’t know actually, some of the apology is a bit week. this all sucks

he also said "I"ve always taken no for an answer"

ffs this is the #1 thing on Reddit?

Deleting some crap I just tapped, ripping this apart. Fuck him. Yeah he said some of the good things he ought to, in the midst of loads of face saving, self-contradictory nonsense.

More women: https://www.thestranger.com/news/2023/02/28/78881322/two-women-accuse-documentary-filmmaker-andrew-callaghan-of-rape-sexual-assault

jesus, those stories are even worse

https://www.instagram.com/p/CurvACkPHln/

I honestly forgot all about this guy, but one of his videos about the border popped up in the margins of something else I was watching. I have no idea what ultimately came of the accusations or cancellation or rehabilitation, but it looks like he's doing some good work.