[0:22] I'm doing some interviews ahead of the show. Could I ask you all some questions? Would you be open? Sure, yeah. Fuck yeah. So, how did you guys find out, can I hand you the mic? Yes. Hell yeah. How did you guys first find out about Channel 5 or Andrew Callaghan?

[0:38] YouTube Okay, was it you know like like it was in your feed or somebody sent it to you? Honestly, I think it was in my feed. Yeah, fuck. Yeah. Do you remember what's the first video you remember from him from them?

[0:51] Most recent one that I can think of though like I don't know about the first one, but some about LA some about Skid Row. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, then it was that yeah Okay, and what do you think he does right the other journalists don't do right? It's a leading question, but I'm not a real journalist yeah you're not a real journalist aren't you actively doing journalism right now i guess so my friends had a leading leading question it's a leading question i'm like oh it's a leading question uh no i mean i appreciate that i'm a real journalist yeah like i pretty sure like

[1:23] journalism is what you do so yeah yeah it's not like who you are necessarily if you like do it you do it but yeah i like that he shows up where people are at and he talks to them you know what i mean like you're doing it right now kind of which is like kind of meta you know if you think about It's kind of metadome, but I'm not a real journalist. I'm a meta-journalist. Meta-journalist, yeah. No, but I think it's cool that he just goes to places and talks to people. He doesn't say shit about places he's never been and then refused to go there and continue to say the same shit, which is what a lot of people do, so, yeah.

[1:54] I saw Andrew Callaghan's show and I was like, damn, I want to go there, but I can't, so. What do you like about Andrew? What does he do right? What does he do, right? Well, I haven't seen him since like three years ago, but I just like how it's like semi-ironically. He's got the fire explosions and like all that shit and then he has the people like rap at the end and it's like, I don't know. I think it's cool how he interviews like homeless people and just like regular people. You don't see that a lot with other interviewers or YouTubers or people. They always interview like I don't know they don't interview like just the regular folks and the crazy people

[2:36] You remember when you first found out about Andrew? About First encounter maybe like five years ago on YouTube. Yeah, remember which video was not a clue I remember like the The sex convention one that was pretty funny. Yeah, that's funny you know, I actually also saw him live three years ago in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on that same tour I saw Oh, cool. He was playing videos from the sex convention like during that thing. I'm pretty sure. Oh, I see I see and somebody in Pittsburgh for that show was in the talent show and also had been in that video And so he pulled up the video to show us specifically because somebody from that video was in the audience with us

[3:14] Oh, I see. I see. I think I beat them in the talent show

[3:19] Okay, are there any stories between Texas or here and Denver that you feel like aren't getting enough coverage? and we have a lot of people coverage or aren't being done justice that somebody like Andrew should be servicing the critical consciousness of an audience such as this. What about this? Pick one thing.

[3:36] Pick one thing. What stands out here is not getting enough coverage in the world right now.

[3:43] Claudie, I didn't have some good. No, no, no, I'm here to ask the people, right? The people. I've been doing this project. We've been giving out 100 bucks a week for people who go out and and ask the question of the week that we're doing on this crypto platform. We've had people, like I said, around the world participate and so every week we ask a question. What's a question you would ask people around the world? I guess like if you had unlimited resources, what would you create? You know, there's there is this like philosophy or hypothesis that I like to follow. That's the balance of consumption versus creation.

[4:16] so the more people create the more we put in balance that dichotomy and we want people to be creating more than we're consuming because creation comes from you know a really special place obviously women have the anatomy to create life but the same energetic center resides in all of us no matter what kind of anatomy you have or identify with so No, shout out to you, that's a good take, that's a good take See, I knew you had, you had everything we needed How do you see what's going on in the world right now? He is my world right now Oh, you're the world right now, what's up?

[4:54] And you pull up in real time

[4:58] What's up, man, can I ask you one question? So how's the show been tonight? Been great, bro, it's been great Actually, I drove in from Fargo, North Dakota I drove 13 hours to get here, bro Really? It's my birthday today You here for your birthday? Yes, sir Fuck yeah, bro, happy fucking birthday I appreciate it, man, for real, bro Hell yeah If you could ask people around the world one question, what would you ask them?

[5:17] Are you living a life for yourself or are you living it for other people? You gotta ask yourself that Sheesh, and what's your name? David Alright, shout out to David, the birthday guy Appreciate it, man, for sure Hell yeah Ask people around the world one question, what would you ask them?

[5:31] I don't know, it'd probably be generic, but like, what's it all for? Not in a pessimistic way, like, not in a negative context, but just like What are the things that make you happy and what are the things that are worth your time and worth your efforts? It's always curious to say with that that, you know? Oh, yeah, man. Like, default's always going to be family and friends, but sometimes people say something like, shit, man, like, I just love eating blueberries, and they're like, oh, that's a good answer. I've worked my whole entire life, love eating 20 blueberries, like, I don't know. Or they're like, oh, I like swimming, I like reading books.

[6:01] It's like, those are good answers. It doesn't always come down to, like, building a business or some industrious type thing. It's like some pleasure in life. So if you always give radical answers to me, it's always an interesting thing to hear. What about you? What's the last question you want to ask Last question, I guess I have two more questions You know, speaking about Right, that guy, Rick, or I don't know What his name was, right, what do you think are some of the shortcomings About our culture around grief here in America Our shortcomings about grief? Yeah, the shortcomings of our culture Around grief, are there any

[6:35] I ask a lot of leading questions I guess, I feel like there There are like a lot of shortcomings This guy lost his wife and his bird That's just referring to like whatever shows up when I speak to that But go ahead, you're speaking Yeah, I think that we just kind of, we don't acknowledge it. Like, I really wish, like, as a culture, like, we had something like Dia de los Muertos, where you celebrate the coming back of your lost loved ones, and you build shrines. Even, like, Asian culture, Japan, they build shrines. You remember them actively. But we don't really do that. We have cemeteries, but if you want to be cremated, then you don't get to go somewhere to honor your loved one.

[7:14] and it's just, you just do it every day, try to find something in daily life to remember them by and sometimes that's not enough. And it would be nice to have a day, to have a moment that is dedicated to like honoring their memory specifically instead of just on a day to day, get hit with that grief out of nowhere and have to cope with it. Where like our society, I think the biggest thing, like when I lost my grandfather. It was just like it was a beautiful sunny day and the world just kept moving even though my world was ending. It was really hard. So I think that is kind of where we we come up short where it feels very isolating. Everything just keeps moving. No one stops. There's no time to but not given time to process. Yeah. And there's just no we just don't have anything in our culture.

[8:18] to honor the dead yeah yeah or to dignify the grief you might say yeah that's what i would say that's yeah i think that's a good way to put it like i mean i would want to be cremated i know he wants to be cremated i think my like recent anyone that has passed recently has been cremated so there's nowhere to go to honor them so you have to find that place but then it's like am i like is it cultural appropriation if i build a shrine or if i try to celebrate their death on like Halloween because that's Dia de los Muertos so it's you know there's just nothing to do that to

[8:55] have that release as a community and it's very frustrating. Thanks. Yeah. Do you have an answer? I don't. Thanks babe. Yeah. That's very heartfelt. I appreciate your authenticity. Yeah. Yeah. I've thought about it a lot. Yeah. We always talk about how you're doing. I do love Dia de los Muertos. I do yeah. I find it comforting to think like there's a day that they came back. Your grandfather was a big person for you, huh? He was.

[9:32] Who was he in the world?

[9:38] He was a father and a friend and an avid fisherman. He was a grandfather. Yeah. And my only father. I didn't know my dad and he stepped up, so. If this video were his shrine, what would you think it would be important to say? Or have inscribed on the internet?

[9:59] I think just treat each other fairly. Treat each other kindly. I feel like that's always what he did. My mom always described him as he would give you the shirt off his back. He always welcomed any kid that needed help into his house. Yeah. Just love each other. It's really nice to be with you both. I love you both so much. I appreciate you just bringing your heart right here. Yeah. Didn't think I was going to do that tonight, but here we are. Didn't think you were here. Yeah. It's funny you don't realize how like broad is, until you start talking about it. It's like, oh yeah, that still hurts, shit. So yeah.

[10:53] Well you look good with your heart on your sleeve, I'll let you know. Thank you. I'll dignify your grief. Appreciate it. And if you two could ask people around the world one question, what would you ask them?

[11:11] Okay, well she's already called, you don't get to decline. Well my first thing to take me to say that was to me, what was her name again? Maceo. Maceo? That was my question?

[11:23] Can I ask you how you ended up in the chair? Yeah, I was a victim of a gunshot wound, yeah, fortunately, but... Was it a bystander or you got assaulted? A bystander, yeah, I was just a bystander, yeah, bystander and got caught on the crossfire, fortunately, yeah, but, yeah, it wasn't that bad, I'll do it again, I'd do it again. Did that change your life? I assume so. Oh, for sure, yeah, but like with the knowledge and just kind of mindset I've gotten from it is way more positive, or... We're more impactful than losing my legs, you know what I mean? I feel like I just got a head start, we're all going to be in a wheelchair eventually.

[12:05] You can hear it, yeah? I'm on stage at Channel 5 hours of the second time, keep it for real. 2023, I was with this dude in Pittsburgh with Funky Close and my girl, Isaac. Now I'm at Channel 5 again in 2026 in Denver. I don't come in this bitch, but I'm up in this bitch, and you know I'll wrap it up. Ooh, but I'm not done yet. That last guy went for like eight minutes. I said, damn, I thought we found like 60 seconds. Is he finished? He said, no. It's like Andrew said, it's time to go. Now I'm on a stage taking up my own time on a roll. Yeah. I said, what's your question for the fucking world? Somebody else I said, what they think about America outside of America? I said, that's a good fucking question. What they think about America? The world's like going to war and shit. They're blaming us. I don't know if you guys know, but apparently most people in Nigeria last month only had

[12:56] 20 hours of electricity. That's fucking crazy. And that's because gas prices are going up and their whole electric grid runs on gasoline. That shit is fucked. Hope you guys enjoy this shit and run me up on YouTube with We Them Media. Check me out. Thank you very much. Hell yeah, man.

[13:13] I appreciate it. My name is Maceo. Maceo, where are you from, man? I'm from Philly. Hell yeah, me too. Fuck yeah. I'm out here. I was outside shooting interviews like you on the street, asking people what they think about you, how they found out about Channel 5. We Them Media, we've been putting up questions every week on like a crypto bounty board and having people around the world go out and ask questions. This week's question was, what's something that made you smile this week? So Andrew, what's something that made you smile this week? Hey, a crew back in and out of jail made me smile.

[13:41] Fuck yeah!

[13:45] I went to Panda Express, there was no line this afternoon when they were smiling. Fuck yeah! I just got my Xbox installed so I could take some time off and fall in New Vegas and stuff.

[13:59] Something that made me smile, man, I've been in Denver five weeks, I came out here for a conference And I'm going back home on Thursday, and I'm excited to see my niece and nephew I've been away from them, and I saw them on Zoom on Sunday, and I feel like it made my whole week Best of luck, man, shoutouts to you
