Andrew Callaghan

The YouTube journalist behind 'All Gas No Brakes,' 'This Place Rules,' 'Channel 5' has been accused of pressuring two women into sexual encounters.

At the dinner, he allegedly repeatedly asked to have sex with her in her car; though she said no, she offered to drive him home, “though I did not want to have sex with him again ever,” she said. In one video, she alleges that she had hooked up with Callaghan once but found him “mean” and “demanding,” and that he had “creeped [her] out.” When he reached out to her again, she alleges, she declined to hook up with him, only for him to invite her to dinner so he could apologize for his behavior. His 2022 HBO Max film This Place Rules, produced with A24, features interviews with various members of the far right leading up to the events of the Jan. Callaghan, HBO, and A24 did not respond to requests for comment from Rolling Stone. After he announced in the spring of 2021 that he had As the host of the popular YouTube channel All Gas No Brakes, which he created while studying journalism at Loyola University New Orleans, Callaghan traveled across the country in his RV, doing man-on-the-street interviews with various eccentric figures. Though she said she told him she was not interested in sleeping with him, he nonetheless “eventually got my consent because he wore me down,” she said in the video. In the video, Elise said she did not wish to come forward, only doing so after Callaghan skyrocketed in popularity. “I told him to stop. The film was helmed by Abso Lutely Productions, the production company founded by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric fame. His straight-faced interviews with fringe members of contemporary society — prepubescent MAGA heads, QAnon influencers, Flat Earthers — often went viral, with Callaghan becoming something of a celebrity of the online left. “I said whatever because I was trying to get the whole thing over with…it doesn’t discount that I told him no.