Valuetainment - May 09, 2026


"He Came With An Agenda" - Nick Shirley FIRES BACK At Andrew Callaghan's Hit Job


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

221.96

Word count

940

Sentence count

26

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

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Nick and Rob are joined by Nick's good friend and former co-worker, Nick Shirley, who talks about his time working with Andrew Callahan and how he dealt with the aftermath of his controversial interview with him.

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00:00:00.000 What you're doing is very important.
00:00:01.580 It's not easy to do what you're doing.
00:00:03.160 By the way, what happened with you and the Andrew Callahan guy from Channel 5?
00:00:07.500 Oh, yeah.
00:00:07.900 What was that all about?
00:00:09.320 That was, that one took me by surprise.
00:00:12.420 We had him on last year.
00:00:13.140 What was your take on Andrew?
00:00:15.000 He's a liberal.
00:00:16.180 He's a liberal who I would say a, how would you put it, Rob?
00:00:20.260 A leftist libertarian-ish?
00:00:23.040 Yeah.
00:00:23.280 Is that a good way of putting him? 0.97
00:00:24.680 I don't think he's a crazy, crazy leftist.
00:00:27.280 I think he has some libertarian tendencies in him, but I do think he's part of the left.
00:00:32.900 Yeah, for sure.
00:00:33.920 And I like Andrew.
00:00:35.500 I liked Andrew until he did what he did with the interview.
00:00:38.640 So that interview I did with him, it was 72 hours after the video had gone mega viral.
00:00:44.140 And I had only slept for like six hours those past three days.
00:00:48.000 And I let him come do an interview with me at like 11 p.m. at night.
00:00:51.580 And I hadn't eaten anything that day.
00:00:53.300 um i had just drank an energy drink and uh just had like a steak right before because i was at my
00:00:59.040 we did it at my friend's man cave and so i was like super accommodating i was like oh this will
00:01:02.580 be good uh with to do with andrew like i had a lot of respect for him i used to watch him a lot
00:01:06.660 and then i do this interview with him and i i knew right off the get-go like where he was taking it
00:01:13.980 because he started at instead of asking me all the fraud he asked like you think this was a
00:01:17.280 distraction from epstein like i was like okay well i know exactly what this is going to be about
00:01:22.260 because it had nothing to do with that so i knew he was kind of trying to do this kind of like
00:01:27.140 smear thing on me which i thought was super disingenuous on his part because i was super
00:01:31.780 accommodating him did this interview thought we were good friends and then he goes and does that
00:01:35.940 it was not my best interview by any means but i also wasn't in the best state of like mind and
00:01:41.540 like physically like i hadn't slept i hadn't been eating because i was like running off pure
00:01:46.920 adrenaline so you guys went from 11 to 130 yeah it was like a two and a half hour interview yeah
00:01:51.980 and then he posts the interview and he only posts an hour of the interview how long was the total
00:01:57.440 interview two and a half hours okay so he cut out an hour and a half of it in any response where he
00:02:01.560 had that he was wrong or made him look bad he didn't he didn't show but did you record a whole
00:02:08.300 interview i recorded the whole interview got it so to two and a half hour interview becomes an
00:02:13.620 hour and a half and you're recording the whole thing so you can show a couple parts that he cut
00:02:17.920 out that maybe made him look bad yeah and like the clips he used too very deceptive editing on
00:02:26.640 andrew's part and yeah he like cut out spot he like literally jump cut spots when he admitted
00:02:33.220 to being wrong or not knowing about that and like one of his claims like well nick said uh 89 of the
00:02:38.780 fraud like so many times i'm like yeah because you weren't getting the point that the fraud had
00:02:42.940 been committed 89 of the fraud had been committed by somalian yeah and so he obviously came with
00:02:47.700 this agenda and when you sit down in an interview because they're pitching as a like a podcast
00:02:52.240 interview like let's do it for his channel called uh uh like c5 channel five yeah yeah he has like
00:02:58.660 a five cast he has a whole show called like five cast so we did this interview i was like oh cool
00:03:02.580 just be like uh interview where we just chat but no he just cut it all up so you know what i love
00:03:09.180 the most let me tell you what i love the most i love the fact that guys like him exist and guys
00:03:14.400 like you exist so I think both is necessary he's going to go tell his side of the story and you're
00:03:19.600 going to go out there and tell your side of the story the part with you that is so attractive
00:03:24.940 is you're sincere and genuine is who you are and I think the market knows that so that is a little
00:03:32.180 bit scary when you are sincere and genuine because you're curious going out there the way you ask the
00:03:37.100 question you're very respectful you've been raised the right way and uh you're just getting started
00:03:42.100 then I think it's, you know, we need more and more people like you that are doing what they're
00:03:46.360 doing. I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here on the neck. Go ahead and ask me any
00:03:50.480 questions, whether it be about politics, about what I believe or where I think the future of
00:03:54.300 the country will be going, or just quite frankly, anything you can ask me here on the neck. I really
00:03:59.760 appreciate all your support. I can't wait to answer your questions. If you enjoy this video,
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00:04:07.580 click here.
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