so
let's talk about me
leaving corridor
hello darkness my old friend i'm c mike
carmichael david carmichael surprised
carmichael is not my first name i have
been the showrunner one of the two video
shooters editors of this channel i was
kind of nervous talking to you i printed
out
the things i want to say i am leaving
corridor i'm leaving on my terms i'm not
leaving tomorrow i'm not leaving next
week my last day will be at the end of
may 2019 that will be about five years
there will be five years of working at
corridor digital about four years
working on the vlog i really don't know
what to say some of you might be like no
you're the best you're the nicest dude
whatever
thanks but nick's staying nico's still
here sam's still here jake's still here
ren clint they're all still here
christian gabe occasionally the sun so
interesting we started the vlog at every
other day and those were two and a half
minute long videos it is the year 2016.
it's a new year and with the new year
comes new things i'll put the playlist
down below watch it from the beginning
in two years we were still doing every
other day but they got up to 10 minutes
and longer
so exhausting this was not an easy
decision to come to i pretty much spent
most of this year thinking about it it
started with some realizations about
myself some deep dives of who i am and
what i am it's time for me up here to
experiment and grow somewhere else as
well this is the first time in my life
that i've worked with a team i've
learned something kind of unique from
everyone nico he's taught me a lot about
being an artist taught me how to use the
red niko's even gone to the lengths of
showing me how to set up a retirement
plan not many bosses peers and
co-workers would do that for you you've
been working with someone for a long
time you evolve with them one of the big
things that i learned from carmichael
was how to be an artist that has his own
drive and passion and another artist
their driving passion how do you work
together to create a fostering
environment for that these days it's
easier for me to collaborate with other
artists and other people who are
passionate because of working with
carmichael good old sam sam's like
picasso he puts everything he knows
everything he feels in every creative
idea he has he brings this level of
extreme extreme passion to the projects
he works on he does not back down from
his idea until there's a better idea in
the room well one thing that left an
impression on me from carmichael is that
he's got this post-it note on his desk
that says kill babies that's a post-it
note that i need on my desk too with the
amount of footage that you guys go
through the amount of edits you have to
be ready to let go you know not
everything's precious and especially
when you're in in filmmaking an art form
you have to be ready to i guess let go
of ideas whether you wanted them to work
out and they didn't in any aspect of
your life kill babies
i try and channel that jake working with
him has taught me a lot about how to
balance art and commerce so that way you
can deliver something but your artistic
vision
isn't sacrificed
oftentimes when he first started here we
would argue a lot more than we do now
and the reason is because i i wasn't
listening you know they say god gave you
two ears and one mouth because you
should listen twice as much as you speak
that's actually really true because of
the process that i went through with him
i i learned i relearned that there's a
lot of footage for a simple thing nick
i'm sorry
red ren
is so himself every single day it's
amazing he's smart he's logical but he
trusts his heart and it makes him honest
after filming around for five years i've
learned how important it is to be the
person you naturally are
did you know that carmichael when he
first started working here this wasn't
like what 2014 he was a janitor mopping
the floors cleaning the bathrooms and
look at look at where we're at over four
years later carmichael has a way of
distilling information down into
something that everyone will understand
and he'll just straight up stop me be
like no joe from the gas station down
the street is not going to understand
what you're saying we have to figure out
a way to simplify it without it being
wrong and so that has helped me
learn to better explain science in in
ways that i think most people understand
rather than just the few who will get
the scientific terms and all that stuff
nick nick's a hard-working dude he's
also really good at keeping his cool i'm
i'm all in kind of a person sitting next
to nick for the last few years working
with him i've learned how to chill off
out so thank you nick
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carmichael has taught me how to
be a bit more emotional in the sense of
if there's something that i feel
passionate about i can express that more
and like he serves as a good example of
that i mean we still have like three or
four months to work together it's not
like he's leaving tomorrow the reason
we're making this video now is because
well you'll find out tomorrow working
with christian christian's a crazy
example on how to handle such massive
workloads and to still be chill under
pressure i see christian doing three
four things at a time and it's insane to
watch him enjoy it it's something i hope
i can do someday but i didn't meet
carmichael till my first day working
here at quarter full time you know about
two years ago you really took the time
to
get to know me right away you know over
these next two years we've grown not
only as friends but you know colleagues
and we work well together so carmichael
truly is one of the nicest dudes
clint dude i said your name i'm doing a
video that's very personal hey man hello
eating my avocado lunch i was gonna ask
if i could borrow some cashew milk yeah
the oat milk that's in the jar right
there yeah that's all for you son really
that half yeah
sweet it's a full surfing sound awesome
yeah i'm gonna use it for a protein
shake yeah this is the goodbye video
dang clint sees learning something new
is a good thing it's a positive thing
he's passionate about learning more such
as
like how to
zero waste and whatnot you know
he has a passion for learning like
carmichael has grown very much as a
person in the last the last year and a
half that i've known him and that makes
me very very happy and i just wish
carmichael the best in his future
endeavors and i know that he's gonna be
all right
gabe gabe works a lot he's here after he
works here for a full day he goes to his
wife's clothing store he works there
after that he gets ready to go teach so
he has three jobs every week he still
has a smile he's kind he's also got a
cool beard i have a cool beard but
his beard's like
like a badass beard one of the first
things he did
was shoot me with the nerf gun i was
like dude i don't even know this guy he
just like shadow shoot me
slowly the longer i was here
carmichael is the funniest guy nicest
guy
and he works really hard that's one
thing i appreciate he works his ass off
for sure
jarrett i've known jared for a year but
he's also become one of my closest
friends jared is a really smart fun guy
and now that he's working on the podcast
i hope you enjoy that podcast that he's
putting a lot of effort and time into
because all that time that he's putting
into that podcast is taking away from us
playing d d every sunday enjoy it
carmichael has an incredible attention
to detail how did you come to the
conclusion you came to he notices this
detail and extrapolates forward and i
try to apply that to my own thinking
with okay what do i want and where does
it start and kind of how would
carmichael approach this and that's a
very different way of thinking really
pretty cool at a certain point all these
guys have taught me how to work as a
team how to be humble around everyone
how to
respect another person better how to
communicate better i don't think i'd be
the person i am right now if i didn't
work at corridor digital the last five
years basically starting next year i'll
be here training and walking in the next
person to work on this channel i hope
you have enjoyed the work that i and
nick have put on this channel the videos
aren't changing the guy behind the
camera is changing
oh you know what you're missing is hello
darkness all right i know that that's a
lot of information and it might come off
as jarring or shocking you might be
thinking the channel is changing
everything's changing the world is going
to but guess what the corridor crew
channel and the show that exists on it
will continue we're going to continue to
make videos carmichael's going to be
here to work alongside an editor more on
that tomorrow if you think that person
is you the point is don't panic guys the
show must go on and it will are you okay
oh man i was going to panic for a second
well the challenge might be changing but
i found out it's not
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