 Hello and welcome back to the ACMI show. The show that explores the involvement of ACMI members, volunteers and youth group. Today with me is a very special youth member, Sol Yudowski. Thank you for having me. Oh, thank you for being here, Sol. How have you been? I've been good. Summer's been nice, nice to relax, take a break, be away from everything for a while. That's good. And there was a whole summer without ACMI. A little difficult, but we got through it. A little bit difficult, so we are here to talk about your involvement and what you've been doing. So in your own words, how would you describe what you've been doing? With ACMI. With ACMI. With ACMI. Honestly, all sorts of things. I've helped volunteer at productions. I've helped create, direct, produce my short films. I've gained a very vast amount of experience, a lot of different skills all across the board in production and broadcasting, not just with sports and not just with film, but kind of all across the board. And how would you describe your experience since when you, starting from when you first started, how would you describe the experience that you've been having since the moment you first started? It's been really enjoyable. It's a very nice, tight-knit community. I'd say that's in the name. And again, I've been learning a tremendous amount. I've definitely felt myself become more confident, maybe directing, maybe producing. And I've met a lot of wonderful people. All right. Glad to hear that. And I'm glad you emphasized the word community. You're right. It is in the name. Arrington Community Media. And so we like to foster a positive community across the entire base. Youths and adults alike. What has been your favorite part so far? Or like, which has been your favorite experience during your time here at ACMI? I'll have to think about that. I liked... We made a lot of memories. I remember the first time, the first football game. It was my first football game in my life, and I got to be behind the camera. So that was special in both ways. And I remember, yeah, I'd have to go with that one. I'll go with that one. First football game of the season. Right. And that was also my very first football game doing for ACMI. Before I started sports, which was that football game, I was in the news department. I was with ACMI News. Yeah. So it was our first time for everything. You look at that. And it was a lot of people's first time because if you remember, there's a lot of freshmen. So you're all coming out of Odyssey Middle School, first ever high school production, first time meeting me, my first time meeting you. And it went by very smoothly. And for anyone that doesn't know, this is the Arlington High School football game versus Hingham, which was a season opener in 2021. And that was entirely crewed by high schoolers and volunteers. Pretty cool. Yeah, and you've been part of many productions actually. Do you even count how many times you've been on a high school show? I don't remember, I'm going to be honest. At least a dozen. I'd like to say at least a dozen. I'll go with that. Right. And I said at the beginning of the show, you're one of the star youth members here, not only because you volunteer for almost everything I send out a crew call for, but that's because you display a certain amount of enthusiasm. And it makes me feel good to see how much fun you have, even though it seems like sometimes I'm yelling at you. Actually, I never yell either. That's true. Have I ever yelled? No. You're one of the nicest people I know. But yeah, either way, it's been a really enjoyable experience. It has been a lot of different productions. That's for sure. I've lost track. Right. And you've also got to meet a lot of new people, too. Is that correct? Yes. All right. And I get to see often that the new people that you've met at ACMI are people that you also constantly hang out with outside of productions. Yeah. So that's awesome. Yeah. You're entering your sophomore year. What would you have to say for incoming freshmen or any middle schoolers that might be interested in finding after-school activities? Don't know what? We don't want everyone to think that ACMI is solely based on crewing productions, but there are much more than that. So how would you describe ACMI and how would you reel in incoming freshmen? There's a little bit of that. There's a little bit for everybody. If you want to create something, if you want to be a part of someone, if you want a specific job, if you want to maybe learn a little bit more about everything instead of something. There will always be something. There will always be an opportunity. And it may seem intimidating to get started, but it's not. You kind of have to show up one day. And if you like it, you like it. And hopefully, the rest of you will be able to learn a little bit the rest will follow. That's true. There's no commitment. And of course, all these resources are completely free. For example, this podcasting station right here, the road caster that we're recording on, anyone can use it. If you remember, if you want to create a podcast show, it's right here. Just join ACMI. You don't have to do sports if you don't want to do sports. These cameras we're recording, you could let them out. This mic? The Sony's, yeah. We're recording the video aspect of this podcast using Sony's. Any final words? So, I feel like I have a lot to talk about, but slowly they just keep coming out of my mind. No, yeah. That's even it. Thank you for everything. It's been wonderful. That sound could be yours. And I look forward to the rest of my high school career with ACMI. Also, you plan to stay for the long run. So, all right. In the beauty of podcasting, you have all these preloaded sound effects. What does this one do? Oh, we don't want that. Oh, what's the second one? Here. Unimpressed laughter. I get a lot of those. Oh, okay. And a little more insight into Nima's money, everybody. No. Well, everyone gets to know what an insight is. If they join ACMI and get to work with me, because I am mostly tackling on all the sports productions that has been fun. And I think that will do it for this episode. Today was, or for this episode, was Sol Judowski. We actually have a lot of episodes coming out of today's Farmers Market booth here at the Russell. Really, this is going to be the sixth episode that will be released. Cool, cool, cool. So Sol, thank you so much. I'm glad you're having fun. Of course. And I hope you get to reel in some new fresh talent. Well, hope so. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.