 edition of In the Studio. My name is Preacher. It's a name not a title. And it is my honor to be here today to share with you, for a very good cause, the Y-D-F-D-Y-C. I'm sorry. I'm nervous. This is my first time hosting, so we'll get past that. F-D-Y-C proposal. And I am here today with a personal friend of mine and someone who is very helpful in the community. His name is Frank. I always call him Frank Dog because of the old school DJs. Yeah, you used to be Frank Dog, so it's good. But now, as Frank E.J. Woods, and we are here today to talk about F-D-Y-C proposal, so let's go ahead and get started today. I would like to start off by just kind of reading to you why we are here today. We are here for a good reason. First, let me say happy Black History Month. We'll start off with that. It's Black History Month this month. But we're here today for a good cause and talk about a good cause. And the F-D-Y-C proposal is this, to provide positive skills, development and mentoring for youth through the art of video music production, DJing, and to deliver benefits to those youth. Now, that's important, but I also want to read something that I kind of just found out today myself. And it's kind of funny. The F-D-Y-C plans to use a mobile production vehicle to fulfill its mission for the youth. The Mobile Youth Center will also be used to provide paid services to generate revenue to help support F-D-Y-C's non-profit activities. So let's welcome Frank to the show. How you guys doing? How you doing today, Frank? Wonderful, wonderful. Like I said, Frank's a good friend of mine, so we're going to make this real relaxed. We're going to have a good time today. The first thing I would like to say, man, you just tell us a little bit about yourself and why you got involved in F-D-Y-C. So, I want to say my name is Frank. I used to go by Frank Dogg. Well, I currently go by Frank Dogg, but I'm a Davis resident. I've been here for all my life and I start off as a DJ at 14 working at the Holmes Junior High School and high schools and in downtown circuits. So now I'm providing the services to the youth. I learned something today, Frank, and this is something that I've known you for so long. The importance of this mobile vehicle and what it entails and what we're doing here today. And can you tell us a little bit? You were telling me a story earlier today about the John Lennon bus and how it was able to come to different vehicles. Can you tell us a little bit about the importance of this mobile youth center? So why is it important and what we're doing here today? Sure. So I had this vision come to me of when I was doing workshops around the community, I said, why don't I have a youth bus that all the youth could come in and experience these workshops mobile. So once I was looking online to see if it's been done, I came across John Lennon's bus. Unfortunately, John Lennon's bus is $2.5 million. I don't have that in the budget. So I said, we can do it my way, which we're going to get a shuttle bus together and we're going to use the community to help us support and by donations get our own version of a mobile media youth bus for the teens. So there's one thing I like to piggyback on people. I tell them like, you know, because I get a lot of questions like what exactly are you doing? And you know, who are you helping? So can you tell us a little bit about the type of people that you're helping? Yes, how that's getting involved. I should know this. I've been here for a long time. So we aim to to work with youth teenagers 12 to 19 and privileged and underserved youth as well. Long as you have a passion for learning the media arts, like I have for the past 25 years, that's the people we're trying to reach. It's a great opportunity for for somebody to get employment after doing what we do. You know, we will teach a workshop from from a week to three weeks. And afterwards they get experienced and somewhere they could take to the next level and get a job from. And so I'll be honest with you like so I'm a DJ as well. That's kind of how we know each other. And I've been to a couple of your events. And we were just at one last week in West Sac Black History for the Black History Foundation. And it was just amazing to see how the kids that you would you would go up to a kid and you'd be like you want to participate? And they'd be like, nah, I don't know if I do. Come on and do it. And by the end of the end of the event, they were just so intrigued and so fulfilled. And I just think that's a really important thing that you're doing for these young people. And so what we're going to talk about a little bit today is we Frank has, you know, let's be honest, it's a new generation. I get accused of being called an old man all the time. But we have a GoFundMe for the Y F Y F D Y C. And you can just tell can you just tell us a little bit about where they can find this? So yeah, if you go to to our GoFundMe page, it's GoFundMe four slash F D Y C shuttle bus. And again, we're just whatever you guys could do to help. This is going to be the first youth team mobile media bus in Northern California, if not California itself. This is a huge, huge thing. Like I said, this I put all my heart and energy into it. This will happen. So I would like you guys to support now other than that, but I come from the experience of not having so where to go as a youth and Davis, there wasn't too many options. They closed down the teen centers. So I decided that if I make this a mobile youth media center, they could go to us, you know, we could park at we could park the media bus at a park, at churches, at schools, and they come in and get the experience that they're learning right now with the studio. And I actually, I really, really, really love what you're doing here, because I also grew up as somebody who wasn't privileged. And the, the, the situation is a lot of times it's hard for people to come to buy equipment to it's hard for people to, you know, come to different locations or house, but this bus is actually coming to the kids. And like, I really encouraged by that and think that's a great thing. So we once again, once you guys to go to the GoFundMe page, I'm going to be able to see it. F-D-Y-C. I got that right this time. Shuttle bus. I try to make it simple because, you know, we work with teens, you learn that, okay, make it short and sweet as you can make it so they understand it. And briefly, if you could just tell me, so, you know, tell me a little bit about where you see the program going and where you see the goals of this place going. So I'm looking to do with YMCA and Boys and Girls Club. I've done with the youth, with the media arts. So everything that I learned again, DJing, music production, video production, I want to bring that to the youth. Nothing's wrong with Boys and Girls Club and YMCA, but I think there's a new way of teaching the youth to mentor the youth on how to, you know, become better citizens, you know, to the community. And also the stuff that they learn is also getting more experience and more opportunities to the youth and the businesses, because now they're able to have something produced and made from a youth by a youth. And I would like to also, like, maybe go into a little bit of detail of perhaps, like, how you, what's the best way for people to get in touch with you? Okay. Like, so we do have, I do have listed here, and I'll repeat this at the end as well, which you have a Facebook and a YouTube. If I was just a kid and I was watching this on TV right now, and I was like, I'm interested in DJing, music production, and video production. What's the best way to get in contact? So you can reach us. I'm trying to be hip with the social media stuff. So we have Facebook at fdyc.org. We have YouTube at fdyc.org. And also we have a website, fdyc.org. So those are the places where you can find us. David's Media Access has our channel as well, and we do stuff with David's Media Access, which I want to say thank you, by the way. Couldn't do this without them. So yeah, that's a lot of the resources we have. And so we are, we're kind of slowing down here a little bit, but if you could just go a little bit, we have three different flyers that are here. If you want to go a little bit on just the difference in the DJing part of the production, the music side, and the video production side, we might not be able to see it, but if you could just kind of give like, oh, there you go. So this is what you would expect when you do a workshop. Each kid would, whoops, each kid would get a brochure of the program, and it goes through Monday through Friday, and we teach lecture and lab. So it's just like a college setting. They get the experience of learning, hands-on, and like I said, right now we go to the places like the buildings, schools, and all that, but I want them to come to us. So hint, the mobile youth program. So if I was a kid and I were to say, okay, what would I learn about DJing? What would I learn about music production? And what would I learn about video production just real quick? Yeah, so I would say you will learn, we'll say beat matching, how to choose music, as far as music production, how to create signal flow, because you have to take a signal from the speaker, I mean for the microphone, to the mixer, out to the speaker. So those are some of the things, like try and make it as simple as that. And then for video production, editing, camera technique, and storyboard, and stuff like that. Okay, so I think we have a couple of slides like that we're going to show the audience today. So this is the example of the first bus and before the goal here. And this is just, can you tell us the importance of it? So what you see right now is that this is our formal mobile van. And what we did was we brought the gear from the van to a workshop. And this is right here is we're teaching DJing workshop at the moment. But you can see it's kind of hard every time to have to unload all the gear and set it up, which teaches them how to set it up, right? After a while it's like, okay, week two they're like, ah man, I've got to unload the van. So this is why I want to put all those items into a shuttle or to a media bus. And then tell us a little bit about this. So this is awesome. I love this picture. So this is the inside of John Lennon's bus. And this is the goal, this is what we are going to accomplish is to provide all the systems setups to the shuttle bus. So the kids will come in and get experience and get that experience of what it feels like to be in the studio and in a video production studio and the music production studio. There will be a DJ setup in there. So everything that's in the media arts. I love this picture. That's like totally awesome. I just want to hold just before we talk about this picture, like that last picture is the goal. That's the goal. That's where we're going to do with the mobile bus and the goal funding. We want to tell us a little bit about this one. This is a picture of you, some of the kids participating in the program. Correct. So this is where's at our youth lock in for New Year's Eve. And what we did, we were in a gym, we call a gymnastic gym. And I brought the DJ set up to teach a workshop to over 300 kids that night. So they all loved it. We just set up a little area to teach a workshop. That's basically what you see is all the stuff that we had to bring out of that van into a facility like this, but the kids line up, sign up, and learn how to DJ. Like I said, I actually, I asked them to put this slide. So Frank doesn't know. We're going. I asked them to put this slide. And I did that on purpose because I just wanted everyone to know that Frank is, he's a good man. He's somebody who's very much involved in the community. I've known him for a long time. And I just wanted to show you this picture. It was my idea. I'll take the blame of really how hands on he gets with these kids, how important it is to the community, how important it is to him to be involved in the community. And so once again, we are running out of time a little bit, but I just want to recap again. This is FDIC. Future Development Youth Center. And we are here to promote a GoFundMe. We're trying to get a mobile youth bus. So be a part of the first mobile media youth bus in Northern California, in Yellow California. Once again, we are here to provide services to Davis, to Yellow County and surrounding areas. This will be the first of, first ever really, of a youth media bus. And of its kind. And like I said, once again, I am very, very happy to be part of some of this. And it's really weird because I actually got to see firsthand. Like Frank asked me to come speak to a couple of kids. And last couple of weeks ago, for Black History Month, and I actually was able to witness and be able to view what he was doing. So once again, you guys, FDIC, I want to thank Davis Media Access for letting me host today. It's my first host. Sorry if I didn't do all right. I kind of stumbled in the beginning. And once again, thank you for another episode of In the Studio. My name is Preacher. It's a name out of title. Black History Month. And we'll see you next month. Happy Black History Month.