1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: As the COVID nineteen surge in India reaches catastrophic levels 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: and we all look for ways to make a difference. 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: I want to revisit a conversation about disaster relief I 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: had in with one of the most innovative and inspiring 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: humanitarians I've ever known, Jose Andre Jose, a World Remound chef, 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: started his organization in World Central Kitchen to ensure that 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: people in crisis are treated with dignity and respect and 8 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: have good food to eat. Whenever and wherever disaster strikes. 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: Jose and his team can be counted on to be 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: on site building massive relief operations from the ground up. 11 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: As you'll hear in our conversation, he and I've worked 12 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: together often, most recently using the restaurant at my presidential 13 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: center in a Little Rock to prepare more than seven 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: hundred thousand meals for people in need in Central Arkansas 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: during the pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, World 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: Central Kitchen has partnered with more than small restaurants to 17 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: help them keep their doors open while feeding vulnerable members 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: of their communities. They've also continued to respond to natural 19 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: disasters like the recent volcanic eruption on St. Vincent, the 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: largest Atlantic hurricanes he's non record last year, and the 21 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: unprecedented wildfires in the American West. Now they're providing food 22 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: and hydration to the medical staff working around the clock 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: in India in a time when there's so much needed 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: home and abroad. I hope he'll be inspired by listening 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: to us as I described how he came to do 26 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: this work, and by realizing that we all have unique 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: gifts that can be put to use in service of others. 28 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton is expected to be named a special United 29 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: Nations Envoy to Haiti. A spokesman for the Haiti earthquake 30 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: was really tough for a lot of us. I had 31 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: been there a year working for the United Nations, and 32 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: a bunch of our people, including the head of our delegation, 33 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: were killed. January twelve, two thousand ten, a catastrophic earthquake 34 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: ravaged Haiti's capital, Court of Prints, shaking whole neighborhoods to 35 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: bits and leaving one and a half million people homeless. Now, 36 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: the White House says it has asked former Presidents Bill 37 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: Clinton and George W. Bush to help in the relief effort, 38 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: and President Clinton when we went down there about ten 39 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: days later. If there was a park where in the 40 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: good weather, they had ten after ten after ten of 41 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: craftsman doing wooden metalwork. It was a great place. Unbelievably, 42 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: we came down there in the middleist records and there 43 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: was that counted them. There were eight people who had 44 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: their pictures up. Again, it's a difficult time. There'd be 45 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: somewhere tween seventy and a hundred. Now I had this 46 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: long kind of view and Convoy I said, stuff, I 47 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: want everybody to get out and buy something. We got 48 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 1: to buy something. These eight people, we got to support them. 49 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: So I went over and bought a couple of pictures. 50 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: And this guy is the way way, President Clinton. You 51 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: can't go come here. You have to come here. So 52 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: I came around and he said in two thousand three, 53 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: when you came here, he said, you came here, you 54 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: stopped here, and you bought a picture from me. So 55 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: he said, I hope you'll do it again. So I 56 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: bought another picture and I said to the guy, said, 57 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: you know, I just I cannot believe you guys are here. 58 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: This must be so hard. He said, it's not hard 59 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: for me. I have nothing else to do. I lost 60 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: my wife and children. I'm alone now, and I said, 61 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: how can you do this? He said, it's the only 62 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: way I can honor them. Look around, we're a little 63 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: family here. They know if I can be here, they 64 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: should be too. And we have to begin again. I mean, 65 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff you come up against, just 66 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: unbelievable courage and goodness and decency. You know, somebody is 67 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: not at different from you, is broken and still standing 68 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: and still going on and sharing one more precious day 69 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: of life. A lot of these people are lucky to 70 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: be alive, but they don't feel very fortunate. We need 71 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: some waters, some food, everything, and we need some medicine. 72 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: You know what. Now along the short stretch of just 73 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: this one street, we find disaster next to disaster where 74 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: there used to be people's homes. So why am I 75 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: telling you this? Because if you've never been in a 76 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: natural disaster, if you've never been in a town that 77 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: was leveled by a tornado or a hurricane, if you've 78 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: never been in a community that was totally flooded out, 79 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: if you've never been there, you forget. These are people 80 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: just like you and me. They're worried about their children, 81 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: or their grandchildren, or their parents or their grandparents either. 82 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: They don't know what to do. You go into a 83 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: disaster area where people are flatting their back and their 84 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: children are dead, and there they've lost every letter they 85 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: ever safe and their loved ones. They have no family 86 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: pictures left, or you know, you name it. There's a 87 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: story every where you go. Today, I'll be talking with 88 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: Jose Andre, who is an American emigrant success story. Jose Andres, 89 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: who's already well known to food loving television audiences, is 90 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: also becoming increasingly known for his work to help in 91 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: the wake of natural disasters like Florence Walls. Andra Kitchen, 92 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: which is the organization I created around the Haiti earthquake, 93 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: is a very simple adia. We make sure that what 94 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: there are is hungry people, especially under very difficult circumstances, 95 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: that people are going to have a decent plate of 96 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: hot foot. You know, I always have this enduring image 97 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: of Jose sort of standing with broken concrete blocks and 98 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: wire and mango medal all around him, flipping fried eggs 99 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: just because it's somehow he always finds a way to 100 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: find a kitchen. That's where we're speaking to him. That 101 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: I was like let's just jump right in. How did 102 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: you decide to become a chef? I always believe in 103 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: following life. Life has a plan for all of us. 104 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes we decide to listen, and sometimes we follow, and 105 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: sometimes we find it. I'm the type of guy that 106 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: listens to life. And my father would love to cook. 107 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: Men cook in Spain. It's like if you are not 108 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: a chef, if you don't feed your family, if you 109 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: don't feed your friends, you are not at the at 110 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: the right social socialist status. Cooking is part of who 111 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: you are, makes you better and I always for my 112 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: dad cooking at home obviously my mother who she was 113 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: a great cook. And I was not doing very well 114 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: at school, let's say, in the traditional education system. But 115 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: it's not like I felt because I didn't care. I 116 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,239 Speaker 1: was spending more time hands on working in restaurants around 117 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: Barcelona every hour I had free, then going to school again, 118 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: the traditional education systems was not something I was the 119 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: best way for me to learn, and I always was 120 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: trying to find other ways that I could be better. 121 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: That's how I became a cook who I became in 122 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: love um with food. But probably the moment Mr President 123 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: was when helping my father in one of those sundays 124 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: that he would cook for all his friends. One day 125 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: we could be twenty, other days we could be hundreds. 126 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: My father will put me always in charge of the fire. 127 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: He will send me to the forest to gather the 128 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: wood and I will make a fire. He will have 129 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: this very big pie, a pen, a gigantic pen where 130 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: we make rice dishes in Spain. And that day I 131 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: wanted to cook. I didn't want to make the fire anymore. 132 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: I was doing the fire for too long. Say that 133 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: I when I cook. My dad said, no, you have 134 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: to make the fire. You are the only one that 135 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: knows how to do it. It's a big pa. He 136 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: sent me away because I got very upset, so we 137 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: will speak later. When the bier was made, he got 138 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: me aside and he told me, my son, I understand 139 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: you wanted to do the cooking, to put the spoon, 140 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: to steer the pot, but actually you were in charge 141 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: of the most important which is making the fire and 142 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: controlling the fire. If you control the fire, you can't 143 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: do any cooking. You want control the fire and you 144 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: will be in control of your destiny. I think that 145 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: probably was the moment that they saw that yes, cooking 146 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: was in my future, not just physically that was going 147 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: to be my profession, but understanding that if we all 148 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: learn and understand what our fire is, we can achieve 149 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: anything we want in the world. What a wonderful story. 150 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: You know. We started working together a better decade ago 151 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: in Haiti. Ever since then, when we come in contact, 152 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: it's usually because somebody is in trouble and you're they're 153 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: trying to help them. It's true that I began working 154 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: with the Clinton Global Initiative right after the earthquaking Haiti 155 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: bad But now because I'm here and this is your 156 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: podcast and you're the president and this is your show, 157 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: and I'm trying used to to look like I want 158 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: to impress you, but you had a huge impact on me, 159 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: Mr President. I need to go back to six Washington, 160 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: d C. I arrived Washington myself, and you were coming 161 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: every year around Thanksgiving time, even you show a few 162 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: other times with Mrs Clinton. And you came to a 163 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: place which is still is one of the most amazing 164 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: organizations called d C Central Kitchen, where Robert Eggert, the founder, 165 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: one of the of the guys that has had had 166 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: a huge influence in me, created this kind of badly 167 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: called soup kitchen because it's much more fits a nine 168 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 1: people a day. And you you were there billy potatoes 169 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: and cooking turkeys and and but also we take homeless 170 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: out of the streets and then we cleaned them, and 171 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: then we trained them to be cooks, and then we 172 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: graduate them and then we find them jobs in the community. 173 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: It's the type of organizations that we need to be 174 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 1: telling America about because they are really effective and his 175 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: organizations that they don't throw money at the problem, but 176 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: they invest into solutions. And in one of your visits, 177 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: you you you were working hard like anybody else. But 178 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: one time you kind of gave a speech because it 179 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: was senators and congressmen coming also. And on your speech, 180 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: I was twenty six years old. For some reason, you 181 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: put me in that speech and you mentioned Jose addressed 182 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: as an example of volunteers in America. Every year listen 183 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: to this. Every single year, here five thousand volunteers roll 184 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: up their sleeves and give something back to their community. 185 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,559 Speaker 1: People like Josiandre is one of the premier young chefs 186 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: in America. See here today, stand up here holiday. Despite 187 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: the literally crazy demands at his job, he comes here 188 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: every single week to share his passion and his skills 189 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: with all the students, and he encourages other friends to 190 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: join him every time he comes. And I'm telling you 191 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: that that had a huge influence on me because you 192 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: know you you you did recognize me, even I didn't 193 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: spent that because I was used one more person, because 194 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 1: he takes a village to to feed them empower a 195 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: lot of people. And that I remember forever the day 196 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: that President Clinton kind of recognize uh hosan dress when 197 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,959 Speaker 1: he's six year old boy. So you had a big 198 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: influence on me in that sense of service to the 199 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: community and going be John your duty to serve folders, 200 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: and I've never stopped quite frankly, stay tuned for more 201 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: of the conversation after this short break. You just arrived 202 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: before we started this conversation from Mozambique, where you've been 203 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: helping people in response to the terrible cyclone either which 204 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: a lot of Americans, I have the feeling, don't have 205 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: any idea how truly horrible it is, partly because it 206 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: hit a lot of places in England Africa and we 207 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: haven't gotten enough film of it, but it's one of 208 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: the worst natural disasters to hit the lower part of 209 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: Africa in a very long time. So give us an update. 210 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: What do you do in Mozambique? How are they doing 211 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: all right? So, in the moment we heard about the 212 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: cyclone uh seven, two hours later we had the team. 213 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: We opened a kitchen, then we open a second kitchen. 214 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: We're feeding on fourteen fifteenth referee camps, schools and hospital. 215 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: I'm here in a calm called Peacock. Here in the 216 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: city of Merat. They were serving a chicken with rice. 217 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: Um you see uh bidlines or two three, four hours, 218 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: three takes around the people here. I see a lot 219 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: of time. Yesterday we reached almost twenty thousand meals a day. 220 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: We already reached our hundred fifty thousand mills. And that's 221 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: why I went there to make sure my team was 222 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: doing good, that we were doing the right thing with 223 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: the color a break. Actually, I'm very happy because we're 224 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: super clean. The way we work, the way we make 225 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: people wise their hands before they get the food, et cetera, 226 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: et cetera, and in the process we feed as many 227 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: people as we can. So we partnered with World Food Program. 228 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: We partner obviously United Nations and and it's going well. 229 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: I don't feel we're helping. I feel we're still learning. 230 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: Every time I show up, I show up with all 231 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: people that they've been before with us in missions, but 232 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: always we tried to bring new people. Why because he's 233 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: very important that we make people learn. How do you 234 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: learn by being there? Handsome? This is a truly global 235 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: organization and it's UH the World Central Kitchen, and how 236 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: you have been able to mobilize people. This has been 237 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: a busy time for you because I want to come 238 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: back to Puerto Rico in a minute. But after the 239 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: terrible hurricane damage in Puerto Rico, Jose was there and 240 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: we started working together again there. But he's also been 241 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: to the Venezuelan border to feed people, to the Nebraska 242 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: foodlands to feed people. And one of his World Central 243 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: Kitchens UH Kitchens was in the parking lot of my 244 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: Presidential Library in Arkansas because we had an unusual number 245 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: of people and in and around Little Rock affected by 246 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: the government shutdown. A load employees get to enjoy a 247 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: chef made meal. It's part of the World's Central Kitchen, 248 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: which sends food trucks to natural disasters or where there's 249 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: some kind of need. We've got the need here. It's 250 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: all over the country for most partsback and Jeffree shows 251 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: us what's on the menu for a lot of for 252 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: a little folks and for how long? So the government 253 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: shutdown was a national emergency to a lot of people 254 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: who weren't getting paid and didn't have any other way 255 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: to feed themselves. How much trouble do you have getting 256 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: adequate supplies to do what you're supposed to do? Well? Yeah, 257 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: the truth is that let me bring it to America. 258 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: One place that I have nine mares because he wish 259 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: I was there. It's almost a place like I wish 260 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: I was able to go back in time and be 261 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: there and being able to call you and say I 262 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: need to help Katrina. The Super Dollar thousands are still 263 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: corralled here at the City Sports Arena the Superdome. Soldiers 264 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: from Oklahoma and Texas have piped in music, but it 265 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to lift the mood, one of utter despair. 266 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: We remember the nine married stories were coming up at 267 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: the Superdome. Thousands of Americans in a place without basic water, supplies, showers, food, 268 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: woman being read all these stories we heard. Do you 269 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: know what entire stadium is? Entire arena, a sports complex. Yeah, 270 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: people will describe it as a place that you go 271 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: to watch an NBA team or a concert. But let 272 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: me tell you who I describe it. It's a gigantic 273 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: restaurant that entertains with NBA. That means you sent two 274 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: trucks and you said a little army of cooks. In 275 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: two hours, we open all the all the places that 276 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: serve you, the hot dogs and the borgers, and in 277 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: two hours we are feeding every single person. America is 278 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: a gigantic restaurant. The only thing we do is we go. 279 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: We oversee what is left. What can't we have debate? 280 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: Do we have a kitchen, do we have to bring 281 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: a generator? Do we need to bring us? It's always 282 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: something around you. What we try to do is maximize 283 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: what is around us. So when I go to more 284 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: difficult places like Muszambek or like Venezuela, Colombia in the border, 285 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: is not any different. It's always a restaurant somewhere. It's 286 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: always somebody with a generator that is not using. Is 287 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: somebody always with LPG. It's always is always the resources 288 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: out there. Only you need to be very quickly in adapting. 289 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: That's what world central kitchen does We don't own hard assets, 290 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 1: we don't own har work, we own software. We can 291 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: go anywhere and adapt. If I am waiting for a 292 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: kitchen that is supposed to be deployed by the military 293 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: or by mars kor who knows who. Sometimes it's a week, 294 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: two weeks, three weeks later and you're still waiting for 295 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: the kitchen. We don't wait, we don't plan, and we 296 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: don't meet. We arrived, we find the kitchen, we start cooking, 297 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: and we start feeding. In the process, the plan shows up. 298 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: When you go into a disaster zone, is the first 299 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: thing you do actually actressment of what the cooking capacity 300 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: is right now? Is that what you do first? Yeah, 301 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: we will very quickly assays where are we cooking? Who? 302 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: Who has control of of goods, dry goods, any vestballs, 303 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 1: any anything is available, will make sure electricity through your 304 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: narrators will cover And obviously, guys, those are kind of 305 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 1: the four areas and the five which is the most important. 306 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: Besides the people that fly in first, who who are 307 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 1: the local the local leaders that can't help us? And 308 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: the great thing is that, as you know, the wall 309 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: has to eat every day, so is is millions, hundreds 310 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: of millions of people that they are cooks, and we 311 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: realize that people love to come together and become one 312 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: and that's what we do. Um. So yes, the cooking facility, 313 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: it's very important for us, and that's usually before we land. 314 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: We already now right now and thanks to your initiative, 315 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: Mr President, obviously for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Every 316 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: time we have a better idea of what are the 317 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: facilities we may use in case, for example of of 318 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: another hurricane. So, um, we have more than twenty thirty 319 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: food trucks that we can be activating immediately. We have 320 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: many kitchens around the island, for example in Puerto Rico, 321 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: that we know which ones are the ones that if 322 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: they are safe from the hurricane, because you cannot just 323 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: say one kitchen. You have to prepare for the wars 324 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: of the wars, so you have to have many so 325 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: you're safe from all of them being badly damaged. So 326 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: very much, that's what we're doing. Places we've been before. 327 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: Now I know what to do around and take away 328 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: the volcano explodes again. We know what to do in 329 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Puero Rico if something happens again, we know what to 330 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: do in Florida, we know what to do, uh in 331 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: in in Nebraska, we know what to do the fires 332 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: in California. So every time we answer to one of those, 333 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 1: he's very important for us. He's is that all dec information, 334 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: all these know how U doesn't disappear. We'll be right back. 335 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, when when you leave a 336 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: place World Central Kitchen and then I want to come back, 337 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: specifically to Puerto Rico, because I don't think still people 338 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: in the United States fully understand the dimensions of the 339 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: challenge and how we have responded poorly. I think, But 340 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: when you leave a place, do you do an inventory 341 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: of the kinds of supplies that should be I think 342 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: the term of art is prepositioned, that's stockpiled so that 343 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: if there's something else that happens, someone who knows less 344 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: than you do can show up and figure it out 345 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: in a hurry. We are we are talking about that then, specifically, 346 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: thanks to the the different groups you've created around that issue. 347 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: But sometimes I feel like, and don't misunderstand me with that, 348 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: but too much planning sometimes is too much. We need 349 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: to do the right planning. And with that, I mean 350 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: the most important is obviously showing up, and the most 351 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: important is to start doing what you're supposed to do. 352 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: Let's say generators. A lot of the people that die 353 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico, is a President. They die because lack 354 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 1: of electricity. Why because it's many otherly that they had 355 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: issues breathing. They needed machines to help them breathe. My 356 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 1: mom had one. I know he needs electricity and recharging 357 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: if she's going away away from home. When people had 358 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: no electricity for weeks and months in different parts of 359 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico high up in the mountains, or they had 360 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: a generator and somebody could provide them gas, or those 361 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: people were going to eventually get in trouble and maybe die. 362 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: I can't tell you that we had hundreds of generators 363 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: pile in some one for weeks, but nobody was doing 364 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: the distribution. Sometimes to have assets, that's an equal good response, Mr. President. 365 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: To have the assets alone, it's not good enough. Distribution 366 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: is key, and distribution you need people that really are 367 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: very much willing to do whatever it takes to bring 368 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: that generator, that play, the food, those medicines, or whatever 369 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: it takes to the people that need them. So distribution, 370 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 1: to me is more important than the prepositioning of the assets. 371 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: Even do misunderstand me. Wilmington, we did a very good job. 372 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: I was very happy with my team y because before 373 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: the hurricane came in, we already had four kitchens preposition 374 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: around the state. But more important in Wilmington, we had 375 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: two tracks because we knew that the hurricane was coming 376 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: that way. We had two and higher tracks full of 377 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: food worth ten days for at least ten thousand people. Hello, 378 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: people of America here uh Hossian address. Already from our 379 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 1: headquarters in Wilmington. We have another kitchen in Rally. We're 380 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: gonna be producing today between both kitchens on the north 381 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: of fifteen thousand, if it's needed, probably will reach twenty thousand. 382 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be fitting a total of around 383 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 1: twenty five shelters. We are doing the map so yes, 384 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: to understand the assets and pready position those assets is 385 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: very important. But what is more important at the end 386 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: of the day is the willingness to adapt and then 387 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,719 Speaker 1: the willingness to do distribution. If you don't do this solution, 388 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: that's no matter how much how many assets you have 389 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: in hand, is if they don't reach the people equals 390 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: zero zero relief. We'll talk about Puerto Rico this a 391 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: little bit. It's amazing. Maybe apparently a lot of Americans 392 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: don't even know that Puerto Rico is part of the 393 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: United States. It's a territory, but as a terror tory, 394 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: it has different rules in terms of how it gets healthcare. 395 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: For example, they're not in Medicaid, they don't get the 396 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: snap food assistance programs. They get block grants, and lately 397 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: there's been a a fair amount of confusion about how 398 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: much aid they've gotten. So so, I mean, we know 399 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: about that. I don't want to get into politics, but 400 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: let's just talk about facts. I mean, you and I've 401 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: been there. I'm interested in the people. The American people 402 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: need to know this. Last year, before the Democrats had 403 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: one House of Congress, when both houses were Republicans, they 404 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: voted to give six hundred million dollars in food aid 405 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico, which has still not been released. We 406 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: still need help in Puerto Rico just feeding people because 407 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: of money that has been appropriated by our Congress on 408 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: a totally by part of the basis has not been released. 409 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: So we need to think about going forward for Puerto Rico, 410 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: how they cannot be hungry again, and there are lots 411 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: of other health and development issues. But this is crazy. 412 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: But there are Americans. But I know that you believes 413 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: as many that Probrequly is a huge opportunity for for America. 414 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: It's a rich island, it is rich in human and 415 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: natural resources. It's an ecological miracle and it should be 416 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 1: a very prosperous place. And to go back to what 417 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: you said, I know there have been some problems in 418 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: the past, but recently we went to Puerto Rico together 419 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: to look at what is being done. We're helping hon 420 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: Or maybe could help on And you took me to 421 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: meet this astonishing young couple who could be making a 422 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: lot more money doing something else, who decided they wanted 423 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: to do environmentally sustainable for me and run important part 424 00:25:54,640 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: of the family. Yeah, and how much land the uthfarm 425 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: fertually So we have an acre and a half of land, 426 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 1: and we started only cultivating half an acre, and after 427 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: Maria we have taken our commitment even further and we 428 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: grow to the other acre. We have ability, so now 429 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: we have an acre and a half. A freeman And 430 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: who are your customers? My customers are basically direct consumers. 431 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: So we have been growing the business on the farms 432 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: through word of mouth. So now we have like a 433 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: big network of people, family and people that know people 434 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: that have come to support us and buy our products locally. 435 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: And I think a subscriber in two years, yes, yes, 436 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: uh so basically we delivered direct to them either in 437 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: their houses. I thought a lot about that young couple 438 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: you took me to see. Yeah, that was Franco Italia, 439 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: Franco and Italia. You know the people I help in Africa. 440 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: They want their children to go to school so they 441 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: can do better. And all I've got is a half 442 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: acre of land or an acre of land, and it's 443 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: a joyful thing. But the thing that was encouraged by 444 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: the Puerto Rico project is these people were young and 445 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: educated and they were taking a hit to become farmers 446 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: for the first few years of their married life, their 447 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: family life. They won't do as well probably as that. 448 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: Whatever if they done, they were probably ten of the 449 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: things they could have done. They did it because they 450 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: know that they had to learn to feed themselves on 451 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: that island. They know that sustainable agriculture and small farmers 452 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: are the future of the region, which is one of 453 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: the two most vulnerable in the world to climate change 454 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: and rising sea levels. They know this, and that's something 455 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: you should be really proud of that you're involved in 456 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: something where young, articulate, educated, far sided people say I'm 457 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: gonna stay here and we're gonna make this a farm, 458 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: just a place on the side of the hill, and 459 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: will you selp me. Sur President is what we call 460 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: Ploat to Plate, where we did in the first eight 461 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: nine months UH during UH give grants between five thousand 462 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: and to round forty farmers, and then just recently after 463 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: your trip to Puerto Rico with your foundation, we announced 464 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: with partners that we're going to increase the total number 465 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: up to four million dollars to impact another two hundred farms. 466 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: So those two farmers you're talking are used a big 467 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: family of farmers all across the island that we hope 468 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: to make sure that those farmers are part of a 469 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: new Puerto Rico where Puerto Rico will stop importing nine 470 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: of the food they consume. This is crazy. We're gonna 471 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: try to reach at least of the foods Puerto Ricans 472 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: eat to be produced in Puerto Rico, creating a local economy, 473 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: creating jobs, creating an identity and make sure that in 474 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: the process we keep pushing Puerto Rico forward. First, I 475 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: want to thank you because I know much you do 476 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: and so many places you're always there. But I thank 477 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: you for also being willing to stay in places until 478 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: they don't make you anymore. So bless you for that 479 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: and all else, and thanks for everything you've done. Thank 480 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: you for super and little farms like this show us 481 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: the way for puer Rico being food independent. So right 482 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: now I Wasn't a Kitchen has invested giving grants to 483 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: more than forty farms. I'm very soon we're gonna be 484 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: announcing many more with c AI as our partners, and 485 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: I want to make sure that Wasn't Kitchen in a 486 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: way exist because we've seen the work of CEI over 487 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: the years how ci go is community to community, country 488 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: to country and use partners with local initiatives to make 489 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: them stronger. To degree with General Kitchen, what we are 490 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: is a foot arm of many of these initiative CEI does. 491 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: We we are chefs for the people, so we help 492 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: to make sure that the places we are they become 493 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: food independent after hurric or well be young Where foy 494 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,239 Speaker 1: is the adien of change to get farmers like dam 495 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: my better future. Why Am I Telling You This is 496 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: a production of our Heart Radio, the Clinton Foundation, and 497 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: at Will Media. Our executive producers are Craig Manascian and 498 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: Will Malnadi. 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