The Hunger Project

We had John Denver come and speak about his work on the Presidential Commission.

He and Warner Erhard had just started this thing called The Hunger Project, which was Apollo-like in its aspiration.

You know, fa- started in 1981 or something, um, and the goal was the eradication of starvation by the y- year 2000.

Well, nobody had ever spoken in those terms before.

So these weren't little, you know, little fashion events that, that you did in the morning.

These were intense, grueling, you know.

So I really give credit to John Kennedy and Neil Armstrong and the men and women of Apollo who made that thing happen and, and Warner Erhard and everybody who created The Hunger Project for inspiring me to want to inspire others to do something that seems impossible to them.

And I, and I, and I'm still inspired by that today.