0000 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 YoubetCash.net Agen Judi Online Aman & Terpercaya 000 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Bonus Cashback Bola 6% Bonus Rollingan 0,80% 00 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Welcome Bonus Rp 25.000 Extra Bonus Tambahan Withdraw Rp 2.000.000 0 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 CashBack Mix Parlay 100% Bonus Ajak teman 45,2% 1 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:04,004 (silence) 2 00:00:27,061 --> 00:00:29,430 - [Seth] If I were to say senior citizens and old people, 3 00:00:29,463 --> 00:00:31,165 what's the first thing that comes to your mind? 4 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:32,366 - Bad driving. 5 00:00:33,434 --> 00:00:39,240 - [Seth] Yeah? - Yeah. 6 00:00:39,273 --> 00:00:40,774 - Well, I don't know. 7 00:00:40,808 --> 00:00:43,043 I guess I would think of, you know, like old folks' homes, 8 00:00:43,077 --> 00:00:45,979 like residences and healthcare, things like that. 9 00:00:46,013 --> 00:00:48,349 - Social security, Medicare, 10 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:51,552 retirement plans. 11 00:00:51,585 --> 00:00:52,620 - My mother. 12 00:00:52,653 --> 00:00:54,755 - Grandparents, grandmas. 13 00:00:55,856 --> 00:00:57,391 They get cheaper bus tickets. 14 00:00:57,425 --> 00:00:58,792 - I mean, I have nothing against old people 15 00:00:58,826 --> 00:01:00,094 at all, you know? 16 00:01:00,128 --> 00:01:02,130 The only thing about old people is just, I mean, 17 00:01:02,163 --> 00:01:05,166 let's be honest, they're old people. 18 00:01:16,877 --> 00:01:19,480 - The problem here with the seniors is they're lost 19 00:01:19,513 --> 00:01:22,716 and they're forgotten, because everybody's so busy 20 00:01:22,750 --> 00:01:25,386 with their life that they forget 21 00:01:25,419 --> 00:01:28,122 that the seniors have a big need. 22 00:01:28,156 --> 00:01:31,091 - People have ostracized our seniors, and it's sad, 23 00:01:31,125 --> 00:01:33,327 because that's our greatest source of wisdom. 24 00:01:33,361 --> 00:01:35,863 - Generally people have an idea that, you know, 25 00:01:35,896 --> 00:01:38,999 that because you get older, you don't have value. 26 00:01:39,032 --> 00:01:42,002 - [Seth] So if I told you that every day in America, 27 00:01:42,035 --> 00:01:43,604 six million seniors go hungry, 28 00:01:43,637 --> 00:01:45,906 what would you say to that? 29 00:01:47,341 --> 00:01:48,542 - You know, it's heartbreaking, 30 00:01:48,576 --> 00:01:51,612 and I really didn't know that. 31 00:01:51,645 --> 00:01:53,381 - I'd say that's believable. 32 00:01:53,414 --> 00:01:54,648 And it's a shame. 33 00:01:54,682 --> 00:01:55,916 - I guess I'm not educated enough. 34 00:01:55,949 --> 00:01:58,018 I thought they would have a lot more money 35 00:01:58,051 --> 00:02:01,389 than some of the younger population. 36 00:02:01,422 --> 00:02:03,123 - You know what, that's by choice, my man. 37 00:02:03,157 --> 00:02:04,658 I have to say that's by choice. 38 00:02:04,692 --> 00:02:07,395 - That would make me think about how we've moved away 39 00:02:07,428 --> 00:02:10,431 from family units, taking care of elderly and moved 40 00:02:10,464 --> 00:02:14,168 towards kind of assigning them their own separate lives. 41 00:02:14,202 --> 00:02:17,338 - It's shameless in a country such as America, 42 00:02:17,371 --> 00:02:21,475 because I think there's enough for everyone here. 43 00:02:27,281 --> 00:02:30,484 - The problem of senior hunger in America is real. 44 00:02:30,518 --> 00:02:32,220 It's a real problem, it's a terrible problem. 45 00:02:32,253 --> 00:02:33,954 - They're the people who fought our wars. 46 00:02:33,987 --> 00:02:35,823 They're the people who have built our towns, 47 00:02:35,856 --> 00:02:39,693 educated our children, and protected our communities. 48 00:02:39,727 --> 00:02:41,229 They should not be hungry. 49 00:02:41,262 --> 00:02:43,197 They should not be the new face of hunger in America. 50 00:02:43,231 --> 00:02:45,132 - It's not just about poverty. 51 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:47,201 It's not just about lack of funds. 52 00:02:47,235 --> 00:02:50,204 To a lot of people, it's about the lack 53 00:02:50,238 --> 00:02:52,740 of ability to help themselves. 54 00:03:05,353 --> 00:03:07,421 - I live in Los Angeles. 55 00:03:07,455 --> 00:03:09,022 - [Seth] That's me, Seth Hancock. 56 00:03:09,056 --> 00:03:11,024 I'm a photographer in Los Angeles. 57 00:03:11,058 --> 00:03:12,226 And, as of right now, 58 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:14,462 I'm a full-fledged documentary filmmaker. 59 00:03:14,495 --> 00:03:16,497 Well, not really. 60 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:18,432 You see, most people who work on documentaries 61 00:03:18,466 --> 00:03:19,933 do so because it's a passion project, 62 00:03:19,967 --> 00:03:22,370 or something that they've pursued for a lifetime. 63 00:03:22,403 --> 00:03:26,307 But in my case, I was actually asked to make a documentary. 64 00:03:26,340 --> 00:03:28,476 And not just any documentary, mind you. 65 00:03:28,509 --> 00:03:31,011 A documentary featuring the most un-sexy subject 66 00:03:31,044 --> 00:03:34,315 in all of America, senior citizens and hunger. 67 00:03:34,348 --> 00:03:36,116 Initially, I was going to turn the project down, 68 00:03:36,149 --> 00:03:38,819 because I've never gone hungry a day in my life. 69 00:03:38,852 --> 00:03:41,188 I really couldn't bring anything to the table, 70 00:03:41,221 --> 00:03:43,757 and rarely do I think about getting old. 71 00:03:43,791 --> 00:03:46,727 But for all the reasons I wanted to say no to this project 72 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,096 are the exact reasons I wanted to say yes. 73 00:03:49,129 --> 00:03:52,099 Because I needed to see how prevalent this is in America, 74 00:03:52,132 --> 00:03:55,769 how this is gonna affect your life or my life down the road. 75 00:03:55,803 --> 00:04:00,474 And for those reasons alone, I wanted to make this film. 76 00:04:00,508 --> 00:04:01,875 This is my story. 77 00:04:14,955 --> 00:04:17,190 Starting in Los Angeles and not knowing a damn thing 78 00:04:17,224 --> 00:04:20,328 about senior citizens and hunger was a bit of a challenge, 79 00:04:20,361 --> 00:04:21,995 so I did what anybody else would do, 80 00:04:22,029 --> 00:04:25,866 and I contacted the Meals on Wheels program. 81 00:04:25,899 --> 00:04:28,268 Unbeknownst to me, the woman who founded it, 82 00:04:28,302 --> 00:04:30,938 Sister Alice Marie Quinn, happens to be kind of 83 00:04:30,971 --> 00:04:34,174 a celebrity amongst celebrities here in Los Angeles. 84 00:04:34,207 --> 00:04:36,877 And fortunately enough, she agreed to meet with me, 85 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:39,046 and to talk with me about this project. 86 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:40,481 She showed me around the facility, 87 00:04:40,514 --> 00:04:42,616 and let me know what it took to feed thousands 88 00:04:42,650 --> 00:04:45,218 upon thousands of people on a daily basis. 89 00:04:45,252 --> 00:04:47,855 Needless to say, I was blown away. 90 00:04:47,888 --> 00:04:49,690 But, by the end of our conversation, 91 00:04:49,723 --> 00:04:52,259 I felt so much better about knowing where to begin. 92 00:04:52,292 --> 00:04:54,928 And then she said, I think there's someone you should meet. 93 00:04:54,962 --> 00:04:56,930 You need to go talk with Carla. 94 00:04:56,964 --> 00:04:59,467 And that's exactly what I did. 95 00:05:03,270 --> 00:05:05,506 - My name is Carla Laemmle. 96 00:05:07,708 --> 00:05:08,709 I'm 101. 97 00:05:10,110 --> 00:05:12,446 I was a professional dancer. 98 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:16,484 Carl Laemmle was my uncle. 99 00:05:18,619 --> 00:05:21,054 He founded Universal Studios. 100 00:05:22,189 --> 00:05:24,358 We lived right on the lot. 101 00:05:24,392 --> 00:05:26,527 It was wonderful, I loved it. 102 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,664 I was brought up and trained as a dancer, 103 00:05:30,698 --> 00:05:34,635 but somehow, acting came kind of natural to me. 104 00:05:37,505 --> 00:05:38,772 I liked it. 105 00:05:38,806 --> 00:05:40,073 I liked acting. 106 00:05:41,509 --> 00:05:45,112 The first movie I was in was Phantom of the Opera. 107 00:05:47,548 --> 00:05:49,950 I believe I was 14 years old. 108 00:05:51,552 --> 00:05:54,321 (dramatic music) 109 00:06:23,884 --> 00:06:26,887 - [Seth] Do you remember your line from Dracula? 110 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,121 - I hope so. 111 00:06:28,155 --> 00:06:30,858 (laughs) 112 00:06:30,891 --> 00:06:35,062 Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass 113 00:06:36,997 --> 00:06:40,668 are found crumbling castles of a bygone age. 114 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:44,304 (laughs) 115 00:06:50,511 --> 00:06:54,615 It was about 30 years ago that I became very ill, 116 00:06:56,216 --> 00:06:58,552 and they diagnosed it as TB. 117 00:07:00,053 --> 00:07:04,157 And I was unable to go out and do anything on my own. 118 00:07:08,762 --> 00:07:12,432 And I have to have meals delivered some way. 119 00:07:13,867 --> 00:07:17,905 And I learned about this company that brought food 120 00:07:22,009 --> 00:07:25,746 to the house, and that was how it all started 121 00:07:27,981 --> 00:07:30,651 that I was able to live at home. 122 00:07:31,985 --> 00:07:35,222 For me, it's the only way I wanna live. 123 00:07:38,792 --> 00:07:40,961 - [Seth] How important is that meal 124 00:07:40,994 --> 00:07:44,498 that gets delivered to you everyday? 125 00:07:44,532 --> 00:07:46,867 - It's very, very important. 126 00:07:48,702 --> 00:07:50,804 I couldn't do without it. 127 00:07:51,939 --> 00:07:53,607 Absolutely. 128 00:07:53,641 --> 00:07:54,708 It's my life. 129 00:08:01,982 --> 00:08:04,084 "Dear Ms. Laemmle, hello. 130 00:08:05,986 --> 00:08:09,590 "My name is Adam Barnette and I'm a big fan 131 00:08:10,558 --> 00:08:13,126 "and admirer of yours. 132 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,129 "You're my favorite actress. 133 00:08:16,163 --> 00:08:20,000 "I would love if you would please sign 134 00:08:20,033 --> 00:08:24,204 "the two enclosed photos for me, and for my brother CJ. 135 00:08:25,673 --> 00:08:29,910 "We'd appreciate it and always treasure it. 136 00:08:29,943 --> 00:08:30,944 "Bye." 137 00:08:43,456 --> 00:08:46,894 - One of the challenges about aging is, in fact, 138 00:08:46,927 --> 00:08:49,630 making sure that you are properly nourished 139 00:08:49,663 --> 00:08:51,832 when you do get older, so that we can remain healthy, 140 00:08:51,865 --> 00:08:53,400 we can remain in our own homes. 141 00:08:53,433 --> 00:08:56,136 I don't know anybody in my lifetime who's ever said, 142 00:08:56,169 --> 00:08:58,371 "I can't wait to get old so I can be in a nursing home." 143 00:08:58,405 --> 00:09:02,475 - We're concerned about the older person's safety, 144 00:09:02,509 --> 00:09:04,411 and their level of care. 145 00:09:04,444 --> 00:09:08,616 But sometimes we forget about their quality of life. 146 00:09:10,083 --> 00:09:13,754 And by placing them in an assisted living facility, 147 00:09:14,888 --> 00:09:17,457 or looking at some type of nursing care, 148 00:09:17,490 --> 00:09:21,128 we're restricting their ability, their autonomy. 149 00:09:21,161 --> 00:09:24,564 - [Seth] Where do you think you would be physically, 150 00:09:24,598 --> 00:09:28,769 if you didn't have a meal delivered to you everyday? 151 00:09:28,802 --> 00:09:32,139 - Well, I certainly wouldn't be at home. 152 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:36,043 I would be in some institution 153 00:09:38,078 --> 00:09:40,347 or a hospital of some kind, 154 00:09:48,488 --> 00:09:51,725 where I wouldn't be living my own life. 155 00:09:56,129 --> 00:09:58,065 It makes life something 156 00:10:01,601 --> 00:10:04,672 that I can look forward to every day. 157 00:10:05,773 --> 00:10:08,742 It gives meaning to my life. 158 00:10:08,776 --> 00:10:12,545 I feel that life has still a lot to offer me. 159 00:10:27,728 --> 00:10:29,429 - [Seth] Meeting Carla was a great experience, 160 00:10:29,462 --> 00:10:31,431 but I knew if I was gonna give any legitimacy 161 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:35,135 to this documentary, it meant that I had to get out of LA. 162 00:10:35,168 --> 00:10:37,104 In doing my research, I learned about this guy 163 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:39,572 who runs a food bank and delivers meals during the day, 164 00:10:39,606 --> 00:10:43,276 but at night is a headbanging, heavy metal drummer. 165 00:10:43,310 --> 00:10:45,145 I mean, this could not be any more of a departure 166 00:10:45,178 --> 00:10:46,814 from Sister Alice Marie Quinn 167 00:10:46,847 --> 00:10:49,082 than if I had scripted it myself. 168 00:10:49,116 --> 00:10:51,184 So I knew I had to get up to Marin County, 169 00:10:51,218 --> 00:10:53,453 because this could be interesting. 170 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:56,489 (heavy metal music) 171 00:11:25,719 --> 00:11:28,521 Do you think it's important for people to be able to stay 172 00:11:28,555 --> 00:11:30,958 in their homes, versus, say, going to like a nursing home? 173 00:11:30,991 --> 00:11:32,092 - I think so. 174 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:35,829 Some people, their entire existence is what went on inside 175 00:11:35,863 --> 00:11:40,433 that household, as their families grew up and grew out. 176 00:11:40,467 --> 00:11:42,302 Some of the people we serve have been in their houses 177 00:11:42,335 --> 00:11:45,138 since they first got married. 178 00:11:45,172 --> 00:11:47,107 They still have the markings of the doorframes 179 00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:49,076 where their kids were six and seven years old, 180 00:11:49,109 --> 00:11:51,644 and then 14 years old, and then you see some 181 00:11:51,678 --> 00:11:55,015 of their grandkids listed there as well. 182 00:11:57,117 --> 00:11:58,819 It's a measurement of success for their own life 183 00:11:58,852 --> 00:12:00,287 that they get to stay there, 184 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,855 because this is what they worked for their entire life, 185 00:12:01,889 --> 00:12:04,324 that's what they paid for their entire life. 186 00:12:04,357 --> 00:12:09,729 And don't tell them that they don't belong in their own homes. 187 00:12:09,763 --> 00:12:11,364 - There have been a number of studies that have looked 188 00:12:11,398 --> 00:12:12,632 at older adults that have moved 189 00:12:12,665 --> 00:12:15,202 into assisted living facilities, 190 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:19,940 senior nursing homes, and once the move is made 191 00:12:19,973 --> 00:12:22,876 and they move out of their own home, and they are now 192 00:12:22,910 --> 00:12:25,678 kind of separated from their community, 193 00:12:25,712 --> 00:12:28,315 from their neighborhood, from their neighbors, 194 00:12:28,348 --> 00:12:32,685 from the familiarity of their surroundings, 195 00:12:32,719 --> 00:12:36,857 their health usually declines very rapidly, very quickly. 196 00:12:36,890 --> 00:12:39,192 - If we look at the aging population, Marin County 197 00:12:39,226 --> 00:12:44,097 right now, we're over 20% that are 60 years or older. 198 00:12:44,131 --> 00:12:46,199 That number is gonna continue to rise, 199 00:12:46,233 --> 00:12:48,135 and it's not going down anytime soon. 200 00:12:48,168 --> 00:12:49,837 People are living longer. 201 00:12:49,870 --> 00:12:52,672 Now people are living to be 95. 202 00:12:52,705 --> 00:12:56,877 We have people that are 100 years old that we're serving. 203 00:12:58,478 --> 00:13:00,113 Marin County, it's very affluent, 204 00:13:00,147 --> 00:13:02,315 and it's known for its wealth. 205 00:13:02,349 --> 00:13:04,617 And I was coming to an area where people were about 206 00:13:04,651 --> 00:13:07,454 to lose their home-delivered meals services, 207 00:13:07,487 --> 00:13:09,156 which meant that these same people that lived 208 00:13:09,189 --> 00:13:12,392 in this affluent area would start going hungry. 209 00:13:12,425 --> 00:13:14,027 It had nothing to do with the person that lived 210 00:13:14,061 --> 00:13:16,029 in the three million dollar home compared to the person 211 00:13:16,063 --> 00:13:18,431 that lived in Section 8 housing. 212 00:13:18,465 --> 00:13:19,833 It had to do with the fact that this person 213 00:13:19,867 --> 00:13:23,336 can't walk up and down stairs to get their own mail. 214 00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:25,472 They don't have a driver's license. 215 00:13:25,505 --> 00:13:27,607 How can you expect that person to go to a grocery store 216 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,476 and bring home a sack of groceries? 217 00:13:29,509 --> 00:13:33,780 - Our country has not necessarily looked at the seniors 218 00:13:33,813 --> 00:13:36,649 in a graceful way, but I think we have, 219 00:13:36,683 --> 00:13:41,388 we all hold some kind of responsibility for saying 220 00:13:41,421 --> 00:13:43,991 that senior today is very different 221 00:13:44,024 --> 00:13:47,494 than one 30, 40 years ago in this country. 222 00:13:47,527 --> 00:13:51,398 It really is unbelievable that a country as rich as ours, 223 00:13:51,431 --> 00:13:55,368 that we even have anybody hungry in this country. 224 00:13:55,402 --> 00:13:58,305 (knocking on door) 225 00:13:58,338 --> 00:14:00,773 - [Victor] Mr. Graves. - [Mr. Graves] Hi, how are you? 226 00:14:00,807 --> 00:14:02,509 - [Victor] I'm doing well, how are you doing today? - Well, I'm pretty good. 227 00:14:02,542 --> 00:14:04,811 Do you wanna come in, please? - [Victor] Sure, sure. 228 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:06,779 How's everything going for you? 229 00:14:06,813 --> 00:14:09,716 - Well, I just got home from the hospital, 230 00:14:09,749 --> 00:14:12,819 so I was over there for a day or two. 231 00:14:14,554 --> 00:14:16,156 The reason I thought someone was knocking at the door, 232 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:19,759 I had one of the people who delivers food to me, 233 00:14:19,792 --> 00:14:21,661 and he's due here about now. 234 00:14:21,694 --> 00:14:23,997 But he'll knock, because he's due here. 235 00:14:24,031 --> 00:14:27,200 - Everything that I do, as long as I've ever done it, 236 00:14:27,234 --> 00:14:28,902 the people that I work with are very close to me 237 00:14:28,936 --> 00:14:30,170 and very dear to me. 238 00:14:30,203 --> 00:14:32,139 You got some milk that's expiring today, Don. 239 00:14:32,172 --> 00:14:33,573 I'm gonna take it out of here for you. 240 00:14:33,606 --> 00:14:35,075 - What's that? 241 00:14:35,108 --> 00:14:36,309 - [Victor] You've got some milk that's expiring today, 242 00:14:36,343 --> 00:14:37,844 so I'm gonna take it out for you. 243 00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:39,046 - Okay, don't take too much, 244 00:14:39,079 --> 00:14:40,647 because I don't have anything to replace it. 245 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:41,648 - [Victor] You've got six in there. 246 00:14:41,681 --> 00:14:43,216 I just put two more in there. 247 00:14:43,250 --> 00:14:44,617 So you've got six in there right now. 248 00:14:44,651 --> 00:14:46,853 - Fine, fine, fine. 249 00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:48,288 - [Victor] I'll try to bring us some more. 250 00:14:48,321 --> 00:14:49,689 - I watch that very closely, I must tell you. 251 00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:51,158 - Definitely, from the beginning, from day one, 252 00:14:51,191 --> 00:14:53,093 since I got here, it's been more than just a job. 253 00:14:53,126 --> 00:14:56,196 It's been something that I'm supposed to do. 254 00:14:56,229 --> 00:14:57,664 - Come on in. 255 00:14:57,697 --> 00:14:59,699 Let me let you sit down here, because it's rude for you 256 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:01,501 to come here and not have any place to sit. 257 00:15:01,534 --> 00:15:03,303 - [Victor] Oh, that's okay. 258 00:15:03,336 --> 00:15:05,072 I just think we're appreciative that you 259 00:15:05,105 --> 00:15:06,873 let us come in here today. 260 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:08,775 - Why, sure, of course. 261 00:15:08,808 --> 00:15:12,045 - There's a lot of people in America that are hungry. 262 00:15:12,079 --> 00:15:14,881 If we can feed them all, we should. 263 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,416 I believe we can. 264 00:15:16,449 --> 00:15:19,486 - I used to have a memory like you can't believe it. 265 00:15:19,519 --> 00:15:23,090 I'm now 81, and I notice a big difference. 266 00:15:23,123 --> 00:15:26,293 - Being that you're 81, and Meals on Wheels 267 00:15:26,326 --> 00:15:28,661 delivers food to you everyday, 268 00:15:28,695 --> 00:15:30,530 and it's something that helps you keep going. 269 00:15:30,563 --> 00:15:32,099 - Yes, when they told me 270 00:15:32,132 --> 00:15:35,502 that I was going to get Meals on Wheels, 271 00:15:35,535 --> 00:15:38,671 I said, I'll see how that works. 272 00:15:38,705 --> 00:15:41,074 And it's been working. 273 00:15:41,108 --> 00:15:43,910 And when I become short of something, 274 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:47,714 I tell them about it, and it seems to get done. 275 00:15:47,747 --> 00:15:50,617 - We get our funding through a grant, partial grant, 276 00:15:50,650 --> 00:15:53,153 that comes through the Older Americans Act. 277 00:15:53,186 --> 00:15:57,457 And we base that to be about 63 to 65% of what 278 00:15:57,490 --> 00:16:00,793 our expectant cost is going to be for each meal served. 279 00:16:00,827 --> 00:16:02,762 In there, there's still the gap. 280 00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:05,765 There's still, you know, 35 to 40% that we need 281 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:09,169 to figure out how to cover, so we ask for a contribution 282 00:16:09,202 --> 00:16:12,005 from all the recipients for each meal we serve. 283 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:13,840 If they can help us out, great. 284 00:16:13,873 --> 00:16:15,842 It really does mean a lot. 285 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:18,111 Most of them can't contribute though. 286 00:16:18,145 --> 00:16:20,613 We have fundraisers that we put on. 287 00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,249 We try to bring in additional money that way. 288 00:16:22,282 --> 00:16:25,052 We plead for outside donation support. 289 00:16:25,085 --> 00:16:27,120 And we apply for additional grants. 290 00:16:27,154 --> 00:16:29,189 - There are 5,000 Meals on Wheels programs 291 00:16:29,222 --> 00:16:30,623 in the United States. 292 00:16:30,657 --> 00:16:32,725 You can't feed people with no money. 293 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:35,428 So we have to raise all this money to feed 294 00:16:35,462 --> 00:16:38,198 the six million seniors who are going hungry. 295 00:16:38,231 --> 00:16:41,901 We think of ourselves as the voice for hungry seniors. 296 00:16:41,934 --> 00:16:45,105 They have nobody else to talk for them. 297 00:16:45,138 --> 00:16:48,841 We go to Capital Hill, and we try to get the message across 298 00:16:48,875 --> 00:16:51,478 that there are Americans in this country 299 00:16:51,511 --> 00:16:53,380 who are 60 years of age and older, 300 00:16:53,413 --> 00:16:56,949 who are going hungry, in this, the richest nation on Earth. 301 00:16:56,983 --> 00:16:59,919 - This one program helps them stay alive and independent. 302 00:16:59,952 --> 00:17:01,854 And it costs a heck of a lot less to keep them 303 00:17:01,888 --> 00:17:04,724 in their home with a once a day delivery of food, 304 00:17:04,757 --> 00:17:07,560 than it does to put them into a skilled nursing facility. 305 00:17:07,594 --> 00:17:09,329 And that's the part that kills me. 306 00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:10,497 - [Seth] Thank you very much. 307 00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:12,165 - Okay, all right. - [Victor] Thank you. 308 00:17:12,199 --> 00:17:13,333 Great to see you again. 309 00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:14,634 - And I appreciate everything you've done. 310 00:17:14,667 --> 00:17:15,668 - Thank you. 311 00:17:23,476 --> 00:17:25,078 (bleeping) 312 00:17:25,112 --> 00:17:26,646 Patricia, hi, good afternoon. 313 00:17:26,679 --> 00:17:28,781 It's Victor with Marin Meals on Wheels. 314 00:17:28,815 --> 00:17:30,217 It's about 3:40 right now. 315 00:17:30,250 --> 00:17:31,451 I wanted to give you a call, 316 00:17:31,484 --> 00:17:32,619 let you know I'm trying to deliver your meals, 317 00:17:32,652 --> 00:17:34,654 but there's no answer at the door. 318 00:17:34,687 --> 00:17:36,456 And same thing happened on Tuesday. 319 00:17:36,489 --> 00:17:37,890 Would you please give us a call back, 320 00:17:37,924 --> 00:17:38,991 let us know you're okay? 321 00:17:39,025 --> 00:17:40,527 It's 415-507-4300. 322 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,697 And when you give us a call back, please also let us know 323 00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:47,534 when we can reschedule your meal delivery for. 324 00:17:47,567 --> 00:17:50,570 Thank you, again, it's 415-507-4300. 325 00:17:53,005 --> 00:17:54,507 You know, we'll leave that message. 326 00:17:54,541 --> 00:17:57,444 I train all my drivers to leave a message like that, 327 00:17:57,477 --> 00:17:59,712 or one that's at least similar. 328 00:17:59,746 --> 00:18:01,481 And usually we'll go back later on the day, 329 00:18:01,514 --> 00:18:03,283 on our way back towards the office. 330 00:18:03,316 --> 00:18:04,751 Swing by if we hear from them. 331 00:18:04,784 --> 00:18:07,454 If not, then we'll bring them an extra meal tomorrow 332 00:18:07,487 --> 00:18:09,756 or something like that. 333 00:18:09,789 --> 00:18:13,460 But, every once in a while, the person simply is not around. 334 00:18:13,493 --> 00:18:16,563 About once a month or so, it's not unusual 335 00:18:16,596 --> 00:18:19,332 for us to have to call 9-1-1, 336 00:18:19,366 --> 00:18:22,669 and get somebody to come out for rescue emergency purposes. 337 00:18:22,702 --> 00:18:25,138 It's all not uncommon for us to call sheriff's department, 338 00:18:25,172 --> 00:18:28,175 and ask them to provide a wellness check of their own, 339 00:18:28,208 --> 00:18:30,042 which they'll break down a door to do so, 340 00:18:30,076 --> 00:18:31,644 if they're concerned themselves. 341 00:18:31,678 --> 00:18:33,913 - Several generations ago, we were born, raised, 342 00:18:33,946 --> 00:18:36,048 and we lived in that same community with our parents, 343 00:18:36,082 --> 00:18:37,917 grandparents, and we never moved. 344 00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:41,053 But now, with having fewer children or no children, 345 00:18:41,087 --> 00:18:44,056 and moving away, you know, we're getting a society 346 00:18:44,090 --> 00:18:46,926 that becomes disjointed and alone. 347 00:18:48,495 --> 00:18:50,663 But then whose responsibility is it then 348 00:18:50,697 --> 00:18:53,600 to look after older adults that may be getting hungry, 349 00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:55,202 that may need medical attention, 350 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:57,337 that may need transportation? 351 00:18:57,370 --> 00:18:59,472 - Right here, actually. 352 00:18:59,506 --> 00:19:01,040 I think it's his ex-wife that called in. 353 00:19:01,073 --> 00:19:03,042 This guy was, I guess eating junk food. 354 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:05,945 - Yeah. - Yeah? 355 00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:07,814 - Alrighty, thank you. 356 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:10,917 There's no way I can work now. 357 00:19:10,950 --> 00:19:15,121 You know, I've tried, and I can't walk only so far. 358 00:19:17,224 --> 00:19:20,493 As far as being older and looking back, 359 00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:25,432 there's a lot of things I could've done differently. 360 00:19:25,465 --> 00:19:28,134 But, it is something that you just say, 361 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:29,336 "Well, it never will happen." 362 00:19:29,369 --> 00:19:30,870 And then it will. 363 00:19:30,903 --> 00:19:32,939 - While we're trying to do the job of feeding people, 364 00:19:32,972 --> 00:19:36,108 while we're trying to get out the door and make sure that 365 00:19:36,142 --> 00:19:38,978 meals are delivered, trying to make sure that these people 366 00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:42,449 are still alive, trying to make sure that they're okay, 367 00:19:42,482 --> 00:19:44,951 we have these other people that come along and say, 368 00:19:44,984 --> 00:19:46,919 "Tell me, what was the temperature of your pork 369 00:19:46,953 --> 00:19:49,722 "that you served last week on Wednesday?" 370 00:19:49,756 --> 00:19:53,626 We can do so much when we don't have to do all this crap, 371 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:55,862 this binder-full of shit like this. 372 00:19:55,895 --> 00:19:58,465 That's what gets in my way of getting my job done. 373 00:19:58,498 --> 00:20:01,268 And it all just gets compiled into a quarterly report 374 00:20:01,301 --> 00:20:04,771 that's about that thick, based on several different sheets 375 00:20:04,804 --> 00:20:07,073 of information, to which I have one person that comes 376 00:20:07,106 --> 00:20:09,376 in the office, thumbs through it for about 10 minutes, 377 00:20:09,409 --> 00:20:11,511 and goes "Okay." 378 00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:13,045 And then hands it back to me. 379 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:14,814 You mean to tell me that I just spent countless hours 380 00:20:14,847 --> 00:20:17,216 to put all that crap together, so that you can look 381 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:18,951 through it in 10 minutes, then just say, 382 00:20:18,985 --> 00:20:20,487 "Okay, it's all there." 383 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,890 I think removing some of the pieces out of the puzzle 384 00:20:23,923 --> 00:20:26,693 will help it streamline the whole system. 385 00:20:26,726 --> 00:20:28,961 Let the money flow more freely towards the people 386 00:20:28,995 --> 00:20:30,730 that are actually providing those services. 387 00:20:30,763 --> 00:20:32,765 Don't have people stand in the way, 388 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:34,767 take money out of the stream for themselves, 389 00:20:34,801 --> 00:20:36,503 and then come back to me and say, 390 00:20:36,536 --> 00:20:38,838 "Would you please provide me with some more details 391 00:20:38,871 --> 00:20:41,173 about what it is that you do?" 392 00:20:41,207 --> 00:20:42,442 You wanna know what it is that I do? 393 00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:43,976 Come out here and help me serve the meals. 394 00:20:44,010 --> 00:20:46,379 - We ask congressmen, we ask congresswomen, 395 00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:48,815 we ask senators, go deliver a meal. 396 00:20:48,848 --> 00:20:50,317 Go see what it's like. 397 00:20:50,350 --> 00:20:53,753 Not as a photo op, don't do it for a pretty picture. 398 00:20:53,786 --> 00:20:55,054 Go see what it's like. 399 00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:58,558 Go walk into the home of one of your constituents 400 00:20:58,591 --> 00:20:59,792 who is in need. 401 00:20:59,826 --> 00:21:01,093 Go see what it's like. 402 00:21:01,127 --> 00:21:02,762 - And that's just what we did. 403 00:21:02,795 --> 00:21:04,230 We spent our second day with Victor 404 00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:07,767 driving all over Marin County delivering over 65 meals. 405 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,537 And about two hours in, I noticed that a job like this 406 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:12,705 requires a very special person, 407 00:21:12,739 --> 00:21:14,474 because it just seemed to be the same thing, 408 00:21:14,507 --> 00:21:17,477 over and over and over and over and over... 409 00:21:17,510 --> 00:21:20,913 (intense mechanic music) 410 00:21:29,121 --> 00:21:32,325 So what keeps you from burning out here? 411 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,827 - Same thing that makes me show up to work on time everyday. 412 00:21:34,861 --> 00:21:36,663 If I don't come here, somebody goes hungry. 413 00:21:36,696 --> 00:21:39,632 (soft piano music) 414 00:21:41,468 --> 00:21:43,069 - [Seth] But what happened next proved to be 415 00:21:43,102 --> 00:21:45,805 the biggest turning point of this entire production, 416 00:21:45,838 --> 00:21:48,608 because I met someone, who not only changed my view 417 00:21:48,641 --> 00:21:52,011 on senior hunger, but would become my inspiration 418 00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:54,547 for the remainder of the film. 419 00:21:56,115 --> 00:21:57,517 (laughing) 420 00:21:57,550 --> 00:21:58,851 - No strippers are signed up yet, 421 00:21:58,885 --> 00:22:00,720 but, hey, man, do you wanna be in a movie? 422 00:22:00,753 --> 00:22:02,489 - [Paul] Hell yeah! - Hell yeah, he says. 423 00:22:02,522 --> 00:22:05,157 Come on, let's go talk to Paul. 424 00:22:05,191 --> 00:22:07,093 - Seth, are you gonna take all day with this? 425 00:22:07,126 --> 00:22:08,828 You know it's almost two o'clock. 426 00:22:08,861 --> 00:22:10,162 - [Seth] I know. 427 00:22:10,196 --> 00:22:13,332 So, Paul, you've had Victor coming by 428 00:22:13,366 --> 00:22:14,934 and bringing you food for a while now. 429 00:22:14,967 --> 00:22:17,103 - [Paul] He's a pain in the ass. 430 00:22:17,136 --> 00:22:19,005 - [Seth] How long has he been bringing food to you? 431 00:22:19,038 --> 00:22:20,072 - A long, long time. 432 00:22:20,106 --> 00:22:21,307 - [Seth] Yeah? 433 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:22,809 - Damn! 434 00:22:22,842 --> 00:22:25,111 Victor does it because he has heart for this job. 435 00:22:25,144 --> 00:22:27,614 I kid around, I do a lot of things now, 436 00:22:27,647 --> 00:22:31,818 but really down deep, he's one of a kind for this job. 437 00:22:32,819 --> 00:22:35,154 I don't BS about this stuff. 438 00:22:36,322 --> 00:22:38,425 His organization means a great deal 439 00:22:38,458 --> 00:22:41,461 to a lot of people, not only for me. 440 00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:47,467 - I don't do this because it's something 441 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,035 that improves my health. 442 00:22:49,068 --> 00:22:52,304 I don't do this because it's glamorous. 443 00:22:59,111 --> 00:23:03,215 I do this because I really feel we need to help each other. 444 00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:07,754 If there's one thing I want people to know, 445 00:23:07,787 --> 00:23:09,856 it's that the challenges I see everyday 446 00:23:09,889 --> 00:23:13,092 will some day catch up with them. 447 00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:15,995 They're not expecting it. 448 00:23:16,028 --> 00:23:18,698 But something is going to affect their lives, 449 00:23:18,731 --> 00:23:21,300 it's gonna change their own existence. 450 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:23,135 - [Seth] Did you ever think when you were younger 451 00:23:23,169 --> 00:23:24,303 that you would be in this position? 452 00:23:24,336 --> 00:23:25,337 - No. 453 00:23:27,106 --> 00:23:28,575 Thanks. 454 00:23:28,608 --> 00:23:29,776 - [Seth] You seem like you got a great disposition. 455 00:23:29,809 --> 00:23:31,844 (laughs) - Not always. 456 00:23:31,878 --> 00:23:33,145 I'm a pain in the neck sometimes. 457 00:23:33,179 --> 00:23:35,081 Ask Victor, he'll tell you. 458 00:23:35,114 --> 00:23:39,586 I have a disease called Von Recklinghausen's disease. 459 00:23:39,619 --> 00:23:42,555 Plus cancer and plus fibromyositis, 460 00:23:43,990 --> 00:23:47,994 which takes your muscle and makes it into fiber. 461 00:23:49,228 --> 00:23:50,396 I can't stand. 462 00:23:51,564 --> 00:23:53,500 My legs just stick out. 463 00:23:56,769 --> 00:23:58,771 Pain, I'm constantly in. 464 00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:04,410 If it wasn't for Victor and his supply of food, 465 00:24:05,678 --> 00:24:09,649 would put quite a bit of burden on me. 466 00:24:09,682 --> 00:24:14,286 If you look behind you, you'll see Feed the Children. 467 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,789 I'm not a rich man, but every couple of months, 468 00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:18,491 I can send them $10. 469 00:24:19,659 --> 00:24:22,261 It's not a hell of a lot, but it can feed, 470 00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:25,798 what is it, 60 pounds of food to a family. 471 00:24:27,199 --> 00:24:29,602 Everybody deserves to be helped. 472 00:24:29,636 --> 00:24:32,572 Maybe I don't have enough to help every month, 473 00:24:32,605 --> 00:24:37,076 but whenever I can, I don't mind helping them. 474 00:24:37,109 --> 00:24:41,280 I lived a pretty good life, so I have no complaints. 475 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:43,315 Nothing. 476 00:24:44,551 --> 00:24:49,221 - I don't know how to feel about what I just saw. 477 00:24:49,255 --> 00:24:52,124 I mean, here's a guy who... 478 00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:53,459 (sighs) 479 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:56,629 Has had all kind of affliction in his life. 480 00:24:56,663 --> 00:24:59,599 And pain, and hurts for everything. 481 00:25:04,671 --> 00:25:07,674 He gives money to Feed the Children. 482 00:25:11,210 --> 00:25:13,145 It makes you think about a lot of things, man, 483 00:25:13,179 --> 00:25:15,682 when you meet a guy like Paul. 484 00:25:17,249 --> 00:25:20,587 We just don't do enough in this country. 485 00:25:22,789 --> 00:25:25,357 - How many people go to a restaurant and blow 12 bucks 486 00:25:25,391 --> 00:25:27,526 on a stupid fucking glass of wine? 487 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,261 And don't even think about-- 488 00:25:29,295 --> 00:25:30,496 - I do. 489 00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:31,864 - And don't even think about getting the glass 490 00:25:31,898 --> 00:25:33,265 that's five bucks and sending the seven bucks 491 00:25:33,299 --> 00:25:34,533 to someone else that really needs it 492 00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:38,070 so they can even eat dinner that night. 493 00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:39,238 - I don't. 494 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:40,573 I mean, prior to making this documentary, 495 00:25:40,607 --> 00:25:42,541 I never thought about anything like that. 496 00:25:42,575 --> 00:25:45,077 I never realized how frivolous 497 00:25:48,147 --> 00:25:49,348 the spending on something like that, 498 00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:52,218 like just a glass of wine or an appetizer. 499 00:25:52,251 --> 00:25:54,654 You get rid of that appetizer, and there's money right there 500 00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:56,455 that you've used to feed somebody. 501 00:25:56,488 --> 00:25:57,990 - Yeah, did you really need it? 502 00:25:58,024 --> 00:26:02,128 No, not as much as some of these other people did. 503 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:11,604 (hoofbeats) 504 00:26:11,638 --> 00:26:14,306 (country music) 505 00:26:16,275 --> 00:26:18,477 - [Seth] While I was in Marin County, I started thinking, 506 00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:20,512 if this is happening in one of the wealthiest places 507 00:26:20,546 --> 00:26:22,815 in America, what's happening in the poorest? 508 00:26:22,849 --> 00:26:25,184 Because if I'm seeing the same thing in the poorest place 509 00:26:25,217 --> 00:26:27,754 in America as what I just saw in one of the wealthiest, 510 00:26:27,787 --> 00:26:29,421 then we may have a much bigger problem 511 00:26:29,455 --> 00:26:32,091 on our hands than I initially thought. 512 00:26:32,124 --> 00:26:33,926 - My name is Cleda Turner, 513 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,864 and I'm the director of Owsley County Outreach. 514 00:26:40,132 --> 00:26:41,801 The Owsley County Outreach 515 00:26:41,834 --> 00:26:45,171 is basically a food backpack program. 516 00:26:45,204 --> 00:26:47,907 And we feed children on the weekend. 517 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:50,943 We send easily-prepared meals home in their food backpack, 518 00:26:50,977 --> 00:26:55,414 and then we also do the food bags for the senior citizens, 519 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:58,117 here in Owsley County that we know that has a need, 520 00:26:58,150 --> 00:27:00,687 and we try to help supply that. 521 00:27:07,493 --> 00:27:10,863 A big population of Owsley is senior citizens, 522 00:27:10,897 --> 00:27:12,765 the majority of it is. 523 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:16,669 And there is definitely a really need for those people. 524 00:27:16,703 --> 00:27:18,137 - [Seth] As far as feeding them? 525 00:27:18,170 --> 00:27:20,740 - Yeah, feeding them, and other assistance also. 526 00:27:20,773 --> 00:27:24,410 There is a commodity program here in Owsley County 527 00:27:24,443 --> 00:27:27,680 that the Lacefields, Susan and Jerry Lacefield do, 528 00:27:27,714 --> 00:27:30,883 and they give out commodities and stuff to seniors, 529 00:27:30,917 --> 00:27:34,020 but the money only covers 98 seniors. 530 00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:38,390 And then the other seniors are just left. 531 00:27:38,424 --> 00:27:40,059 There's nobody helping them. 532 00:27:40,092 --> 00:27:42,561 So when we were called by the Senior Citizens Center, 533 00:27:42,594 --> 00:27:45,932 if we could pick up some of these people, 534 00:27:45,965 --> 00:27:48,400 that's when we reached out and started. 535 00:27:48,434 --> 00:27:52,705 And that branched out, to finding out there were shut-in's, 536 00:27:52,739 --> 00:27:55,274 who couldn't get out and get extra food. 537 00:27:55,307 --> 00:27:58,778 So that's when we started doing the in-home, 538 00:27:58,811 --> 00:28:00,546 taking and delivering to them, 539 00:28:00,579 --> 00:28:01,848 and just spending time with them. 540 00:28:01,881 --> 00:28:04,216 Well, we brought you some fresh pork chops, 541 00:28:04,250 --> 00:28:07,653 and some green beans, I mean some soup beans, 542 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,389 and some fruit and stuff today. 543 00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:11,924 - Some soup beans. 544 00:28:13,259 --> 00:28:16,929 - And some pork chops, and some fruit, okay? 545 00:28:20,099 --> 00:28:23,102 - No, my baby, it's not cooked. 546 00:28:23,135 --> 00:28:25,872 - Yeah, I thought you might wanna cook them beans. 547 00:28:25,905 --> 00:28:27,940 - [Seth] So what's your name again? 548 00:28:27,974 --> 00:28:31,343 - Frank Couch, C-O-U-C-H. 549 00:28:31,377 --> 00:28:32,845 - [Seth] Yeah. 550 00:28:32,879 --> 00:28:36,648 Frank, you've lived here in Booneville all your life? 551 00:28:42,922 --> 00:28:45,591 Yeah, how'd you lose your hands? 552 00:28:49,095 --> 00:28:50,396 How long ago was that? 553 00:28:50,429 --> 00:28:51,764 - 1985. 554 00:28:51,798 --> 00:28:52,799 - 1985, wow! 555 00:28:55,968 --> 00:28:58,370 And now you're in a position where it's nice to have 556 00:28:58,404 --> 00:29:02,508 somebody like Cleda come by and bring some food for you? 557 00:29:05,211 --> 00:29:06,212 She is a good person. 558 00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:07,246 - Yeah. 559 00:29:10,682 --> 00:29:14,586 - There is a drug problem here in Owsley County, 560 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:18,024 and it is to do mostly with prescription drugs. 561 00:29:18,057 --> 00:29:20,492 And the parents are addicted. 562 00:29:22,628 --> 00:29:26,132 A lot of these kids also live with grandparents, 563 00:29:26,165 --> 00:29:30,402 because parents are either dead or in jail. 564 00:29:30,436 --> 00:29:33,672 They are living on $674 a month income, 565 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:39,545 and they're raising these two or three extra grandchildren, 566 00:29:39,578 --> 00:29:41,213 and they're trying to feed them. 567 00:29:41,247 --> 00:29:42,448 And you've heard the expression 568 00:29:42,481 --> 00:29:43,782 "Hanging by the tips of your fingernails?" 569 00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:45,017 - [Seth] Yeah. 570 00:29:45,051 --> 00:29:46,485 - That's what these seniors are doing, 571 00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:50,022 they're hanging by the tips of their fingernails. 572 00:29:52,191 --> 00:29:53,659 - [Seth] Hi there, young lady. 573 00:29:53,692 --> 00:29:55,727 - [Woman] How are you? - [Seth] How are you? 574 00:29:55,761 --> 00:29:57,063 - [Woman] All right, how are you? 575 00:29:57,096 --> 00:29:59,131 - [Seth] Doing well, good to see you. 576 00:29:59,165 --> 00:30:01,100 - [Cleda] I come back to check on you again. 577 00:30:01,133 --> 00:30:02,801 - I'm a little better than I was. 578 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:05,304 - Oh, good, that makes me feel better. 579 00:30:05,337 --> 00:30:08,407 The most important part of the job is to spend 580 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,042 that little time with the people 581 00:30:10,076 --> 00:30:13,212 and let them know that you care, that you're there, 582 00:30:13,245 --> 00:30:14,847 and that they can sit and talk, 583 00:30:14,881 --> 00:30:16,648 and visit with them for a little bit. 584 00:30:16,682 --> 00:30:18,217 - Is it hard to, with what you've got, 585 00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:19,551 the money that you've got coming in, 586 00:30:19,585 --> 00:30:21,420 to be able to afford food all the time here? 587 00:30:21,453 --> 00:30:23,522 - Yes, it sure is. 588 00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:27,126 Because once you pay your bills, you ain't got nothing. 589 00:30:27,159 --> 00:30:29,295 - [Seth] I would assume, though, you're paying rent? 590 00:30:29,328 --> 00:30:34,000 - I pay rent, I've got a water bill, an electric bill. 591 00:30:34,033 --> 00:30:35,935 Can't afford insurance. 592 00:30:38,137 --> 00:30:39,872 Of course, it'd be a good thing if I could, 593 00:30:39,906 --> 00:30:41,840 but, you know, I can't. 594 00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:45,277 - [Seth] Can you imagine what your life would be like 595 00:30:45,311 --> 00:30:47,379 if it wasn't for the help of the stuff 596 00:30:47,413 --> 00:30:48,680 that you're getting from Cleda, 597 00:30:48,714 --> 00:30:49,916 and the stuff you're getting from Susie? 598 00:30:49,949 --> 00:30:52,018 - I don't want to imagine, 599 00:30:52,051 --> 00:30:54,887 because I know I couldn't make it. 600 00:30:56,522 --> 00:30:58,090 I mean, I'm just plain, you know. 601 00:30:58,124 --> 00:30:59,458 - That's a fact. 602 00:31:00,626 --> 00:31:02,628 - I don't know what people's going to do, 603 00:31:02,661 --> 00:31:04,763 times is getting so hard. 604 00:31:07,466 --> 00:31:09,168 - Of the four grandchildren that you're raising right now, 605 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:11,503 are their parents around? 606 00:31:11,537 --> 00:31:14,073 - [Woman] Somewhere. - [Seth] Somewhere? 607 00:31:14,106 --> 00:31:15,141 - But I don't know, they belong 608 00:31:15,174 --> 00:31:16,775 to my daughter, so I don't know. 609 00:31:16,808 --> 00:31:18,844 Well, one of them belongs to Jamie. 610 00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:20,646 - So you got three of them here now? 611 00:31:20,679 --> 00:31:22,248 - Now, but she's here too. 612 00:31:22,281 --> 00:31:24,383 - Yeah, but I mean, the three of them right now. 613 00:31:24,416 --> 00:31:27,486 - Yeah. - It's gotta be tough, right? 614 00:31:27,519 --> 00:31:29,855 To raise three additional mouths, 615 00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:33,892 with what you're feeding and what you're making? 616 00:31:33,926 --> 00:31:34,994 - Sure it is. 617 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:39,898 (rain hitting the ground) 618 00:31:40,967 --> 00:31:42,168 - There's a lot of grandparents 619 00:31:42,201 --> 00:31:43,702 that are raising their grandchildren. 620 00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:46,905 And so there, again, that goes into their limited resources 621 00:31:46,939 --> 00:31:49,408 that they have for food. 622 00:31:49,441 --> 00:31:52,544 So, I mean, I'm sure money is very, very tight, 623 00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:54,213 for many, many families for food. 624 00:31:54,246 --> 00:31:55,581 (knocking on door) 625 00:31:55,614 --> 00:31:57,616 - [Seth] And you've got your grandchildren living with you now? 626 00:31:57,649 --> 00:31:59,118 - I did have five of them. 627 00:31:59,151 --> 00:32:00,519 They just moved out. 628 00:32:00,552 --> 00:32:02,354 - [Seth] Okay, but you still have one. 629 00:32:02,388 --> 00:32:03,589 - Uh-huh. 630 00:32:03,622 --> 00:32:06,358 Well, that's a grandson and a great-grandson. 631 00:32:06,392 --> 00:32:08,027 - [Seth] Oh, you have a grandson? 632 00:32:08,060 --> 00:32:11,763 Is it hard sometimes to feed all the mouths in here? 633 00:32:11,797 --> 00:32:13,799 - It was, it really was. 634 00:32:14,967 --> 00:32:16,969 There was 12 of us here. 635 00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:20,039 And it was, yeah. 636 00:32:20,072 --> 00:32:22,208 We did a lot of cooking, though. 637 00:32:22,241 --> 00:32:24,643 Wasn't much snacks, it was cooking. 638 00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:26,045 - When the kids come to school every day, 639 00:32:26,078 --> 00:32:27,746 they get breakfast and lunch at school, so then 640 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:30,282 the grandparents would just have to feed them at night. 641 00:32:30,316 --> 00:32:33,319 Obviously then having to feed them three meals a day, 642 00:32:33,352 --> 00:32:37,023 when they're out of school or during bad weather days, 643 00:32:37,056 --> 00:32:39,391 I'm sure, has been very, very hard on these families. 644 00:32:39,425 --> 00:32:41,093 - [Seth] You know, one guy said if I told you 645 00:32:41,127 --> 00:32:42,661 that six million seniors go hungry every day, 646 00:32:42,694 --> 00:32:43,929 one of his responses was, 647 00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:47,799 "Well, you know, I guess that's their choice." 648 00:32:47,833 --> 00:32:50,302 What would your response be to that person who said, 649 00:32:50,336 --> 00:32:52,604 "Well, I guess that's your choice that you didn't eat." 650 00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,373 - Go knock on that one door. 651 00:32:54,406 --> 00:32:56,842 You'll see that that person doesn't have a choice. 652 00:32:56,875 --> 00:33:00,012 They're not making a choice between eating and not eating. 653 00:33:00,046 --> 00:33:01,447 They may be making a choice 654 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,749 between eating and paying the rent. 655 00:33:03,782 --> 00:33:05,751 They may be making a choice between eating 656 00:33:05,784 --> 00:33:07,553 and taking their medication. 657 00:33:07,586 --> 00:33:09,855 It's not a choice. 658 00:33:09,888 --> 00:33:12,558 - Before I went blind, I volunteered a lot. 659 00:33:12,591 --> 00:33:17,463 I worked, I volunteered for Susie at the Food Bank 660 00:33:17,496 --> 00:33:20,232 and the senior citizen building. 661 00:33:20,266 --> 00:33:22,934 I helped at the Catholic church. 662 00:33:28,907 --> 00:33:33,345 - Which is those one crackers that we had Saturday? 663 00:33:33,379 --> 00:33:37,183 We could use more services of people bringing food in. 664 00:33:37,216 --> 00:33:39,685 We used to have it with some groups that came 665 00:33:39,718 --> 00:33:42,321 to work on houses and do the other ministries 666 00:33:42,354 --> 00:33:46,525 that they do, and would bring us lots of food items, too. 667 00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:50,796 That's been cut down somewhat. 668 00:33:50,829 --> 00:33:55,101 But we could certainly use more resources to get food, 669 00:33:55,134 --> 00:33:57,536 and help to get the food, too. 670 00:33:57,569 --> 00:34:00,739 It's a big job to go 160 miles round trip, 671 00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:02,941 and pack a trailer and pack a truck, 672 00:34:02,974 --> 00:34:07,279 and, you know, we could certainly use any resource 673 00:34:07,313 --> 00:34:09,315 that would come our way. 674 00:34:11,450 --> 00:34:14,253 There is a problem with people having a lot of pride 675 00:34:14,286 --> 00:34:17,223 here in eastern Kentucky, especially. 676 00:34:17,256 --> 00:34:20,659 And they don't like to come and ask for food. 677 00:34:20,692 --> 00:34:22,128 We try to make it as pleasant 678 00:34:22,161 --> 00:34:23,462 when someone comes to the food bank. 679 00:34:23,495 --> 00:34:24,796 We have a good time. 680 00:34:24,830 --> 00:34:27,866 We joke with people, and we pat them on the back, 681 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:32,070 and we hug them, and we try to let them know that they are 682 00:34:34,606 --> 00:34:36,007 a special person. 683 00:34:45,251 --> 00:34:46,718 - Thank you, man. 684 00:34:46,752 --> 00:34:50,088 - Pride is something that we do within ourselves, 685 00:34:50,122 --> 00:34:54,426 and sometimes we can't help ourselves, we need help, 686 00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,629 and that's what a lot of our senior citizens, 687 00:34:57,663 --> 00:34:59,465 the pride we stump out of them, 688 00:34:59,498 --> 00:35:02,601 because they don't have the funding to buy the food, 689 00:35:02,634 --> 00:35:05,371 buy their medicine, pay their rent, 690 00:35:05,404 --> 00:35:07,673 and pay their utility bills. 691 00:35:07,706 --> 00:35:10,142 So their food is one thing, and they don't reach out 692 00:35:10,176 --> 00:35:12,811 and holler, I'm hungry. 693 00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:16,782 So, that's the pride, and we want them to keep that pride. 694 00:35:16,815 --> 00:35:18,650 So when we take a bag of food to them, 695 00:35:18,684 --> 00:35:21,052 we just talk to them, we don't say, here's your free food. 696 00:35:21,086 --> 00:35:22,688 We don't say stuff like that. 697 00:35:22,721 --> 00:35:24,423 We say, how are you today? 698 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:27,726 No matter how hard it is on them, they're happy. 699 00:35:27,759 --> 00:35:28,994 They're good people, and they make the best 700 00:35:29,027 --> 00:35:31,430 of what they've got. 701 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:34,633 And that just makes you wanna do more. 702 00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:39,037 Organizations are just not giving 703 00:35:39,070 --> 00:35:41,973 any more to small programs. 704 00:35:42,007 --> 00:35:43,008 And I'm going to start crying. 705 00:35:43,041 --> 00:35:44,343 Let's stop right there. 706 00:35:44,376 --> 00:35:45,344 - [Seth] It's okay to cry. 707 00:35:45,377 --> 00:35:46,745 (Cleda laughs) 708 00:35:46,778 --> 00:35:50,482 - I guess I really am emotional about this program, 709 00:35:50,516 --> 00:35:52,251 and about what we do. 710 00:35:55,053 --> 00:35:57,556 I just wish more people would. 711 00:35:58,424 --> 00:36:01,260 Just get out here and see it. 712 00:36:01,293 --> 00:36:03,795 It doesn't take a lot of time. 713 00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,033 - Well, we just left Booneville, 714 00:36:08,066 --> 00:36:09,901 and been on the road for about an hour now. 715 00:36:09,935 --> 00:36:14,273 It's one of things, I guess it's a little bittersweet. 716 00:36:14,306 --> 00:36:18,744 You see some great things, you see some really sad things. 717 00:36:18,777 --> 00:36:22,548 But the people there, friendliest, nicest, 718 00:36:22,581 --> 00:36:25,884 nonjudgmental people I've ever met in my entire life. 719 00:36:25,917 --> 00:36:29,355 I sincerely hope I make it back sometime. 720 00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:36,462 Once I had confirmation that senior hunger 721 00:36:36,495 --> 00:36:39,331 is not an economic issue but an American one, 722 00:36:39,365 --> 00:36:40,566 it was time to start looking 723 00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:42,934 into the way we treat our seniors. 724 00:36:42,968 --> 00:36:44,202 And there's no better state in this country 725 00:36:44,236 --> 00:36:46,004 more equipped to deal with senior issues 726 00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,706 than the Sunshine State. 727 00:36:47,739 --> 00:36:50,909 So it was time to head to Florida. 728 00:36:50,942 --> 00:36:54,513 - I think that's very important for seniors 729 00:36:55,647 --> 00:36:57,816 to have social activities. 730 00:37:00,319 --> 00:37:02,153 - I'm very independent, so. 731 00:37:02,187 --> 00:37:03,655 Let's put it that way. 732 00:37:03,689 --> 00:37:07,759 As long as I can do my art, I can carry my own weight, 733 00:37:07,793 --> 00:37:09,461 I wanna be that way. 734 00:37:13,198 --> 00:37:17,369 - [Woman] These here, everybody gets one, one each. 735 00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:23,074 - [Seth] How important is something like this, 736 00:37:23,108 --> 00:37:27,012 for the seniors to be a part of in coming here? 737 00:37:28,213 --> 00:37:30,081 - Oh, I think it's extremely important, 738 00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:33,251 because of what it allows them to do. 739 00:37:33,285 --> 00:37:35,321 Attention, everyone. 740 00:37:35,354 --> 00:37:37,789 Oh my, we are so happy you all are here today. 741 00:37:37,823 --> 00:37:40,892 It allows them to get out of their homes each day. 742 00:37:40,926 --> 00:37:43,495 They're guaranteed a hot meal. 743 00:37:43,529 --> 00:37:46,898 Socializing, just meeting with other people. 744 00:37:46,932 --> 00:37:50,035 Forming relationships, friendships. 745 00:37:50,068 --> 00:37:52,838 You know, it keeps them from being depressed. 746 00:37:52,871 --> 00:37:55,140 A lot of times when you're sitting home as a senior, 747 00:37:55,173 --> 00:37:58,276 you tend to concentrate too much on your illnesses 748 00:37:58,310 --> 00:38:00,211 and things of that nature. 749 00:38:00,245 --> 00:38:04,750 - The socialization is as important as the nutrition. 750 00:38:04,783 --> 00:38:08,854 Being able to be around people that are like you, 751 00:38:09,988 --> 00:38:11,990 have a common interest, a common bond. 752 00:38:12,023 --> 00:38:13,158 - [Woman] Right, right! 753 00:38:13,191 --> 00:38:15,361 (seniors cheering and laughing) 754 00:38:15,394 --> 00:38:16,595 - [Seth] Very good, Jamie. 755 00:38:16,628 --> 00:38:18,630 - Wait, wait, like this, you open. 756 00:38:18,664 --> 00:38:20,466 - Oh, well, come on now. 757 00:38:20,499 --> 00:38:21,633 (seniors laughing) 758 00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:24,736 - We're talking about quality of life. 759 00:38:26,171 --> 00:38:27,639 (seniors laughing) 760 00:38:27,673 --> 00:38:29,775 - When you realize how many of them are widows or widowers, 761 00:38:29,808 --> 00:38:33,379 and a lot of them live alone, and by that, I mean, 762 00:38:33,412 --> 00:38:37,115 even though a lot of them live with family members, 763 00:38:37,148 --> 00:38:38,950 it's family members who have other lives. 764 00:38:38,984 --> 00:38:41,052 They go to work, kids go to school. 765 00:38:41,086 --> 00:38:44,322 And that person, that senior person, is sitting there alone, 766 00:38:44,356 --> 00:38:49,127 so this is something for them to do and still feel involved. 767 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,197 - There are a lot of community resources, services, 768 00:38:52,230 --> 00:38:53,932 that are available for older adults. 769 00:38:53,965 --> 00:38:56,067 I mean, there's the Meals on Wheels, 770 00:38:56,101 --> 00:38:58,136 and there's nutrition sites, and there's senior centers, 771 00:38:58,169 --> 00:39:01,540 and there's councils on aging, and there's the area agency 772 00:39:01,573 --> 00:39:05,343 on aging that provides a lot of services in communities 773 00:39:05,377 --> 00:39:06,945 for older adults, but a lot of times 774 00:39:06,978 --> 00:39:08,714 it's that older adult that doesn't realize 775 00:39:08,747 --> 00:39:10,616 those services are available. 776 00:39:10,649 --> 00:39:11,683 - All right, are we ready? 777 00:39:11,717 --> 00:39:13,552 - [All] Yeah! 778 00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:16,221 - Some of them just come exercise. 779 00:39:16,254 --> 00:39:18,390 Some come just to play Bingo, 780 00:39:18,424 --> 00:39:21,427 because we have Bingo and we give prizes. 781 00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:24,062 We also have a very active exercise group 782 00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:26,765 across the hall that, you heard of Zumba? 783 00:39:26,798 --> 00:39:28,500 - [Seth] I have heard of Zumba. - Well, we do Zumba now. 784 00:39:28,534 --> 00:39:30,669 - [Seth] Really? - Yes! 785 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:34,440 - In first place, we have Rosebuds with nine. 786 00:39:36,475 --> 00:39:38,710 (cheering) 787 00:39:44,983 --> 00:39:47,419 Repeating, the repeat champs. 788 00:39:52,624 --> 00:39:56,795 - When we were here earlier, and I saw some of the folks 789 00:39:56,828 --> 00:40:00,365 in your group here, and to see everyone saying hi 790 00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,901 to each other, everyone waving at each other, smiling, 791 00:40:02,934 --> 00:40:05,270 even though there was this language barrier, 792 00:40:05,303 --> 00:40:09,608 it seemed that there was this, again, camaraderie of people. 793 00:40:09,641 --> 00:40:12,043 - The friendship, we all are human beings. 794 00:40:12,077 --> 00:40:15,180 And we all come here together, just like a family. 795 00:40:15,213 --> 00:40:18,316 - We seniors need our senior friends. 796 00:40:21,152 --> 00:40:22,921 - We do Meals on Wheels. 797 00:40:22,954 --> 00:40:26,558 We do neighborhood lunch, AKA congregate meals. 798 00:40:26,592 --> 00:40:29,595 We do case management, we do guardianship. 799 00:40:29,628 --> 00:40:31,129 We do home improvement. 800 00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:34,733 We do homemaker services, personal care services. 801 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:38,403 We've got about 170 employees in the state of Florida, 802 00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:40,539 and the funding, it's backwards. 803 00:40:40,572 --> 00:40:43,108 There's more of a bias on the funding site 804 00:40:43,141 --> 00:40:45,110 for the institutional nursing home side 805 00:40:45,143 --> 00:40:47,145 than there is for the community-based side. 806 00:40:47,178 --> 00:40:49,915 And so what we're trying to do is educate legislators, 807 00:40:49,948 --> 00:40:52,918 you know, on that, to see if we can rebalance some 808 00:40:52,951 --> 00:40:55,521 of the budget, so that, if you put a little bit more 809 00:40:55,554 --> 00:40:58,223 on the prevention side, in terms of, you know, 810 00:40:58,256 --> 00:41:00,792 I'm not even talking about wellness kinds of issues. 811 00:41:00,826 --> 00:41:03,128 We're talking about basic needs, as far as 812 00:41:03,161 --> 00:41:05,731 making sure you have groceries, your house is cleaned, 813 00:41:05,764 --> 00:41:07,766 you know, you're clean, as far as personal care. 814 00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:11,302 You can get to the doctor, you can socialize, those kinds of things. 815 00:41:11,336 --> 00:41:13,071 It makes a huge difference. 816 00:41:13,104 --> 00:41:17,843 And the cost analysis related to that, it's just phenomenal. 817 00:41:17,876 --> 00:41:20,979 I mean, it's 10 times more expensive to put somebody 818 00:41:21,012 --> 00:41:22,948 in a nursing home as it is to put somebody, 819 00:41:22,981 --> 00:41:24,650 you know, to pay for community-based care. 820 00:41:24,683 --> 00:41:27,118 - Of course, government always wanna do something 821 00:41:27,152 --> 00:41:30,455 for the seniors, for the kids, but it's always 822 00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:32,390 missing that element, you know. 823 00:41:32,423 --> 00:41:34,726 And Seniors First was that element 824 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,696 that puts everything together. 825 00:41:37,729 --> 00:41:40,899 (chanting in Spanish) 826 00:41:58,416 --> 00:41:59,951 - This is like a second family, 827 00:41:59,985 --> 00:42:04,522 because we get along together, and we miss each other. 828 00:42:04,556 --> 00:42:08,660 Like if I don't come to for two days a week, what happened? 829 00:42:08,694 --> 00:42:09,895 - It's great to come over here. 830 00:42:09,928 --> 00:42:11,396 I wish more people came to visit them. 831 00:42:11,429 --> 00:42:14,299 And you see them, immediately, that smile from ear to ear, 832 00:42:14,332 --> 00:42:17,603 coming up, and it tells you, you know, 833 00:42:17,636 --> 00:42:19,137 they're needing that attention. 834 00:42:19,170 --> 00:42:21,539 They come here, because they're looking to commingle, 835 00:42:21,573 --> 00:42:26,111 to have some company, to fill that gap that is empty 836 00:42:26,144 --> 00:42:30,015 by families that no longer pays attention to them. 837 00:42:30,048 --> 00:42:33,218 So I think, it only takes us a little bit of time. 838 00:42:33,251 --> 00:42:35,453 We all owe it to them. 839 00:42:35,486 --> 00:42:37,889 Look and see who you can help who's next to you. 840 00:42:37,923 --> 00:42:39,457 - [Seth] Tell me how important this facility 841 00:42:39,490 --> 00:42:41,192 and the lunch program are in terms 842 00:42:41,226 --> 00:42:44,730 of the social interaction that the seniors get here. 843 00:42:44,763 --> 00:42:47,766 - For some of them, it's the only social interaction 844 00:42:47,799 --> 00:42:51,169 that they have, and this is their family, 845 00:42:51,202 --> 00:42:52,771 this is their social network. 846 00:42:52,804 --> 00:42:54,239 That's all they have. 847 00:42:54,272 --> 00:42:56,507 I treat them as though they were my family, 848 00:42:56,541 --> 00:43:00,145 and I think that's what they want, that's what they need. 849 00:43:00,178 --> 00:43:02,914 A lot of them are alone. There's no one else. 850 00:43:02,948 --> 00:43:07,118 It's not only that they appreciate me and like me, 851 00:43:09,655 --> 00:43:12,523 I appreciate them, and I care for them too. 852 00:43:12,557 --> 00:43:14,626 So, that's my main thing. 853 00:43:16,094 --> 00:43:20,331 I come in and I spend time with people that I care about. 854 00:43:20,365 --> 00:43:22,333 And that's important to me. 855 00:43:22,367 --> 00:43:24,836 - How did you find out about a place like 856 00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:27,272 the senior center here in Englewood? 857 00:43:27,305 --> 00:43:30,976 (speaking in Spanish) 858 00:43:34,212 --> 00:43:36,614 If a place like this didn't exist, 859 00:43:36,648 --> 00:43:38,216 what would you be doing right now? 860 00:43:38,249 --> 00:43:41,252 (salsa music) 861 00:43:41,286 --> 00:43:44,723 (speaking in Spanish) 862 00:43:44,756 --> 00:43:46,557 - [Translator] She said she would be gone. 863 00:43:46,591 --> 00:43:47,926 - [Seth] Really? 864 00:43:47,959 --> 00:43:50,796 That's how much this means to you? 865 00:43:57,168 --> 00:43:59,304 Why do we have so much ageism in this country? 866 00:43:59,337 --> 00:44:02,974 Why are people not involved in the lives of seniors? 867 00:44:03,008 --> 00:44:06,177 - Same thing we do to disabled people. 868 00:44:08,213 --> 00:44:12,217 They don't fit the mold, so we put them aside. 869 00:44:12,250 --> 00:44:14,219 And that's terrible. 870 00:44:14,252 --> 00:44:17,622 We don't look at the real nature of human beings, 871 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:19,657 and it's because of the greed. 872 00:44:19,691 --> 00:44:24,329 It's because of we get so involved in the everyday, 873 00:44:24,362 --> 00:44:26,765 wanting to do more to prosper, 874 00:44:26,798 --> 00:44:30,802 but we forget those who are next to us in a way. 875 00:44:31,937 --> 00:44:33,371 - [Seth] After all this talk about pushing 876 00:44:33,404 --> 00:44:34,605 our seniors to the side, 877 00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:36,775 treating them as second-class citizens, 878 00:44:36,808 --> 00:44:39,811 I wanted to find something that actually celebrated seniors. 879 00:44:39,845 --> 00:44:42,247 And it just so happened that the Florida competition 880 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:43,548 of the Miss Senior America Pageant 881 00:44:43,581 --> 00:44:45,650 was taking place while we were there. 882 00:44:45,683 --> 00:44:46,885 You're Kim? 883 00:44:46,918 --> 00:44:48,419 - [Kimberly] It's Kimberly Moore. 884 00:44:48,453 --> 00:44:51,256 - Kimberly Moore, you're the reigning Ms. Senior America? 885 00:44:51,289 --> 00:44:52,390 - That's correct. 886 00:44:52,423 --> 00:44:54,292 - And you are absolutely beautiful. 887 00:44:54,325 --> 00:44:56,161 - Oh, thank you, Seth. - [Seth] How old are you? 888 00:44:56,194 --> 00:44:58,129 - I am 61, I'll be 62 in July. 889 00:44:58,163 --> 00:44:59,330 - [Seth] Really? 890 00:44:59,364 --> 00:45:01,499 - Now my mission really is to go out 891 00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:04,736 to senior communities and to speak with people, 892 00:45:04,770 --> 00:45:07,405 men as well as women, about aging. 893 00:45:07,438 --> 00:45:10,441 We can age gracefully with elegance. 894 00:45:29,327 --> 00:45:33,031 (audience applauds) 895 00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:34,800 - My name is David Gilbert. 896 00:45:34,833 --> 00:45:37,502 I'm Vice President of the Miss Florida Pageant 897 00:45:37,535 --> 00:45:39,004 for Miss America. 898 00:45:39,037 --> 00:45:40,138 And I'm here judging 899 00:45:40,171 --> 00:45:43,074 the Miss Florida Senior America Pageant. 900 00:45:43,108 --> 00:45:45,877 I think we have a long way to go, 901 00:45:45,911 --> 00:45:49,981 as far as really appreciating our elderly population, 902 00:45:50,015 --> 00:45:52,383 but I think we are headed in the right direction. 903 00:45:52,417 --> 00:45:54,519 And I think this type of thing really gives some 904 00:45:54,552 --> 00:45:57,355 of these ladies and their husbands and their kids 905 00:45:57,388 --> 00:46:01,359 and their friends a little bit of an extra reason 906 00:46:01,392 --> 00:46:02,828 to get up in the morning and say, 907 00:46:02,861 --> 00:46:04,662 "Listen, I have an awful lot to offer. 908 00:46:04,695 --> 00:46:08,566 "I may be retired, I may be 60, 70, 80, 90," 909 00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:11,669 like one of them we have in the pageant here, 910 00:46:11,702 --> 00:46:13,704 but they have something to offer 911 00:46:13,738 --> 00:46:15,473 and something that we can all learn from. 912 00:46:15,506 --> 00:46:18,176 So I totally support these. 913 00:46:18,209 --> 00:46:19,845 I'm 100% for them. 914 00:46:19,878 --> 00:46:22,380 (piano music) 915 00:46:25,450 --> 00:46:28,186 - I have three children, five grandchildren, 916 00:46:28,219 --> 00:46:29,287 seven great-grandchildren. 917 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,755 I play the piano. 918 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:33,024 I play bridge three times, four times a week. 919 00:46:33,058 --> 00:46:34,292 - Is this answer as simple 920 00:46:34,325 --> 00:46:37,028 as staying active and socialization? 921 00:46:37,062 --> 00:46:38,263 - That's it. 922 00:46:38,296 --> 00:46:39,797 - I bet you, if you ask anybody in this room, 923 00:46:39,831 --> 00:46:42,600 in their mind, if they feel 70 or over, 924 00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:44,235 they're gonna say no. 925 00:46:44,269 --> 00:46:45,503 They're gonna say no. 926 00:46:45,536 --> 00:46:47,738 - [Seth] You ladies are a classy bunch. 927 00:46:47,772 --> 00:46:50,208 And it's a pleasure for me to know you. 928 00:46:50,241 --> 00:46:51,376 - [All] Thank you. 929 00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:54,412 (audience applauds) 930 00:46:55,713 --> 00:46:56,915 - [Seth] My last question for you then is, 931 00:46:56,948 --> 00:46:59,117 what do you tell my generation and younger 932 00:46:59,150 --> 00:47:01,119 about their attitudes toward seniors. 933 00:47:01,152 --> 00:47:02,353 How should we look at seniors? 934 00:47:02,387 --> 00:47:03,554 How should we act towards seniors? 935 00:47:03,588 --> 00:47:04,755 What should we think? 936 00:47:04,789 --> 00:47:07,392 - What you have to know is we are a plethora 937 00:47:07,425 --> 00:47:09,895 of experience and information. 938 00:47:09,928 --> 00:47:12,530 Use it, take advantage of it. 939 00:47:12,563 --> 00:47:14,532 We may not seem like we know a lot, 940 00:47:14,565 --> 00:47:17,435 but we do, and that's where your source 941 00:47:17,468 --> 00:47:19,170 of knowledge is gonna come from, 942 00:47:19,204 --> 00:47:22,107 all of us who are in the age of elegance. 943 00:47:22,140 --> 00:47:23,408 - [Seth] You know what, I'm a hugger. 944 00:47:23,441 --> 00:47:25,210 I hope you are too. Do you mind? 945 00:47:25,243 --> 00:47:27,045 - You bet your boots! 946 00:47:27,078 --> 00:47:28,179 Thank you so much! 947 00:47:28,213 --> 00:47:29,981 Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so excited. 948 00:47:30,015 --> 00:47:31,182 - I'm so happy. 949 00:47:31,216 --> 00:47:33,851 - Most of them are waiting for that love, 950 00:47:33,885 --> 00:47:35,686 for that attention, you know? 951 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,255 They feed from that. 952 00:47:37,288 --> 00:47:40,158 And it only takes us a little bit of time. 953 00:47:40,191 --> 00:47:41,292 A little bit of time. 954 00:47:41,326 --> 00:47:42,493 I sit down with some of them, 955 00:47:42,527 --> 00:47:45,363 and I just speak to them for a few seconds, 956 00:47:45,396 --> 00:47:46,731 and to them, that's the world. 957 00:47:46,764 --> 00:47:48,333 And they'll remember you for life, 958 00:47:48,366 --> 00:47:51,236 just because of that little bit of time you spent with them. 959 00:47:51,269 --> 00:47:53,171 And they're so much fun. 960 00:47:53,204 --> 00:47:55,073 And sometimes I come over and say, how you feel? 961 00:47:55,106 --> 00:47:57,808 And some of them will say, "I'm always happy." 962 00:47:57,842 --> 00:47:59,677 Some of them will tell you, well, I have this problem, 963 00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:02,847 or this and that, but after you're done talking to them, 964 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,116 they feel better, and you can see it. 965 00:48:05,150 --> 00:48:07,618 It's almost like they get uplifted. 966 00:48:07,652 --> 00:48:09,654 And that's great, that's great. 967 00:48:09,687 --> 00:48:12,190 Plus, as a human being, as a person, 968 00:48:12,223 --> 00:48:14,725 you leave with such a sense of satisfaction. 969 00:48:14,759 --> 00:48:18,930 So I think that would be great medicine for anybody. 970 00:48:24,535 --> 00:48:27,705 (strong wind blowing) 971 00:48:51,696 --> 00:48:53,731 - Hey, I'm well. 972 00:48:53,764 --> 00:48:55,033 Can I have Hank, please? 973 00:48:55,066 --> 00:48:56,034 Hi, Seth. 974 00:48:56,067 --> 00:48:57,135 - Seth, nice to meet you. 975 00:48:57,168 --> 00:48:59,037 - Nice to meet you. 976 00:48:59,070 --> 00:49:02,140 - This is a 60,000 square-foot facility, yes, sir. 977 00:49:02,173 --> 00:49:03,308 60,000 square feet. 978 00:49:03,341 --> 00:49:06,011 - That's huge. - Right, it is. 979 00:49:06,044 --> 00:49:08,713 This facility will hold about two million pounds 980 00:49:08,746 --> 00:49:10,648 of food at any one time. 981 00:49:10,681 --> 00:49:11,882 - [Seth] Two million pounds? 982 00:49:11,916 --> 00:49:13,718 Does that food sit around for a while? 983 00:49:13,751 --> 00:49:15,320 - No, it turns every month. 984 00:49:15,353 --> 00:49:17,055 - [Seth] Really? 985 00:49:17,088 --> 00:49:21,259 - Last year, we distributed 24 million pounds of food. 986 00:49:25,863 --> 00:49:28,366 We as a nation threw away 96 billion pounds 987 00:49:28,399 --> 00:49:29,867 of food last year. 988 00:49:29,900 --> 00:49:32,737 - That's a number that I keep hearing over and over again. 989 00:49:32,770 --> 00:49:36,374 I have heard on a conservative estimate, between 50 and 70. 990 00:49:36,407 --> 00:49:37,875 - 50 and 70. 991 00:49:37,908 --> 00:49:40,845 - But I have heard that it's probably more likely 992 00:49:40,878 --> 00:49:42,947 96 billion pounds of food every year. 993 00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:46,084 - If it's between 50 and 70, that would be over 200 pounds 994 00:49:46,117 --> 00:49:47,885 of food for every man, woman, and child 995 00:49:47,918 --> 00:49:48,919 in the United States. 996 00:49:48,953 --> 00:49:50,088 Think about that. 997 00:49:50,121 --> 00:49:52,290 - The thing to remember, I always say this, 998 00:49:52,323 --> 00:49:54,959 that there's enough food in this country 999 00:49:54,992 --> 00:49:57,995 to feed every man, woman, and child. 1000 00:49:59,164 --> 00:50:00,598 We just need the courage to do it. 1001 00:50:00,631 --> 00:50:01,899 And that's all it takes. 1002 00:50:01,932 --> 00:50:03,901 - [Seth] There's enough that gets thrown away 1003 00:50:03,934 --> 00:50:05,636 that can feed every man, woman, and child, too. 1004 00:50:05,670 --> 00:50:06,771 - That's right. 1005 00:50:06,804 --> 00:50:07,838 Yeah, that's right. 1006 00:50:07,872 --> 00:50:09,307 We have kind of crazy policies. 1007 00:50:09,340 --> 00:50:12,677 We're not thinking ahead, we're not thinking strategically. 1008 00:50:12,710 --> 00:50:15,546 (machine humming) 1009 00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:24,422 - We are woefully low on cooler and freezer space. 1010 00:50:24,455 --> 00:50:26,624 That is our biggest bottleneck right now. 1011 00:50:26,657 --> 00:50:28,993 The thing we can't afford to do, 1012 00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:31,196 is when somebody calls and says, 1013 00:50:31,229 --> 00:50:35,600 "I've got a truckload of frozen chicken, can you take it?" 1014 00:50:35,633 --> 00:50:37,602 I don't wanna say no. 1015 00:50:37,635 --> 00:50:39,070 - Have you had to say no? 1016 00:50:39,104 --> 00:50:42,440 - Oh, absolutely, we have had to say no. 1017 00:50:46,577 --> 00:50:49,114 This is where food gets staged to go out, 1018 00:50:49,147 --> 00:50:51,482 and this is where loads of food come in. 1019 00:50:51,516 --> 00:50:56,387 So we got a truckload, and I don't know who this is from. 1020 00:50:56,421 --> 00:50:57,888 Looks like we've got a lot of watermelons. 1021 00:50:57,922 --> 00:50:59,624 I see a lot of watermelons. 1022 00:50:59,657 --> 00:51:03,761 All this other stuff is designed to go somewhere on Monday. 1023 00:51:08,533 --> 00:51:12,036 - We've been frustrated by how congressmen 1024 00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:15,740 and senators are not getting it. 1025 00:51:17,007 --> 00:51:19,610 That they just don't understand the struggles 1026 00:51:19,644 --> 00:51:22,747 of vulnerable people and disadvantaged older people. 1027 00:51:22,780 --> 00:51:24,582 That these are just statistics. 1028 00:51:24,615 --> 00:51:26,551 These aren't just numbers. 1029 00:51:26,584 --> 00:51:29,754 And when you cut a program such as Meals on Wheels 1030 00:51:29,787 --> 00:51:33,324 or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 1031 00:51:33,358 --> 00:51:37,462 you are going to be making more people go hungry. 1032 00:51:39,029 --> 00:51:40,965 - [Seth] You're 65? 1033 00:51:40,998 --> 00:51:42,167 - [Hank] Yeah. 1034 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,735 - [Seth] And so, you are officially a senior. 1035 00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:46,237 - [Hank] I am. 1036 00:51:46,271 --> 00:51:48,739 - And yet you're CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank. 1037 00:51:48,773 --> 00:51:50,007 - That's correct. 1038 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,876 I was seven months into my retirement. 1039 00:51:51,909 --> 00:51:53,611 The board asked if I would step in 1040 00:51:53,644 --> 00:51:55,112 and do this on an interim basis. 1041 00:51:55,146 --> 00:51:57,415 But by the time I was here for about four months, 1042 00:51:57,448 --> 00:52:00,351 working with 70 people who were passionate 1043 00:52:00,385 --> 00:52:02,019 about the hunger issue, 1044 00:52:02,052 --> 00:52:03,788 seeing the face of hunger every day 1045 00:52:03,821 --> 00:52:06,157 and talking to people who were receiving this food, 1046 00:52:06,191 --> 00:52:08,125 you get so invested in the process, 1047 00:52:08,159 --> 00:52:09,760 the board asked me to stay on. 1048 00:52:09,794 --> 00:52:11,196 When I was in the other world, 1049 00:52:11,229 --> 00:52:13,331 I was selling people on buying my integrated circuits. 1050 00:52:13,364 --> 00:52:15,032 Here, I'm out selling people on the fact 1051 00:52:15,065 --> 00:52:16,634 that hunger's unacceptable, 1052 00:52:16,667 --> 00:52:19,337 and we need to come together to do something about it. 1053 00:52:19,370 --> 00:52:21,672 - [Seth] What, honestly, what do you think the solution is? 1054 00:52:21,706 --> 00:52:23,974 - I think about this a lot. 1055 00:52:25,176 --> 00:52:28,213 I think that we have an opportunity as a country 1056 00:52:28,246 --> 00:52:30,715 to come together and reduce the amount of food 1057 00:52:30,748 --> 00:52:32,049 that's getting thrown away. 1058 00:52:32,082 --> 00:52:34,151 How do we do that? I don't know. 1059 00:52:34,185 --> 00:52:35,853 I think the President needs to appoint 1060 00:52:35,886 --> 00:52:38,689 a czar of food recovery, or something like that. 1061 00:52:38,723 --> 00:52:40,458 I'm serious right now, okay? 1062 00:52:40,491 --> 00:52:42,193 Because, you know, 1063 00:52:42,227 --> 00:52:43,961 I was talking to a woman out in Arizona here 1064 00:52:43,994 --> 00:52:45,396 a couple of months ago and she was telling me 1065 00:52:45,430 --> 00:52:47,432 how much money they spend 1066 00:52:47,465 --> 00:52:48,966 to plow lettuce into the ground, 1067 00:52:48,999 --> 00:52:50,601 because they can't get trucks 1068 00:52:50,635 --> 00:52:52,570 to take this lettuce out of Arizona. 1069 00:52:52,603 --> 00:52:54,038 We need to figure that out. 1070 00:52:54,071 --> 00:52:55,306 Nobody came to me to say, 1071 00:52:55,340 --> 00:52:56,374 "I'm gonna teach you about hunger." 1072 00:52:56,407 --> 00:52:57,608 Just like nobody came to you 1073 00:52:57,642 --> 00:52:58,876 and said, "I'm gonna teach you about hunger." 1074 00:52:58,909 --> 00:53:00,110 When you accepted the assignment, 1075 00:53:00,144 --> 00:53:03,147 you went and learned about it, right? 1076 00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:04,349 It's a tough question to answer, 1077 00:53:04,382 --> 00:53:06,116 how do you get people to understand it? 1078 00:53:06,150 --> 00:53:08,986 Somehow, the message has to get out here. 1079 00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:10,555 The three simple words that we use around here 1080 00:53:10,588 --> 00:53:13,157 all the time is, hunger is unacceptable. 1081 00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:14,792 It is just unacceptable. 1082 00:53:14,825 --> 00:53:17,595 We as a nation have to figure out 1083 00:53:18,829 --> 00:53:22,099 how to not have hunger in this country. 1084 00:53:32,643 --> 00:53:37,081 - In order to apply to get a concealed handgun license, 1085 00:53:37,114 --> 00:53:38,716 it's one page. 1086 00:53:38,749 --> 00:53:41,185 In order to apply for food stamps to get food on your table, 1087 00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:42,387 it's 18 pages. 1088 00:53:43,788 --> 00:53:45,390 - You know, I have nothing wrong 1089 00:53:45,423 --> 00:53:47,224 against people wanting to own a gun. 1090 00:53:47,258 --> 00:53:49,394 It's one of our rights. 1091 00:53:49,427 --> 00:53:50,628 - Yeah, absolutely. 1092 00:53:50,661 --> 00:53:52,497 - But something seems wrong 1093 00:53:52,530 --> 00:53:55,933 when you have 18 pages to put food on your table 1094 00:53:55,966 --> 00:53:57,702 and one page to get a gun. 1095 00:53:57,735 --> 00:53:59,169 - [Claudia] Yeah. 1096 00:54:00,805 --> 00:54:02,940 - [Seth] A lot's broken in this country. 1097 00:54:02,973 --> 00:54:04,041 - [Claudia] Quite a bit. 1098 00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:05,776 Quite a bit, yeah. 1099 00:54:05,810 --> 00:54:09,514 - How long do you think it'll take for me to fill this out? 1100 00:54:09,547 --> 00:54:13,384 - Um, I think you could sit there a good hour? 1101 00:54:14,552 --> 00:54:17,187 The biggest thing is, seniors when they apply, 1102 00:54:17,221 --> 00:54:20,991 they on average get anywhere from 16 dollars, 1103 00:54:22,192 --> 00:54:23,594 which is, I think, probably the least 1104 00:54:23,628 --> 00:54:25,663 that we've heard them receive, 1105 00:54:25,696 --> 00:54:29,233 to, I think, I've heard 70 dollars being the highest. 1106 00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:33,371 Often what we hear is, it's not worth the hassle. 1107 00:54:37,375 --> 00:54:40,645 - We need to get past that stereotype, 1108 00:54:40,678 --> 00:54:43,113 and get these folks to go in 1109 00:54:43,147 --> 00:54:45,483 and actually offer them some assistance 1110 00:54:45,516 --> 00:54:47,452 in helping them qualify, 1111 00:54:47,485 --> 00:54:49,253 and fill out the application. 1112 00:54:49,286 --> 00:54:51,055 Because even if it is only 10 dollars, 1113 00:54:51,088 --> 00:54:53,190 for a lot of people, 10 dollars, 1114 00:54:53,223 --> 00:54:56,293 you know, that's enough for them to eat for several days. 1115 00:54:56,327 --> 00:54:59,764 And so we need to convince them, 1116 00:54:59,797 --> 00:55:03,000 in whatever way we need to do that, 1117 00:55:03,033 --> 00:55:04,469 that they need to go in and apply for this. 1118 00:55:04,502 --> 00:55:06,236 Because this is not a giveaway. 1119 00:55:06,270 --> 00:55:08,138 This is something that, you know, 1120 00:55:08,172 --> 00:55:10,207 they've been paying into this system 1121 00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:11,476 as long as they've been Americans, 1122 00:55:11,509 --> 00:55:12,943 and citizens in this country, 1123 00:55:12,977 --> 00:55:16,714 and they ought to be able to have access to it. 1124 00:55:23,253 --> 00:55:27,625 - It is 7:45 in the morning here in Austin, Texas. 1125 00:55:27,658 --> 00:55:29,460 We are actually heading outside of Austin. 1126 00:55:29,494 --> 00:55:31,729 We're going to a place called Lometa, 1127 00:55:31,762 --> 00:55:32,963 which is about two hours, 1128 00:55:32,997 --> 00:55:34,098 two and a half hours outside of Austin, 1129 00:55:34,131 --> 00:55:36,501 working with the Capital Area Food Bank. 1130 00:55:36,534 --> 00:55:38,068 We're going to the First Baptist Church 1131 00:55:38,102 --> 00:55:39,904 where the food bank takes all the food 1132 00:55:39,937 --> 00:55:42,172 and seniors come and pick it up, 1133 00:55:42,206 --> 00:55:46,544 and these are people who are educators, miners, farmers, 1134 00:55:46,577 --> 00:55:48,946 and they are hungry just like everyone else. 1135 00:55:48,979 --> 00:55:50,581 And it's gonna be interesting to see 1136 00:55:50,615 --> 00:55:52,950 how this all comes together. 1137 00:55:54,585 --> 00:55:56,020 When I arrived in Lometa, 1138 00:55:56,053 --> 00:55:58,322 I was taken aback by a scene that's all too familiar. 1139 00:55:58,355 --> 00:55:59,824 It's something we've all been witness to 1140 00:55:59,857 --> 00:56:01,258 in our history books. 1141 00:56:01,291 --> 00:56:02,793 Throngs of people waiting in bread lines 1142 00:56:02,827 --> 00:56:04,429 during the Great Depression. 1143 00:56:04,462 --> 00:56:06,931 And I think seeing something like this begs the question. 1144 00:56:06,964 --> 00:56:10,535 How much progress have we really made in 75 years, 1145 00:56:10,568 --> 00:56:12,102 where our seniors have to wait in line 1146 00:56:12,136 --> 00:56:15,606 just to get food that will probably last them about a week. 1147 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,775 - [Roosevelt] The test of our progress 1148 00:56:17,808 --> 00:56:20,210 is not whether we add more 1149 00:56:20,244 --> 00:56:23,548 to the abundance of those who have much. 1150 00:56:23,581 --> 00:56:25,916 It is whether we provide enough 1151 00:56:25,950 --> 00:56:28,453 for those who have too little. 1152 00:56:29,787 --> 00:56:31,522 - [Seth] What was on the menu today? 1153 00:56:31,556 --> 00:56:34,358 I saw oranges, onions, rice. 1154 00:56:34,391 --> 00:56:36,326 - [Man] Grapefruit, cabbage. 1155 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:37,361 Pinto beans. 1156 00:56:39,864 --> 00:56:41,566 - [Seth] Spaghetti, spaghetti sauce. 1157 00:56:41,599 --> 00:56:42,800 - Yeah. 1158 00:56:42,833 --> 00:56:45,069 - [Seth] Peaches and applesauce, right? - Green beans. 1159 00:56:45,102 --> 00:56:46,971 - [Seth] You've got seniors who are not only coming here, 1160 00:56:47,004 --> 00:56:49,474 but they're going to the other food distributions around. 1161 00:56:49,507 --> 00:56:50,975 - That's our information. 1162 00:56:51,008 --> 00:56:53,210 - [Seth] Because that may be their only source of food. 1163 00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:54,411 Maybe. 1164 00:56:54,445 --> 00:56:56,013 - Well, it'll be one of the sources of food. 1165 00:56:56,046 --> 00:56:57,715 This food won't last them a week. 1166 00:56:57,748 --> 00:56:58,749 - Right. 1167 00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:03,353 I had learned that you and your husband 1168 00:57:03,387 --> 00:57:05,990 not only come to the food distribution here in Lometa, 1169 00:57:06,023 --> 00:57:08,358 but you go to some of the others. 1170 00:57:08,392 --> 00:57:09,927 How many others do you go to? 1171 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,596 - Two others. - Two others? 1172 00:57:11,629 --> 00:57:12,830 - Yeah. 1173 00:57:12,863 --> 00:57:14,064 - [Seth] So the food that you get here 1174 00:57:14,098 --> 00:57:15,065 and the food that you get at the other places, 1175 00:57:15,099 --> 00:57:17,034 how long will that last you? 1176 00:57:17,067 --> 00:57:20,337 - Uh, usually about two weeks. 1177 00:57:20,370 --> 00:57:22,206 - [Seth] Two weeks? - Or it might be a little more. 1178 00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:23,440 - And so after that food's gone, 1179 00:57:23,474 --> 00:57:24,942 then you can start all over again 1180 00:57:24,975 --> 00:57:27,545 and go back to the other places. 1181 00:57:27,578 --> 00:57:30,715 Is money that tight for you right now to be able to live? 1182 00:57:30,748 --> 00:57:34,752 - It's pretty tight. We're both on... 1183 00:57:34,785 --> 00:57:36,787 - [Seth] Social Security? - Social Security, yeah. 1184 00:57:36,821 --> 00:57:37,988 And that's it. 1185 00:57:43,894 --> 00:57:47,197 - What I think is driving a lot of this, not all of this, 1186 00:57:47,231 --> 00:57:50,134 is the rising healthcare cost. 1187 00:57:50,167 --> 00:57:54,338 Seniors between 125% of the poverty level and 200%, 1188 00:57:55,439 --> 00:57:57,908 so these are the seniors that don't qualify 1189 00:57:57,942 --> 00:58:00,878 for most of the public assistance programs, 1190 00:58:00,911 --> 00:58:03,981 they are spending 25% of their incomes now 1191 00:58:04,014 --> 00:58:05,850 on out-of-pocket healthcare costs. 1192 00:58:05,883 --> 00:58:06,851 - [Seth] 25? 1193 00:58:06,884 --> 00:58:08,886 - 25% of their total incomes 1194 00:58:08,919 --> 00:58:11,088 on out-of-pocket healthcare costs, on average. 1195 00:58:11,121 --> 00:58:12,256 - [Seth] Did you think though, 1196 00:58:12,289 --> 00:58:13,624 when you were making the good money 1197 00:58:13,658 --> 00:58:15,526 and you were saving for retirement and all that, 1198 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:17,394 that you would be in a position 1199 00:58:17,427 --> 00:58:19,396 to where you would need to come to a food-- 1200 00:58:19,429 --> 00:58:20,631 - [Woman] No, no. 1201 00:58:20,665 --> 00:58:21,966 - [Seth] You thought you planned well? 1202 00:58:21,999 --> 00:58:23,467 - Yeah. 1203 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:25,269 I never dreamed that I'd be coming to a food bank. 1204 00:58:25,302 --> 00:58:27,137 - [Seth] Does that make you a little upset, 1205 00:58:27,171 --> 00:58:29,506 that you're at a point now where you've retired. 1206 00:58:29,540 --> 00:58:31,441 And now you have to work. 1207 00:58:31,475 --> 00:58:34,344 You can't enjoy your retirement years 1208 00:58:34,378 --> 00:58:36,547 because you have to work to try to keep 1209 00:58:36,581 --> 00:58:37,782 your head above water. 1210 00:58:37,815 --> 00:58:40,951 - At our age, nobody wants to hire us, 1211 00:58:40,985 --> 00:58:44,488 because we are retired, and we're over 65. 1212 00:58:46,290 --> 00:58:48,959 - In a small town like we are, 1213 00:58:48,993 --> 00:58:51,428 if somebody falls and breaks their leg 1214 00:58:51,461 --> 00:58:54,699 and is gonna be laid up for a while, 1215 00:58:54,732 --> 00:58:58,669 we as a community will minister to them. 1216 00:58:58,703 --> 00:59:00,805 But you get in a big city, 1217 00:59:02,239 --> 00:59:04,575 then you don't even know your neighbors. 1218 00:59:04,609 --> 00:59:06,944 Most poor people are givers. 1219 00:59:07,845 --> 00:59:09,013 They're willing to share. 1220 00:59:09,046 --> 00:59:10,247 If they have an apple, 1221 00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,383 they'll cut it in half and give you part of it. 1222 00:59:13,417 --> 00:59:16,621 - Between the oranges, grapefruit, onions and cabbage, 1223 00:59:16,654 --> 00:59:18,689 this is all that's left that's been distributed, 1224 00:59:18,723 --> 00:59:20,991 and this stuff will all go back now 1225 00:59:21,025 --> 00:59:22,827 to the Capital Area Food Bank 1226 00:59:22,860 --> 00:59:25,162 and be redistributed out to other food banks 1227 00:59:25,195 --> 00:59:27,431 so that other people in the area will get it. 1228 00:59:27,464 --> 00:59:29,867 So I think all in all, being out here in Lometa, 1229 00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:31,335 it was a pretty successful day 1230 00:59:31,368 --> 00:59:34,104 with the stuff that got distributed out, 1231 00:59:34,138 --> 00:59:36,273 and making sure that at least today, 1232 00:59:36,306 --> 00:59:38,142 seniors aren't going hungry. 1233 00:59:38,175 --> 00:59:39,744 So it's a good day. 1234 01:00:01,465 --> 01:00:04,835 - It's really critical that we really return to that idea 1235 01:00:04,869 --> 01:00:06,536 about neighbors helping neighbors. 1236 01:00:06,570 --> 01:00:08,538 - [Seth] What do you think that it's gonna take 1237 01:00:08,572 --> 01:00:10,207 in this country, in the state of Michigan, 1238 01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:11,375 in the city of Detroit, 1239 01:00:11,408 --> 01:00:14,745 to re-evaluate the resources and priorities 1240 01:00:14,779 --> 01:00:16,647 and say, we have to take care of these people. 1241 01:00:16,681 --> 01:00:18,883 - A lot of people are willing to help 1242 01:00:18,916 --> 01:00:20,885 if they knew what was going on. 1243 01:00:20,918 --> 01:00:22,753 Some people really do not know 1244 01:00:22,787 --> 01:00:24,454 what the plight of some of our seniors are. 1245 01:00:24,488 --> 01:00:26,891 - [Seth] Does that make you mad, or at least frustrated, 1246 01:00:26,924 --> 01:00:28,793 knowing that we throw away somewhere 1247 01:00:28,826 --> 01:00:33,163 between 50 to 70 billion pounds of food every year, 1248 01:00:33,197 --> 01:00:36,901 and we produce enough food in this country every year 1249 01:00:36,934 --> 01:00:39,103 to feed the entire world, 1250 01:00:39,136 --> 01:00:40,871 but yet we have people in the streets of Detroit 1251 01:00:40,905 --> 01:00:42,572 who are going hungry every day. 1252 01:00:42,606 --> 01:00:46,844 - It's frustrating, from the standpoint that, 1253 01:00:46,877 --> 01:00:50,080 we ought to be able to come up with a solution 1254 01:00:50,114 --> 01:00:53,283 to feed those who are most vulnerable. 1255 01:00:55,185 --> 01:00:58,488 - Forgotten Harvest is a food rescue operation. 1256 01:00:58,522 --> 01:01:01,859 We rescued over 23 million pounds of food last year. 1257 01:01:01,892 --> 01:01:03,327 This is surplus. 1258 01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,262 This is perfectly good food. 1259 01:01:05,295 --> 01:01:08,098 This food would have gone to waste in a landfill 1260 01:01:08,132 --> 01:01:10,835 otherwise, had we not gone and rescued that food. 1261 01:01:10,868 --> 01:01:12,770 - [Seth] How would it go to a landfill? 1262 01:01:12,803 --> 01:01:14,438 Is it something that they just, 1263 01:01:14,471 --> 01:01:16,273 after they've picked whatever is on the farm? 1264 01:01:16,306 --> 01:01:17,507 - In some cases, yeah. 1265 01:01:17,541 --> 01:01:19,309 In some cases, for an industrial supplier, 1266 01:01:19,343 --> 01:01:21,411 they may take it directly to the landfill. 1267 01:01:21,445 --> 01:01:25,115 On the farms, some of the farms that we rescue from, 1268 01:01:25,149 --> 01:01:27,117 this would be plowed under, potentially. 1269 01:01:27,151 --> 01:01:29,286 - [Seth] Really? - Because they couldn't use it. 1270 01:01:29,319 --> 01:01:31,055 Surplus, perhaps it wasn't the right size. 1271 01:01:31,088 --> 01:01:34,725 Perhaps it was a little too small, a little too big. 1272 01:01:34,759 --> 01:01:36,260 That's the food that we can rescue 1273 01:01:36,293 --> 01:01:37,527 that's just as good as anything 1274 01:01:37,561 --> 01:01:39,129 you get in the grocery store. 1275 01:01:39,163 --> 01:01:41,398 (bleeping) 1276 01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:46,270 When many people think of food waste, 1277 01:01:46,303 --> 01:01:49,339 they're thinking of what comes off the table. 1278 01:01:49,373 --> 01:01:52,142 But if it's not a perfect size, 1279 01:01:52,176 --> 01:01:55,645 our culture and our country has taught 1280 01:01:55,679 --> 01:01:57,181 the buyers, our retail buyers, 1281 01:01:57,214 --> 01:01:58,983 customers within their grocery store, 1282 01:01:59,016 --> 01:02:00,684 that it has to look perfect, 1283 01:02:00,717 --> 01:02:02,686 because if it doesn't look perfect, it's not good. 1284 01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:04,254 It's just simply not true. 1285 01:02:04,288 --> 01:02:07,224 So if a cucumber isn't exactly the right size, 1286 01:02:07,257 --> 01:02:10,795 or a tomato isn't exactly the right shape, 1287 01:02:10,828 --> 01:02:13,063 they won't even bring it from that industrial farm, 1288 01:02:13,097 --> 01:02:17,267 it'll be wasted before it ever got to the store itself. 1289 01:02:20,604 --> 01:02:22,639 And it's not someone's fault, 1290 01:02:22,672 --> 01:02:25,742 it's basically that we are such an efficient society. 1291 01:02:25,776 --> 01:02:27,611 We've learned how to produce it, 1292 01:02:27,644 --> 01:02:29,413 our agriculture process 1293 01:02:29,446 --> 01:02:31,415 is better than anything else in the world. 1294 01:02:31,448 --> 01:02:33,450 But there's a lot of waste with that. 1295 01:02:33,483 --> 01:02:35,886 - I just, I'm still... 1296 01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,654 I look at this, 1297 01:02:37,687 --> 01:02:38,722 and I eat yellow, red, orange, 1298 01:02:38,755 --> 01:02:40,757 and green peppers all the time, 1299 01:02:40,791 --> 01:02:43,727 and I cannot see a single thing 1300 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,662 that would be wrong with this. 1301 01:02:45,695 --> 01:02:47,798 - There is absolutely nothing wrong with this at all. 1302 01:02:47,832 --> 01:02:49,166 - [Seth] To warrant surplus. 1303 01:02:49,199 --> 01:02:51,068 - This probably would have cost you five bucks in the grocery store. 1304 01:02:51,101 --> 01:02:52,302 Okay? 1305 01:02:52,336 --> 01:02:54,771 And this was surplus food, an overproduction, 1306 01:02:54,805 --> 01:02:56,340 that can't go to market. 1307 01:02:56,373 --> 01:02:59,576 So we're able to take that food, rescue that food. 1308 01:02:59,609 --> 01:03:01,178 This is gonna be out in someone's home next week. 1309 01:03:01,211 --> 01:03:02,179 - [Seth] Yeah. 1310 01:03:02,212 --> 01:03:03,380 - Ready to go. 1311 01:03:04,548 --> 01:03:06,583 For a lot of seniors this is good food. 1312 01:03:06,616 --> 01:03:08,652 Seniors love the produce, 1313 01:03:08,685 --> 01:03:10,354 know how to fix it, 1314 01:03:10,387 --> 01:03:12,622 and just need to get their hands on it. 1315 01:03:12,656 --> 01:03:16,026 Basically, our day starts at seven o'clock in the morning. 1316 01:03:16,060 --> 01:03:19,196 Our trucks go out, go to grocery stores, 1317 01:03:19,229 --> 01:03:22,332 major entertainment venues, pick up the food. 1318 01:03:22,366 --> 01:03:25,469 Most of that food, and we pick up from dairies, 1319 01:03:25,502 --> 01:03:27,537 we pick up from meat wholesalers, 1320 01:03:27,571 --> 01:03:29,573 anybody that's merchandising, retailing food 1321 01:03:29,606 --> 01:03:30,875 for the most part. 1322 01:03:30,908 --> 01:03:33,743 We have over 455 food donors. 1323 01:03:33,777 --> 01:03:36,713 We pick that food up, that afternoon, 1324 01:03:36,746 --> 01:03:39,483 we take that food to an emergency food provider, 1325 01:03:39,516 --> 01:03:42,052 agencies across the tri-county area, 1326 01:03:42,086 --> 01:03:44,421 we cover over 22,000 square miles, 1327 01:03:44,454 --> 01:03:46,623 we have about 200 agencies, 1328 01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:49,726 and we deliver that food, that day, to them. 1329 01:03:49,759 --> 01:03:53,163 By the next day, or that night, it's on someone's table. 1330 01:03:53,197 --> 01:03:56,566 - Food is a big issue for many people, 1331 01:03:56,600 --> 01:04:00,137 but nutrition is an even bigger issue. 1332 01:04:00,170 --> 01:04:01,438 Can I get three meals a day? 1333 01:04:01,471 --> 01:04:02,839 Yes. 1334 01:04:02,873 --> 01:04:05,675 Is it always nutritious? 1335 01:04:05,709 --> 01:04:07,177 No. 1336 01:04:07,211 --> 01:04:09,846 And yet it's the nutrition that important because, 1337 01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,216 you know, I take what I get. 1338 01:04:12,249 --> 01:04:16,086 And there is a lot of very good food in there, 1339 01:04:17,287 --> 01:04:19,689 but can I sit and say, 1340 01:04:19,723 --> 01:04:22,759 "Oh, well, gee, I need more calcium today. 1341 01:04:22,792 --> 01:04:24,094 "I don't have any milk, 1342 01:04:24,128 --> 01:04:28,398 "I don't have any eggs, I don't have any cheese. 1343 01:04:28,432 --> 01:04:29,733 "What am I going to do?" 1344 01:04:29,766 --> 01:04:31,936 If you actually look you will find 1345 01:04:31,969 --> 01:04:35,239 that there are people everywhere in North America 1346 01:04:35,272 --> 01:04:36,606 that are hungry, 1347 01:04:37,741 --> 01:04:40,978 that need the food and aren't getting it. 1348 01:04:43,948 --> 01:04:48,118 And it's because we are no longer community oriented. 1349 01:04:49,353 --> 01:04:51,855 We're all individual oriented. 1350 01:04:53,023 --> 01:04:55,559 We've lost the family value. 1351 01:04:55,592 --> 01:04:59,463 - Most black families that I know are not tight. 1352 01:04:59,496 --> 01:05:00,630 Not close. 1353 01:05:00,664 --> 01:05:03,000 - [Seth] Really? - Really. 1354 01:05:03,033 --> 01:05:05,970 You know, it's like everybody fending for themselves. 1355 01:05:06,003 --> 01:05:08,705 You know, being separated. 1356 01:05:08,738 --> 01:05:12,909 I think it's my daughter's religion and her beliefs 1357 01:05:14,278 --> 01:05:18,282 that make her see fit to help take care of her mother. 1358 01:05:18,315 --> 01:05:19,950 (laughs) 1359 01:05:19,984 --> 01:05:21,418 - [Seth] A lot of seniors are too proud to say, 1360 01:05:21,451 --> 01:05:23,053 "Hey, I need help!" 1361 01:05:24,521 --> 01:05:28,292 - [Carline] I can't understand why people won't ask for help 1362 01:05:29,759 --> 01:05:31,728 when they need it. 1363 01:05:31,761 --> 01:05:35,299 You know, there's nothing wrong with trying to do it, 1364 01:05:35,332 --> 01:05:36,866 but when you know you can't 1365 01:05:36,900 --> 01:05:39,903 and when you see you can't, holler. 1366 01:05:39,936 --> 01:05:42,072 - [Seth] Squeaky wheel gets the grease, right? 1367 01:05:42,106 --> 01:05:43,407 - Yes. 1368 01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,109 Yes, that's a true statement. 1369 01:05:45,142 --> 01:05:47,011 (chuckles) 1370 01:05:47,044 --> 01:05:49,213 - We see the poverty changing. 1371 01:05:49,246 --> 01:05:51,948 It's not among the people who've always been poor. 1372 01:05:51,982 --> 01:05:54,384 The new face of poverty among the elderly 1373 01:05:54,418 --> 01:05:56,586 are the people who used to be middle class. 1374 01:05:56,620 --> 01:05:59,823 They're the middle class former working people 1375 01:05:59,856 --> 01:06:01,992 who had, you know, they had it all. 1376 01:06:02,026 --> 01:06:03,994 They had the home, they had the car, 1377 01:06:04,028 --> 01:06:05,962 they had kids who went to college. 1378 01:06:05,996 --> 01:06:08,265 But now because of the recession, 1379 01:06:08,298 --> 01:06:11,068 their retirement dreams have been completely smashed. 1380 01:06:11,101 --> 01:06:13,703 Most people never thought they would find themselves poor. 1381 01:06:13,737 --> 01:06:16,006 They never thought they would be making daily choices 1382 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:17,374 between food and medicine. 1383 01:06:17,407 --> 01:06:18,608 But you know what, they are. 1384 01:06:18,642 --> 01:06:20,344 They're making those choices every day. 1385 01:06:20,377 --> 01:06:22,512 And they're choosing to eat macaroni and cheese 1386 01:06:22,546 --> 01:06:24,248 instead of grilled chicken. 1387 01:06:24,281 --> 01:06:26,583 It's a very scary reality. 1388 01:06:26,616 --> 01:06:29,553 - Who does then step up and take the lead 1389 01:06:29,586 --> 01:06:32,489 and say, "Well this is my responsibility." 1390 01:06:32,522 --> 01:06:36,460 A lot of times we'll say, well that's the... 1391 01:06:36,493 --> 01:06:37,994 That's the government's responsibility, 1392 01:06:38,028 --> 01:06:39,763 or it's the Church's responsibility, 1393 01:06:39,796 --> 01:06:43,133 or it's the fire department's responsibility, 1394 01:06:43,167 --> 01:06:46,736 and we're not likely to wanna get involved. 1395 01:06:53,177 --> 01:06:54,644 - We have Forgotten Harvest, 1396 01:06:54,678 --> 01:06:57,013 which is a great help to us. 1397 01:06:58,014 --> 01:06:59,449 That one's going in the cooler, 1398 01:06:59,483 --> 01:07:02,719 and the rest of these are going in the freezer. 1399 01:07:02,752 --> 01:07:04,688 My name is Steve LaFraniere. 1400 01:07:04,721 --> 01:07:08,425 I've been with the Capuchin Soup Kitchen for 10 years. 1401 01:07:08,458 --> 01:07:09,826 It provides a great service, 1402 01:07:09,859 --> 01:07:11,295 especially to this neighborhood. 1403 01:07:11,328 --> 01:07:14,098 - [Seth] Are you finding that you're really getting help 1404 01:07:14,131 --> 01:07:16,700 because of the community, more so than really anything else? 1405 01:07:16,733 --> 01:07:19,236 I mean, is there that sense? 1406 01:07:19,269 --> 01:07:22,139 - I would have to say yes. 1407 01:07:22,172 --> 01:07:23,907 Earthworks, we ask them to grow 1408 01:07:23,940 --> 01:07:25,909 a certain amount of food for us each year, 1409 01:07:25,942 --> 01:07:28,445 and you know, we try to project what our number are, 1410 01:07:28,478 --> 01:07:29,446 what we're gonna need. 1411 01:07:29,479 --> 01:07:31,415 We got fresh beets. 1412 01:07:31,448 --> 01:07:33,217 We got spinach, kale. 1413 01:07:36,353 --> 01:07:39,289 Obviously they harvested a lot of beets yesterday, 1414 01:07:39,323 --> 01:07:41,091 because this wasn't here when I left yesterday, 1415 01:07:41,125 --> 01:07:42,892 I leave at three o'clock. 1416 01:07:42,926 --> 01:07:45,829 So also in the freezer here we have, 1417 01:07:45,862 --> 01:07:48,298 these are all tomatoes and peppers from the garden 1418 01:07:48,332 --> 01:07:51,301 that we've already harvested and cleaned. 1419 01:07:51,335 --> 01:07:53,370 So what I do is I freeze them in bags like this, 1420 01:07:53,403 --> 01:07:57,006 and when I wanna make soup or sauce, 1421 01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,809 I just pull a couple bags out the day before. 1422 01:07:59,843 --> 01:08:01,044 - [Seth] If you didn't have 1423 01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:02,279 this fresh produce from Earthworks, 1424 01:08:02,312 --> 01:08:05,982 what would the overall cost to this kitchen be? 1425 01:08:06,015 --> 01:08:10,254 - Oh, it would affect our food budget enormously, 1426 01:08:10,287 --> 01:08:12,556 because we try, on my menu, 1427 01:08:13,957 --> 01:08:16,126 I give them a vegetable every day with their dinner 1428 01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:19,396 and I give them a salad every day with their dinner. 1429 01:08:19,429 --> 01:08:21,398 So just the tomatoes alone, 1430 01:08:21,431 --> 01:08:23,267 the tomatoes and the lettuce with the way 1431 01:08:23,300 --> 01:08:26,703 that the economy is, and with the way that, 1432 01:08:26,736 --> 01:08:28,905 you know, like the droughts and whatnot, 1433 01:08:28,938 --> 01:08:32,209 and the prices of food just going up and up and up, 1434 01:08:32,242 --> 01:08:34,744 it would kill our food budget. 1435 01:08:36,012 --> 01:08:38,382 - Earthworks is an organic farm 1436 01:08:38,415 --> 01:08:41,585 located in the city of Detroit on the east side. 1437 01:08:41,618 --> 01:08:46,423 We grow fresh fruit, organic food for the soup kitchen. 1438 01:08:46,456 --> 01:08:47,724 Earthworks is actually a program 1439 01:08:47,757 --> 01:08:49,226 of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen. 1440 01:08:49,259 --> 01:08:51,094 I grew up down the street three blocks from here, 1441 01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:53,997 so this, again, is a very personal work to me. 1442 01:08:54,030 --> 01:08:55,832 I learned at a very early age 1443 01:08:55,865 --> 01:08:57,167 how powerful food is 1444 01:08:57,201 --> 01:08:59,536 in helping build and sustain 1445 01:09:01,271 --> 01:09:04,274 meaningful and lasting relationships in the community. 1446 01:09:04,308 --> 01:09:06,610 This is called our garden of unity. 1447 01:09:06,643 --> 01:09:10,046 As you can see, some of these four by four plots 1448 01:09:10,079 --> 01:09:12,015 are kind of roped off, 1449 01:09:12,048 --> 01:09:14,083 and some of them even have some names in it. 1450 01:09:14,117 --> 01:09:16,253 - Yes, I was gonna say, I see some of the names around here of everybody. 1451 01:09:16,286 --> 01:09:18,655 - Yeah. That's David's, Roxanne's, 1452 01:09:18,688 --> 01:09:20,857 Willy's is over there, Dinah's is over here, 1453 01:09:20,890 --> 01:09:22,459 Darryl's is over here. 1454 01:09:22,492 --> 01:09:25,262 And so, you may see some things growing here 1455 01:09:25,295 --> 01:09:27,531 that you don't see growing in other places, 1456 01:09:27,564 --> 01:09:29,833 because a lot of what we grow in our gardens 1457 01:09:29,866 --> 01:09:32,369 are dictated by what we serve here in the kitchen 1458 01:09:32,402 --> 01:09:34,304 and what we can sell at market. 1459 01:09:34,338 --> 01:09:37,641 And so this is a place, this is a very special place, 1460 01:09:37,674 --> 01:09:39,709 for guests of our soup kitchen. 1461 01:09:39,743 --> 01:09:41,378 Neighbors and community members 1462 01:09:41,411 --> 01:09:43,146 can grow their own food. 1463 01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:46,149 And so, they have a deeper connection with the Earth 1464 01:09:46,182 --> 01:09:48,518 and the food that they're putting inside their bodies. 1465 01:09:48,552 --> 01:09:51,421 A lot of the stuff that we grow here is seasonal, 1466 01:09:51,455 --> 01:09:52,889 what you see right now. 1467 01:09:52,922 --> 01:09:55,091 So over the course of the growing season, 1468 01:09:55,124 --> 01:09:57,093 you'll see a lot of different things. 1469 01:09:57,126 --> 01:09:59,729 Everything from asparagus, 1470 01:09:59,763 --> 01:10:03,533 to Hubbard squash, which we're harvesting right now. 1471 01:10:03,567 --> 01:10:04,968 Last year we grew close 1472 01:10:05,001 --> 01:10:08,572 to six to seven thousand pounds of food. 1473 01:10:08,605 --> 01:10:10,640 - I think that we do have a problem in America 1474 01:10:10,674 --> 01:10:12,976 of pushing away our seniors, pushing them back. 1475 01:10:13,009 --> 01:10:17,781 I think that we're so encapsulated with being young, 1476 01:10:17,814 --> 01:10:20,750 and so that, it's like a curse if you grow old. 1477 01:10:20,784 --> 01:10:22,619 I think that seniors should be allowed 1478 01:10:22,652 --> 01:10:27,023 to grow old gracefully and continue in the lifestyles 1479 01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:28,525 that they're used to. 1480 01:10:28,558 --> 01:10:31,261 We should not push them away in these facilities, 1481 01:10:31,295 --> 01:10:33,763 because they're like walking encyclopedias. 1482 01:10:33,797 --> 01:10:35,465 They have all this knowledge within them 1483 01:10:35,499 --> 01:10:37,534 that we're just ignoring. 1484 01:10:37,567 --> 01:10:39,569 - We really wanna make sure that as we look 1485 01:10:39,603 --> 01:10:41,438 at where people live as they age, 1486 01:10:41,471 --> 01:10:44,474 that they have that choice, they have options, 1487 01:10:44,508 --> 01:10:47,076 and that they can find a place that they can call home 1488 01:10:47,110 --> 01:10:50,113 that meets their physical, emotional, 1489 01:10:50,146 --> 01:10:52,048 and their health needs. 1490 01:10:54,851 --> 01:10:57,287 - We have volunteer days 1491 01:10:57,321 --> 01:10:59,523 Wednesday through Saturday from nine to 12. 1492 01:10:59,556 --> 01:11:03,860 And they sometimes come with a notion that, 1493 01:11:03,893 --> 01:11:07,497 you know, they're coming to give something of themselves, 1494 01:11:07,531 --> 01:11:08,898 but they often find 1495 01:11:08,932 --> 01:11:11,568 that they often receive a lot more in return. 1496 01:11:11,601 --> 01:11:13,837 We don't lack the resources in our community. 1497 01:11:13,870 --> 01:11:15,939 The resources are us, you know? 1498 01:11:15,972 --> 01:11:17,607 It's not these physical or material things 1499 01:11:17,641 --> 01:11:20,910 that we often value in today's society. 1500 01:11:22,512 --> 01:11:26,049 We are the champions of our own destiny. 1501 01:11:26,082 --> 01:11:30,219 We have a direct effect on the conditions that we live in. 1502 01:11:30,253 --> 01:11:34,724 And just awakening folks to that is very powerful. 1503 01:11:34,758 --> 01:11:38,261 Again, this is just an example of what you can do 1504 01:11:38,294 --> 01:11:40,630 if you put forth the effort. 1505 01:11:44,534 --> 01:11:45,969 - So this is where the documentary 1506 01:11:46,002 --> 01:11:48,137 was supposed to end, but something really cool happened 1507 01:11:48,171 --> 01:11:50,106 while we were filming in Detroit. 1508 01:11:50,139 --> 01:11:52,008 I got a call from a woman in San Francisco 1509 01:11:52,041 --> 01:11:53,543 who had heard about my journey, 1510 01:11:53,577 --> 01:11:55,745 and she wanted to know if I'd be willing to come there 1511 01:11:55,779 --> 01:11:59,416 and be part of an expert panel and share my story. 1512 01:11:59,449 --> 01:12:00,917 Expert I am not, 1513 01:12:00,950 --> 01:12:02,986 but someone who's willing to share what I learned? 1514 01:12:03,019 --> 01:12:03,987 Absolutely. 1515 01:12:04,020 --> 01:12:05,822 I'm just gonna be honest. 1516 01:12:05,855 --> 01:12:08,191 I never thought about being a senior, 1517 01:12:08,224 --> 01:12:10,059 I never thought about getting old, 1518 01:12:10,093 --> 01:12:13,663 I never thought about the issues that seniors face, 1519 01:12:13,697 --> 01:12:16,032 because I thought that if I haven't cared, 1520 01:12:16,065 --> 01:12:19,035 there have to be others out there like me. 1521 01:12:19,068 --> 01:12:20,537 I talked about starting in LA, 1522 01:12:20,570 --> 01:12:24,007 and not knowing a damn thing about senior hunger. 1523 01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,142 I briefly mentioned how I wanted to get out of LA 1524 01:12:26,175 --> 01:12:28,578 and go to Marin County to hang out with Victor Buick, 1525 01:12:28,612 --> 01:12:31,047 a man who still inspires me to this day. 1526 01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:33,517 And of course I even mentioned meeting Paul Fillow, 1527 01:12:33,550 --> 01:12:35,852 getting emotional, and how that was a huge turning point 1528 01:12:35,885 --> 01:12:37,554 in this documentary. 1529 01:12:38,522 --> 01:12:39,989 I shared my memorable experience 1530 01:12:40,023 --> 01:12:42,158 of being in the poorest place in America. 1531 01:12:42,191 --> 01:12:43,593 And the people of Booneville 1532 01:12:43,627 --> 01:12:46,996 are some of the best people I've ever encountered. 1533 01:12:47,030 --> 01:12:49,065 Hell, it was in Booneville where I had my ass grabbed 1534 01:12:49,098 --> 01:12:51,635 by an 80-year-old feisty senior, 1535 01:12:51,668 --> 01:12:54,638 the director of photography and I went clogging, 1536 01:12:54,671 --> 01:12:56,072 and I even went to church. 1537 01:12:56,105 --> 01:12:58,942 (christian music) 1538 01:13:00,844 --> 01:13:03,012 I'm not saying I'm going back to church anytime soon, 1539 01:13:03,046 --> 01:13:06,450 but it was a great experience nonetheless. 1540 01:13:06,483 --> 01:13:08,384 And then my journey took me to Orlando, 1541 01:13:08,418 --> 01:13:09,786 where I got to work with one of the oldest 1542 01:13:09,819 --> 01:13:12,689 senior-centric organizations in the country. 1543 01:13:12,722 --> 01:13:14,791 It was here that I really started to understand 1544 01:13:14,824 --> 01:13:16,292 and respect our seniors. 1545 01:13:16,325 --> 01:13:18,662 I got to call Bingo, 1546 01:13:18,695 --> 01:13:20,864 learn how to properly unfold a fan, 1547 01:13:20,897 --> 01:13:22,265 and I even got to rub elbows 1548 01:13:22,298 --> 01:13:23,633 with Miss Senior America herself. 1549 01:13:23,667 --> 01:13:25,535 - Thank you, I appreciate it so much. 1550 01:13:25,569 --> 01:13:28,004 - [Seth] But it wasn't until I got to Austin and Detroit, 1551 01:13:28,037 --> 01:13:29,773 to where I fully started to comprehend 1552 01:13:29,806 --> 01:13:31,908 the scope of the matter at hand. 1553 01:13:31,941 --> 01:13:35,512 Is it going to take more 60,000 square foot warehouses, 1554 01:13:35,545 --> 01:13:37,681 handling over two million pounds of food per month 1555 01:13:37,714 --> 01:13:39,549 to feed our seniors? 1556 01:13:39,583 --> 01:13:40,984 How beneficial is it for someone 1557 01:13:41,017 --> 01:13:43,419 to fill out 18 pages of paperwork, 1558 01:13:43,453 --> 01:13:46,255 with the hopes that they get enough money to live? 1559 01:13:46,289 --> 01:13:47,857 And why do we let farms and farmers 1560 01:13:47,891 --> 01:13:51,828 plow under billions of pounds of food per year? 1561 01:13:53,697 --> 01:13:55,431 Look, I don't have all the answers, 1562 01:13:55,465 --> 01:13:57,601 nor do I even pretend to. 1563 01:13:57,634 --> 01:13:59,302 I don't think any of us wanna be that senior 1564 01:13:59,335 --> 01:14:02,506 who's old and forgotten, going hungry every day, 1565 01:14:02,539 --> 01:14:05,374 waiting for someone to give a shit about their life. 1566 01:14:05,408 --> 01:14:06,610 I think it's gonna take more 1567 01:14:06,643 --> 01:14:08,144 than the people I met during this journey 1568 01:14:08,177 --> 01:14:11,447 who are fighting for seniors every single day. 1569 01:14:11,481 --> 01:14:14,450 I have to believe that this is gonna happen. 1570 01:14:14,484 --> 01:14:16,586 Because we can come together as a group, 1571 01:14:16,620 --> 01:14:20,624 as a society, and finally say, enough is enough. 1572 01:14:22,258 --> 01:14:24,594 And I'm just here to say that I'm living proof, 1573 01:14:24,628 --> 01:14:26,563 my life did a 180, 1574 01:14:26,596 --> 01:14:30,066 in how I went from not caring, to now being an advocate. 1575 01:14:30,099 --> 01:14:33,436 So, what I hope that this film does 1576 01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:38,074 is let people know that one person can make a difference, 1577 01:14:38,107 --> 01:14:41,811 but together, we can do a whole hell of a lot more, so... 1578 01:14:41,845 --> 01:14:44,247 (applauding) 1579 01:14:46,349 --> 01:14:48,417 (upbeat music) 1580 01:14:48,451 --> 01:14:51,254 - It's important for individuals 1581 01:14:51,287 --> 01:14:53,790 to understand the plight of our seniors. 1582 01:14:53,823 --> 01:14:57,994 - There's nothing harder than being a senior citizen, and... 1583 01:14:59,963 --> 01:15:04,534 You got aches and pains and all that kind of stuff. 1584 01:15:04,568 --> 01:15:05,835 We have a saying in our church, 1585 01:15:05,869 --> 01:15:08,137 "Growing old isn't for wimps." 1586 01:15:08,171 --> 01:15:10,273 - The problem of aging in America, 1587 01:15:10,306 --> 01:15:11,741 people call it a problem. 1588 01:15:11,775 --> 01:15:13,376 That's the problem. 1589 01:15:13,409 --> 01:15:14,811 It's not a problem to get older. 1590 01:15:14,844 --> 01:15:16,345 It's a problem if you don't. 1591 01:15:16,379 --> 01:15:19,649 Here in Washington we tend to think in short cycles. 1592 01:15:19,683 --> 01:15:21,050 This budget cycle. 1593 01:15:21,084 --> 01:15:23,219 We need to start thinking about the future, 1594 01:15:23,252 --> 01:15:24,688 and the future, and the future, 1595 01:15:24,721 --> 01:15:27,490 which is where I need to engage the younger generation. 1596 01:15:27,523 --> 01:15:29,693 My program is your future. 1597 01:15:30,894 --> 01:15:33,462 - As challenging as all of this work is, 1598 01:15:33,496 --> 01:15:36,065 and it is hard listening to people's problems 1599 01:15:36,099 --> 01:15:38,401 and not always being able to help them, 1600 01:15:38,434 --> 01:15:41,237 it's also uplifting and exhilarating 1601 01:15:41,270 --> 01:15:43,573 when you're able to come in and actually make a difference. 1602 01:15:43,607 --> 01:15:47,110 This field of working in the field of aging, 1603 01:15:47,143 --> 01:15:50,513 is not only about them, those old folks, 1604 01:15:50,546 --> 01:15:52,148 it's about us. 1605 01:15:52,181 --> 01:15:54,851 We are creating our own future, 1606 01:15:54,884 --> 01:15:57,053 and so we all have a personal stake 1607 01:15:57,086 --> 01:15:59,956 in making sure that life is better for older people, 1608 01:15:59,989 --> 01:16:03,860 because we want life to be better for us when it's our time. 1609 01:16:03,893 --> 01:16:05,695 - It might be you one day. 1610 01:16:05,729 --> 01:16:07,664 It might be your spouse, it might be your best friend 1611 01:16:07,697 --> 01:16:09,198 who ends up there. 1612 01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:10,834 But if they need the program, 1613 01:16:10,867 --> 01:16:12,335 if they need to be fed, 1614 01:16:12,368 --> 01:16:14,638 if they need somebody to bring their meals to them, 1615 01:16:14,671 --> 01:16:16,339 heck, it sure would be nice to have that there, 1616 01:16:16,372 --> 01:16:18,141 to know that it's there. 1617 01:16:18,174 --> 01:16:20,076 We don't know yet what's gonna happen. 1618 01:16:20,109 --> 01:16:23,046 There's a term we've heard called the silver tsunami. 1619 01:16:23,079 --> 01:16:25,348 It's coming, and we're gonna reach this point 1620 01:16:25,381 --> 01:16:26,816 where there's so many people dependent 1621 01:16:26,850 --> 01:16:28,652 on this type of a program, 1622 01:16:28,685 --> 01:16:32,355 if we don't lay that foundation today for what's to come, 1623 01:16:32,388 --> 01:16:35,992 but the time it's here, by the time that demand is here, 1624 01:16:36,025 --> 01:16:37,260 no one's gonna be ready for it, 1625 01:16:37,293 --> 01:16:39,395 and there's gonna be problems left and right. 1626 01:16:39,428 --> 01:16:41,430 - [Cleda] We have more food in this country 1627 01:16:41,464 --> 01:16:42,966 than we can consume. 1628 01:16:42,999 --> 01:16:47,403 And we have got to find a way so that organizations 1629 01:16:47,436 --> 01:16:51,407 can work together and companies and food distribution folks 1630 01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:54,043 can work together to get the excess food that we have 1631 01:16:54,077 --> 01:16:55,879 in this country and get it out. 1632 01:16:55,912 --> 01:16:59,615 I do think that hunger in this country can be solved, 1633 01:16:59,649 --> 01:17:02,351 and will be solved if we can all work together. 1634 01:17:02,385 --> 01:17:05,789 - My advice to the younger generation is, 1635 01:17:07,290 --> 01:17:09,993 this is going to happen to a lot of folks, 1636 01:17:10,026 --> 01:17:11,394 the way I'm looking at it. 1637 01:17:11,427 --> 01:17:12,896 They're gonna be hungry, 1638 01:17:12,929 --> 01:17:17,033 and you gotta make the right decisions and save your money, 1639 01:17:17,066 --> 01:17:20,036 and do nice stuff for people, because it comes back to you. 1640 01:17:20,069 --> 01:17:22,839 - [Seth] It sounds to me, and I hate to oversimplify, 1641 01:17:22,872 --> 01:17:26,710 but it just seems like seniors want somebody who cares. 1642 01:17:26,743 --> 01:17:30,914 They wanna know that somebody still cares about them. 1643 01:17:33,950 --> 01:17:35,284 - And I do. 1644 01:17:35,318 --> 01:17:37,921 (upbeat music) 1645 01:17:50,767 --> 01:17:52,936 - I was dancing in my 50s, 1646 01:17:54,738 --> 01:17:56,806 and nobody knew I was 50. 1647 01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,575 (chuckles) 1648 01:18:17,961 --> 01:18:21,731 - People struggle with looking at that reality 1649 01:18:21,765 --> 01:18:23,933 and trying to figure out what the solution is 1650 01:18:23,967 --> 01:18:28,137 and what they're gonna do to be part of that solution. 1651 01:18:34,844 --> 01:18:37,546 - Everybody deserves to be helped. 1652 01:18:37,580 --> 01:18:40,483 Maybe I don't have enough to help every month, 1653 01:18:40,516 --> 01:18:44,353 but whenever I can, I don't mind helping them.