Camp Out For Hunger 2021 - Pierre Wrap-Up
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00:00We welcome Pierre Robert to the tent. He's not doing his show here.
00:05Good day.
00:06But it's become a tradition for him to come down here on Friday.
00:09Well, you know, just to wrap things up, what was the first year?
00:13Do you remember the...
00:15The total? Or what year?
00:171998.
00:18The first year and the total.
00:19Yeah, 98 and one ton. And that was it.
00:22And how many years was Y100 before you came to MMR?
00:26That was 2004 was our final one at Y100.
00:29I went hungry.
00:30Okay.
00:31So that would have been six, right? Six Camp Out for Hungers there, yeah.
00:34So, I mean, what's been fascinating to me is how the whole production has grown.
00:40And what you were just speaking of is the moving parts.
00:44There are so many moving parts to this thing.
00:46When you walk around backstage, I just did a little video backstage,
00:50and even in this tent, you know, the amount of pieces that have come together
00:56to prove what an amazing production, how many moving parts there are that are operated, however, by humans.
01:04And when you think about the very beginning of these two guys camping out in a beat-up RV
01:10with a couple of barrels, old oil barrels or whatever they were.
01:14Yeah.
01:15That you had, you know, you would burn fires in and hope that somebody would, you know, bring a little food by.
01:20And people did because you two are committed.
01:23And as are your team, you know, Kathy and Casey and Marissa and Nick and Nick Murphy and the rest of your team.
01:31And what they prove, I think, is what you guys who come out and support them prove is that each person makes a difference.
01:41I don't want anyone who hears this to ever think that you don't have an impact as a human being.
01:47If you brought one can of food, you might have saved a life.
01:50Think about that.
01:51You know, a friend of mine recently said, you know, what difference have I made in this world?
01:57And I just read him the riot act.
01:59I said, you've done this and this and this and this and this.
02:02And I said, you have made a profound impact on this world.
02:06And he just passed away.
02:08He's not with us anymore.
02:09And I wanted him to know before he left this world.
02:12What a gigantic impact he had on me alone, but on this whole other universe.
02:17One of the saddest things I think that we can have in this life is when you think you don't make a difference.
02:23If you helped out, if you even thought about helping out, you've made a difference.
02:27And if you didn't do it here, maybe you'll do it in some other way in your world in some way.
02:32It doesn't have to be to a charity.
02:33It could just be helping someone do something, you know.
02:38And in this crazy divided world, who can't agree to come together on feeding people?
02:43Everybody like music brings everybody together.
02:46Music brings everybody together.
02:48And the amount of people that come together to make this thing happen from its most humble roots to what it's grown into is just phenomenal.
02:56Then if you add in the crazy couple of years we've had with COVID and everything else, it's much better this year.
03:03And I predict next year, as you guys have said, we're going to be back to full, you know, a full 100 percent production.
03:09I think we're finally getting there, but it's been a rough couple of years.
03:13But we're doing it.
03:14You've got to stay positive.
03:15You have to have commitment.
03:17And what these two gentlemen and their amazing team have shown is that you can have that commitment.
03:24Pick a cause if this is not it.
03:26Find something that moves you.
03:28Get involved.
03:29Get out and see if, as Bill Weston says, you can't put Philly first.
03:34Think globally, but act locally.
03:36Anything you can do to lift up your world or the people in it is helping make a difference.
03:42So to those of you who have, to the giant companies, but to those two kids you were just talking about,
03:47had the little camp out in their driveway, to a little girl who was four years old who came by yesterday
03:53and had had brought 100 pounds of food because she went around her neighborhood
03:59and asked these people to give some cans of food and it came out to 100 pounds of food.
04:04That makes a difference.
04:05That saved lives.
04:06And who knows what those lives that are saved by this are going to go on to create.
04:11Maybe peace in the world.
04:13I don't know.
04:15But let's go for that.
04:18And so with that in mind, yes.
04:22Fanfare for the common man.
04:23I like it.
04:24Because each and every one of us makes the difference.
04:28And that's what it's all about.
04:30And I just, I worship these guys.
04:32I love them so much and their team.
04:34They do so much.
04:36So with that in mind, I just thank you all for being a part of this,
04:40whether you're with us here in the tent or not.
04:42You are with us.
04:43You're part of our family of MMR.
04:4553 years going strong as a rock and roll radio station, live and local, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
04:53But people like this are what make it happen or what makes it happen.
04:58And so, and people like you who listen.
05:00So a thousand thanks to you for doing that.
05:03And I give you, ladies and gentlemen, the most recent addition to the radio hall of fame.
05:11Preston and Steve.
05:14Cheers.
05:17Cheers, Pierre.
05:19Thank you, sir.
05:20Very, very kind.