the world stage, senator? oh. >> yes. >> one last thing, if you like vice presidential gaffes, you can watch them again on the internet. thank al gore. >> during my service in the united states of congress, i took the initiative and creating the internet. >> thanks for watching "state of the union." we'll be back next sunday and every sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. i'm candy crowley in washington. have a great night. >> larry: tonight, ryan seacrest and jamie oliver, taking aim at the unhealthiest city in america. >> i'm here to start a revolution, a food revolution. >> larry: waging a war on fat, hoping to shape up an entire town a kid at a time like it or not. >> how's your pizza for breakfast? >> larry: ryan knows what he's

talking about. he was fat -- >> wouldn't say i was obese but i was embarrassed as a teenager. >> larry: really? next on "larry king live." >> larry: ryan seacrest is here. he's executive producer of "jamie oliver's food revolution." the man on the front lines of the food revolution, jamie oliver from new york. he's the superstar and best-selling cookbook author. the two-hour premiere of "jamie oliver's food revolution" airs friday, tomorrow night on abc. how did this come about, ryan? >> two reasons, one, we know childhood obesity is a major issue in our country. and number two, superstar there, jamie oliver. he's done this in the uk. he's gotten on the front lines of the uk school system. he's recognized there was a real problem in the cafeterias and he

made significant change. >> larry: who contacted who? who contacted whom? >> i think this was the perfect tim timesing. because you had done this in england and you were looking to do something in the united states and looking for the right opportunity? is that how it came up? >> we went through a friend of a friend. i wrote to ryan. i didn't know ryan before then. i knew him as someone that the country loved and trusted. i wrote to him. told him what i dreamed to happen. ryan is a foodie. he's got massive love, of course, in his own country. he was back within a couple of days, give me the stuff. i gave him the stuff that i'd done before. and correct me if i'm wrong, ryan, you got even more passionate about seeing it. actually, you know, making changes, little steps but steps in the right direction, cause and effect, telling the story, telling the truth, and really trying to get everyone, everyone, not just schools,

everyone to make a difference. >> larry: why huntington, west virginia? this is the pilot program. >> the series opens up in huntington, west virginia. the idea is to create a national movement. we started in huntington, west virginia because it caught a bad wrap. it's on the list called the unhealthiest town in the unhealthiest region in america. >> appalachia. >> the tristate area. let's start there and hopefully create a legacy of change and improvement, not just with the schools but with the great people there. i have to tell you, jamie did some incredible work on the ground. and initially even those who were almost opposed to this initiative really began to turn and now become almost ambassadors to our program. >> larry: huntington who felt embarrassed, maybe? >> i think, you know, who's this guy? what's this tv show about? rand it truly is bigger than a tv show. >> larry: a lot of food

revolution efforts focus on that elementary school in huntington. check out the kind of challenge he felt himself facing. >> good morning. >> so what are they having? >> breakfast pizza. >> fruit and cereal. >> wow, this is where it's at, guys. this is future of america, sitting here having pizza for breakfast. >> i walk in to this school and i'm tiny bit nervous. i want to be the polite english guy. but the first thing i see is pizza for breakfast. >> how's your pizza for breakfast. >> good. >> larry: were you ticked about pizza for breakfast? >> you know, it's -- for starters, huntington had been under the spotlight for a number of years. so actually, as far as normal school food is concerned in the whole of the united states, it's probably up there as some of the best. nonetheless, fast food in the processed foods and pizza for breakfast was a number of things.

even the milk wasn't great -- the milk you saw there has sugar as a can of soda. that gets poured on the cereal. they have the pizza next to that. it was an avalanche of mobile portable food -- corn dogs, nuggets, burgers, pizza. it felt to me that if the nutritional standards were up to scratch, you know, there would be a lot more home-cooked food happening every day. >> larry: i talked to bill clinton about this who's wild on the subject. he was a fat kid. you know he came in office, went to mcdonald's every day. michelle obama leading the movement. were you a fat kid? >> i was, actually. i wouldn't say i was obese. i was embarrassed as a teenager. >> larry: did you eat stuff like that in school? >> my mother would pack a lunch. we'd buy -- we'd have pizza

squares, sloppy joes and burritos and chimichungas. if you think about that over time, that has an effect. it's proven if you eat like that over a long period of time, it can kill you, it's not good for you. president clinton said the same thing -- if he ate better as a child, he has said, he wouldn't have the problems now with his heart. >> larry: we don't associate -- when we hear famous chef, we don't associate that with health foods. we associate it with sauces and prime french foods and all of that. what got you in to health? >> to be honest, i get drummed in with health. my approach is mixed. restaurant food can be just as bad if you have it every day as fast food every day. to me, this is a dark time in american nutrition. it's a stressful time with regards to the health reform in general. and i think this is the first generation where kids are expected to live a shorter life

than their parents. now we all know that. harvard has proven if you eat proper food, you know, your 7% to 10% more intelligent and able to learn at school. i'm sure the teachers of america would appreciate that. but i think, you know, at the very basis of stuff, with mom and dads working harder than ever, kids go to school 180 days of the year, 6 to 18, what they eat at school counts, what they eat matters. it sets tastes, standards, habits for a lifetime. not just what they eat at school, i truly believe personally an environment of food and food education in elementary school should be compulsory and it really needs to happen. and also supported. and also learning to cook just ten meals to save your life in every high school in the country is important for the next ten years. why? because health determines that it needs to happen. here's the thing -- when you

can't cook basic things, you have no choices. when you hit with a recession, you can't cook, you have no choices. if you can cook, it doesn't matter if you have $5, $10, $100, $20, you have choices. >> well said. a mom and her stepson trying to revolutionize their own diets. [ male announcer ] years ago, the world was faced with a challenge. and lexus responded

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>> here's your breakfast. there's the bloody corn dogs.

>> wow. >> jamie was dumping the food on the table, it was like stunning. >> you tell me how you feel looking at this? >> yeah, it's gross. >> i need you to know that this is going to kill your children early. we're talking about 10, 13, 14 years off of their life. >> larry: joining us now from the huntington kitchen, the kitchen built by ryan and jamie for this production, stacy edwards and her stepson, justin. their story is featured on jamie oliver's food revolution which premieres tomorrow night on abc. stacy, why didn't you agree to get involved in this? >> i knew our family needed help. so what better time to start now? >> larry: what was the first reaction, jamie, when you ran into what it was. >> a struggling mom trying to look after the family. she was a great mother. immediately loved her. a great character.

stacy and stacy's story is common around the whole of america and england. and what we've got -- when you've got families, men or women have gone through the three generations of noncooks that happened now. and that means they weren't taught to cook at home. they weren't taught to cook at school. they have families. what are they supposed to do? i think just food knowledge in general and the lack of food education over the last 30, 40 years created times that stacy felt the only option that she had was the stuff made easy for her. as stacy will tell you, a lot of that is the pizzas and the corn dogs and stuff like that. after an amount of time, you know, it catches up on you. >> larry: justin, what would you eat in a typical day? take me through a typical day, justin. you get up in the morning, what would you eat for breakfast? >> for breakfast, sometimes gravy and biscuits or bacon or

eggs or something like that. and for lunch, sometimes it would be corn dogs or a baloney and salad sandwich. ham burger helper, chicken nuggets, corn dogs. >> larry: did you say to yourself, i'm overweight, i don't like this, do you think you were hurting yourself? >> i knew this wasn't good for me. but i was eating it anyway. >> larry: your purpose in here was to change then. the purpose of a revolution is changed. >> i think initially it's to get them information and training and show them what they can do that's easy and affordable and practical. but jamie doesn't tolerate -- doesn't promote zero tolerance. you can't have any of this.

what he really pushes for is using fresh foods and not having frozen or processed foods. the great thing about this is justin wants to be a chef. he wants to learn more about cooking great food and having great meals. this family is -- is a wonderful family that loves each other that was very brave to come on and share their story with us. >> larry: stacy, do you think at all you set a bad example. did you eat poorly? >> yes, i ate very poorly. i ate what the kids ate too. i ate the nuggets and the burgers and the pizza -- fast food. >>. >> larry: so you're changing now too? >> oh, yes. i've changed tremendously. >> larry: this is quite a project. it all starts tomorrow night on abc. as we said, jamie got a school involved in his food revolution. wasn't an easy sell with people who feed hundreds of kids a day. we'll discuss that next. [ female announcer ] now multigrain pops.

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>> chicken breast is the first ingredient here. >> do you not question any of that stuff? >> what's wrong with that? >> what's wrong with that? what's right with that. would you eat that? oh. >> yes, i think they're good. >> that list of ingredients doesn't bother you in the slightest. >> it doesn't bother me that adults eat it. what bothers me is that kids eat it. >> larry: ryan seacrest wrote a blog exclubhousie exclusive to. read it. the principal of the central city elementary school. his school is featured in jamie oliver's food revolution debuts tomorrow on abc. also with us, rebecca ferrell, a fifth grader. head school cook and school cooks lilly bailey and alice cue. did you reject this at first?

>> i did. we were given this about a principal's meeting that the show was coming and i was head tant about taking part of this because i didn't know what was going to do to my cuts. >> how's it working out? >> working out great, jamie first came here, we didn't know how to thank jamie when we came in. we didn't know what the show was going to be about. and other than just making a change in our lunch program. >> larry: you're the head school cook. did you resent this? >> yes, i did, at first. but after a couple of weeks, i add justed to it and get along just fine. >> larry: and alice, you are a school cook. how did you feel at first? how do you feel now? >> actually, we're doing really well with it. the kids are doing a lot better

and we've made things a little easier for ourself doing the new recipes. >> larry: and rebecca, our fifth grader -- i know about fifth graders. did you like this at first, rebec rebecca, truthfully? >> well, i thought it was going to be hard for the school at first, but i like it now. >> larry: jamie, when you went to the school, what do you think they were doing and what are you doing now? >> the thing to remember is already huntington had a light shined on them because of the cdc report and really the kitchens were very well spent, the girls in general were happy. they were probably overdelivering as to what you would call the normal school lunches in the whole of america. that aside, the story we're telling, really, was about sort of changing what was coming in in the kitchen in the first place. so, you know, look, when a farmer comes in, you have a funny voice, that's one thing.

when anyone comes in to any area in any country and wants to sort of change things, it's always problematic. principal o'neill was generous to let us in the school we think. and it has a massive impact on the ladies in the kitchen. the first few weeks were tough and it wasn't helped by the press demeanoring the locals or the people in the area. so it was a fairly hard two or three weeks. the girls are solid. they run the kitchen proficiently. my job was to get the food coming in different. i didn't want the processed nuggets or the pizza for breakfast. i didn't want -- the scrambled eggs that were already cooked. i wanted to be able to cook again. and to do that, i had to go to their bosses and their bosses bosses and as you know, lots of things in america, there's lot of red tape and bureaucracy.

but really, this whole project was supposed to be an experiment and one that told a story. >> larry: ryan, did you feel any hesitancy knowing that this englishman is coming in to huntington, west virginia to tell them what to do right. >> yes, because i'm familiar with that on one of the other shows i work with an englishman who is relatively bossy on that "idol" program. >> larry: heard of him. >> heard of simon. the thing with this television series, we knew wasn't just going to be a television show. they want to be part of the entire movement. and the other thing we knew we weren't sure what the outcome was going to be. rarely do you get into a series or project without knowing what the output was going to be. credit to this group is there in huntington. those ladies have a job to do. they work long hours like a lot of cooks around the country. they were willing to at least listen if they disagreed at

first and make a change. the principal has lost a little bit of weight. i noticed this -- perhaps you're applying some of this at home. >> larry: ask them about that when we come back. back to school after this. >> the bad news is is i didn't like what i saw the kids ate today. i've never seen kids given pizza of any kind for breakfast before. to go from pizza to nuggets. >> those things are set up on a monthly nutrition analysis on the mills. >> i don't think i'm here because i think the nutrition analysis is great. is that the kind of food -- >> you don't have processed food in england? >> god, yes. and it's killing them too. ♪

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set like concrete, basically? >> concrete, no. >> and they whisk it fast, whisk it fast. it will set hard and never get it out. i'm like, what is this stuff? tastes like starchy fluff with nuts in it. absolutely disgusting. it's mashed potatoes. but when i look at the mashed potatoes, the nuggets, the pizza, the milk has kra up in it, the cereal has crap in it, all of those little things

together pisses me off. >> ryan the executive producer, jamie, the superstar chef. it's his food revolution that starts tonight on abc. is there any food that you eat every day that you now don't eat? >> i used to eat the spaghetti a lot when the cooks made it. when jamie oliver cooked it, he put mushrooms in it. i'm not a big fan of mushrooms. >> larry: so what do you eat now? what's your favorite food at school? >> i like the beef-aroni a lot. >> larry: do you like cooking this better than you like cooking what you used to cook? >> i don't have a problem with it. i liked what i did before. but this is a little more work, but i feel like it's healthier for everybody. >> larry: alice, how are the kids reacting in general? >> a lot of them are still asking if it's jamie's food, and

i think the reason they did that is because of all of the publicity. and if -- if it was just -- we just tell them it's always been our food and a lot of them are -- the kids that are going to eat will eat, it doesn't really matter. but a lot of them adjusted to it very well, especially the pizzas. >> larry: patrick, have you seen -- is there a noticeable difference? >> i -- i would say yes. there has been. and as alice was saying, there's still a lot of resistance and the kids are calling it jamie's food. we're coming out with our own message. no longer jamie's food, it's our food, it's the county food. we're implementing it in to the other schools. we're the start of it. and now it's spread out to i think 16, 17, 18 schools now. and i just hope they're seeing the success that we're having.

but because i guess here recently, we had a drop in our lunch counts that we've also lost a halftime cook now. so instead of me having five cooks, we're down to 4 1/2. so that makes it a little struggle. >> larry: do you notice, patrick, any improvement in test scores, alertness and the like? >> well, that's still yet to be determined. because, you know, with a lot of these students, you know, we -- we do daily testing and we do what we call the trimester testing. so we're seeing some improvements on the scores. but, yet, our big assessment is coming up here in may. so that will help us out to see if the more healthier food is impacting that area. but it's a long way to go. >> larry: certainly can't hurt. ryan, are you expecting other schools and other cities to come

aboard. >> just like patrick said, we started with this one and it's spread to 16 and we're still in the process of doing that. the local -- the local community there is embracing it and they're in the process of spreading the message and the word and the revolution. and since we had a sneak peek of this show and since it's been talked about on-line, we've had cities like new york and atlanta and st. louis, we realize there's a problem. we're not sure what the solution is -- nor are we, really. we can't tell you exactly what to do. but we can stir it up a little bit. so, yes, it's spreading which is great news. >> larry: jamie recruited everyone he could to the food army including the local clergy. the man who calls jamie a god send after this.

just recently in 2008, center for disease control report came out. huntington in our area came out as the most obese city and the most obese region in the most obese country in the world. what, my friends, does that tell us about our culture? if we don't think anything about

being the worst in the entire world? >> larry: joining us now from new york, pastor steve willis of the first baptist church in west virginia. and from huntington, west virginia, marissa clayton. a 17-year-old high school senior, one of six young people jamie picked to be part of his army in this food revolution. pastor, how did you get involved? >> well, our church began this about a year ago before jamie came to town and we weren't making the progress that we needed to make. so i prayed with my wife. no exaggeration. i prayed with my wife, you know, i can get people to exercise. but the nutritional aspect of this is beyond my pay grade. the next day jamie's production people called and said we were interested in coming to huntington to help us out. >> what is your role as one of six part of an army? >> i'm basically -- i'm here to help. i'm trying to, you know, get

this out to the city and just help this food revolution begin. >> jamie, did the pastor have a big influence on all of this? >> absolutely. my job whatever i go, whatever i do is to get, you know, you can't make change, you can't learn what the problem is unless you dig yourself into a community. and the quickest way to do that is to go to pastor steve's community, his communion. he was doing inspiration at the time. i needed to find an ally. and, of course, what everyone forgets is apart from all of the other great work pastor steve does, he's the sharp edge of the knife because he has to bury the people that are dying. this is not a pleasant thing for anyone, even for a man of god to do. and you noticed the last five or

ten years, the amount of people dying. >> especially in the wintertime. gluttony is really the only one of the seven deadly sips that's widely accepted in the church. this is a moral issue how we feed our children, how we feed ourselves. to sit down and have a healthy meal with our families together, god designed us to be healthy people to love him and love our neighbors. we can't do that if we're not healthy. >> larry: i've never heard it put that way. pastor, i understand that stacy edwards and justin who's going to be back with us in the next segment are in your church, right? >> yes, they are. they're very active. i was playing ball with justin. can't tell you about the finale of the show. but we are -- the family life center that jamie helped us out with, justin is involved and learning to play basketball. stacy is involved in a number of exercise programs in our church. and doing some good cooking down there as well. >> larry: why did you pick

marissa? >> look, marissa is one of my gang. she's a lovely sparky young intelligent girl. it's important that i got a handful of guys that representing the cross section of the school, the city, the neighborhood. and i needed people who had issues with the problem out there. the problem out there is that -- not just the people struggling. it's not just about obesity, okay. there are plenty of scrawny people out there that got diabetes and bad health. it affects everyone. not just them. marissa has joined us now. she's been affected. she lost her father to obesity. she lost her uncle. and it's not just the people who have the problems, they're her. it's the greater family out there. >> larry: you want to go to culinary school, right? >> that is true. i love to cook. >> larry: what effect does jamie

have on you? >> he's made a big change in my life. he's made me look more positive towards things. i had my mom and my stepfather start going to the gym three times a week because i don't want them to become overweight. like he said, i lost my father. jamie has been the positive influence on my life completely. >> larry: i have to say, we'll be right back in a moment. there's no negative to this. back with stacy and justin, they're coming back. progress they've made since joining this fight. don't go away. try prilosec otc. heartburn occurs when stomach acid backs up into the esophagus. unlike some treatments that neutralize acid, prilosec otc shuts down many acid-producing pumps for twenty-four hours of heartburn protection with just one pill a day. plus, it's the number one doctor recommended acid reducer. treat frequent heartburn for twenty-four hours with prilosec otc. this has been pédifacts for prilosec otc. compare a well equipped lexus es,

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. >> larry: we've got an interview with jamie oliver on our blog. see how he answers five questions with cnn..com/larryking. sanjay son, stepson. this story is featured on jamie oliver's food revolution tomorrow night. earlier, insights on stacy's and justin's lives before jamie oliver. all larry king live crews spend a day with them to check out some of the changes they've made since getting drafted in to the food revolution. take a look. >> i'm justin edwards, i'm 12.

jamie's been here, we've started to eat better and i've lost about 20 pounds. the changes that jamie's been making me do to my diet is learn how to eat better and has me working out. and he has me cooking. i used to eat all the time. we'd mostly have fried food at the deep fryer. right here at this patch used to be grass. but now it's mud where our family and jamie came out here and buried our deep fryer. that's the story about the deep fryer. now we're eating salads and stir fries which are better for you. >> tonight we're going to make a little bit of stir fry. going to add all of our veggies in with our meat that's already cooked. it's fast, it's easy, it's quick, whatever, you know, tastes good. a serving size for someone is like two ounces of pasta.

you're thinking you're not getting that much. you really are, you're getting enough anyway. >> jamie's awesome. i'm working out. now that i have a cook. it's the best thing that i've done. >> great story. >> larry: we've got a question submitted to larry king live facebook page says having been a chubby kid, i remember turning to food when i felt unloved or stressed. do you feel that way? do you turn to food when stress? >> yeah, i do sometimes. my parents got divorced. i was stressed. >> larry: do you sense that you felt badly for that and therefore turned to food? >> that's what i thought the problem was. >> larry: do you deal with the psychological questions here,

ryan? it's not just overeating, is it? >> it's what happened at home a lot. >> we used to sit together as a table. you sit there and have a conversation. and we eat food that she cooked and that set a great example for me. we talked a lot about the schools, it has to come from home. you look at that -- what i noticed at this hour, you look at that tape against stacy and you saw all the food piled up, the pizza, the corn dogs, the food piled up on the table. then you see them having a conversation about their day. that's the most important part of this. >> larry: i would always say eat, eat to the kids, no matter what it was. finish your pizza. i was wrong, right? >> you weren't wrong. that was in a time when food was scarce or money or poverty. and in some respects, all over

the country and different countries, that's the same now. you don't want to waste food. but you know, i guess -- times are changing. life styles are changing. 15 years ago, 12% of women worked. 60%, 65% of women do. hardworking young parents out there that don't have enough time and money is a stress. but when food culture, learning to -- learning to cook at home has stopped, which it has, learning to work at home or school rarely has. rarely is that relevant. you buy in to other people's solutions. and often they're the ones to buy one and get one free. it's the wrong stuff. i think what needs to happen, larry is we need to draw a line in the sand and say, it's kind of getting too bad. with $150 billion spent in the year on obesity alone, that is

set to double in the next eight to ten years which, by the way, you can't afford. so we need to start proactively thinking about what we can do. what's the main stream going to do, fast food -- what commitments are supermarkets going to do. we don't have to fight with them. we don't have to make them look bad. there are wonderful brands out there being blamed for a lot of stuff. i might have been horrible to them five years ago. they're all partner solutions. if we all do our bit, and driven really by the government is great. wonderful things can happen in america in the next ten years. >> we thank stacy and justin. back with our remaining moments and brian has a petition for us. don't go away. you're the colon lady!

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what did you have for dinner last night? >> chicken nuggets? oh. >> chicken nuggets for dinner last night. now you have them for lunch. lovely. i want to do a little survey. what did you have for dinner last night? >> chicken fingers. >> chicken nuggets. >> chicken nuggets again. >> the fact that the kids are having food for dinner one night and the same for lunch the next day is outrageous. >> larry: a spokeswoman for huntington says people need to realize is, there was already a movement to make huntington

healthier. jamie, do you take credit for the revolution they've alreadyl been under a microscope and governor mansion of west virginia, who's probably one of the most inspiring governors out there, politicians, had already been doing quite a lot of tireless stuff with his wife, working in schools, across different areas. already the school system had already made lots and lots and lots of changes. really, i guess my job was to kind of -- it wasn't just schools, it was kind of all elements of the community coming together and in one moment, to tell a story and to also sort of join forces and do even better. so, you know, look i don't want to take anyone's credit. the only upside for me is sustainable, independent, good movements forward. you know, we're in a very -- i think we're in a precious time right now, with the nutrition act going through congress. i think michelle is trying to do some great things. and i'm very worried about

congress. you know, yesterday, a whole load of work got done. $4.5 billion over a ten-year period is embarrassing, is rude, is disrespectful. it won't do anything. you know, to think that $4.5 billion, to help the child nutrition and the obesity across all the schools in america over ten years compared to $7 billion in a month in iraq. it's -- we need more funds. absolutely. i know it's about money, but there is nothing more precious than the kids and the future of this country. >> larry: what else is there? jamie, it's hard to control jamie outright. he's so not opinionated, right? >> he doesn't believe in this at all. this guy has the amazing ability to lead this revolution, but he's a human being. he doesn't preach, he's kind, he was in huntington for months, basically, living there while his babies and his family and his wife were in the uk. he truly believes in it.

and like you said earlier, what's the downside? there's no negative that can come out of this. >> larry: did you have any trouble selling this to abc? >> jamie, you remember the day that we decided to go around hollywood and we had a list of meetings, and i believe we walked into two places, one of which was abc, and steve mcpherson at abc, who runs it said, i'm in, not only for the show, but for this entire movement. and that was important to you, jamie. it wasn't just a television show. >> absolutely. you know what, from steve mcpherson all the way down, i think everyone, it's time -- this project has touched their heart. it's made them feel passionate about tv, doing the job that it was invented for. i think we think it's a moment in time where actually it's not just a story, it really could be a revelation. if everyone watches the show and feels passionate and memotional about it, everyone watching can do something, can contribute.

i think good things can happen in the next three to six months. >> larry: our cnn hero of the week is someone who's been here before. ann mallelm was honored back in 2008. and this week we caught up with her in washington as she expands it to the nation's capital. >> cnn hero, ann mallelm. >> reporter: two years ago, ann mallelm was honored as a cnn hero for her "back on my feet" program, which allows homeless men and women to change their own lives through running and job training. what started off as a small running club of 300, expanded to more than 1,500 members with 17 teams running three times a week nationwide. >> you're doing great. since being a cnn hero, it's been extraordinary. we've received so many questions for expansion and people wanting us to bring our program to their city. >> reporter: last year alone, 170 members found work, started job training, or moved out of

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>> larry: i only have a few moments left, but ryan seacrest, who i know is pretty apolitical, is carrying a petition. what is this? >> well, this is jamie's notion and jamie plans to take 1 million signatures to washington. last night at "american idol," i had joe jones sign this, take a picture with it, and demi levato. this is, i support the revolution. i believe every child in america has the right to fresh, nutritious school meals and it goes on. so larry, we need your -- got a pen there? we need your support, your signature. >> come on, larry. >> larry: i'm doing it! >> the king is marking it, time stamping it and all. see, that is what we need and we appreciate it. and being on the radio, you've been on the show before, when we started talking about this two years ago, even before jamie and i had a chance to meet, moms called in and they said, you have a platform, to me, you have the ability to talk about this stuff. and i thought, you guys are

right. this is something meaningful that we can use the radio show and the tv show for to talk about. and i think that it can be fun as well. i think cooking is fun. >> larry: jamie, we don't have much time left. you had to spend a lot of time away from the family. are you proud of doing this? >> well, it's always hard. funny enough, i just got me a picture through from my second daughter's birthday today, which she's dressed up as annie and getting her cake. yet again, i'm not there. but the point is, i get time in my life to have good, loving quality time with my family. if i was 60, 70 years old and got asked why i didn't take the opportunity in my career, like what ryan said, with the platforms that we have, to try and make a difference in one of the biggest countries in the world, and also, by the way, guys, if america changes, it's not just america. you know, whether they admit it or not, everyone copies america.

things will change around the whole world. and i think, really, if anything can happen, it's about a bit of perspective. >> larry: jamie, i might add a little pun. this is a revolution, this side, your side might win. >> let's try. >> larry: a little joke there. one other quick before we leave, how's it going with simon and ell ellen? >> oh, the drama is fantastic. i love it. anything that stirs the pot over there. >> larry: do they not like each other, like each other? >> i think they like each other just fine. i think they come from different points of view, he's tough, he's acerbic, and no offense, jamie, he's english. and whereas ellen is so generous and so quick and funny. >> larry: how many more years are you committed to that? >> i have a hand full of more years. >> larry: that's it for tonight. >> thank you for this, larry. >> larry: thanks for everything. where do you go -- thank you, jamie. where do you g to sign the petition? >> you go to