central kitchen founder ber -- robert edgar speaks about running a nonprofit for 24 says that charitable organizations will be important as aging populations put stress on government programs. this is 50 minutes. >> i will pause and introduce our keynote speaker, robert gger. years ago, it has been a while. if you read his book "begging for change" you are familiar with his work. cool guy. we are to have him here. think a little differently. you may not agree with everything. i encourage you to keep your questions at hand. we will pause for q&a. for those questions ready when we open the floor. i will turn it over to robert to lead us through the keynote. robert? [applause] thank you, thank you, thank you. it is a pleasure to be back in washington dc. i spent the last 40 years in the nation's capital, but i have decamped to the community of my youth -- los angeles, where i'm opening the los angeles kitchen. will get to transition. nothing fills the heart more than walking streets you are so familiar with. i spent the past couple of days visiting old friends, seeing old colleagues, going

robert de niro. that's the truth. so-- so yeah, and hi put myself on tape for flags of our fathers, played the priest, the irish priest in grand turino, and the gay lover of jay edgar hoover. all movies i didn't get. i thought maybe it wasn't going to happen. all of a sudden steven dropped out. peg said what about clint. chris kyle said that the one he wanted to direct the moviest was clint eastwood. but he was doing jersey boy. he had read the book, so i talked to him on a friday and he said yeah, let me-- call me on monday. and then so i called him on monday. and he went, yeah, let's make this-- and that was it. and next thing you know, we're in rabat two months later. >> rose: but you went to see his parents. >> yeah, smart thing. he said let's go to-- let's just go to midlothian, let's meet his children, let's see if wayne and debi's parents will drive out, and jeff and amy and his brother, his brother's wife. we spent two and a half days there. great story about that. so i don't know clint that well. i don't know if it will be a huge entourage. we arrived there. it was just him, just me and him. and taya pyxis up, we go to the house. we are staying at a day's