hello everybody my name is jimmy tingle welcome to the belmont media center in beautiful waverly square belmont massachusetts we are going to be going to a great show today we're going to be promoting an event on may seventh at the belmont high school a comedy show jim eaton will the president the funniest campaign in history to support the belmont food pantry belmont medco and the bristol large homeless shelter in waltham and my first guest will be jackie neal she's the founder of for the last twelve years i've been running for the presidency of the united states of america those of you who don't know me i have never held elected office i have absolutely no legislative accomplishments but i have almost thirty years of comedic insight and commentary that i want to inject into the campaign ladies and gentlemen and i'm like many of the other people who are running for president i'm not delusional i understand there's a very good chance i might not win i the name of my party issue more for humanity humor for humanity what i want to do i want to take the great political principles of the united states of america freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of the press and free enterprise and combine that with the great spiritual principles of all the world's major religions that focus on love compassion forgiveness mercy justice and peace combine these two great social forces so our domestic policies and our foreign policies we flecked who we are and who we aspire to be already folks welcome back my first guest today is jackie neil she's the founder of a path appears in the chairperson of the planning committee for a path appears in the fundraiser we're doing may seventh at belmont high school jackie neil welcome to the seventy's in cambridge massachusetts so her and our family have become very close over the last forty years right and it's wonderful to see them here in beaumont i know you're still involved in the community you've been like immersed in the community of this of the book that was coming out and a little description of what it was which essentially said to me that it was a book that helps people alert about how ordinary people can help others to make extraordinary differences in their lives in their communities right in their communities or wherever but it laid out a road map for people and it gave people sort of direction about how to go about doing that and i was very appreciative of nicholas kristoff of the work that he's been doing  who he is as a person great writer for the new years he said new york times journalist he's he's been awarded the pulitzer prize and the year before i had produced some writings that were collected by eve ensler around abuse of women and one of the writings was by nicholas and community people read them just turned out that my husband kristoff and it was a story about how he had visited a brothel in cambodia and it was it was very touching i mean it was very very difficult to hear about the experience of these very young girls so he was on my mind and when i heard about or read about this book i thought well you know maybe this committee the committee that worked with me last year would be interested in working with me this year on some something to do with this and this was all routed through the unitarian universalist church social action committee so i took the idea to the social action committee and people said sure we'd love to do this and it took off and so that's how  ever you are whatever circumstance you're involved in but dissipate in some sort of community service i think was martin luther king the said not everybody can do everything but everybody can do something you know which is went to one of your performances all you heard that came to one of the performances right and it was the one where you introduced humor for humanity it was that  some entity and part of what we did with the path appears we have a series of events before nicholas came last year he came in april so from october to april we had different activities and we had people fill out a card telling us what they're what they're most concerned for the community and at the end we tallied that up and the top three were hunger homelessness and occasional literacy so we met over the summer after you know after he spoke to try to determine one we were going to focus on and we couldn't we couldn't pick just one so we decided to look at all three and mats where we just we said we're will fund raise that will be our focus for that and that's where we thought about humor for humanity and the knowing go presidential campaign that's right no one better no one better than jimmy to come here and help us do  three organizations will be benefiting the belmont food pantry the belmont medical program and the bristol large homeless shelter in waltham massachusetts right he chose those three they're all obviously in the in the immediate community here in belmont north america will have representatives of all three of those organizations on the show today and in the park you know which will be great and i want to ask what has the response b from the community people excited about it are they looking forward yes yes they are they are i know we got a little bit of press and one of the papers yes so we have a billion article coming out in  gentlemen can we do it is there a toll free number to call unfortunately there is not a toll free number so you got to go to jimmy tingle dot com j i m m y t i n g l e dot com right there you can order tech at it's going to be a great show tickets only thirty dollars that's right right the benefits three organizations the belmont food pantry belmont medical program and the breast or large homeless shelter in waltham massachusetts i'm excited about doing it because one of things that i do with my show and the name of humor for humanity is this organization that i started as a name of the party as well right here in helping humor in healing hope hahaha that's the name of it more than a detainment rating spirits funds and awareness for non happens to you too you read the newspapers you watch television pay attention and some of it you go oh my god you know all these things are coming at us all the time what can i do right and it's like ok what can i do while i tell jokes i  a jimmy tingle dot com you can get them at the door that night we encourage you to get them early the show will be funny it will be clean it will be topical and it will be so you can bring kids i'm going to i'm not going to drop the f bomb look at me  care for my belmont cable i am not going to drop the f bomb this is going to be a clean family oriented show because when i move this nation forward with humor for humanity ladies and gentleman after this clip we're going to be right back is waiting on she want to say jackie to the people out there to the masses watching this and something i just i guess i just want to say that it was wonderful for people to really pitch in last year and to have the effort be a town wide effort to support and learn about how they could do something for others and i hope we have the same kind of response because that was that really was the outcome was that when i think when i thought of bringing in new clothes it was well if one person can do something then why not the whole time i think of what the impact could be and again if a few people can do things to help others why not the whole time and i think that belmont has so much to offer that's what others when you're going to be entertained you're going to be entertained for a good cause listen gentlemen we're going to today we'll be right back with our next guest ladies and gentlemen and enjoy this clip as a sample of what you'll see on saturday may seventh belmont high school thank you take it away and the name of the party issue more for and moves your spirit lets freedom ring was yes you can i welcome everybody back to the show live from the belmont media center in beautiful waverly square belmont massachusetts my name is jimmy tingle i am the host of the show humor for humanity more than entertainment raising spirits funds and awareness for non profits charities and social causes our mission is your mission for humanity humor in helping humor and healing humor in hope ha ha ha that's a mission fails my guest at this for this segment is the lovely and talented annette yeah let isn't it originally from france canada i'm sorry i want to live from canada but she speaks french she speaks french and english very fluently she is the program director folks for the bristol large homeless shelter single men and women shelter in waltham massachusetts annette thanks much for joining us no problem thank you how long have you been working at the shelter and now you the director is that what you want the program director yes i am the program director of the single men single women shelter the homeless shelter in waltham  did it for i don't know about ten years i think every year they would do it and it raised a lot of money and awareness some listeners but there's always been and it's always been this struggle between we want to end homelessness but it doesn't seem to end it seems to just kind of you know just still exist still exist one of the biggest challenges with it well i think what it is is you bring on a next interesting point the basically sometimes sort of when the economy is better homelessness is much more popular people want to help and then when people are struggling the average person is struggling in the economy's not so good then it's not as popular and it's a little bit harder so it's interesting that you bring that on we've seen different faces and different kinds of problems of the in the shelter just like people see in their family different types of substance abuse yeah prescriptions the whole opioid problem that's going on now so we see it with the economy what we saw ten years ago or six seven years ago we saw more professional people that lost their jobs later in life had a hard time getting placed at another job used up all their retiree a man people that you would never know  unfortunately a big part of the people with mental illnesses that are having a hard time i think and it's really interesting because now families everybody has an uncle everybody has a non to our cousin or a kid maybe that's so people can relate a little bit more it's a little bit more in the open now people are not as much putting these people in a closet they're sort of you complaining and trying to be proactive they want to save their lives i mean basically in a lot of them of families ye reading that the most the numbers wise the most people that are homeless in the country yes i would think so and which is most people don't think of that because most people see the homeless person you know like you said of substance abuse or mental illness and it's it's very tragic but behind that is that oftentimes is people like you said that you professionals who have lost their jobs or can't make the mortgage payments or and those people turn up in places like your shelter the bristol lodge and in waltham and when somebody comes there are there is it easy to get in there are a lot of questions act asked is there a lot of barrier to entry sources so the referrals are a little bit different when it comes to single individuals with no minors and no children they basically can sell free for themselves so we run a shelter th increase i don't know if it's necessarily on the increase versus i yeah it was i mean it's i know that hunger is you know that the food pantries from people i've interviewed about the need for food it's i because of the way the economy has turned out or their own personal lives for whatever reason the mental illness is another one that's a big a big driver of it and we do also have a soup humanity jimmy tingle for president show as in german we're talking big numbers part of the proceeds are going to go to the bristol large homeless shelter in waltham massachusetts folks it's going to be a great event we hope you can come down and we hope you can you can get tickets at jimmy tingle dot com online we'd love for you to get them in advance on line you can also get them at the door but i know that annette want you to get them i head of time and look at her place and tell me you do not to disappoint and that ok she came all the way down here from new brunswick to work at this shelter in waltham massachusetts you've been there for thirty years you better be there i may seventh i am not kidding you seven thirty at night it holds eight hundred people nicholas kristoff the writer for the new york times he drew six hundred fifty we want to draw six hundred fifty one we want to break the nicholas kristoff record mint if trump can draw ten thousand and we can draw six hundred fifty one that's the way i look at it now you know it's going to be a lot of fun now if people want to learn more about your shelter is there a website there yes we have a wonderful website what is the new thing i do middlesex human services eighty is our parent agency ok festival in the world just for laughs comedy fest we always love going up there to see our canadian friends nice people and now that legalizing pot up in canada i don't think the people in canada a mellow enough we need to legalize pot who comes to this show you'll be helping people out who don't lettermen if they're under the influence that if they need medical attention they can get it if they need food they can get it yeah if they need a place to stay they can stay and is that do they feel safe there because i heard a lot of shelters people don't feel safe and they don't want to go well i think it's community living so people need to get along we don't see people but for the most part the feedback that we get pretty positive and staff is incredible staff is brought them and then they get out of there and say why's that person there and it's just there's no reason sometimes people get to that point and we respect them and support them and say hi and you're operating principle unconditional love people need how you trust them professional boundaries professional boundaries lace and that's why she's going to have what she came from new brunswick to walt them and then she's going to heaven thank you so much joy and i think today ladies and gentlemen how about it one more time the lovely and talented and we'll be right back liz in germany after this clip from jimmy tindall for president the funniest campaign in history humor for humanity may seventh belmont high school proceeds to benefit a net and bristol lodge and all these great organizations that we'll be talking to in coming right up in the rest of the show stay with us please one of the things i want to do with my campaign folks i to want a positive campaign i am tired of the doom and gloom in this country and in the media and with all the political debates i'm tired of it there's lots of positive things happening in this country and around the world that we're not hearing about for example americans are living longer and healthier lives than ever before they say that sixty sixty years old is the new forty i love that eighty is the new sixty i love that one hundred is the new eighty i love that and the humor for humanity more than entertainment raising spirits funds and awareness for non profits charities and social causes our mission is your mission is your mission humor for humanity humor in helping humor in healing humor in hope ha so your mom took the initiative back then in the seventy's eighty's and brought you to two out of high park out of boston public schools to framingham you were there you graduate from framingham high school excellent and you could but as a little know you know i think that that's great and there's a lot of different that people are welcoming the whole community is very welcoming they shut anybody out there please very welcome and i think that it benefits a lot of right back with more for human thank you so much thank you and the other thing i want to get to folks in this country is a sense of family the american family we're not just a collection of red states and blue states occupy wall street and tea party republicans and democrats with the american family with the human family we have to start treating people in this country as if they were our own family members and you help out your family whether they're up or whether they're down my aunt is ninety three years old she's not getting around like she used to everybody in the families pitching in one of my jobs is to help with the shopping ok i'm in walgreen's a few months ago one of the things on the list is depends the adult diapers so i say to the young woman the i said this they are not for me i am a presidential candidate welcome back everybody this is jimmy tingle you're watching humor for humanity more than entertainment raising spirits funds and awareness for non profits charities and social causes our mission is your mission humor for humanity ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the show drum roll please please welcome the director of the belmont food pantry panic patty is the director of the belmont food pantry the pantry was founded in one thousand nine hundred twenty three years ago it was founded by belmont residents it's completely run by volunteers monetary donations support the food pantry and serves two hundred residents use the pantry monthly two hundred people a month used in the pantry in belmont massachusetts that's really really a significant contribution that you're making and on may seventh saturday night at belmont high school the show that we're doing jimmy tingle the president the funniest campaign in history part of the proceeds will benefit the belmont food pantry welcome to the show patty thank you jimmy very much so much for being here really appreciate you doing that  today getting the word out absolutely absolutely and thank you for making the belmont media center available and thank you for shutting down waverly square so with my pleasure so we could do this event here all of waverly square was shut down today li john for the take all show we don't mess around it's like when obama comes someplace they shut down the whole neighborhood that's what they did here waverly square but tell me what motivated you to get involved with the belmont food pantry and when did you get it well basically the bottom imagine you get a whole bushel of fresh corn or apples or whatever right from the massachusetts farm yes that's very cool yeah it is really is it is a great you know import and then we also  can i mean that does count as community service but the kids themself started their own club and it's a hunger club so longer name for it but one of the outcomes of it is there they decided to rewarding for you to be working is something that you people come in and you know difficult circumstances and all of a sudden there's a little boost to their raw their weekly diet you know i've been part of the program for over to people you have two hundred volunteers you know those are two hundred people who use the food three hundred i would have to say the entire town of belmont are volunteers everyone who pretty much has if you live in belmont some time in your life span pantry that the large of the year bring you know like in boston this probably they probably have five or six but what they also have is there's the greater boston food battery so you can and project bread now that's what we used when we first started the first three years we woodwork to help it must restore your faith and humanity on a certain level to see how many generous people you know many people willing to give of their time of their money of their resources i mean that that's really neat  some people people have a come and go with my food people have a coming grumpy yeah oh they do and also too is that you know i am know that if i'm on site today and how many food drives are going to be happening to you know make sure that this enough on day one and day of three hundred right with you know allowing for the different food drives you can have on all the or toothpaste i mean all that is expensive all that you can use with food stamps i'm not sure if how it works out that way to in today's world i just know that that for a long time you couldn't write with the cards that changes something and you take you take donations or do you take actual goods to take actual like if somebody want to bring you can goods could they yes i don't turn anything away yet this is how it turns nothing away folks now if you have refrigerator diadems you have to give it to me and you have to bring it shopping by little extra and drop it in the barrel there there's at the food pantry which is located behind the high school there's a drop off box there you know like this this one that i'm going to tell you is that the latest and greatest drop off is that made the best scotch you know well let me tell you but they were they have odd hours and they're located right around from the food pantry so they offered their side is a drop off for you know a bags here and there just like they're open five forty eight on a friday  empire you built a food pantry empire i'm very proud of you i'm a seventh ladies and gentlemen saturday night belmont high school you can come down and support the food pantry the belmont medical program the bristol lodge and bristol  tickets lots of different places i suggest angle dot com very simple you can get them at the door we're trying to do advance sales patty anything else you want to tell the people before we shove off and close up the show today anything else you want to say is i just want to thank you for stuff to coming forward and helping out and doing i can't wait to see your show on how you going to run for president but you're in such a humorous event in the last year thanks to your humor to it is going to be a phenomenal may seventh at seven thirty at the belmont high school patti great to have you on the show thank you so much for joining us live as in german you can see it and we're going to take you out with this lax les last clip is called the great race is the closing segment to my one man show a president i hope you enjoy and i hope you can see us on saturday night may seventh belmont high school jimmy tengo dot com thank you thank you patty thank you to all the guests that joined us today and i think jackie neil and a path appears because it was her brainstorm and her idea that wanted to make something happen here in belmont and we're really excited about doing it and i'm on it i'm privileged to be a part of it so thank you so much for joining us and i hope to see you saturday night may seventh delmon high school i want to leave you with this this is a big push to legalize gambling and it seems to me that if we want to gamble on things when we get to want solutions to problems that we already have life is so wild and crazy and at times hilarious it already looks like a great race and everybody's law looking for those answers and everybody's looking for those when is and i'm right there with you folks i'm looking for the answers i'm looking for the winners and sometimes i get so emotionally involved in all this material and all the issues that going on in the world sometimes i feel people being shot is fair there's intimidation people are afraid to leave their homes at night crime in the streets is out of control and lay numb i want to share comes gun control and the outside lane gun control trying to get past the national rifle association on the outside lane but the n r a will not let it health care we form welfare reform politics and the wars unite the nation and he's trying to quit smoking all at the same time and he's talking about hope and change hope and change hope and change every time we try to do something republicans jump o fun of him we hope nothing changes and here come the prophets and the prophets onto the track led by confucius he's got a big copy of the golden rule that says do unto others as you would have others do unto you and the prophets onto the track and the prophet the talking about that on selfish love that unconditional love and that unrelenting love the prophets are overcoming fear overcoming hatred overcoming crime war famine disease addiction the prophets are coming down the home stretch judah