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"We had a blast doing that. We had like 15, 20 comics from all over the country. We did a month of comedy shows, political humor for a whole month back in 2004. At Jimmy tingles off Broadway theater. Anyway, it's great to be reconnected with them. He's coming to Lowell. Auditorium, this Friday night, September 16th. He'll be in Northampton on September 15th. That's this Thursday night. You got to see him. He's hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, he's the king of rant. He's my friend soon to be your friend. He's one of the, he is the longest running contributor to Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and he helped, you know, he really contributed a lot to that show. People look forward to his rants at the end of the show and it was always fun and inspiring to watch him and he gets it off his chest, folks. Please welcome to the show, the one the only my friend and your friend, mister Lewis black. Hello, Lewis. We were in Amsterdam together, too. That's right. When you were performing and I was there, I eventually was teaching there, but I came over and hung out with you guys and did a lot of it was great. Well, it's great to see you, Louis, you're coming to low auditorium. Folks, I gotta tell you, if you like politics, if you like what's going on and you want somebody to say what you've been thinking, just like this, you gotta go see Louis black at the Lowell auditorium Friday night September 17th. You will not regret it and all of us tour dates are at Lewis black dot com. So Lewis, tell me about yourself right now, how are you doing? What do you what do you think of the world? Things are just
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"I got, but I'm gonna get up and talk for an hour or two. And see what hits. And that's my process is like, I am one of these guys, and the joy of it is, if I'm stuck on stage, I'm part of me knows at this point that I'm supposed to be funny. So if I'm talking about something and I don't know where it's going, the need to be funny will kick in and then the punchline will be delivered to me. I don't know where they come from, but it happens in a real moment, and then I got to remember it or write it down, and then it becomes part of the act. So that's really my process is refining by talking. So it's by repetition and just by getting up there and things get this organized and things get lost like that. I think joke writers have a benefit and that they can just have a fairly effective way of cataloging everything they're saying. But with me, it's continuing to talk through these ideas and let them kind of evolve on. I just got a new punch line the other night. I like when things connect to other things and create callbacks. I did a show two nights ago and I got two new callbacks just out of necessity because I was left hanging. I was talking and I had nowhere to go with it and something came out of the world out of the Easter and I'm like, oh, thank you. And I write that down. Cool. And you recorded the set when you're doing them. Yeah. Yeah. But don't listen. But you don't listen, right? Yeah. I don't. I don't listen. That's hilarious. You probably got three more hours. Listen to materials. I know. That's all that's left of myself sabotaging. Yeah, it used to be much more effective itself sabotaging. Now I just, I just don't listen to the sets. And I go, I get something done anymore. Let's talk about the Wilbur. What's the name of the show at the Wilbur? What can people expect? Because I want to do my best to get as many people in there as we can because you're great performer and you deserve it. Yeah, the second show could use people. Yeah, because I just added that second show. So I think the first show told that. Well, I mean, the name of the tour is this may be the last time. And it doesn't mean I'm retiring. I mean for everybody. So it's really, it's really just where I'm at right now. Just talking about, it seems the theme that sort of happening is just sort of really reckoning with the amount of stupidity in the world, but also the scary stupidity, but also the fact that we all kind of know that things are, you know, something's impending. And it's not good. And we all kind of feel it. And we're all coming out of this very traumatic time of the pandemic. But now that we're kind of through it, or else we're not post COVID, but we're sort of fuck COVID. So, but there's still that feeling of nervousness. And I'm trying to kind of focus on that. I do a very working on this very dark bit about what is our place as an entertainer. What do we really doing as entertainers or as comedians? And I've been sort of stuck on this image about, you know, when someone's Jimmy, when somebody's like dying in the hospital, you know what he hears from everybody, you know, about three weeks before he dies. You're going to make it. You're going to get through this. That's sort of what we're doing as entertainers right now. Well, I'll be at the show Saturday night. I'm excited to be there. I'm at the first show. I'm excited to be there, Mark. People can find out more about I don't think I know. I don't know that. I don't know if I sold it that well. Let me make it clear that I am sort of a dark minded person, but it's all very funny. And if you're like minded, certainly, you're going to enjoy it. It's hilarious. It was that the one at the schubert, the last one you were at, that was great. I look forward to coming this Saturday night. I want to encourage my audience to come. If you've never seen Mark, you've got to check it out. If you had never listened to the podcast, it's one of the best ever and that's no exaggeration. It really is. The guy's a great interviewer. And that's why people like Obama and George Clooney and Robin Williams and Keith Richards. George Clooney. George Clooney is sort of like talking to a president. Yeah. To talk to George Clooney. Yeah, he's so, you kind of talk to him and you're like, why can't you just be president? He's great. It was a great interview. That's why people do the show because, you know, you're incredibly smart. As great questions, you keep the conversation going. You're really interesting. And it's an awesome thing. And again, it came out of nowhere. And that's what I love about you. And that's what I love about the comics, because all of us have our no rule. And there was nobody really guiding you along. There's more support now than there ever was. You know, there's comedy classes and all that stuff. Thank God, thank God for bad parenting. We were all just sent out on our own. To figure out how to live in the world. Mark, what else can you tell us before we go? What's always great to see you, Jimmy, and I'm happy that you're doing okay. You always made me happy. It's great to see you. And I'm just trying to stay sane and not get too dry, live a sober life and stay quiet. I saw that you were hosting a gala up in the Montreal comedy festival. That'll be fun. I know. I know. Yeah, Mark. You and I did that 2007, I think we were up there. Do you remember it was me you on the bill? It was me, you. John Oliver was the host? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were on that and we did it. It might have been Colin Quinn might have been on it. Other guys. I'm very excited to do it, you know? And it's so funny though about Canadian television. It's like, I've been on so many of those galas in so many different Canadian markets. And I've never heard anybody tell me they saw it. Really? Not a tweet, not an email, nothing ever. I gotta be on 9 Canadian stand up shows. No feedback. Zero. Well, that's going to change this summer. One of the dates for that. One of the date, good segue. What are the dates? I have no idea. It's comedy festival in July, yeah. All right, Mark, great to see you. Thanks again for being on today. Thanks for helping us out with this. And Brendan's been a joy to work with and we're going to ask him for some more advice as well. Yeah, Brendan's pretty generous with advice. He loves you, buddy. All right. I'll see you later. Thanks so much. Thank you. Take care. Thank you for joining us today. This has been a humor for humanity, production. I am the founder of humor for humanity, a social enterprise that raises spirits, funds and awareness for nonprofits charities and social causes. You can find out how we can help you or your organization raise spirits, funds, and awareness for you and yours. Our mission is your mission, humor for humanity and Jimmy tingle dot com. Thank you.
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"Yeah, so like, you know, you just sort of try to find the freedom of mind. You kind of look out into the world and you've got to start to enjoy yourself talking and also, you know, not really mind that it's not being received anywhere necessarily. It was just like learning how to juggle. You know, when you get that third ball in here, you're like, I'm doing it. And I don't know how it happened, but that's how it happened. Out of the necessity. And so from there, you and Brendan just put this show together. And the podcast was brand new, the whole style was brand new. Well, yeah, a lot of people were kind of doing radio shows and we had at the beginning. We had segments. We had a couple of guests. They're trying a lot of different things. But once I moved to Los Angeles, I would generally do a ten to 15 minute monologue of some kind about myself. And then eventually it evolved into a long form interview. And Brendan's a genius. You know, so, you know, we are very specific about the audio nature of the podcast. We don't do video because there's a certain amount of crafting for the conversation that happens editorially. And, you know, and we just, he's very protective of me and this guy's been listening to me talk for 20 years. And I'm like, I wouldn't wish that on anybody. So, but our working relationship with 50 50 partners in this venture and we have been since the beginning and that's just, you know, he's as essential as I am and we have, we have a thing worked out. We don't fight, you know, we don't, you know, and I trust him implicitly with everything and that's the way it goes. That's great, man. That's great. And that's something that just happened out of nowhere as well. You know, just happened to meet you. Yeah, kinda, you know, I swear to God, I met him, he was like 24, 25 years old. And, you know, for years, you know, after we started the podcast, he was doing, you know, he was working at serious. He sort of moonlighting with the podcasting, doing it under the radar. He couldn't, I couldn't bring his name, you know, when I was being interviewed because he didn't want to get into trouble with his other job. And then I remember there was like, I guess there's probably about ten years ago now already where, you know, maybe 8 years ago, he's like, I'm going to come onto the podcast both times. It's just going to just do the podcast. I was like, hey, wait, man. You got a family. I got nothing to lose. You hear you want to don't be crazy, you know? This could all go down the toilet and it's just me, you know? I'm just going to lose my shitty out. But he was like, believe me, I did the research. I'm like, okay. Let's do it. So we've been exclusive on this. You know, it's been our, it's been our business for a long time. Successful. I just Googled it today. I mean, I know you spent many, many weeks, months. It probably years than the top ten top 20 podcast in the country, which is remarkable. We still do all right. Obama was at the house. We still do it right, you know, they do this big thing where it's called the Edison ranking, I guess, and it's really based on listenership. And we're still up there, man. We're still in the top. 22, 23. In 12 years in, that's not nothing. And considering there's a million podcasts. But he had the Obama thing was kind of mind-blowing, you know? Back then, I lived in a shitty little less than a 1000 ft² and that broken down garage where I started the show. And I remember we got his people reached out and they're like, you want to interview Obama. I'm like, what am I going to come to The White House? He's like, no, he wants to come to the garage. Are you kidding me? And when they first called you, did you think it was like a prank call? Or did you think it was serious? No, we knew it was serious because there was talk about Biden doing it when he was vice president. There was people within The White House that were fans of the show. And then I think what happened was in that last year of his presidency, they thought, well, let's get him out there, you know? 'cause the possibility of lame duck, you know, sort of happens at that point, you know, and the last year of your second term. But it became a very, yeah, so it was like, he wanted to get out there. And I think it was a way to bring attention in a unique way. And it certainly brought attention to the medium of podcast. And you know, I know what was going on that week. You know, it was a different type of interview than I was used to doing because we really we had a tight hour. We had, you know, I had to do questions. I couldn't wing it. There was stuff in the news that happened within the last few days of him coming to where we didn't even know if he was going to come. There was that horrendous shooting with that kid who shot all those people with that black church. Wow. If I had happened like that, yeah. Like a couple days before, and there was a lot of sort of stuff that had to happen that they had to come, the Secret Service had to come to secure the house to figure out how to secure the perimeter. I had to ask my neighbor. If it was okay to put snipers on his roof and he was very excited. He was retired. And like a year, the snipers are intense man. So the day of they put these two things, these isolated phone lines in my 1D at spare bedroom, these two boxes that are there for the entire global communication system breaks down that he's got to line out. And they were just humming in that room for two days before he got there. And I'm just thinking like, I hope we don't need to use those. You know? And you know, it was so funny because, you know, you had Secret Service about 12, 15 Secret Service, the cops. They had a tenth the driveway who had a walkway up from the road, had to get all the cars off the streets. And it's funny I was out on the deck with the Secret Service, guys. And I'm like, how am I going to know he's coming? We'll give you a heads up, 20 minute heads up. And then we saw the presidential helicopter. There's two ospreys, these two small planes that are all looking that travel with the helicopter. And they were going to land over at the rose bowl, which is ten minutes from my house. As opposed to stop up traffic in the entire city of Los Angeles to get there from Beverly Hills. I saw him in the air and I'm like, I guess he's coming. He's close. That's him. And then he is wild. He showed up and he'd been in the neighborhood before went to Occidental, which was really down the street. Yeah. Cool. So was he friendly? Was he nice? Was he loose with you? Totally. You know, because you kind of jacked up, you know? Everyone's just a person, you know? He just happens to be president. And it's a big deal, right? But when he showed up there's a bunch of people and, you know, he's like, is this going to be fun? He said, I'm like, I don't know. I hope so. And he was very disarming, very candid. I remember on the show, I asked him, I asked him, are you nervous about this? He said, if I was nervous about this, we'd all be in trouble. Is it funny guy? He is. He was very good. He was candid, you know, there was a lot of news made around the podcast because he said the N word in context and boy that lit everything up. I remember that. That lit everything up. I remember that. Yeah, because after that, we didn't expect that, but then I had a sort of insulate myself. You know, because everyone wants the reporters out in the street trying to get comment. I'm like, look man, it's all on the podcast. I did two interviews about it. I did a Chris Hayes and I did Terry gross. And that was another thing Brendan was like, Brendan was like, you know, we're not doing nothing. Don't talk to anybody. Talk to Chris. We'll talk to Terry gross. That's it. And I'm like, okay. No problem. So let's get on the line. Chris pays, MSNBC, Terry growth, and tingle. Those are the three interviews. What about him? Well, yeah, it was like in single. Right. No, no. I'll talk to you. But I'm just talking immediately following that because he's used that word and there was like all this click bait and craziness around it, both politically and otherwise, you know, the right wing was going nuts with it. You know, like, why can he use that word? But they were just looking for anything. So we just detached from all of it. And I thought, you know, Brendan handled that very well. But that's great, Mark. You know, one of the things I remember you're talking about moving away from, I know you did a lot of politics back in the day when you first started because it's in the front pages all the time. And we did a lot of commentary air America was clearly a political show. It was that was the whole purpose of it. That was the reason for trying
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"They thought they wanted political humor, okay? The show I was doing was Jimmy tingle for president. So I got booked in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Southern California, and in Northern California. This isn't the general public. These are corporations and they're there for their company, picnic or whatever. And you're doing their thing. So they're naturally tense anyway. And inhibited in terms of like you said, the HR department of the CEOs there or their boss, so I'm doing my thing. And this is how I learned about the certain words, how you can just alienate a whole crowd. So I inadvertently was not doing as well on stage as I could do. That's as simple as that. But I could feel a tenseness and the audience recoiling from what I was saying. And every gig I'm saying jeez, what am I doing wrong? And I finally got up to Bakersfield, California. I was actually in Kevin McCarthy's district. And he's a guy from the Republican minority leader of the house right now. Anyway, I'm in his district, and they're all ranches. I said to the woman who picked me up at the station, I said, how is this audience? How are they demographically? I'm thinking it's 50 50. It's California. She goes, oh, well, heavy Trump country. Very strong Trump guy. I said, really, she goes, yeah, I'm paraphrasing, but she said, this is the largest concentration of Christian schools in the country. Wow. I took that in for I had like three hours before I go on. I go, how am I going to deal with three, 400 ranches? Who are heavily Christian? And what I ended up doing is I did all this personal stuff. Growing up Catholic, trying to quit drinking, using the higher power to help me quit drinking. All these things that were personal that had nothing to do with politics so much. A personal connection to them. By the time I got to immigration, which they support immigration reform, they've all ranches. That's who's doing working on all these farms. Yes. By the time I got to those issues, they could hear me. And they can appreciate where I was coming from. And at the end of it, you know, I don't want to leave my first podcast blowing my own horn, call it. But by the end of the show, there was a standing ovation. That's all I'm gonna say. I love it. I love it. Yes. The personal story can go a long way, even though the material on the outside might seem very, very political. And when you're coming from, you won't experience then it can just resonate with people more so than just the punditry. Absolutely. Absolutely. Cool. So Colin, I'm looking forward to seeing your show this Thursday night in Boston, January 13th, folks. If you are in another state and I hope you are listening or another city, the show, the last best hope, starring Colin Quinn as traveling, touring the country, go to Colin Quinn dot
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"Hey everybody, this is Jimmy tingle. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show appropriately named, I think. This is our first episode of our video show in podcast and I couldn't be happy today to introduce my first guest. My friend Colin Quinn and I go way back. We go back to the 1980s in the comedy clubs in Boston and in New York. I got to meet him way back in the day. He was a big influence to me. A good friend and we've been friends ever since going back, whatever that is. 35 years, 40 years, whatever it is. But he's done a lot of great things you may know him from weekend update on Saturday Night Live. He's been in a ton of movies and he's been pursuing the one person show format for the last, I don't know, 20, 25 years or so, and he's done a ton of them, and they're all great. And I want to talk to him about that because he's in Boston. This Thursday night, doing his show at the Wilbur theater. So please welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen, the one the only from New York City, mister Colin Quinn. Yes. Hi, Jimmy. We first met, I saw Jimmy tingle. They go, you gotta watch this guy, Jimmy tingle. And I was up here at Boston in one of these clubs. And he goes on stage and he goes, folks. I'm the pink wonder. One minute later, he goes, the czar of one of town. Look at him, he has like ten nicknames that he gave himself. He kept his head, and he goes, folks. Spike tingle. It was a hilarious act, but it was she was very unique. I knew from the beginning I said, this guy's really great. He's really great. A man of many nicknames. Yes, he gave himself like 8 big names during that. Well, Colin, you know, when I was trying to get booked at the ding Ho. Barry Clemens. I was about daytime bartender and open mic perform. I said, Barry, why don't you book me? He goes, Jimmy. I can't tell Steven Wright and Lenny Clark and Paula pound so not to come in on Saturday night because we're going to book tingle. He goes, you got to start your own room, start your own room, you can book it, you can host it, you'll get all sorts of practice. So I found that room in Watertown mocks pub and Watertown. I think it was Barry nicknamed me the czar of Watertown because you didn't get into Watertown Massachusetts unless you went through me.
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"To go to the doctors, right? So don't you want people to be properly licensed. And there's a way to do that that is by the law that prevents fraud and that's all that's all possible. And so that's why I supported it. And that's why I stood with many public safety officials supporting. Tell me Mara, some of you are proudest accomplishments and then a closing statement of where people can find you where they might want to volunteer or make a donation. Some of the proudest accomplishments of Maura healey. As attorney general, I'm really proud of The Office that I ran and the people that worked with me in that office brought it every day, trying to help consumers and workers and seniors and protect their young people and who weren't afraid to go after those who were violating their civil rights were polluting our environment. These people working really hard. I'm really proud of that to make that we ran an office very successful about 500 people, $60 million a year budget over the last 7 years. I have brought back or saved the Commonwealth of Massachusetts close to $7 billion and believe that's what I think the return on investment from our office has been pretty good. I will also say that I'm particularly proud of our work going after Purdue pharma and the sacklers. Shut them down. We drove them out of business. We investigated, we expose the lies, and we held them accountable. And we're using all of that money and the money that we got from going after other opioid manufacturers and distributors and McKinsey and to fund prevention and recovery services. Close to half a $1 billion that my team and I brought back to the state. That's what it's going to be going to. I'm also proud that we were there in the Trump years when a lot of things were threatened. Trump threatened to take away healthcare. He threatened to take away DACA and the dreamers program, he imposed a ban on travel that really hurt so many of our colleges and universities. He tried to take back take us backwards on the environmental regulations that have been put in place to deal with climate change. I could go after time and time again, but we held the line. And as AGs, we held a line and we stood up for the rule of law. We stood up for protecting the constitution. And we stood up to show that no one, even the president of the United States is above the law. And I'm proud that I was able to do that during that time. If folks want, I welcome support in this race. I welcome I welcome teammates and people coming on board. You can find us at Maura healey dot com. It's remember. And you can sign up, we're looking for volunteers, people with canvas, people and not doors, people get involved. It's all about teamwork and we're building a really big tent here. So I hope to see people headquarters is in charlestown, but we've got regional field offices around the state, so I'd love to get books involved. Mara hilley dot com, everybody. Thanks morrow, best of luck, continue success and thanks again for doing this. And being part of the meet the candidate series. Thanks, Jimmy. Always great to be with you. Take good care of you soon. Thank you for joining us today. This has been a humor for humanity, production. Our mission is your mission, humor for humanity. Jimmy tingle dot com. Thank you.
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show. I am Jimmy, and I want to introduce you to a new segment of our show, the meet the candidate series. It is intended to give candidate 20 for public office a platform and a voice. So voters know who is running for office, why they're running and what they hope to accomplish if they are so fortunate to be elected. So please feel free to share these interviews with your family and friends and citizens around this fine land because an educated and informed population is essential for a healthy democracy, and isn't that what we all really want, a healthy, democracy, enjoy the interviews, stay healthy. My name is Jimmy tingle, and I approve this message. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the meet the candidate series. We have a very special guest today. Please welcome to the show. The current attorney general of Massachusetts now running for governor of the fine state of Massachusetts as a Democrat, the one the only attorney general Maura hilly. Hello morrow, welcome to the show. Hello, Jimmy. It's great to see you. Great to be with you. Great to see you as well. I know you've been working hard criss-crossing the state and was on your website looking at your background. You're one of 5 children, I think, from a single mother, did you ever think you would be running for governor of Massachusetts? And what got you into the political phrase, so to speak? What it got you into public service? Yeah, you know, it's a little bit about my background, Jimmy. My parents are from Newport up in the north shore. And I grew up by Hampton beach. I was raised just over the border in New Hampshire. I am the oldest of 5. My parents divorced when I was about ten, and my mom then raised us. And you know, she went back to work as a school nurse. She was a nurse before that. And she worked incredibly hard to keep things together. All of us kids worked, I started out probably the apple Orchard working when I was about ten and camp counselor and a variety of jobs. I wait just my way through high school college and law school, including for many years at the Hampton beach casino ballroom, where probably performed. Learned a lot about life there, probably more than I learned at Harvard. And I knew I wanted to be a lawyer. I after college, I had a brief career. I played professional basketball for a couple of years in Europe. And I came back and went to law school at northeastern and began a legal career. I think I was drawn towards service though from my legal experience and that led me to run the civil rights division for the attorney general's office years later. It's what led me to run to be the people's lawyer because when you're in these jobs, when you're in public interest work, when you're in public service, you do have an ability to help people. And that's been incredibly satisfying. I've been privileged to be attorney general for the last 7 years, built a great team of 500 really hardworking men and women who are trying to deliver for people around the state day in and day out. And I'm running for governor because I believe that these are really challenging times. There are a lot of challenges. We face up there. But they're also opportunities, Jimmy. And we can be and do so much more here in this great state. In a time when our nation needs it, we need leadership, and we need leadership from the states, and there's no better state to lead from or lead by example from the Massachusetts. Right. Well, tell me, I know you're following Charlie baker and he had a big approval rating among Democrats and I think more among Democrats than Republicans in our state. First of all, how do you think he did and what would you like to do differently? Well, governor baker and I have had from day one a great working relationship. And we've worked on a number of issues, probably most intensively, the opioid crisis. I mean, we were right together fighting manufacturers and distributors trying to get relief for families across the state. And he made that a top priority. I made that a top priority. We worked together. It shows what's possible when people are willing to work together. And I think that's what we've modeled for the state. I'm a Democrat. He's a Republican. We work extremely well together. I think about his leadership. I really appreciate that he was somebody and is somebody who really wants to study the issue and I know COVID was incredibly difficult and challenging in terms of some of the decisions he had to make. But I know that every day he was bringing a commitment to try to help as many people possible and see our way through that. I think as we look ahead, there are real challenges for the next governor. We've got inflation. We've got high cost of living in our state right now. People are priced out of housing, whether it's rents or mortgage payments. Some people can't even afford to downsize because they can't afford to buy another home. Transportation. I mean, you know, we've got a T, it's outrageous. It's on fire. It's derailing every other day every other week, something's happening. That's got to be fixed because we can't have a functioning economy without a functioning public transit system. We've got to invest in workforce development and job training, invest in child care. There's so much we need to do. But for me, Jimmy, I come back to how great this state is. We've got the greatest collection of human capital intellectual capital research innovation, know how. We have a history of going first, whether it was on universal healthcare or marriage equality, we've got to really draw upon that and I mentioned those basketball players. I was a point guard. And point guards, they like to have the ball in their hands, but the real job of the point guard is to get people working together. And get every teammate, you know, playing well with one another. And the greatest statistic for a point guard is not how many points you score. Actually, the assists, right? And so I think about that in governance. It's how I've tried to lead his attorney general and it's how I would lead as governor. I don't want to brag marvel, but I play point God as well. Cambridge. Cambridge Latin 1973, suburban league co champs. That is something to brag about. That's some serious serious ball. Oh yeah, it was division one high school. But anyway, you're right. It's about assist. It's about team play and Bill Russell just passed. Great team player. Great team player. That's what he's known for his rebalances, team playing, and that's what we hope to get from any of our elected officials. A person who can work across the aisle and a person that can share the spotlight with their, you know, their team as well. And I know we're going to be getting a lot of money from the infrastructure Bill. I know there's going to be hopefully more money in the conference here in Massachusetts. So what would you ever agenda be to bring Massachusetts up a few notches? Well, the first thing we've got to do is provide some relief to people. I want to see the legislature act now and pass some tax related. People need money back in their pockets because gas, groceries, you name it. It's all too high right now. Number two, we need to make the investments using the money that you speak of. We need to invest in housing. What am I talking about? Building new housing. You know, the way through this housing crisis and crunch is to create more housing, not just at the lowest income level, but for the middle class as well. We just don't have enough housing. And I wear a Jimmy about Massachusetts losing its competitive advantage. I don't want to see companies leave Massachusetts. I don't want to see people leave Massachusetts, but a reason they might is because our housing costs are too high. So that's the first thing. Let's
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"And no break. Shores of Bohemia. Which is the name of the book. It's a fun read. I want to finish it. I might finish it, listening to Jeff zen in my year as I walk around the Charles river or maybe in wealthy, but it's a fun read and it brings back a time that a lot of people don't realize the real roots of the outer cape and its fascinating to find all these incredible people in one place and that their work is still being carried on in the tradition of making the country a better country through whatever means people are able to do so. Again, I congratulations on the book. It's a great read, and I encourage folks to go out and get it. You know, the willfully general market runs a really nice bookstore. Yes. Stephen Russell. Yeah. Jimmy, it's been a privilege, you know? We've known each other a long time, but we've never done one of these. No, we never have. So it's a lot of fun. By the way, that's where I got the book. I got it was 15% off down at the wellfleet general market. It used to be Lima's. I still call it limas and Steven Russell sold it to me. He says, I said, why is it 15% off? He goes, we do 15% off to all the new publications. I said, what a great deal. And that's another way that the town supports the arts. So Ike, thank you so much for joining us today. Congratulations, continued success, and I'll see you on the shores of Bohemia. I'm looking forward to that. Thank you for joining us today. This has been a humor for humanity, production. Our mission is your mission, humor for humanity. Jimmy tingle dot com. Thank you.
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show. I am Jimmy, and I want to introduce you to a new segment of our show, the meet the candidate series. It is intended to give candidate 20 for public office a platform and a voice. So voters know who is running for office, why they're running and what they hope to accomplish if they are so fortunate to be elected. So please feel free to share these interviews with your family and friends and citizens around this fine land because an educated and informed population is essential for a healthy democracy, and isn't that what we all really want, a healthy, democracy, enjoy the interviews, stay healthy. My name is Jimmy tingle, and I approve this message. Our candidate right now is tanisha Sullivan running for Secretary of State of the fine state of Massachusetts, tanisha was born in Boston and raised in Brockton. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in government, then she then attended Boston college, where she obtained both a law degree and an MBA and from 2013 to 2015, tanisha served as the chief equity officer in the Boston public schools and in 2017, tanisha was elected to serve as the president of the NAACP in Boston in a volunteer capacity. Please welcome to the show the one the only candidate for Secretary of State tanisha Sullivan. Hello tanisha, how are you today? Jimmy, it is great to be here with you. I'm fantastic. Hope you are too. Yes, so tell us tell give us a little bit about your background tanisha and tell people what you've been up to. Yeah, so I mean, as you shared, you know, born in Boston raised in Brockton Brockton, of course, is known as the city of champions home of Rocky Marciano and marvelous Marvin Hagler, my dad was a public school educator, spent 40 years in the Boston public schools, my mother is a small business owner, really working to help ensure that small businesses, access to the resources they need to be successful, and I'm in my 20th year. I can not believe it. 20th year of practice of law, I've had the opportunity along the way to serve in our public schools in the Boston public schools really working to ensure that our young people have access to a quality public education. And for the last now 6 and a half almost 7 years, I've had the honor of serving our communities as the volunteer president at the NAACP in Boston where we've worked with local government as well as state government elected officials stakeholders to really advance public policy to help improve quality of life for residents across the Commonwealth. And really excited about being with you here today and sharing a little bit more about why. I'm so excited about the sector of state race. Yeah, well, tell us, why are you running for Secretary of State, first of all, tell us what the Secretary of State does, because a lot of people know the title, but they're not always sure of the actual duties. And why are you running for that office? Yeah, I think this is one of the most exciting offices in state. It is a statewide office. So regardless of where people live in Massachusetts, the Secretary of State is of service to you, this office is the office responsible for voting. And voting rights and ensuring that we have safe and secure elections that we can trust. So of course, as a civil rights leader, that's critically important to me because there's no greater civil rights issue in our country today than the protection of our democracy and the fight for voting rights and access to the ballot box. So that's a fight that I look forward to really helping to lead here in Massachusetts. The office is also the chief information office. So if you want to know what's going on in government, you want to access public records. This office is the one that can help you do that. Unfortunately, Massachusetts is known as one of the least transparent states in the entire country. But the Secretary of State can actually help to ensure that people have access to the information we need to not only hold government accountable, but to also be able to participate in government. You mentioned Jimmy, I graduated from UVA. UVA is one of those one of those institutions in our country that really focuses in on government and democracy and self governance in order for us to be as we the people to be part of government. We got to have access to information. The Secretary of State can help with that. Secretary of State is also the gateway to business in Massachusetts. So if you want to start a business, whether it's a small corner store or you've got a great idea that you'd like to develop, you got to go through the Secretary of State's office. And so my certainly my legal background, I'm a corporate lawyer. I've spent now almost 20 years working in this space really comes into play here. I'm really working to ensure that especially the small businesses have access to the resources they need to be successful. So the Secretary of State's office has about 16 divisions that fall under it. So it's the elections. It's information. It's business. It's even our historic archives. I think this office has some of the greatest potential to help improve the quality of life for residents across Massachusetts. And I'm running the beast Secretary of State because I think The Office really needs to be more proactive and engaged, connected to our communities so that we can do more to help everyday people. Really experience all of the opportunity that Massachusetts has to offer. So tell me, in terms of politics, do you think we've been doing a pretty good job here in the state of Massachusetts? And do you see areas for improvement that you specifically would like to work on? Yeah. So the thing is, Jimmy, here in Massachusetts, we do have, we've got a good foundation, but unfortunately the barometer that we use to determine how well we're doing is by looking at Georgia, Texas, Arizona, and Florida. And quite frankly, that's not the measuring stick in my opinion. We are
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"Everybody. This is Jimmy. Welcome to another episode of the Jimmy tingle show. I'm very excited today to introduce my friend and he just came out with a new book that is just fantastic. I want to read a little bit of his bio for you. John Taylor Ike Williams have found near him and William's literary agency specializes in biography history, politics, natural science and anthropology. He is a member of the NEA literary panel, chair of the Boston lawyers committee for civil rights, co chair of the fine arts work center, a member of the advisory board of the biography conference and he is a former director of the Boston book festival. As a lawyer, I specialize as an intellectual property. That's where I come in, ladies and gentlemen, the intellectual property. And First Amendment litigate and First Amendment litigation as well as a comic, particularly in publishing film, television and news and new media. I guess the author of the shores of Bohemia, a Cape Cod story 1910 to 1960, arousing account of the artist and political revolutionaries who made the cape a hub of American culture in the earliest 20th in the early 20th century. I just want to read one review to start off. This is from drew Faust, author of the republic of suffering, death and the American Civil War, drew writes a cornucopia of characters whose lives in the first half of the 20th century may the outer reaches of Cape Cod a site of exuberant artistic creativity and social and political experimentation. The bohemian world, Ike Williams depicts, will fascinate readers interested in the winds and tides of modern American culture, as well as those of us today who walked the cape's beaches and swim in its waters. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show, the one and the only mister Ike Williams.
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"And I laughed until I cried. Because every woman has hairs on her breasts. That's not a unique thing. But we don't. We don't talk about it. Right. You know, nobody brings it up, sort of. Awkward. It doesn't need to be, but societally it is. And so all those years. I had thought that I was the only one that had that. And so when I heard her talk about and she was really funny about like she was really funny because it bothered her husband. And because her husband didn't know either that all women have that, you know? So all those things, when you get laughing at things like that, it reinforces that you are part of the group. And we are pack animals. We are. And so it's very important to feel that you're part of the group. You know, it's what junior high is based on. Right. So are you finding that you show the audiences pretty enthusiastic now coming back again, you're going to be at the Martha's Vineyard performing arts center in 16th of July, and the 17th of July at the Cape Cod melody tent. Talk about memory. Tent in hyannis. You might want to think about being a part of a comedy team. Because. How about you? And that's important. I might want to think about that. Are you finding the audiences enthusiastic and feeling that PAC mentality again and being grateful to be out? Oh, really, really grateful to be out. As am I? Yeah.
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"And as we're doing that, a guy that another coworker of ours, is running down the street towards us waving a parking table. And he's pissed because he's got a parking ticket. And as soon as I saw it, I went fine. It's Wednesday, it's not Saturday. In my mind, it's a Saturday. And Wednesday is street cleaning day in Santa Monica in front of my, you can't part the $70 ticket. I had no income at that point in my life. And I'm like, I should not afford a $70 ticket. And I was flipping out. I was like, God damn it. I was so angry. And my friend who I'm talking to, she goes, go home. Go home and move your car. And I said, no, I look at my watch. I'm like, no, it's too late. I've already got ticket and then I think to myself, how did I get here? We're leaning on my car. But like that kind of. That's hilarious. Happens a lot. Yeah. You know where, you know, I'm forever about to put something in the refrigerator that isn't a fool. Just I need to have a little sign on that. Right inside the door of the refrigerator that says, you know, take a moment. That's so funny. Do your keys need refrigeration. No. So anyways. So and by the way, I tell that story on stage. Because everything that happens is, I scrape my life for content for the stage. The way a waiter uses one of those little metal sticks to clear the breadcrumbs off your tabletop. Yeah. I mean, I am forever, I feel like I have like a Roomba in my head. That just, you know, goes around all the time.
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show. I am Jimmy, and I want to introduce you to a new segment of our show, the meet the candidate series. It is intended to give candidate 20 for public office a platform and a voice. So voters know who is running for office, why they're running and what they hope to accomplish if they are so fortunate to be elected. So please feel free to share these interviews with your family and friends and citizens around this fine land because an educated and informed population is essential for a healthy democracy, and isn't that what we all really want, a healthy, democracy, enjoy the interviews, stay healthy. My
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"When you're on a team, you don't always love everyone. You don't always want to go out for a drink afterwards with everyone, but you work together towards a common goal. And that's what I certainly want to do with roll up my sleeves. I feel fortunate to be in a position to use some skill sets. And you want to surround yourself with people who are better than you who are smarter than you who have different ideas. You duke it out around a decision making, and then you go after it. And that's what I hope to do in this role. Right. What position did you play in basketball? You know, I played point, I played a little bit of guard, off guard, you know, whatever your strengths are on your team. Teams really matter when you're thinking about how you're going to play, how you're going to attack a problem. So please, Kim, give us a final statement. And tell people where they can find out more about you where they might want to get involved with your campaign. And where they could make a donation. Jimmy, thanks so much for having me on. Frankly for having all of us on giving us this format to introduce people to ourselves or let them learn a little bit more about us. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. You know, I'm hoping to, as I said earlier, use my experience in local government, both here in Salem and in Chelsea to partner with our next governor and do the sorts of work that people are relying on us to do. You know, there's a lot of cynicism in government, are we doing enough? Are we doing too little? Are we really helping people's lives? I see every day the work that I do on the local level, the impacts it has on people. And frankly, what we're not able to do as well. And that has impacts too. I'm really motivated to serve in this role because I think I have a skill set that's going to be helpful as we think about the next four years. Some choppy waters ahead with interest rates up and inflation impacting us, but also some immense opportunities with historic resources really smart people in Massachusetts. And I think we're at this point in time where our actions are really going to have an impact on not just the next four years. But frankly, the next decade, coming out of COVID, we're not going back to the way things used to be. We can't quite stay with what's happening now. It's a little messy and chaotic and a lot of our systems. So what's that new way forward? Mirrors are used to operationalizing plans, working with what you have, listening to what's happening on the ground, and then putting our best foot forward. I want to work as a team to build a stronger Massachusetts that positively impacts the quality of life and the places we live. And I'd be thrilled and honored to have folks support. You can find out more at Kim Driscoll dot org, volunteer, get involved, campaigns are fun and we're always looking for more people to help us. Ladies and gentlemen, mayor Kim Driscoll of Salem, Massachusetts, currently a candidate for lieutenant governor. Thank you so much, madam mayor for joining us today. Good luck and we will see you on the campaign trail. Thank you for joining us today. This has been a humor for humanity, production. Our mission is your mission, humor for humanity. Jimmy tingle dot com. Thank you.
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"You are not at 30,000 feet surveying the state like California or a state like Massachusetts. You're there in the neighborhood with the people on a day to today basis. And to your point, there's no place to hide. So if you've survived 16 years, were you actually mayor for 16 years? I have been, yeah, I feel fortunate. This is my 17th year, been reelected 5 times by the people in my community. And I feel blessed. So tell us about why you're running for lieutenant governor. What do you hope to bring to the office? You know, I touched about it earlier. I really feel like for the Commonwealth to be vibrant and thriving, we need our communities working. And right now, a lot of our communities are working, but not all. Salem's a gateway city, which means that we have a very diverse population, both in income and race and language and culture. I think it makes us more livable, but it also can bring different challenges. And we know there are gateway cities throughout Massachusetts, places that were regional economic hubs that some are doing better than others for our Commonwealth to do well, frankly, we need all of our cities working well, not just Boston and Kendall square and seaport district. I hope as mayor, as someone who's been an innovative leader with executive experience as a city that's nearly 400 years old, we have to not only be mindful of our history, but also be thinking forward thinking in a way that what's the next iteration of our community going to be, who are we going to benefit and how are we going to do that work?
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show. I am Jimmy, and I want to introduce you to a new segment of our show, the meet the candidate series. It is intended to give candidate 20 for public office a platform and a voice. So voters know who is running for office, why they're running and what they hope to accomplish if they are so fortunate to be elected. So please feel free to share these interviews with your family and friends and citizens around this fine land because an educated and informed population is essential for a healthy democracy, and isn't that what we all really want, a healthy, democracy, enjoy the interviews, stay healthy. My name is Jimmy tingle, and I approve this message.