Five days a week I'm still the
dishwasher at the Soul Kitchen.
You're feeding people who can't
afford to eat. It's a beautiful thing.
You're telling me you leave the house
and you go and wash dishes there
Five days a week. Yeah. Today.
And you're not concerned
about being there.
The restaurant's closed the restaurant's
closed. The in-need still need to eat.
Especially now, they don't have a place
like the local Y to go to the showers.
They don't have other restaurants
giving them lunch and breakfast.
All the more so there's an in-need
population who needs to eat. So,
but literally, I'm in the
kitchen washing dishes.
I have no interface with
those who are outside.
And you're not afraid
of catching a COVID-19 ?
Sure, I'm scared to death. Yeah.
I'm scared to death. You know, we,
we've got the inside and outside clothes.
We've got the masks and the gloves.
And for what it's worth,
I probably have the cleanest hands in New
Jersey because they're in the sink for
the entire time I'm there. My job
is to wash pots and pans and dishes.
You've never said this
before in any interview. Um,
what is the hardest thing to get off
a dish when you're washing dishes?
Yeah,
it's the industrial sink that I dig, that
thing that's up top, the spritz thing.
But when you're in a restaurant, it's
like the industrial strength one.
Every house needs that. I gotta
tell you when I'm sitting behind
the sink with that bad boy. You got
a plastic apron on and a hat and,
you know, it's,
it's crazy cause you just want to turn
it and like squirt the chef every once in
a while. We can't do it
cause it's a restaurant.
You're doing something called Jersey for
Jersey benefit and you're going to team
up with a bunch of stars for one night
on April 22nd with Bruce Springsteen,
Chelsea Handler, Tony Bennett,
Danny DeVito, Whoopi Goldberg,
Charlie Puth, Kelly
Ripa, Jon Stewart, SZA.
Chris Rock, Halsey's going to be there.
It'll be on SiriusXM April
22nd, seven o'clock, one hour.
It's all acoustic. Everybody
by themselves at home.
What are you going to
play? Have you decided?
Yeah, I wrote a new song.
Um, you know, and for this,
because of this pandemic that I'm going
to add to the record now that that's
delayed and it's called "Do What You
Can." And I wrote a song about the
situation that we're in.
So I'm going to perform that in its
entirety for the first time ever.
And then of course,
I should do "Living on a Prayer"
because it's such an important song for,
you know, so many people. And in
brings us back to happier days.
Do you think, Oh my God, Tommy
couldn't work on the docks.
Gina would have been
furloughed or something from,
she might not be working in the diner,
Yeah, diner's closed. Well, Gina
would doing takeout probably, right?
