Hello?
Nicolette?
Yeah.
This is Dr Phil, how you doin'?
Good, how are you?
I'm alright.
I have a little activity I wanted you to do for me today,
in downtown Los Angeles if you're up for it.
What do you think?
Yeah, I'm up for it.
Immerse yourself into whatever it is,
and then you can tell me about it when I see you on Monday,
fair enough?
Okay.
Dr Phil just called me.
I'm doing an activity in downtown LA.
I'm a little scared to know what it is.
I'm excited.
I'm just nervous. Are you scared?
A little bit, 'cause it looks wild around here.
Hi, Nicolette. Hi.
Hi, I'm Joey, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
I'm the volunteer manager here at The Midnight Mission.
Welcome.
When I saw Nicolette pulled up to the curb,
she obviously had a sense of culture shock.
So, it's interesting so far.
Never been anywhere like this.
You are gonna help with our dinner service today.
We're gonna put an apron and hair net on you.
Do you have Chanel?
You wish, no we have plastic.
Is the plastic imported from Europe?
I love the marble countertops.
Love my Gucci hairband.
Here you go. Love my leather gloves.
This is LA fashion week.
What do you wanna serve?
I want vegan chicken.
(electronic music)
We love some non GMO green beans.
Do you want green beans?
Hello. Do you want asparagus?
Hello, how you doin'?
The grossest thing was I saw someone throw up.
Some people, when I was serving them food,
they were like, ah.
I never thought it would be like this.
Normally when I see a large group of homeless people,
I'm just passing by.
This gentleman is a program participant.
What was it like going through the program?
I came from on 32nd and Central.
I was getting high and doing all that.
And I found out about The Midnight Mission.
It bring me my dignity back, my respect back.
Interesting story.
When I first arrived at the mission today,
I was pretty terrified.
It was just really cool seeing
a different type of class than I usually see.
Why don't we have you help clean up?
Soak one, wipe everything down,
and then take the other one and dry it off.
This experience for Nicolette today was
a little bit of an eye opener.
I feel like I did a really good thing.
So, what'd you take away from that?
It was fun, and it was nice to see everyone so grateful
when I would give them food.
It was a culture shock,
and I was scared at first.
We went in, and I was terrified when I went in,
'cause everyone just kind of looked
a little wild and deranged from the outside.
And then I went in, and it wasn't scary.
And I got my apron on and my hair net,
and I started serving food.
I saw someone flip a table.
Some people would kinda yell at me
when I was giving them food,
but I got a couple thank you's, so we're great.
Did you feel good about yourself for having
aided some of those folks for a time,
even if it was just a short time?
Definitely.
Please welcome Joey Weinert,
from The Midnight Mission in downtown Los Angeles.
(applause)
Joey's been working at the soup kitchen and homeless shelter
for the past three years.
As you know, I've been down there because I work with LAPD,
and they do a great job down there,
but for what you do down there,
an awful lot of people would be awfully hungry,
and awfully cold sometimes.
People think this is LA, it doesn't get cold at night,
that's not true.
It gets very cold at night.
So God bless you for what you do down there,
it's a great, great thing.
(applause)
so, how'd our girl do there,
what was your observation?
Well like I said in the beginning,
she definitely looked like a deer in the headlights
when she stepped out of the van.
My first impression was actually pretty good,
because she looked me in the eye and shook my hand,
stuck her hand out and shook my hand,
so I figured at least she would be receptive.
And we went in and pretty much went directly to work,
and Nicolette seemed to be ready to take on
whatever was kinda put in front of her.
So seeing this,
I heard the other side,
and I think that's what I saw today.
I saw there is another side of Nicolette,
and she seemed to actually really care about
what she was doing.
She was pleasure to have, and she worked really hard.
Yeah, I was really.
(applause)
Yeah, thank you for taking me there.
I would have never gone there otherwise, it was nice.