WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.799 For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female home builder with a 2 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:07.919 passion for design, a mastery of detail, and a commitment to her crack. 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:11.400 With daughter Samantha Stumpo by her side, I don't need my whole family 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.800 on a date with me. That's a good note. It's godemn weird. 5 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:18.640 See. Stumpo Development is the only second generation female construction company in the country. 6 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.160 You're crazy, You're a wacko, You're insane. I mean, it 7 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:27.600 just doesn't end together. Cindy and Samantha welcome guests to explore the world of 8 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:32.280 construction, real estate, development, design and more. Unpredictable. Every time 9 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.560 I think I know what you want, you switch it out. But that's 10 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.359 what makes your houses all your day. Discuss anything that happens between the roof 11 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:42.280 and the foundation. Nothing is off limits. You truly do care about everybody. 12 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:44.719 She can yell at chi can scream, but when you get her alone, 13 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:52.159 she's the best person on the planet. Cindy Stumpo is tough as nails. 14 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:57.640 Yea and welcome back to Cindy Stumpo Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten 15 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:02.039 thirty. I'm here tonight with my daughter Samantha, and I have my son 16 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.400 chat stumble again with me. Wow, this is crazy. Okay, So 17 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:11.159 tonight in the studio we have drumlow, drum roll. Who Oh? Hi 18 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.840 am I Jason? Jason? Yes, you've been using too much ink? 19 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.959 Okay? Maybe all right, I want to introduce yourself one more time. 20 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.920 You are who Hi, I am Jason Zubi. I am the owner of 21 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:23.640 the Boston Tattoo Company. There we go, There we go. So last 22 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.480 time you were in the studios about four years ago, roughly. Yeah, 23 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.680 A lot's going on for years. It has. We've had vaccination shots, 24 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.560 we've had COVID. What have we had since I've seen you last time? 25 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:40.319 Well, uh, you haven't had a tattoo? No, that's chat Okay, 26 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.280 can we ink him? No? No, all right, we'll go 27 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.040 to chat in a minute, but right now we're gonna stay with you. 28 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:47.680 Jason. How did you guys do? How'd you get through COVID? And 29 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.640 COVID was a was a roller coaster, you know, honestly, it was. 30 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:53.159 You know, right prior to COVID, we were in the process of 31 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.959 expanding to a fourth location, and it just kind of crept up out of 32 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.959 nowhere. And shut us down for almost one hundred days straight all over. 33 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:05.959 So no tattoos, no piercing, nothing, nothing. No. I mean, 34 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.800 I can't speak for other people during that time, but I mean the 35 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:14.759 shops were officially like shut down, and you know, and how long they 36 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:17.759 keep you down for before you reopen It was I think it was close to 37 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.159 one hundred days, one hundred straight days off of just and then when you 38 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.199 did reopen, did you have to do it it relsted with a plastic between 39 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.360 Yeah, yeah, so I mean we kind of like, you know, 40 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:32.159 it was it was really like the first week or so back like after being 41 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:37.439 shut down for one hundred days, trying to put all those precautions and you 42 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.039 know, building walls and yeah, it was so stupid waste of money, 43 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:43.960 it was. Yeah, but you know, yeah, you know it's just 44 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:50.280 plexiglass in between people. Thing like you know, we weren't fortunate like restaurants. 45 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.360 Like a restaurant could just put their seating outside and and it was handled 46 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:54.919 like for us like we were stuck. You could have a certain amount of 47 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.400 people in the shop, you know, you could have people working as close 48 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:02.759 to one another. So I mean, you know, I as the owner, 49 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.759 you know, your first you know, instinct is to just keep everybody 50 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.280 safe. Nobody knew what was happening at the time, so I mean, 51 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:14.000 you know, everyone tried to wear masks that that in and of itself caused 52 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.080 a huge commotion. Now, could you bring the stuff home with you and 53 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.159 do any tattoos at your house if you wanted to know? You know, 54 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.039 yes, I mean anyone could, and a lot of people did. And 55 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:24.879 a lot of people, you know, I'm not speaking for me personally, 56 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.719 I think that was you know, over the industry. A lot of people 57 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.919 just got used to working at home and said, hey, I ain't going 58 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.719 back, you know, And that was kind of like how we were in 59 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.680 like one spot, uh, prior to COVID, we were on the up 60 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.520 and up. We have money in the bank, we we had a you 61 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.400 know, uh hearing set for Boston and order you know, to get our 62 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:52.199 permitting and got shut down and then you know how to suspend all of that 63 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.479 and then eventually you know how to whittle things back down to that's a good 64 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.960 part as you're here today. Yeah, yeah, you know weapon well, 65 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.039 but again, yes, and let me tell you, after COVID, a 66 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.120 lot of people started getting tattoos. They were using that COVID money, the 67 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:09.560 unemployment money, and they were tatting their broll. We let's talk about this. 68 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:14.319 What's up with tattoos? And can I just say something and you can 69 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.279 call me old fashion? It's okay because I know you're gonna okay, that's 70 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:20.680 good. That's good because I'm carrying right now. You don't want to call 71 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.480 me No, I'm playing with that. No, not playing. But with 72 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:28.480 that being said, I'm never playing. Why does my son have to have 73 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:30.279 this thing on his neck? Can you take a look at this name? 74 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:31.959 Like? Is that do you think he does? Is to torture me? 75 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.240 Take a look at it? What the heck does this thing mean? Stuff 76 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.240 that I have? I got a home watch of stuff? Okay? Can 77 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.920 you guys put your tattoos from your neck down with your shirt covers things? 78 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.279 The wrong guy and my next Yeah you're not. I wouldn't even know you 79 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:51.199 had a tattoo. Yeah, what else? Sounding? I don't know what 80 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.759 the word is? Uh? You know. I have my opinions on like 81 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.680 white people get certain tattoos. I want your opinion. Why do people do 82 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.680 it? Is a self identity crisis? Is it? It's something from your 83 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.839 trauma, like you haven't become from a void. And I can't speak for 84 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.720 anybody else, you know, So I think some people definitely do it to 85 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:11.439 grab attention. And that's why you see, like before you would like, 86 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:15.319 you know, call me old fashioned. You know, I'd like to keep 87 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.040 them hidden. You know, you'd never know. Some people do the exact 88 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.519 opposite, Like they start on their necks, they start on their hands, 89 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.920 they start in all the places you can hide, and they kind of work 90 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:28.319 their way backwards. It's you know, uh, that's great if you've got 91 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.040 money in the bank and you ourself, you know, and even me, 92 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.040 like you know, as a tattoo artist, I sometimes see people and I'm 93 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.120 like, I'd never hire this person, Like I don't know what people are 94 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:40.319 thinking, like this is my business, and I think I So you see 95 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:42.879 a lot you see a lot of garbage tattoos out there too. Well they 96 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.160 didn't even garbage, but it's just like you know, like if I see 97 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:48.639 if you know, I was in the hospital and I got to see it, 98 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.600 the nurse with a neck tattoo. I'm thinking twice, I mean, 99 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:57.040 go see Sammy, what I say so and he's a tattoo on ust. 100 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.920 You get judged. If I see a nurse with a tattoo on it, 101 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.519 don't want her working on me. The how's that? Because I think she's 102 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:05.759 promiscuous and this is crazy and and all these things go to my head and 103 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:17.600 I wanted with that. Okay, so but you see how we do we? 104 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.360 I like think, oh, this kid was a trouble kid, he 105 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.680 was a punk, this dad, you know, but it's not like that 106 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.959 anymore. I really wish I could say I understood they. You know, 107 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.279 why do you get tattoos? Why did I get him? Why did you 108 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:38.360 why did you start start? Yeah? You know, I when I was 109 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.120 a kid, so what I you know, I did not come from a 110 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.720 tattooed family, Like my parents weren't tattooed. I had a cousin that when 111 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:46.839 he won went to college, you got a tattoo, which I thought was 112 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:48.360 cool and it was hidden and nobody knew about it. It was like this, 113 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.680 like really big deal. My father had a guy that had a grim 114 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:55.439 Reaper tattoo done on his arm, and I thought, I thought he was 115 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.839 the coolest guy. And I would always like stare at it and whatever, 116 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.920 and then you know, uh, you know kind of read the Magazine's always 117 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.360 kind of fascinated with it always, you know, like to draw. I 118 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:10.079 was always into that. I just kind of like, you know, when 119 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.120 I was in college, there happened to be a tattoo shop that was owned 120 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.560 by a friend's girlfriend, or my friend's girlfriend knew the guy that owned the 121 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.839 tattoo shop in town, and that was kind of like my foot in the 122 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:23.519 door. Wait minute, you're how old? Forty nine? Okay, So 123 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.800 I don't know when it became legal in Massachusetts, but I remember all the 124 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.920 kids, I'm fifty nine, the kids just ruption ham should get them. 125 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:31.759 Yeah, so it became legal about twenty years ago, and that's roughly the 126 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.279 time where I moved to messages. So only twenty years ago was it legal 127 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:39.319 to get the tattoo in Massachusetts? Really? Yeah, I did not know 128 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:41.759 that. I didn't know it was legal here. Yeah. Well I know, 129 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.319 but when you think it's only been twenty years that's been legal, So 130 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:47.120 why was it illegal? It was about the hygiene of it, you know 131 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:51.399 it. You know, it is a lot of a lot of guys that 132 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:58.160 I know, A lot of them got a lot of hepsy up into Hampshire 133 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:01.480 from tattoos and they didn't know back then, right the needles I guess weren't 134 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.079 all clean whatever that was. Yes, that definitely. The guys that like 135 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:09.360 are in their sixties, they used to have the union workers. They give 136 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.519 blood whatever they find out found out like twenty years you got hepsibut it, 137 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.480 you got you know, and they can they weren't IV users, they weren't 138 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.399 you know, shooting whatever they figured it. They see, you can get 139 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.839 it a number of ways. But yes, tattooing dirty tattooing would definitely you 140 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.079 know, cause that and then there are so many courses now and so so 141 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.000 many precautions and things that we have to do and buy equipment wise, that 142 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.200 it's you know, I have personally been in sidentist offices where I've seen the 143 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.120 cross contamination that they do as like workers, and I'm like, yo, 144 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.960 you just touched that and you just grab the drawer handle and everything else like 145 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.519 that. Like me, like it takes me five minutes to take a piss 146 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:52.120 in a public place because yeah, I'm well I always forget it, you 147 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.159 know, I scares in the door knob, I do, I really washed 148 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.000 my hands, take the off with me and then open the door knob and 149 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:05.519 then throw out the trash bargeta before I started to here? Did we act 150 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.639 like that before COVID? Huh? Did we act like that before COVID? 151 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.159 I've always been like that. Yeah, I'm shot. So I'm sure every 152 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.519 time you take a break or something, you change your clothes before you go 153 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.360 back here? You do? Were you just like when you you you know 154 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.559 when you I boys hold that fight, I gotta go to break. I'm 155 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.480 sitty Stumpy and listen to his nails and w b Z will be right back, 156 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:41.679 sponsored by Floor and Decor, National Lumber and Village Bank. Who I'm 157 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.240 city Stump and welcome back to tap his nails on WBZ. And we are 158 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.600 here with Samantha, we're here with Chad, and we're also here with Jason. 159 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:52.120 Now, why is your name spelled with a Z? You're gonna have 160 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.879 to ask my grandfather that one. I don't know. Should we pronounce it? 161 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.000 It's Jason? Oh? No, it's Jason Zubie. No, but 162 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.679 Jason is j A S O N. Yes, but they still call you 163 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.720 jay zon? Is that is that like a French name or something? Well? 164 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:15.360 Why was switching his cheers? Okay, okay, but j A z 165 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.200 the teachers pronounces jazz on. No just Jason. Oh j A s o 166 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.000 n is Jason. Maybe you have a typo here, it's it's how do 167 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.000 you spell your name, Jason j A s O N? Type of era 168 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:35.320 zoobie zu b you put j A z o N. That's what I'm trying 169 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:43.039 to say tonight. Such a role and you had to. It was a 170 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:50.639 little spicy a little bit. James jays On, how my how's my producer 171 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:52.559 looking right now? Okay? Thank you? Like I'm not messed up in 172 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:58.840 the head enough. He's gonna give me the tricause there's so many people in 173 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.919 his industry that put them little accent on their name. It makes my eyes 174 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:09.200 roll, Like Jason Jon, I'm like, I swear he said, it's 175 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.080 apt with a mess and then you know it's did you still go to this 176 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.200 later? Figure out that's awesome? Well, how's that going? The sun 177 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.759 here? Okay? Damn bam, that's what I put on the eggs at 178 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.919 the bed and breath. What were you just talking about that? I had 179 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.559 to rudely take you guys out of conversation about like just the meetings behind the 180 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.519 tattoos. Yeah, yeah. I mean everything I've had on my body and 181 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:37.799 I can't feel will continue to put. Why don't you explain what's love your 182 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:39.200 body? Please? No? No, no, no, I mean you 183 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.440 have no no, you don't explain, Jason, tell me what's aw my 184 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.279 son's left. You couldn't you can't explain. Just look at it. He's 185 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.200 gonna know what they are. Just put your sleep up. Not that one? 186 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:56.559 Okay? What is that thing? It looks like an eyeball? Yeah, 187 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.399 yeah, yeah, it's something about time. Obviously he's got to the 188 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.159 clockhands in that way. You know why what he's looking at it? Know 189 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:09.240 what it says? What is the second there? Oh no, it's just 190 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.639 that's just like an eye looking Who did that? Yeah? Yeah, he's 191 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:18.159 a great job. Okay. And then what's the other stuff? Yeah? 192 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:24.080 It half of this. They all just stop doing that and you stop hiring 193 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.080 them because then they go and you cause competition for yourself. They all work 194 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.519 for you at one point. And then what is the what does he have 195 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.919 there? This? You must be a water signed to the spirited as a 196 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.600 spirit animal? Cancer? Are I called it? You're a cancer to like 197 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.799 me? She's the worst sign, is it? Yeah? Well, the 198 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.799 second sign. We we have empathy for everybody. Wait, but no, 199 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.159 if you heard us, we will absolutely nihilate you. But but then you 200 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.519 hug them, and then we hugged them fifteen minutes later. Yeah, it's 201 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.399 a whole few session. And then five minutes later we're done and the other 202 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.080 press is going and then we go, hey, you want to go to 203 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:01.039 get a bite team and they go, what'el mad at you? That's why 204 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.240 I bring food all the time. I get it. You know, it's 205 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.120 always let's get something to eat. You know. I always raised Italian, 206 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.799 believe it, even though my name is Jay z Own, you know, 207 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:16.639 and that's who raised me. Would you say people want more tattooes now post 208 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.799 pandemic? So getting back to how it was, so when we reopened, 209 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.759 we had one hundred days worth of appointments that were backed up on top of 210 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.320 everybody else that wanted to get in. So you had this like a huge 211 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:31.360 boom where everything was like laid down and then everybody got It's almost like people 212 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.759 getting used to working at home. Like it's over, like it goes back 213 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.559 to normal. Like people are trying to cherry pick what they can keep and 214 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.039 what needs to go back to normal. So like you know, my guys, 215 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.840 you know, or and girls or whatever, they kind of get used 216 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.879 to this mode of like, oh, we do everything by appointment now, 217 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.960 like you know, no walkings, and I'm like, that's we're entitled the 218 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.759 majority of our best well I mean yeah, I mean it was just such 219 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.559 a to covid. If I walked and sit here, I want to rows 220 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.960 on my ankle, you'd say two three hours, come back. It depends 221 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:01.600 no, can he answer for his business? Thank you check? Yeah, 222 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.120 most it depends on the tattoo shop. My shop in particular. Could I 223 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.080 walk in and say, look when I was on when I had my TV 224 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.399 show on HGTV, the Big tattoo Artist, she was running the same time 225 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:20.360 I was, uh, Miami, she was Miami. What's her name? 226 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.279 Cat Cat Cat Okay, okay, And people walk in there they're still getting 227 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.759 appointments three hours later, like they did, walk in and say, can 228 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.360 I get appointment this? Yeah, well you build a house in an hour, 229 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.720 you know, like yeah, exactly means no. It's and that's another 230 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.080 thing. But people watch it on TV and then they think they can come 231 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.320 in and get a sleeve in two days, and it's a little bit more 232 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.679 than that, you know, and it's you know, so we need to 233 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.159 educate the customers that's coming in, especially when they don't have that experience and 234 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:52.559 they want to get tattooed. But what else sounding condescending because it's like a 235 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.679 broken record. You have the same conversation ninety percent of the time, over 236 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.159 and over and over again. Okay, how many times do people want to 237 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.679 remove them? And it seems very hot to remove them? I've gotten some 238 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:09.039 tattoos removed. Yeah, hurts, it works. You know how often we 239 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:13.200 tell it's the technology has come long enough and now they do it where it's 240 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:20.639 basically one corporation that runs all of the tattoo removal. They've like acquired everything 241 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.240 and it basically it's like a subscription where you go and you just get it 242 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.440 done rather than do the session. You buy it in the package. It's 243 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.440 very tidy. See like I actually we're gonna use it. We're gonna we're 244 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:37.080 gonna use chat to Like what is why why does he need to rose on 245 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.279 his hand? Like what does that mean? I don't know, ask him, 246 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:45.600 but what's wrong with his brain that he does things like that? I'm 247 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.360 jumping out of planes? What about tattoos? What's wrong? Like, what's 248 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:52.080 he thinking when he goes? You know, I don't think there's anything wrong. 249 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.639 And then he's that palm tree, some marijuana thing. What's that thing? 250 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:00.720 Poetry? Immortality? Well you are not immortal. Well listen, I'm 251 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.759 here for a good time, not a long time. Okay, But that's 252 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.440 just that's just how my life. I'm agrenaline junkie. So black Rose is 253 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.559 I'm not afraid of that. That is it's part of life. My cross 254 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.960 is that I have two sizes of me. I'm one with God. But 255 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.159 you want to see the virgo side, and that's something I don't like that 256 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.360 on the finger, right, like I think that say that like in high 257 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.559 school you lived up in New Hampshire. When I see that, right, 258 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.840 but when I see there's there is a threshold where like tattoos also become like 259 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:32.000 a fashion, part of fashion, where like why do people get their hair 260 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:33.919 green? Why do people get piercings? Why do people get tattooed? Here 261 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.879 it's you know, I would just say this, if you're going to tattoo, 262 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.039 whatever part of the body it is, you should not look for the 263 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.039 cheapest place. And the first thing people come in like and they're like, 264 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.679 what's your cheapest tattoo? I automatically just kind of like file them in like 265 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.200 a person that doesn't really care what they get, and they're not really there 266 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.039 for like a quality. Not to say like it's it's not out there or 267 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.799 whatever it is, but like you should prioritize and consult with the artists because 268 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.720 I hate doing getting put in a position where like I have to tell somebody 269 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:07.440 no, but I would rather have them not not have my name onto something 270 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.039 that is not going to heal or look good over time. I'm sorry, 271 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.319 but women, I'm not going to look good with tattoos at the age after 272 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.920 the age of fifty, when the skin starts to go down and skin changes, 273 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.839 women look stupid, men look good. You tattoos are not at all 274 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.920 SAgs and it's not going to look like So what if that's at least you 275 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.680 guys hold on longer. You got better legs, you like, stay longer, 276 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:33.960 better looking, Yes, tattoos. I am curious as to see what 277 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.519 the old age homes are going to start to look like as we get into 278 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.160 it. I can already see them all the timers, like at the shows, 279 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:41.440 can see it were like they were like so ahead of their time. 280 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.039 You see what it looks like. You know, it doesn't look good, 281 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.440 but the thing is like here's the thing, right, This is what I 282 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.400 used to love about tattooing, which is really gone. And I can say 283 00:17:52.400 --> 00:18:00.440 this like in the past it was an underground thing where like there were people 284 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.480 there that were so counterculture. You could have a really good, honest conversation 285 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.000 and you weren't judged by anything, and it was very open minded and it 286 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:12.680 was cool and it was just magical. And it was more from me looking 287 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.440 back from my age. It was if I saw guy walk by the tattoo 288 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.559 as a young girl, I'd want to move close to my father, right 289 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:26.279 because I'd feel that person was scary, right, or all your freaking Holly 290 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.279 drive is. And then going up to Laconia, Laconia on Laconia Weekend, 291 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:34.240 like those were some bad dudes up there. You had your Hell's Angels and 292 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.680 all those mostcycled groups. We have it, we have evolved, you know, 293 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.440 I don't. That's my brain as like, but then I go to 294 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:45.920 then I go to hold On tattooed, right, come on, because now 295 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.680 I go I went to pe Town like two years ago, and like everybody 296 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.039 had tattoos there too, So I'm like, okay, I'm not afraid you 297 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:55.240 guys. So I'm not afraid of those guys either now, Like so the 298 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.599 fear factor has I don't know, there was a time when you saw a 299 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.279 guy walk buy you at a tattoo, you thought some something crazy was going 300 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.000 to happen. That's just me. I'm on the PGA tour. So it 301 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.480 has changed and with that, so that's converse. Yeah, and so has 302 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.599 the mentality behind it. Where it was very you know, it wasn't as 303 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:19.200 popular and accepted, so those people tended to you know, water sinks its 304 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.839 own level, you know, now it's it's a flood. Okay, But 305 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:27.359 again it's again I'm gonna say, I think people want to show their their 306 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:32.359 masculinity by having a tattoo, and I think that's now come to it's not 307 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:36.000 about that. I think it's more about expressing whatever you want to express. 308 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:37.720 That you're a screwed up from you being in these boughts of tattoos to prove 309 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.720 yourself. I don't know, and hold that thought. Okay, we're going 310 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.160 to break. I'm citty stopping. Listen, to his nails at w BZ 311 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.599 and we'll be right back sponsored by Pellow Windows of Boston next day, Molding 312 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:56.920 and Kennedy Carpet. Going to take a red train att, I don't care 313 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:04.319 where, and welcome back to toughest Nails on w b Z. And I'm 314 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:11.119 here with Samantha. I'm changing everybodys name I'm getting there. You're gonna be 315 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:18.599 shod. Chad's name is really Chadwick. Maybe we should change over here. 316 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:25.319 Don't go that Michael Michael That no Shod. We'll call him Shot. Okay. 317 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:27.559 My father was I was pregnant. I'll give you you real fast. 318 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:32.319 My I'm pregnant with Chad. And on the ninth month, yeah I know, 319 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:34.759 imagine I was pregnant chat on the eighth month or whatever, seventh month, 320 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:38.279 I decided was gonna name him Chad Stump O Chad Michael Stump. Before 321 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:42.160 that, what's that? Before I was actually going between Jared and Chad, 322 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.599 and my father's like, no, Jared, They're gonna call him Jerry. 323 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.039 So I'm like, okay, well I found the name Chad, and I 324 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.640 thought. My father goes, okay, you're gonna name my grandson Chad I 325 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:53.480 go, yeah, he goes, he'd better be really good looking and very 326 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.880 tough. Okay, Cindy, you give him a hard name to carry. 327 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.359 I go, how could I not give a good looking kid and not a 328 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.359 tough kid. I guess Papa knew about being a Chad. No Chad, 329 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.119 he just thought that was a tough name to carry. He carries that name 330 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.680 Chad good. Perfect, we call him Chad. And you had Jayson yep. 331 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.400 Okay, and she's Samantha. Okay, all right, go back to 332 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.279 our conversation. So, yeah, the fear of tattoos now, don't bother 333 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.720 me. Actually, another one of my clients, great guy. I don't 334 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.839 know if you know, doctor Presty. He does men's here. You mentioned 335 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.640 him the last time. Yeah, I mean he's loaded, but you wouldn't 336 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:33.880 nothing above the neck. But the first time I met him, and I 337 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.279 was I was there with Ray and he, you know, he crossed his 338 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:37.519 legs. I'm like, well, what's that, dude? You get snakes 339 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:40.680 and stuff off your legs, right, He's like, oh, Sydney, 340 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.119 I'm totally loaded. He's well you see that. I would then say that's 341 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.119 a guy that doesn't and try to put it out there and try to be 342 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:48.920 something. No, nothing, you know, I mean, like you said, 343 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.920 a person is a person. But like, yeah, I've I've I've 344 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.119 had people come in and you know, I had a guy that was going 345 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:56.079 to jail and he's like, load me up with tattoos. I want to 346 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.519 look like a hard ass in the yard. See, like I swear like 347 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:03.160 that was it. I'm like, okay, like you know, I don't 348 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.160 think guys and you don't really think you're a hot ass. Lest those tattoos. 349 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.960 They don't care what you look like. They're gonna go at you. 350 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.000 See if you got it or not. You just don't want chat's a pretty 351 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.359 boy, they'll be and it wouldn't be good for Chip. So okay, 352 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.799 So tattoos are now a form of art just on your body. Now, 353 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.799 Is that what we've come down to? No, we're starting to see where 354 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.160 like it went from that, that biker culture, and they're very like I 355 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:27.440 guess they call it gate keeping or whatever it is. Like it used to 356 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:30.920 be like you'd have to know somebody, you'd have to prove yourself. It 357 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.599 is not. There was no YouTube, there were no books. It was 358 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:38.000 very passed along and it was hard to learn that stuff and underground not underground, 359 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.839 but I mean you know you maybe have five tattoo shops in New Hampshire, 360 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.839 maybe ten, That is going to be at least five hundred really, 361 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.519 yeah, you know, even around here like ever since COVID, like they 362 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.000 know, our shore has exploded, there's gotta be like tons of tattoo shops 363 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:53.759 where there wasn't any. Like you look at Danvers and Peabody and sale them. 364 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.079 It's it's they all have shops now. Huh yeah, yeah, it's 365 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:02.279 just like I don't know what the put it's you this way. You know, 366 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:06.720 the industry has changed. There are more tattoo shops than there are McDonald's. 367 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:08.960 So people want to think that they're special. They're not. I hate 368 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:14.680 to break it to everybody else out there. That is how mainstream it is 369 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.480 now. Yes, so tattoos on special anymore, you know, But I 370 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.079 guess what would make them special is they are good of an artist. You 371 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.640 are the uniqueness of being and calling yourself a tattoo artist and working in a 372 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.880 shop. And there used to be some sort of like it's so commonplace now 373 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:38.200 that there's one hundred. Now what is While you're talking, what's on your 374 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.759 arm right there? This one here, yeah, oh, let me see 375 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.119 that. Okay, hold on, let me see that. Yeah, but 376 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.160 see I can see that that's a man with long hair or an ugly woman? 377 00:23:49.200 --> 00:24:02.079 Which one you're big randonly. I got that tattoo twenty years ago a 378 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:04.599 wild night, a wild weekend, and I decided that I was going to 379 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:08.160 get my tattooed for uh. I was going to get my uh my forearm 380 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:12.599 tattooed if I could kill this. But what happened to another guys or woman 381 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:15.160 whatever is doing your tattooed? You know you're better hotist than them? Do 382 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.240 you help them along? I know? I mean I get tattooed from people 383 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:22.160 that are better for me where I want to learn, And I'm like watching 384 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.160 this guy and probing him and asking him, what how do you do this 385 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.079 or how do you do that? So every time I sit down with a 386 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:32.559 guy, it's the top tier guy and then usually but by the end of 387 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:34.440 the conversation he's booking a trip to Boston and working out here for the next 388 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.680 two weeks. Really yeah, So I mean it's like he was saying, 389 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.279 like, there's a lot of tattoo shops and then everyone's a good artist in 390 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.119 this series that was twenty years ago. Yeah, but that was unheard of 391 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.279 twenty I know. But look at how real the face looks. Yeah, 392 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.640 I mean this guy, look at the skin twenty years old. They hear 393 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:53.839 colored even in color that help up really nic Yeah, yeah, you know. 394 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.240 I mean part of it is I have good skin and pale, you 395 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:00.839 know, despite the name. Yeah, but see I know your a very 396 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:03.440 wife or an Italian, but look at Chad. See he's got beautiful skin. 397 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.640 He's just covering up that beautiful all. This is what I like at 398 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:11.640 this. I got you right here first, and what is that? That's 399 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.960 really bad? He's got Cindy and then the sixty nine next to it? 400 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:17.160 You can't well, I know what that means, but I mean, I 401 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:18.839 don't know. Like I try to explain to people sometimes where they're like they 402 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:25.640 know what it means. I'm like, should he have Cindy or Mom? 403 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:27.839 If you're going to do that tattoo, would that be Cindy? We have 404 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:33.880 Dad, Joe Seammy. Personally, I wouldn't do either neither, you know 405 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:38.119 what I mean, because that's not your thing. But Mom and Dad don't 406 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.799 have my name tattooed on them, So you know what's up with that. 407 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:45.279 But if you're gonna put if you're going to put your parents, to put 408 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:47.440 mom and dad or you put their first name, if you're going to do 409 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.799 it, I mean I would, I would say it's for for a mom 410 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:52.119 and a dad. But it all depends on the design too, depends on 411 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.279 the tattoo getting and mom and dad just didn't Why I didn't want that like 412 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:00.680 that? Okay? Who my parents' names are? Who they are? Okay? 413 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:06.160 So I have a lot of people I've met recently the last few years 414 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:12.079 that want, especially men, they put their mom's faces on their backs, 415 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:15.799 shoulder blades, arms. What is that all about? Why do I see 416 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:19.000 a lot of that lately when their moms passed away. Well, so that's 417 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.759 when I would do something like that. When someone comes and they say, 418 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:25.319 to what am memorial tattoo? I feel like that's the best way to do 419 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:26.599 it rather than just get the name of the date. I mean, it 420 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:30.519 all really depends. You know. We have a guy, a couple that 421 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.079 is just they're fantastic portrait artists. Really, I got tattooed. I got 422 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:38.920 my dog's tattooed on my legs maybe a couple of months ago from this guy. 423 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:41.759 You wouldn't put your mother and father put you put your dogs. I 424 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.799 mean, I'm gonna put my ree portsra it because my dogs love me, 425 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:52.799 because she do un conditioning. Oh boy, yeah, they're gonna watch this. 426 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.960 They're gonna be happy. We know you love him. He just must 427 00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:59.319 have been a trouble child. Were you a trouble child? No? Were 428 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.480 you a good kid? You had to be your cancer that I'm blaming your 429 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:07.400 parents now because I cancer people, good people? Which mom and dad was? 430 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:11.119 What's that? Which your mom and dads? Siens? Uh? I 431 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:17.200 don't know. December and June. I don't know another June my father's seventh. 432 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:21.759 Oh is Gemini black and white? No? Gray, you're well great 433 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:27.599 Gemini Gemini's wait a minute, oh Capricorn. Yeah, but Germany you can't 434 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:32.079 put Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, I'm with a Gemini. 435 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:34.400 I'm gray, he's black and white. It's always all right. So 436 00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:40.319 back to well, I know the personality. How many shops do you have 437 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:44.240 right now? And are you looking to expand? Yeah? So, uh, 438 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:48.599 currently we have three tattoo shops. We just opened up on Newberry Street. 439 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:53.799 Uh earlier this month, which was is great. I love it. 440 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:57.920 It's an awesome neighborhood. Took a long long time. It's always been like 441 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.440 that. To me, is always been my like where I always wanted to 442 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:07.359 be since I moved here. The circumstances, honestly, after COVID, you 443 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.480 know, I had three shops. We closed one for a couple of different 444 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.920 reasons, got back down to the two. Was trying to simplify my life, 445 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:21.240 and my building was bought out and I was told that I needed to 446 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:25.799 vacate the premises. So I spent about two years having to go through the 447 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:32.480 process of relocating and zoning and getting the approvals. So I literally had two 448 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:36.960 shops going at the same time. And then you know, the month we 449 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:40.960 were ready to move out and everything was approved, we were told that we 450 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.920 didn't have to move. So, you know, considering that we you know, 451 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.240 our original space, we didn't want to ever leave in the first spot. 452 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.599 So now, yeah, I've seen you come a long way in four 453 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:55.960 years. Like you're not just doing tattoos anymore. You're involved with cannabis dispensaries. 454 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.640 You got to bed and breakfast. Well do you do it? I 455 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.000 guess I got to call you an entrepreneur, know right, Like that's the 456 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.519 new word for you, right, Yeah, so you just decide to what, 457 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:04.400 let me do a little bit of this, a little bit of that. 458 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:07.599 Well, yeah, the bed and breakfast, you know, we we 459 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.519 opened that about maybe six or seven years ago, and I actually opened it 460 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.720 in the town that I got my first tattoo. And so I got my 461 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.880 first tattoo, North Comwain, New Hampshire. And as soon as I got 462 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:22.079 my first tattoo, I was like, that's it. How do I do 463 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:23.400 this? This is what I want to do. I just instantly fell in 464 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:27.680 love with it and just pressed and got my foot in the door, learned 465 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:32.799 how to tattoo, got a job, kind of wanted to always retire up 466 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.960 that way, so it was more of a like a retirement plan. Just 467 00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:42.599 things can change in a minute. I know what made what made all these 468 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:47.200 changes? Did you have any health reasons for all all of a sudden your 469 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:49.240 brain changing here? Well, oh, I mean COVID. I almost died 470 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:52.079 from COVID. That would be a big one. Yeah, you know, 471 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:55.279 it'd be huge. All that thought. Now we got to go to break 472 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:56.480 because Adio's putting that thing in front of my face and we killed him. 473 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.880 Now I'm Sinny stumbling and listened to his nails in w right Back sponsored by 474 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:06.759 new Brook Realty Group, Boston Wood Smaller Insurance, World Auto Body and Tosca 475 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:22.640 Drive Auto Body, Little Black aad dude, and welcome back to Tapa's nails 476 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:30.440 on WBZ. And I'm Cindy Stumpo and I'm here with Amantha and God and 477 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:36.559 Jason. Okay, time, what happened to COVID body? You know? 478 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.720 Uh one? Were you vaccinated? I wasn't you chose not to get vaccinated. 479 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.680 I wish I did, but go ahead. You know I caught it, 480 00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:48.400 or at least I tested positive for it. On New Year's Eve of 481 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.319 twenty twenty two. I took a test because I didn't want to get my 482 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.519 favorite restaurant sick. It wasn't feeling well. Happened a couple of days earlier. 483 00:30:55.759 --> 00:31:00.960 You know, just got progressively sicker and sicker. You know, I 484 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.079 stopped eating after the first week, I stopped sleeping after the first week, 485 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.720 and I like literally started to lose my mind. And one of the guys 486 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:14.440 that I know over the VFW, some old crazy Vietnam Vett UH called me 487 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:15.559 up because he hadn't seen me, and I told him, I said, 488 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.519 I'm not doing too I told him I wasn't feeling well, and he was 489 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.640 actually the want to convince me to go to the hospital. Why you weren't 490 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.240 going to go with os No? I just I was like, Eh, 491 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:29.880 it's nothing flesh wounds, you know, like you know, I knew I 492 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.400 had a problem, Like I finally like he told me to go. And 493 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:37.240 then the next day I tried to go upstairs and uh it took me fifteen 494 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:40.160 minutes to get up a flight of stairs, and uh, they put me 495 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.640 in a hospital and I was so overrun that I was ended up being in 496 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:49.000 the uh in a hallway for like two days, and I was so my 497 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:53.279 chest. I had such double pneumonia that they were like immediately put me in 498 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:57.519 and they were giving me cat scans and the big fear was, uh, 499 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.480 blood clots. Oh. So I felt like I had like this taking time 500 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:05.119 bomb and my chest. Not knowing what was going to happen, I couldn't 501 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:07.240 Like it was surreal. I was just like how did I get this bed? 502 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.640 You know, like you know it's you know, it's just a flu 503 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:14.759 whatever, you know, I don't really have opinion on it either way. 504 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:16.079 Like, you know, it was like, you know, I didn't get 505 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:20.279 vaccinated. I wasn't feeling sorry for myself. It was what it was. 506 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.480 But this guy convinced me to go because he had it. And he's like, 507 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:27.720 it's not a it's like it's it's so were you a long holler afterwards? 508 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.920 I was, I was going to work for like almost a month, 509 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.079 you know, and uh I was in a hospital for like five or six. 510 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:35.880 The oxygen levels are dropping, yep, Yeah, they were down in 511 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.720 the eighties, you know. So they had me hooked up and they were 512 00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:42.559 giving me blood dinners and you know, every day they didn't even know what 513 00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:46.000 they were doing, did they. The hospital was great, you know. 514 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:50.920 I mean I just felt being it's okay, so bad being there, you 515 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.200 know, because I just didn't want to take it away from somebody else. 516 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.000 But I mean it was just it was bad. But we were afraid they're 517 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:02.119 gonna put you on a ventilator. I know, you ever almost I think 518 00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:05.400 you were going to die. Yeah. Every day would have a panic attack. 519 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.960 Do you ever have a panic attack? No? Okay, I didn't 520 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:10.559 have them there either. No, you know, I mean, I honestly, 521 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.880 you know, and you alone, was abdy with you alone? Could 522 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.599 you have anybody with you? Then? You know, I got dropped off 523 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:21.599 and I didn't know what was happening. And you know, it was just 524 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.559 the one I would know if they were going to ever see me again. 525 00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:32.359 It was that I was no, no, I wasn't, you know. 526 00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:36.640 I was so beat up from everything that had been gone on. I was 527 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:39.440 going through, like you know, between the closing of the shop and COVID 528 00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:44.119 and having to move, and I was going through a really awful breakup and 529 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:49.359 every I felt like my my mental state is what got me so sick. 530 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.640 And I was at the point where it was like it just wore me down, 531 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.799 and I think that's really what it was. And I just I said, 532 00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:57.480 if I got out of this thing, I said, you know, 533 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:05.839 if ever in this body again, I left a lot of a lot of 534 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:07.840 stones unturned. So I said, if I get out of this, so 535 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:12.239 I'm going to write a lot of or finish a lot of things I started 536 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.559 where I wasn't. I felt like I wasn't ready yet, all right, 537 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.239 So that so yeah, you know, someday we'll be there again. I 538 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.519 just I just I was like, okay, you know I had you turned 539 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:29.480 the negative into a positive. Well, I mean it was it was I 540 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:34.119 was forced to to change and I needed to like just I mean, it 541 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:36.599 wasn't a matter of accepting. It was just like all right, cool, 542 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:38.000 like one thing at a time. I mean, it was like there wasn't 543 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:42.800 one part of my life that wasn't in turmoil. And then I was just 544 00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.960 like I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna die, you know. And I 545 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.000 I didn't care, not that I was suicidal or I think like that. 546 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.119 I wasn't even sorry about myself, but I was just like, uh, 547 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.079 you know what, had a good run, you know whatever. But I 548 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:59.960 was like, I think you wanted to think you were normal, thinking normal 549 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.760 back then those thoughts. I was just looking at where my life was at 550 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:06.679 the time, and I'm like everything I had done, you know, really 551 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.960 kind of like just you know, you think you know people, you don't 552 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:14.239 you know, like people people will always let you down. Yeah, but 553 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.639 it was across the board. It wasn't even like there was one person left. 554 00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:19.639 And it was like that's you know, I've always been like that. 555 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.000 I always try to take care of my squad and my team and always put 556 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.719 them first. And it's you know, please take this advice. Take this 557 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.280 advice from some it knows. It's better than anybody. You're going under that 558 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:35.159 Kansas sign. You don't. You treat people with so much loyalty and when 559 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.239 you don't get it back, it's a kick in the ass and it's a 560 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.880 it's a right hook right to the gut because you don't know how to be 561 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:46.920 like that. But you have to learn change. You learned the hard way. 562 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:49.920 He did, you know, And I said, this is where it 563 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.280 got me. All of that. That's okay. You will can be small 564 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.519 you know what. I'm in my life so much smaller. And let me 565 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:57.679 tell you, as I get older, it's been a lot smaller too. 566 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.760 But you know what, I like it. But if there is a bright 567 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.079 side to this story, everything I set out to do I got. I 568 00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.559 got past the move, I got the Newberry Street opened. Uh thank you, 569 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:15.239 Uh my my, my dispensary was approved. Uh so we're able to, 570 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.079 you know, get that going. We're helping out the VFW and Medford. 571 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:22.199 We worked out a deal with them. I was an auxiliary, remember, 572 00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.119 and the reason why I got into cannabis quite honestly was that it was 573 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:30.159 infuriating to watch Kappy's liquor be opened the whole time I was closed, and 574 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:32.719 you hear about the news about this alcoholism and this rampant abuse and all of 575 00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:37.360 this stuff that was coming. Yeah, and it was just like how was 576 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.639 this happening? How is this place to open? And I have to stay 577 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:43.360 closed? And it was just kind of like you know, talking about like 578 00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:45.119 well, why do you get into bed and breakfast? Why are you get 579 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.119 into that? And like, you know, you need to have some different 580 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:52.119 stuff going on in case like you know, my uh my hands fall off, 581 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:52.599 you know, like how am I? What am I gonna do for 582 00:36:52.679 --> 00:37:01.039 work? You know exactly you want to do that. There's also a thing 583 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:05.960 called you can buy disability assurance. Right well, but if you but I'd 584 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:07.519 like to say, if he has fall off or whatever, you get to 585 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.519 a point where you can't do this. Yeah, Like I said, you 586 00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:15.000 know, I arrive wrestled for a while, I caught an injury suddenly changed 587 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:20.840 everything overnight, you know, and that always trained me to just try to 588 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.119 be as prepared as you can. Yeah, but you're you're an old soul, 589 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.400 you do know that, right By nature. You've been an old soul 590 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:30.440 your whole life, and you just what they say. Yeah, dude, 591 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:32.079 I know who you are. I'm looking at a reflection of myself and you. 592 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:36.119 But it's okay. I like I like look, you know, when 593 00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:37.320 you can look in the mirror and like who you are. And I don't 594 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:42.440 mean what you look like physically, if you're pretty, or if you like 595 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:46.199 what's inside. It's all that Madison. You like you, well, you 596 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:52.920 just don't like people you surround yourself with. And that's why givers surround themselves 597 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:58.159 with takers, and takers will always surround themselves with givers. Okay, Well, 598 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:00.400 Cindy, if I could just say, you know, at first I 599 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.440 thought it was a loss, but it was almost like a tick breaking off 600 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.239 of you exactly like you think they're your friends, but there you know, 601 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:12.639 once they're gone, you don't realize how much they did take from you exactly 602 00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:15.360 and how like you know, it's like cool, like people, I think 603 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.000 I'm in a worse spot, but I'm actually in the best spot I've ever 604 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:22.760 been in because I don't have to worry about making these concessions anymore for people, 605 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.159 because those pastures that they all not alone. Whatever, it's always greener, 606 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:30.119 you know how it is. You know, I just do what I 607 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.800 think. Here's the problem, and it's not. You will get them out 608 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:38.239 of your life. You will, but you unfortunately think about what are they 609 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:43.039 doing now? Are they okay? Where's their life? By way? I 610 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.440 look at it like that. I fortunately, if this we had this conversation 611 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.480 three years ago, it would be radically different. I have enough time that's 612 00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:52.519 gone by where I can honestly say I'm in a better spot, you know, 613 00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:55.079 and some people are some people aren't. You know. It was just 614 00:38:55.239 --> 00:39:00.639 really kind of lousy how I felt like COVID was just like this rest tests 615 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:04.159 for like every man for himself. You know, everybody looked out for themselves. 616 00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.840 Everyone did what was best for them, and you know, you're the 617 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:08.239 boss, Like it doesn't work that way, right, you know. I 618 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:13.000 could have packed up and left and take the money and move out of my 619 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:15.639 place and worried about anybody, right, like a jerk, I'm saying here 620 00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:20.800 about my team where it's like, you know, these guys are all behind 621 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:22.000 the scenes over we're going to go here, we're you know, and they 622 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:25.519 know what you're going through and they you know, it's it's tough. Yeah, 623 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.280 you know, so for me, I'm like, okay, cool, 624 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:35.039 Like that's just you know, there's a little smarter for it, you know, 625 00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:37.159 absolutely, but there's there's a loyalty factor. That's what you were. 626 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:40.719 You're worried about your team. We were essential. So we're out there working. 627 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:44.079 Yeah, and we said, look at whoever doesn't want to come into 628 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:45.320 work, don't come in. But I'm going out there every day. I 629 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:50.079 didn't skip a day out there. And that's and a couple of guys left 630 00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:52.519 and after being home for two weeks with their wives and kids, they go, 631 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.159 we'll be back to work right away. But Ya'll want to ask a 632 00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:58.679 question for you for listeners out there. So you say you have two shops 633 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:00.719 open right now, Well we got we uh yeah, three three one in 634 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.639 David Square, one in Medford and well into circles. In each place, 635 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:09.920 is there artists that specifies or specialize in uh, portraits, fine lines, 636 00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:13.599 all different kinds. Yeah, we do, so, Like I would say, 637 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.519 like the shop that there's a variety of different styles, so you know 638 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:21.519 you have every body can kind of handle the basics, but then each one 639 00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:23.239 will specialize you different. Okay, we gotta go off to break. I'm 640 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:38.880 Sidney Stumbling with some Toughest Nails and WBZ see where you and welcome back to 641 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:45.159 Toughest Nails Sidney Stumpo and we have Samantha and Chad and Jason from the Boston 642 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:49.679 Tattoo Company. I just like to thank you Cindy for having me back on 643 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:53.480 your show. It's you got a wonderful family. You should be proud I 644 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:59.360 am. And if anyone is interested in getting any sort of high quality tattoo 645 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.199 work, the easiest way is to go to our website at Boston Tattoo dot 646 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:07.079 com. We have three locations. Our newest one is in two forty two 647 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:12.559 Newberry Street, brand new, fantastic, world class artists, and all you 648 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.119 need to do is just go to our website for a lot of consultations so 649 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.519 we'll get back to you. We also have all of our other services that 650 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:22.920 are attached to the business, and we are looking forward to having you come 651 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:24.599 by and say hi. I guess chat will be in there next week. 652 00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:28.519 I'll be in there next week. Everybody, have a great, safe weekend 653 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:30.880 and we'll see you next week. This is City Stumbo Tough as Nails, WBZ.