WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.720 For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:06.160 home builder with a passion for design, a mastery of detail, 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:07.440 and a commitment to her crack. 4 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:09.880 With daughter Samantha Stumpo by her side. 5 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:11.000 I don't need life, the whole family and I date 6 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:12.960 with me. That's a good note. It's goddemn weird. 7 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.399 See. Stumpo Development is the only second generation female construction 8 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:17.440 company in the country. 9 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.239 You're crazy, You're a wacko, You're insane. 10 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:22.839 I mean, it just doesn't end together. 11 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.440 Cindy and Samantha welcome guests to explore the world of construction, 12 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.960 real estate, development, design and more. Unpredictable. 13 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:31.480 Every time I think I know what you want, you 14 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:33.679 switch it out. But that's what makes sharehouses all used. 15 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.840 They discuss anything that happens between the roof and the foundations. 16 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.719 Nothing is off limits. You truly do care about everybody. 17 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:41.399 Chi can yell a chinkeets screen, but when you get 18 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.039 her alone, she's the best person on the planet. Cindy 19 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:50.479 Stumpo is tough as nails. 20 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.479 And welcome to Cindy Stumpoch have his nails on WBC 21 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.439 News Radio ten thirty and I'm here with who Lena 22 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.479 Grille Okay, she doesn't talk very low. 23 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.000 Ernie Bach and Casey Sword. 24 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:04.879 Okay, alrenye bio right now, give it to us. 25 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:08.040 Well, let's see, I'm a Boston guy. I grew up 26 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:14.040 around the area. I'm in my late sixties. I was 27 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.439 heavily into the automotive industry. Third generation in the automotive industry. 28 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.079 And by the way, because Ray will be listening to 29 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.519 this third generation rape off for some reason, second generation, 30 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:26.319 I said, no, no. 31 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.640 No, yeah, third generation. And my son who is in 32 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.879 his final year of college, which he's going to an 33 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.519 automotive centric to learn. 34 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.719 Yeah, generation, did you go to that class? Did you? 35 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:39.760 No? 36 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.359 I did not, But yeah, So I'm a I'm a 37 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.040 local guy, you know, hanging around Boston. 38 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.799 Okay, and then you one day decided you woke up 39 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:48.359 and said what. 40 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.599 Well, I used to own big retail automotive stores. I 41 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.519 had the number one Honda store in the planet, the 42 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:57.439 number two Toyota store in the planet, and you know, 43 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.439 I was slugging it out there in retail for a 44 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.400 long time. And I woke up one day and I 45 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.200 just didn't want to do it. I wholesale SuPAR roos 46 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:06.680 throughout the six states of New England. 47 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.680 So explain them. You are the rep the super roofs. 48 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.879 Of New England. I bring these super us over in 49 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.240 super tankers to my port, and then I distributed them 50 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.319 to the dealers throughout New England, the sixty five dealers 51 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.560 throughout New England. But that's B to B. That's a 52 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:22.680 B to B business. 53 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.120 And then my own that business was your grandfather, my 54 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:26.199 father's stoff father. 55 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:28.919 Was in nineteen seventy one, my father started that business. 56 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:33.479 And then in twenty fifteen I decided to sell all 57 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.400 the retail stores except for Ferrari and Maserati. 58 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.800 Now when you sold the did you sell a blue 59 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.520 sky or you sold the real estate? Did you keep me? 60 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:42.039 I did not. 61 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:43.879 I always no, I did not sell the real stack. 62 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.759 I always keep the real style. I sold the companies. 63 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.360 Companies, yes, which is technically the sales the parts, which 64 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:51.960 is which is all that. 65 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.800 I retained the real estate. Very rarely do I sell 66 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:55.199 real estate. 67 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.560 How many thousands of square feet did you own a 68 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.000 car dealerships just on the automologe You ever run those numbers? 69 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.800 No? I didn't run those umbers. But if I had 70 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.560 to run those numbers, I don't know. I'm six hundred thousand. 71 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.599 Six hundred thousand squaffe. 72 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:10.919 That's not that's funny you asked me. I've never been asked. 73 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:12.879 That Questionings a square FOOTA right, you're. 74 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.000 A builder, that's wine. Usually it's like how many vehicles? 75 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.400 Do you say? What's the square feet? That's buildings. That's 76 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:21.400 not with the land. 77 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.520 The land is much more buildings, right, the building, Yeah, 78 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:26.879 one hundred thousand square feet bout that. Yeah, so I 79 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:28.759 could say I could take it, break it down. What 80 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.719 you reant blah blah blah, what you get in the 81 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:31.800 land and the parking lots. 82 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.400 Yeah, But in the automotive industry, In the automotive industry, 83 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:39.840 you rent is notoriously high. Correct, notoriously high because back 84 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:44.199 in the day, the new companies today, the public companies 85 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.919 and a lot of private automotive guys don't want to 86 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.879 own the land. They just want to own because they 87 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.000 just do it. They sell the land to reds and 88 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:56.000 stuff like that. They don't want to own. I don't know, 89 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.479 I don't know why. So back in the day it 90 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.400 was the owner charging himself rent, which you know, they 91 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:03.879 always were above market. 92 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.159 But that's just robbed paper. You picked up. 93 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.439 No, it really isn't because it forces the company. It 94 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.800 forces the company to actually produce. You know. It's if 95 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:15.439 you have a retail store and you're in a big, 96 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.120 fancy schmancy place, the rents through the roof, which means 97 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.279 you have to you have to make more gross profit. 98 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.720 Okay, did you keep Lamborghini a Maasa rival once it 99 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:25.040 make the least amount of mine? Right? 100 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.600 No, really, I do have. I still own that land. Yeah, 101 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.439 but they But the Ferrari Maserati, it's not like the 102 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.480 automotive industry. It's more like rolling art. You know, they're 103 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:37.639 not There's not many of them produced in the in 104 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.199 the whole entire world, there's about ten thousand Ferraris a 105 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.399 year produced. So it's it's different. It's not like when 106 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.439 I was a Toyota deal. It was like McDonald's. I 107 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:50.040 was selling thousands, thousands, tens of thousands of cars. I 108 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:52.800 cracked over a thousand a month for a good run. 109 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:54.639 And how many shields did you own? 110 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:59.319 At one point seven or eight seven? 111 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.920 Eight ships? And they started most of shingles started by 112 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:03.319 your father. 113 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:05.759 No, no, no, no, no, no, she. 114 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.639 Was did your grandfather's dot Excuse me, how many shingles. 115 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.759 Did your grandfather'stad one one he started with with Nash. 116 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.600 Nash was the Nash and then Nash turned into Rambler, 117 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:22.160 and then Rambler turned into American Motors. Then American Motors 118 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:26.000 turned turned into Chrysler, and now you have Jeep Chrysler 119 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.160 ram And of course the Italians owned everything. So the 120 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:34.480 same people that owned Dodge own those same people that 121 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.480 owned yeah, Dodge and all the all those other Stilantis 122 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:40.360 companieses the Italians. 123 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.279 Okay, and then your father came along, he came up, 124 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:43.560 he started buying more franchise. 125 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:47.759 No, what happened was is the we were back in 126 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.120 the day the company started nineteen thirty eight, and back 127 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:54.360 in the day when when when my grandfather got sick 128 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.000 and my father came out of the army in the 129 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:02.639 in the early fifties. He worked with my father with 130 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.839 my grandfather, uh kind of father son and his brother 131 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:11.399 and Boston. Back in the day, Norwood to Boston it 132 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.639 was like a day trip. It wasn't. It wasn't like 133 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:17.240 it is today. So the advertising the Boston Globe, the 134 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.959 Record American which was the Herald, and all the advertisers 135 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:22.759 would never come out to the suburbs. You had to 136 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:24.600 bring your abbot, the printer, you had to bring it 137 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:25.639 in so. 138 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.120 And nobody did that better than your family. 139 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:33.399 Well, it's always down. It's the the papers were treating 140 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:38.040 the clients very arrogantly. They were very arrogant, and and 141 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.879 my father soon caught onto that and basically said to himself, 142 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.240 you know, f these guys, I'm going to be big 143 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.120 enough where they're going to come out to me and 144 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:47.839 they're going to come out and take my ads. I'm 145 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.399 not gonna have to go all the way into Boston. 146 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:50.839 They're going to come out and take the ads. And 147 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:53.519 that was that was the beginning of the building. And 148 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:57.040 then then by the late fifties we were the number 149 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:59.439 one Nash dealership in the country. 150 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:01.399 That's how it happened. 151 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:02.199 That's how it happened. 152 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:04.879 And then you the third generation, said I'm going to 153 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.439 live my life and I'm going to be a rock. 154 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.160 I came, I came in, and I came in. Actually, 155 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.800 you know, this month is a really interesting month for 156 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.199 me because it's the eighty sixth year of our company. 157 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:22.240 It's the fortieth year of myself being in the automotive industry. 158 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.199 When I mean in the automotive, automotive industry. I mean 159 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.040 putting a tie on. I mean when I was a kid, 160 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.240 I used to sweet floors and do all that other stuff. 161 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.360 In eighty four, I put a tie on. And it's 162 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.160 been twenty one years since my father's died, since I've 163 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.920 been running years, twenty one years. 164 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.519 Yeah, you need to tell the listeners that listening, what 165 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.399 do you have on your in your on your land 166 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.839 would you build? And what would you build on your 167 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:47.040 land that most people will never have? 168 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:48.519 Well, I tell you, I tell you that's a that's 169 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.040 a little that's a little bit of it. I tell 170 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.360 this story a lot, and it's very embarrassing for me. 171 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:57.600 It's very embarrassing for me, Cindy, because you're involved every 172 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.319 time and every time I every time I see you, 173 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.800 I harken back to this story and it just pisses 174 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:08.120 me off, and you'll probably remember it. I like to 175 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.600 build comfortable surroundings from that kind of building is not 176 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.000 it's a passion. It's not a business. 177 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:15.240 You know. 178 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.319 I do have real estate. I've done hundreds of millions 179 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:18.879 of dollars worth of building, but most of them have 180 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.639 been commercial building. And I had just finished one of 181 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.360 my latest projects, which was my carriage House two. Correct, 182 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.279 I have two carriage house couch and one characters too. 183 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.439 And I was very, very very proud of carriage House two, 184 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:33.279 of what I did and how I did it and 185 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.399 everything like that. And you had been over my house 186 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:39.879 for an event and I said, Cindy, let me come back, 187 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.279 come up in and let's go. Let's go take a 188 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.080 look at carriage house too. And we go and I 189 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.679 go and put my hand on the door and the 190 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.159 door handle comes off in my hand right in front 191 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.120 of you. I almost asked my pants. I mean, I 192 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.559 was like, oh, of anybody that this happens to, I 193 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:57.960 had to do it in front of Cindy. 194 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.320 And you know what I was just like, is that 195 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.080 a key code? Anyways? Like can we get into a 196 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.799 key code? But the I mean Ernie's house amazing. It 197 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.799 truly is like we have a car. I don't even 198 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.080 know what you want to call that auto salon, the 199 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.919 auto salon, and then we have the we're gonna go 200 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:15.480 for break and then we're gonna come right back. Hold on, 201 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.600 I'm gonna break. This is Sydney stampo and this is 202 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.600 top of Nails on w BZ News Radio ten thirty 203 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:20.360 will be right back. 204 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:23.519 Sponsored by Flora Decor, National Lumber, and Village. 205 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:42.639 Bank show Welcome Back to Toughes Nails on w BZ 206 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:45.480 News Radio ten thirty and I'm here with Lena. 207 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.799 Grillell, Ernie Bach and Casey Swordon. 208 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.799 Okay, going back to the conversation, what did you build 209 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:55.480 on your lands? Well, and I went in with you. 210 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:58.919 And this is this is probably I assume this is 211 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.039 what you're talking about the city. Like I said, when 212 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.799 I when I build something, i'd have comfortable surroundings. And also, 213 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:08.559 you know, I'm in my late sixties and I know 214 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.240 I'm not going to be on this earth forever. And 215 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.440 ever since I was a kid, I've been planning my death, hopefully, hopefully, 216 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.600 planning for my death, like I'm not gonna you know, 217 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:23.480 hopefully I go in a supernatural way. It's not like 218 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:26.759 I'm going to off myself or anything. But I've always 219 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:31.279 go ahead. I've always I've always assumed. I've always assumed 220 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.879 that the end is near and and and that everybody's 221 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.320 going to die. There's nobody going to get out of it, nobody. 222 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.480 So why would you want to be Why would you 223 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.080 want to be you know, buried alone or buried with strangers. 224 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.720 You know you should and and it's kind of a 225 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:50.919 it's what I'm what I'm doing, and people used to 226 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:52.440 do it all the time, you know. So I so 227 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:55.679 I built a mausoleum on my property, which now houses 228 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:58.799 my mother, my father, and my mother's brother. 229 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:03.200 Okay, this isn't a mausoleum. This is a house, okay, 230 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.240 with music speakers going. We could have a party in there, 231 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:10.320 and then there's a downstairs and upstairs the crypt. The 232 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.759 crypt is downstairs. All I can tell you is that 233 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:16.519 I was walking around going, I honest, really fun. Get 234 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:18.240 me out of here right now, right, I'm so nervous. 235 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:21.759 But it's nice, it's comforting. 236 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:22.519 It's company, it's nice. 237 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.600 And so you took your parents up, you took them 238 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.320 where they were buried, and you brought them there. 239 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.360 No, no, no, I did not exum them. 240 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:32.519 Oh okay, so how they did? 241 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:37.320 They? They my parents chose to be cremated, okay. So 242 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.159 and you know, I personally don't choose to be cremated. 243 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.720 I don't need that. I'm coming back. Yeah, and it's 244 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.960 really final, by the way, yes, and if I die, 245 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.320 they might be a once you get into it. 246 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:50.840 It's really interesting because there's three ways to get rid 247 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.440 of a body either burn it, bury it, or buried 248 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.919 above ground. And so if when you burn it, that's 249 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:59.519 pretty easy. And then when you're buried in the ground, 250 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.919 there's a cert and casket you have to have that 251 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.120 does it for the liquid that comes out, for the 252 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.399 bugs that come in. But when you're above ground, it's 253 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.519 a whole different thing, and and and the the laws 254 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:14.039 are different and everything like that. So we're above ground 255 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:15.080 and yeah, I'm going to be. 256 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:19.240 Above ground now, but you're at your backyard. Yeah, very different. 257 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:20.960 But I tell you, it's a lot of fun over 258 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.039 at Ernie's house at Halloween. Okay, he's got the whole 259 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:25.279 thing all spooked out and. 260 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:26.519 It is I love Halloween. 261 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.399 Okay, So Ernie's like this, I don't know. It's like you, Ernie, 262 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.159 like the big toy. You're just a guy that just 263 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.360 doesn't age and you just have fun. 264 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:41.200 Well, you know, you can't tell me my back has 265 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:42.159 killed me, because. 266 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.240 Okay, take okay to take more edvil. You do great 267 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:48.639 things for people. You give a lot back. Well, thank you, right, 268 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.480 Ernie's the guy that walks in You never know the 269 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.600 Tippy's going to leave a waitress, right, he just always 270 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:55.720 pulls a stunt out of his head. But your big 271 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:57.200 cause is what what's your big Well? 272 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.279 I have a foundation called Music Drives and thank you 273 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:01.120 for bringing it up, and if you want to check 274 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.519 it out, it's at music drives us dot org. What 275 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:07.240 we try to do is you try to keep music 276 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:14.600 into the schools, performances and also instruments organizations. It's a 277 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.600 passion I've had and where we will be celebrating our 278 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:19.360 twentieth year very soon. 279 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.440 And I hope everybody understands that it brings music back 280 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.679 into the school. So as much as you push music 281 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.399 back into the schools, I push vocational back in the 282 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.080 And I agree with both. Okay, I totally agree with both. 283 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.639 We need mechanics, don't we. 284 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:35.919 That's right, technicians also. 285 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.799 Technicians, yes, problems, electricians and HVAC guys and framers and 286 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:42.639 founded you name it. I am right. So you push 287 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.440 that way and I push vocational. What do you guys 288 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.440 got coming up? Casey, go ahead, gimme it. What's going 289 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.159 on about the So. 290 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.080 We're we're rocking and rolling over at the Box Center, 291 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.759 which has been a huge passion of Ernie's for a 292 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.200 long time, and I'm just coming on new as the 293 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.879 new CEO, and great, great things are happening at the 294 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.639 Box Center this fall. We've got every We've got comedy, 295 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.240 we've got family performances, we've got rock and roll. 296 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:10.960 We've got it all. 297 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:12.440 Well, we always got rock and roll when it comes 298 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:13.360 to any The. 299 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.000 Box Center, just for people that don't know, is two theaters. 300 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.960 A thirty five hundred you talk more than you No, 301 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.799 No's okay, I'm just laying it down to hand it 302 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:25.080 to Casey. It's a thirty five hundred seat theater. It 303 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.480 will be one hundred years old next year. And across 304 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:32.320 the street is a fifteen hundred seat theater. And Casey 305 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:35.840 is the new guy. After thirty eight years, our former 306 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:41.480 CEO has retired and Casey has taken over. Welcome Casey, 307 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:42.600 thank you wording. 308 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:44.720 So we're going to have a place to go hang 309 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.759 out when we want to watch whatever being whatever, whoever 310 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:52.279 you bring, whatever art you're bringing into that place. Give 311 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.480 me the what you see coming down the road there, 312 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:57.679 that's a visual. 313 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.600 So the visual and in addition to what you see 314 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.399 on the stage, the Box Center is more than just 315 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:06.679 what you see on our stages, which is one hundred 316 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.559 and fifty two hundred shows a year. But in addition 317 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.720 to that, the Box Center is a place for everyone 318 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.120 in our community. We have education programs for young people. 319 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:19.600 We give kids, inner city kids, summer jobs. We train 320 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.919 them in musical theater and dance and other art forms. 321 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.240 And we're really inspired by the arts. And I was 322 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.559 an arts kid like Ernie was. You know, I fell 323 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.960 in love with playing music at a young age. 324 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.480 And that's the crazy pot. He was an AASI kid, 325 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.360 love music, but kind of had to go into the 326 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:38.120 filming business. 327 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.159 Well you got to make a living, You got to 328 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:41.639 make a living exactly. 329 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.799 But one of the reasons Ernie's been so successful is 330 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:50.080 that creative background that he has. Starts foundationally when you're 331 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.000 playing music as a kid, and that helps you in 332 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:54.480 whatever industry that you're in. 333 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.879 If you had a do over, Ernie, do you think 334 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:58.480 that you went to made out there as a rock 335 00:15:58.519 --> 00:15:59.240 and roller? No? 336 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:02.799 Absolutely no, absolutely not. I if I would do anything 337 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.200 over it, maybe it would have to do with relationships 338 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:06.440 or something like that, but I would. 339 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:07.639 Not that we do reover. 340 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.360 I would do that reover many times alone. 341 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:11.960 I know, but here we have like you were supposed 342 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.879 to go for dinner last month and we didn't do it. No, 343 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.480 I know, we're still we're still with that person. Oh 344 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:18.279 here we go, all right? 345 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.320 Well, yes I don't but anyway, No, I would not 346 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:25.919 change the thing. And you know it's cool about about 347 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:31.159 having some sort of musical background. Is the Subaru commercials 348 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:34.639 that you hear and see on TV in New England. 349 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.200 There's two distinct commercials. There's a factory commercial with the 350 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.720 Subaru of America and the Subaru of New England. So 351 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.639 all those cool ads you see with the with the 352 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:49.200 music and the and the different jingles and everything like that, 353 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.879 we do that all in house. And a Valerio my partner. 354 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.279 We write him. He does most of the heavy lifting 355 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:58.240 and then when I can, I play on him. The 356 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:02.080 new electric Subaru commercial that's running right now, it's electric. 357 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.440 I don't know if you see it, but that's me 358 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:07.880 on guitar. So the melding of what you love to 359 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.799 do with business was was a natural thing for me. 360 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.839 But you love music. Look at we've been to parties 361 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:17.599 at your hangar with I think the last one was 362 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.400 who Aris was playing there? No Perry Joe Perry. 363 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:23.160 Joe Perry has played at the end of the year, 364 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:26.359 I do a do a musical. 365 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.759 Event to in the airplane hanger by the way, to. 366 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.240 Raise money for music drives. I say, we've had many, 367 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:36.160 many national acts come in and do it. And as 368 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.039 a matter of fact, at the end of this year, 369 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.359 we have Keifer Sutherlan coming in, you know, the actor 370 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:43.359 of course, Yeah, he's coming in. He's got a band. 371 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:44.400 He's actually excellent. 372 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:46.079 He's playing in a band. 373 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.000 He has a band. 374 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.359 When you look at how many band members, I don't know, Like, well, 375 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.200 now we got Steve Taler, he's retired. They've now come 376 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.240 off right because he lost his voice or whatever. 377 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.400 Yeah, I don't know. I can't. I can't call Montan 378 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:00.440 I not to. 379 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.079 Get can wait. I can't either at this point. But 380 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:05.400 people ask me all that question all the time. Okay, 381 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.680 to go back. What are we doing? We having some 382 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:12.640 fundraises coming up, What are we doing for the Box Center? 383 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.920 Anything that a city needs to know about. 384 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.079 We've got all kinds of great stuff, you know for 385 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:19.920 our holiday season this year, we've got The Grinch who 386 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:23.200 Stole Christmas the musical is coming in for seventeen performances. 387 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.400 It's going to be fantastic. We've got comedy. 388 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.839 We've got Kevin Hart coming in, Taylor Tomlinson's coming in 389 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.400 doing three shows in February. We've got ted Esky Trucks 390 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:35.519 Band and Graham Nash coming up in a few weeks. 391 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.839 That's good, so, you know, all kinds of you know, really, 392 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.799 I'm really proud of the programming that we have there 393 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:43.839 because there's something for everybody. If you look at our calendar, 394 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.480 you'll find something for everybody. So we're very excited about 395 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.960 the season. And part of what we do is raise money. 396 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:52.720 We do we do fundraisers, we do corporate events, we 397 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.759 do weddings. There's something in there all the time we're 398 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.839 promoting a new exhibit with our I don't. 399 00:18:57.720 --> 00:18:59.720 Think Ernie does anything to make money anymore. I think 400 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.160 does everything to raise money. 401 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:08.440