Speaker 1: For thirty five years, Cindy Stumpo has been a female
Speaker 1: homebuilder with a passion for design, a mastery of detail,
Speaker 1: and a commitment to her crack. With daughter Samantha Stumpo
Speaker 1: by her side, I don't need my.
Speaker 2: Whole family on a date with me. That's a good note.
Speaker 2: It's goddymn weird. See.
Speaker 1: Stumpo Development is the only second generation female construction company
Speaker 1: in the country.
Speaker 3: You're crazy, You're a wacko, You're insane. I mean, it
Speaker 3: just doesn't end together.
Speaker 1: Cindy and Samantha welcome guests to explore the world of construction,
Speaker 1: real estate, development, design and more.
Speaker 3: I'm predictable. Every time I think I know what you want,
Speaker 3: you switch it out. But that's what makes your houses
Speaker 3: all us.
Speaker 1: They discuss anything that happens between the roof and the foundation.
Speaker 1: Nothing is off limits.
Speaker 3: You truly do care about everybody.
Speaker 1: She can yell at, you can scream, but when you
Speaker 1: get her alone, she's the best person on the planet.
Speaker 1: Cindy Stumpo is tough as nails.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Cidey Stumble Tough as Nails on WBZ and
Speaker 2: tonight we have in the studio Samantha somewhere, don't you
Speaker 2: say them? But Newbrook Realty my womb. Yeah that's good. Okay,
Speaker 2: started there, but now you're from where in Massachusetts? Oh god?
Speaker 2: I try to promote her business. She didn't take anything,
Speaker 2: all right, she's from Newbrook relator.
Speaker 4: I can't be from my company.
Speaker 2: I am my company. Okay. What do you do? I
Speaker 2: sell real thing? Do you build? You ever builders? License?
Speaker 2: I do? She doesn't self promote too well, I don't
Speaker 2: tell you must be the blode Okay, who's in the studio?
Speaker 2: We have the Boston dad. Hello, So the Boston Dad,
Speaker 2: Darryl Silver. All we've had is vowels in this studio.
Speaker 2: If anybody's okay lately? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, talk to
Speaker 2: me about the Boston accent. Why did you decide you
Speaker 2: were going to go out there and promote the Boston accent?
Speaker 2: And by the way, how's mine looking? My accent?
Speaker 3: Oh? Your accent's phenomenal. You're fantastic.
Speaker 2: Oh that I was.
Speaker 3: I was incredibly blessed to be able to get introduced
Speaker 3: to you. Thank God for Google and YouTube and Instagram.
Speaker 3: And I've just had a blast going through your stuff
Speaker 3: and your style and taste in music, is just phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I tell you you, if you ever give up your career,
Speaker 3: you have to go into placing music into movies because
Speaker 3: it's just Goodfellas Casino. I mean, you must have chosen
Speaker 3: all of the best music for those scenes. I mean,
Speaker 3: I love it anyway.
Speaker 2: I had to give you that, and thank you for that,
Speaker 2: because I can tell you I spent a lot of
Speaker 2: time putting the right lyrics to what I'm doing out
Speaker 2: there in the field. They have money, Okay, every one
Speaker 2: of those songs have meaning to those videos, believe or not.
Speaker 2: But you got to listen. I don't just pick music
Speaker 2: out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: I can tell I could tell. I mean, not being
Speaker 3: a filmmaker. I feel the music with the scenes and
Speaker 3: the videos. So I'm just incredibly impressed. I had to
Speaker 3: tell you that before I forgot that's okay, thank you for.
Speaker 2: Tell the listeners. We're in thirty three states and we
Speaker 2: have you on a audio device called Sammy Chat, so
Speaker 2: I'll teach you about that. Afterwards. We'll drop it to
Speaker 2: you and get you on this. We're doing this with
Speaker 2: all of our guess we can go on actually talk
Speaker 2: to people live and then you can see their faces.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can see what I'm showing
Speaker 2: you right now.
Speaker 3: No I can't, but that's all right.
Speaker 2: Well we'll teach you about that anyway. So they're joining
Speaker 2: you in the conversation. So what start with your career?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, talk about Okay.
Speaker 3: So I am an award winning filmmaker. I say that
Speaker 3: very modestly, but I put it out there because I've
Speaker 3: won I think at this point, maybe eleven awards. I'm
Speaker 3: a filmmaker at hot I'm also an actor and a writer.
Speaker 2: You know that's called an actor, but we call it
Speaker 2: an actor. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Actor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sound like you, Alasha.
Speaker 3: I never thought of that as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: and now from now on, whenever I say it now,
Speaker 3: I'm going to thank to you. I love that. So
Speaker 3: I did a mob movie about I don't know about
Speaker 3: ten years ago, a little more than that. It was
Speaker 3: shot north of Boston and and it went on to
Speaker 3: win several awards. It won Best Film and Best Director
Speaker 3: at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. It was called Boys.
Speaker 3: It did very good independently. Different theaters around the country
Speaker 3: did awesome, especially in New England. So what happened was
Speaker 3: my family and I we had uped and moved to
Speaker 3: I was still going back and forth constantly, but we
Speaker 3: uped and moved here to Florida, which were actually moving
Speaker 3: out of in about a week or two. And we
Speaker 3: did that back in twenty fourteen, ten years ago. So
Speaker 3: back in ninety six, when I first went out to
Speaker 3: la for film, I was told I had an accent.
Speaker 3: It didn't really stick out to me though. It was
Speaker 3: the first time I had heard I have an accent.
Speaker 2: I thought only people, Why was that the first time
Speaker 2: you left Boston?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was. I was twenty What was
Speaker 3: I twenty three? Maybe? So coming out here it was
Speaker 3: a huge culture shock because I would say to somebody
Speaker 3: we'd get to talk in and yes, They're like, oh, wow,
Speaker 3: you do commercials, you do videos? Yes, I do cool
Speaker 3: I said, all right, give me a second, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go to the car. I'm going to get you a
Speaker 3: cod They're gonna They're like, you're gonna go where? Do what?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, how are they not understanding what I'm saying. However,
Speaker 3: my biggest culture shock was going into a Dunkin Donuts
Speaker 3: here in Florida, and I ended up asking at the
Speaker 3: time they had a certain oat meal I was trying
Speaker 3: to I was on a health kick, and I said, can
Speaker 3: I get a hotty blueberry oatmeal? And the girl started
Speaker 3: turning beat red tomato red, and it was like, what's
Speaker 3: the issue, What's going on? And so the manager comes
Speaker 3: out and he says, sir, you cannot be inappropriate with
Speaker 3: my employees and be calling them hotties. I said, buddy,
Speaker 3: I asked for a hotty blueberry oatmeal, and it was
Speaker 3: just a riot to me. So from that I wrote
Speaker 3: a I was doing a lot of skits at the
Speaker 3: time on pumpkin spice, anything you can think of, selfies, whatever.
Speaker 3: So I did a skit where it was on the
Speaker 3: Boston accent and I was just role playing with my
Speaker 3: two kids, basically reality out here. It caught on so well.
Speaker 3: At the time, it was only YouTube, there was no TikTok, Instagram, Facebook.
Speaker 3: It caught on so well that I started to make
Speaker 3: several of these in between, you know, going around the
Speaker 3: country filming commercials, all that fun stuff, and it just
Speaker 3: caught on so don well that I just kept doing it.
Speaker 3: And somewhere in between I took a break. But when
Speaker 3: TikTok and Instagram and Facebook started to do video. I
Speaker 3: came back and just even in the past year, it's
Speaker 3: done so incredibly well. And all I'm really doing is
Speaker 3: displaying real life, you know, and I've gone through.
Speaker 2: But that's real life of Boston, right. So, yes, Boston
Speaker 2: is a really funny city to grow up in. Right. So,
Speaker 2: as you know, if you grew up in the North Shore,
Speaker 2: you talk one way. If you grow up the South Shore,
Speaker 2: you grow you talk a different, different accent a little
Speaker 2: bit you're inside Boston, it's not a little bit of
Speaker 2: a different accent. Then you go up to the richer
Speaker 2: communities like Newton, Brookline, Whalen, Weston, they all talk proper, right,
Speaker 2: My kids talk proper. So if you have Sammy talk
Speaker 2: and you hear me talk, it's completely different. Right Because
Speaker 2: she went to school in Newton and I went to
Speaker 2: school on the North Shore, and then I had the
Speaker 2: culture shock and they moved me to Newton. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are we doing here? This is like crazy? These
Speaker 2: kids a week and they thought I talk funny, right,
Speaker 2: I go, No, I don't talk funny. You people talk funny?
Speaker 2: You people? Oh yeah, you know what? So on the
Speaker 2: social audio when I go on I say you people.
Speaker 2: People take that as like a dig, like I'm putting
Speaker 2: you down? What do you mean new people, Cindy, Like
Speaker 2: I'm being racist something. That's just how we say you people.
Speaker 2: But people don't understand that it's us slaying that you people.
Speaker 2: We all going, like you people all going, We're all
Speaker 2: going to meet down the North End for dinner. You
Speaker 2: people all going. I mean that's yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we also can.
Speaker 2: Be very insulting. So we're insulting and not even though
Speaker 2: we're being insulting, like I know exactly, we just kind
Speaker 2: of I think we're well, like Chad said, your axent
Speaker 2: makes you tougher, and then you're in construction, mom, so
Speaker 2: like you got every layer coming against you. Thank god.
Speaker 2: He used to say, thank god you're pretty, because if
Speaker 2: you weren't, Mom, everybody would just think that you were
Speaker 2: you know. You know what I'm talking about it that
Speaker 2: I'm with the other side back in the Yeah.
Speaker 3: But so yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 2: When you do your your skits, you're always using real
Speaker 2: Throue Boston character and I think that's just you, whether
Speaker 2: you're a character, it just.
Speaker 3: Well, it definitely is now it's authentically me. When I
Speaker 3: first started. It was different because back in twenty fifteen sixteen,
Speaker 3: social media was this, wait, man, we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna hold that thought, We're going to break this ten
Speaker 2: minute just flew right by. I'm gonnat some point you
Speaker 2: listen to his.
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Speaker 2: Oh and welcome back to Tapas Nails on WBZ News
Speaker 2: Radio ten thirty. And I'm in a frustrated woman. I
Speaker 2: could get kind of prtrated, became in the song frustrated Women.
Speaker 2: And I'm here with Sammy and I'm here with the
Speaker 2: Boston Dad.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: When you listen to Mocky Wahlberg or any of the
Speaker 2: guys from Boston, right, and you listen to the donkey
Speaker 2: commercials they do and every thing, I'm sure you've seen it, right,
Speaker 2: it's been a big run. Yeah, of course, or uh,
Speaker 2: you know, they'll go through casey affleck, they'll go through
Speaker 2: the what pissa means, like, we don't call it pocketbook
Speaker 2: a purse. We call it a pocket book, right, So
Speaker 2: that's right, not going through the names of things that
Speaker 2: we say here that people think clicker let him do it.
Speaker 2: He's the Boston Dad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's true.
Speaker 2: Pockable.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I actually when I first got.
Speaker 2: Hold on my producer, but well, hold on, my producer
Speaker 2: calls it what no pocketbook? No, no, Boston calls it
Speaker 2: a pocketbook. Everyone else is a purse.
Speaker 3: It's a yeah, every day, Yeah, that was. That was
Speaker 3: one of the words I got made fun of. Actually,
Speaker 3: this was in California a lot because I kept saying
Speaker 3: pocketbook and remote was always a clicker and it didn't
Speaker 3: even matter, and wheel was a tie and it just yeah, constantly, constantly,
Speaker 3: you know, So what.
Speaker 2: A some of the things that you use out there
Speaker 2: that people like that we used. Is it this pissa,
Speaker 2: this wicked?
Speaker 3: There's wicked with everything, there's no question about it. Uh, definitely,
Speaker 3: banga yui, that's that like that was they thought I
Speaker 3: was being inappropriate completely calling a turn about a rotary. Definitely.
Speaker 3: That was a big culture shock for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: And you know, words like that are phrases that I
Speaker 3: knew my whole life that I didn't know they were
Speaker 3: sett any differently. I figured around the nation, these these
Speaker 3: are the words that everybody uses. This is how everybody talks,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know that everybody eats fluff that a
Speaker 3: fluff or.
Speaker 2: Not is no, no, no, no, that's a Boston thing. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: I learned that. I learned that when I went down
Speaker 2: to floor and I went up and down public school,
Speaker 2: where's your fluff? And like, yeah, marshmallow? What's marshmallow?
Speaker 3: Well that well that I made a video on that
Speaker 3: that actually happened to me U that they didn't know
Speaker 3: where they were or, to be honest with you, I
Speaker 3: did and it did very very well. I did a
Speaker 3: video recently where I asked people, are these called to
Speaker 3: you sprinkles or are they Jimmy's. I didn't know what
Speaker 3: sprinkles were because Buffalo and they're like, I said, can
Speaker 3: I have Jimmy's on my ice cream? And I was
Speaker 3: being told listen, you got to be campful.
Speaker 2: Think about this chocolate Jimmy's or color Jimmy's. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you think about it.
Speaker 3: I was told be careful because that could come off
Speaker 3: as being very racist to me, and joh I said,
Speaker 3: oh boy, I mean, I mean obviously I don't want
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 4: So I wanted chocolate it was Jimmy's. And if I
Speaker 4: wanted the colorful, the sprinkles.
Speaker 2: So you called your generation called the color ones, the
Speaker 2: colorful ones, sprinkles, sprinkles.
Speaker 3: I can go with that. You know.
Speaker 2: Oh, people are very sensitive today.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I agree one hundred percent. I think
Speaker 3: it's a little too much I've gotten. I got several
Speaker 3: messages I just didn't, you know, not being rude. I
Speaker 3: didn't respond to them as to why people were giving
Speaker 3: very long explanations on why I shouldn't even do with Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know. Don't listen those people. You know what I
Speaker 2: do though, I love to fight back with them because
Speaker 2: it's a sport. Oh I do. I engage because it's
Speaker 2: a spot for me. Right, So you want to take
Speaker 2: a long blow at me, I'm coming back with you
Speaker 2: on you. I really am exactly.
Speaker 3: Go.
Speaker 2: Look that's a Boston thing for sure, but go look
Speaker 2: at the go look at some of my Look at
Speaker 2: the one point six million views on that one that
Speaker 2: went viral.
Speaker 3: Now I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you that it has a money thing like this,
Speaker 2: And you have to see I call them soy boys
Speaker 2: that come in, Yeah, I call them the boys that
Speaker 2: come in like they just want to throw haymakers at
Speaker 2: me for no reason, right, yes, And then when I
Speaker 2: come back and say, buddy, don't let me emaculate you
Speaker 2: right now, Okay, like I need some of the contents.
Speaker 3: It is a lot of fun. It is a lot
Speaker 3: of fun at time. I'm definitely I don't want.
Speaker 2: It get to me. It's technically a sport. It's a sport.
Speaker 2: It's a sport for me.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 2: When I'm bored at eleven o'clock at night, every sleeping,
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I'm going to get back at this dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well that's something similar happened to me.
Speaker 3: One of the videos that did go viral. Somebody said,
Speaker 3: this is absolutely not funny at all. I don't know
Speaker 3: why it did as well as it did. And I
Speaker 3: answered back, and I go, I'm glad you thought it
Speaker 3: wasn't funny, because when it happened to me, it wasn't funny.
Speaker 3: But I said, what's funny is how many hundreds of
Speaker 3: thousands of people find it funny. They didn't reply at all.
Speaker 3: I said, man, that was a good comeback. So if
Speaker 3: I have a good one, I'm going to go for it.
Speaker 3: But if I don't, I'll leave it alone.
Speaker 2: We just did. He moves his fists, right, that's what
Speaker 2: we do. It's just the thing we do. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: are some of the words that we use here that
Speaker 2: we literally because sometimes even when I talk, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I just sounded so stupid with that accent. Have you
Speaker 2: ever had that feeling when you're talking and you're in
Speaker 2: a room and I'm in a room with bankers and
Speaker 2: whatever and I don't pronounce my cars and and they're
Speaker 2: looking at you like, oh, you know, I asked the
Speaker 2: guys you know, graduated Harvard jail, be you Northeast and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. We keep going right brown
Speaker 2: and here comes Cindy in with you know, that heavy
Speaker 2: accent that I never got rid of.
Speaker 3: No, but I'm going to assume that that's what makes
Speaker 3: you who you are and what Yes, that's what makes
Speaker 3: you so unique, especially as a successful woman, uh in
Speaker 3: business and doing what you do. I mean, that's amazing
Speaker 3: because that really sets you apart. And I'm going to
Speaker 3: assume that that's what maybe, and I say this respectfully,
Speaker 3: uh makes you to a lot of maybe guys out
Speaker 3: there that are in your field maybe more like maybe intimidating.
Speaker 3: That's like, man, she's a she's a tough one. She's
Speaker 3: not coming in like this, Cinderella prim and Prophet, even
Speaker 3: though God bless you you look great, it's you're not
Speaker 3: coming in with that. You know, you're just wow. And
Speaker 3: I think that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2: That love look at under a lot of comments always
Speaker 2: say then that makes you a real man. But I've
Speaker 2: been dealing with these hits for thirty eight years out here.
Speaker 2: I'm used to them. But it's funny when guys come
Speaker 2: in and go, wow, we've got a lot of mummy
Speaker 2: issues in this on this link right who. It's actually
Speaker 2: really been more of the white young guys taking hits
Speaker 2: at me and not really yeah yeah, And then the
Speaker 2: black guys will coming go and they put them right
Speaker 2: in their place. Right they've been so so you see
Speaker 2: the difference. Like it's like these white boys that are
Speaker 2: so insecure in their late thirties, got nothing better to
Speaker 2: do than to troll, and to do that right. And
Speaker 2: I got into messages with guys on my Instagram. I'm like,
Speaker 2: why do you guys keep having my back? There's like
Speaker 2: six or seven that keep coming in, but they don't
Speaker 2: know each other. They just keep coming. They said, Cindy,
Speaker 2: we know the grit and grind. We can see the
Speaker 2: grit and grind in people like you're the real deal, right,
Speaker 2: these guys are just these guys are just idiots. But
Speaker 2: I'm used to it, just kind of the business.
Speaker 3: But for you, was that a culture? Was that a
Speaker 3: shock for you, like on social media because you're used
Speaker 3: to being very respected and u in your field when
Speaker 3: you started doing social media, when you started getting the
Speaker 3: haters when you when you were doing very well on
Speaker 3: social media, was that like.
Speaker 2: No, oh no, it was a little mind blowing. When
Speaker 2: I went to TV on HGTV and then my accent
Speaker 2: on HG TV, which is taped out of HGTV's out
Speaker 2: of Knoxville, Tennessee, let's go, you know, call it? What
Speaker 2: is what I heard? Oh yeah, yeah, So like you know,
Speaker 2: it's they got this. Boston brought them there for a stream,
Speaker 2: real builder. You know, they didn't pick up Polly In again.
Speaker 2: They went right after the hod course. Cindy Stumpo.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: But I would say that was the first time in
Speaker 2: my career that Samantha, my ex husband, somebody would be
Speaker 2: coming over the house and taking my laptop away from
Speaker 2: me because I would get on the HG TV side
Speaker 2: and go yeah, really, and you have to learn or
Speaker 2: you decide TV's not for you, right. I didn't like
Speaker 2: to hit you didn't know me. You're from Boise, Idaho.
Speaker 2: What the hell you're talking about me for? Right now? Again,
Speaker 2: as you get older and you you know, you just
Speaker 2: do I process anything differently, say me, do I still
Speaker 2: go after people?
Speaker 3: You do?
Speaker 4: But I think that that was a bigger shock that
Speaker 4: you were women in a man's field then. And it's
Speaker 4: not as crazy as it was than it is now.
Speaker 4: Like it was, it was more intense.
Speaker 2: Than on HG TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure, especially for their audience.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the self hated the way you are, hated my guts,
Speaker 2: the self hated me. And as we got further down
Speaker 2: the cell, that's like women shouldn't talk to men that way.
Speaker 2: Why they're more like more like women should work. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you really went way down south, it was like
Speaker 2: women should be doing that job, they should be working
Speaker 2: in the office and all of it. Yeah, I can
Speaker 2: do it all. It's okay, I'm still standing. I think. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll let you know, well, I'll let you know what
Speaker 2: I'm catching flies. I'm in Belmont at McLean's.
Speaker 3: Okay, nice, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: So what makes you you?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's very meek, it's very real. I like where
Speaker 3: it's at now versus where it was. I think again,
Speaker 3: what was interesting when I first started was because I'm
Speaker 3: a filmmaker at hot Is, I was making more skits,
Speaker 3: writing a lot of these things. I like, you go
Speaker 3: back to the earlier ones. They did very very well,
Speaker 3: but they were like skits inside of Duncan donuts like
Speaker 3: you see with the you know, Casey Affleck and the
Speaker 3: ben Affleck commercials, very much stuff like that. A lot
Speaker 3: of dances in their jingles.
Speaker 2: I thought, we're going to break, We're going to break.
Speaker 2: You listen to have a Sails on WBZ and we'll be.
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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Tuffest Nails on wv Z. And
Speaker 2: I'm here with Sammy and I'm here with Boston Dad, right,
Speaker 2: Boston Dad, Silver, Darryl Silver Silva. Yes, how would you
Speaker 2: pronounce that Russ silva silva?
Speaker 3: Yeah you can, Yeah, there you go, perfect silver silver.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not silver, No.
Speaker 3: No, it definitely is not that I know some people
Speaker 3: with that last name.
Speaker 2: Do you do this? I do this. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you do this. I don't put ours where they belong.
Speaker 2: But then I'll call Samantha and then she says, Florida, Florida, Samantha.
Speaker 2: Why do I add the as Samantha.
Speaker 3: No, take the out, definitely, No.
Speaker 2: I put them within.
Speaker 4: Name where it's not there.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love that. That's you.
Speaker 2: I take the prem so I stick them on something.
Speaker 2: We're going to Florida, right, We're going. Yeah, Sam, I
Speaker 2: don't know why you do that. I don't know why
Speaker 2: I do it either, but you have to admit. Look,
Speaker 2: I kindly deal with southern for so long too, and
Speaker 2: I want to dope slept down in the back of
Speaker 2: the head Scott Burton out there because he talks so,
Speaker 2: you know, so slowly. That's like we we're so fast here,
Speaker 2: like we got to get the reader's digest. Let's just
Speaker 2: go and then you talk to people in past, ma'am
Speaker 2: and uh, and don't call me miss Cindy, because I
Speaker 2: feel like they that I'm above you and I don't
Speaker 2: like that feeling.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, that's very common out here down south.
Speaker 2: And just I don't want to be married, and don't
Speaker 2: call me me in don't call me miss Cindy like
Speaker 2: any of that.
Speaker 3: They feel like they're being disrespectful if they don't do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but we're all equal. So just calm.
Speaker 2: I used to chatl and that school too. So being
Speaker 2: in Florida from being in Boston mm hmm. Boston made
Speaker 2: you the character.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I have to say I wouldn't have come
Speaker 3: up with the concept if it wasn't a matter of
Speaker 3: not being there at the time. I had to have
Speaker 3: been elsewhere wherever that was going to be, and this
Speaker 3: happened to be the place because there it was just
Speaker 3: extremely common. Didn't think nothing of it, even if I
Speaker 3: would travel and hear that those particular specific words were
Speaker 3: not words everyone said. The misunderstanding of the accent would
Speaker 3: not have come about if not being in another place
Speaker 3: for a significant amount of time. So I have to
Speaker 3: thank leaving there in order to be able to have
Speaker 3: come up with this.
Speaker 2: Who's resonating with you out there? New England is because
Speaker 2: we don't sound like New Yorkers And I hate when
Speaker 2: people when I'm on social audio go oh city from
Speaker 2: New York. No, I don't sound like I'm from New York.
Speaker 2: Let me he's a question. Yeah good.
Speaker 4: What do you hope viewers take away from your content?
Speaker 3: I think at this point entertainment and education. I think
Speaker 3: those are the two.
Speaker 2: Why were you educating people on the Boston accent?
Speaker 3: Not not necessarily? I think now I've kind of gone
Speaker 3: into famous facts about Boston, famous foods that were invented
Speaker 3: in Boston, And even recently one of the segments I
Speaker 3: started and I'm doing pot three tonight or tomorrow is
Speaker 3: things parents said to us growing.
Speaker 2: Up and playing traffic? So huh, like go play in traffic, yes.
Speaker 3: Short bridge, that'll be that'll be tonight or the next one. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I want your parents to that of all the country.
Speaker 2: If you got the parents to that around the country,
Speaker 2: ask people on social media, Dave, Yeah, your parents told
Speaker 2: them to go walk in traffic, go play in traffic.
Speaker 2: And what was go put your play clothes on? Was
Speaker 2: that last year's clothes that we put on? And I
Speaker 2: don't even know?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely one hundred and so that I've enjoyed a lot,
Speaker 3: because now you're getting common well actually, even the Boston content.
Speaker 3: If I'll go to YouTube, somebody will say I'm from Texas,
Speaker 3: or I'm from England, or I always wanted to learn
Speaker 3: about the New England dialect, I'm from India. I mean,
Speaker 3: you'll be surprised how many people truly enjoyed that. And
Speaker 3: you know, I think by Duncan, for example, bringing on
Speaker 3: these Boston themes.
Speaker 2: He's talking about Duncan doos.
Speaker 3: Guys, I see, yeah, they see significance and that this
Speaker 3: would do well even though it's targeted towards New England
Speaker 3: per se.
Speaker 2: But if you notice Boston, it's either we talk like
Speaker 2: us or it's like this darling. Yeah, and let's go
Speaker 2: to the country club and Brookline and play a game
Speaker 2: of golf. Yeah, I rather shoot myself.
Speaker 3: And that actually was another culture shock to me as well,
Speaker 3: is when I would go out to say Newton and
Speaker 3: other spots in New England and realize that not everybody
Speaker 3: said meinga, what are you gonna don't No one.
Speaker 2: Even knows what means meinga. Italian it's minga. It's you
Speaker 2: move your hands up and down. It's like minga exactly
Speaker 2: means right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so where did you grow up with?
Speaker 2: Where'd you grow up in Boston?
Speaker 3: I was born in Lawrence and raised between Lawrence and.
Speaker 2: Methuen, So you technically, oh god, you're like really really
Speaker 2: really poor because that was like really poor. Well I.
Speaker 3: Actually, actually what's interesting, I actually experienced a little bit
Speaker 3: of both. I mean, so I would say growing up,
Speaker 3: it was definitely more right.
Speaker 2: But so if you if you came to Revia East Boston,
Speaker 2: those areas, we were really much more hardcore than you
Speaker 2: guys were.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean different because where I grew up, I
Speaker 3: mean I actually was able to experience very much the
Speaker 3: Italian kind of real Italian heritage, which is why I say,
Speaker 3: mingear a lot and you know, like talk with my
Speaker 3: hands a ton, and you have a lot of that,
Speaker 3: you know, And that's why a lot of people will say,
Speaker 3: and I've had haters say, you're not even from Boston,
Speaker 3: You're in New Yorker, You're from Jersey, trying to talk
Speaker 3: like Boston. And that's because of a lot of that
Speaker 3: Italian acting. But at the same time, it was cool
Speaker 3: because right next door in Lawrence, you had a lot
Speaker 3: of the you know, Hispanics and stuff like that inner city.
Speaker 3: So it was it was suburbia and inner city kind
Speaker 3: of intertwined. So I was able to kind of get
Speaker 3: a good mix of that, which I thought was great.
Speaker 3: So it was a Celtic park.
Speaker 2: You don't use this word. This was the one that
Speaker 2: would get under my skin and my parents if a
Speaker 2: kid came over myself as us guys going.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's great.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean no, you sound like an
Speaker 2: idiot if you say as US guys going use guys
Speaker 2: going home. Oh my god. That the youth.
Speaker 3: Well, it was interesting because you know, through the seventies
Speaker 3: and eighties, you know, because of the success of a
Speaker 3: lot of the Italian movies, you know, everybody wanted to,
Speaker 3: you know, be Italian at one point. I think even
Speaker 3: to a degree now, I think everybody kind of especially
Speaker 3: with the sopranos and everything. People love that type of stuff.
Speaker 3: It does very well, which is why in the movie
Speaker 3: that we're getting ready to do, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: that Italian theme that's in there also, And I think
Speaker 3: that's why the Mafia movie I did did really well. Also.
Speaker 3: I think there's always going to be a market for
Speaker 3: that type of stuff.
Speaker 2: How yeah, but it'll eventually end in like nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 2: because by the late eighties when it was done. Now
Speaker 2: it's just a bunch of wannabes running around.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not saying that. Actually, I take that back. New York
Speaker 2: is still in New York, Boston is still but again,
Speaker 2: I mean, I take that all back. Yeah, okay, I
Speaker 2: just reversed my views on that, but it's okay again.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that a lot of people and
Speaker 2: when you go into social audio and they hear the
Speaker 2: way I talk, they're like, Cindy, say that again, Cindy,
Speaker 2: what'd you say? Or and I want to you just said,
Speaker 2: because you stretch the word out so long that I
Speaker 2: don't even know what you just said.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And then I'm fair, how did you realize
Speaker 3: you're such a you're a character and you didn't even
Speaker 3: know that? So that added to, in my opinion, a
Speaker 3: lot of what you you know, ended up becoming or
Speaker 3: who you were or who you still are. It makes you,
Speaker 3: it actually creates a character about you or in you,
Speaker 3: and you don't even realize that till you get to
Speaker 3: a certain point. And I didn't realize it as well.
Speaker 3: And then I said, oh, let me do.
Speaker 2: Something, let me embrace my character.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're a character. You are you are, and
Speaker 3: so you're you know, you know.
Speaker 2: Some people could take that as an insult and some
Speaker 2: people could take as a complic But the truth is
Speaker 2: I'd rather be a character than a dry bean like
Speaker 2: that has No, you're not, so don't worry a stiff.
Speaker 2: I don't want to ever be a stiff.
Speaker 3: You're not. I I promise you you're not that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, it is crazy. Give me ten words
Speaker 2: that you really get picked up part in Boston.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hotta definitely. Uh, I'm going with again the two
Speaker 3: words that got me into three words that got me
Speaker 3: into a significant amount of trouble in the beginning, cod
Speaker 3: ca hot Like I told you the Duncan story. It
Speaker 3: was hotty because it sounds like you're calling somebody a
Speaker 3: haughty and that was again the further especially her, the
Speaker 3: furthest thing from my mind. And yeah, so it's just
Speaker 3: those And again you always put wicked in front of everything.
Speaker 2: And you thought we're going back to break. This is
Speaker 2: Sady stumbling with the toughest nails on WBZ. Will be
Speaker 2: right back.
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Speaker 3: This one's for you, Boston.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Tap his Nails on WBZ News Radio
Speaker 2: ten thirty. And we're back with Sammy, and we're back
Speaker 2: with I don't know, some dude that has a heavy
Speaker 2: ax and whatever you want to call him. What's his name?
Speaker 2: I forget. Yeah, I think I'm heavier.
Speaker 3: You are heavy.
Speaker 2: I think I am.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I know you are. Definitely.
Speaker 2: You're making me feel like I'm very smart. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: are wicked, smart, wicked.
Speaker 3: I'm you don't need me to you don't need me
Speaker 3: to tell you. It's all over the internet.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Ddie.
Speaker 4: What Chad asked, She's going to ask if someone was single, you.
Speaker 2: Have any single friends? Chat where you you're in Texas Chat?
Speaker 4: Are there any upcoming projects or collaborations that your followers
Speaker 4: can look forward to?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, perfect question. She's a genius.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so she's the educated one from Newton.
Speaker 3: Yes, next month. I am so excited. Script is finished, funniness, educating,
Speaker 3: very hot, warming as well. Were starting our Boston Dad
Speaker 3: feature film. It is the follow up feature film. My
Speaker 3: last feature length film was the award winning mo Movie Boys.
Speaker 3: We're starting it next month and we I'm putting that
Speaker 3: out there seeking a few more product placement partners for
Speaker 3: the movie and product placement for people that don't know
Speaker 3: very simple. When you watch any movie TV show, you
Speaker 3: see the Sony Vio computer, you see the can of pepsi.
Speaker 3: Those are the products and that's part of product placement. However,
Speaker 3: what we're doing be in It's an indie movie and
Speaker 3: we have the power to do it. It's our film.
Speaker 3: We are putting the product placement pot and is in
Speaker 3: the actual movie. And if there is a character per
Speaker 3: se from that particular product or business that is not
Speaker 3: shy and would like to do a cameo in the
Speaker 3: movie with the product of the business, we would love
Speaker 3: to include that as well. So that is what we
Speaker 3: are doing, and that is a way that we are
Speaker 3: helping to finance the indie film, which I think is modestly.
Speaker 2: And when I was on TV, no name brands could
Speaker 2: be seen unless they were paying for advertising. Yes they
Speaker 2: were shipping the close north Face. We could have north Face,
Speaker 2: we could have Levi's on, we could have our boots
Speaker 2: on Hallie Hansen, but if I ever had a water
Speaker 2: bottle they had would have to strip it right off.
Speaker 3: Whatever I have very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would cover my labels, oh, my shirts. That's it.
Speaker 2: No advertising to those people.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yep, that's what I learned.
Speaker 2: I gotta take the plastic polls, fring off the bottle.
Speaker 2: I'm thirsty. Yep, they come running right off. We're not
Speaker 2: giving anybody any advertising unless they're paying. But a lot
Speaker 2: of people don't even know that. What was Chad asking?
Speaker 2: Chad asked a lot of smart questions that I asked.
Speaker 4: The other one ready to she was the one asked.
Speaker 2: Anybody had isn't chat in this something over on?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Chatter is in the movie business? I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know. I that was Chad, but maybe
Speaker 2: that could be wrong. I never know. I can't keep
Speaker 2: up with people. I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 3: You have a lot on your plate.
Speaker 2: I got a tat on my plate, a town on
Speaker 2: my plate.
Speaker 3: You do you do? Like you said the other day,
Speaker 3: you said all comic exhaust that I said, you are blasted.
Speaker 3: I'm like, when that time comes, years from now, you
Speaker 3: leave this earth, You'll say I left the legacy.
Speaker 2: You know, the legacy with the Boston accent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that well, that being one of many.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a personal question I can
Speaker 2: answers honestly. Let me see if you answered honestly, if
Speaker 2: you could get rid of that Boston accent not as
Speaker 2: heavy as it is, and sound a little bit more
Speaker 2: articulate without bringing that Boston sling. And I didn't ask
Speaker 2: you the question yet, Blondie, I'm asking him the question, Yes, Sam, Yes, Samseley,
Speaker 2: would you want to calm it down?
Speaker 3: I would nickname her the Sam Stuff like I nickname
Speaker 3: everybody like seriously, and that aggravates people outside of New
Speaker 3: England a lot of times. I love nicknaming people, But
Speaker 3: go ahead, what.
Speaker 2: Should be your nickname?
Speaker 4: Samster?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: The sam Stuff, the sam Stuff, the SAMs definitely.
Speaker 4: I like blond I mean in high school everyone was
Speaker 4: like Stumpy Stump.
Speaker 3: Oh. I wouldn't have called you that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, terrible name then. But my point is
Speaker 2: the question was if you could have brought it down somewhat,
Speaker 2: and it's hard to do. This is the way we
Speaker 2: grew up. And you're walking into a business meet with
Speaker 2: other guys and you know they're already judging you by
Speaker 2: the way you talk, right, would you have calmed it down.
Speaker 3: No, No, no, definitely no, not at all. Never bothered
Speaker 3: you because I mean I want you want people to
Speaker 3: love you authentically for you when they fall in love
Speaker 3: with you. You want it to be because it's you
Speaker 3: and whatever and whoever you are.
Speaker 2: No, you never said yourself going to a meeting with
Speaker 2: five suits. They're going to speak so articulate and they're
Speaker 2: going to pronounce it every word and you're going to
Speaker 2: come in like the hoodlum nod those.
Speaker 3: I will tell you this. When we did our Mob movie,
Speaker 3: I you know, had many meetings with roundtables where we
Speaker 3: would treat like these potential potans and investors to dinner,
Speaker 3: God bless them and whatever not. And the folks that
Speaker 3: came on board and were very happy they did. They
Speaker 3: were all suits, and they all none of them had
Speaker 3: the accent. One doctor in particular, bless us hot with
Speaker 3: still dear friends to this day from New England, no
Speaker 3: accent whatsoever. He purposely got rid of it. He was
Speaker 3: our biggest partner and investor. So and I was always
Speaker 3: just who I am. So no, I think being who
Speaker 3: I am and who I've been has always been a
Speaker 3: blessing to me. And if you don't fit with it,
Speaker 3: then you just don't fit in my life.
Speaker 2: And then so the reason why I'm asking to me.
Speaker 2: There's one woman that comes on chatter and when she speaks,
Speaker 2: and she's from Boston. I hear the way she speaks.
Speaker 2: I'm like, do I sound like that is my accent?
Speaker 2: Like that?
Speaker 4: I love nothing more than watching you in room with
Speaker 4: everyone that has all these accolades and all these things.
Speaker 2: And all these slow down because I can appreciate it.
Speaker 4: When I'm in that room with you and all these
Speaker 4: people that you think that are smarter than you, and
Speaker 4: you basically can eat them alive. And I think that
Speaker 4: accent makes you stronger because of that. Your accent commands
Speaker 4: the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of.
Speaker 4: Them that are so smart, they're like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your name.
Speaker 3: And your name is perfect because it has a very
Speaker 3: Italian ring to it. I grew up with a very
Speaker 3: dear friend of mine up the street from me. Uh
Speaker 3: his name was a very very close friend to this day,
Speaker 3: Mike Stumpo. And uh yeah, I love that related. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna yeah, it has Stumpo, it has like that, it's strong.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stump on you. I don't know, it's just
Speaker 3: and it has a great ring. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you purposely planned that, but I did perfectly plan that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it went from Leonardi to Stumpo. No, I
Speaker 2: didn't kind of blame that one. Yeah, I have kept
Speaker 2: Leonotti if I could have.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that one's great too. But I mean just
Speaker 3: your your name now has a movie star ring to it.
Speaker 3: That that whole syllable thing. I love that.
Speaker 2: So you wouldn't change a thing.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, No, not at all, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: No, you know it's Sammy. I'm gonna agree with Sammy.
Speaker 2: When I walk into a room with a bunch of
Speaker 2: suits like that, I do take over that room yourself.
Speaker 2: I do. Even in chatter, those people in Chadow they
Speaker 2: make fun of my accent, but.
Speaker 4: You're smarter them.
Speaker 2: I'm not smart than chat.
Speaker 4: Chadd is so smart, I said chatter specifically.
Speaker 2: I don't care a lot of these people much smarter
Speaker 2: than me. I just know my world. I know my business.
Speaker 2: But you're more successful than that. Doesn't matter about money.
Speaker 2: Money doesn't make you smart, just makes life easier. Don't
Speaker 2: do not forget. Money does not make you smart. I
Speaker 2: didn't I know guys that have graduated.
Speaker 4: I said success. I didn't say money.
Speaker 2: Oh I maybe, yeah, I'm pretty successful. I can't take
Speaker 2: that away from me. I know I won't disparage myself
Speaker 2: on that one. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I just I don't know. It's like when you talk
Speaker 2: and I'm listening to you on videos, I'm like, yikes,
Speaker 2: does he really have a boss that sent?
Speaker 3: But yeah, well, and I will tell you it's authentic.
Speaker 3: But you know, like I've had people comment before, oh,
Speaker 3: you're over exaggerating, and then there's no question different videos
Speaker 3: for if you're going more comedic, you're I said the
Speaker 3: wrong I said, you're using the row w excuse me,
Speaker 3: the wrong word. It's not exaggerate, you're embellishing.
Speaker 2: And I have a fiance that says that we what's
Speaker 2: the word bast size? Every word? Is that the word?
Speaker 2: I don't know that that's what we do to the
Speaker 2: English language here.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, whatever, it's it's the same thing when.
Speaker 2: My mother English, Well, everybody walked off the Mayflower. Ross
Speaker 2: might not speak too much the Mayflower. We don't walk
Speaker 2: off the Mayflower. Where Irish immigrants as Jewish Indian immigrants.
Speaker 2: Boss is a melting pot.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: But if you go to the Brookline Hundry Club. Everybody
Speaker 2: looks like it was Blondie and blue Eyes and muff
Speaker 2: Uffy and Muffy and they're all into bread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: They're definitely all into bread. Okay, I think they're all
Speaker 2: first cousins, said cousin. They want to keep the money
Speaker 2: in the family. I know what they did. We're going
Speaker 2: off to break. I'm City Stump. When you listen to
Speaker 2: Toughest Nails on WBZ, will be right back one of
Speaker 2: their and welcome back to City Stumble with Toughest Nails
Speaker 2: on WBZ. So, Boston Dad, how do people reach out?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: So you can find the Boston Dad on all social
Speaker 3: media channels YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok all just under the
Speaker 3: Boston Dad. If you want to know more about the movie,
Speaker 3: go to the silver screen, not the silver screen. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like that. The silvascreen dot org.
Speaker 2: Silver screen, not silva.
Speaker 3: T h E. S I l v A. My last
Speaker 3: name is Sila, like movie screen dot org. So the silvascreen, dot.
Speaker 2: Org, the silver screen silva. Okay, got it all right?
Speaker 2: Thank you Boston Dad for coming in on the show.
Speaker 2: When to call the night tonight, We'll see you next weekend. Everybody,
Speaker 2: have a great, safe weekend. This is Cindy Stumpo toughest
Speaker 2: nails with my beautiful blonde daughter, Samantha Stumpo