Bringing Life To The Big Screen With Vinnie "Gigi" Marino

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to Cindy Stompo top his nails on WBZ
and I'm here in the studio tonight with Sammy and.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Chad.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Do you guys have last names? Stumpo? Oh, okay, that's good.
And your name sir.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Rex Palma and Vincent Marino Marino.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Okay, I have to carry gig, so if I keep
doing that, don't get upset with me, kay, because I
can't go Vinnie. I just can't do that. I can't
go Vincent. It's just that's what you are. That's who
you are to me. We're here to talk about what
who wants to do the talking? Well, you speak up.
That is called the microphone. Call that to your.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Mouth, okay and go all right? Well, I believe we're
here today to talk about pressed feature film. It's my
first feature. I'm a writer director. I've been doing that
for about ten years now. This is my first feature linked.
I have a bunch of projects, you know, I've been
working on beforehand, but this is the first one that

(01:01):
is long enough that you know, we'll be in theaters
and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
And this movie is about.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
It's about the fatinal epidemic. It's about bases around two
brothers that get involved with pressing pills and this it
doesn't take place like right now present day. It was
like before everyone knew about the press pills, when people
were still kind of like which was what year I
believe press pills came out, probably like right before the pandemic.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It was like, so we didn't have press pills in
twenty fifteen sixteen.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh no, No, that's when the OxyContin epidemic was still
kind of like raging. It was the tail end and
kind of came out of nowhere. It was it was
insane and then people were just like dropping dead and
like everyone just thought it was regular overdoses. But then
the word got out that it was, uh, you.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Know, what kind of businessman wants to kill his clientele off?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
That's the thing, you know. It never made any sense.
And then you would hear about the cartels who were
supplying stuff because it was out in LA it was
showing up in other drugs too, and that was like
the craziest thing. It was a huge story. This was
twenty twenty one. It was this famous comedy club. Do

(02:16):
you know about the comedy store? So it was Friday
night and on the surveillance tape. There was like five
comedians they just like got done doing their sets and
they were just smoking cigarettes outside and then all of
a sudden they start like dropping one by one and
all five of them died because you know, they had
a little cocaine and it was tainted with fetanyl, and

(02:40):
that was like a big mystery, like why would they
put fetanyl in cocaine? And you know, it just got rampant,
and then it got to a point where no one was, uh,
you know, using cocaine. Not that you really should, but
no one was doing it because of that reason.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
It did skip people for a while for a bit.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, but uh it's not a good way to you know,
deter people from doing drugs.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Though.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, that would skim even nineteen eighty. Would that have
scared in nineteen.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Eighty it's very strength thought you were.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Going to do a line nineteen eighty or eighty two
and die. I don't think I would. I would have
been like, hey.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Would have been dead for sure.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah with that, But I think our generation would have
said A lot of us were.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Said, no, it's like Russia.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
No, I think people want to get high. In our generation.
I don't think they want to die. That is playing
Russian roulette.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Especially now with the pills because I you know, know
a lot of people who are within that world still,
and from what I hear, you know, you're lucky if
you could find authentic pills now.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like yeah, you can doctor prescribes a CVS.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, of course on the street. Which is this crazy?
And it's just so wild that this exists now because
it's something that didn't exist, you know, just ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's like a whole less than ten years ago.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, it's like a whole new thing. It's really bizarre.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
So where they pressing these overseas are here here, So
they're pressing them here.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
I mean in twenty twenty three alone, they seized more
than one hundred and fifteen million pills containing illicit fentanyl
in the US.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, it's insane. It was a huge case that went
down here right before the pandemic. The kid was from Salem.
His name was Fats Caruso, and he had an operation
with his mother and his mother yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And just where they found all this, yeah that and
it was so crazy.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
So when I was doing research for the script, I
got the full indictment and I was reading he grew
his business so big that he started with like a
small press, and then eventually before he got caught, he
got a press as big as this table, and it
was in the basement and they would load it up
and turn it on, go to bed, and then come

(04:53):
down and all the walls were blue and there was
just like hundreds of thousands of pills like all over
the floor. It was crazy and happy.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
They bought these machines to press them and make them
look like real pills.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
So you couldn't see the knockoffs no way, well if you.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Close, depending on who was making them. But there's a
lot of scary ones out there where you can't tell
the difference. But now what's really crazy is people who
are addicted are requesting those now now it's not a
secret anymore. That's where it like it graduated to that.
First it was dealers being greedy and like, oh, we're

(05:28):
gonna make so much profit and they're so strong that
the people that are strung out now like.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
If they buys are used to it.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, if they had real pills, they would probably still
buy the fake ones because they're cheaper.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
And so all they did the drug deals was to
make the drugs more addictive. Yeah, okay, so if we
take cocaine that was supposedly a mentally addictive drug, not
a physical right. You took que lottes back in the day.
Those are physically not mental, right, All the pain killers physical,
The benzo is physical, right? Alcohol physical? Right?

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Thank god they can't poison alcohol because that's legal, right,
But now they're putting it on pot. We were at
a wedding back right before COVID. These guys went down
to Chinatown with the way wedding at Four Seasons and
like four guys dropped, one dropped right in my fiances albums.
I'm like, hold on here, there's a gas leak. That's

(06:23):
the first thing I think of as a builder, right,
there's a gas leak right over their heads. Yeah, and
once it is a coming. No, they went to China
toown they bought part, they smoked some part outside and
they were just falling down. I thought for sure, there's
a gas leak. Right, I'm like, you know, to talk
about a wedding at the Four Seasons, right, and yeah,
but we found out that part they smoke pot was

(06:45):
like Fetanoh they didn't die, thank god.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, But they're putting it in the vapes.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Only putting it everywhere China.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh but you do drugs over each sprinkling on the flower.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah. Yeah, Well the Chinese is smart because you know,
they don't want to fight us head the head because
we'll beat them, even though there'll be a lot of casualties.
So they're trying to kill us for within. They're trying
to kill off American uh, military age youth. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
A lot of people don't know that because that's what
they really Fatinyl analogs come from last in China that
I know. And then, like so many people on the street,
they just blame Well, the cartels are bad, you know,
they're horrible. But without the Chinese labs, the fatanel wouldn't exist,
you know, cartels in Mexico.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
This is what drives me crazy about American people. They
deny that. They deny that. Right, you get on these
social audio apps Twitter X, I mean not twittering, more X,
Chatter Club, all of them. You get into these rooms
and you listen these people. They're in such denial. China
doesn't do that, and it doesn't come out of Mexico.

(07:54):
It's it's it's the Americans that are doing it. It's
all American based. And okay, yeah, Americans definitely doing it.
But where they getting it from?

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, and once you have that type of.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Addiction, but this is the world we live in now,
it's natural security.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Anybody could get. If you bring it to another country
and just douse their population with it will happen there too,
just like opioids are physically addicting. You know, you could
give a grandmother who's never even smoked a cigarette opiates
and she'll end up addicted within you know, two weeks,

(08:30):
and she's gonna need it. She might not be an addict.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
But wait, ane, hold that I thought were gonna go
to break. I'm Sidey Stump and you listen to Toughest
Nails on w BZ. We'll be right back and welcome
back to Toughest Nails on WBZ. And I'm Cidy Stumpo
and I'm here with Sammy.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
And Rex, Vinnie, Jigi Marino.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, go ahead, buddy, pick up.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
So uh, like I was saying, anybody, no matter, any grandmother,
any grandmother, any age, is gonna get physically addicted.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
So my mom could break her.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
She did.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
She broke her hip right and thank god, I didn't
give her pain kills.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Them is uh. I believe it's ten to fourteen days.
If you take opiate, he many days in a row,
you're going to feel it afterwards.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
He was in Florida, he was young, seventeen eighteen, whatever,
and they want to take his wisdom teeth out. So
I called the dentist. I go, you're gonna take his
wisdom teeth out as long as you're not gonna give
aim pain medication. He goes, oh, of course, we get
paid medication. No, no pain medication. And I said, I said,
I mean, I just absolutely not. She had you coming home.

(09:35):
You have your wisdom teeth taken out here if it
needs be, but you're not taking shad her wisdom teeth
taken out. She's thirty eight at what's sixteen? Sam, I
didn't give him more than nineteen nineteen. She took talent
of that's it. I wasn't. I'm terrified, terrified because I
think addiction also runs and feeling jeans, and if you
know there's addictive personalities and families. Yeah, you could even

(09:55):
be more carefully right.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Absolutely definitely. What's scary about it, though, is that disconnect
so many people don't realize because addiction is an issue.
Like if someone has a problem and they get sober
from say alcohol, and then they'll start something out. It's
called cross addiction, correct, So like you know that's.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Listen, here's my thing.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
If you take so many people don't take.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
A drug addiction. I've seen this in my generation of guys.
They've taken the drug addiction, their alcohol addiction and turned
to complete workaholics. Now they doing anything bad at that point.
Now they're living a great life. They're making lots of money.
Big players in the construction industry, no names on here, right,
major major guys, some of the biggest I would see

(10:41):
in my dad's nightclub tearing it up. They took that
addiction and they put it right into business, making money
and never look backwards. Productive. Yes, yes, so I see
that addictive personal and I can absolutely tell you I'm
a workaholic. Yeah, I don't question that. I mean, but

(11:02):
if I but again, I've never had a drink, So
they take bets on if mom had a drink, which
should be a meat drink or a nice drunk.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Right, Like I'm taking a nine, that's all I drink.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
They don't that risk No one would know how it
would be because I've never had a drink in my life,
right ever, never, never in my life. Right it was
a cocktail waitress, yeah till I was twenty, so no
my dad's clubs. But yes days ever, we'd be hanging
out in the in the summer down on the pool side.
My girlfriend Tracy was.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
A You guys had a good generation growing up.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
We did we did it. We had a great generation.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Growing Why did you choose not to ever have a drink?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'll tell you why because they would come up when
I was in the bartending of waitressing and they're messcarabi
all over the place. The lipstick would be dripping, and
they would look like a no. Because remember, drinking age
was eighteen, so I was sixteen and a half could serve,
So they were like nineteen twenty. So that's a few
more years when you're sixteen and a half and subody's

(11:59):
twenty one. But drinking age was eighteen, but you could
serve at sixteen and a half. That's a big difference.
Like you think that four or five years is like
dog years at that age. Wow, you're twenty two, you're
sixteen and a half. You know, what I mean, like,
you're twenty two, Well that's old year older, right, And
I just think that I saw these pretty girls come
in and buy a couple drinks in they weren't pretty anymore,

(12:20):
and then they would be slurring, and then it asked
me questions like did I go home with that guy
last night? And I'd be like, you don't remember, No,
I don't. I'd be like, yeah, that's never going to
be me ever, never, never, never. I'm full control of myself. No, no,
no, no no. So I think that scared me. And I
didn't grow up with drinking. Parents were drinkers. The bar

(12:41):
in our house it had more cob webs than people
drinking at it, so it was just what it was.
I chose never have one. So that made the impact
on me. Yeah, and it stayed with me, you know,
through high school. Like kids drinking. It's actually kind of
funny because when they moved from the North Shore to
Newton if late and see kids drinking in Revere where

(13:03):
you know, when my grandparents were wes PbD, where I
was growing up between going back and forth Rivera to
wes PB then moved to Newton at just about fourteen
years old, all these kids were drinking. My friends that
were punks were not drinking. None of them were drinking.
They were drinking a couple of beers here and there.
But we were sneaking to night clubs with our bag IDs,

(13:25):
but we weren't drinking. Like we didn't even keep which
wanted to go dance. We didn't want to go drink.
And I would stay back in Newton and they're just
all drinking every weekend. I'm like, and my father said,
one day, I want you to you know, I want
you to stay Newton this weekend. I'm like, okay, fine,
I'll stay here. Went to a party down the street.

(13:45):
He was drunk as it off beers. They're all drinking beers.
I guess. Job Street kind of knocks me down, like
like I don't know, trying to get my pants. Whatever
was trying to do was never going to happen. Took
my feet, pushed them off me, and ran to my
house and there comes my brother and his friends pulled
in the driveway and here comes Cindy running up the
street right and my dad's like, what was your car? Like,

(14:07):
we you want me to stay in this town? That
kid tried to what kid and then looked at my
brother and said, go find the kid. Now, get this kid,
bring them to me right now. That wasn't a pre scene,
by the way, But at the end my father went,
maybe you can go back to reveal with your friends
and reviewer. Yeah, right, so I said told you, dad.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I will say that when I saw the more problems,
the more drinking and drugs were in the rich cities.
They're rich towns with those kids, I swear a lot.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, because in the parents' messy cabits. Because also the
parents that's what kept me away. But movies like this
have to be made. Oh yeah, but it's not us
people that need to We need to watch them, obviously,
but it's it's the generation. These sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, seventeen, eighteen,
nineteen twenty, their age, my son's age thirty two, thirty

(14:54):
thirty one. They need to watch these movies. They're not
afraid these kids. No, I'm approaching every eleven minutes. Every
eleven minutes, it's the kid dying.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, it's they actually might be updating it to every
eight the statistic joke.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's going from eleven eight. Yeah, so that's also bringing
our statistics down on death of age of death meaning
oh yeah, you know, the average age of death was
eight went to eighty five. Now it's dropping because of
all these young kids.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Right, Oh, it's insane.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
But parents are losing their children over because they're making
stupid Hey buddy, take this pill and your kid goes.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
There's no education about it. And that's what's scary. Before
we started, when I was doing all the research into
the stats, I found that most people that died weren't
even of age. There were so many kids that were
under sixteen. And that's why when people first started messing

(15:53):
with the fatanyl and pressing stuff, I don't think it
would be an overdose. It's pretty much poisoning because if
you give some on something that has something in it
that they don't know about, Like, hey, I came to
buy a percocet. I didn't come to buy fanol. So
if I die, you lied. You poisoned me, just like
if I put rat poison in your coffey.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Then here's my point. You're the murderer.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
You need to go to jail. Exactly, you need to
go to jail. Yeah, okay, if I take it gun
and shoot you or give you a pill. It's gonna
kill you.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
There's no difference.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay, this is crazy. And without social media, the mainstream
does media does not put on TV. We don't see it.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
That's why I'm hoping to accomplish with this film, because
I'm approaching an area that's like, really, uh, it's taboo.
Most people were like, you know why people want to
like the characters. Like when I first started writing the script,
like my mom was like, oh, I don't know, people
are gonna hate these character. I was like, yeah, but
it needs to be shocking because everyone's gonna like be like, well,

(16:56):
Mom is right.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'll tell you this. I had Jonathan Tucker in my
in our studio year ago, and it's I hated Tucker.
I love him. He's become a very close friend of
mine and Sammy in the last two years. Two years
goes here, I love him and he walked in. I
said after, like, like, you know, you're really handsome and
I really like you. But when he was in the

(17:17):
show The Fighting Show.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
And that's the show, I love him.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Come on Fighting Show. Sammy worked with me. I watched
the whole thing Amal Kingdom. I think it's called Kingdom.
I hated him on that show. He played that part
so well that I disliked him till the end, right,
like the whole series. You didn't like he was cool

(17:42):
because in that series I like the other brother better,
right because you like the underdog and yeah, like but
whatever the point was until Talker came into my studio, right, Like,
I didn't like him, but then you meet him and
he's the nicest guy in the world. They can play
the parts so well.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
My character is so so we don't want to.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Like these characters. We don't want to like like we
don't that's what makes it.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Well, my character is so despicable.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I actually you're playing the character on this.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Not the main my it's crazy. So the brothers that
are the main characters, it's actually me and my younger brother.
And it wasn't supposed to be like that because directing
writing was a big undertaking. I didn't really want to
act in this, even though that's how I started with movies.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
What do you Taylor Taylor? Yeah, oh, Taylor Sheridan Sheridan Taylor. Well,
he plays everything and he's like he's the producer of
this that on a yellow What do you call it oh,
Taylor Sheridan, Yes, absolutely, all right, we're going ol no, no,
we're going to break. This is Cindy stumpone and you
listen to WBZ News. Yeah, we'll be right back and
welcome back to Tapa's Nails on WBZ. And I'm Cindy

(18:50):
and I'm here with Sammy and Chad.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
And Rex Obama, Jigi.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Marino, Jiji that you spent how many years in jail?
Twenty eight twenty? Yes? Straight? Yeah, So tell me about
this way does Gigi fall into this movie? Press? Do
I want to know? She blocked my ears? Should cover
my eyes? What do all be above? What's going on here?

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Is an executive producer and he actually is playing a
lawyer in the film.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
As well as.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
It would have been, it would have been so on
the nose for him to place someone on the wrong
side of the law. And that's a fun fact about
is he knows the law like nobody's business. He's gotten
so many people out of prison. Probably.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, so you're not gonna suck my cousin Vinnie on
this while you no, that's that's a runny joke.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
He was actually pretty good, goes Youth.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
That was one of the best parts of the whole movie.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
But when we were coming up with his cameo, we
uh I landed on lawyer. I was just like, man,
we got to lean into that because you know you'll
be able to riff like because he knows it's insane
when he talks law. And it was the best choice
because you know, his scenes so crazy.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
All the years that Gigi spent in jail, you studied
law in jails?

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Did he got so many people out of jail?

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Error? Actually, and I've gotten a lot of people out.
I couldn't get myself out because I have a corrupt judge.
But judges but okay, I mean when I say corrupt
corrupt where he didn't even read my motion, She's just
rubber stamped it. Then I deny, deny, and it was
very very good motions. You know, they had substance.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
But he I got that judge is going to keep
you in no matter what.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, you know he's a multi billion are at thirty
three degree mason and doesn't know the law. You know,
he surrounds himself with some people that are ivy league,
you know, college students, but uh, and they're pretty good.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
But once with that judge you can never take it
to another Ja's.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Like he's like dying now. I mean he's eighty seven
years old, he's on semi retirement. He already sent a
letter to Trump saying, you know, hire another judge. And
he's still staying on. And I have a motion in
front of him. I got like one hundred and twenty
days left, and I wrap it up.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
So you're still helping you, guys my emotions? Is this
for you or for your guys?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
No?

Speaker 3 (21:09):
For me, for me, my guys, A lot of guys.
I got out, like I said, so.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Why are you still having emotions? Ill?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Just to me, it's recreation because I know he's gonna
deny it. But the motion, actually, well, what are you
looking at for sense? Well, here's the thing. I got
a twenty five year enhancement for conduct. I beat a trial,
which is illegal. Supreme Court case already spoken on it,
called United States versus Davis eighteen ninety five, saying the
judge had no authority whatsoever to enhance my sentence for

(21:37):
contut I beat a trial. I beat the June sixteen
eighty nine. So let me tempt a murder. And the
judge at my sentence and said, the jury found you
not proven beyond a reasonable doubt for that charge. But
I think you try to kill him, shoot your way
to the top. And he enhanced my sentence and he said,
by the way your cour defenders that led guilty to
a murder, you should have reasonably forced it. So now

(21:58):
we're getting back to you know, Ton Cruise in a
minority report or Georgia Oldwell nineteen eighty four. You're going
to get arrested for the think police type of thing.
But now they have to put some of sects right
there was Yeah, I was found, like I said, by
a jury, not proven beyond the reasonable doubt of it.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
But the judge still at time.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
He hanced my sentence of twenty five actual years. The
maximum I should have gotten was ten. They gave me
thirty five and I served twenty eight day per day
and I got out.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
So he got twenty out of that.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
No I got. I did twenty eight out of it,
twenty eight years. But twenty five it was illegal. I
should have only gotten I should he shouldn't never beat
the charge.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
The judge, don't you have a civil lawsuits?

Speaker 3 (22:40):
That what I'm getting to. So now this motion is
based on it. Now, guess what Congress comes along, Bipolitan
Republican Democrats. They come along with a Bill COLLEDHHAW sixteen
twenty one and S six oh one, which is the
Senate version, and they all came aboard saying, listen, this
is illegal. You can't be doing this, not just because
of me, but nation wide have been doing it. And

(23:00):
then a case Carl McClinton out of the Supreme Court
came along also saying it. Now. Just recently Amendment one
of the US Sentence and Guideline US Sentence Commission, which
is made up of all prestigious federal judges, said this
is illegal, and they made it retroactive November first, twenty
twenty four. So this is what my motion is based on.
The judge just completely ignored it. Like the name and answer.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
The judge can't ignore it.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well, he's doing it and he's getting away with it.
And like I said, it's one hundred and twenty days
left on the sentence.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
And he still after one hundred and twenty days, what happens.
You don't have a civil Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
I do. It's up to a man per a year
that I was held over, So it's worth twenty five mins.
But whether he lose on the motion positively or negatively, it's.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Still so keep you take it above him.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Right, I'll tell you what happened because of.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
My guys from Chelsea. They got money when they got
a jail when they were wrong with convicted.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, but here's what happened. So now, because I'm putting
on putting these motions that have merit full of they're
full of merit, the judge put a injunction against me,
so I can't file no motions. I have to ask permission.
But I still do. I said, all right, I requested.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
So you're doing this all yourself without an illegal all myself.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
So then I went to the first circle in Boston.
They put an injunction on me and said because when
you sat running circles around them with legal stuff, they
don't like it. So they put an injunction on me
to prevent me from filing. They said, oh, you have
to have permission. So I title my motions, I request
permission to follow this. I'm not stopped filing. I have

(24:34):
to put in within the motion I request permission. So
I have a permanent lifetime injunction in the Ills Court
in Boston. I have a permanent lifetime injunction in District
of Massachusetts federal, and I have one in New York
because I corrected a federal judge over there that made
a mistake. Knew she was wrong, and she put an
injunction on me, so I have.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Okay, let's hypothetically say you win and you get your
twenty five million, right, you win, right, that does not
give you back twenty five years of your life. It
will just make your next teen years easier.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Exactly, Okay, exactly.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I would have rather had my life than this million.
I wouldn't and made that twenty five million. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
But and you know, they just even if he did win,
I feel like they get you other ways because when
he was getting guys out in jail, and he would
win a case for someone they would get released. They
would punish him.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, they put me in. Why I stood in the
whole three and a half months, no sunshine, no fresh air,
and nothing, and then they put an encumbrance on my account.
I had like two three thousand of my account. I
couldn't buy a BIOSOAP, I couldn't buy stamps.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Of without without that money.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
And you can't he yeah, they totally, and then they
sent me to Coleman One, Florida, for which is federal
prison is coman one, is coma two to the United
States penitentiary. Whereas when you go into a penitentiary, it's
a whole different story. It's a whole different animal that
if you're in an FCI federal crest. What's a different
this killings. People are dying for cotton in line for

(26:04):
any reason, a dirty look. Everybody's walking around with three
nights is a dangerous situation. But how are you did
for Oh, I was only I did time in six penitentiaries,
but for that one, I was only there for like
nine to ten months because I got the uh well,
when I first got there, the case manager looked at me.
She said, I was seven years old when you went
to prison. She goes, I'm putting you in for the

(26:25):
first step back, I'm getting you out of here. I'm
getting you to halfway house. So I only spent like
nine months there. So when Trump on his first term
of office, he signed into the First Step Act and
two seven was called the Second Chance Act and a
twine together it gives you more halfway house home detention
time and plus you get a year off a program
if you take all these classes to better yourself. So

(26:46):
I did all that, I got the year off, and
then this woman who was a very nice woman, she
put me in for the halfway house a year and half.
Now they're given up to two three years because Trump's
is like, look, they don't belong and they belong on
thee if they're that close to the door to work
and pay their taxes, which we all agree, so he's
trying to eliminate halfway houses, home detention camps and stuff

(27:10):
like that. He says, if they're that close to the
door with two or three years left, let them out
and work.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Is when they let them out. It's hard for them
to get jobs unless they have families that bring them
in their homes. It's hard for a lot of credit.
You had a family when you came out this criteria,
but usually guys don't have family.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
And then you work and then you go from there.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Try to find a job. It's very difficult, very hot.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
But they are given taxes censerve for certain companies that do.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
That's called construction, right lot some of them it's called construction.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know, I do a Foundation. Jump on the Foundation team,
Jump on the Concrete team. I've seen it so many times.
So this is where Gigi comes into play on this movie.
So are you ever going to write a movie on
your story?

Speaker 3 (27:54):
I wrote a manuscript basis for The Patriarch Approache.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
That's our follow up. So Press is already filmed.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
We show We both know that takes money to make
a movie. So if you raised the capital for this movie,
you're in the middle of raising funds.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Press.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
We already filmed, filmed, so it's all done.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, we're in post production right now.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
So you raised all the money to do it and
now you're yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
So that's why it's a huge deal because.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
We take it to Sundance. So are you gonna take it?

Speaker 4 (28:20):
I got uh sales agent at William Morris Endeavor, and
everyone's like super excited about this. So since it's my.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Fint, you might want to talk to Blondie over there.
She's got a friend that buys movies.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Oh yeah, absolutely, everyone's super excited, Like.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh and all those movies he bought a sun Dance.
I guess they needed all those movies when COVID hit
and they ran out of movie so he went way
up there. Awesome, all right, every hold, I thought we're
going to break. I'm Sydney Stumble and you're listened to
Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty. I gotta
say I love my music and welcome back to Toughest Nails
on WBZ News Radio ten thirty. I'm here with Sammy and.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Who else, Rex de Pommel, Judi Marino.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'll say it again. I like my music. Okay, you
can keep that raaunchy, crazy music. All you young people listen to.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I like my music.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
You like my music, I love it, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
And I still listen to all the school music. Something
the joke I gotta listen.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
To the old school stuff pumps you too, Okay, you
have us.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
So when production started Repressed, how was that? Was it?
In the same time?

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, it was super crazy because it was really unusual.
It kind of exploded, and I don't know if it
was the subject matter or everyone in Hollywood was just
hungry to be in something like this. So this being
my first feature, even though I have other projects, I'm
considered first time director, so it was highly unusual. When

(29:44):
we started casting, I got ten thousand submissions in one
day and it was just insane because like, I don't
I'm not proving yet. But on IMDb, I was getting
searched so much that I went from two million on
the star meter up to five and like three days
and all of a sudden, emails started pouring in. And

(30:05):
you know, that's how I started getting emails from Willie
Morris and c and everyone wanted to audition. It was crazy.
And what's funny is even after all that, I needed
to remain raw and authentic, and we kept it very,
very real, like everyone's going to be surprised because we're

(30:26):
telling it from the point of view of people that
actually sell the pills and are killing people. So the
basis of the film is these two.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
It was a film, a documentary, it's a film.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
It's a feature film. It's about two brothers who get
involved with pressing pills and they make the most amount
of money they ever made in their life. The same
day they kill about thirty people and they drop off
a package to a strip club and you know, a
ton of people die. The same day they make about
three hundred K and cash. So it's like a car

(30:57):
accident in slow motion. You watched them go from celebrating being.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
An actor's really hard. Can I just tell you why
was that? Because I came from reality right on ah TV.
And then they asked me to play a role in
a movie called Portigo, which was a local film. This
was like two thousand what's say ten? Yes, so I
fit the whole description, the look, the whole nine yard.
So the boss of the family ends up to be a female,
right this ten years ago, and he was I have

(31:25):
to have Cindy stumble. She got the right face, the
right looks, the right legs. I gotta up. I could
remember my lines. For the love of god, I couldn't
remember my lines. No, no, nope, not at all. And
then I was tongue twisting and I'm like saints the producer,
this doesn't make sense here. Who was helping with my lines?
Megan's dad, Kenny. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
And then there was also but what's Kenny's first name?

Speaker 1 (31:46):
I don't remember Megan Kenny's Kenny's father. I remember his
only God, I'm having my block, but he was helping me.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
She got to be one of my projects because I
don't care about that. I work a lot like.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Me right off, I can play.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
That, you know what The crazy part about chattis he
would remember lines like he's got that look to him.
That's you. You can play many different roles. He's the
Italian Spanish, which I don't know what I know.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
And speaking of Jay I was telling you about that's
how you got to.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Was ethnically ambiguous because you different roles.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, remember I just have a personality. I just don't
give it who.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I am until like fifteen years ago. If you were
too ethnic looking. If we go back twenty years ago,
if you were too Italian looking, they didn't get parts.
Think about what it was like. You might not remember that,
but twenty years ago, if you were too Italian looking,
you didn't get apart. If you would choose this blond
part back then, yeah, if you have blonde here and
blue eyes, you got the roles wild.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Because when I moved to LA when I was sixteen
and I was acting, I was I was on Everybody
Hates Chris for a while. But after that.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Show everybody hates Chris.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah about Chris Rocks, Oh right, yes, he is young.
And after that show, it was like far and few
between because I was very like rough around the edges.
My Bosston accent was super heavy, like I was a
street kid, and like you said, Blondie a Blue Wives
was the Disney thing. Yeah, they didn't have roles like
they do today, like Euphoria and like all these like
edgy shows. I would have been killing it if they

(33:16):
had these roles back then, and you know nowadays it's just.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
A lot different.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
But I don't really want to act so much anymore,
just write and direct. But ended up playing the older
brother in this and I gained weight and had to
cut my hair because I didn't want people to think
it was me because he's so horrible.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Like it's just like I don't know if you remember
Antonio Sumbato Junior, no, the other one. I know who
he is, Okay, he came out handsome, chisel skin, chisel face,
like just handsome, handsome, and then after to Quentn't Land
he was on like lifetime movies after that hit gh
for a while, but couldn't land any more movies because
he was too ethnic looking, too Italian looking, right, which

(33:56):
took him out of pots. And that was like twenty
twenty five years ago. That's when that whole regime, like
it just moved over into like I just said, blonde,
blue eyed. Ye that that look, and then last ten
years it's come back again.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Now it's a pretty awesome time right now. It's really
it's an exciting time in film. It's like the Renaissance.
It's like how the music industry transformed a couple of
years ago, where you could just make albums in your bedroom.
Now with these streaming networks all competing, if you're good
enough and you could get projects off the ground, you
could just make your own studio and you just license

(34:31):
everything that's doing it.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
There was a movie that came out that was film.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Go on your micc Oh yeah, yeah, hold on.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
There was a movie that I just got released. I
don't know, maybe a year ago. The whole thing was
filmed on an iPhone. Yeah, a couple of I forgot
what it's called, but it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
There's a few of them. Yeah. One actually one sundance
a couple of years ago called Tangerine that was only
on an iPhone.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's why.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
So when does this movie get released? Well we're okay, okay,
let's stop. We're in editing for how long?

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I have the first cut done right around Christmas time
and we're going to do a test greeting and then
you brought up Sundance. Yeah, since I am the first
time feature director and they want to bill me as
like a marquee director because I write and direct.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
And so Sundances one in February.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Well, that's what's moving this year. It's no longer going
to be in park City, either trying to move it, trying.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
To change it. It's going to take it out of Utah.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Yeah, we would be in the following one just because
the one that's in January that was for films that
were made like a year ago.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Moving a Boulder, Colorado. This effect of twenty twenty seven, the.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Fact of twice I wonder to watch Chris park City
got so expensive.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Maybe I bet I loved it out there.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's awesome over there.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I think she was just still there.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
I was last year.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Last year.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
I've been there. I've been Sundance three times.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
I haven't gone yet.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
My kids they've been everywhere. Yuh. This one played golf
for the Italian Federation. The mother has no mother has
no passport, no passport, you don't have password?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Because I don't like to fly. I go to Florida.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Watch me play in it isabe.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I couldn't. I couldn't watch it once I watched them
on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
You don't like.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
So they're saying it's outgrowing Utah.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
What does that mean? It's outgrowing it's.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
Getting too big. So it's saying that the festival's final
yearat this year they move is attributed to the festival
outgrowing its former location, organizers, site factors like boulders, creative
infrastructure in the financial and centers by Clorida.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Crazy, thank you, chatchipt over there?

Speaker 5 (36:43):
That was actually Google?

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Oh that was Google. Okay, thank you? So yeah, I
have a fair fly So.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
You travel a lot of by by vehicle.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Fly on a plane, just not by Florida distance, just Florida.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
And then I need two to three weeks to get
back on to get you home.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
If we ever live somewhere more than three hours away,
she would never.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
See it, like an hour What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Up and down? No? Private?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, private?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Like you want me to land up and down? Up
and down about just getting would you rather?

Speaker 5 (37:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, no, no, no, stop and go just get me up,
hold me up there and land me down. Okay, okay,
Because the whole time I'm up there. I'm thinking engines
are falling off the nose dive I used to get
death the whole way. Yeah, we'll welcome to my brain.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, I know it's a it's a screwy brain up there.
It's cue the circus music.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
It's probably better to drive, you know, flying, I.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Could take a xanaxau. I wouldn't even know I'm ont
XIX because my adrenaline is beating off the zandax. Okay,
uh huh, yeah, I've never so. Yeah, They've traveled everywhere.
They've been out of the country everywhere, and me, mommy
dearis has been nowhere.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
So you've never been out of the country.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, oh, yeah, I've been to Canada. I've driven to Canada. Boats, boats,
but I don't like boats. No, they sink. After I
watched the Titanic, I was getting back.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
By the boats.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Know, because I have no fear of business, no fear.
You and I get into an argument right now, I'll
steal you down as fast as you steer me down,
and I don't care, and we can do this steer
for thirty minutes. You're backing me down, put me in
a panic attack or on a plane. I look like
a child with a casumere sweat blanket wrapped around my head,
like blank me up, blank me up? What's that? That's

(38:20):
my KRYPTI? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just how it is.
But so this one will probably get to science. But
you should stay in touch with Sam absolutely because we've
seen movies. What's the movie? And I cried about all
the time my friend's husband made it The fifth Quarter?

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Did you ever see that quarter with Stacy?

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
If you want to cry, just just just watch the
fifth quarter?

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Fifth quarter?

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah, get about high school? Two brothers, one went to
Notre Dame. It's actually true story and we got four
and yeah the song chick.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
He took the Fast money way.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah, unbelievable movie.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
And hold that thought. This is City Stumpo and you're
listening to WBZ Tough as Nails Sidy stump And welcome
back to Toughest Nails on WBZ. And I'm Cindy stump
On and I'm here with my beautiful daughter Sammy and
my handsome son Chad. And I'm also here with Rex
Topoma and an old friend of mine. There you go,
so go, boys.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Definitely want you guys to be on the lookout for Pressed.
We're in post right now, so you'll be seeing it
next year being released, but teaser will be released soon.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
They called teaser trailers now.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Teaser trailer depending on the time. But if you want
to learn more about stuff we got going on, our
website is Reign Supreme dot World and we have Gg's
memoir on their autograph copy you could pick up and
learn the story before our next project because we have
a very exciting project with him that's in pre production right.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Sorry, Chad, We're going to put you on as an
actor on that one. Everybody, have a great, safe weekend.
This is Cindy Stumpo Toughest Nails on WBZ. See you
next weekend.