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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to Cinny Stompo top his nails on WBZ.
And we have a very interesting person in the studio
right now, as far as I'm concerned, a very unique, loving,
caring human being. I don't think there's many of you
out there anymore, like people don't care anymore. But I
need to introduce you. So what is your name?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
My name is Victor, also known as Victor the Good Boss.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, speaking to go closer because I don't want people
to miss anything to say. Okay, so you have Vic
the Good Boss. Yes, why are you Vic the Good Boss?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I guess the name says it all. I take care
of my employees.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And okay, well let's go back because the listeners don't
know what do you do?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So I do landscaping, masonry, a little bit of construction.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Right up my avenue.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, maybe I can do some work for you there.
You show you how good my crew is.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We always need new guys, right, yeah, thirties because I
can't handle the guys anymore that in their fifties.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But they I'm a responsible Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Getting tired, Yeah, I getting tired.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes, we're all getting tired. The average GC is fifty. Yeah,
I would say, the average plumbers in their forties late
forties and the average electricians in their early forties across
America right now. Yeah, so we got we've got a problem.
But it's nice to see a nice, good looking guy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
By the way, thank you. He's married, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
He's engaged this pump okay please, okay, I'll be the
Italian mother. You can't date him anyways, he's getting I
can be both come half and half.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So you're a good boss because you take care of
you help, you treat them kindly, You treat.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Them like human beings.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So you believe in that loyalty factor.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, if you're loyal to you, guys, they're gonna be
loyal to you. They're gonna stay. You know, they're gonna
stick around.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, Sea Stumple has been around for thirty seven years
because of the philosophy and never has had a lawsuit
on anything not by an end user, a vendor, or subcontractor.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I don't think we've ever had a workman's complaim.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Knock on wood please.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
With that, With all that being said, most of the
time you teach people loyalty by showing that's right, and
you're always going to get that one.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Idiot that has zero loyalty.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Right, and they're always going to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
They're always going to be there. But the majority have
found out. They've all watched her grow up. Some of
these guys are still with me.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
From day one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's loyalty.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Thirty five years old anymore, right, So a lot of
those guys have died that I started with that twenty
three years old and retired. Ohweight was a big loss
those years, awight, nine to ten. A lot of guys
went in became inspectors and salesmen or whatever. But I've
seen it all out here. But what I can tell
you that I'm seeing, and you're young enough to you'll
be able to feel this, is that the next generation
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coming up, these sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty year old kids,
they know what they want, they know what they want,
and the ones that want to go to vocational school
are going and they want to learn the trades, and
the ones that want to become doctors, lawyers and everything
in between. It's like, if we don't have, if we
don't need a college education, we're going into the trades.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and I'm going to say it. I've been saying
for fourteen years. Your next million years are plumbers, hvac's electricians.
Now they're talking about it, but we can go back
to my TV show fourteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't even know how long.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Ago, how long two thousand and what, nine ten, nine ten,
that we talked about it radio. I've been talking about
it for nine years and you name it. I've been
on it, pushing the trades. Yeah, so it's now, but
we've lost fifteen years of getting good guys.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Out there, right, So I don't know, but you guys,
what you'll feel for a while.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You're going to find that, you know, good subs are
hard to get, but you're going to train your guys
up for what you do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know, as long as you keep your guys, you know,
if you're happy with them, you're loyal, they're going to stay.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But you also have to learn masonry. Macy is not
Oh my god, yeah, I mean no, it's not. I
mean people don't understand. They think, okay, yeah you can.
You can slap it together for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, it's going to fall apart in three years.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
What I by it, I'll know that you threw it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm like, oh boy, okay, right, So but to teach them,
you know, teach them and show them. And but it
is a form.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Of art, Yeah, it definitely is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But what makes you other besides a good boss and
loyal you bring something very special to what you do
for the public out here in Boston, and I want
my listeners to know what you do.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah. I like to take homeless people off the streets
if they're struggling with addiction. I like to do random
acts of kindness and make the world a better place.
That's my main things.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So what you're taking a lot for granted here I
watch you on Instagram. Yeah, you can be putting yourself
into very dangerous situations out there, extremely dangerous, and you're
by yourself in that truck.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah. Sometimes my friends with me, but most of the
time I'm by myself.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And you're just stopping and you're you're paying for this
out of your pocket.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah for the most part.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You know, you get married, right, Yeah, she's gonna tell you, like, hey, buddy,
we need that we're gonna have a child soon, Like
you need to like.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh, I have two kids, Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You have two kids.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah, all right, So and you do this because
why you just want to sincerely help people.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, because I know there's some people that are on
the streets are you know, struggling with addiction that they
didn't choose that life. It just happened. Oka you can
get into an accident and then go to the hospital,
get prescribed a pill or whatever. He addicted, and then
you're addicted. You know. Not everyone chooses it. Yeah, I
mean when I was young, I was stupid. I chose
drugs because I wanted to. But I cleaned my act
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up and I ended up going to prison and I
came a long way, you know, I really.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So you've been on both sides.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
There goes that now, so you've lived in that lifestyle
and now you're living this lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And obviously at what age did you switch? What age
were you when you got arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I was arrested, so I went to prison in twenty twelve.
I got out at the end of twenty and thirteen.
So when I when I was in prison, that's when
I changed. I've always been a good person, you know,
I was like always a good person. I just I
made the wrong decisions and it led me, you know,
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into the wrong crowd and bringing up. I grew up
in Saugust.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, you no a shuck kid. Yeah, I'm a a
s truck kid.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I dropped out of high school. School just wasn't for me.
And like I said, I've always been a good kid.
It's just I made the wrong decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So you would never Okay, you're you were partying, you're
doing all the wrong things. But you were an addicted
that the addiction bugg didn't get you.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well it did. I was physically addicted, so you yeah, yeah,
And then I was selling them to support my habit.
And then when I went to prison, that allowed me
to get clean. I had to get clean in prison.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I didn't know there's more drugs in prison the result.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
There are, but I chose not to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So well, so you get to prison.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
One time I did it, but after that was it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well that's the one time doesn't count. You just blocked
that one off. But you're in prison and you're there
for a year obviously, so you didn't get a big set.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It almost so terrible. What did you do?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So I was selling drugs, cat selling drugs, possession with
intent and I was looking at you know, five to
seven years in the beginning, but they dragged they dragged
it out so long. It was three years I was
out on bail, and then I was showing good, you know,
started business, doing the right thing. But then after.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
See that's the pot I don't like. So you had
three years behind you doing the right thing, opened up
a company, started business, and let's put your backwards, which
could have set you backwards, which I don't like that pot.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Right, and now you see people get a jail that
do horrific things and don't even get sentenced.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And you're going why huh, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So the judge sees you going in a good direction,
it just doesn't give you. Okay, you gotta wear an
ankle bracelet for a year.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, amazing how things have changed. Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
World is in less than a decade. In eight years.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, two guys break into one of my client's houses
home arm invasion.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, let them out on an ankle bracelet. That's crazy
and one thousand dollars bail. Think they're here, right? This
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah. The systems messed up, so messed up.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And you hear you out doing the right thing three
years opened up Starge, a landscaping company. I would assume, right, yeah,
and it could have set you back tenfolds, but you
didn't allow it to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
No, it definitely didn't. I have a great family, you know,
my family.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
When did you realize you had that great family when
you came out of jail?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, I've known it my whole life, you did, yeah, okay, Yeah,
they've always supported me, even when I was in jail.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, I thought we gotta go to a break Yep,
I'm sending stump and you listen Toughest Nails on WBZ
and we'll be right back and welcome back to Tough
Nails on w busy And I'm Cindney Stumpo and I'm
here with Samantha and.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The Good Boss, the Good Boss.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We're gonna just keep calling the Good Boss. Okay, like it.
So you knew you had a good.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Family, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think most kids know they got a good family.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, no, they do.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You think most kids have good families?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No? No, I think there's a lot of kids that
come from I guess they call them broken houses.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Or you can have a broken house.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
What does that doesn't mean if you have a crappy
mom and dad, either together or not.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, then you got a crappy mom and dad. That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
That's it right, right, Well, you get one, but then
one holds the family together, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But I feel like there's such a stereotype or broken house.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, it is a stereotype.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I mean, look at you know your dad, I separated
when you were already seventeen, sixteen, seventeen, Yeah, so you
would already I liked it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Through you liked it.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Everyone will stop helicoptering me.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It was great, but already you're at that age. But
I never saw a household where you fought.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
So like when people tell me that, like their parents
got divorced, and all I did was see my parents fight,
I go, I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Know what that is.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So that was kind of my household. So my parents
did split. I ended up living with my mother. You know,
they fought. There's a lot of just yelling and screaming,
breaking things from my father's side. And I don't know,
maybe me seeing that as a kid really just changed
the way that you think.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
More fathers are the mothers. I think it's fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, really, I feel like the mothers are more more sweet.
Like my mother, she's sweet, she's you know, she's great
to me. My father's more strict. He's from Portugal from
the Azors. Yeah, and my mother wasn't as strict.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So I guess I'm my family's the opposite.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, I'm the one that all her friends and guys
and the twins I'm not. Yeah, I'm gonna keep walking.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So sitny stuff was your mother?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, I don't want to end up with some many
shoes on my feet the child's river. So I'm just
gonna keep walking. But I think in my generation, the father, you,
Dad's coming home, and Mom's like, I'm wait till your
father comes home from work, right, And you know, just
mom was just mom and dad was like okay, he
gave me that one look with the eyebrow, and I
(11:13):
knew stage left, like I pushed all the buttons. But
I never had parents that put their hands on my brother.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ye, right.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So I just think that my generation. I think I also,
being from the North Shore and then moving to Newton,
I didn't even know what stepmother and father was until
I moved to Newton.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I came home and said mom, everybody has stepped this
and stepdad. How come people? And she explained to me, well,
how come it's not like that and people, and she's like,
everybody's too poor to get divorced, to.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Just stay together.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh it So if you're rich, you can get divorced
if you're poor, but it okay. So we've established that
both parents either the mom can be real jerk off
on the father can be white people have kids, say
I think you owe your kids for the rest of
your life to me. I brought you in this world.
I can take you out and I will take care
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of you for the rest of my life. That's the
way I grew up, so and that's how I treat.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'll always be there for my girls. I'll never walk
out of them. Put it that way.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So now you come out of jail, you go, you
do your time, You come back to your business.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Who's running your business while you're in the kid.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I had to let it go, so I restarted it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hey that see that, that's where that's the system failed you.
As I'm concerned, Maybe that system didn't fail you at
the end because when you came.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Out, maybe me stronger.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Made you strong.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Wait, so I wanted what age.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So when I went into jail.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
The second time, first time the first time, but then
you have one time. But then you said something happened
and he lost his business.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That yeah, I was out on bail. So I went
to jail just for like a night, a couple of nights.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
He gets arrested, Sam judge, he makes bail and now
it goes opens up. A company keeps his ask clean
for three years and then they go into court in
front of a jury or judge.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, yes, sentence.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah. Well I was going to court like every month,
now I did. I did have a little issue, like
at the end of my term, before I knew I
was going away, I started using again. Oh okay, yeah,
so this is at the very end. And then that's
when they said, all right, just put him in no more,
you know, keeping him out on bail.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So and then you got caught with this issue.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, I was still looking at jail time, but then
I got caught. It was like three years later.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
There's a chance that if you didn't mess up at
that three year point, you might not have got No.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I still would have went no matter what, yeah, no
matter what. But I had that hanging over my head.
I was so stressed out starting a business knowing that
I'm still going to prison. So I think that just
pushed me back into doing drugs.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We could all make excuses.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Of course, yeah, but I know what I did was wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And so we know that you've sat on both sides
of the table. Now now you clean from drugs.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
How long.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Thirteen years and just celebrated thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Is it a fight for you?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
No? Not Now it's been so long you don't care. No,
it just doesn't even cross my mind. I just think
of my kids. And your drug was opioids, cocaine with alcohol.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You liked everything.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I was a party animal. I really was.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So now today, thirteen years later, you decide how many
years ago that you're going to drive around the streets
of Boston and help people. I've seen you bring food
and take them to get food and say you're ready
to get clean. When you're ready to get clean, here's
my car, and I'll get your bed.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But and you're doing this, and you're self financing all
this on your own.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
So I do gofundmes. I started a nonprofit. Now, every
person that wants to come off the streets. I do,
like I said, a GoFundMe and that's how that gets funded.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
The smallest the state money here, buddy.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't get any state money.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No, no, I know. But isn't it bothering you that you're
out there?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And we're a rich state mass Okay, we're called Taxachusetts
for yes, so, and I don't I won't make this political.
But now you're out there, single handlely trying to help people.
And then all these micros come here and they get
health care and they got what they got hotel, phones, medical.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Or what about the people that are here that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Have been here, that were born and raised in Boston.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's sad because what I'm doing is actually working. You know,
these people that want to come off the streets. I'm
giving them everything that they need, and I'm doing it
with minimal resources. You know, if I get a scholarship,
they take that scholarship, they go to a private, paid
facility where they're going to get better care. I know,
people say you can get clean anywhere as long as
you put your mind to it, but if you go
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to a private facility versus a state facility, it's going
to be much easier for you to actually do.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This going private. Yeah, but private costs money. Don't have
health insurance and we know it's some money grab yeah,
big time, right, it's a big time money.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There's a lot of facilities that are just in it
for the money. I've partnered in the past with the
ones that I think actually care about people.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But what happens when there's no money to get them
to help, they'll let them go in. First of all,
detoxing off heroin, you're out in three four days.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's correct. Well, now it's fetanyl, so it's like six
seven days for the fetanyl. Then you have trank. There's
a new drug called trank that's eating your flesh. It's
it's awful. It's more in Kensington. I found that out
because I just took a female off the streets almost
ninety days ago and she was living on the streets
for three years. And that's a whole nother story we
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can get into.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Were they living on the streets in Boston how in
the cold and this was a cold winter that we
just had, you know, And they don't go in, they
don't go to shelters, some of them do. And honey
is still on just massive just drive by, you can see.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is definitely more and more clean now, you know,
they did a good job cleaning it up.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But they do push them further down, further down.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think there's I don't know exactly where they put them,
but there is some housing. But there's still some people
you know, on the streets. But you're you're high. You're
high as a kite on drugs. Like the cold weather doesn't.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Really you know, they're walking around talking like bananas, thinking
they're talking on a phone.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That's what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's very sad.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I can't I can't go look at that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's sad, it really is. And it's scary too.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Just too hyper sense of one.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I think it's sad that they could bring them all
to the island off of Quinsy. That's an empt that's empty.
That was a hospital and they don't use it, I know,
because they don't want them. The Quinsy may or does
not want them driving through there. What do I mean
we have the hospital, yes, it was in insane hospital
at some point and so yeah, and they shut it
down because they say stopped the bridge from going there.
They could bring them all there by boat or anything,
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but they won't the quinsy mayor keep stopping it from happening.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, that's not empty building.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So there's no neighbors around. You have to take a
boat to get there.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
It makes sense to bring them there exactly. But you
need a staff the place, with actual staff that's going
to care about them and not just be there for
their paycheck. That's another thing too, you know, people have
to care. Like me, I care so much about these
people that I help because I know that they want
to do it. They're they're giving me, you know, that
chance to help them. So that tells me they want
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to do it. So I go above and beyond and
help them.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But here, look at I have to. I've been a
construction for thirty seven years. You know what construction breeds. Okay, yeah,
especially you know, I mean now the last I'd say,
the last ten years, all the guys have got older. Yeah,
I mean, so they're not dabbling, They're not you know,
they're not in their thirties anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They're not acting like idiots. No more fistfights every day.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, they're smarted up, Yeah, not.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Coming drunk and high and whacked out. And then you
the ones I have helped you flashing that. I say,
give me ten seconds. My producer wants to stop giving
me twenty three seconds. And I want to show them
I'm going to break. We're going out to commercial. His
name is Ross. You can hit him if you want.
I'm Citty stumbling. He listens to his nails on WBZ
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and we'll be right back, and welcome to Cindy stumpo
to have his nails on.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I'll be bus and I'm here with Sammy. I'm here
with the.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Good what the good boss?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Okay, I can tell you this and and maybe I'll
understand what I'm saying, and maybe you won't. There were
so many guys along the way that would help. And
I mean I did this in my twenties, my thirties,
my forties, and I go into meetings and I walk up,
I come on a job. I would know in a minute,
like you had that look in your eyes, like shoot,
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he's gonna take himself out. That's gonna be this. He's
gonna he's gonna leave work. He's gonna get high. Yeah,
he's been cleaned for a year or two years, three years.
Come on, we're going to a meeting. We'd open the
books back in those days, I'd have books in my
truck right to where the local meetings were, right, and
I'd be walking to meetings in Newton brookline, here's where
my business is, right, yeah, and people looking at me like,
you know, this is not a good look for you,
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and I and somebody walked over to me and said, well,
and I'm really here.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'm here to save him.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And then I walked into meetings with guys and they'd say,
we don't we're not comfortable Sidney stumble here because she's
not an addict. And then yeah, we'd be running the
meeting would say, look, you know, you get somebody's uncomfortab
with you being here.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's their problem. Yeah, and I ain't leaving.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But when you give so much time to these guys
and they just keep falling down and falling down and
falling down, and then you get to a point where
you've given them money and you know what they're going
to go do with the money, right, then at some point.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
My empathy would run out.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
When I lost the empathy, which would take me years
to fail a guy like really, it would take me
maybe five ten years. But once I once you lost
my empathy.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I was done.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, and I don't want to be that way, right,
you have to at that point, you're not helping yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That's right. They have to want to help themselves. And
I mean, I go through the same thing, and someone
just wants to go back to that their old ways.
I just sit on the sidelines. You know. If they
want to come back and get clean again, I'll help them,
but I'm not going to put in the effort that
I put in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's a lot of work, and then their problems become
your problems, and then I'm a cancer. So then all
of a sud it's just running through me and I'm thinking, God,
you know he's on the street.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's going to die.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Then, you know, then all of a sudden, you know,
the fatanyl And I mean I went looking for David
Sammy and it's so crazy, couldn't find David. I reached
out to his whole family on Facebook. And then David
gets in touch with me while I was in Florida.
But I opened up the same pattern because I sent
him money.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't do good.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And then you know, he wasn't doing good. And it
was like, do you have fifty bucks a hundred bucks?
That's not going to make or break me in my life,
but you're not doing the right thing, David right, And
this kid was with me from eighteen years old seventeen,
so I don't even know what. You know, a long
time with me, and it's just what it is. So
you go out there, and you go out there and
(21:48):
you spend your money. You're driving around and let the
listeners hear some of these stories.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I mean my first success story. Kid was just
hanging a sign on the corner and Lowell and I
just rolled up and said, what's up, man, you want
a job? And he's like, I do want to work,
but I don't have a valid ID. So maybe in
the business owner, I don't care. I don't need your ID. Like,
let's go. You want to work, let's go. So he
took me up in my offer. It wasn't right then
(22:16):
and there he ended up. I think it was like
two weeks later he took me up in my offer,
and so many people came together because the video went
viral because everyone cared for him. You know, he wanted
to get off the streets, but he needed that person
to approach him. And sometimes that's all people need. It's
just that one person to just be like, Hey, give
(22:37):
me an opportunity and let me run with it. So
that's what happened. We got him a full scholarship down
in Texas and he stayed down there for like two
maybe three months. This was like three years ago, and
people from all over the world knew who he was.
His name was Kevin, and it was just insane how
(22:57):
many people he reached and it just took off from there,
Like when the main thing was I told him, if
you do this, I will fly you to treatment. I
will come back to pick you up. I showed him,
or I told him that I would, you know, be
there for him. I wouldn't just stick him somewhere and leave.
So I think that just made him think like, oh
(23:18):
my god, this this kid actually cares about me. And
then I told him I give a joby He was,
I want to say, the same age as me, So
he was like thirty three at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, and you just how many nights or days out
of your month you do this?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I do it almost every day every day. If I
approach someone, if I see someone.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You're driving through Boston. Listen, you're not just in areas
that you're looking. I mean just as you have to
go into these areas.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, I mean Boston, it's Lowell, it's Chelmsford, Hampshire. It's
the main areas you know, off a highway where people and.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What about when you offer them food or help?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Some of them say no, I'm good, I don't want food.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Anybody get angry with you, want to like hurt you
or I mean you're a big boy.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
But it was one time where I thought this kid
was going to try and do something because he wanted
a dollar for me. Kept on asking me for a dollar,
and I wouldn't give him a dollar until he told
me what it was for. He said it was for socks,
and then I just kept saying no, and then finally
he said it was for drugs, and he gave them the
doll I think I gave him the dollar.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, what was a dollar going to buy him?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
A dollar towards the drugs? So if you ask me
for a dollar, asked the person behind me. This was
in McDonald's drive through.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now I see on a lot of your you know,
your posts, you're getting food for these people too, it's
like you just pull up on them and you hand
them food.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So it's my way to approach them and ask them
if they want to get off the streets.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So what I've seen you say, hey, you're hungry, and
they go, yeah, I mean I'm hungry whatever, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Just in your truck, I got food, You got food, and.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You just give that to them, and then that starts
the conversation.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, and just sometimes I say no, we don't want
your food.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Sometimes yeah, because they're sick, you know, they need their dope. Sick,
they need their drugs, and I just move on to
the next person. But I'll always give my number out,
give my card out, and if I give it out
to one hundred people, I might get one phone call.
It's sad because they're stuck. And most of them don't
believe me.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
They don't know who I am, so why should they
trust you?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, and the girls get afraid of the women get
afraid because you're a man.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You think they would, but they don't. Yeah, I've helped
more men than women. You know. I get people that comment,
why don't you help women? Well, first of all, there's
more men on the streets than women.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Is there.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, my opinion.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
So what you see there's more men?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, definitely what I see there's more men, the woman
more you know, hidden, and they have a man that
goes out and gets this stuff whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
And how many living intents.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
There's a bunch.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
This is Boston, this is a Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's cold, yeah, and him are getting older. I know.
I don't know how they do it. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And then you're going to these people you don't know
the viruses they're carrying.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Does that make you nervous at all?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I try not to think about it because I like
to think that they're you know, normal, They're not any
different than me. I mean, even though they could be.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Living on the streets, you could have parasites, you could
have viruses.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I just don't think about that. It's very rare that
I think about it. The only thing that's on my
mind is you know that? Yeah? Correct?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And I see you got no rubber gloves on it
at all. You never have a mask on.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I guess when I approach them, I don't want to
be that person to have a glove on. And they're like,
who the hell is this guy? Like, get them away
from me. I want them to accept me for you know,
approaching them. I don't want to make it seem like
I'm scared of them in any way. I mean, anyone
in the streets.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Could have some of the videos I've watched. I've been
scared for you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, a lot of people say that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So I'm just hoping that it turns out. It's okay. John,
you can stay in here. Just sit up.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's a good conversation because John is my HVAC guy.
So John's the construction visit too. And we watched on
one of our good guys go down like you said,
never did a drug ever ever and went when twenty
eight gets to a car act and hits a gas
bill when the gas truck went over, and Bobby was
with us for twenty years. Wow, And guy was set
(27:32):
me in. He plucked. He went to Brandi's university. I
think he was going to be accountant, right yeah, And
he said, what am I doing? I want to be
with my dad as a plumber, bought more two families,
three families, four plexus all through his twenties, thirties, forties.
Boom breaks every bone in his body pretty much goes
out of the little window this big, and his whole
life was ruined, lost his wife, his kids, all his mind.
(27:53):
I don't even know what Bobby would be worth today
with all that real estate. I can't even put a
number on it, because he would just kept buying, buy
and buy, smart, very smart, smart like. But again, he
didn't know he had the He didn't know he had
the bug. I didn't know he had the what I
call genetic right, because I really believe a lot of
this is. You see kids that can party come out
(28:15):
of college and never party again. And I think there's
a genetic component to who gets addicted and who doesn't.
Some people can drink and have fun and not drink,
and then there's a person just keeps drinking. I know,
they come home every night and have two three drinks, right,
but they can function and they got a great business,
and so they're functioning alcohols' But we you know, and
(28:36):
I and I held on Joe and I held on
to Bobby for you know, quite a while, and then
finally the guys came to it and said, I can't
do this anymore. Right, he's I mean, he came to
a drop site. His jeans were on by a rope,
it look like something out of you know, what's whatever
that guy's name out of you know, I forget that whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But hold on, let's go to break. I'm Sinny Stump.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
When you listen Toughest Nails on w BZ, we'll be
right back and welcome to Cindy stumpo on Toughest Nails
on WBZ.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And I'm here with Samantha, and I'm here with.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
The good Boss.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The good Boss. Let me ask you a question. How
long do you think you can keep funding this alone?
Like where it gets to a point where you can't
do this anymore? And listen, I give you all the
respects in the world that you are doing what you
do and you're an awesome person, but you work hard
for your money too.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
There's a state called Massachusetts. Okay, have you gone and
had any meetings with any of the politicians, Mia Wu
or anybody to say, listen, I need some help out here.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I feel like because I was so new, you know,
with what I was doing, they just wouldn't believe in me.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Why.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't know. I just feel like you have to
have an establishment for years and I disagree. Yeah, I
guess I was just nervous to ask.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You know how we all are in construction. We just
pile through everything.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm like an excavator, right, like, nothing's going to stop me,
nothing's going to stop you, nothing's going to stop him.
We have a different mentality contract.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, we get done. Let's called what is you?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You have to believe me on that that word. We
get We get stuff done. Okay, there's no stopping us.
It's just our personalities. It's odd the way we're born.
Like just that's why we're in this business. Right, you
can hodcore and I feel like top as nails. I
don't know, but you gotta. You have a gofund me account,
right I do, Yeah, some people donating it lately.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Nothing I mean in total, I have one fundraiser that
we raised thirty thousand, and then a few other smaller ones,
but there hasn't been raised the thirty just by making videos.
I just did like a general goalfund me. So every
video that I would put out, someone might see it
and it would be in my Instagram bio TikTok bio.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
See you're on landscaper.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah you buy mainstream products, right, you buy saw it? Yeah,
you buy loop right, using trucks, building, retaining walls. Yeah,
excent of your.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Business, right, Yeah, we do a lot of masonry.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Okay, So me as a GC, I would be reaching
out to all My vet is going Okay, I need
a thousand from you, fifteen hundred from you, two thousand
from you, depending on how big a company is, because
it's what you're all going to do. Because I give
you so much business. This is what I need you
to do. Have you ever thought about going to any
of your suppliers? No, Well that's a good idea. Yeah, guys,
(31:22):
write check out. I'm writing you checks out every week, right.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Makes sense? Giving them thousands of dollars?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Hide you seeding? What are you using?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I don't hide your seat myself? I sub it
out and I do a lot of.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Sod okay, buying from Socco. Wherever you're buying from, wherever
you're buying who you're buying.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
The sard from sod Co?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Okay, Hey Socco, listen, I'm going to come in. I
want to talk to you GM blah blah bah, I
help you. See.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I think that's my problem is I'm always out there
on the streets helping people that I have no time
to go and try.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And unfortunately, if you want to keep helping people, correct,
I need to turn that there you do Okay, this
you're not making any money, You're not taking a salary
from this. This is nothing. This is what you're just
doing to give back.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And and like I said I when I when I
had spoke on the phone, I would love to go
in that truck with you. But the truth is, you
put yourself and I'm carrying. I don't know if you're carrying,
but I mean I'm a licensed carrier, right, so I'd
felt a little better with my my I'd have like
four guns in that truck with you.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I gotta be.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Honest, let me know what day you want to come.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You'd have to take me first to ears that I
would trust a little bit more. Like ever, it reveal
like you can't bring me up to like see olim
neham shitter bed. It was like you know or but
when I watch it, it's like, okay, Sydney and I
was gone for I had to go fishing job in Florida.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
But no, you need help, buddy. You can't do this.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And the empathy you know this all this hits home
with me. It's not It's not like I'm foreign too this, right.
I lost a brother from one line of cocaine in
nineteen ninety. That's unheard of. Yeah, you don't even know
what nineteen ninety is. You're not old enough.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I was born ninety.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Okay, there you go, you're one years old, right, So.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, but it is unheard of. Just one line, that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Right, So no fatanol, nothing, nothing. Somebody was there. One
was somebody from Harvard whatever it was there and whatever happened,
they left, and they left him to die. They could
have called nine one one. He probably went to a
seize or something happened. There was nothing near nothing. So
all this always hits home with me makes me very sad.
(33:31):
But I've never drank. I've never had a glass of alcohol,
because that's good. I always said to my kids, you
don't want to become addicted to something. They never try it.
That's the only way. You never know when you when
it's going to bite you, right, And I wave about,
you know. I went by my cousin kids all the time.
She they went through the whole thing with I don't
know they were going to something, doing those stupid extits.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Actually I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Her and her brother like to ahead.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
But after three days never started press before my life
came back and never wanted to touch it ever again.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Oh there you go. You learn your lesson, and now.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
They use those same things to get people out of depression,
anxiety on all of that.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
So maybe that was a triggering.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Moment for me.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I don't know what it was, but I'm glad that
I knew. After the fact, I'm like, you're all doing
what you do what in California. But she was also
an age I had to let it go too. I mean,
it sounds like she was eighteen hell old were you
in twenty eight? Wow, you've changed a lot. Tenuous, So
we got to get through those twenties.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I was not that girl.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I was very responsible, liable, got married twenty had her
at twenty three, had opened up car dealerships with my
ex husband at twenty yeah, instead of my construction company
twenty three.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
There was no stop in me, that's all. That's just
that was the I know your generation calls in the mindset.
That was just my brain. Yeah, so my brain's saying
that you need help.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
So for all you listeners, that are listening right now.
How do they reach out to donate money?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
They can go to the Good Project dot us. They
can just go to my How.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
They go to you? Because I know the money that
you bring in, you bring to the streets. I don't
like these big funds where you don't know where the
money is going. How do people donate to your fund
where we know, I know that the money is going
to the streets.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Meet up with me and see me in person.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
But you said you had a gofund me account.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, there's a gofund me account.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
How do people find that?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
They could go to my TikTok, Instagram, there's links all
over all.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, let's make it simple because there's two types of
people out there, people that are older that use Facebook. Right, guys,
it's say older generation uses Facebook, which they're probably more generous.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Right, So are you on Facebook?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I am?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So how do they find you on Facebook?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Everything is Victor the Good Boss every right?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
So Victor the Good Boss is on.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Facebook, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
And that is that gofund me accountach to every one
of those. No, it's not the way you tell me.
For I need the ones that are connected see this
is about this is you see how he is. He's
not even about raising money. This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I know, I'm just worried about helping people. And I
know I don't know. I've had it in my bio
for so long and it's like no one donates, so
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I just never had You never had a person like
Cindy Stump.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
On your team.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Correct, I need the right person.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
But see, I'll go after everyone. Like one of my
guys falling hard times at Christmas time. Yeah, and everybody
made a donation to him. I called him in Florida.
Call him every guy at Christmas time. Send this guy
one hundred, send him two hundred. I don't want to
hear no. I know what I pay you guys, send
him money. Right, So one guy falls on hard times,
the other guys pick up, right.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Then the guy we helped, he went out and he
paid it all back by helping out somebody else that
works with this company that's awsome, by giving his labor
and helping Shah. She brought her first home in Texakata.
So you're now going to go help her because all
these guys helped you. Right, It all comes full circle
(37:12):
I'm sure it comes full circle. But if he got
into trouble, we would do the same for him. But
all my guys in construction would help you. It's just
we just need to go fund. We need to know
how to help you, and people that are listening need
to know.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah, I guess if I make one, so that's the way,
that's the best way.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
When I raise it, that's the one we can donate
tonight if we want to.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I honestly don't know. There's like so many numbers after it.
So let me just tell you this.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
When I find I find it, how does she give
you money? Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I'd have to pull it up my phone? Well, but
then do that.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Put it up on your phone. Hold on, give me
my phone, jeps, creeper.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I don't even know where that goes. There's been so
many things that I've done along the way. Let's see,
I'll pull it up right now. Yeah, every time I
find someone and make a new goalf on me, and
that's how I get people to donate for them.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I don't know, but I know you're saying my listener's
needs general.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Let me say, hole on, you haven't I haven't even.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Logged in, so long veno you have, you take checks.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I don't even have venmo. You have checked, you take Yeah,
I take checks.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I like your attitude.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Just get right to the point.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't have time to screw
around to make sure you get the money.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Okay, I have time to screw around. Guys, make it
out to who.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
The good project, the good project. Thank you very much
for this. You're gonna be a big part of helping
the next person.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
So okay, here's a fifteen donation to start.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Thank you very much. That really means a lot.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I hold that thought.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I'm Sidney Stumpo and you're listening to WBZ and we'll
be right back, And I'm Cindy Stumpo and you listen
tap his nails on WBZ. Okay, buddy, here's fifteen hundred.
Put it through from CS with development. That's the start
of trying to raise appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Hey, yeah, you make it. You have any new book
checks on you?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
No, I have cash cash throwing five hundred right now. John,
you're sitting here. You got one hundred bucks ael giving me.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I don't how's I don't screw around all right, How
do people donate?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Go to the Good Project dot us and click the
donate button. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
You're walking out of here with twenty one.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Hundred fifteen sixteen twenty one.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Hundred and how they find you again? How are you up?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Give me some good Project dot us. Click the donate
button and you'll see that.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Hit the donate mutt, hit the donate button, the donate button.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Donate button.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Everybody, have a great, safe weekend. This is Cindy Stumbo
Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty
And welcome to Cinny Stompo top his nails on WBZ.
And we have a very interesting person in the studio
right now, as far as I'm concerned, a very unique, loving,
caring human being. I don't think there's many of you
out there anymore, like people don't care anymore. But I
need to introduce you. So what is your name?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
My name is Victor, also known as Victor the Good Boss.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, speaking to go closer because I don't want people
to miss anything to say. Okay, so you have Vic
the Good Boss. Yes, why are you Vic the Good Boss?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I guess the name says it all. I take care
of my employees.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And okay, well let's go back because the listeners don't
know what do you do?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So I do landscaping, masonry, a little bit of construction.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Right up my avenue.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, maybe I can do some work for you there.
You show you how good my crew is.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We always need new guys, right, yeah, thirties because I
can't handle the guys anymore that in their fifties.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
But they I'm a responsible Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Getting tired, Yeah, I getting tired.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes, we're all getting tired. The average GC is fifty. Yeah,
I would say, the average plumbers in their forties late
forties and the average electricians in their early forties across
America right now. Yeah, so we got we've got a problem.
But it's nice to see a nice, good looking guy.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
By the way, thank you. He's married, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
He's engaged this pump okay please, okay, I'll be the
Italian mother. You can't date him anyways, he's getting I
can be both come half and half.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So you're a good boss because you take care of
you help, you treat them kindly, You treat.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Them like human beings.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So you believe in that loyalty factor.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, if you're loyal to you, guys, they're gonna be
loyal to you. They're gonna stay. You know, they're gonna
stick around.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, Sea Stumple has been around for thirty seven years
because of the philosophy and never has had a lawsuit
on anything not by an end user, a vendor, or subcontractor.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I don't think we've ever had a workman's complaim.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Knock on wood please.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
With that, With all that being said, most of the
time you teach people loyalty by showing that's right, and
you're always going to get that one.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Idiot that has zero loyalty.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Right, and they're always going to be there.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
They're always going to be there. But the majority have
found out. They've all watched her grow up. Some of
these guys are still with me.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
From day one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's loyalty.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Thirty five years old anymore, right, So a lot of
those guys have died that I started with that twenty
three years old and retired. Ohweight was a big loss
those years, awight, nine to ten. A lot of guys
went in became inspectors and salesmen or whatever. But I've
seen it all out here. But what I can tell
you that I'm seeing, and you're young enough to you'll
be able to feel this, is that the next generation
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coming up, these sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty year old kids,
they know what they want, they know what they want,
and the ones that want to go to vocational school
are going and they want to learn the trades, and
the ones that want to become doctors, lawyers and everything
in between. It's like, if we don't have, if we
don't need a college education, we're going into the trades.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, and I'm going to say it. I've been saying
for fourteen years. Your next million years are plumbers, hvac's electricians.
Now they're talking about it, but we can go back
to my TV show fourteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't even know how long.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Ago, how long two thousand and what, nine ten, nine ten,
that we talked about it radio. I've been talking about
it for nine years and you name it. I've been
on it, pushing the trades. Yeah, so it's now, but
we've lost fifteen years of getting good guys.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Out there, right, So I don't know, but you guys,
what you'll feel for a while.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You're going to find that, you know, good subs are
hard to get, but you're going to train your guys
up for what you do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know, as long as you keep your guys, you know,
if you're happy with them, you're loyal, they're going to stay.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But you also have to learn masonry. Macy is not
Oh my god, yeah, I mean no, it's not. I
mean people don't understand. They think, okay, yeah you can.
You can slap it together for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, it's going to fall apart in three years.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
What I by it, I'll know that you threw it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm like, oh boy, okay, right, So but to teach them,
you know, teach them and show them. And but it
is a form.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Of art, Yeah, it definitely is.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But what makes you other besides a good boss and
loyal you bring something very special to what you do
for the public out here in Boston, and I want
my listeners to know what you do.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah. I like to take homeless people off the streets
if they're struggling with addiction. I like to do random
acts of kindness and make the world a better place.
That's my main things.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So what you're taking a lot for granted here I
watch you on Instagram. Yeah, you can be putting yourself
into very dangerous situations out there, extremely dangerous, and you're
by yourself in that truck.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah. Sometimes my friends with me, but most of the
time I'm by myself.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And you're just stopping and you're you're paying for this
out of your pocket.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah for the most part.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
You know, you get married, right, Yeah, she's gonna tell you, like, hey, buddy,
we need that we're gonna have a child soon, Like
you need to like.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh, I have two kids, Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You have two kids.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh yeah, all right, So and you do this because
why you just want to sincerely help people.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, because I know there's some people that are on
the streets are you know, struggling with addiction that they
didn't choose that life. It just happened. Oka you can
get into an accident and then go to the hospital,
get prescribed a pill or whatever. He addicted, and then
you're addicted. You know. Not everyone chooses it. Yeah, I
mean when I was young, I was stupid. I chose
drugs because I wanted to. But I cleaned my act
(05:37):
up and I ended up going to prison and I
came a long way, you know, I really.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So you've been on both sides.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
There goes that now, so you've lived in that lifestyle
and now you're living this lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And obviously at what age did you switch? What age
were you when you got arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I was arrested, so I went to prison in twenty twelve.
I got out at the end of twenty and thirteen.
So when I when I was in prison, that's when
I changed. I've always been a good person, you know,
I was like always a good person. I just I
made the wrong decisions and it led me, you know,
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into the wrong crowd and bringing up. I grew up
in Saugust.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Okay, you no a shuck kid. Yeah, I'm a a
s truck kid.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I dropped out of high school. School just wasn't for me.
And like I said, I've always been a good kid.
It's just I made the wrong decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So you would never Okay, you're you were partying, you're
doing all the wrong things. But you were an addicted
that the addiction bugg didn't get you.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well it did. I was physically addicted, so you yeah, yeah,
And then I was selling them to support my habit.
And then when I went to prison, that allowed me
to get clean. I had to get clean in prison.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I didn't know there's more drugs in prison the result.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
There are, but I chose not to do it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So well, so you get to prison.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
One time I did it, but after that was it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well that's the one time doesn't count. You just blocked
that one off. But you're in prison and you're there
for a year obviously, so you didn't get a big set.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It almost so terrible. What did you do?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So I was selling drugs, cat selling drugs, possession with
intent and I was looking at you know, five to
seven years in the beginning, but they dragged they dragged
it out so long. It was three years I was
out on bail, and then I was showing good, you know,
started business, doing the right thing. But then after.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
See that's the pot I don't like. So you had
three years behind you doing the right thing, opened up
a company, started business, and let's put your backwards, which
could have set you backwards, which I don't like that pot.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Right, and now you see people get a jail that
do horrific things and don't even get sentenced.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And you're going why huh, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So the judge sees you going in a good direction,
it just doesn't give you. Okay, you gotta wear an
ankle bracelet for a year.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, amazing how things have changed. Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
World is in less than a decade. In eight years.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, two guys break into one of my client's houses
home arm invasion.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, let them out on an ankle bracelet. That's crazy
and one thousand dollars bail. Think they're here, right? This
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yeah. The systems messed up, so messed up.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And you hear you out doing the right thing three
years opened up Starge, a landscaping company. I would assume, right, yeah,
and it could have set you back tenfolds, but you
didn't allow it to.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
No, it definitely didn't. I have a great family, you know,
my family.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
When did you realize you had that great family when
you came out of jail?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, I've known it my whole life, you did, yeah, okay, Yeah,
they've always supported me, even when I was in jail.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, I thought we gotta go to a break Yep,
I'm sending stump and you listen Toughest Nails on WBZ
and we'll be right back and welcome back to Tough
Nails on w busy And I'm Cindney Stumpo and I'm
here with Samantha and.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The Good Boss, the Good Boss.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We're gonna just keep calling the Good Boss. Okay, like it.
So you knew you had a good.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Family, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think most kids know they got a good family.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, no, they do.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You think most kids have good families?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No? No, I think there's a lot of kids that
come from I guess they call them broken houses.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Or you can have a broken house.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
What does that doesn't mean if you have a crappy
mom and dad, either together or not.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, then you got a crappy mom and dad. That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
That's it right, right, Well, you get one, but then
one holds the family together, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But I feel like there's such a stereotype or broken house.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, it is a stereotype.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I mean, look at you know your dad, I separated
when you were already seventeen, sixteen, seventeen, Yeah, so you
would already I liked it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Through you liked it.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Everyone will stop helicoptering me.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It was great, but already you're at that age. But
I never saw a household where you fought.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
So like when people tell me that, like their parents
got divorced, and all I did was see my parents fight,
I go, I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Know what that is.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So that was kind of my household. So my parents
did split. I ended up living with my mother. You know,
they fought. There's a lot of just yelling and screaming,
breaking things from my father's side. And I don't know,
maybe me seeing that as a kid really just changed
the way that you think.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
More fathers are the mothers. I think it's fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, really, I feel like the mothers are more more sweet.
Like my mother, she's sweet, she's you know, she's great
to me. My father's more strict. He's from Portugal from
the Azors. Yeah, and my mother wasn't as strict.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So I guess I'm my family's the opposite.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, I'm the one that all her friends and guys
and the twins I'm not. Yeah, I'm gonna keep walking.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So sitny stuff was your mother?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, I don't want to end up with some many
shoes on my feet the child's river. So I'm just
gonna keep walking. But I think in my generation, the father, you,
Dad's coming home, and Mom's like, I'm wait till your
father comes home from work, right, And you know, just
mom was just mom and dad was like okay, he
gave me that one look with the eyebrow, and I
(11:13):
knew stage left, like I pushed all the buttons. But
I never had parents that put their hands on my brother.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ye, right.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So I just think that my generation. I think I also,
being from the North Shore and then moving to Newton,
I didn't even know what stepmother and father was until
I moved to Newton.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I came home and said mom, everybody has stepped this
and stepdad. How come people? And she explained to me, well,
how come it's not like that and people, and she's like,
everybody's too poor to get divorced, to.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Just stay together.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh it So if you're rich, you can get divorced
if you're poor, but it okay. So we've established that
both parents either the mom can be real jerk off
on the father can be white people have kids, say
I think you owe your kids for the rest of
your life to me. I brought you in this world.
I can take you out and I will take care
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of you for the rest of my life. That's the
way I grew up, so and that's how I treat.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'll always be there for my girls. I'll never walk
out of them. Put it that way.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So now you come out of jail, you go, you
do your time, You come back to your business.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Who's running your business while you're in the kid.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I had to let it go, so I restarted it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Hey that see that, that's where that's the system failed you.
As I'm concerned, Maybe that system didn't fail you at
the end because when you came.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Out, maybe me stronger.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Made you strong.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Wait, so I wanted what age.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
So when I went into jail.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
The second time, first time the first time, but then
you have one time. But then you said something happened
and he lost his business.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That yeah, I was out on bail. So I went
to jail just for like a night, a couple of nights.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
He gets arrested, Sam judge, he makes bail and now
it goes opens up. A company keeps his ask clean
for three years and then they go into court in
front of a jury or judge.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, yes, sentence.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah. Well I was going to court like every month,
now I did. I did have a little issue, like
at the end of my term, before I knew I
was going away, I started using again. Oh okay, yeah,
so this is at the very end. And then that's
when they said, all right, just put him in no more,
you know, keeping him out on bail.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So and then you got caught with this issue.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, I was still looking at jail time, but then
I got caught. It was like three years later.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
There's a chance that if you didn't mess up at
that three year point, you might not have got No.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I still would have went no matter what, yeah, no
matter what. But I had that hanging over my head.
I was so stressed out starting a business knowing that
I'm still going to prison. So I think that just
pushed me back into doing drugs.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
We could all make excuses.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Of course, yeah, but I know what I did was wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And so we know that you've sat on both sides
of the table. Now now you clean from drugs.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
How long.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Thirteen years and just celebrated thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Is it a fight for you?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
No? Not Now it's been so long you don't care. No,
it just doesn't even cross my mind. I just think
of my kids. And your drug was opioids, cocaine with alcohol.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You liked everything.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, I was a party animal. I really was.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So now today, thirteen years later, you decide how many
years ago that you're going to drive around the streets
of Boston and help people. I've seen you bring food
and take them to get food and say you're ready
to get clean. When you're ready to get clean, here's
my car, and I'll get your bed.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But and you're doing this, and you're self financing all
this on your own.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
So I do gofundmes. I started a nonprofit. Now, every
person that wants to come off the streets. I do,
like I said, a GoFundMe and that's how that gets funded.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
The smallest the state money here, buddy.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't get any state money.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No, no, I know. But isn't it bothering you that you're
out there?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And we're a rich state mass Okay, we're called Taxachusetts
for yes, so, and I don't I won't make this political.
But now you're out there, single handlely trying to help people.
And then all these micros come here and they get
health care and they got what they got hotel, phones, medical.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Or what about the people that are here that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Have been here, that were born and raised in Boston.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It's sad because what I'm doing is actually working. You know,
these people that want to come off the streets. I'm
giving them everything that they need, and I'm doing it
with minimal resources. You know, if I get a scholarship,
they take that scholarship, they go to a private, paid
facility where they're going to get better care. I know,
people say you can get clean anywhere as long as
you put your mind to it, but if you go
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to a private facility versus a state facility, it's going
to be much easier for you to actually do.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
This going private. Yeah, but private costs money. Don't have
health insurance and we know it's some money grab yeah,
big time, right, it's a big time money.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There's a lot of facilities that are just in it
for the money. I've partnered in the past with the
ones that I think actually care about people.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But what happens when there's no money to get them
to help, they'll let them go in. First of all,
detoxing off heroin, you're out in three four days.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's correct. Well, now it's fetanyl, so it's like six
seven days for the fetanyl. Then you have trank. There's
a new drug called trank that's eating your flesh. It's
it's awful. It's more in Kensington. I found that out
because I just took a female off the streets almost
ninety days ago and she was living on the streets
for three years. And that's a whole nother story we
(16:34):
can get into.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Were they living on the streets in Boston how in
the cold and this was a cold winter that we
just had, you know, And they don't go in, they
don't go to shelters, some of them do. And honey
is still on just massive just drive by, you can see.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is definitely more and more clean now, you know,
they did a good job cleaning it up.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But they do push them further down, further down.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think there's I don't know exactly where they put them,
but there is some housing. But there's still some people
you know, on the streets. But you're you're high. You're
high as a kite on drugs. Like the cold weather doesn't.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Really you know, they're walking around talking like bananas, thinking
they're talking on a phone.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That's what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's very sad.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I can't I can't go look at that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's sad, it really is. And it's scary too.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Just too hyper sense of one.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I think it's sad that they could bring them all
to the island off of Quinsy. That's an empt that's empty.
That was a hospital and they don't use it, I know,
because they don't want them. The Quinsy may or does
not want them driving through there. What do I mean
we have the hospital, yes, it was in insane hospital
at some point and so yeah, and they shut it
down because they say stopped the bridge from going there.
They could bring them all there by boat or anything,
(17:41):
but they won't the quinsy mayor keep stopping it from happening.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, that's not empty building.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So there's no neighbors around. You have to take a
boat to get there.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
It makes sense to bring them there exactly. But you
need a staff the place, with actual staff that's going
to care about them and not just be there for
their paycheck. That's another thing too, you know, people have
to care. Like me, I care so much about these
people that I help because I know that they want
to do it. They're they're giving me, you know, that
chance to help them. So that tells me they want
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to do it. So I go above and beyond and
help them.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But here, look at I have to. I've been a
construction for thirty seven years. You know what construction breeds. Okay, yeah,
especially you know, I mean now the last I'd say,
the last ten years, all the guys have got older. Yeah,
I mean, so they're not dabbling, They're not you know,
they're not in their thirties anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They're not acting like idiots. No more fistfights every day.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, they're smarted up, Yeah, not.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Coming drunk and high and whacked out. And then you
the ones I have helped you flashing that. I say,
give me ten seconds. My producer wants to stop giving
me twenty three seconds. And I want to show them
I'm going to break. We're going out to commercial. His
name is Ross. You can hit him if you want.
I'm Citty stumbling. He listens to his nails on WBZ
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and we'll be right back, and welcome to Cindy stumpo
to have his nails on.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I'll be bus and I'm here with Sammy. I'm here
with the.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Good what the good boss?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Okay, I can tell you this and and maybe I'll
understand what I'm saying, and maybe you won't. There were
so many guys along the way that would help. And
I mean I did this in my twenties, my thirties,
my forties, and I go into meetings and I walk up,
I come on a job. I would know in a minute,
like you had that look in your eyes, like shoot,
(19:24):
he's gonna take himself out. That's gonna be this. He's
gonna he's gonna leave work. He's gonna get high. Yeah,
he's been cleaned for a year or two years, three years.
Come on, we're going to a meeting. We'd open the
books back in those days, I'd have books in my
truck right to where the local meetings were, right, and
I'd be walking to meetings in Newton brookline, here's where
my business is, right, yeah, and people looking at me like,
you know, this is not a good look for you,
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and I and somebody walked over to me and said, well,
and I'm really here.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'm here to save him.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And then I walked into meetings with guys and they'd say,
we don't we're not comfortable Sidney stumble here because she's
not an addict. And then yeah, we'd be running the
meeting would say, look, you know, you get somebody's uncomfortab
with you being here.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's their problem. Yeah, and I ain't leaving.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But when you give so much time to these guys
and they just keep falling down and falling down and
falling down, and then you get to a point where
you've given them money and you know what they're going
to go do with the money, right, then at some point.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
My empathy would run out.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
When I lost the empathy, which would take me years
to fail a guy like really, it would take me
maybe five ten years. But once I once you lost
my empathy.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I was done.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, and I don't want to be that way, right,
you have to at that point, you're not helping yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That's right. They have to want to help themselves. And
I mean, I go through the same thing, and someone
just wants to go back to that their old ways.
I just sit on the sidelines. You know. If they
want to come back and get clean again, I'll help them,
but I'm not going to put in the effort that
I put in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's a lot of work, and then their problems become
your problems, and then I'm a cancer. So then all
of a sud it's just running through me and I'm thinking, God,
you know he's on the street.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's going to die.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Then, you know, then all of a sudden, you know,
the fatanyl And I mean I went looking for David
Sammy and it's so crazy, couldn't find David. I reached
out to his whole family on Facebook. And then David
gets in touch with me while I was in Florida.
But I opened up the same pattern because I sent
him money.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't do good.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And then you know, he wasn't doing good. And it
was like, do you have fifty bucks a hundred bucks?
That's not going to make or break me in my life,
but you're not doing the right thing, David right, And
this kid was with me from eighteen years old seventeen,
so I don't even know what. You know, a long
time with me, and it's just what it is. So
you go out there, and you go out there and
(21:48):
you spend your money. You're driving around and let the
listeners hear some of these stories.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I mean my first success story. Kid was just
hanging a sign on the corner and Lowell and I
just rolled up and said, what's up, man, you want
a job? And he's like, I do want to work,
but I don't have a valid ID. So maybe in
the business owner, I don't care. I don't need your ID. Like,
let's go. You want to work, let's go. So he
took me up in my offer. It wasn't right then
(22:16):
and there he ended up. I think it was like
two weeks later he took me up in my offer,
and so many people came together because the video went
viral because everyone cared for him. You know, he wanted
to get off the streets, but he needed that person
to approach him. And sometimes that's all people need. It's
just that one person to just be like, Hey, give
(22:37):
me an opportunity and let me run with it. So
that's what happened. We got him a full scholarship down
in Texas and he stayed down there for like two
maybe three months. This was like three years ago, and
people from all over the world knew who he was.
His name was Kevin, and it was just insane how
(22:57):
many people he reached and it just took off from there,
Like when the main thing was I told him, if
you do this, I will fly you to treatment. I
will come back to pick you up. I showed him,
or I told him that I would, you know, be
there for him. I wouldn't just stick him somewhere and leave.
So I think that just made him think like, oh
(23:18):
my god, this this kid actually cares about me. And
then I told him I give a joby He was,
I want to say, the same age as me, So
he was like thirty three at the time.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, and you just how many nights or days out
of your month you do this?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I do it almost every day every day. If I
approach someone, if I see someone.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You're driving through Boston. Listen, you're not just in areas
that you're looking. I mean just as you have to
go into these areas.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, I mean Boston, it's Lowell, it's Chelmsford, Hampshire. It's
the main areas you know, off a highway where people and.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What about when you offer them food or help?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Some of them say no, I'm good, I don't want food.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Anybody get angry with you, want to like hurt you
or I mean you're a big boy.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
But it was one time where I thought this kid
was going to try and do something because he wanted
a dollar for me. Kept on asking me for a dollar,
and I wouldn't give him a dollar until he told
me what it was for. He said it was for socks,
and then I just kept saying no, and then finally
he said it was for drugs, and he gave them the
doll I think I gave him the dollar.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, what was a dollar going to buy him?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
A dollar towards the drugs? So if you ask me
for a dollar, asked the person behind me. This was
in McDonald's drive through.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now I see on a lot of your you know,
your posts, you're getting food for these people too, it's
like you just pull up on them and you hand
them food.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So it's my way to approach them and ask them
if they want to get off the streets.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So what I've seen you say, hey, you're hungry, and
they go, yeah, I mean I'm hungry whatever, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Just in your truck, I got food, You got food, and.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You just give that to them, and then that starts
the conversation.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, and just sometimes I say no, we don't want
your food.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Sometimes yeah, because they're sick, you know, they need their dope. Sick,
they need their drugs, and I just move on to
the next person. But I'll always give my number out,
give my card out, and if I give it out
to one hundred people, I might get one phone call.
It's sad because they're stuck. And most of them don't
believe me.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
They don't know who I am, so why should they
trust you?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, and the girls get afraid of the women get
afraid because you're a man.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You think they would, but they don't. Yeah, I've helped
more men than women. You know. I get people that comment,
why don't you help women? Well, first of all, there's
more men on the streets than women.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Is there.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, my opinion.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
So what you see there's more men?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, definitely what I see there's more men, the woman
more you know, hidden, and they have a man that
goes out and gets this stuff whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
And how many living intents.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
There's a bunch.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
This is Boston, this is a Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's cold, yeah, and him are getting older. I know.
I don't know how they do it. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And then you're going to these people you don't know
the viruses they're carrying.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Does that make you nervous at all?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I try not to think about it because I like
to think that they're you know, normal, They're not any
different than me. I mean, even though they could be.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Living on the streets, you could have parasites, you could
have viruses.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I just don't think about that. It's very rare that
I think about it. The only thing that's on my
mind is you know that? Yeah? Correct?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And I see you got no rubber gloves on it
at all. You never have a mask on.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I guess when I approach them, I don't want to
be that person to have a glove on. And they're like,
who the hell is this guy? Like, get them away
from me. I want them to accept me for you know,
approaching them. I don't want to make it seem like
I'm scared of them in any way. I mean, anyone
in the streets.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Could have some of the videos I've watched. I've been
scared for you.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, a lot of people say that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So I'm just hoping that it turns out. It's okay. John,
you can stay in here. Just sit up.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's a good conversation because John is my HVAC guy.
So John's the construction visit too. And we watched on
one of our good guys go down like you said,
never did a drug ever ever and went when twenty
eight gets to a car act and hits a gas
bill when the gas truck went over, and Bobby was
with us for twenty years. Wow, And guy was set
(27:32):
me in. He plucked. He went to Brandi's university. I
think he was going to be accountant, right yeah, And
he said, what am I doing? I want to be
with my dad as a plumber, bought more two families,
three families, four plexus all through his twenties, thirties, forties.
Boom breaks every bone in his body pretty much goes
out of the little window this big, and his whole
life was ruined, lost his wife, his kids, all his mind.
(27:53):
I don't even know what Bobby would be worth today
with all that real estate. I can't even put a
number on it, because he would just kept buying, buy
and buy, smart, very smart, smart like. But again, he
didn't know he had the He didn't know he had
the bug. I didn't know he had the what I
call genetic right, because I really believe a lot of
this is. You see kids that can party come out
(28:15):
of college and never party again. And I think there's
a genetic component to who gets addicted and who doesn't.
Some people can drink and have fun and not drink,
and then there's a person just keeps drinking. I know,
they come home every night and have two three drinks, right,
but they can function and they got a great business,
and so they're functioning alcohols' But we you know, and
(28:36):
I and I held on Joe and I held on
to Bobby for you know, quite a while, and then
finally the guys came to it and said, I can't
do this anymore. Right, he's I mean, he came to
a drop site. His jeans were on by a rope,
it look like something out of you know, what's whatever
that guy's name out of you know, I forget that whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But hold on, let's go to break. I'm Sinny Stump.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
When you listen Toughest Nails on w BZ, we'll be
right back and welcome to Cindy stumpo on Toughest Nails
on WBZ.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
And I'm here with Samantha, and I'm here with.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
The good Boss.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The good Boss. Let me ask you a question. How
long do you think you can keep funding this alone?
Like where it gets to a point where you can't
do this anymore? And listen, I give you all the
respects in the world that you are doing what you
do and you're an awesome person, but you work hard
for your money too.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
There's a state called Massachusetts. Okay, have you gone and
had any meetings with any of the politicians, Mia Wu
or anybody to say, listen, I need some help out here.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I feel like because I was so new, you know,
with what I was doing, they just wouldn't believe in me.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Why.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't know. I just feel like you have to
have an establishment for years and I disagree. Yeah, I
guess I was just nervous to ask.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You know how we all are in construction. We just
pile through everything.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm like an excavator, right, like, nothing's going to stop me,
nothing's going to stop you, nothing's going to stop him.
We have a different mentality contract.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, we get done. Let's called what is you?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You have to believe me on that that word. We
get We get stuff done. Okay, there's no stopping us.
It's just our personalities. It's odd the way we're born.
Like just that's why we're in this business. Right, you
can hodcore and I feel like top as nails. I
don't know, but you gotta. You have a gofund me account,
right I do, Yeah, some people donating it lately.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Nothing I mean in total, I have one fundraiser that
we raised thirty thousand, and then a few other smaller ones,
but there hasn't been raised the thirty just by making videos.
I just did like a general goalfund me. So every
video that I would put out, someone might see it
and it would be in my Instagram bio TikTok bio.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
See you're on landscaper.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah you buy mainstream products, right, you buy saw it? Yeah,
you buy loop right, using trucks, building, retaining walls. Yeah,
excent of your.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Business, right, Yeah, we do a lot of masonry.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Okay, So me as a GC, I would be reaching
out to all My vet is going Okay, I need
a thousand from you, fifteen hundred from you, two thousand
from you, depending on how big a company is, because
it's what you're all going to do. Because I give
you so much business. This is what I need you
to do. Have you ever thought about going to any
of your suppliers? No, Well that's a good idea. Yeah, guys,
(31:22):
write check out. I'm writing you checks out every week, right.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Makes sense? Giving them thousands of dollars?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Hide you seeding? What are you using?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I don't hide your seat myself? I sub it
out and I do a lot of.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Sod okay, buying from Socco. Wherever you're buying from, wherever
you're buying who you're buying.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
The sard from sod Co?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Okay, Hey Socco, listen, I'm going to come in. I
want to talk to you GM blah blah bah, I
help you. See.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I think that's my problem is I'm always out there
on the streets helping people that I have no time
to go and try.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And unfortunately, if you want to keep helping people, correct,
I need to turn that there you do Okay, this
you're not making any money, You're not taking a salary
from this. This is nothing. This is what you're just
doing to give back.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And and like I said I when I when I
had spoke on the phone, I would love to go
in that truck with you. But the truth is, you
put yourself and I'm carrying. I don't know if you're carrying,
but I mean I'm a licensed carrier, right, so I'd
felt a little better with my my I'd have like
four guns in that truck with you.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I gotta be.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Honest, let me know what day you want to come.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You'd have to take me first to ears that I
would trust a little bit more. Like ever, it reveal
like you can't bring me up to like see olim
neham shitter bed. It was like you know or but
when I watch it, it's like, okay, Sydney and I
was gone for I had to go fishing job in Florida.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
But no, you need help, buddy. You can't do this.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And the empathy you know this all this hits home
with me. It's not It's not like I'm foreign too this, right.
I lost a brother from one line of cocaine in
nineteen ninety. That's unheard of. Yeah, you don't even know
what nineteen ninety is. You're not old enough.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I was born ninety.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Okay, there you go, you're one years old, right, So.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
No, but it is unheard of. Just one line, that's right.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Right, So no fatanol, nothing, nothing. Somebody was there. One
was somebody from Harvard whatever it was there and whatever happened,
they left, and they left him to die. They could
have called nine one one. He probably went to a
seize or something happened. There was nothing near nothing. So
all this always hits home with me makes me very sad.
(33:31):
But I've never drank. I've never had a glass of alcohol,
because that's good. I always said to my kids, you
don't want to become addicted to something. They never try it.
That's the only way. You never know when you when
it's going to bite you, right, And I wave about,
you know. I went by my cousin kids all the time.
She they went through the whole thing with I don't
know they were going to something, doing those stupid extits.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Actually I'm watching.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Her and her brother like to ahead.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
But after three days never started press before my life
came back and never wanted to touch it ever again.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Oh there you go. You learn your lesson, and now.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
They use those same things to get people out of depression,
anxiety on all of that.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
So maybe that was a triggering.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Moment for me.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I don't know what it was, but I'm glad that
I knew. After the fact, I'm like, you're all doing
what you do what in California. But she was also
an age I had to let it go too. I mean,
it sounds like she was eighteen hell old were you
in twenty eight? Wow, you've changed a lot. Tenuous, So
we got to get through those twenties.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I was not that girl.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I was very responsible, liable, got married twenty had her
at twenty three, had opened up car dealerships with my
ex husband at twenty yeah, instead of my construction company
twenty three.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
There was no stop in me, that's all. That's just
that was the I know your generation calls in the mindset.
That was just my brain. Yeah, so my brain's saying
that you need help.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
So for all you listeners, that are listening right now.
How do they reach out to donate money?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
They can go to the Good Project dot us. They
can just go to my How.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
They go to you? Because I know the money that
you bring in, you bring to the streets. I don't
like these big funds where you don't know where the
money is going. How do people donate to your fund
where we know, I know that the money is going
to the streets.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Meet up with me and see me in person.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
But you said you had a gofund me account.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, there's a gofund me account.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
How do people find that?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
They could go to my TikTok, Instagram, there's links all
over all.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, let's make it simple because there's two types of
people out there, people that are older that use Facebook. Right, guys,
it's say older generation uses Facebook, which they're probably more generous.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Right, So are you on Facebook?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I am?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So how do they find you on Facebook?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Everything is Victor the Good Boss every right?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
So Victor the Good Boss is on.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Facebook, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
And that is that gofund me accountach to every one
of those. No, it's not the way you tell me.
For I need the ones that are connected see this
is about this is you see how he is. He's
not even about raising money. This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I know, I'm just worried about helping people. And I
know I don't know. I've had it in my bio
for so long and it's like no one donates, so
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I just never had You never had a person like
Cindy Stump.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
On your team.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Correct, I need the right person.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
But see, I'll go after everyone. Like one of my
guys falling hard times at Christmas time. Yeah, and everybody
made a donation to him. I called him in Florida.
Call him every guy at Christmas time. Send this guy
one hundred, send him two hundred. I don't want to
hear no. I know what I pay you guys, send
him money. Right, So one guy falls on hard times,
the other guys pick up, right.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Then the guy we helped, he went out and he
paid it all back by helping out somebody else that
works with this company that's awsome, by giving his labor
and helping Shah. She brought her first home in Texakata.
So you're now going to go help her because all
these guys helped you. Right, It all comes full circle
(37:12):
I'm sure it comes full circle. But if he got
into trouble, we would do the same for him. But
all my guys in construction would help you. It's just
we just need to go fund. We need to know
how to help you, and people that are listening need
to know.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah, I guess if I make one, so that's the way,
that's the best way.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
When I raise it, that's the one we can donate
tonight if we want to.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I honestly don't know. There's like so many numbers after it.
So let me just tell you this.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
When I find I find it, how does she give
you money? Right now?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I'd have to pull it up my phone? Well, but
then do that.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Put it up on your phone. Hold on, give me
my phone, jeps, creeper.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I don't even know where that goes. There's been so
many things that I've done along the way. Let's see,
I'll pull it up right now. Yeah, every time I
find someone and make a new goalf on me, and
that's how I get people to donate for them.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I don't know, but I know you're saying my listener's
needs general.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Let me say, hole on, you haven't I haven't even.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Logged in, so long veno you have, you take checks.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I don't even have venmo. You have checked, you take Yeah,
I take checks.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I like your attitude.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Just get right to the point.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't have time to screw
around to make sure you get the money.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Okay, I have time to screw around. Guys, make it
out to who.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
The good project, the good project. Thank you very much
for this. You're gonna be a big part of helping
the next person.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
So okay, here's a fifteen donation to start.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Thank you very much. That really means a lot.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I hold that thought.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I'm Sidney Stumpo and you're listening to WBZ and we'll
be right back, And I'm Cindy Stumpo and you listen
tap his nails on WBZ. Okay, buddy, here's fifteen hundred.
Put it through from CS with development. That's the start
of trying to raise appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Hey, yeah, you make it. You have any new book
checks on you?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
No, I have cash cash throwing five hundred right now. John,
you're sitting here. You got one hundred bucks ael giving me.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I don't how's I don't screw around all right, How
do people donate?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Go to the Good Project dot us and click the
donate button. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
You're walking out of here with twenty one.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Hundred fifteen sixteen twenty one.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Hundred and how they find you again? How are you up?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Give me some good Project dot us. Click the donate
button and you'll see that.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Hit the donate mutt, hit the donate button, the donate button.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Donate button.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Everybody, have a great, safe weekend. This is Cindy Stumbo
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