- So there are so many awesome cities from coast to coast
that give this show love everyday
and so I wanted to celebrate them
and have them celebrate each other.
So we're coming to your hometowns
showcasing what really makes a city amazing,
and that's the people and the culture.
The first stop on this tour is the city
they call 'Bean Town'.
This is good neighborhood Boston.
(applause)
♪ Good neighborhood ♪
- Hey Boston.
- A;right let's head over to Boston Harbor
where our friend Jackie Bruno from NBC 10 Boston
is standing by.
What's up Jackie!
(applause)
- Hey Kelly.
- [Kelly] How's it going?
- So good to see you.
I'm here at the...
It's going great.
I'm here at the Hyatt Regency,
right on Boston Harbor.
Check out this view behind me.
It os really incredible.
It is an overcast day here in Boston
but wow it's still such a spectacular view here.
- Yeah I just love that there's one lonely boat
that might use those sticks standing up
out of the water behind you.
( audience laugh)
Like it's a solitaire boat
but it was a good day. - I know.
It is absolutely gorgeous. - [Jackie] Party Sailor.
I love Boston.
It's one of my favorite cities to tour.
So I'm just gonna give a shout out to Boston fans.
They are so fun to play for.
Bostonian's, they are so excited
about sports or singing. - [Jackie] Yes.
It's awesome.
So--- (applause)
But there's something else happening in Boston
and it sounds delicious.
Tell us about it.
- There's actually a chocolate Festival going on right now
in Cambridge.
The Harvard Square Business Association
puts this on every single year
and it's a great way to get all the best
chocolatiers in the same area.
I'm actually joined by Jen from Cabot's Candy.
And Jen, this company has an incredible legacy here
in Massachusetts.
- Yeah we've been in Provincetown, Massachusetts since 1927,
where we make our own saltwater taffy, fudge, brittle.
And we have a store here in Harvard Square
where our friends at the Harvard Square Business Association
invite us every year.
It's a blast, it's free and open to the public,
and people line up around the block for samples.
- Oh my goodness then I have to try a sample.
Okay, so this is the...
What is this?
- This is chocolate cherry.
- Chocolate cherry Kelly.
Oh my God, this is so good.
And I'm talking with my mouth full,
but we also sent Cabot's Candy.
Sent it to you and your audience
right now in LA. - Yeeessss!
(applause)
- Well all right.
Thank you Ran.
So Jackie, not only do you have something sweet
but I heard you also have someone sweet there as well.
Introduce us.
- I certainly do.
Check this out.
Someone with better hair than me, Chase Winovich.
He is the - [Kelly] Yes!
Defensive end of the New England Patriots.
- Oh my gosh.
- Great to be here, great to be here.
- We're so excited to have you here.
- Thank you so much for having me on Kelly, big fan.
- Absolutely.
- Unfortunately I couldn't bring the sunshine here
but you know hopefully I brought some with
my hair as well. - [Kelly] I love your hair.
I'm just excited to be here, honestly.
This is great.
- I mean your look right now.
- And I brought some chocolate
for everyone in the audience, so you guys are welcome.
- How are you not a
member of the cast of Game Of Thrones is my question?
(audience laugh)
You are perfect, your whole look.
You could have been such a badass on that battlefield.
- I might just be.
- So you guys do some amazing things around the Boston area.
What do you do for fun?
- So I hit people for fun.
No, well I shouldn't say that.
(audience laugh)
I give them hugs, I give them hugs.
All right we gotta be a little safer
with the word choice there.
But in my spare time, we're definitely,
it's a big emphasis playing on the Patriots
getting involved in the community and giving back.
Countless visits to the hospital here,
the Children's Hospital in Boston.
We even actually broke ground on a playground
we were assembling everything.
So when we talk about boots on the ground,
maybe not the Revolutionary War sense anymore,
but the Patriots are definitely about getting
some boots on the ground and giving back to the community,
and it's fun.
- That's really important.
(applause) - [Chase] Blessed.
- That's really important, yeah.
- [Chase] Thank you.
- Well there is so many kind people in Boston.
Check out this group of neighbors y'all.
So they've been named Bostonian's of the year
after going out of their way for one special little girl
on their cul de sac.
Meet Glenda, Raffy, and their three year old baby girl,
Samantha, who is deaf,
and this is good neighbor Boston y'all.
(applause)
♪ Boston's a good good ♪
♪ So good ♪
♪ Good neighbor ♪
- [Woman] Hey Boston.
- [Kelly] She's clapping.
I learned this and I want to do this.
Hi.
I know I learned this.
Hi.
It is a okay wait.
It is
or my name
is Kelly.
And then...
I'll help you, I'll help you, I'll help you.
- [Man] Are you sure that's what you said.
(panel laugh)
- You wanna put it down.
- I think she got that wrong.
- Can I help you?
No, no, I think she just mooned me.
So I didn't do it right, I didn't do it right.
- [Man] What did she really sign?
- I think it's just your mooning us.
It's fine, we'll block that out.
Sometimes I feel like doing that too.
So you moved to Newton a few weeks
before you had Samantha, right?
- Yeah so we moved to Newton and I was very pregnant,
and we were meeting all these new people
who were essentially strangers,
and they were so warm and welcoming and,
they would bring cookies over, and invite us to dinner.
And then after I had Sam, about a week later
we found out she was deaf.
So immediately we starting learning sign language,
but I had no idea how the community would come together
to support us.
- That's amazing.
So explain what your good neighbors did.
- I think the story begins when we would take Sam
out on stroller rides, and we'd be signing with her,
and some of the neighbors noticed,
and four women at the end of our cul de sac
signed up to take these adult education courses
in sign language, so they could learn.
- It was amazing they signed up without even
mentioning it to us.
And we were just... - [Kelly] That's so cool.
It was just so heart warming
that they'd go out of their way to try to learn a
new language for us and our family.
- She's done with that bow.
That's like my daughter.
How did that make you feel though as a community?
I mean 'cause it's not like you had known these people
forever and they leaned in to experience your life and help.
You just met these people.
- Right.
It was so meaningful to us.
And I did have some fears after having her.
Would she feel isolated?
Would she be able to connect with other people?
And the fact that these neighbors came together,
and not only learned her language,
but also learned about deaf history, deaf culture.
It just made us feel so supported
in the sense that she'd always have a sense of community
and belonging.
- That's so exceptional.
What a cool community.
You just walk around.
Your good girl.
(panel laugh)
so we'll make sure she does not get hurt.
Well we will try.
So Glenda, what did you say when you found out?
What did you say when you found out, to all these people?
- Just how thankful.
How thankful we were, we are.
That you know their trying to learn a new language.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
And you know, for anyone who's tried to learn a a language,
I mean that's---
- Oh brother I been learning Spanish for like two decades
and I ain't there yet, yeah.
- Try English.
(everyone laugh)
- It's rough.
- [Man] Tough one.
So have you ever lived on such a close knit community?
Was y'all's community like this growing up?
- Mine was not but I spent summers in Maine actually.
So you know
the cousins' Maine lobster dudes...
Oh my gosh.
(applause)
- She loved it.
It's like a ride.
I'm so sorry.
Your were saying. - It's not important.
I was like this is amazing.
No your cousins what now?
- No I spent summers in Maine
and there was kind of a community in the harbor
that we lived in and there still is
and we really love the people there.
- Did you grow up like that as well, in a pretty cool?
- Listen I don't know but is there a child running
around behind me or am I having a stroke?
(all laugh)
Am I having a full on stroke?
There's a child back there.
- Your having a mini flashback.
She's walking...
We will not let anything happen to her.
I'm sure Ran or somebody will be stepping in.
But we'll just let her have a good time.
This is her experience.
- Close knit community I don't know.
My college dorm I would say probably was
the closest thing I - [Kelly] I love you.
had to yeah.
We were pretty close. (Kelly Laughing)
- Your frat.
- Yeah.
- That's awesome.
All right so Glenda and Raffy what does it mean for Samantha
to grow up in this kind of environment?
'Cause it's very helpful, right?
- I mean it means everything.
She's so at home in the community.
Whenever she sees people in the neighborhood
she signs friends.
- Yeah.
And she knows all their sign names
which basically is a name that's given to someone
based on their personalty.
- [Kelly] Oh that's fun.
- And so she knows all their names,
she talks with them. - What does being mooned mean?
- 'Cause that's mine.
(audience laugh)
- She feels very comfortable with you.
- See.
You know what I like to be welcoming
so enjoy yourself.
40 members of the community, 40, are learning sign language
so they can communicate with Samantha, who is deaf.
We have dozens of them standing by
along with our friend, Jackie Bruno from NBC 10 in Boston.
Let's go to them right now.
Hey y'all.
- Hey Kelly.
Here they all are.
This is Lucia, Jill, Terry, and then their instructor Reese.
And these three ladies right here were one of, three of
the four that actually started this.
So incredible.
- Oh my gosh so this was initially...
So Lucia this was initially your idea, correct?
- That's correct.
It actually was kinda wonderful accident.
You know we saw Sam more and more in the neighborhood
and she was signing a whole lot
and I kept saying, "What is she saying,
what is she saying."
and then it just hit me, I needed to learn sign language.
So I signed up for a class
and I telled my close neighbors here, "Hey I signed up
for this sign language class," and their all in.
Sign me up , sign me up,
without asking the time or the place.
So we started this adventure.
- [Kelly] Yeah so great so.
- And it was really fun.
- Well what do you think this says
about your neighborhood y'all?
What a killer group of humans you are to
represent what we should all be doing in society in general.
I guess it's not really questioned, it's just
a statement of how amazing you are.
Yes, hey.
What do you need?
- She just looked at their picture
and she signed to me I see friends.
- Yeah.
- That's what she just signed.
She wanted to tell you
who her friends were. - She said I see friends.
(applause)
- Yeah you see friends.
- Is this a friend?
- [Glenda] See and then friend.
- [Kelly] Oh friend, friend.
- [Glenda] Yeah.
- [Kelly] Friend.
- Nice and you see the neighbors.
Hi.
Picture of them.
- Oh good job.
You didn't get mooned though guys it's not cool enough.
So Jill, you all were named one of the 2019 Bostonian
of the year.
How does that feel?
- That was pretty crazy.
It felt great.
We were really surprised but I..
It never really occurred to me that this would be so
news worthy but it really should be an ordinary thing.
- I think that's what the great part of this
is what your doing is showing us what is
easily, or its doable.
Everybody can do that.
It was simple thing with Lucia.
She saw somebody and she goes, "I wanna talk to her," and
that's how this all started.
I think your right it should be something that stands out
and yet you do though and your hopefully setting off
a domino effect that's really brings communities together
instead of fearing what you don't know.
(applause)
Yeah.
I think its so rad what you guys are doing
and you all are so deserving of this honor,
even if you don't want it.
You're gonna take it anyway 'cause your beautiful humans.
So we wanted to do something special for you all.
I think it's time to bring it out Jackie.
- Okay well here it is.
Check this out.
It's pretty big guys. - [Kelly] Yeah!
Go like this.
So you have this to remember this year and
to say thank you for being an incredible community.
- [Man] Cool.
- [Kelly] Yeah!
(applause)
- Well before we go,
before we go,
do y'all all have something to tell Samantha?
- Yes.
Yes we do.
I'll take those.
- Let's make sure she's looking.
Hold on.
Right there, can you look right there?
Maybe Ran can stand there.
Oh she sees herself now, it's over.
(panel laugh)
- [Jackie] That's what I do when I see
myself on the monitor. - [Kelly] That's what I do.
- [Man] Walk right towards it.
- You wanna see.
Okay there you go, go for it guys.
- Okay.
[All] We love you
Samantha.
- [Kelly] Aww!