The healer and the inspector
By Sonjia Breth and Antonio Santiago
The healer and the inspectorJan 25, 2021
Capitalism sucks and let's find some side gigs!
Back after an exclusive two year tour of Mexico, Scandinavia and the subcontinent, Antonio Santiago is back with a new podcast and a new co-host. Please welcome entrepreneur (hustler), journalism student and aspiring screenwriter and podcaster, Erica Howell! In this episode we discuss why Capitalism sucks, from high rents to rising gas prices to Valentines day pricing and Valentines day gift giving advice from Erica. Antonio Santiago then runs a list of 10 side gigs by Erica Howell, to see if she would consider doing any of them. It turns out she has worked Five of these side gigs and she gives her personal insight.
Sonjia's farewell to the podcast
Guest - Los Angeles Rapper Socal Barbieee
Sonjia Breth and Antonio Santiago welcome Los Angeles Rapper, Socal Barbieee to the show. SoCal Barbieee shares her origins from an initial three member girl group to the rising rap star that she is now. She shares how her single "unleashed" came to be written and her plans for the future. She may be L.A. based but she is traveling the country and plans a to perform every weekend during the summer. We talk music videos, her instagram and Barbieee gives Sonjia a tutorial on twerking.
Listen in to learn more about Socal Barbieee.
Guest - Comedian Steven Marcus Releford
Guest - Joy Desperate - Musician, songwriter, podcaster and beekeeper
In this episode we talk to Joy Desperate (Matthew Levi Villanueva) . He's more than a multi talented entrepreneur, he is working on creating a community movement. We speak with him to find out the origins of his podcast, Joy Desperate Podcast and we discuss his music, beekeeping and how Joy Desperate will tie everything together and build and nurture a collaborative community.
Sonjia and Antonio kick off this episode by discussing the great news that California is starting to open up more public spaces due to the decrease in covid-19 cases and deaths starting April 1, 2021. Sonjia also gives a shout out to our listeners in Australia and here locally in Southern California.
Guests - SNOWFLAKES Natasha Blasick and Martin Blasick.
Sonjia Breth and Antonio Santiago have a conversation with a very talented husband and wife Martin and Natasha Blasick (like classic) This duo not only have two bands together and their own solo music careers. Natasha Blasick is an actress and model, bass guitar player and has a YouTube and TikTok influencer channel, "Kittens on the Couch." Martin Blasick is a gold record winning producer and singer, songwriter and producer for film and television. We had so much to discuss from how they decided on the name SNOWFLAKES to how they find time to create. We also get a look at their recent music releases and they discuss upcoming musical projects.
Musical Guests - the band FAVORIT
42 Funny Valentine’s Day Gifts And Cards - www.boredpanda.com/funny-valentines-day-gifts-cards
New Year's Resolution...in February!
Happy Belated New Year!
After a two month forced absence, the healer (Sonjia) and the inspector (Antonio) return with a new and improved audio sound for the New Year. In this episode we share what the two of us have been up two for the last two months in our personal and professional lives. We are still living in a covid-19 world in Los Angeles, California and Sonjia shares her escape from L.A. during Christmas to Las Vegas...New Mexico. Who knew. We also talk insurrection at the capitol, work injuries and side hustles.
Lucrative Side hustles P2 EP22
This is part two of our review of Entrepreneur.com's list of "Lucrative side hustles." We finish the list of 50 and alongtheu way share our experiences with some of the side hustles listed. Have you ever been a mystery shopper or had to follow a script as an employee with every customer interaction? Sonjia has. Along the way we have a few tangents and talk about not wanting to have kids, speeding around student drivers and 30,000 Americans paying to have cow poop shipped to them.
Everything but the kitchen sink! EP 21
Strap in everyone! Sonjia and Antonio haven't recorded a podcast in three weeks so this episode is chock full of all of different topics. We discuss Los Angeles county has entered a curfew due to rising covid-19 cases. Then we talk the election ghost towns in Southern California. Antonio shares he has a girlfriend now and Sonjia is dating...maybe. We finish up our episode by discussing Covidtitlement, where you don't wear a mask because you're in a position of leadership or power (we're looking at you Gavin Newsom!). We somehow end our podcast talking about pagers and botched celebrity plastic surgery.
Lucrative Side hustles? Part 1
We review Entrepreneur.com's list of 40 lucrative side hustles. We review 20 in this episode before the audio gremlins cut us off and we end the episode. Is Lyft lucrative? How about selling items on Ebay or Craigslist? We also discuss the coming holiday season, gift exchanges and cool weather is finally here in Southern California. If only for a minute.
The pick up line experiment
In our last episode Sonjia decided to take the pick up lines we reviewed and use them on men and see what kind of a response she got. She used online dating apps and the results were surprising to both of us. We also discuss her search for a laptop and her $250 detailing of her 10+ year old car. Will the be enough to get her car out of hospice care?
Antonio tries out hilarious pick up lines on Sonjia
How well does Sonjia know her English proverbs?
Influencer Escandalo
Antonio shares visiting Palm Desert for his birthday and staying in a hotel, dining out and going to a casino during this pandemic. We both share latest stories of "influencers" who have been in the news lately, and not for flattering reasons. We also follow up on stories we discussed in previous episodes that have also been in the news lately.
The Nostril flare up episode
Sonjia and Antonio discuss Corona-5G syndrome, which burns your brain and zaps your thinking abilities. We discuss a bizarre job offer Sonjia received and Antonio reviews a short list of Indeed.com's top paying jobs. We discuss the pros and cons of being labeled an independent contractor. Antonio is for the new AB5 law passed in CA that targets Uber and Lyft and Sonjia shares why she enjoys being an independent contractor. All of this during a heat wave here in Los Angeles, however it isn't the heat that causes our nostrils to flare up.
Weird News Roundup
Antonio and Sonjia share the latest weird news stories from all over the country. Some of the weird news stories are transparent toilets in Japan, the last blockbuster in the U.S. goes on Airbnb for $4 a night, a diamond and gold coronavirus mask worth $1.5 mil, and a pastor shares what aliens must do to visit heaven. Sonjia shares her visit to a duck park that became less than peaceful, when duck warfare broke out.
Do you believe in Aliens?
In this episode, Sonjia and Antonio discuss the show Ancient Aliens and Aliens. Does Sonjia believe in Aliens? Has she been abducted by Aliens? What's the difference between cool and mean Aliens? Tune in and find out.
The healer shares Passion flower healing properties
Sonjia shares there's more to Passion flower than the fruit. She creates a fun video to illustrate how Passion flower turned into a powder can help to make you sleepy. The passion fruit vine and leaf also have healing properties. Sonjia discusses the massage therapist situation with Antonio in L.A. during Covid-19. Antonio is surprised to learn jalapeño stuffed olives are a good breakfast side dish.
Preview of Cosmo episode
In this short teaser clip Sonjia and Antonio discuss Casinos and a cosmo tip on how to spot cheating behavior
29 signs your significant other may be cheating on you.
Discovering Walter Mercado and escaping L.A. to Big Bear
Sonjia discovers the Walter Mercado through the Netflix documentary, Mucho Mucho amor. She also shares her trip to Big Bear shortly before the 4th of July, 2020 and she shares her covid-19 concerns of returning to work in a few luxury spa's here in the Los Angeles area.
Bumble app has more cleavage
Antonio shares the differences in two dating apps he has been using during this covid-19 pandemic. He also shares his top 5 descriptions women have posted on their Match/Bumble profile pages. Sonjia shares how far she drove for love, it's more than five miles.
Dating during the covid-19 pandemic
Sonjia and Antonio share that they are both single and ready to start dating in Los Angeles. Since we are in a pandemic, they share how they are going about looking for a partner respectively. Sonjia has already started looking on Hinge and Bumble and Antonio is getting ready to start finding a dating app, but he has questions for Sonjia. Do you kiss on the first date? Do you touch someone your meeting for the first time at all due to the pandemic?
Sonjia shares her covid 19 related updates
Los Angeles county has mostly reopened all business types with restrictions limiting capacity of customers and some have additional added requirements, such as checking temperatures of any guests before they enter as well as collecting your name and phone number for covid-19 contact tracing. Sonjia's massage therapy industry has finally been given the green light to open. She shares what that will look like, as well as her first visit in three months to a nail salon and her first trip to a reopened mall.
Dandelions are not weeds! Here’s why
Our SoCal life updates
Sonjia and Antonio give a 3 week update to living in SoCal during a stay at home order that is almost lifted, curfew alerts as a result of looting during the demonstrations and dealing with haircuts or lack thereof and what we pay for them as a man and a woman. We also ask listeners to send us your best chili recipe if you have one!
Sonjia takes a quiz - Packrat or Hoarder?
In this Episode Antonio presents Sonjia with a funny quiz to see if she's on the slippery slope to hoarding, or just a little messy. We also discuss Sonjia's baby rat rescue, washing the goods, being hangry and you get a sneak peek at next weeks episode!
Sonjia and Antonio met on Craigslist and as total strangers (never having met or spoken before or podcast before) agreed to co-host a podcast. We record separately and remotely from the comfort of our own homes here in Southern California. Our podcast is rated G, humerous and we discuss just about anything. Our goal is to approach topics from a fun lighthearted point of view and we hope you enjoy our enthusiasm.
We welcome any feedback on something in our episode that you really liked or feedback to help us improve. So send us a voicemail. Don't be shy.
Donations are also appreciated and will help improve our equipment to help bring you better audio and more episodes in the future!
Sonjia almost runs over George Lucas in a 5 star resort!
Sonjia defends cooking carne asada in her toaster oven
Sonjia and Antonio met on Craigslist and as total strangers (never having met or spoken before or podcast before) agreed to co-host a podcast. We record separately and remotely from the comfort of our own homes here in Southern California. Our podcast is rated G and we discuss just about anything. Our goal is to approach topics from a fun lighthearted point of view and we hope you enjoy our enthusiasm.
We welcome any feedback on something in our episode that you really liked or feedback to help us improve. So send us a voicemail. Don't be shy.
Donations are also appreciated and will help improve our equipment to help bring you better audio and more episodes in the future!
Influencer Mania
In our 3rd episode Sonjia and Antonio share our personal cover-19 experiences in Los Angeles, including traffic (ugh) carne asada, 5 star standards and a liquor store on wheels. We try and figure out what the heck is an influencer, and does Bill Gates own Apple? Anubis makes a guest appearance during this almost 2 hour marathon podcast!
Sonia and Antonio met on Craigslist and as total strangers (never having met or spoken before or podcast before) agreed to co-host a podcast. We record separately and remotely from the comfort of our own homes here in Southern California. Our podcast is rated G and we discuss just about anything. Our goal is to approach topics from a fun lighthearted point of view and we hope you enjoy our enthusiasm.
We welcome any feedback on something in our episode that you really liked or feedback to help us improve. So send us a voicemail. Don't be shy.
Donations are also appreciated and will help improve our equipment to help bring you better audio and more episodes in the future!
Cray Cray Craigslist
In this second episode the Therapist and the Inspector share their latest covid-19 lifestyle in Los Angeles and review Covid-19 news from around the world. We also discuss craigslist shady posts and our own craigslist experiences including Kevin the jerk and his timeout tank.
Sonjia and Antonio met on Craigslist and as total strangers (never having met or spoken before or podcast before) agreed to co-host a podcast. We record separately and remotely from the comfort of our own homes here in Southern California. Our podcast is rated G and we discuss just about anything. Our goal is to approach topics from a fun lighthearted point of view and we hope you enjoy our enthusiasm.
We welcome any feedback on something in our episode that you really liked or feedback to help us improve. So send us a voicemail. Don't be shy.
Donations are also appreciated and will help improve our equipment to help bring you better audio and more episodes in the future!
Two strangers meet on Los Angeles Craigslist and agree to start a podcast together
In this First ever episode the Therapist and the Inspector share their latest covid-19 lifestyle in Los Angeles and discuss what motivates them to begin a brand new podcast with a stranger. Sonjia and Antonio met on Craigslist and as total strangers (never having met or spoken before or podcast before) agreed to co-host a podcast. We record separately and remotely from the comfort of our own homes here in Southern California. Our podcast is rated G and we discuss just about anything. Our goal is to approach topics from a fun lighthearted point of view and we hope you enjoy our enthusiasm. We welcome any feedback on something in our episode that you really liked or feedback to help us improve. So send us a voicemail. Don't be shy. Donations are also appreciated and will help improve our equipment to help bring you better audio and more episodes in the future!