No Filter in Paradise
Two friends, one's straight one's Gay, with different backgrounds, interest, upbringing & outlook in life come together to have a Fun & honest conversation and discuss their opinions on different topics... with no filter.
No Filter in Paradise
We Finally Moved In… After 2 Years of Getting Played (And hitting rock bottom) EP 240
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We start off hyped, catching up after missing shows and celebrating the radio move… then it turns into one of our most real conversations yet.
We get into:
• Where dark humor crosses the line (and why some jokes just don’t land)
• Finally moving into our house after 2 years of delays, stress, and lessons
• The contractor mistakes that cost us time and money
• Why “7–8 months” means NOTHING without a real deadline
• How to structure payments and protect yourself when building
• The truth about money pressure and how it affects creativity
• What hitting “ground zero” actually teaches you
• Why there’s no timeline for having your life figured out
And yeah… we somehow end up talking about Peru, destination weddings, and how clean airplanes really are 😅
If you’re building, grinding, or just trying to figure life out… this one’s for you.
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Big News About Going On Radio
SPEAKER_05Listen, I know the episode is about to start, but I just gotta tell you this. We are now going to be on the radio. XFM 102.7 FM Babies, no filter is about to take over. So your Saturday mornings are about to be even better. Okay, enjoy the show now.
SPEAKER_00That was dark humor? Bro, you're like, you literally was like, you know, it's easy for you. You have to buy a gift because your mom's dead. I'm like, that's not dark humor.
SPEAKER_03Damn, I don't even know how I'm gonna title this fucking episode. At what age should people have their life figured out? And I've said this before, and I don't have any suicidal thoughts. But I did say like it's some people just off themselves because the pain is so unbearable. Yeah, I was like, okay, like I'm like, get the fuck back to normal, motherfucker. Let's go. Fuck out. Hey, get the kick as well. I'm like, damn, what a squid job. I could fucking pull that. Paint your house, whatever. Use all the fun mile points to pay for the paint. So now you just take like 5,000 florins.
SPEAKER_04Okay, how do you?
SPEAKER_03I learned so much shit.
SPEAKER_04Oh shit! House tips with seeds.
SPEAKER_05I know the recipe now from what not to do and what exactly to do for that instant success.
SPEAKER_04Hey yo, what's up? Ala chemisters.
SPEAKER_03Guys, look back. We've been gone for a little bit. Poquito. Poquito. It wasn't Poquito. It was Poquito. It was too quiet. It was like half a month. But guys, Shark was traveling. Shark is like, was uh wasn't sugar daddy.
SPEAKER_04Okay, stop this. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER_03Stop this. Stop this. Stop this. Like, we missed a radio show. We missed two episodes. Actually, three episodes are no filter. She's like, hey, uh Simbarts with this guy.
SPEAKER_05Why did we miss the radio? Because you could have gone.
SPEAKER_03I don't know how to work with the system. I don't know. You choose. I didn't choose it too.
SPEAKER_05Why didn't you go still? You had all these days you could have gone to learn. Shark, you didn't know. Exactly. I've been moving.
SPEAKER_03I've been moving into my new house. By the way, I finally moved. Finally. Yeah. If you guys have been watching episodes for the past two years, you know this fucking bullshit thing has been happening for a while. Usa. You went to the house. How relaxing is it? Usa. He was crying more than me.
SPEAKER_05I didn't even cry. I'm just emotionally. You're trying to play tough. Like a mengai macho. Boy, shut the fuck up. Trying to play tough.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, Aza. Ah, I can't do it. Anyways, guys, we're back. Um We are. Yeah, it's by a popularity. It's Thursday. It's Thursday. Just so you're in the next week. There's gonna be another episode of Shruck is traveling again. Am I wrong? No, this. But it's not for the reasons you're trying to make it seem. No, it's it's I'm actually, I'm also supposed to be traveling with him. It was it's for Miles' birthday. And unfortunately, I couldn't go due to responsibilities with the house and other things. And I'm like, I couldn't take what's the code? What about like what does you want to spend the money, but you know you have responsibilities you have to spend money on. And you're like, I can go do this, but I'm gonna cry later if I fuck this up. So, Miles, I'm sorry. I know you told me you will unfriend me, and and I know you have the rule of like, well, miss undawahita, please invite me. I promise you, I will show up, okay? You can afford it. It was yeah, yeah. I was like, I couldn't afford this year, but I was like, I just know like other unexpected bills will pop in. Of course, it's travel, and I'm like, like, you know, it's so sorry, Miles, but please invite me next year. I promise. Because the last year was fucking awesome. It wasn't Aruba, so I got to experience that. It's it's cool, it's cool.
SPEAKER_05But anyways, guys, by the way, we also want to say happy 420 to everybody. Okay, yeah. Oh my god. Oh my god, happy 420, guys. You already know. Shout out to all of y'all. Light up. Okay, sorry, let's continue. Chugger so out of it because today's 420.
SPEAKER_03You know what he said to me like before we started recording? Right here. We're not gonna be, hey, it's Mother's Day.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god, why would you bring that up?
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, guys, like laughing matter, but uh it was funny when it happened. I was like, I know it's a me, yeah. Like, you don't have to buy any. It was like the the the if you spoke before you thought was a person, that it was that.
SPEAKER_03I was crying in the back. I was like, yo.
SPEAKER_04He was not crying.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god. Anyway, shout out to my step moment. Technically, we do keep scores, but uh, this was not one of the points. That was not my crying. It's one one. It was good though. Uh it's not one-one. No, that wasn't that wasn't me trying to.
SPEAKER_03By the way, he said points. You guys don't know what that means, but uh, to give a little bit of context, it's kind of like we throw shade at each other, and like I threw one, so like now he owes me one. The more points I have, he could also like kind of like reach. If I have 10 points, he has six, he can like throw say shade four more times at me, and I can't say shit. I'm we don't I'm black, so we don't keep scores like that. So am I doing it wrong?
SPEAKER_05Because I mean elaborate for me. Listen, maybe white people, that's how y'all keep scores with throwing shade. Okay, how do you keep scores? Is once you step into the field, understand that it is now officially go time. So it is about opportunity. Okay that's just pure what's like you're gonna wait for it. It's like you are going to creep in, you are going to step on that right machine.
SPEAKER_03Like you didn't even see it coming. Sniper snipe. Like my mom joke just now, saying, like laughing, I don't have a mom.
SPEAKER_05Smooth like that.
SPEAKER_03Damn.
SPEAKER_00Smooth like that. I'm not gonna lie, the way you said it was like, it's like you didn't think.
SPEAKER_05I really wasn't like going into it all the way. It was good.
SPEAKER_00Like, I love dark humor, and some people like, oh, you can't be saying that, bro.
SPEAKER_05I'm like, wait, nah.
SPEAKER_00Like, I love dark humor.
SPEAKER_05It wasn't dark humor though. It was like legit.
SPEAKER_00Like, I no, I mean that wasn't dark humor? That was dark humor? Bro, you're like, you literally was like, oh, it's a million units easy for you to have to buy a gift because your mom's dead. I'm like, that's not dark humor. That is not guys, wait. I don't want to know what dark humor is.
SPEAKER_04Wait, wait, wait.
SPEAKER_00What? Do you think I'm crazy? Like, do you think that's that is dark humor. It's not dark humor. Dark humor looks at you like, damn.
unknownThat's dark.
SPEAKER_05Again, listen, I'm black. Like, we grew up in culture of like roasting is a very regular thing for us. It's like super, like your aunt should roast your like her nephew, or like, there's no limits for nobody. Nobody's off limits.
SPEAKER_03So And you have to be like guys, and the game is like if he roasts me, like, I can't be mad about it. No, because roasting needs to be funny.
SPEAKER_05It can't be mean, it needs to be funny. Like, you have to be a- Like a dead mom.
SPEAKER_03Hilarious.
SPEAKER_05I think so.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so let's okay.
SPEAKER_05Now we have to give context, I feel like. Because now it's like, yeah. No, no, it's fine. No, no, no. We've said way too much. We've said way too much. Let's leave it like that. No, no context. Guys, let me just make it because somebody might think I'm I just be making jokes to people about dead mamas and shit like that.
SPEAKER_03Okay guys, I like the look I blew a little bit out of proportion, but okay, go ahead.
SPEAKER_05Okay, I care. I didn't I don't care, but I care. Anyway, so what are we talking about? We were talking about Mother's Day, you know? No, because I I was leaning into it. But he had a shoot, and he was saying, like, he's not gonna do it. Anyway, whatever. So we're there twalking and was like, oh, you know what? Like, I'm here, like, just thinking, like, damn, you know what?
SPEAKER_03Because you said, you said, um, oh, shark doesn't even know that it's Mother's Day or No, no, no. I said, like, oh, damn, imagine if, because you're traveling for like a week and a half, and I think you probably thought Mother's Day is like next week. I'm like, oh, Shark, you're not gonna be here, but it's actually a week after that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Oh, I thought you said I thought you said something shady, like in the sense of, oh, so like I wasn't that because you no, no, I wasn't that.
SPEAKER_03I was trying to be nice. I was like, oh shark, it's a good it's a good thing you're you're that it's it's after, because like you're gonna be back for Mother's Day. Like, wait, you're gonna be you're here for your mom.
SPEAKER_05I didn't hear that. I couldn't hear that.
SPEAKER_03So it's nice that you just stabbed me in the phone.
SPEAKER_04No, it wasn't like that. I just I thought you said it's gonna know.
SPEAKER_05I thought you said, like, oh, I wasn't gonna get nothing for your for my mom because like I didn't even know it was Mother's Day. Something like in that thing is what I thought you were saying. So I was like, oh, damn. So that mum made me start thinking, like, damn, Sam doesn't have to get his mom a gift for Mother's Day. I have a stepmom, okay? She's dead as hell.
SPEAKER_00Not hell, bro. Damn. You could have just said dead, but in hell, but it's just in heaven. It was good. You just made it worse. Now I think about Amy Meo. She's watching you from heaven. Damn, I don't even know how I'm gonna title this fucking episode.
SPEAKER_03I'm sorry, like we're we're usually not like this, okay?
SPEAKER_05No, shout out to Mama Samuel. No. So we're not saying like, okay, like, ha ha ha, she's dead. Like, it's not that, guys. Let me just make that clear. It's like, yeah, you don't have to buy her a gift, you know. Like buy my stepmom a gift. But you still have to buy your stepmom a gift, of course. That's like, yeah. Damn. Guys, this might be the last episode, just so you know.
SPEAKER_03Not because we're canceling, it's because sharks play might go down.
SPEAKER_05That was not funny. I rebuked that in the name of Jesus. He is trying to make a joke.
SPEAKER_01A white person joke.
SPEAKER_03Anyways, guys, that was actually that was fun. I did I we did not plan for that part.
SPEAKER_01We really didn't. We didn't plan for shit today. Do we ever? That's true.
SPEAKER_03Do we ever? We just walk in like cameras. All right, where do we go from here?
Finally Moving Into The New House
SPEAKER_05What are we vibing with today?
SPEAKER_03Uh first of all, guys, if you follow the show for a long time, you know my house. Let's talk about this house. My house has been something that's been um that has made me depressed more than I can fucking count. Actually, I didn't count a lot, but point is a lot. I cry. Shark knows about this. Some people close to me know about this. I finally moved in into my house. Shark visited like a few days ago, super chill. I'm very happy.
SPEAKER_05Okay, so wait. Okay, I feel like don't rob us of this thing. Because this is a conversation we didn't even get to have because we had to record as well. So we didn't really get to like house visits, sit and really talk. No, because we can't record.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we can't you came over for no filters. No filter eats, yeah. So you didn't get it. So walk, walk me through official first first moment of I still okay. I still think I'm running an Airbnb. Okay, that's how I feel. I I walk in, I'm like, it's like a you know when we got a new car smell. Like that's how I feel. But it's not an Airbnb.
SPEAKER_05It's not, it's my house. So that official first day that you legit like everything is done now, like everything is set into place and all this good stuff. What was that first day felt like opening the key, going inside, starting to put like the home plants and stuff like this to make it?
SPEAKER_03Right now, it's fucking chaos. It's shit everywhere. I hate it. But so we moved everything like two days ago. Before that, it's it was more like adjusting certain things, buying small details, like, and then like the last two, three days, we've been moving from the old old apartment into the it's right away, guys. Like, oh my god, sorry. She's texting, like, hey. Um Do you need an answer? Yeah, yeah. Just give me, just give me, just give me two two freaking minutes.
SPEAKER_05So this happens, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03Hey, just so you know, Rhymer's coming to the house, check the AC.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
Contractor Nightmares And Contract Fixes
SPEAKER_03So I'm gonna record my podcast right now. Bye.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So anyway, so it was like um, you know what the shitty part is that like dealing with the contractor that I was dealing with, man, I I don't even want to mention his name. I don't want to that's okay. It's the guy had put me through hell, and it was a point where every time I drive to my house, I was angry. I was like, this is supposed to be like a such a great moment. Like, bro, I'm building my house, I've been you know saving up for this. And every time I go, and I come to learn that this is something a lot of people really, really, really go through. Like I have a contract, just like the hardship of like having a shitty contractor. They promise, but you mean Tibusheli, and so it just they just fuck up. And they don't care because it's not their money, and they do certain things like because it's to their benefit. I was like, it's cheaper, it's cheaper this way because their profit margins go up the more cheaper stuff they they use. Yeah, and I wish there were moments that I was a little bit more hard. I'm like, kite fucking mural, I said you know, I'm not gonna pay for it. And I I was more like because you know I'm very passive. And then I just also your first time building a house. Yeah, but here's the thing, and I and I learned is like a lot of people they only build one house. Like 99% of people only build, or may maybe 95% of people only build one house. So if they fuck up your house, what are you gonna do? Like, oh, the next one I'm gonna do better. You're not you're not. You fuck up this one, you're you're gonna live in the house, and it is where it is. There's a few things, um, because of the fuck-ups going through the whole process. Like, every time I I was driving through the construction site, I was like, damn, bro, like I don't I know I'm gonna find some stuff, and I the guy I show up, nobody shows up again for like two weeks. I'm like, dude, what's going on? Again, if I if you can take away one thing from this, is once you sit with your contractor, go over the contract and hire someone I forgot the company's name. He works. I was talking to him two days ago. Hire the company he works with. So they're structural engineer and uh engineers, they oversee your contractor's work. And his company, the working he works with, they're like they're the most anal one in the best way possible. You know, they they look, they the contractors hate seeing them coming. Yeah, they're like, damn, now we're really gonna go. Now we have to work. Now we have to be like do it the right way. And like when when you s when you sit with a contract, sit with these people, like the the people, the engineers, and this was up, who would he like hey, keep the pins? Because I messed up in my contract in some in some moments.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I mean, listen, all I is about taking accountability. So wherever you could teach somebody else something, then buy it.
SPEAKER_03I hope somebody's learning from from this. Because, for example, in my contract, the guy's like, Yeah, the house will be done in seven to eight months. It's it's written seven to eight months. The mistake that I didn't put in is the end date. So seven to eight months on August 18, 2024. I started building 2024, February. When he said eight months, it could be two months in 2025, uh six months in 2020, or four months in 2026. Yeah, I said eight months. I never said, bro, I got motherfuckers. So that's why get a contractor and then find someone, you will end up paying more, but you don't have to fight your contractor. These engineers fight them for you.
SPEAKER_05Or the day you sit down, make sure that's the day your contract starts. And then hey, you say seven months? Okay, seven months from here.
SPEAKER_03So I mean, so what do you do? They give it the contract. Hey, go home, go over it, read it, and if you have any questions, let me know. Take the contract, go to some structural engineer you're gonna hire. Like um, Jaime. I forgot his name too. Jaime is also uh structural engineer, works for the government. Um, Hieronimo Molina, he works for a company at Ha Yeats, something.
SPEAKER_05I don't know. I don't know, but y'all check out Geronimo Mulina. Yeah, good.
SPEAKER_03If you know Heroni Molina, check him out, um, text him because I know he's also we were talking about it because he's gonna start building his house as well in a few months. Yeah, so super excited for him. Um, and he gave me tips and stuff, like uh so yeah. So get your contract right, make sure you don't fuck it up because like that's where I got screwed. Yeah, and that's why my house took two years instead of eight months. That's so fucked up, and like and it is only a fraction because you know.
SPEAKER_05Can't do anything about it. You have to work, so you're not physically there to see like, hey, why is there y'all said we needed this amount of blocks, so why is your contractor leaving with like a thing of blocks? Is that that and and project manager?
SPEAKER_03You just don't know what you're looking at. Like we're we're going for example, he asked me, Send me this Mr. Shitasheng yarda, whatever, like the caliche, just the the white sand that's around my house, that's caliche, like a like a dust, whatever. We need like 600 to 700 yards of this. I was like, that's I don't know how much a yard is, to be honest. I'm like, ah, cool. I go to the lady, it's like, hey, can I get like five, six hundred? They're like, whoa, like what are you building? I'm like, oh, I'm building my house. Like, how big is your house? Is this many square meters? I'm like, that's a lot. I'm like, is it? I'm like, yeah. And like, what's the minimum that I need to order to get a discount? Because if after you order um, if it's like 30 florins payarda, it's a bahapini 3. Yeah, right. So I did that. And I was like, you know what? Give me the minimum. I started there, and everything I just like and the deliveries included. Let's start with 250. Sorry, 250, filled my whole house. And remember the big the big Santos Cero in front? That was a leftover, which I sold to my neighbor. So imaginable. Oh shit, imagine three times the demo. My my my house will be buried in sand. So this guy, I don't know what his was going through his mind. Maybe they were gonna take that 100%. So now, like with my blocks and stuff, like also, guys, another tip if you're gonna have somebody, if you trust the contractor, fine, give give them a portion of your percentage of your uh oh my god, what's the name? You have like uh staging, like your first fit phase, first phase, second phase, you have to go up to seven. And every phase is like, okay, from this, so one, never pay your contract. I didn't do that by the way. I only paid him like 50% up front of each phase to get materials, pay workers, and then 20% throughout the that phase and 20% at the end. That's what I did. Um but if I could go back, I would take that money and I would ask him, Mr. Ask him, Mr. Justin Ku Pulati Blocky, boom. You go and go buy the pile. Don't give the money to the contractor unless you really trust him and you know he's not gonna fuck you over. Yeah, buy na eight packs, whatever we can block, pay for it yourself. If you have fun miles and I don't know who takes fun miles, collect your money. Collect because like you go to Koima and he buys a bunch of stuff, hey, put him on the fun miles. So he gets all the fun miles points. So what you can do is if you're gonna buy a lot of things, things by the way, it's not a fun miles app. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Unless y'all want to jump on fun miles, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I know I could so hope, but you have any fun miles, please manipulate.
No Filter Eats Channel Shoutout
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unknownSee ya.
Buying Materials And Avoiding Scams
SPEAKER_03So, anyways, so yeah. So, what you could do is like you can go buy all the materials yourself, pay for it, get fun miles points, and then lay it down the road where you're gonna go paint your house, whatever, use all the fun mile points to pay for the paint. So now you just save like 5,000 florins. Okay, hopefully. So, like, hey, I learned so much shit.
SPEAKER_04Oh shit, house tips with scenes now. Yeah, so that's let's get it.
SPEAKER_03That's one the contract. Please go through that. Buy go buy the materials yourself because one, you don't know where he's he tried to screw me over with paint. I asked specifically, I got not an ad Sherman Williams, this brand, this color. That's what I wanted.
SPEAKER_05Like a sa.
SPEAKER_03This guy comes and right before they started painting, I see, like, hey, is that the paint? He's like, Yeah, what's that? I was like, I don't, I don't know. He just brought it. I just paint. He went to no offense, Tat Fat, bought uh uh a paint. He got like two buckets of five gallons for like 200 florins, and he quoted me what I paid because I know what the quote was like a thousand something florins for a paint. So that difference he kept for himself. I'm like, no, fuck you, you go buy that paint yours. Like the paint where I don't want this this shit. So it anything, that's anything. Hope you're contracting at the Hasi, and I'm not saying they're all bad. Some of them are not, but some of them are good. But like there are a lot of bad ones out there. And I have one that it's working with me right now, bro. This guy is a fucking angel sent from heaven, and I'm gatekeeping this guy. I am sorry, you're not getting only he has listen, he already has a lot of projects. I am only gatekeeping him because he's gonna start working in my backyard, and I need his full attention to finish that. Sound horrible. I have already recommended to a few people, but I'm not gonna blast him over here until he's done. I'm gonna put his picture and everything, go find this guy. Okay, so you were gonna say I forgot what it was. We're gonna make this a short podcast, but I feel it's gonna be.
SPEAKER_05I'm sorry, we could wrap it up then. No, no, no. No, I'm just lying. Um, damn, I forgot. I was gonna tell you something, something I wanted to add to what you were saying. Anyways, moving to the house is great now.
SPEAKER_03It's cozy. If I don't want to leave, people invite me. Hey, being down, mmm, now but like it's so chill. I love my TV, comfortable sofa, and I just sit there and just like watch movies.
SPEAKER_05That whole living room, that whole that that specific room area is just it's so dope.
SPEAKER_03It's like such a like dim lights, put a little bit of music in the background. Like, you know me, like I'm gonna be hosting. People. Yeah. It's a host house. It's a host house. And it's not fully done. We're missing some curtains and shit.
SPEAKER_05I don't know about the sofa though. The sofa is like. I'm gonna buy, I'm gonna wrap it in plastic.
SPEAKER_03It's great. You need to. We slept with that sofa with our first three nights in the house. It was comfortable as fuck. Guys, yeah, that sofa.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05Especially for hosting, like, because the material is also really nice. So I can see somebody just like drinking the wine and you're just like talking, you're just like touching around.
SPEAKER_03You're not gonna be in the fucking near the sofa with wine. Maybe with some food or whatever, but with wine, I already the good thing is the sofa. Shut up, Tori had a good job. I doubted the sofa at first, but now I love it. And it's like uh it has a repellent thing on it. So like if I drop water or whatever, I can just wipe it off. So it has like a water, liquid repellent thing. So I'm not saying it's perfect. Maybe wine could stain a little bit, but if I if it's you know when you drop like little bubbles, like yeah, it just stays. You just throw it off. Like that's on top of it. It's kind of like scratch proof, too. Like she did her research, so shout out to her, she did a good job.
SPEAKER_05Well, then you should be that it's good for hosting. It's perfect for hosting.
Money Stress And Mental Health
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, but I'm still gonna wrap that shit up with some big I have a big ass blanket that covers the whole thing, except for the the arm rests. But I love it. I love it. Hey, bumper by anyways.
SPEAKER_05Finally, this house is done.
SPEAKER_03I know. I'm gonna be better. I was paying that mortgage plus rent of the old house. That was it, it's in duro. Like, we've even talked, like, I've mentioned this before, but like mentally ready, like I and I've said this before, and I don't have any suicidal thoughts, guys. I don't. I did say like some people just off themselves because the pain is so unbearable, you don't know what to do, so you're just off yourself. Like I'm driving, I'm like, I get it. Like, thank god, I'm like mentally strong. I'll cry, but like, I'm like, I can just I can just drive like 100 miles, just swift to the right, hit a pole, no seatbelt. Hey, pain's gone. You know, I'm not saying that's ever gonna happen. Yeah, I mean, no, it's never gonna happen. But I understand like why people would think I think the light turned out.
SPEAKER_05Why you go there, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Why people's mentality go there. So it is crazy that um I'm not always fucking happy. Like I went through some rough shit.
SPEAKER_05No, I know. We were right there, baby boy. Like, it wasn't easy for for like the other side as well, like as who for like a business partner, even because for like for at some point your mind is on not creativity, your mind is on I need to make money, G. I got like real life problems, I got real life bills, and you're paying double mortgage. Yeah, that only is not sane for no regular person, just to your rent, like nobody's nobody's doing that, and then you're adding on that's what I'm saying, just by the two mortgages only is already insane. Yeah, and then you have to add that on now that you have businesses to run, and you have multiple business partners with all of these businesses, and everybody is requiring some sort of you, and then you don't have like jobs where your business partners are regular schmegulers. All of your business partners, we all work in a creative field. Yeah, so all of us need creative Sam.
SPEAKER_03We don't need my mind was like, how do I make the next dollar?
SPEAKER_05Not in create creative mode.
SPEAKER_03Two years. Like guys, imagine for two years, like not like I don't want to say live in paycheck to paycheck, but it's like every single month, I just just net net meet ends meet for paying the mortgages, paying like some grocery bills, paying my my gas, my wifi, my bro. Like sometimes I'm even like in the min, like, hey, me no paga walking, like give me two weeks. I'll okay, I need a project. Who's who wants to do a podcast? I'll produce it, I'll give you a good deal. I just want to pay this bill off. Like it's like every now I'm more like, okay, I have one last mortgage to pay, I can just pay everything here now. So I'm between breathing room a walkie. And it's like the oldest, like, not old Sam, like the whole sound I've just fucking died, but like I'm not gonna always gonna be like money, money, money, money, money, money, money. You know, it's it's been tough. I remember sitting where you're sitting right now. I was working on something, and Michael came over. We're talking about like rent and shit. Like, hey man, like, because like anyways, we have to I have to pay my part of the rent. Yeah, I'm literally, yeah, yeah. I'm literally looking him in the eye, like, yeah, yeah. And I'm like literally tears going down my face, and I'm trying not to fucking cry, like, yeah, dude, everything is good, bro. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, bro, are you okay? Like, and I was like, Yeah. So that's the part most people don't see about me.
Ground Zero And Risk Taking
SPEAKER_05Listen, it's not easy, and it's not supposed to be easy. And tough shit. The the best part of life, I feel like sometimes is when you can get to those like low lows that you appreciate after that every single thing. Everything after that is just appreciation. Everything after that is just like I'm I'm content with this, everything that comes onto that is just a plus. Because I've had nothing. I've had the zero. I've been at the zero, and you understand that I'm mentally now you're always be you'll always be okay with selling a company or doing all these types of things because you're okay with that zero. You know how it is to build back from the zero. Yeah, yeah. And that is something that a lot of people don't get that in life. That's why so many people are not risk takers. That's why so many people are scared and they overthink so many things because they've never been to ground zero. They've always been comfortable enough and they know what head above the water means. That's all they know. They don't they don't trust taking another step that could possibly mean that they'll go all the way down. But that also step could also be that go up. Yeah, they're not willing to take that unless it's like with like a lottery or you know, something gambling wise. Lottery is really good right now. Go buy it. No, don't buy it. It's it's scam, respectfully.
SPEAKER_03Anyways, if you see wait, 1.6 million. One little local, five florence, I think it is, seven florins. Yeah, try a lot. I I agree with you. I people that have been like rock bottom, it's you know what it feels like to be there. So, like everything, like, you know, it's like imagine how you're gonna feel like if when you get your new car, you know? Which part of the way, how's that going?
SPEAKER_05Um, it's it's going. It's going. Like, it's like we're still looking, still trying to like figure stuff out. But I'm not I'm not a car person like that. So material things to me, they don't care. Like, I remember when I was leaving Ritz, I remember having a conversation. Shout out to Zimmy. I was talking to Jason, I was like telling him, like, you know, my mom has always made sure life was always good. Like I was never a rich person. Same thing, my mom. But we always had like a good life. We were never struggling, we were never like none of these type of things. And I was like, you know what? I've never struggled in my life. I know it's weird to want to request something like that, but I've like, I've never struggled. I've never had it so bad that I put like a fire under my ass that I need to like short, get up and go.
SPEAKER_03Because your parents don't tell you. Like, it's like now that you're an adult, you're like, oh fuck. Like, if I had to go through the same thing and I had a kid, like, I won't tell my kid, like, hey, everything's good. Like, don't worry, I'll take on that burden. You just be happy. Be a child, be a kid. So your mom did that, my parents did that.
SPEAKER_05And I'm not mad about it, yeah, but I needed to know what that feels like. So that's why I was like, I'm gonna quit my job. I remember telling him, I was like, I'm gonna quit my job. And he was like, if that's what you need to do, then do what you need to do for you know, for your soul. So I was like, Yeah, fuck it. And I did it, and I struggled like a motherfucker, yeah. Because like shit happened like behind each other that year. That was my year of 29, and it was just like, what next, man?
SPEAKER_03I remember I remember you remember you walking in when we recorded at Ken Welf Studio. You walked in crying. I was like, go in the closet. How are you going back into the closet? And then, hey, we have a guest coming. Like, she started crying. Yeah, it was like, okay, let's I'm like, get the fuck back to normal, motherfucker. Let's go. Walk out. Hey, get the giga spot. I'm like, damn, what a switch up. I couldn't fucking pull that.
SPEAKER_05But it was it was those things that build character and those things build that hardships. You're like, you know what? Fuck it. I can do it again. I don't mind losing. You can always go back. I know the recipe now from what not to do and what exactly to do for that instant success and that instant money maker.
SPEAKER_03There is no instant. There, there's a you know you know the path to take to gradually start getting there.
SPEAKER_05What well, once you've already done it, you already know now all the things what not to do. You know that all of these things are not gonna work.
SPEAKER_03Instead of five years, it'll take you like two years now because you've already done, you've already run certain courses.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and no, at the same time, because that's why I'm saying it's it's way easier than that. That's why I feel like you see like a lot of the times like these big um corporations or big companies, they're like, Oh yeah, I sold the company for I don't know, 1.5 million. And you're like, damn, like I thought like I can't see myself everyone to sell periodico apparel. Like, that's my baby. Yeah, but then you understand that bitch, I could build another one and another one and another one because I understand the recipe of it. So if it gets to a point where there's a corporation and it's like big enough that I can like it's profitable. Hey, you take it on. Who's to say I can't build and then they maybe take over the name or they maybe buy over a different name and they buy those things. I get a license for something completely different. But I know now how it run how it is to run that corporation from ground coming up. What promo works for it, what promo doesn't work for it.
SPEAKER_03A lot of companies when they buy other companies, they usually give you an offer like, hey, I'm gonna pay just humor, you know, like yeah, oh, I'll I'm gonna pay you 200 million dollars for your company, but I want you to stay as a CEO for the next five years, and I'll give you like an extra salary. So not only did you make 200 million, now you're making six figures every single month, and you still get to do your job. They just own the brand and you know, do whatever the fuck you want. And then maybe after five years, you exit and then you start your new thing with 200 million in the bank plus but that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_05You those things, those decisions, they become less when you're not a when you're a risk taker. Yeah, you're way more open to making these decisions because you've been at that rock bottom where you know that I started a company from zero. Yeah. What's who's the who's the fuck to tell me I can't do that again? Yeah. And now I have the cheat sheet that I know that it's not gonna take me the six years that it took me or the five years that it took me to build it. Now I understand. Oh, instantly, if I want to make a new apparel line, I can instantly do that and I know how to make it successful. Paso brah, I understand what the people like from periodico. That was my cheat sheet. And I feel like the same thing happens for like again, just putting it back in the concept of just being at ground zero again.
SPEAKER_03Like, how many how many years ago did you quit Ritz? Four. Ritz was three? I can't remember, man. I quit Gustav two years ago. So like I've been I've been on my own for two years. Then mine is either three or four. Yeah, because you I started like I think a year or two years later after you. I mean, I also went to Gusto because I needed the funds for the house.
SPEAKER_05Because I remember you and Barbie quit first from y'all's day jobs, and I was the only one when we start when we originally because you quit from Gusta and then you went back.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_05I went back because of pandemic around pandemic time, I remember y'all, y'all, y'all quit. I remember that specific thing. And I remember no filter was like a has hassle for me because I was the one that I had scheduled.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And then I remember me quitting, but then you went back to Gusta.
SPEAKER_03So then it was like reverse. I I only went back because I needed approved for the bank to like get my loan. So uh that's why I went back. And then after a year, once everything got approved and I saved it a year, like, yo, peace out. Like, yeah, but now that I want a second loan, like they already told me. So you've been in business for two years, right? Yeah, we wouldn't need a track record to see your loan.
SPEAKER_00I'm like, God damn it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Hey, Gusto, give me another letter.
When Should Life Feel Figured Out
SPEAKER_03Hey, I got a question because I mean I wrote a few things over here, like relationship stuff, money, whatever. But this this one is very interesting because we're kind of talking about it. At what age should people have their life figured out? You know, there's always an expectation, like when you're like, where do you want to be we grow up? Like, I don't know. Like, oh, like I'm 36. Well, some of you supposed to be at what age should now they're like baby, baby, baby. Like, yo, fucking chill.
SPEAKER_05I think I don't think I don't think it's a valid question. I think it's it's legit special to everybody. Everybody, it's in it's an individual question because life circumstances that changes everything. A kid that grew up with no parents and they had to do all these type of things. In reality, they're not 18 when they're 18. They're like life span-wise, yeah. You're like 20 something, you're in your 30s at this point.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Compared to somebody that had like a good life, and you know, life was always good to them. Their parents, they're this, they're that that.
SPEAKER_03My sister had a baby when she was like 19 or 20, 20 years old. She had her first kid. Obviously, not bland, but oh that's fast tracks for life. So me losing my mom changed my like mentality from anybody else that does. It's a good point. So I don't think it's everybody's everybody's a bit different.
SPEAKER_05Everybody's gonna have a different path, a different road, and your life is how it's supposed to be timed out to be. It's all in timing, it is all in timing, God's perfect timing. Amen. No, that's how I feel about stuff like that. No, no. Have you watched the Netflix Ripple on Netflix? No, damn.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, Sam, you have to watch it. I'll watch it for the for like in two weeks when he's back from his trip.
SPEAKER_05That's so fake. No, you have to watch it. You have to watch it.
What Partners Really Care About
SPEAKER_03Here what here's the one, guys. I'm just going through a chat. Like, I wrote some things down, but like what? Obsessed with that shit. It's help helps have an idea. Oh, you're obsessed with it? You! Oh yeah, I'm not obsessed with it, but hey. Um, what's something men think women care about but actually don't? And vice versa.
SPEAKER_05What is something men think about?
SPEAKER_03What's something men think women care about? Men think women care. I don't even know. Guys, comment down below.
SPEAKER_05I don't even think men think women care about what they actually don't.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I'm not a woman, so I don't know. I think they don't care about I could be wrong. I think men think women care about their sex lives in a deeper sense than they actually do. I don't think women care to know your sex life with your ex. Who would do that? Oh no. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, you have a lot of girlfriends. So, like, are you telling me that your girlfriends are saying like they're men are talking about sex?
SPEAKER_05They've been with guys that have mentioned things about their exes. Like Oh, this person does this. Yeah, like in general, why the fuck would you think I hear about your ex?
SPEAKER_03Why would you be the one that's like, doesn't in general or just or it's mainly general, pero it goes down to okay.
SPEAKER_05Let me not make it sex. Let me make it more um emotional side.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_05So they'll bring up like, oh, my ex would do this, or like, oh, this is something that's that's slightly toxic.
SPEAKER_03I I sometimes do it.
SPEAKER_05I don't think it that's why I don't think it happens like in a toxic way.
SPEAKER_03We do it in a funny way. Like, hey, can you think her ex is Alex? Can you think out? Can you take out Alex? Like, sure. The trash bag. Yeah. Yo, Alex is still here, like, ah, fuck trash. Hey, but we got our trash band at the house now.
SPEAKER_05Okay, shout out to Alex.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Like, that's how we do it. Yeah. You know? But I think then I could be wrong. Ladies, drop a comment. That's crazy if that's true, though. I'm I'm sure it's true. It's 1000% true. I mean, I I don't do that. No, but they've been like, I mean, I don't think the guys do it with the intention of. I mean, you have jerk guys. Like, I feel like the Bucci guys would be like, I know, yeah. But that that's insecurity from the guy's perspective. Shink Prosand, then it's insecurities from the girls' perspective, too. Because why would you give this type of guy that type of date? Like ew.
Peru Wedding Highlights
SPEAKER_03I think I mean I got nothing else. Like, I really enjoyed the conversation about the house and everything else. So actually, I want to finish up with this. How was your Lima trip? Peru.
SPEAKER_05Peru.
SPEAKER_03That's the only thing we were gonna talk about today.
SPEAKER_05Oh, we really were. How long are we on now? 39 minutes. Oh, damn. This is supposed to be a 20-minute episode. No, because the fact that I thought it was an hour, I was like, oh, we got probably one person.
SPEAKER_03No, we want to make it an hour?
SPEAKER_05No, it felt longer. I'm not gonna lie.
SPEAKER_03Because we talked about a lot of shit. We did, we did, we did go through a lot. We and guys, our most of the stuff, especially with the house, was like surface level. Like we didn't go deep, deep.
SPEAKER_05We didn't go deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. Um, okay, so Peru. Peru is the shit, man. Shout out to the wild. It was, yeah, shout out to the wild. Um, Eroxen. It was a very quick trip. You know, I had to like in and out, real quick. So it was something that sucks though.
SPEAKER_03Like you get the you don't get a chance to like explore the place.
How Dirty Are Airplanes
SPEAKER_05Yes and no, because I feel like it also gave me the opportunity to uh want to come back now. Like I want to go back to Peru and do like uh exploration trips, especially because they're really big on food. Yeah, they have a lot of food. God damn. But they also have attractions, like they have like a lot of like stuff going on. Like our taxi driver, he was telling us like there's an area where they have like real Indians still, like oh shit. Yeah, so you can't go too close to them because we bring a lot of like diseases and stuff like that, and bacteria. We have diseases, yeah. We do because they're they live like all natural. Yeah, we brush our teeth with like chemicals and our toothpaste and all that good stuff. So we're bringing we bring all that bad stuff. We yeah, airplanes. Okay, before we continue, right? I was talking to somebody about this, right? I like it when you go like off script, like because I started thinking about this, right? We always say like we take travel, like we travel, and then people always come back sick and shit like that, right? Like people always come back. There's happened to my sister. Okay. Do aircrafts do deep cleaning? They don't. Like, we be sitting here in dirty freaking chairs in the airport, like in the in the in the plane itself.
SPEAKER_01True.
SPEAKER_05Well, like, cause I've worked in I used to work as an aircraft cleaner. I used to work for Jen Air. I know. That was one of my first jobs. Yes, I hated it with a passion. Oh my yeah, shout out to Jenny Air, shout out to all my aircraft cleaners. Y'all real. Shout out to my boy Glenn as well. Glenn was my boy.
SPEAKER_03Aza, if you can dig up his past and find a picture of it.
SPEAKER_05I don't think I have photos of it though. It wasn't that type of job. Like, you because airport is very strict. You know, you can't do it. You can't bring your phone everywhere. No, because you can't bring your phone everywhere. So it's airport, so everything is super, super strict. So, yeah, so we have badges and shit like that, but that job was horrible. I used to like, I used to have to like do the garbage. Like the garbage was our job.
SPEAKER_01Sorry if I'm the bottom of the.
SPEAKER_05It was horrible. See, I hated it. I hated it with the fashion. I didn't even show up anymore. It wasn't no show. Like, I just stopped going. Like, I was like, mm-mm. I don't need money to have it. That was the moment when I realized that I'm not desperate for money. There are some things that when you do.
SPEAKER_02Start building a house. You'll see how quickly you want to start making money.
SPEAKER_05It wasn't for me. Anyways, so that made me start thinking, like, when, because when we used to do the the job, we would go. I just hear him holding a laugh. Like, are you laughing? Okay, so but when we go in the the plane, it was like very much quick in and out. Yeah. So you had to go, take in the the things that are dirty, pop, pop. So when we could hurry up, then the securities are at the end ending, and then they start sweeping. Yeah. Or no, the securities come in, go in first, then they unlock the plane from the back, then we connect the thing, then the guy connects the shit water thing. He starts collecting the shit water. Then we could officially go inside once the compression is out of the air, the plane, then we can go in and we could take start taking out the trash. And then the ladies start going like alpha, alpha ah, and then there's like securities all over the brown people's securities. So they don't have time for no deep cleaning before that. Can you imagine some dirty ass bitch was there like sitting in the chair before you and then laying her head to rest, she was sleeping, like dribbling all in on the chair, and then you get D33 as well. Here you are sitting on my way to my trip. Take a quick little nap.
SPEAKER_03Bacteria's crawling in your mind. Like that is so gross. You know, saying that, so Tori is that kind of flyer. She's got like Clorox stop, wipes the whole thing down. My because I like Windows C because like I always put like a pillow and then I sleep on it. Yeah, she wipes. Bro, I can't even sit till she finished wiping. Armrest, the the tray, everything went, it is so dirty. Look so dirty. Look, all brown. Book. It is so dirty. Yeah. It really is. I never think about it. I just like I don't get sick often.
SPEAKER_05I mean, listen, the Clorox, it will it do much? I don't think so. More than not doing anything at all. It is. It is. But will it do something? Like if you gonna catch it, you will be. I think so. There's coffers all over in this motherfucker.
SPEAKER_03If it gives her mental peace to do it, no, for sure.
SPEAKER_05Listen, it helps. And she's still gonna. But I don't think it's that's what I'm saying. Like, it's not gonna do much. Cause like you gotta do that at everything. Airport, everywhere. Like, yeah. Them fucking bitches on your passport, they like shh. So it's gross. Anyways, Peru was the shit, though.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05It was nice. We were there, we were in there, we were out. The wedding was the shit. What was the biggest highlight moment? Like, the wedding. That's what we went for. Of course. The wedding. The wedding was like, it was the shit.
SPEAKER_01Um, highlight moment. Any food, any, any place you went to?
SPEAKER_03Who else was there, was there that I know?
SPEAKER_05Jill was there, Stafford was there. Um, who else do you know that was there? Only Jill, actually. Yeah, Erwald, of course. That's it. Yeah, I don't think. Why did they pick Peru? I don't know. I've okay, so I could be wrong, but I know they wanted to do like a destination wedding, and they were like, you know, everybody goes to Colombia, so they didn't want to do that. So they took like a like a press trip last year, and I didn't like check out the place. So they went to Peru and they were like, hey, you know what? We actually live like this. Yeah. So I like that.
SPEAKER_01I my first time in Peru. I've never been. Sorry? Where's his girl from? His wife? Rubiano.
SPEAKER_05They're both. Yeah, they just want to do a destination wedding. Oh, okay, okay. They don't want to do it in Aruba.
SPEAKER_03True.
SPEAKER_05Let's do something different. Yeah. I'm not mad about it.
Birthdays Travel Plans And Farewell
SPEAKER_03It's it's funny you say something different because I just was just talking to you about this. About like, like it's she's starting 30 this year, and fortunately enough, and we have to time this as well with no filter. I think I told you about this because her birthday is September 2nd. She has to do a work trip September 5th. And then that means we're gonna have to travel for another like let's travel for no filter in August, September to do the filter.
SPEAKER_05We are doing an August trip.
SPEAKER_03Why do you say yes if we're not going?
SPEAKER_05Uh no, I like I wasn't sure if like August trip was happening.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, most likely. Oh yeah, yeah. I I want it to happen. We need we have to do a hauling trip this year.
SPEAKER_05Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03It's not really a conversation, it's like it's how we just have to make sure, like y'all seeing this.
SPEAKER_04This is real time. Like, this is how it goes. Like you just be saying shit. Okay, say less.
SPEAKER_03So, like somewhere end of August, we do no filter. Anyway, so and then we started talking about like, you know, like you can throw one big party, or why not why don't you just throw, just travel? So we we we probably decide like when we do our birthdays, we're just gonna go somewhere we'll do something small now at my house, few people, but like we actually go for a birthday, we just travel somewhere and then do something fun. Like instead of like throwing one big party at your house or going to the club and spend like 3,000 fucking florins because you want to be fly probably I have never spent 3,000 florins at a club. Yeah, I mean just make it like a thing. Like, hey, it's your birthday, let's go for five days to I don't know, Puerto Rico. Let's go to Curaçao for a weekend.
SPEAKER_05I'm not mad about it. My legit my friend, she's trying to go to like uh Bahamas for her birthday.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, just like as you're getting older, like I prefer that instead of like throwing on one big party. I'll just throw something small in my house, a few friends, some get domino pizza takeout. Don't give a fuck.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm a hood girl, so I gotta do hood shit. Like, yeah, no, yeah. I not that, but like I gotta do hood shit. So I gotta be like, it gotta be like, hey, tell my friends to dress down. Like come in like home type clothes. We're gonna buy like a cheap ass cake, and you know, like some Sarah Lee Pounty. It gotta be, it gotta be rats. Like, we just gotta be like just chilling. That's how I like to spend my birthdays. I do two, so I do one for like family and clothes. For like Alison, and then I do one for Shark.
SPEAKER_03What's Alison's birthday like? The dress down.
SPEAKER_05That's like, you know, just me's mean cast.
SPEAKER_03Me and my peeps, like just whatever, yeah. Yeah, and then what's what's shark's birthday party?
SPEAKER_05Oh, we're going out, baby. We're going to work somewhere on the creek.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you don't have that fur fur jacket anymore. Big bird.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god, I don't even know where that is. I think I've borrowed like the people from like Taco Bell, and they told me to pick it up. I never picked it up again. Damn. Rest in peace. Yeah. I think they say have it though, but I just never looked for it. All right. But I do have the black one and I have the white one, and I have a red one now. Jesus Christ. Yeah. I bought that for Nicki Minaj's concert. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
unknownAll right.
SPEAKER_03I think we're gonna end here 50 minutes. Let's do it. It's supposed to be a short episode, but hey, when it comes to us and we just start yapping, we do stuff. A yapper gonna yap. We are yapparoo.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03All right, guys. Hope you enjoyed this episode. Um, I'll be honest, we're supposed to we were supposed to have a guest this week, but oh, very busy guy, switched up, but he's coming next week.
SPEAKER_05Oh, okay. I thought you were gonna try to add that I'm traveling. No, anyways. That's how you gave me a look.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because I was like, I thought the look was like, um, damn, I can't believe you were throwing this guy under the bus.
SPEAKER_05Oh no, it's like it is what it is. No, we have a few we have a few guests lined up because we said it on the radio, so yeah, yeah, oh yeah, we did.
SPEAKER_03Um, we have a few guests lined up coming up. And if you're if there's anybody else you guys think we should interview, please let us know down below. Text Shark, text me, DM us on Instagram. DM no filter in paradise, yeah, Instagram, TikTok, all that stuff. Text us, and um, we'll see you next time or when shark comes back. Peace.
SPEAKER_01Ayo. I'm sorry. Fuck you. Close it off, close it off. Now okay, thank you.