Welcome to the first episode of The Explainer Podcast with Manolo Quezon. This is latest iteration of a show that began back in 2006 on ANC, and again in 2016. Now we're on our own and exploring an audio format. I'm covering a topic I've lectured and even Tweeted about --political music. No better day than Independence Day, which also happens to be the birthday of our National Anthem, to encounter some music, some of it perhaps familiar, and much of it likely unfamiliar, to you. But together they form one of the soundtracks to our story as a nation.