The P*I* Podcast

In this episode, special guests, Glenn Teh and Jules Carandang, join us in reviewing the trending animated series, Trese, which popularizes creatures from Philippine folklore set a gritty noir version of Manila city. We discuss the issues of adaptation, the meaning of mythology, the politics of Trese, and Filipino representation.

0:00 Music

0:10 Intro

1:00 Borj's first impressions of Trese

2:00 Intro of guests

3:40 Jules first impressions of Trese

7:45 Glenn's first impressions of Trese

10:20 Trese comics and adaptation

20:50 Internationalization of Filipino sensibility

22:30 Was Trese a good detective?

29:50 Production hell and practical adaptation

36:00 The treatment of Filipino folklore

52:00 Mythology and the urbanity; Politics of Trese

1:04:40 Trese as a representation of the Filipino

1:18:29 Recommendations

You can get copies of the Trese comics here:

https://www.myavenida.com/collections/best-sellers?page=2

Recommendations

Ang Babaylan sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas by Zeus Salazar

https://web.facebook.com/BakasINC2004

The Aswang Project

https://www.aswangproject.com/

Philippine Spirits

http://phspirits.com/?fbclid=IwAR1GVTV6hcr58D5oiu2KtC_sa-vZqfXPGLP5ZzKihQRGHD9jCkBoL2mTevg

Creatures of the Philippine lower Mythology

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1713295938/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1713295938

Trese Bloodlines

https://www.myavenida.com/collections/best-sellers/products/trese-bloodlines-vol-1

The Works of Maximo D. Ramos

https://www.amazon.com/Maximo-D-Ramos/e/B001JWVYUI/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1?fbclid=IwAR1E4OnIOWdhrjvCSeNCmNQlVqlaPz3jy2Evq5BP-Ds8SK2bqjgSeJYZw8s

In this slice of P*I*, we discuss 1Sambayan's attempt to form a united opposition against Duterte in the upcoming 2022 elections. Since none accepted their nomination, we analyze their roles and limitations in forming a new opposition through Maverick Politics."

[EDITORIAL] 1Sambayan, give democratic forces a blueprint for victory by Rappler

https://www.rappler.com/voices/editorials/sambayan-give-democratic-forces-blueprint-for-victory-philippine-elections

In this Independence Day special, we talk about the issue of Filipino identity by responding to Juju Baluyot's piece on the desire to leave the country. We discuss whether or not it is ethical to leave the country, why we should stay, and how we should stay despite our dysfunctional system. 

0:00 Music

0:20 Intro

0:55 Happy Independence Day

2:40 Re: Bob Quilapio

5:20 Why do people leave? On Juju Baluyot's article

6:35 Borj's Reply to Baluyot

10:05 Migration is very common among Filipinos

12:25 Culture of Walking away and applying it to the country

14:00 Finding home somewhere else or recreating home

15:50 Are Filipinos delusional? Do Filipinos really need to come back?

20:10 Walking away as an act of courage, is it ethical to leave?

22:50 Self-care from politics

26:00 Debt to "Inang Bayan", the Philippines will always be with you

30:21 On being a global citizen and dual citizenship

33:33 How should we stay?

37:08 Quotes on Citizenship, and Withdrawing Filipino citizenship

40:00 Making peace with your country

43:10 Recommendations

Sources:

When it is time to leave by Juju Baluyot

https://www.rappler.com/voices/imho/opinion-when-its-time-to-leave

Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver- Asian Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lXsOYBaow

Stop looking for perfection in your relationships=Slavoj Zizek

https://fb.watch/64lLgzAs7P/

The Shadow of Unfairness: A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy by Jeffrey Green

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Unfairness-Plebeian-Liberal-Democracy/dp/0190215909

Asia Barometer Surveys

http://www.asianbarometer.org/

Recommendations:

From Colonial To Liberation Psychology: The Philippine Experience by Virgilio Enriquez

https://shopee.ph/From-Colonial-To-Liberation-Psychology-The-Philippine-Experience-(Reprint)-i.276147505.6646485300

Pagbabalik by Galiza de Castro (Asin cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-GRnOOEKA

Migration Revolution

https://shopee.ph/Migration-Revolution-Philippine-Nationhood-and-Class-Relations-in-a-Globalized-Age-i.75162109.4546387097

In this meaty slice of PI, we discuss why Filipinos are paying attention to the Israel and Palestine conflict, how oppression and suffering is tied with state-building, and how we should deal with conflicts so distant to us.  

Sources:

 [OPINION] A new David and Goliath: On Filipinos' defense of Israel by Kyle Perada https://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/opinion-new-david-goliath-filipinos-support-israel 

Innocent victims of war by Antonio Contreras https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/05/22/opinion/columns/innocent-victims-of-war/1800219

In this episode, as part of our "Anong Hanap mo?" challenge, we talked with fellow podcaster, voice talent, and life coach, Bob Quilapio, on his career as a podcaster, his political views, and his desires for the Philippines as an OFW

See more of Bob Quilapio and follow him on Facebook:

 https://www.facebook.com/domorewithBob

0:00 Music

0:20 Intro

0:50 Anong Hanap Mo?

1:45 Special Guest :Bob Quilapio

2:30 Where is Bob currently?

3:50 Why are you in UAE?

6:40 Why did you switch to podcasting?

8:19 Why is it called the IV podcast? What id your mission for this podcast?

10:20 Why #do more

12:00 How do you describe politics?

13:30 What are your experiences in politics?

14:45 Is politics far from your everyday life?

16:05 Does politics affect relationships among filipino ex-pats

17:30  Is politics worth affecting personal relationships?

18:45 How does politics affect money business and life?

20:50 How do you keep in touch with the homeland?

23:45 Anong Hanap mo (Bob's Answer)

37:02 Recommendations

42:48 Bonus Question: How do we promote our podcast

Recommendations:

Gary Vanderchuk

https://www.youtube.com/user/GaryVaynerchuk

Grant Cardone 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlNK1xcy-Sn8liq7feNxWw

Les Brown

https://www.youtube.com/user/riceNchicken

Robert Kiyosaki-Rich Dad Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/RDdotcom

Steven Crowder-Change my mind

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3e1orPYt_4ZHGjuivZFsyJ81RL7j7_E1

Kings and Generals

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fw

Epic History TV

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvPXiKxH-eH9xq-80vpgmKQ

Currently, many netizens are taking sides on many issues while others who don't feel as strongly are castigated for fence-sitting or being "apolitical". In this episode, we discuss why, how, and when political neutrality is necessary especially under highly polarized conditions. Overall we ask, how can we be "ethically neutral?

You can find our collaborations here:

Ley La Salle:https://www.facebook.com/LEYDLSU

White Stripe podcast:https://open.spotify.com/show/2IaDB2WzyYHtwKelxxFN64?si=AkQ7BueCSsyo0SBhA-3pkQ

Sources:

Ex-flight attendant turned TikTok creator draws flak over ‘not everything is political’ view by Catalina Ricci S. Madarang

https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2021/02/23/186117/ex-flight-attendant-turned-tiktok-creator-draws-flak-over-not-everything-is-political-view/

Elie Weisel acceptance speech

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/26054-elie-wiesel-acceptance-speech-1986/

On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80449.On_the_Genealogy_of_Morals

Mao Zedong on Criticism and Self-Criticism

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch27.htm

All Quiet on the Wester Front (1930)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/

Last Speech of Pericles

https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/thuc-sp.html

POLITICAL PARTIES FOR THE ALIENATED AND DISEMPOWERED: Partisan Politics in the Philippines and the question of Political Alienation by Anthony Borja

https://accessbangsamoro.ph/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/AccessBangsamoro_Political-Parties-for-the-Alienated-and-Disempowered.pdf

Popkin, Samuel L. 1988. “Political entrepreneurs and peasant movements in Vietnam,” in Michael Taylor, ed., Rationality and Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 9-62.

On Pragmatism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/

Recommendations:

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)

https://shopee.ph/12-Rules-for-Life-Book-by-Jordan-Peterson-i.293656678.9101712306

Beyond Order: 12 more rules for life by Jordan Peterson (2020)

https://shopee.ph/Beyond-Order-12-More-Rules-for-Life-Jordan-Peterson-i.293656678.3018510344

0:00 Music

0:15 Intro

1:10 Collaborations and guestings

3:08 When is it ok to be neutral? On Political Neutrality

4:18 The difference between being neutral and being apolitical

5:50 Living in the most politicized Anti-neutrality society

7:30 Definitions of Neutrality

8:25 Silence serves the oppressor by Elie Weisel

12:50 Are there only two sides?

17:23 On lazy thinking or capacity to think

19:30 Claiming one's own thoughts

20:50 Is there such a thing as "your own side" and self-criticism?

25:30 Looking at your habits in thinking?

28:00 Earning your right to speak on an issue

29:48 If you're not with us, you're against us?

33:33 Is this my war?

37:48 Bayan o Sarili

41:35 Paralysis by analysis; At what point do we stop thinking?

44:00 Sometimes we need to gamble even if we dont know everything. 

45:45 How will you participate? Why are you participating in politics?

49:25 What if there are too may voices? What if politics is too complicated?

52:15 Starting small at your own community; community pantry

56:13 How do we be ethically neutral?

1:02:40 Recommendations

We are releasing this video May 9, 2021, exactly one year from the 2022 National and Local elections. As our contribution to nation-building, we want to ask citizens, "Anong hanap mo para sa bayan?" 

 To participate in this challenge, make a 1-5 minute video, podcast, audio message or story with the ff: 

 1. Sino ka? (Who are you?) 

2. Anong hanap mo para sa bayanWhat do you want for the nation?) ? 

3. Mag-tag ka ng 1-3 na tao na susunod challenge (Tag 1-3 people to continue the challenge)  

Tagged in this video are

and White Stripe Podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/2IaDB2WzyYHtwKelxxFN64)

Don't forget the #anonghanapmo  Ilabas ang Inis!

Solidarity forever! Workers of the world unite!

In this Mayo Uno Labor Day special, we discuss the practice and abuses of "Red-tagging" or accusing people of being communists. Why is it a problem? Can Red-tagging be a good thing? What should we do with this problematic practice? How should we handle the reality of armed communists and the left? This and more in the episode.

Sources:

In the Philippines, a label can take your life by Michael Beltran

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/philippines-label-can-take-your-life

Philippine General Criticized for Saying Community Pantries Are the Work of ‘Satan’ by Nick Aspinwall

https://thediplomat.com/2021/04/philippine-general-criticized-for-saying-community-pantries-are-the-work-of-satan/ 

Calida red-tags Colmenares, others in front of SC by Marlon Ramos

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1424584/calida-red-tags-colmenares-others-in-front-of-sc

Hands off our children: Saving PH youth from communism   by Ma. Teresa Montemayor

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1079689

Being a communist does not make one a criminal by Antonio Contreras

https://www.manilatimes.net/2018/12/08/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/being-a-communist-does-not-make-one-a-criminal/479595/

Anti-communist party Law 

https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1957/ra_1700_1957.html

Anti-Terror law

https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/downloads/2020/06jun/20200703-RA-11479-RRD.pdf

Human Security Law

https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2007/ra_9372_2007.html

Makabayan Officials deny linnks with CPP-NPA but wont condemn reds

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/24/20/makabayan-officials-deny-links-with-cpp-npa-but-wont-condemn-reds

In this last part of the triad on colonialism and Catholicism in the Philippines, we invited Fr. Fiel Pareja (aka "Father TikTok") to talk about the relationship between Faith and Good Citizenship. Through his  experience as both a priest and a rising social media personality, Father Fiel speaks about the need to practice one's faith and the inevitable unity between one's membership in the Church as a Catholic, and participation in public affairs as a citizen. We also learn how he has dealt with political issues, disagreements and the stress of the pandemic as a priest.

You may find Fr. Fiel at the following:

Tiktok:https://www.tiktok.com/@fatherfielpareja?lang=en

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/fatherfielpareja

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fatherfiel/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/padrefiel

You may find Fr. Fiel's podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/34w7mNG2e3pBcJac5P86aS?si=9Y1sdUNNRuyxh-rFiLTAZA

Recommendations:

Everlasting man by G.K. Chesterton

https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/15471/documents/2016/10/G.K.Chesterton-The%20Everlasting%20Man.pdf

Let us dream by Pope Francis

https://shopee.ph/Let-Us-Dream-The-Path-to-a-Better-Future-(Hardcover)-by-Pope-Francis-Austen-Ivereigh-i.157956840.4865320244

Silence by Shusaku Endo

https://shopee.ph/search?keyword=silence%20shusaku%20endo

Silence (2016) directed by Martin Scorsese

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490215/

Timestamps

0:00 Disclaimer on Editing

0:25 Music

0:44 Intro

3:00 About our Guest Speaker: Fr. Fiel Pareja

4:53 Why Fr. Fiel entered the priesthood?

9:00 How the Lord led Fr. Fiel to Tik-Tok

16:02 How Fr. Fiel has impacted his followers.

17:15  How Fr. Fiel handles haters and  bashers

19:50 Fr. Fiel on his political tweets...Tweet 1

24:28 What is the relationship between the Catholic faith and participating in politics?

27:42 Religion as the opiate of the masses, Tweet #2

31:54 The Catholic faith is not about escaping reality

33:37 How to make faith as something social and not individualistic

35:42 What do you do with Christians with different political views?

37:45 How can we apply the Catholic message in a polarizing political environment?

40:42 How Fr. Fiel handles disagreement

45:48 Tweet #3

48:55 How can the catholic faith help us in becoming a good citizen?

56:00 Fr. Fiel's message to Non-believers and non-Catholics

58:28 Recommendations

In this Slice of P*I*, we discuss the emergence of "community pantries" as a novel and remarkable expression of citizenship. While everyone praises and celebrates them, we ask questions like why are they sustainable? Why are they political? Why do they work and why are they important? We highlight the importance of "tiwala"/Trust and "hiya"/Propriety in the operations and expansion of these pantries.

Here are instructions on how to set-up your own community pantry:

https://www.rappler.com/moveph/how-to-lead-community-pantry-barangay

You may also donate to the following community patries:https://www.facebook.com/ZeroHungerPilipinas/posts/288939009406072

Find out how to donate to the Maginhawa Community pantry here:https://www.scoutmag.ph/opinion/maginhawa-community-pantry-how-to-donate-jeloug-20210415

You may also donate via Gcash to Ana Patricia Non’s GCash account: 0945 145 4390 – Ann Patricia Non.

Sources:

"Beyond Charity": How the Maginhawa community pantry started it all

https://www.cnn.ph/news/2021/4/19/Maginhawa-community-pantry.html Ana Patricia Non temporarily suspends Maginhawa community pantry due to fear of red-tagginghttps://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/447547-maginhawa-community-pantry-temporarily-halts-operations

On Mutual Aid by Ricky Ornopiahttps://currentph.com/2021/04/19/on-mutual-aid-by-ricky-ornopia/?fbclid=IwAR3e8NRBKRwQhsOr8LdZz6WCZ0rV9tf5uisXZi7k0I3mm6gKjJZy8RUPUVY