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Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:57 - TPKP Blues

00:02:59 - Podcast Starts - Introducing Yvette Tan

00:04:05 - Evet Tan's Writing Journey

00:04:26 - The Queen of Horror Stories/ Lola Basyang

00:06:15 - Why Horror?

00:10:11 - Writing in English vs Tagalog

00:12:12 - Can You Pull Off Real Kilabot Using the Comics Medium?

00:12:30 - Comics vs Horror Films

00:14:53 - Writing Horror Stories

00:16:32 - Yvette's Singkit Third Eye Gets Opened

00:20:31 - Spirits Following Me

00:25:49 - Does Being Sensitive Help in Writing?

00:26:00 - Psychic Challenges

00:27:31 - Being Scared of Ghosts

00:28:58 - Komiksman's Lamest Ghost Story Ever

00:30:39 - Freelance Writing Journey

00:31:51 - Writing About Agriculture

00:32:02 - Understanding Food Production

00:34:21 - Getting Flak from a Tipsy Tweet

00:36:11 - Perceptions of Farmers' Work

00:38:55 - Importance of Middlemen in Supply Chain

00:39:48 - People Don't Get the Concept of the Supply Chain

00:42:41 - Personal Experiences in Farming

00:45:08 - Disconnect in Farming Experiences

00:47:12 - Some People Don't Know Where Coffee Came From

00:49:37 - Agriculture Knowledge Ruined Ghostbusters Afterlife for Yvette

00:51:16 - Going Back to The Ignorance About the Supply Chain

00:51:16 - Farmers' Awareness of the Supply Chain

00:56:05 - Curiosity About Food Sources

01:00:57 - Insights on Ube Being Flavor of the Year

01:03:09 - Government Support for Farmers

01:11:35 - Attracting Youth to Agriculture

01:13:25 - Pop Culture Influences on Agriculture

01:15:10 - High Cost of Farming Equipment

01:15:59 - Corruptions in the Agriculture Sector

01:17:00 - Impact of Smuggling on Farmers

01:18:18 - Yvette Tan: The Philippines is Not an Agricultural Country

01:18:54 -The Problem with the Asin Law

01:20:38 - The Neil Gaiman Scandal

01:21:00 - Neil Gaiman's Influence on Writing

01:23:15 - Neil Gaiman in the Philippines

01:28:01 - Should the Victims File their Cases?

01:28:46 - Cancel Culture and the Me Too Movement

01:30:15 - PWD Card Woes

01:33:43 - Empowering Victims First

01:34:37 - Neil Should be Given the Chance to Defend Himself

01:35:31 - Consequences for Allegations

01:37:04 - Performative Outrage

01:37:47 - A Girl Reading Comics in Highschool

01:40:40 - The Nerds are the Cool Kids Now

01:41:42 - Bullying

01:43:36 - Separating Art from Artist

01:45:11 - Fullybooked's Scifi and Speculative Fiction Contest.

01:46:02 - Book Publishing Insights

01:46:23 - Yvette's Books

01:47:42 - Story Themes and Reactions

01:49:20 - Storytelling Styles Compared

01:50:18 - Incorporating Urban Legends

01:51:52 - The State of Philippine Print Media

01:54:54 - Retro Tech Making Comebacks

01:57:20 - Transition from Lifestyle to Agriculture Journalism

01:58:31 - Realizations During the Pandemic

02:01:12 - Closing Remarks and Farewell

0:00 Intro

02:23 TPKP Blues

03:25 Podcast starts

03:55 Podcasting

04:57 P*I* Podcast

07:24 Komiksman's first impression of podcasting and how he started

09:47 Trump on Joe Rogan

11:16 Podcast boom

13:15 Political content in the Philippines

16:47 Traditional media

17:58 It's the same people who write the script

20:07 We don't know our politicians' values

24:14 Do we really know what we want?

25:28 Philosophy

25:59 Aristotle: We are political animals

28:32 Philosophy is not reserved for the elites

29:49 Most people don't think about thinking

31:09 People getting curious

33:29 Komiksman: "The Filipino people had been belittled for too long."

34:55 Gerry Alanguilan's blog post

37:52 Gerry Alanguilan's Elmer

38:20 Gerry Alanguilan gif and OG Vlogger

40:49 Comics and how awesome it is

42:28 Elevating comics art

46:38 Watchmen

49:33 Responsibility as podcasters

53:56 Joe Rogan

54:56 Handling disagreements with podcast guests

57:08 How Filipinos deal with disagreements

57:54 Being involved in a toxic YouTube drama

01:00:08 Going back to reacting on disagreements

01:01:33 Rage bait vloggers

01:03:23 The Intellectual Dark Web

01:04:11 Pinoy tribalism

01:06:06 False Filipino stereotypes

01:08:20 Observations on the pinoy YouTube netizens

01:10:35 The Infamous Age of Sexual Consent Debate and cult-mentality

01:13:56 Raffy Tulfo

01:16:33 The rise of the Raffy Tulfo, speaking the people's language

01:19:53 Tulfo's effectiveness

01:22:31 Thoughts on the Dutertes

01:25:16 Respect the Filipinos' intelligence

01:27:29 "Essay writing contests" in the Facebook pag may issues

01:29:15 Translation challenges

01:30:09 University vs Pamantasan culture shock

01:31:27 The Ivory Tower (Tore to Palengke)

01:32:29 Floppy disk was Supreme Court tech in 2016

01:34:00 University vs Pamantasan comparisons

01:41:10 The masses justifying the Dutertes

01:47:27 Building philosophical literacy to the masses

01:48:03 The bastardization of the concept of Human Rights

01:49:04 The Filipino lived-experience spectrum

01:52:03 Brainstorming

01:53:29 The concept of personal freedom and Raffy Tulfo in Action

01:57:31 Political psychology

02:00:19 The power of podcasting

02:02:08 Bad actor influencers

02:03:53 More people from the Academe should podcast

02:04:38 Tapping into the local professors' expertise instead of celebrities

02:07:15 Plans on hosting people from the Left and Right

02:08:42 Salome Salvi

02:09:20 Sex work is work debate

02:22:53 Reason of a lot of women to get into sex work

02:24:59 Degeneracy and moral decay

02:26:38 Changing the culture

02:31:14 The problem with Progressives

02:31:38 Abortion debate

02:37:36 The Progressives' mindset

02:41:28 Political resistance is healthy to a strong society

02:45:00 What if the culture is toxic?

02:45:40 Jose Rizal as National Hero discussion

03:02:50 Final messages

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(02:35) The podcast starts. Niceties

(04:03) Who is Jay Aruga?

(05:04) Jay's book, Conservative Ka Ba?

(09:15) Filipino Conservatism

(13:37) Komiksman discovers political ideologies

(17:36) Political spectrum24:06 Battle of ideologies

(24:32) Conservative on the Pride movement

(26:47) Woke indoctrination

(30:26) Most Catholic leaders are unaware of Wokeness

(32:21) Lack of media coverage on Wokeness

(33:53) SOGIE Bill - Creating policies based on gender ideology

(39:35) Social pressure to conform to Wokeness

(43:16) False bravery and virtue signalling

(45:24) Men and women truths

(48:47) True women empowerment

(51:52) Modern Feminism

(01:02:05) The Left's long game

(01:04:32) The war on Christmas

(01:09:29) FIlipinos copying Western social media trends

(01:12:26) The Culture War

(01:22:11) The Hedonistic lifestyle

(01: 25:09) Wokeness in US politics

(01:31:16) Moral relativism

(01:37:05) Personality politics in the Philippines

(01:47:04) BBM is more progressive than Leni

(01:52:07) Responsibilidad ba ng anak and kanyang magulang?

(02:02:48) How to get your book published?

(02:08:13) The Sentinel PH02:21:31 Debate tips

(02:24:38) Does Jay hate non-Conservatives?

(02:29:21) What do you think about gay people?

(02:31:28) HIV in the gay community

(02:40:01) Non-secular arguments against anti-conservative bills

(02:46:39) Final thoughts

0:00 Intro

2:49 OBB

3:49 Podcast starts

4:28 How to type in Japanese characters

6:09 Maou No Sekai introduces herself

6:36 Loving the mecha genre in manga

7:51 Propaganda Project

9:00 Getting out of her comfort zone and freelance struggles

9:45 The comics dream

12:25 Comics creating process

13:48 Maou's books and projects

18:34 Creating in Webtoons

24:03 Komiksman on his postponed comics dream and writing process

26:10 Maou's writing process

29:36 Being full time on comics

30:28 Committing on your character designs

32:54 Cartoons show and the toys industry

41:04 Forming Pulsar Press

44:12 How to make making a living through comics work a possibility

46:02 Pulsar Press'vision for local comics

47:17 Fighting off the frustrations

49:38 What is the local comics community's current battlecry?

52:02 Local vs International market for Filipino comics

53:58 Lack of government support for the comics industry

56:08 Africa's consumption of Philippine content

57:15 BINI and PPOP explosion and the local creative industry's lack of foresight

1:03:08 Comics is the most versatile creative medium

1:05:51 Building the local comics industry

1:07:17 Maou's Tabletop Game, La Historiaaaah!

1:15:27 Coming up with a card game

1:21:17 Tabletop games community

1:28:23 What happened to mobile gaming?

1:31:30 Filipinos struggle to create successful original IP products

1:35:50 Filipinos can't pitch a show properly?

1:37:45 A lot of artists are inarticulate

1:39:05 Final thoughts

BINI Aiah - Tom Cruise

New Jersey Drones

Sierra Madre

Transspecieism

Light at the Moment of Conception

Robbing a Dojo

Based Girl is NOT Losing Her Rights

Raffy Tulfo Wants Ready Anti-Venom Available

Drone Warfare

Joe Rogan Experience Origin Story

Bini Gwen Being Vulnerable

Mary Grace Piattos

Fire Vs Water