Yup. We’re going there.

We're gonna rewind a bit... back to the hope we felt right after independence, the political mess we found ourselves tangled in, and the broken systems that, to be totally honest, never really got fixed.

This is just part one of a much bigger conversation about how history, power, and bad leadership brought us to where we are now.

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SOURCES:

https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/PHL

https://www.ibon.org/golden-years-the-real-long-lasting-economic-damage-wrought-by-marcos/?tztc=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_Philippines

Is it in our DNA? Is it nature? Or nurture?

Maybe it’s time we go back in time and find out what our ancestors' relationship with music really was.

Who knows? Maybe it’ll all start to make sense.

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philampong@gmail.com

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SOURCES:

https://nextshark.com/why-filipinos-are-so-good-at-singing

https://adobochronicles.com/2014/04/23/stanford-university-researchers-discover-music-gene-among-filipinos/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9136123/

https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/hudhud-chants-of-the-ifugao-00015#

https://www.aswangproject.com/sugidanon/

https://sulugardenfoundation.org/music/

This is an introduction episode (not the pilot technically...)

Get to know me and my podcast first? Be my friend? Up to you...

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philampong@gmail.com

IG: instagram.com/philandrew23