merry christmas! ho ho ho! merry christmas, everyone! ho ho ho! happy new year, too! anthony: despite initial appearances, the philippines is not all holiday cheer, warm hellos and dancing bugs. the filipino national martial art kali is among the most
now you re both photojournalists. ben: yu anthony: based out of manila? ben: yeah, uh, me. marc lives in mindanao. anthony: mindanao. now does a journalist need to carry a firearm in this country? marc: for me, yes. anthony: in the philippines, a press badge is no defense, particularly in the south of the country where marc navales lives and works. ben: mindanao has been war-torn for the last how many years? because of the radicalization of recent years, this growing specter of isis, mindanao is fertile grounds for that. anthony: now traditionally the argument against journalists arming themselves is that journalists have always been able to portray themselves as noncombatants. marc: yes. anthony: there was some presumption that they would not shoot you. ben: yeah. anthony: but these days, people seem to not make that distinction. ben: yes. dating back to the marcos years
shane: filipinos are hospitable. everybody knows how to sing. they don t necessarily have to be in tune, but they want to sing, they like to sing. fritz: we ve been listening to music from like a very young age. shane: i m the drummer for the band, but i m not actually formally trained. up to this day i don t even read notes, but i could memorize a song le if you gave it to me in a day i could play the whole thing out. anthony: well that s that s pretty much the you have to. right? i mean shane: yeah. anthony: now, you guys have played abroad? shane: no. anthony: whoa! shane: so, it s one of the goals actually. anthony: five years from now, where would you like to be? shane: well, hopefully we get to we get to play for a bigger crowd, you know, because i think the fulfillment for me is actually getting more people to enjoy the music. heat of the moment heat of the moment shone in your eyes
turned slowly, slowly on a spit over coals for hours. oh delicious, delicious lechon. patricia: you know, during this time of the year there s a lot of christmas parties and the lechon is always the star of the party. joel: you can gauge how grand the party is by the presence of the lechon. if you have two lechons, you must be a big shot! anthony: man, that is good pig. jimmy: so my name is jimmy belleza and i m the hr director, and i m also the happiness guru of the philippines. and we happen to have a season to be jolly. dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh anthony: as we all know, one
home put everybody here and many, many more through school, lifted them up to a more comfortable life. and you would have left family behind? aurora: yeah. anthony: to go out there and make money. that s never an easy decision, a painful, painful choice. aurora s children, now middle-aged, are finally getting to know their mother. aurora: okay, okay, okay. bring in the food inside. anthony: many, many, many filipino women like you who had to leave their families, go abroad. aurora: yeah, absolutely yes. analyn: her three children. emy: children my eldest is about four years now in qatar, and the other one is two years, and the other one is in hong kong. anthony: working conditions, for ofws, particularly in some gulf states, can be punishing at