Otso-Bulaga-Canteen Nation!

The noontime variety show is a staple of Philippine mass culture. A celebration of the kitsch and the banal, it is often a formulaic whirl of trite skits and musical entertainment marked by toilet humour and even lewd asides with anti-intellectual bent. To be fair, it has at times been a platform from which unexpected singing superstars have emerged. But how have decades of this Eat Bulaga sort of lunchtime diet impacted Filipinos as thinkers and, more importantly, voters? TV gave America Trump; it gave Ukraine Zelensky. What about the Philippines? Flipping with us are veteran award-winning journalist Ces Drilon and one-third of the famed OPM (Original Pilipino Music) pioneer APO Hiking Society, Jim Paredes, who once upon a time hosted a noontime variety show. Mula Aparri hangang Jolo, is it just “that’s entertainment”?

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Otso-Bulaga-Canteen Nation! is an episode from Flipping The Narrative by Flipping The Narrative.

This episode is 54:30 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2022.

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