The Howie Severino Podcast

Gang Badoy Capati has worn many hats. A former radio show host and founder of volunteer group Rock Ed, she currently offers private and public advice on how to navigate through trauma, anxiety, and in this usually joyful season, the holiday blues. She also shares strategies on how to handle relatives who ask uncomfortable questions during reunions. Many of her insights have come from her own uncom...

College coach Charles Tiu gives his take on the now infamous assault on his team by an opposing player, why his team didn’t gang up on him, and why the offender should eventually be allowed to play again.  Charles puts on his basketball analyst hat and discusses what’s wrong with the way Filipinos play the sport, why foreign coaches elevate the local game, what Kai Sotto needs to do to make i...

Outspoken and controversial, Xiao is trying to make history viral on Tiktok. He was alarmed when he noticed people were believing the myth of Tallano Gold, and historical facts were losing out to lies. He talks to Howie Severino about other urban legends in history, like Rizal fathering Hitler. Listen to his surprising verdicts on the nation's best president ever, the country's greatest generation...

Xiao explains why this latest TV drama clicks, what other eras in PHL history need to be popularized, who he thinks was the Philippines' greatest president, and why Andres Bonifacio should be considered the nation's first president. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Xiao explains why the first Marcos regime was a wasted opportunity, why talk of a "golden age" is not useful, and why historians need to judge who was right and wrong in the past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US-based professor Jonathan Ong has co-authored a new study on the online tactics used during the 2022 Philippine election campaign. Ong explains to Howie Severino such practices as "brigading," or coordinated mass reporting, that have shut down opposing and critical voices. And in the current context, what is a troll? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Howie Severino asks Prof. Ong how 2022 political satire is different from satire used by Rizal in the 1880s, how important online operations actually were in the recent electoral outcomes versus traditional campaign methods, and what the role of legacy or mainstream media can be now that it is no longer the gatekeeper of public information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

US-based professor Jonathan Ong has co-authored a new study on the online tactics used during the 2022 Philippine election campaign. Ong explains to Howie Severino such practices as "brigading," or coordinated mass reporting, that have shut down opposing and critical voices. And in the current context, what is a troll? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gideon Lasco occupies a unique space as a millennial intellectual, influencing wide audiences with newspaper columns and tweets informed by his deep academic research. His decade-long study of drug policy made him a credible critic of the Duterte drug war, and led him and a colleague to coin a term, medical populism, that became known around the world to describe leaders who use public health cris...

Gideon Lasco occupies a unique space as a millennial intellectual, influencing wide audiences with newspaper columns and tweets informed by his deep academic research. His decade-long study of drug policy made him a credible critic of the Duterte drug war, and led him and a colleague to coin a term, medical populism, that became known around the world to describe leaders who use public health cris...

In this episode recorded in September 2021, Jim Paredes talks about the early days of APO Hiking Society and the rise of OPM — a term coined by the late Danny Javier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As city tours move from virtual to face-to-face, Benjamin Canapi has found that tours with scary stories have a big market. He talks about the impact of Carlos Celdran on his profession, the need for a tour about martial law history, and what's there to love about Manila. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As city tours move from virtual to face-to-face, Benjamin Canapi has found that tours with scary stories have a big market. He talks about the impact of Carlos Celdran on his profession, the need for a tour about martial law history, and what's there to love about Manila. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former national budget official Zy-za Suzara talks about Vice President Sara Duterte's extraordinary budget proposals, why government's confidential funds need to be secret but not unaccountable, why the peso is weak and the dollar is strong, and all the urgent tasks that the new administration should have done in its first 100 days. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Former national budget official Zy-za Suzara talks about Vice President Sara Duterte's extraordinary budget proposals, why government's confidential funds need to be secret but not unaccountable, why the peso is weak and the dollar is strong, and all the urgent tasks that the new administration should have done in its first 100 days. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Currently SEA Games pole vault champion and number three in the world, 26-year-old EJ Obiena is training to be a gold medalist at the next Olympics, despite paltry government support and a sports bureaucracy that mired him in a dispute at the peak of his career. But despite opportunities to change nationalities and compete for another country, Obiena told Howie Severino that he will alwa...

Currently SEA Games pole vault champion and number three in the world, 26-year-old EJ Obiena is training to be a gold medalist at the next Olympics, despite paltry government support and a sports bureaucracy that mired him in a dispute at the peak of his career. But despite opportunities to change nationalities and compete for another country, Obiena told Howie Severino that he will always be a Fi...

Ayon kay Zig, may takot siya na hindi panonoorin ang teleseryeng ito dahil mataas ang Noli at Fili. Ngunit dahil sa twists sa kuwento at GenZ karakter na bumalik sa kasaysayan, nagkaroon ito ng malaking audience.  Idiniin ni Zig na hindi lang mang-aliw ang pakay nila kundi magmulat tungkol sa halaga ng kasaysayan at kalagayan ng kababaihan.  Ang panibagong Maria Clara ay palaban at hindi...

Ayon kay Zig, may takot siya na hindi panonoorin ang teleseryeng ito dahil mataas ang Noli at Fili. Ngunit dahil sa twists sa kuwento at GenZ karakter na bumalik sa kasaysayan, nagkaroon ito ng malaking audience.  Idiniin ni Zig na hindi lang mang-aliw ang pakay nila kundi magmulat tungkol sa halaga ng kasaysayan at kalagayan ng kababaihan.  Ang panibagong Maria Clara ay palaban at hindi...

Following his graduation from UP in 2017, Norman King became a symbol of Ayta achievement, appeared as an Ayta character in a teleserye starring Dingdong Dantes, and even starred in his own commercial. Following this rise to fame, he returned to his community in Porac, Pampanga to help his father, an Ayta chieftain, in their struggle for land rights. Last May, their tribe achieved its dream of acq...

The son of prominent politicians, Leviste dropped out of Yale University to pursue a dream: to make solar compete with fossil fuels in the Philippines. Now he wants to build the biggest solar farm in the world and make coal obsolete. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The human rights lawyer recalls the day when he was 11 years old and soldiers took away his father, Sen. Jose W. Diokno. He explains what one-man rule was like and what we must remember today, 50 years after the proclamation of Martial Law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The former climate change commissioner and now Greenpeace leader talks to Howie Severino about extreme weather, the nation's addiction to coal, the prospects for renewable energy, and the growing popularity of bicycle transport. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Howie Severino speaks to a man with a tough job, Chuck Crisanto, the executive director of the government agency tasked with memorializing human rights violations during the martial law era. Crisanto explains the challenge of educating the youth and building a museum mandated by law but may not receive any public funding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a mechanical engineering student, Angel Palma was granted a US patent for her potentially revolutionary invention, an air-conditioner that uses no harmful refrigerants and less electricity than conventional air-con. She tells Howie Severino how she got on the path to becoming a scientist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.