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Keeping Filipino Stories Alive, One Book at a Time · PHLV Radio

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  Speaker 4: Si Onda Dot.
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  Speaker 3: Spell on the dot. Mia, let's bring in our guest.
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  Speaker 4: We have a very special guest today. I met her
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  Speaker 4: when I saw her post online. And that's how we
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  Speaker 4: met her, no? Mm-hmm. Our guest was born in, guess,
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  Speaker 4: guess what year?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 4: September 26, 1989 in the Philippines. It was his.
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  Speaker 5: Birthday last month, two months ago.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that Marshal September?
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  Speaker 3: What's Marshal?
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  Speaker 5: September 21, 2021.
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  Speaker 4: And then migrated to the U.S. at the age of
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  Speaker 4: 13 in 2003. She graduated in UNLV in 2011 with
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  Speaker 4: a degree in political science. And she founded Roxy Online LLC,
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  Speaker 4: which is an online store selling mostly books from the
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  Speaker 4: Philippines here in Las Vegas. Because she believes that, she believes,
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  Speaker 4: what's this? because she believes in the talent of Filipino people.
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  Speaker 4: She'll share the books she has with us today.
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  Speaker 3: Our guest, Ms.
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  Speaker 4: Roxanne San Jose.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, everyone, and good afternoon. I want to say maraming salamat.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much to Dorothy and Mia for giving
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  Speaker 5: me the opportunity and, of course, the radio station to
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  Speaker 5: be here right now. So maraming maraming salamat sa inyo lahat.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 5: And to all our viewers, so maraming salamat for tuning in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you're welcome. And thank you also for gracing on
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  Speaker 3: the dot. Because we are book lovers.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I am a book lover.
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  Speaker 3: Me, are you a book lover? Sometimes. Sometimes. I want
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  Speaker 3: to build a library in Bahia. So if you have
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  Speaker 3: books you want to donate, donate them to me. Really?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. We have books in Bahia.
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  Speaker 3: And also, we have Woods and Books, of which, remember,
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  Speaker 3: Woods and Books is... You know, we want to provide
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  Speaker 3: literacy to children, urban children who are probably homeless or
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  Speaker 3: all that. But anyway, back to you, Roxanne. What's your nickname?
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  Speaker 5: Roxy, actually. My relatives, they call me Roxy. So that's
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  Speaker 5: why it's Roxy online. So they think it's me.
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  Speaker 3: How about offline? You're also Roxy.
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  Speaker 5: Foxy.
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  Speaker 4: She's Foxy offline. Foxy.
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  Speaker 3: I should....
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  Speaker 5: Change my name to that. I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my sister's name is Roxanne. So her nickname is Rox.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll call you Roxy. So Roxy, what made you
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  Speaker 3: go into this business of selling Filipino books?
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  Speaker 5: Just like you, I am also a book lover. And
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  Speaker 5: I always go back to the Philippines once a year.
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  Speaker 5: So that makes me, you know, be motivated to do
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  Speaker 5: something about my country. So I decided to sell books
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  Speaker 5: from the Philippines. Kasi konti lang yung mga books dito
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  Speaker 5: sa America na galing Filipino. So I decided to do that.
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  Speaker 5: And I also, like you said in my bio, I
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  Speaker 5: also believe in the talent of the Filipino people.
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  Speaker 3: And you yourself are an author.
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  Speaker 5: I was, actually, during, I think, my high school years.
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  Speaker 3: What did you write?
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  Speaker 5: I write two books. Anagram siya, parang science fiction. It
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  Speaker 5: was actually fantasy. Sorry, sobrang tagal na talaga. Anagram siya,
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  Speaker 5: fantasy story siya. And then Time Travel, which is published
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  Speaker 5: in 2015. I believe then science fiction din siya.
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  Speaker 4: What's an anagram?
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah. So, your favorite genre seems to be fantasy
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  Speaker 5: and science fiction? Yes, and romance.
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  Speaker 3: Romance.
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  Speaker 5: So we can be somehow fell in love with everything.
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  Speaker 5: Not only two people, but fall in love with everything.
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  Speaker 3: So what's your favorite Filipino, just top of your head,
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  Speaker 3: Filipino writings or Filipino books?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my God, my best sellers.
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  Speaker 3: You, what's your favorite?
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  Speaker 5: Pabarito Pabong by Stainless Tuganisa by Pabong. Always have to
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  Speaker 5: be Pabong. Kasi parang relaxing yung pagkasulat niya ng mga book.
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  Speaker 5: It's very relaxing. It makes me feel like I'm back home.
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  Speaker 5: Because he has a very deep Filipino language on his writings.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I really like about him.
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  Speaker 4: And his books.
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  Speaker 3: Si Bob Ong, he's the author of Dekada Setenta. If
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  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken. Dekada Setenta.
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  Speaker 5: Si Luwal Hati Bautista.
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  Speaker 3: Si Luwal Hati Bautista sa Dekada Setenta.
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  Speaker 5: And they had a movie about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a.
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  Speaker 4: Movie, Dekada Setenta.
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  Speaker 3: Ano pala yun kay Bob Ong? Bakit hindi... In the
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  Speaker 3: crash non-crash or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm moving in your back.
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  Speaker 5: I'm back. I don't something a Libra.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah Yeah, it's a shot a bun. I have
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  Speaker 3: a son up a lot for a be untied Tony
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  Speaker 3: a B and K K BS and PLA And a
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  Speaker 3: question mark and an explanation point.
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  Speaker 4: The Filipino phonetics.
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  Speaker 3: Atsaka, bakit baliktad magbasa ng libro ang mga Pilipino?
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  Speaker 5: Ayun ni Ita Tamali.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ang paboritong libro ni who does?
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Ito yung ano. Ay, wala siya. Wala ang ano. Bakit? Yeah. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: So that's your favorite.
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  Speaker 5: That's my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Ito siya. Stainless Longanisa.
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  Speaker 4: Stainless Longanisa.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Ikalawang dekada.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Then, following Bob Ong, sino pa?
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  Speaker 5: Rikili. National artist Rikili. I read about Para KB, Panasang
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  Speaker 5: Love Story of different kind of people. So, looking forward
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  Speaker 5: to finishing that. And about Rikili, she's a very good writer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: She's... screenwrite a lot of beautiful Filipino movies. That's why
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  Speaker 5: I like him as a writer. Basically, sila ng dalawa.
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  Speaker 3: Sila ng dalawa.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Ikaw, Mia, sinong pabrito mo? Patanoyin ka na.
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  Speaker 3: Patanoyin ka na.
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  Speaker 4: But sa Filipino books, I like yung mga alamat ni
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  Speaker 4: Juan Tamad. Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I read about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yun talaga. Kasi I was, di ba, I raised my
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  Speaker 4: kids speaking Tagalog. So I was buying, when I go home,
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  Speaker 4: I buy those children's.
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  Speaker 3: Books in Tagalog.
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  Speaker 4: And they love those. They just find it so funny.
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  Speaker 5: And I think alamat always fascinated me. Because you're learning
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  Speaker 5: about the Philippines in a positive way. Like alamat ng
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  Speaker 5: mangga yata yung nabasa ko sa isi.
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  Speaker 3: Alamat ng mangga?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ito naman... Itong Cabinet of Curiosities ni Ambeth Ocampo. I
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  Speaker 3: bought this from Roxy, from you. You know, her office is...
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  Speaker 3: Is it okay to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you tell them where your office is?
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  Speaker 5: It's in West Oki Boulevard, Unit E2.
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  Speaker 4: By Kate's Coffee. That's why you said your neighbors.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: How cute. When I reached out to Roxanne, I had
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  Speaker 4: the L. Philly boosterism already. So when I saw Minoli Metangere,
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  Speaker 4: that's how I got in touch with her. Then I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't go to her office. She just mailed it to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Ako naman, I went to her office and it's
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  Speaker 3: just so happy na may meeting tayo. And what struck
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  Speaker 3: me about this book, I think I talked about this
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  Speaker 3: when Tita Gloria was promoted. No, no, when she announced
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  Speaker 3: the cancellation of Sarimanok. And this is where Sarimanok is. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: and this is very like an art and historical kind
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  Speaker 3: of book. Filipino history and artifacts. Balangay sa Butuan City.
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  Speaker 3: they're there you don't say that I mean pictures pictures
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  Speaker 3: I love books with.
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  Speaker 4: Pictures yeah you must.
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  Speaker 3: Be Alice in Wonderland what good is a book though
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  Speaker 3: no one on.
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  Speaker 6: Pictures you know it's always keep us be in that
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  Speaker 6: book I mean did I think my bit I.
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  Speaker 4: Was telling Roxanna canina the same week we studied Molly
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  Speaker 4: and Elphaba's that is my in high school It was
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  Speaker 4: so hard to read it. But to understand it, I
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  Speaker 4: was reading the comics.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: To understand. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We have that. El Filibusterismo, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what you got from her.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I also.
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  Speaker 4: And then the El Filibusterismo.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: But El Filibusterismo, I had the hardbound.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a copy of that even in English.
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  Speaker 3: So when Mia posted her copy online on Facebook, and
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  Speaker 3: I saw it, of course, ding! I want to build
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  Speaker 3: a Filipino library. Ngayon, ganyan palang kalaki, ka-wide ang collection ko.
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  Speaker 3: I have to see it, though. It's not that big, no, collection.
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  Speaker 5: But I still appreciate you for that because it always,
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  Speaker 5: you know, when someone reads the Filipino literature, you know,
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  Speaker 5: somehow it brings them closer back home because of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the culture and the wording. So I really appreciate anyone,
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  Speaker 5: you know, reading the Filipino literature because it also helps
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  Speaker 5: the authors. Yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Because of course, they're not on Amazon and all that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a different platform. in selling and.
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  Speaker 5: I get um messages from authors that they're saying thank
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  Speaker 5: you to me for bringing their books to america so
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  Speaker 5: that means a lot to me.
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  Speaker 3: So speaking of authors alamobana you can ask for uh
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  Speaker 3: copies at a discounted price from bulk on copies.
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  Speaker 5: Yes actually yeah how do you bring your books here
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  Speaker 5: We have a house in the Philippines where everything that
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  Speaker 5: I bought from the publisher, they ship it from our
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  Speaker 5: house and then the house ship it from here. So
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  Speaker 5: that's why it's easier.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it expensive to ship from here?
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  Speaker 5: In my point of view, it's not because they're bundled
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  Speaker 5: because they're all in one. There's so many of them
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  Speaker 5: so it's not that. How long is the shipping? Probably
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  Speaker 5: within weeks. And I thank you, DHL, for giving me
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  Speaker 5: the best shipping service ever.
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  Speaker 3: So we use DHL.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we think from the Philippines to the U.S., I
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  Speaker 4: thought it would be about one month.
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  Speaker 5: If it's DHL, it's easy. It's air because it's DHL.
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  Speaker 5: That's why it only takes within a week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, nice. So.
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  Speaker 3: And I like the legality of Rox's business because she's LLC.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And she charges tax and she gives out an invoice
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  Speaker 3: and a receipt. And that it should be. As it
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  Speaker 3: should be, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not fly-by-night.
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  Speaker 5: I always wanted to make it legal and safe for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: And also giving back to the community with the taxes.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. And I love that. I love that part of
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing. Because you could have sold it. You
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  Speaker 3: could be doing it secretly or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Never in my conscience I can do that.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. You're so young to be doing this.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. It's such a very good idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, okay. Next question is, other than... uh, Tagalog and
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  Speaker 3: English books. Meron ka bang ibang, um, languages, Filipino languages,
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  Speaker 3: like Cebuano, uh, Hiligaynon, uh, ang kay, ang kay Kuya Rex,
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  Speaker 3: ano yung language ni Kuya Rex? Cebuano nga, Bisaya.
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  Speaker 4: But there's actually, we had a guest, not, not here,
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  Speaker 4: but the other show, Saboy Bahayan, we had a guest, uh,
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  Speaker 4: who writes children's books in Visaya.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can introduce you to him.
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  Speaker 3: How open are you to selling other authors' books right
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  Speaker 3: here in America?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, 100% I'm supportive of it. He has a lot
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  Speaker 5: of children's books in Visaya.
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  Speaker 4: And then he has yung mga children's cookbooks, too.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, nice.
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  Speaker 4: Very interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking to our book right now, children's books.
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  Speaker 5: Ang language niya, Baybayin. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: That's difficult.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yung alibata.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Yeah, south. Sablay.
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  Speaker 3: Yung ukit sa sablay natin ng UP. Baybayin is the...
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead. What is baybayin?
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  Speaker 5: It's under Adarna House at Tinitinang, which I could also
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  Speaker 5: have that here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So can you read baybayin?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: Only Tagalog. Kasi Tagal, Maynila talaga kami. We're from Manila.
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  Speaker 5: So that's the only language, unfortunately, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But I could love, you know, Ilongo. You know, I
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  Speaker 5: like Pampang to know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Incidentally, let me just say this on air
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  Speaker 3: because we might forget, but I don't want to forget this.
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  Speaker 3: You have to remind me. Somebody is interested in hosting
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  Speaker 3: a show right here, and the show is simply storytelling.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow. Storytelling.
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  Speaker 5: I would love to donate books for daddy.
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  Speaker 3: Or voiceover. But she wants to be like here on
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  Speaker 3: air and reading the book. Bakit bigla tayong niko sa
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  Speaker 3: blood donation? In English or Tagalog? Mula sa usapin ng pagmamalehaw.
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  Speaker 3: She wants to do that.
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  Speaker 5: I want to donate a book there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Very good, very good. Isa pa,
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  Speaker 3: one more thing about these books. So if you are
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  Speaker 3: going to be an outlet, for example, for local authors,
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  Speaker 3: do you want to streamline your choices towards literary books only?
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  Speaker 3: Ayaw mo nang mga... I don't know, documentaries?
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  Speaker 5: I've already been selling non-fiction, like The Cabinet of Curiosity.
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  Speaker 5: That's a non-fiction. But autobiography, I'm looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 5: I've never had an autobiography before. So, yes, I'm open
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  Speaker 5: to any genre.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Comics.
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  Speaker 5: I sold one before. Like, I think last month I sold, like,
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  Speaker 5: I mentioned to me I had a No Limitangere comics
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  Speaker 5: that I sold. I didn't find the No Limitangere comics.
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  Speaker 5: It was sold, like, a few months ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And incidentally, also, Kuya Yo, I think he mentioned
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  Speaker 3: a portion of the No Limitangere. Film Fest last week
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  Speaker 3: because of the Ibarra Awards.
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  Speaker 5: I became a vendor of that last year. Las Vegas
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  Speaker 5: Short Film Festival and I love what they do. Showcasing Filipino.
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  Speaker 4: Dictionary. Oh, dictionary.
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  Speaker 3: That would be good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was thinking of that too, Tagalog, yeah, dictionary.
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  Speaker 5: Because we have chat, we can ask. But it's still,
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  Speaker 5: it's the feeling of looking for the word.
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  Speaker 3: It's different.
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  Speaker 5: Always looking for the latest edition, like the latest edition,
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  Speaker 5: so they know the proper words.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and the pronunciation.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Maganda din if you sell collector's items. Yeah, I also
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  Speaker 3: do requests.
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  Speaker 5: I think someone requested me like this old edition before.
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  Speaker 5: So open the new store code to do requests.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I'll get in touch with my brother also. I was
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: telling Roxanne earlier, my brother did three volumes already of books.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Satirical comedy book. I'll show it to you. I'll ask
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: for copies. But yeah, he's from the Philippines also.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then I met, while I was in Iloilo,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I hooked up with Palanca Awardee, Dr. Alice.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: I sold some books from Arlo Palanca Awardee.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. This is Dr. Alice Gonzalez. She was
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: my professor at UP, Visayas. And she won several Sarzuelas.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: It's like the Filipino version of an opera. Everything is written,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: is sung. So she wrote that, and she's a Palanca
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Awardee for women, for gender stories. And she gave me
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: a book, a collection of, it's in Ilongo. And she
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: translated her own Ilongo, Hiligaynon stories into English. And that's
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: another genre that I just heard of. It's self-translation of authors.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I would not say vernacular, but regional languages. So Halimbawa Mia,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: if you wrote in Tagalog and you want to translate
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: your own work into English, it's self-translation. And she gave
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: this book. And in one of those, it's an anthology
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: of about six stories. She included Nanay, the story of
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: my Nanay. But she asked permission to just twist the
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: story a bit, you know. So it's beautiful to be
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: in that collection. So that's why if you have, let's say,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: access to Palanca awardees, Roxy, mga publications nila, oh, that
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: would be awesome. Poetry, essays.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I sold some, actually. And one of my buyers actually
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: always wanted a Palanca Award book.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Ito nga si Bob Ong din, 56, winner of the
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: National Book Awards. Morganian, oh yeah, but if you look.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: For stories and a wordy book You don't see no
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: one translate. No no the national I did really go.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I'm on Rio. Yeah Yeah, I am not you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I did spa who don't bleed it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I love that I'm curious K. Roxanne because she seems
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: so young and she was telling us that she migrated
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: to the US and In college na, diba? In high school.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: So how did you know about El Filibusterismo?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Good question, Mia. Good question.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Kasi dito na ako nag-aaral ng high school. So hindi
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: ko siya naabutan. So naingitaw doon sa mga tao na
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: nag-aaral ng El Filibusterismo. Kasi I never had a chance to.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Paano ko siya nalaman?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Two friends. Ah, okay. Kasi required siya sa Philippines.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, two friends. Like, I'm studying this. And of course,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: it was written by Jose Rizal. So I should know
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: So did you read it? Did you read the portion?
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: No, not yet.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Ikamiya, did you read the portion?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Kailangan nga eh. Ha? Did I read it?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Hindi, ngayon.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: No, nung high school. Kina-lection ko lang siya muna. But
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I read the whole book.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Looking forward to read it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: So how do you make time to read?
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Always make time. That's always the answer. Put aside either
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: watching TV, put that aside, and put a book close
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: to me.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Do you have a goal of how many books to read?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Not really, but in a year, probably, let's say at least...
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: 30 books.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's amazing.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: 12 books, one book a month.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: 12 lang ako eh. 12 books lang ako.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Medyo kayo know it's harder to read in Tagalog.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: It's harder talaga.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Lalo na.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Kasi English yung magbabasa ka.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: You know, I've been speaking Tagalog all my life. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: understand Tagalog so far. Pero there's a particular Tagalog na
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: ang lalim talaga eh.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Sige nga, basahin mo nga ito.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: I think I like this thing very much.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: See you read a portion. Yeah, I think nothing I'm
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: on to go.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Look me I'm gonna do a voiceover.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Well, it's something ready go Tatay, sino ba si Marcos?
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Tanong ng pitong taong gulang na batang lalaking kasama niya
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: sa jeep. Nakaupo sila sa... Tignan mo, malalim na to.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Likuran ng driver. Halos pabulong ang sagot ng lalaki. Sino
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: po si Cory? Kasunod ng tanong ng bata. Anniversary yata
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: ng EDSA revolution noon at may mga yellow ribbon at
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: trampoline ng people power sa kali. Kaya nabuhay ang mga
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: tao na kuhang dati. Pag itib ng anak. Muling sumagot
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: ng mahina ang ama. Maya maya pa. Bakit po nag
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: people power? I love it. You know that's what you're saying.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: You understand it, right? So I need to do like
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: a voiceover for that. But you do understand what you
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: just read. I did. Yes, very good.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: For the children or the youth who grew up here,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: with these books, the language will continue.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And not just the language, but the context, historical, cultural context.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: And it's good that we can find it through Roxy. Yes.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And it's through Mia that I met you.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: So I really appreciate that. The power of social media.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: And I found it on social media too.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, you found her?
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Because I was posting on Facebook. That's how I wanted it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: How did you do that?
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: She has pictures of books of this one. Tapos, ano,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: tapos I saw Noly and Alamat. You had, ano, eh,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: yung Kay Huantamad. You had at one point.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Kasi hindi kami nga magkita. Nawala na yung Kay Huantamad.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Noly metang her na lang.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Ah, okay, okay. Kumuha din ako ng El Filibusterismo.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: But just to share also, I was apprehensive. Why? Because
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: it was on social media. Because you're used to buying
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: books from Amazon. Oh, yeah. So we were talking through
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Messenger only. So I wasn't sure. I said, oh, maybe
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: I'll fly by night. So I took a lot of
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: conversations first. Oh, okay, okay.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: You should do, actually.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: You have to be safe.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: You're doing the right thing.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: It feels so off. But here you got it from Facebook.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: They're going to block you after you give them money.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: But you know with Roxanne, she's very persistent. Because she
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: was telling me you can pass by the office. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: just never had the chance to. She would follow up
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: a month or a few weeks after. She's very persistent.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, so that's why she was able to sell. Yes,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: she is persistent even afterwards. I really appreciate how you
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: take care of your clients. You say hello, you say
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: thank you, you say kumusta, you're very professional. That's one
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: thing I'm very proud of. Sa Filipinos who are very professional.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: And that's how I felt safe also when she was
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: doing that. She was saying, you can pass by anytime.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: I'm open this time to this time. Or if you want,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I can mail it to you. And then when I
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: actually zelled her, she sent me a picture of the...
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: That's the kind of Right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Right, especially now in this age that people are selling
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: online like you said That's how I saw the credibility
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: the picture the post of Roxanne. She had a picture
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: of this one. It's on screen Okay.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: So when did you open shop?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: 2004.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: And I've been all over.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: I've been doing pop shops and events.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Since 2004.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Happy anniversary.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I've been all over the place.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: How come you don't have a physical... When I.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Went to your store, your books were in just one shelf?
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: I can't install them yet. But I'm thinking about doing
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the pop-up on that same location soon.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Ah, okay.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Or maybe at the Filipino town, some boulevard mall.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: I did that. Last year, the Las Vegas Short Film Festival,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: they had an event there, and I had a pop-up there. Yes,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: there were a lot of events in the Philippines.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: You should go to the.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Pinoy Pride, those festivals. Yes. You should bring your books back.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Did you earn well at your pop-up events?
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Like anywhere?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Did people buy books?
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, they did. At all of my events, I always
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: sell something. So thank you so much to all my buyers.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Is there an uptick in... book buying or down? Are
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: people buying more?
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: They're buying more.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Or less?
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Every month, I always sell something. So they're buying more.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: I think it's a type of books also. Because we
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: have Kindle.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: We have online.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: It's like me, I bought for my collection.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: I'm fortunate that there's no month event. Because once a month,
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: there's an event that hasn't sold anything. They always somehow
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: 80% sold out.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: We'll invite you to GRC. Talk to us about the GRC.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Tell her.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: We're inviting you on September 30th and October 2nd. Next year,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: we're going to have the UP Alumni Association of America.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: We're going to have a grand reunion at the Orleans.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: So we're open to sponsorships. Booths.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Exhibitors.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exhibitors. So you can be one of the exhibitors there.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: I'd love to be part of it.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes. It's a three-day event.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bring all your books.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Who knows?
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: It's always nice to see the community.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I order a lot more of the, you know.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: And show the packaging. I love when I asked her. Plastic.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Plastic. How she....
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Naka plastic. I asked her, bakit naka plastic?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Ang kada... Each book is.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Do you put the plastic by yourself?
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, them. And then another plastic from us. Because
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: I just want to keep the book safe when you
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: get it. So, you know, bago siya. They're very quite protective. Mm-hmm.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Of the book that I sell.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: So you're protecting the books in transit.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: In transit. Kasi my first comment to her was, I
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: can't scan through the books. How can I? Alam mo naman,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: mga Pilipino, nag-umpisan magbasa ng libro sa likod, diba? Sabi
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: ni Bob Ong.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: And you know, one of my, I actually love books pala.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I love cookbooks.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Yes yeah i'll donate them to you i used to
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: sell one of them those.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Are the novelty cookbooks like that what time is it?
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: We still have time.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Ay, wala ba tayong comments from the... I couldn't open
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: my Facebook on the dot. May comments ba dyan, Mia?
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I can't see. And if there are... Well, I'm sorry, no? Basta....
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Let's see one comment. Comment. Hello, Flora, and hello, Angelina Tabuena. Nice.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Flora Tyson is watching.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Hello to everyone watching. Thank you. Salamat.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Baka may shout-out ka nga. Sige, mag-shout-out ka nga sa
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: mga friends who are the ones who are waiting for
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you to go online.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Hello, I'm here.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Mom, Dad.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Hello, Kuya.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: Si Mami, tsaka si Daddy.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Si Mami. I see it. Si Becca. Yes.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: I got it. I got it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: So do you ship nationwide?
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: And internationally, yes.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: And internationally, too. Oh, good.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Internationally to eBay, so they have to take care of
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: the costumes. Just in case I don't want to make
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: a mistake on the costumes.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: So through eBay. Through eBay.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Go internationally to nationwide to eBay or to me. You
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: can contact me on my Facebook page.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: You mentioned your Facebook page and where they can order. Okay.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: On Facebook is... Facebook.com slash Roxy Online USA. And on eBay,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: it's eBay.com slash USR slash Roxy Online.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll put it in the comments.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: And then I'm looking forward to having my website next year.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, good. Actually, you can comment.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Actually, yung website will see the books better. Kasi pwede isa-isa.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Ito kasi sino-zoom ko pa. Yung picture na zinoom ko talaga.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: And it's much cheaper if you have your own website
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: because of the fees, right?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Okay. So, sige. Picture rate, that's a word.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: We used to.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: You know how we bastardize English. You picture it in
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: your book, front and back, and, you know, with description.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Just like they do in Amazon.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because the way she did it, that's the side.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: So I had to zoom in. The dimensions, how many inches,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, now it's time for you to sing.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: This card, we have used this before. It's the Ugnayan
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: or Cards for Connection. And Roxy picked the... What's the
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: word on the back? What is the word?
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Liberation.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Liberation or freedom?
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Laya.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Laya.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Laya is freedom.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: That's a really, really hard song to think about.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: So your question is... Go ahead and read your question.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: What song helps you feel.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: What song helps you feel liberated? What song feels you?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: In English, it's What a Feeling by Irene. What a feeling.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: I think it's an Oscar-winning song, too.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Is it in.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: It's in a movie, I forgot. Flashdance? There you go, Flashdance.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: I have one.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I have a song, Buy and Call.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I should have mentioned that.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Good day, mommy boy and cool be me
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: So that song.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah that part of the song makes you feel free
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: yeah You know you're feeling you know positive about yourself,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: and you have to be positive all the time, so
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: yeah Yeah, makes you feel just being positive of it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know something It reminds me of freedom.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I believe I can fly. And that's all.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: I believe I can touch the sky.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: Is that the song they use in Space Jam?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know, darling.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I just.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Yes. We have a genre.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, you have a genre.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: What else?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Even if there's a bird flying.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: And I want to read the dark side. The dark
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: side is.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Some say our own liberation is bound up with the
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: liberation of others. What does this make you feel? Your
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: freedom is bound, is connected with the freedom of others. Okay.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: How does this make you feel?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Connected.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: You know, books are just expressions for me. They're just,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: when I read a book, I feel just free to
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: be anywhere. You feel free when you read books?
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: You feel relaxed and creative in a way.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Like you're somewhere else.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: It brings you to places.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: It brings you to places.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Lets you meet people fictitious maybe or.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: So when i finish reading a book i'm like kind
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: of emotional because i'm so attached to it oh really
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: yeah finishing a book sometimes like what book in particular
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: are you thinking of that that's Well, Babong is one
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: of them because, you know, when I finish a Babong,
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: parang nami-miss ko yung Pilipinas because of the hard language
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: that Babong uses. So I just want to go home
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: right away and speak Tagalog 24-7. So pwede, pwede. And
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: listen Tagalog 24-7.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Do you find it challenging to read in Tagalog? Mia
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: found it challenging.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: In a sense, if the word is so deep to pronounce.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: To understand. My challenge is in the accent. Saan bang accent?
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: The second syllable. Pagpapalaya.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Pagpapalaya.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: I think, you know, my accent sa Tagalog is okay.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Matatas ako magtagalog. Pag pinagtagalog mo.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Very good. Yeah.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Would that be nice, no? Meron tayong mga events where
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: we just converse in our language, in our regional language. And,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: you know, just have fun. Yeah, just be yourself. No judgment.
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  Speaker 3: We can exchange books. We can exchange recipes. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. Yeah, that's what I said. You know, this
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  Speaker 3: is your space, your holding space for possibilities.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and opportunities. And meeting new people. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Mia, what's our quote?
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: My quote, our quote is from John Ruskin. A book
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  Speaker 4: worth reading is worth buying.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Because you feel connected, you know.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: A book worth reading is a book worth buying. Did
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: you buy a book lately, Mia?
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  Speaker 4: From Roxanne.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the latest, right?
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  Speaker 4: I'm very picky with books, really.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a $ 6 book from, that's another thing.
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  Speaker 3: I like used books.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, okay. Do you sell used books?
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  Speaker 5: I used to, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you should sell used books.
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  Speaker 4: The thing with books, when you move, it's heavy. Right?
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  Speaker 5: If I can find, like, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 5: Some people requested a new book, and if I can't
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  Speaker 5: buy it, or I can't find it, I tell them,
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  Speaker 5: can I buy a used book for you?
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  Speaker 4: And they accept.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, we want to.
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  Speaker 5: An alternative.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, because Amazon does that. Amazon offers used books. But
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: you just have to rate kung ano.
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  Speaker 5: Yung mga out of print.
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  Speaker 3: Very good, good, or passable.
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  Speaker 5: I always take a picture of the used books to
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  Speaker 5: my buyers before they buy it. I don't want to be, like, liable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good, that's good. Kaya, so yun, the latest
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: that I got was from, they have this store in Carlsbad, California. California.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I never did get to the flower field.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the flower field.
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  Speaker 3: They have all brand new. And then they have this
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  Speaker 3: little shelf for all used books that really look new.
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  Speaker 3: So $ 6 now. What would normally sell as $ 27 is
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: just $ 6. of Byron Katie. So, ibang topic na yan.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Hindi na yan Filipino. Okay. I would also be interested in,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: you have horror stories? Yes, I do.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Isa-isahin natin ang mga books ni Roxy before we go. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: This one is Demonito, Demonita.
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  Speaker 4: Eh, parang libro ko yan. Demon, yun.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Demonito, Demonita. Isang horror book.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: Isang It's about a monster named Popoy, and his only
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: life is about, you know, taking care of everybody, including
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: his brother. And then his brother died, and everything went,
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: you know, upside down. And then after that, he was
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: pulled into the Philippine urban legend. After that, a monster
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: came out, and the world shattered. Wow. It's a horror movie.
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  Speaker 3: Timing is Halloween.
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  Speaker 4: She's Filipino.
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  Speaker 5: She's also messaging me. Thank you so much for putting
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: my book in the market.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Next.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: What's the next book?
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: This is Midnight in Bali. It's a love story. A
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: character named Eva, who always has a plan for everything.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: And then he cares about her boyfriend, and then the
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: boyfriend dumps her. So he went to Bali out of desperation,
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: and she met this guy, and then it goes from there.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Long story. Okay.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, very nice.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: And we were just talking about alamat. So this is
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: actually a children's book called Alamat ng Palay, which highlights
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: the rice in the Philippines. And then... It's a story
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: about a couple and how agriculture in the Philippines works.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Alamat ng palay. Alamat means legend.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: I think it's also one of the famous alamat in
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: the Philippines when I did my research.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know the alamat ng palay.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Alamat ng pinya. Yung pinya, alam ko.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: And of course, I have, of course, Pamar. National Hero Series.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: I also need to read.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: I want to reread that. It's been so long. You
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: were not born yet.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: There's a show now on a network on TV. They
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: have the... What's that?
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Yabara and.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Maria Clara.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Maria Clara. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Next book.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: I think I heard of that.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: And then I have Ang Namawala. This is actually book,
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: book one, two, then there's another book, two. It's about, uh,
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: so-called detective in the city called Bree, who investigates everything
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: about everything. Like in the town, she's just investigating about
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: a lost item. Oh, okay. Because sometimes Filipinos, you know,
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: we're lost in our surroundings. And then while he's searching
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: for everything, he discovered, you know, the lack of justice
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: in the Philippines, of corruption in the system.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: So that's a good discovery.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Okay. What is it about? It is about.
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  Speaker 5: A celebrity psychic named Amanda who lost his psychic powers
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: and then he came back for like a few years.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: And then after that, a lot of unfortunate events happened.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: In the middle, there's like a ghost following her. All right.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: And then we have the last one. This is a
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: fantasy book. It's about set in a different world with
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: different goddess that roaming around in a mortal world and
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: every story is a different adventure for them.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Wow. And this is just like what? Eight of the books.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: How many books do you have with you today?
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Today? This is the only one left. Overall, I think
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: I have.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, left?
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Left.
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: Overall, I have like, let's say, 30 or 40 books
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: a month. And they're the only ones left.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Ah, okay.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: It was only last week, all of them. So now
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: it's sold out. Sold out, yeah.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: Almost 50, 70%.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: And platformable?
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: It's just Facebook? Facebook.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: Instagram Instagram and TikTok I'm looking forward to opening a TikTok.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Store I see.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: Because everybody's on social media nowadays.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah yeah this is exciting I love it I
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: love it And this one. No, that's it. I bought
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: it from her, Ambeth Ocampo, Cabinet of Curiosities.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: It's a very well-known historian and professor of Ateneo.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's very good, Ambeth Ocampo. Ateneo, I think, is
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: a UP. Is Ateneo a UP?
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: If you don't know.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: He's an Ateneo.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Or probably she teach there before.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: A teacher. Yeah.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Not sure. And then, of course, Stainless Longaniza. And the
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: other one is 56 by Bob Ong, which needs to
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: be read. And I also collect bookmarks. from different places
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: that I go to countries or states and I've stopped
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: using ordinary bookmarks Mia you know following the you know
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: how they say that this is the only time you
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: have now so use your best stuff use your best
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: jewelry use your best shoes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Your best also recycle I recycle bookmarks I cut a
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: piece of wood and that's my bookmark Yeah.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: So, yes, I use the best bookmarks when I read. But,
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to save them for when
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: I'm dead.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: And all of the books so far, all of the
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: books that I ship out are using recycled boxes from Amazon.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: Very good. I care about the environment.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: So I recycle as much as I can. Yes.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: Very responsible.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Very good. So book worth buying, worth reading is a
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: book worth buying.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: And One Story at a Time. Storytelling. What's our title?
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Can you read that?
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Keeping Filipino Stories Alive, One Book at a Time.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, keeping Filipino stories alive one book at a time.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: All right. So last words, Roxy, before we go?
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  Speaker 5: I just want to say thank you for watching today's show.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: And so you guys take care out there. And, you know,
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: if you want to buy books from me, just go
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: to my eBay store, ebay.com slash USR slash Roxy online
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: or on Facebook, facebook.com slash Roxy online USA. And you
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: guys take care.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, we will take care. Thank you, Roxanne. Thank you
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: so much. And with that, thank you so much to
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: our viewers and listeners right here at PHLV Radio. See
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: you again next week. Bye, everyone.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: Bye. Happy reading. Happy reading.
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