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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 jour...
>> 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. >> anthon...
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 sl...
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 y...