Philippines Reality: What They Don't Show You

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:01]what we can do for them financially. We can raise them up. We can put them in elevated positions, right?

[00:00:13]So when you come out here, understand that you want to get time and grade. You want that line to blur so you can start to understand their way of life without the instant judgment.

[00:00:26]You hear the Tahoe man outside. You know I'm in the Philippines.

[00:00:31]Tahoe. You hear him out there.

[00:00:35]You know these are the call. Yeah.

[00:00:36]Maranda. Maranda. Those are the sounds.

[00:00:39]Those are the the fool calls in the morning.

[00:00:44]Do you understand where you are?

[00:00:47]>> When you come over here and you first hear that, you won't know what the hell that man is saying.

[00:00:53]You won't have Asian eyes. cuz you won't be able to go out and see everything around you. It just look like a whole bunch of junk and [ __ ] A whole bunch of wiry rusty junk and [ __ ] when you first get over here like what is the hell am I at?

[00:01:07]All this chicken wire all over the place. Damn dogs barking with chains around their neck, you know, 2-in leashes from the from the fence.

[00:01:18]Roosters crowing, you know, pecking at me and [ __ ] you know, dog [ __ ] all over the place. Flies, roaches all over the place, rats running around. I, you know, you know how many rats I stepped on over here? You know how many roaches I've stepped on over? I don't even want to tell you. It's nasty.

[00:01:37]Or is it?

[00:01:42]What's what's what's you go into a Filipino household and they got a tin roof and you can see the sunlight on both sides of the tin roof.

[00:01:54]You realize you're not in Kansas anymore.

[00:01:58]You look over and you see a small little kitchen from a bench. I'm talking about a workman's bench which they use for their couch.

[00:02:09]And they got a small little kitchen with a little rack of plates. And on the plates, you see 10 fat roaches just crawling up and down the plates and all over the backsides and the backsplashes of the kitchen. Well, there's really no backsplash, but you understand the point. You open the cabinet and there's 15 roaches upside down.

[00:02:30]The fat cockroaches, the ones that fly, all that. You go in the bedroom, there's a flat 2-in mattress that grandma is sleeping on.

[00:02:42]She looks like she's got a week left.

[00:02:46]Her knees are all knotted up and she with a weak hand, you know, says kamusta po.

[00:03:01]And you take you take her little weak hand and you bless