Rafe Bartholomew
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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I think he's used to it now. He was pretty surprised. He came over early, end of 2006, so after I'd been there for a year. And he got a huge kick out of it because he just was like, what is going on here?
Yeah.
He loved that. But I had just been on a telenovela after a terrible role.
I was Brad, the illegitimate father of... an important character in a show that came out in 2007.
Ba Ke Kang.
It was her name. The main character's name, it is an extremely offensive premise for a soap opera about a woman who, by local beauty standards, is not attractive and resolves to improve her lot in life and have rich kids by finding foreign men. Such as Brad. Unfortunately, yeah. I was Brad, the almost prototypical ugly American. Do you remember any of your lines? Get away from me with this baby.
I will kill you.
I was speaking... I was ugly American. I was speaking English. Oh, you weren't even... They didn't even use your superpower. Well, back then, it wasn't that super. After a year, I was okay, but still learning, still studying. But, like, that was a thing. So my dad visited about a week after my episode where I slapped the lead character came out. Oh, my God. I love this.
And children were running up to me and him in the street and being like... You are the husband of... And, like... Why did you slap her? You're so mean. And my dad is like, why do all these people know you? Who are you here? So he came at an opportune time to witness it.
I mean, thank you. I love talking about this. It is, for 20 years, kind of the subject that has most animated me. I've never gotten tired of it, never gotten sick of it, never wanted to move on from it. So any chance I get.
The way that I think most people, if they happen to visit the country, encounter first when they get off the plane, they're riding in a cab or whatever. They see people playing basketball everywhere in the streets. People dressed in basketball jerseys as almost the standard wear for any man walking around casually on the street. Yes.
but you see people playing in these really quite nice covered courts municipal courts that are put up by local governments where they have nice backboards full courts people playing in bare feet in flip-flops as much as sneakers are a key part of basketball culture you go to the philippines you don't need some things to be a thriving basketball nirvana which is to say that when it comes to the philippine basketball association
I can bang out some incredible renditions of Parokia and the Edgar songs on karaoke machines with T-Mac and Kobe highlights playing behind the words. How do you watch the PBA? Now there's actually, you can just pay for it. Pilipinas Live is the app, but I still have to wake up on the East Coast five in the morning. You've been watching these live? Usually.
Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning like a four-point shot.
That might be a slogan for the league.
What is it? A 1977 yearbook put together by the CRISPA Redmanizers, which is one of the true legacy teams of the PBA. They're like the Boston Celtics of that era. They won many of the first championships over the first few years of the league. And... I found it in a changge, a flea market in Manila, and it was worth every single peso.
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Well, it's 1977. It is long hair, great mustaches, 70s disco. And the PBA was that in that time.
The PBA was that level of flash. Basketball, entertainment, and politics, they all sort of mix in this sometimes dangerous, incestuous way, but also extremely. in an extremely glamorous way, especially then when the PPA was probably at the height of its popularity. And it is really just this beautiful time capsule to flip through, like the team owner sitting there with a giant bottle of beer.
Mami, Crispa.
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