The Dead Drop
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
TRUTH & MUSIC with THE CONSPIRACY TAPES
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pao De Silva has been making moody, cinematic, and abstract electronic music as THE CONSPIRACY TAPES to great cult acclaim. We talked about finding t...
DOUGLAS CANDANO | On Surreal Stories and His New Book
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Candano is the author of the new book of surreal short fiction "Infinite Lives, Infinite Deaths" (Penguin Random House SEA). His liter...
SUPERPSYCHOCEBU | Queen City High Times W/ Ara and Chris
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Linaban (director) and Ara Chawdhury (producer) are the creators of the 2016 Bisaya stoner movie SUPERPSYCHOCEBU. With a cult following growin...
CASTRO SMITH | Engraving Myths on Jewelry and Filipino Folklore
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CASTRO SMITH is one of the best known intaglio engravers in the world. The Filipino-British carver of jewelry and art pieces is based in London, known...
BASALT SHRINE | Burning Up the Sludge Swamp & Track By Track of "From Fiery Tongues"
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Extreme slow metal at its tastiest. Hailed as genre-defying and a tour-de-force, BASALT SHRINE's debut LP is burning up the Pinoy sludge swamp like so...
Cliff-Diver RHIANNAN IFFLAND | Elite Mental Secrets for Injury Recovery
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australian phenom Rhiannan Iffland is one of the most dominant female Olympic divers in the world and the undisputed Queen of Cliff-Diving. A fi...
Such Violent Criminals | Writing Pinoy Crime Thrillers with RONALDO VIVO Jr.
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
RONALDO VIVO Jr. may be a well known musician and visual artist in Filipino metal and extreme music, being in bands like sludge supergroup Basalt Shri...
MANIC MUNDANE | KATH DIZON ON MAKING THE 'Narrative 3' EP
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MANIC MUNDANE is the musical moniker of solo artist Kath Dizon. A young, bedroom producer based in Mindanao, she crafts a particularly robust st...
MIKHAIL RED | On Directing "Arisaka", Videogames, & Right-Brain Filmmaking
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MIKHAIL RED is a Filipino director best known for Birdshot and Dead Kids -- the first Netflix original film from the Philippines. As the eldest son of...
JAY IGNACIO | On Writing the Graphic Novel Adventure ALANDAL
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
JAY IGNACIO has worn many creative hats. He is the director of the 2012 FMA documentary "The Bladed Hand" as well as being a practitioner of kali. He ...
Beauty of Bareknuckle | Coaching Burmese Lethwei with WIN ZIN OO
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THE Master, or Saya, WIN ZIN OO, is the founder and head coach of Thut Ti Lethwei Club in Yangon. "THUT TI" means "courage" in Burmese. The gym itself...
Manila After Midnight | BUDJETTE TAN on Ph Myths, Netflix, and Writing TRESE
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BUDJETTE TAN is the writer and co-creator behind the award-winning comic books "Trese." Now a hit animated series, I talked to Budj back in 2019 in an...
TEASER TRAILER | Trese Co-Creator BUDJETTE TAN on The Aswang Project & Philippine Spirits
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a brief excerpt from the forthcoming full Dead Drop episode with "Trese" comics writer and co-creator Budjette Tan. One that's coming very soo...
GUILLERMO GOMEZ | Rethinking the Science and Spirituality of Kicking Addiction for Good
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guillermo "Gimo" Gomez is the rehabilitation program director giving alcohol and substance abusers a new chance at life through the innovative treatme...
LOURD De VEYRA Part 2 | Turn Loose the Sound and Fury with KAPITAN KULAM
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: Explicit words and content in this episode! Part 2 of 2 parts. IN FILIPINO arts and literature, LOURD DE VEYRA is a creative goliath. His lat...
LOURD DE VEYRA Part 1 | The Power of the Riff Compels with KAPITAN KULAM
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: Explicit words and content in this episode! Part 1 of 2 parts. IN FILIPINO arts and literature, LOURD DE VEYRA is a creative goli...
DUSTIN CELESTINO | No Exit Through Fame in "General Admission"
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, DUSTIN CELESTINO comes on the show to talk about GENERAL ADMISSION the newest movie he wrote. Dustin is a multi-awarded fiction...
AMBRA GUTIERREZ | The Philippines, #MeToo, & Bringing Down A Hollywood Empire
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THE POWER brokers of Hollywood never saw AMBRA BATTILANA GUTIERREZ coming. THE RISE of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement has been pretty well documente...
Serpent Medicine | DR KITTS SARTE of Doctors Without Borders
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
MARIA Christina Sarte, known as DOCTOR KITTS, is a Cebuana who's worked with Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) for 13 years Now. Her ...
TOM SYKES | An Englishman in the Realm of the Punisher
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
TOM SYKES is the English author of "The Realm of the Punisher | Travels In Duterte's Philippines" and the forthcoming "Imagining Manila | Litera...
Running Swordsmen | BERNARD ROSE On Directing "Samurai Marathon"
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
English director Bernard Rose has had an eclectic and diverse film resume. From 1992’s cult horror classic "Candyman," 1994’s historical drama "Im...
We Must Re-Imagine Ph Pro-Wrestling | VERONICA LITTON of the Manila Wrestling Federation
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Veronica Litton is better known in kayfabe as Veronica Shannon, one of the founders of Manila Wrestling Federation (MWF), and a pioneer of modern Pino...
Beauty Queen in Exile | BAHAR Z. BAHARI on Becoming a Refugee
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights of my interview that eventually became a longreads on CNN Philippines. BAHAREH ZAREH BAHARI is an Iranian beauty queen, a women’s right...
Becoming Lagertha | KATHERYN WINNICK on Vikings and Martial Arts
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A flashback interview from Historycon 2018! KATHERYN WINNICK plays the fighting Queen Lagertha on History Channel’s hit TV show VIKINGS. Recorded du...
In Folk We Trust | ALDUS SANTOS of Pamphleteer
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who was it that said “All my conversations with men seem to revolve around music”? ALDUS SANTOS is half of the neo-folk duo Pamphleteer. Along wit...
Follow the Bodies | ALYX ARUMPAC of the Aswang Documentary
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with ALYX ARUMPAC on the making of the ASWANG Drug War Documentary. Recorded during the community quarantine lockdown in Luzon. Alyx is t...