The Sit Down, our new MB product

Tomorrow, Sept. 8, a new Manila Bulletin product debuts on YouTube and Spotify, with edit downs and verticals on our MB Facebook Page and TikTok.

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It’s called The Sit Down, and it’s a concept that was pitched and refined by Jordan Tan, Irish Lorenzo, and myself. It may have taken several months to ‘germinate’, but now that we have some episodes in the can, I’m praying that the public takes to it, and will find it both informative and entertaining.

The simplest way to describe The Sit Down is to say it’s a podcast that will attempt to be an open window for the public to get a better, nuanced glimpse of the personalities and issues of today; in a manner that’s breezy, informal, chatty, and can mix substance with lightness. To my mind, in the case of some episodes, it can even be considered as ‘hard news, but with a soft touch’. We intend to traverse the arena of politics and government, of business and commerce, of entertainment and culture, of science and technology, and several points in between; but always with an eye to make the subject matter conversational and anecdotal, and to find resource people who will help make that happen.