The Five by Five Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mina V. Esguerra & Tania Arpa
The Five By Five Podcast is about the things we geek out on and the people who create things that we probably should be geeking out on. Tune in every episode for talk about books, TV, writing, gadgets, music, film, and the many things we choose to spend our time on.
This week, Mina and I Geek Out on the recently concluded first season of HBO's "True Detective" and the weird cut-up Philippine theater version of 300:Rise of an Empire (and why it's kind of like The Mighty Ducks). We also discuss what makes a television pilot fail, and if the new tv show "Star-Crossed" is "Roswell" crossed with District Nine, or just "Alien Nation" with abs and less awesomeness.[...]
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Before we interview Ms. Bianca Bernardino, Mina and I geek out on the stuff we did over the weekend: the Luna East vol. 1 launch, the Summit Pop Fiction Festival, and the Korean film (with Chris Evans, yay!) Snowpiercer.[...]
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Hosts Mina and Tania interview author Anne Plaza (In Over Her Head) about her stories and writing and cosplay. Anne also answers questions from listeners. Then we geek out over the tv show Supernatural, and talk about the Kids These Days (Luna East Arts Academy vol. 1), the new anthology featuring stories by Anne and Mina.
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In this episode, 5x5 host Mina V. Esguerra geeks out about the new trailer for The Fault in Our Stars, the film adaptation of the John Greene novel. Mina and co-host Tania Arpa talk about the basics of self/indie publishing and the answers to the most frequently asked questions.[...]
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Author Leng de Chavez (aka Shirlengtearjerky on Wattpad) talks about her books, the characters she's written, life as a young author, and her own love life. She also answers burning questions from fans.[...]
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In the first part of episode 6, hosts Mina geeks out about the romantic comedy Bride for Rent and ponders on the important question: Is Xian Lim a contender to the crown of King of the Rom-Com? Tania then dishes on the geek news of the week, involving the two IT giants Google and Apple. The hosts gives a brief summary of what's going on in the Pinoy Wattpad community.[...]
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Are you a Ziam shipper? What is a Larry Stylinson? In part two of episode 5, book blogger and journalist Ron Lim talks about his favorite boy band One Direction, the 1D fandom, and fan fiction. [...]
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In this episode of the Five By Five Podcast, Mina talks about hanging out with Dia Frampton during the latter's recent visit to Manila, and Tania will let you in on her favorite writing-related podcasts. This week's guest journalist and book blogger Ron Lim talks about the Gayle Foreman signing at National Bookstore, other popular authors' visits to Manila, and the Philippine book scene.[...]
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In part 2 of episode 4, we talk about Scribd, getting freebies from the car service Uber, and our favorite film adaptations of comic books. Mina also talks about her free upcoming writing workshop sponsored by Buqo, called Steamy Reads.[...]
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Budjette Tan, writer and co-creator of the amazing Trese comic book series, sat down with us (figuratively) to answer questions from our listeners and talk about how Trese came about, his creative process and what he thinks of a Hollywood television adaptation of his comics. Also the possibility of a future Trese where he and Trese artist Kajo Baldisimo switch roles.
LINKS:
- Budjette Tan's blog - http://babblingpoint.blogspot.com
- Kajo Baldisimo's Trese Lite Tumblr (365 days of TRESE) - http://kajobaldisimo.tumblr.com/
- Trese on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TreseComics
- Trese website - http://tresekomix.blogspot.com
- Budjette Tan's Twitter - @budjette
- Kajo Baldisimo's Twitter - @kajobaldisimo
- Buy Trese on National Bookstore's website
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In part 2 of this week's episode, author Mike Co guests on the 5x5 Podcast to talk about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Legolas's make-up, and why you should never go full Lucas.
(Plus, we have a giveaway!)[...]
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In part 1 of this week's episode, we talked about the return of our favorite television detective and give our thoughts on the trailer of the upcoming Veronica Mars feature film. Mina shares her love for Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. And then we give a long shout out to our pal Chef Sharwin Tee's new restaurant, The Quirky Bacon, which serves the most wonderful things one can do to pork.
(Plus, we have a giveaway!)[...]
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This week we talked about our favorite things of 2013, interviewed authors Chris Mariano, Chrissie Peria and Miles Tan, and discussed the newly released clip of the upcoming movie Divergent based on the wildly popular book by Veronica Roth.
Our favorite things of 2013:
- Mina: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- Tania: Japanese band ONE OK ROCK's Europe/Asia Tour
- Miles: Cambodia (free wifi everywhere! beautiful sights!)
- Chris: TableTop (web series on celebrity tabletop gaming)
- Chrissie: ~~Sleepy Hollow~~ Tom Mison
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In this premiere episode of the 5x5 Podcast, we interview an author of young adult fiction Kate Evangelista, and geeked out about television shows Reign and Arrow, and the anime Shingeki No Kyojin (Attack on Titan).
Be sure to tune in next week for the live broadcast of episode 2 of the 5x5 Podcast, and tweet us questions and comments using the hashtag #5x5podcast!
Thanks to everyone who listened to our live show, and Tweeted their comments and questions using the official podcast hashtag #5x5podcast. We'd also like to thank those who listened to the episode after the live airing on YouTube.
Links * Kate Evangelista's website * Reign * Arrow * Shingeki No Kyojin/Attack on Titan (English subtitles) - WATCH * Listener @crestfallenme shares her book review blog
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