Philippine stories, systems, and questions in motion.
Discover PumaPodcast works like a front door into a wide audio network. Recent episodes move from Alice Guo fan communities and Grab surge pricing to colonial history, skincare limits, food security programs, and healthier workplace practices.
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Discover PumaPodcast is a broad sampler feed for listeners who want to hear the range of PumaPodcast’s work in one place. It does not settle into one beat. Recent episodes cut across public affairs, workplace culture, Filipino history, beauty, food security, agriculture, and civic life. The throughline is a preference for clear questions and grounded explanations. A Teka Teka episode treats Alice Guo fanfiction not as a novelty alone, but as a way to ask why political fandom forms and how real supporters behave online. Another Teka Teka segment looks at Grab’s surge pricing through an experiment that repeatedly tried booking cars. That gives a familiar daily frustration a sharper public-interest frame. The business and social-impact conversations are more deliberate. A Better Normal talks through how a foundation organizes grants, partnerships, program development, advocacy, and work with farmers. Epic Vibes, Epic Spirit brings attention to Timor-Leste, sustainable agriculture, youth learning camps, water restoration, and indigenous knowledge. The workplace episodes keep their concerns close to daily management, including terminations, psychological safety, stereotypes across generations, and the basics of making work less harmful. The beauty episode is more personal and practical, using acne and product claims to separate routine skincare from medical treatment. History episodes add another texture. A conversation about Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves turns colonial-era material into something accessible, funny in places, and still serious about power. Across the feed, interviews tend to move quickly from anecdote to implication. Sponsor and promo material appears, but the core editorial mode is explanatory. The result is useful for listeners who want Philippine-rooted conversations without being locked into only news, only culture, or only self-improvement.
Made for: For listeners interested in Filipino public life, culture, work, history, and social change, especially those who prefer interview-led context over loose chat. It also suits anyone sampling multiple PumaPodcast shows before choosing a regular feed.
What sets it apart: Its range is the point: one feed can move from political fandom to skincare, colonial history, food systems, and workplace care. The episodes keep local detail in view while asking what each story reveals about institutions, habits, and power.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A wide-ranging sampler that connects Philippine books, beauty culture, reporting, and public life through pointed, practical conversation.
Discover PumaPodcast moves between distinct programs, hosts, and forms of attention, treating culture as something made inside public life. Liz Lanuzzo tests skincare advice against medical limits and professional pressure, while Siege Tantenko Malolos follows the translation of…
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