Fast banter, real-life Filipino clarity.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab runs on fast banter, everyday irritation, and sudden sincerity. A joke about traffic, summer, reels, or school songs can slide into advice about love, parenting, Filipino habits, and political responsibility.
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Wake Up With Jim and Saab is a fast, Filipino-English conversation show built around the everyday things people usually complain about in passing. Then it keeps going. Traffic is not just traffic; it becomes a theory about impatience, repression, and the way people grab tiny bits of control. Summer is not only beach weather; it can be kids swimming all day, adults napping after, curtains pulled shut against the heat, or any small break that keeps a person sane. The show likes humble starting points. Cars, dentist visits, reels, storage drawers, school songs, mall plans, and online celebrity chatter all count. Jim and Saab often sound like they are mock-arguing their way toward a real idea. One person pushes a bit, the other redirects, and the conversation doubles back until the joke has done some thinking. It is casual, but not careless. Their relationship episodes are especially direct, with advice about unclear breakups, waiting, boundaries, and the damage caused by trying not to be the bad guy. Parenting and couple dynamics also recur, including the friction between planners and go-with-the-flow people, worriers and calm partners, early people and late people. The show also makes room for Philippine politics. A conversation with Congressman Chel Diokno brings corruption, House leadership, abstention, and public accountability into the same feed as pop culture and family stories. That mix is the point. Wake Up With Jim and Saab understands that civic life, relationships, internet habits, and shopping errands all happen to the same person in the same week. It suits listeners who like affectionate teasing, quick pivots, and practical conclusions more than tidy monologues.
Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy Filipino-English conversation, relationship talk, parenting observations, pop culture tangents, and Philippine civic issues in one loose feed. It especially suits people who like advice delivered through jokes before it gets sincere.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is how naturally it turns small domestic moments into social readouts without losing warmth. Few conversational shows move this easily from reels and school songs to heartbreak boundaries and corruption hearings.
Jim Bacarro and Saab Magalona started one of the first local podcasts back in 2018. From debates about trashy reality shows to talking about the importance of voter registration, they have cultivated quite an engaged community who have dubbed them their /podparents/. Jim and Saab may be the ones doing the talking but they definitely make their listeners feel heard.If you're interested in collaborating with our podcast through brand partnerships, advertisements or other collabs, please send an email to our management: [email protected]
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jim Bacarro and Saab Magalona turn couple friction, parenting logistics, and pop-culture chatter into funny, candid family conversation.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab follows Jim Bacarro and Saab Magalona through family life as it actually arrives: mismatched planning styles, sick-household exhaustion, children's summer routines, and reels passed between partners.
A supermarket trip becomes a personality test when Jim and Saab compare the planner with the add-to-cart optimist.
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A family conversation turns summer from a beach trip into a feeling made at home.
Summer All follows a family trying to define summer after childhood certainties have started to shift. The hosts move from old memories of break time, school calendars, and notification-slip rituals into a warmer question: who gets to decide when summer has really arrived?
A breakup call about love, waiting, and the cost of leaving hope half-open.
The episode sits in a familiar kind of limbo: a caller has been told there is still love and maybe a future, but not readiness to choose or commit.
A brain-rot couple chat that runs from reel reactions and toilet humor to glambot news and AI actors.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab keeps its loose, chatty rhythm as it moves from reel reactions and toilet-humor jokes to under-bed storage, a glambot news item, and a look at AI actors.
A plainspoken discussion of love, instinct, and the everyday habits that make two people different.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab frames love as a partnership shaped by difference, not sameness. It lands its point best in the small domestic details: one person wants a plan, a comparison chart, and a touch of caution, while the other is quicker to add to cart and trust the moment.
A loose, funny reset on sickness, work, and the long job of staying human.
Joe Bonifacio and Rica Peralejo-Bonifacio keep the spotlight on the daily work of staying human while parenting, work, and minor sickness keep colliding.
A coffee-fueled live hang that drifts from Reels credibility to romcom nostalgia while keeping its room-specific spark.
Recorded at Lina Lina Headquarters, the episode settles into a live-pod rhythm built on coffee jokes, Ellie's caramel macchiato, a visible script, and the frank admission that the setup was not fully thought through.
Sharp political debate with policy detail and real disagreement.
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Jonah Goldberg's solo political rants and author interviews on conservatism, courts, and current events.
John Donvan moderates two-sided debates on AI, bioethics, feminism, and film's future.
Jim and Saab host a live podcast recording at Lina Lina Headquarters with their 'podkids' audience.
The hosts discuss the dark allegations against Diddy and their personal encounter with him years ago.
Jim and Saab host Joe Bonifacio and Rica Peralejo-Bonifacio to discuss the challenges of being 'normal human beings' amid parenting, work, and aging.
Two hosts ramble about the definition of summer and how school schedules affect their perception of the season.
A humorous discussion about why cars seem angry at people, particularly in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab turns “I love you, pero...” into a concrete question about whether to wait, set boundaries, or walk away after a five-year relationship ended last September.
The hosts ramble about trending reels, couple dynamics, and their own off-script banter.
Jim and Saab examine how comfort has replaced trends and speed in driving, clothing, socializing, cooking, home organization, and self-compassion.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab uses the episode "I'm Like This, You're Like That" to unpack how a couple can differ on shopping, planning, and decision-making.
Jim and Saab compare first-date food, restaurant noise, lighting, budgets, and payment expectations, with Manny recommending Nihon in Makati.
Wake Up With Jim and Saab discusses a letter from a single woman who remains emotionally close to her married ex, including private chats, dinners, and visits to her home.
Jim and Sab open with airplane passengers who stand up before the seatbelt sign is off, then move to Senator Imee Marcos's remarks at the INC rally and a claim that the rally's third day was cancelled.
Kids melt down over a denied toy because nobody taught them what to do with the emotion.
Congressman Chel Diokno discusses his abstention from voting for Speaker Martin Romualdez and the context of fighting corruption in the Philippine House of Representatives.
The hosts discuss quitting vaping and the rapid pace of change, referencing One Direction's 'Night Changes'.
The hosts discuss the challenges of maintaining basic human functioning and self-care while parenting and working, touching on how illness and aging affect their energy and routines.
The hosts discuss UAAP trauma and their recent trip to Cebu before transitioning into a spoiler-filled review of the movie Wicked.