Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: 98 Degrees falls in love with Filipino food! (Episode 604)

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Aired (May 27, 2025): Maliban sa kanilang mapagmahal na Filipino fans ay nagsimula na ring ma-inlove ang American band na 98 Degrees sa Filipino food mula nang sila ay dumating sa Pilipinas! Panoorin sa video.   For more Fast Talk With Boy Abunda videos, click the link below:   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGRhcC_vtOrYkYNWgPJ9ntTVJ7BHCXumB   Watch the latest episodes of 'Fast Talk with Boy Abunda’ weekdays at 4:45 PM on GMA Afternoon prime, starring Boy Abunda. #FastTalkwithBoyAbunda   To our Global Pinoys in the U.S., catch your favorite Pinoy shows from GMA Pinoy TV, GMA Life TV, and GMA News TV, now available on YouTube TV!   Subscribe now for only $14.99 per month. Visit tv.youtube.com for more details.

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00:00Let's talk about your Filipino connection. This is quite interesting. Jeff, your brother was

00:11actually born here. What is the story? Actually, it was my brother. It was your brother. Yeah, so my

00:15dad was in the Air Force and so my parents were both here, obviously. And yeah, my brother was

00:21born here on the day they landed on the moon and both my parents really loved... It was 69. Yeah,

00:2669. Okay. Yeah, and they really loved their time here and I think they, you know, I remember

00:33we always had things from the Philippines around the house like cool wood carvings and stuff

00:37like that. So yeah, I think it really made an impact on them. Which wood carving is this?

00:41Not the naughty one. No, just no naughty ones. If they had naughty

00:46ones, they didn't let us see them. Okay. And of course we all know, the world

00:51knows that Nick is married to a Filipina. Yes, she's half Filipina. Vanessa.

00:56She was also born here, also at Clark Air Force Base, ironically. And yeah, and so she's

01:01actually never been back since she was just a young infant. So that's my goal is to one

01:06day bring her and our kids back to, you know, to the Philippines so she could see where she

01:11came from. Would you know where she grew up? Well, I think she moved back to the States

01:16when she was maybe just one or two years old. I mean exactly the place here in the Philippines.

01:18I don't know. I don't know. Okay. But we would catch her once in a while cooking Filipino

01:23food, for example. She makes a mean chicken adobo. Yeah. Chicken adobo. Okay. That's her

01:28go-to. She was doing lumpia one time. Was she? Yes. She was very into the manapuas. The,

01:34you know, these, we lived in Hawaii the last three years. What is it again? They're the buns

01:38with the meat inside. I don't know if that's a Filipino thing or not, but she was very, very

01:42into that as well. Sticky buns? No. It's like a stick. It's like a bun with meat inside.

01:48Oh, there it is. There it is. Okay. She does that? She loves it. No. Wow. She likes to

01:54eat them. You guys like Filipino food? Love it. Love it. What's your favorite, Jeff?

02:01Pens it. The noodles. Because I'm normally on a low-carb diet, which is no noodles, no

02:07flour, no bread. When I come here, all I've been doing since I've been here is eating nonstop.

02:12Nonstop. Okay. We're doing more eating than interviews, performing. Yeah. We've seen Jeff

02:16eat more carbs since he's been here in Manila than I think I have in the last 10 years combined.

02:20I love the food. Empanadas, all that stuff. Empanadas. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who has pansit now?

02:26Bring it up. Okay. But we're not just talking about pansit. You also are friends with some Filipino

02:32singers. Like Martin Rivera, I suppose. Do you know Martin? Oh, a huge Martin Rivera fan. There

02:40was some talk years ago about maybe us collaborating with him. SB19 we're fans of. They're of the

02:45younger generation. Of course, Regine Velasquez and Rachel Alejandro and Sarah Geronimo and

02:53Jay Darius. I'm a big fan of Jay Darius. He's amazing. I had the luxury of coming back here

02:58on my own and performed with South Border. Got to sing Rainbow with them, which is just an

03:03amazing song. I mean, I'm just, when we came here the first time, we literally got off the

03:08plane and went to a restaurant and everybody in the restaurant could sing. And we got intimidated

03:13at how much talent is coming out of this area. It's amazing.

03:18Okay. We have a crowd right here in the studio and this doesn't happen very often.

03:38Good night.

03:59Bye.

04:01Oh, my God.

04:31Oh, my God.

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