Ant-mazing! talaga ang bagong achievement ng aming ka-Balita guest today dahil sa kanyang naging ambag sa "ant science." Live sa Balita Ko ang Filipino content creator at the man behind the latest discovery sa ant kingdom... Mikey Bustos!
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00:00 [music]
00:02 And amazing talaga ang bagong achievement ng ating Kabalita guest today
00:06 dahil sa kanyang latest discovery tungkol sa mga ants,
00:11 Antscience!
00:13 At bagong species lang naman,
00:14 ang masisipag at minsan iniiwasan nating langgam,
00:17 yung kanyang nadiscovery sa loob mismo ng kanyang bakura.
00:20 Ang galing 'di ba?
00:21 Kaya nga, ito mga Kabalita, hindi na namin kayo pag-a-antscience pa.
00:26 Live po sa Balita ako, Filipino content creator at The Man,
00:29 behind the latest discoveries sa Ant Kingdom,
00:32 Mr. Mikey Bustos.
00:33 Good morning, Mikey, and welcome sa Balita ko!
00:36 Magandang umaga!
00:38 Ayun tayo!
00:39 Oh, nagtatagalog si Mikey!
00:41 I'm trying my best.
00:43 Ayun! Sige, I will also try my best, okay?
00:46 Sige, I'll try not to nosebleed.
00:48 Oo nga, we will try not to have this, ano, parang ano 'to, yung full blood here.
00:53 Ako yata yung mano nosebleed kasi, pagpuro niya.
00:56 Okay, sige. Initial reaction lamang, Mikey.
00:59 When you first heard that you have this scientific discovery,
01:02 ano bang naging pakiramdam?
01:04 Siyempre, I was very surprised, nagulat ako.
01:09 Atsaka, very honored.
01:10 Kasi, aside from mga comedy and music,
01:15 ako ay mahilig ako ng mga hayop and biology.
01:19 So, I was so honored to have, you know, surprised.
01:24 What was your course in college?
01:27 Zoology.
01:29 Ah, kaya lang pala!
01:31 Okay. So, has it been your dream to become a scientist?
01:36 O ito talaga chamba lang?
01:38 Yeah, it has.
01:39 I studied zoology in university in Toronto, Canada.
01:43 Pero I didn't finish.
01:45 So, my whole life, I thought, oh, wala na.
01:49 I don't have a dream, no more that dream to work in the science.
01:53 Pero, ngayon, I have an ant channel, AntsCanada, on YouTube.
01:58 And I'm working in the sciences again, even if I'm not finished.
02:02 So, I'm really grateful sa Dios.
02:06 Yes, of course. Pero ito ah, ang tahimik nitong dalawa.
02:09 [laughs]
02:11 Tagala, ha. Nagingisip ako ng mga itatanong.
02:14 In English kasi. May mauna ka na, Micon.
02:16 So, can you tell us how you got started with this?
02:19 Kasi, di ba, siyempre, you said it's in your own backyard.
02:22 So, how was that?
02:24 I mean, normally, we don't mind the ants, di ba?
02:27 Pero ikaw talagang pinag-aralan mo pa.
02:29 [laughs]
02:31 Yeah, opo.
02:32 I, um, we were building my house, me and my partner's house, dito sa Cavite.
02:38 Tapos, I was wandering in the, you know, sa gubat.
02:42 And I found mga itam that, it, parang, yung itsura iba.
02:48 And I was like, hey, this is different.
02:50 So, I put it in a bottle, and then I sent it to my friend, Dr. David Generelle.
02:57 Oh.
02:58 PLB. And he identified that it's a species that has never been discovered, dito sa Pilipinas.
03:05 Wow.
03:06 Ay, kasi galing, galing.
03:07 Zoology siya, eh.
03:09 So, talagang fascinated ka.
03:10 Pero before this encounter, talagang fascinated ka na ba sa mga ants?
03:13 Kasi marami na mga exotic animals, di ba?
03:15 Oo. Yes, I've been doing my ant channel hanggang 2009.
03:19 Wow.
03:20 Since 2009.
03:21 In 2009, before my comedy content.
03:25 What got you started with ants? Bakit ants?
03:28 Ako ay mahilig ako ng mga langgang, dahil, parang,
03:33 Sleek sila.
03:34 Sleek sila. They're like tao.
03:36 They're big societies, milyones ng miyembro.
03:40 Tapos, they have a garbage site.
03:44 They put other garbage in one area.
03:47 They have a graveyard, may cemetery.
03:50 You know, they're like people.
03:52 And when you have an ant colony, it's like watching a city of people.
03:57 Wow.
03:58 Ganun pala.
03:59 May iba ka pa bang exotic animals sa bahay, bukod sa mga langgam?
04:02 Anong ibang...
04:05 May iba ka pang exotic animals?
04:06 Ayoko.
04:07 Yes.
04:08 Oo, marami.
04:09 I have guana, mga parrots, so may ibon.
04:14 Galing.
04:15 Pa.
04:16 I forgot, tarantula.
04:19 Oh, wow.
04:20 I have ahas.
04:22 Ay, ayoko na ahas.
04:24 Nakapunta na ako sa kondo niya dati.
04:26 Tapos, nag-interview ko na si Mikey doon sa kondo niya sa Makati.
04:28 Meron. May ahas na animals niya.
04:30 Pero of course, sa mga may interest, sa mga ganitong hilig din,
04:33 meron ka bang formal training or special training in handling these animals?
04:37 Um, wala, actually. It was just all self-taught.
04:42 Reading on internet and reading online.
04:45 I even wrote a book on mga langgam and how to take care of them.
04:48 Mm.
04:50 Ang galing.
04:51 Oh, Mikey, may tanong na ako ah.
04:53 What's your advice to our viewers na naiirita?
04:57 Hindi ko alam yung English ng naiirita ha.
04:59 Basta yun, naiirita sa mga langgam.
05:01 Okay, gets mo, 'di ba?
05:03 Because for them, ants are pests.
05:05 'Di ba naiinis tayo sa mga langgam?
05:07 Oo, tinitiris agad.
05:08 Yes.
05:09 So, there are thousands of species of ants.
05:12 And dito sa atin, yung bagong ant that I found, it's the 555 species of ants.
05:21 And only a handful of ants are the ones you see sa bahay.
05:25 The rest are non-pests. Hindi pests.
05:28 Hindi peste.
05:30 So, they're very important sa ecosystem.
05:34 Yun ang dapat tandaan natin.
05:36 Tsaka, pag dinalanggam, 'di ba, sweet ka.
05:38 Importante yung langgam.
05:40 Atsaka, swerte pag itim, 'di ba?
05:43 Ganun ba?
05:45 Yeah, that's what they say.
05:47 Can I have some?
05:49 Ngayon, Mikey, what direction are you heading to when it comes to doing content?
05:57 Kasi nga, 'di ba, parang ngayon may discovery ka na.
06:00 Mas ano ba?
06:01 Scientist ka na.
06:03 Mikey the scientist na ba? Ganyan?
06:05 Yeah.
06:06 Well, actually, I will just keep doing what I love.
06:09 So, the movie and the music, like, people here in the Philippines know me for that channel.
06:15 Pero Ants Canada has been going since 2009, so I'll just keep doing that too.
06:20 It's also my business, so I'll just do everything. Everything that I love.
06:25 Yes.
06:26 Galing.
06:27 Wala ang content plan.
06:30 Which is good, kasi I will learn so much from you, 'di ba, in different areas.
06:35 Malay mo may madiscover pa siyang bagong species ulit ng ants. 'Di ba?
06:39 Yeah, sana. Actually, there's one species event that might be a new species that we found sa yard namin.
06:46 Oooh!
06:47 So, hoping, hoping.
06:49 Alright.
06:50 Thank you.
06:51 Una niyo narinig yan sa balita ko.
06:53 Thank you so much for your time, Mikey Bustos.
06:55 Thank you.
06:56 Thank you.
06:57 Bye.
06:58 Ang galing, ha?
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07:23 [Music]