ON Feb. 19, 2024, my 'Pugad Bloggers' (at DZRJ 810 AM) co-host and fellow micro-blogger, Maricar Serrano, managed to recruit the former spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte, Ernesto Abella, as a last-minute guest. It was my first time meeting him, albeit online.

Abella was surprisingly interested in my approach to the analysis of Philippine politics using history, and he invited me to be a guest in his own show, 'Kapehan ni Tatay: Ernie Abella with Anna Sotto,' on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. The topic for that episode was 'Amigo Warfare,' which is a term that I got from Reynaldo Ileto's book, 'Knowledge and Pacification: On the US Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History' (Ateneo University Press, 2017).