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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: Bambikes founder on his 17-year journey in the PH
Description: The Filipino-American Bryan Benitez McClelland came to the Philippines after college thinking he would stay for six months. 17 years later, he’s settled in the country running bicycle tours, advocating bamboo and trying to protect Batangas’s coastal environment. He’s even become a Filipino citizen who votes in every election.He tells Howie Severino what made him stay and how his bamboo bike company survived the pandemic.He’s taken up an extreme water sport called “wing foiling,” which has taken him far from shore and made him appreciate the sea environment in new ways...