Latest Americanlife Podcast Episodes
Episode 211 – Breaking Bed: Rethinking Sex Education Among Filipino Americans
This Filipino American Life - July 07, 2024 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsWho taught you about SEX? Was it through school? Was it through watching porn? Whatever means you learned (or are learning) about the various aspects of sex, we could bet it wasn’t through your parents! With the Catholic Church shaping our Filipino way our being, sex education has been reduced to...
Episode 210 – Building and Sustaining Healthy Communities in Hawaii
This Filipino American Life - June 21, 2024 17:17 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsTFAL goes to Hawaii! Well, actually just Joe goes to Hawaii. While attending a conference in Honolulu, Joe took the opportunity to do an additional interview with local Filipino American leader, Chachie Abara. Chachie is an Ilocano language and mental health advocate, runs the podcast and media ...
Episode 209 – Tagnawa: An Ilocano Response to the Maui Fires
This Filipino American Life - June 01, 2024 00:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsOn August 8, 2023, Maui experienced the largest wildfire in the “United States” in more than 100 years, killing 101 people and displacing 6,500. National media portrayed the disaster as an unfortunate incident to Maui’s idyllic setting for tourism. However, hidden from this mainstream narrative i...
Episode 208 – Confessions of a Bad Filipino
This Filipino American Life - May 10, 2024 20:40 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I am a BAD Filipino!” What makes you a “bad” Filipino? It’s time to confess!! In this TFAL episode, the crew discusses what makes us “bad” Filipinos…or rather Filipinos who buck the proverbial trend. Which one of us doesn’t like Jollibee? Who doesn’t mano...
Episode 207 – Bayani Komixtape with Bayani Teodosio
This Filipino American Life - April 26, 2024 17:44 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsIn this episode the TFAL crew talk with Bayani Teodosio about Bayani Komixtape, the hip hop mixtape follow up to The Realest Bayani, Teodosio’s graphic novel. The crew shares their experience with comic books, pop culture, and learn about Bayani’s origin story that paved the way for the creation ...
Episode 206 – Experiences of a Filipino Adoptee with James Beni Wilson
This Filipino American Life - April 12, 2024 19:37 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsDid you know that there are currently over 1.8 million orphaned or abandoned children in the Philippines? While formal adoption rates of these children are comparatively low, a significant number of orphaned Filipino children have been transnationally adopted by families in the United States ove...
Episode 205 – Hilaw Pa 6.0
This Filipino American Life - March 29, 2024 16:17 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsHere it is again…another edition of Hilaw Pa! For those not in the know, Hilaw Pa is where the TFAL Crew shares our half-baked ideas that should be out there in the world. Of course, we’re not going to do it ourselves – thinking them up is our job. It’s up to someone else to...
Episode 204 – Filipino Psychology and Spirituality with Carl Lorenz Cervantes
This Filipino American Life - March 15, 2024 15:42 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsHow do Filipinos practice indigenous spirituality through Catholicism? Who are these “spirits” our parents or grandparents keep talking about that are around us? What explains the Filipino psyche and the way we make sense of the world? How many souls do we have? Some of these questions have helpe...
Episode 203: TFAL talks Palestine w/ Michael Arage & JT | Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation
This Filipino American Life - March 01, 2024 19:37 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsIn this episode the TFAL crew talks with TFAL alum, Michael Arage, and JT of Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation @npl_palestine. In this episode we have a discussion of our history with the Free Palestine movement, why this issue is important to our community, and how we can show our allyship and...
Episode 202 – Vision Boarding Abundance
This Filipino American Life - February 10, 2024 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsNew year new TFAL? Or are we back to our usual shenanigans? Actually, for the first time in months, and thanks to Ryan’s terrible internet, we met up in person and recorded an episode! One New Years’ tradition that many of the folks in TFAL (and maybe some of you) partake in is the creation...
Episode 201 – Lost LA: Historic Filipinotown
This Filipino American Life - January 12, 2024 19:28 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsLast year, some of us on the TFAL crew had the opportunity to participate in the creation of a special episode of the PBS Socal/KCET show, Lost LA, which focused on the Filipino American community of Southern California. The episode premiered this week and is available on the PBS website or on Y...
Episode 200 – TFAL 200 Live! Building Community with Faith Santilla and Johneric Concordia
This Filipino American Life - December 30, 2023 01:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsLooks like we made it! TFAL’s 200th episode! (Give or take a few bonus episodes and unreleased things here and there…) Back in October, we recorded our 200th episode live at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Los Angeles. (Well technically, it was our 195th at the time but w...
Bonus Episode: “Filipino Balikbayan is Homecoming in a Box” by Gravy Podcast
This Filipino American Life - December 22, 2023 19:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsBefore we end 2023, we’re sharing a special bonus episode for you from our friends at Gravy, a narrative podcast produced by Southern Foodways Alliance and distributed by APT Podcast Studios. Named the “Publication of the Year” by the James Beard Foundation, the series showcases a South that is c...
Episode 199 – The First (?) Annual TFAL Awards!
This Filipino American Life - December 19, 2023 03:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings2023 is almost over! And to close things out before we get to our grand finale of the year, we decided to do something… a little different? Or maybe not? In what is apparently essentially in the grand tradition of our reflections on highlights (Episodes 19.5, 140, 157) and/or airing of grievanc...
Episode 198 – “Save the Last Tinikling For Me”: Philippine Folk Dances with Ray Tadio
This Filipino American Life - December 01, 2023 21:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsRondalla. Kulintang. Bamboo poles. Gangsas. Sway balance. DANCE! We all are quite familiar with Philippine folk dances such as Pandanggo sa Ilaw, Vinta, Carinosa, Banga, and of course, Tinikling. Whether we learned them through P.E. classes back in the Philippines, church festivals in the U.S., ...
Episode 197 – Filipino American History, Settler Colonialism, and Jeremy Passion’s “Lemonade” with Adrian De Leon
This Filipino American Life - November 10, 2023 22:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsWhen and where does Filipino American history begin? Is it on October 18, 1587 in Morro Bay, California? According to our guest in this TFAL episode, this date and time only reinforces a settler colonialist narrative. Writer and public historian, Adrian De Leon, argues that “Filipino America” ...
Episode 196 – Dust Your Shoulders Out: Melissa Magsaysay on Filipino Fashion
This Filipino American Life - October 27, 2023 23:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsMany of us have grown up seeing women in our lives rock the duster around the house. The piece of apparel is synonymous with traditionally women’s work. But what if the duster could be updated? What would that look like? In this episode the TFAL Crew, sans food appreciator Ryan Carpio, have a...
Episode 195 – Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow: Estate Planning and Family Inheritance with Marivel Zialcita
This Filipino American Life - October 13, 2023 19:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsHave you spoken to your parent(s) about estate planning? What will happen to their financial assets when they will pass away? Have you witnessed your family feud over family inheritance or ancestral land? Have you thought of what legacies you’d like to pass on when you eventually transition to...
THE QUIET ROOM
TANIS - October 03, 2023 16:18 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.3K ratingsThe Quiet Room is here! RABBITS WEBSITE THE QUIET ROOM (RABBITS NOVEL #2) is available now! Order your copy today! Visit terrymiles.com for more information. ABOUT RABBITS (Novel) “An outstanding debut technothriller, impossible to put down.” -Publisher’s Weekly STARRED “A twisted ...
THE QUIET ROOM
Rabbits - October 03, 2023 16:10 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratingsThe Quiet Room is here! RABBITS WEBSITE THE QUIET ROOM (RABBITS NOVEL #2) is available now! Order your copy today! Visit terrymiles.com for more information. ABOUT RABBITS (Novel) “An outstanding debut technothriller, impossible to put down.” -Publisher’s Weekly STARRED “A twisted ...
Episode 194 – “Our Vibranium is our Culture”: SF’s SoMa Pilipinas w/ Desi Danganan
This Filipino American Life - September 22, 2023 19:13 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsThe South of Market, or SoMa neighborhood in San Francisco is a historical place for Filipino Americans for a century. Throughout its history, many Filipinos have called SoMa home with its affordable apartments, neighborhood amenities, and proximity to jobs in downtown San Francisco. Community ...
Episode 193 – TFAL is feeling Nervous: A Conversation with Jen Soriano
This Filipino American Life - August 25, 2023 22:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsHave you ever been in constant pain and could not figure out why? Have you ever felt a knot in your back and felt like you could never break it? What happens when family trauma transcends generations and physically manifests itself in your body? In this episode of TFAL join Elaine and Producer Mi...
Episode 192 – Say My Name, Say My Name: Code Switching and Pronunciation of Filipino Names
This Filipino American Life - August 12, 2023 01:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsHow do you pronounce your name? How do you pronounce your last name? Do you Anglicize it? Do you pronounce it differently when talking to other Filipinos or when speaking Tagalog? Do you correct people who pronounce it differently? How would you pronounce the name “Roxas”? In this mini-episode...
Episode 191 – Wala Ka Lista: You’re Not On The List
This Filipino American Life - July 28, 2023 18:27 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsThis past month an overzealous group of fans found their way to Lea Salonga’s dressing room after a performance of Here Lies Love. The interaction was then uploaded to the internet for the world to see. SORRY, NOT SORRY. Christopher Carpila, who drew backlash for uploading the viral Lea Salonga...
Episode 190 – TFAL Tambayan: Where do Filipino Americans make Tambay?
This Filipino American Life - July 10, 2023 16:06 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsWhere do Filipino Americans hang out? Where is the place where they are allowed to tambay (Tagalog slang for loitering from the English “stand by”)? Where are can one find Filipino immigrants and Filipino Americans alike in public places? According to some sociology scholars, the third place in...
Episode 189 – Filipino American Suburbanization with Dr. James Zarsadiaz
This Filipino American Life - June 16, 2023 16:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsMost Filipino Americans today live in the suburbs – Daly City, National City, Carson, Jersey City, Skokie, Oxon Hill, and on and on. When you think of the Filipino American community since the 1970s, we are by and large a suburban community. There are reasons for this, of course, many of which ...
Episode 188 – Money, Money, Money: TFAL talks with Berna Anat, your Financial Hype Woman
This Filipino American Life - April 21, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsDid you know April is financial awareness month? A perfect time to drop this episode with MONEY OUT LOUD author Berna Anat. Berna is your Financial Hype Woman/Manang/Ate/Tita. The moniker “Financial Hype Woman” is her made up way of saying she creates financial education media that lives at @HeyB...
Episode 187 – Baon Bracketology: Filipino Food Face-Off, Part 2
This Filipino American Life - April 14, 2023 16:25 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsWe’re back at it again. Part 2 of the ultimate Filipino food tournament! Listen as we decide between Sinigang and Tinola, Pancit Palabok and Pancit Bihon, and many other hard matchups. Laugh as you listen to TFAL Food Appreciator Ryan nearly gets an aneurysm from our food debates. And of course,...
Episode 186 – Baon Bracketology: Filipino Food Face-Off, Part 1
This Filipino American Life - March 31, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsThis time of year is one of our favorites. It’s March Madness and April is Filipino Food Month. To celebrate these two occasions, the TFAL developed a Filipino Food Bracket! In this Part 1 episode, we explain the parameters of this tournament and go through the first round of 64 Filipino dishes (...
Episode 185 – This Filipino American Academic Life
This Filipino American Life - March 10, 2023 15:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratingsPursuing a career in academia can be both rewarding and challenging. It often requires a significant amount of dedication, hard work, and resilience. From navigating graduate school to being on the job market to balancing research, teaching, and service, scholars face a range of unique experience...
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