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Episode 205: Like Arteries in Search of a Heart

Rabbits - February 08, 2022 18:39 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
A series of seemingly unrelated stories including the legend of St Germain, a drifter walking out of a military base, and the final footage of two missing two missing hikers, coalesce around a mysterious cave in the desert, and lead Riley back to a familiar part of Rabbits history. RABBITS WEB...

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Episode 204: The Call of the Void

Rabbits - January 31, 2022 17:14 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
An old recording of a disturbing scientific study involving Path Cards - and the trail of destruction behind it - prompts Riley to seek out her own Path - one that points towards the mysterious traveler, and a Public Radio Alliance veteran named Carly Parker. RABBITS WEBSITE RABBITS NOVEL is...

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Episode 203: Path Cards

Rabbits - January 25, 2022 16:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
Riley begins to understand the danger of her quest as the search for the Meechum Radiants leads her to South Elk Gaming Company’s Path Cards - a divination tool that might be capable of accessing whatever mysterious intelligence lies at the heart of Rabbits. RABBITS WEBSITE RABBITS NOVEL is ...

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Episode 159 – The Secret’s Out: Secretly Filipino

This Filipino American Life - January 21, 2022 19:20 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Ever wonder why that peculiar Chinese restaurants have no chopsticks on their table settings?  Have you noticed that your finance branch at your work has a lot of Filipinos? Did you ever think, what’s up with basketball leagues that are 6 feet and Under? These questions are some of the same thing...

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Episode 202: Play the Game, Find the Game

Rabbits - January 19, 2022 01:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
Riley digs into the wild patchwork of coincidences that got her into the world of Rabbits: the mysterious disappearance of a woman named Jenny Slater, an inconsistency in Season One, and a question. What really happened at the end of the Ninth iteration of the game? RABBITS WEBSITE RABBITS N...

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Episode 158 – Baybayin atbp. with Kristian Kabuay

This Filipino American Life - January 07, 2022 18:12 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Baybayin, the pre-colonial written script of the Philippines, is a major foundation of our cultural heritage.  The alphasyllabary script consisting of 17 characters was understood and used by communities throughout much of the archipelago prior to colonization.  Spanish missionary Pedro Chirino, ...

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Episode 157 – A Few of TFAL’s Favorite Things – Small Businesses to Support this Holiday Season

This Filipino American Life - December 17, 2021 18:26 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
In this episode, we shout out some of the many Filipino Small Businesses that we are personal fans of, ones that you should definitely support this Holiday season!  Here is the list of who we mentioned on the show, along with some other ones that are also near and dear to our hearts: Jewelry  ...

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Episode 156 – Freethought, Faith, and Politics with Filipino Freethinkers

This Filipino American Life - December 03, 2021 18:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Gotta have faith! Freedom Like many Filipinos and Filipino Americans, the TFAL crew grew up around Christianity, specifically Catholicism. We speak of our upbringing in our podcast, mainly about how it’s shaped not just our adult selves, but the continued practices and traditions of many family, ...

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Episode 155 – Filipi-mnemonics: Remembering the Tagalog with Geoffrey Ocampo

This Filipino American Life - November 12, 2021 17:54 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Oh, the dad joke. We all know it. We all love it. And for Filipinos it gives us life. While Dad jokes can be a myriad of things, dad jokes to Filipinos are especially punny (get it?). For one Filipino American, dad jokes have become a way to learn Tagalog words. In this mini-episode, the...

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Hero?

Essay Americana - November 10, 2021 20:01 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
This essay is part of the series, "Asphalt Blackboard: Life Lessons from America's Highways." It examines how we are socially programed to respond to a crisis and what it means to be a hero. 

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Episode 154 – Manifest Technique: Talking Filipino Americans and Hip Hop with Mark Villegas (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - November 05, 2021 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
In this episode the TFAL crew is short one Ryan Carpio but is happily joined by Kat Carrido Bonds on this episode about Filipino Americans in Hip Hop. Mark Villegas shares his wealth of knowledge as an academic scholar in this field bridging his previous collaborative work with DJ Kuttin Kandi an...

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Episode 153 – Kulintang Kultura: A Conversation with Theo Gonzalves and Mary Talusan Lacanlale

This Filipino American Life - October 22, 2021 17:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Kulintang (literally meaning “golden sound moving” in English), is the gong and drum ensemble indigenous to the Sulu and Mindanao islands in the southern Philippines  This classical music genre has resonated across the Philippines and throughout the Filipino diaspora. As a way to honor and archiv...

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Episode 152 – A Life Well Designed: The Legacy of Pinky Santos and the Influence of Filipino Art on the Lived Environment

This Filipino American Life - October 15, 2021 18:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
“If there was one thing to take away from this story, I would hope that it’s motivation for you to go create something.” -Antonio “Miko” Javiniar This is a story about chairs. Whether you knew it or not, the rattan and bamboo hourglass-style peacock chair that has been seen in photos and homes fo...

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Episode 151 – Filipino American Heritage…er History Month

This Filipino American Life - October 08, 2021 04:52 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Happy Filipino American Heritage…er History Month! It’s hard to believe, but in the five years this podcast has been around, we haven’t dedicated an episode to Filipino American History Month (FAHM).  So this episode, the TFAL crew discusses our experiences with October ever since the Filipino Am...

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The Garden

Neighbors - October 07, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 459 ratings
This episode was produced for the Goethe-Institut's Big Ponder project and edited by William Gilcher.  To learn more about neighbors visit www.neighborspodcast.com. Neighbors is a production of Great Feeling Studios. www.greatfeelingstudios.com Support Neighbors at www.patreon.com/neighbors

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The Pen Pal

Neighbors - September 23, 2021 15:21 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 459 ratings
This episode was produced for the Goethe-Institut's Big Ponder project and edited by William Gilcher and Rachel Aronoff.  To learn more about neighbors visit www.neighborspodcast.com. Neighbors is a production of Great Feeling Studios. www.greatfeelingstudios.com Support Neighbors at www.patr...

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Episode 150 – The Wisdom of Guncles: A Conversation with Michael Dumlao (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - September 10, 2021 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Are you the black sheep in your family who chafes at traditions and seeks examples of how to redefine them? As Filipino Americans, we are constantly pulled in various directions and navigate multiple spaces in our families and in society, often getting shunned for just being our true selves.  The...

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Episode 149 – Contested Relations: Fil Am Experiences with Filipinos in and from the Philippines (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - August 20, 2021 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
What are Filipino Americans’ experiences and relationships with Filipino immigrants and Filipinos in the Philippines?  Filipino Americans – Filipinos who are born and or raised in the U.S. – often have vastly different experiences from Filipinos in the Philippines and those who recently immigrate...

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Episode 148 – A Pawsome Episode for Filipino American Pet Owners (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - August 06, 2021 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Although they provide companionship, emotional support, and stress-relieving, these key “family members” of some Filipino American households may not get talked about very often: OUR PETS!  On this TFAL episode, we talk about pet ownership and welfare with two Filipino American veterinarians who ...

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Episode 147 – Family Matters: TFAL Talks Taking Care of Family

This Filipino American Life - July 23, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
“As the days go by…it’s the bigger love the family.” Growing up in communal households, many Filipino Americans sense the unspoken duty to take care of their families.  Whether it’s taking care of one’s own children, or one’s parents, or new, adopted members of one’s family, we all know we have s...

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RABBITS Season Two Episode One BONUS

TANIS - July 13, 2021 16:57 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.3K ratings
Something’s wrong with Rabbits. This season, Riley Bennet works to track down a mysterious entity known as The Traveler in order to untangle an inconsistency in the game. But is it an inconsistency in the game, or an irreparable tear in the fabric of reality as we know it? RABBITS WEBSITE RA...

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Episode 146 – No Crying in Baseball: A Conversation with The Baseballogist L.A. Gamo

This Filipino American Life - July 13, 2021 16:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
Take me out to the ball game Take me out with the crowd Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack I don’t care if I ever get back  Let me root, root, root for the…   How many of you have had the opportunity to sing this song at a baseball game? Filipino Americans love...

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Episode 201: The Wrong Song

Rabbits - July 13, 2021 16:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
Something’s wrong with Rabbits. This season, Riley Bennet works to track down a mysterious entity known as The Traveler in order to untangle an inconsistency in the game. But is it an inconsistency in the game, or an irreparable tear in the fabric of reality as we know it? RABBITS WEBSITE RA...

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Episode 145 – Les is More: Mixing It Up with “Les The DJ” Talusan (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - June 25, 2021 17:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
  Can you believe that, in the five years that we’ve been doing this podcast about Filipino American Life, somehow we have neglected to talk to a DJ about DJing?!  Neither can we, especially since Producer Mike is a collector and curator of vinyl himself! Though DJing may be as old as vinyl recor...

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Episode 144 – Susus Maryosep: TFAL Talks Recent Filipino Representation (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - June 12, 2021 02:34 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
In recent weeks, many Filipinos and Filipino Americans have appeared in mainstream U.S. news and entertainment.  Whether it’s the release of the Netflix anime series, TRESE, the long-awaited appearance of a Filipino nurse in Grey’s Anatomy, the recent announcement of a Pinay Captain America, or t...

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THE PATH: THREE

Rabbits - June 08, 2021 14:56 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
The Path: A Rabbits Story, Episode 3 of 3 The RABBITS NOVEL is out 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 trip through a cool...

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THE PATH: TWO

Rabbits - June 01, 2021 05:37 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
The Path: A Rabbits Story, Episode 2 of 3 The RABBITS NOVEL is here! 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 trip through a cool di...

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Episode 143 – Filipino American Community Profile: Data and Statistics with Neil Ruiz (Social Distance Series)

This Filipino American Life - May 28, 2021 20:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 364 ratings
How many Filipinos are in the United States?  Where are Filipinos located throughout the nation?  How well are we doing socio-economically?  What does this data tell us about our community? Many people have researched answers to these demographic questions using statistical data.  One of these im...

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THE PATH: ONE

TANIS - May 25, 2021 20:08 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.3K ratings
The Path: A Rabbits Story, Episode 1 of 3 RABBITS NOVEL is coming June 8th! Pre-order or 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 tri...

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THE PATH: ONE

Rabbits - May 25, 2021 15:32 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
The Path: A Rabbits Story, Episode 1 of 3 RABBITS NOVEL is coming June 8th! Pre-order or 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 tr...