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This Filipino American Life
Exploring the nuanced experiences of Filipinos in the United States, atbp.
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Episode 240 | I Know You Got SOL – A Convo with Singer / Songwriter Labit
In this episode Elaine and Producer Mike have a conversation with singer-songwriter Stephen Ordonez also known as LABIT (@labitlabit). Stephen share...
Episode 239 – Resistance Pop with Chrissa Sparkles
In this episode of TFAL, Elaine and Producer Mike have a conversation with Los Angeles native (yes, they exist!) Chrissa Sparkles. You may have seen...
Episode 238 – Filipino American Intergenerational Conversations
Dear young people, How do we stay cool? Sincerely, Middle-aged TFALers There are many generations of Filipinos who live in the United States in this d...
Episode 237 – Filipinos in the San Fernando Valley
Joe wrote a book! Well…kinda. After a few years of gathering photos and writing, Joe has published FILIPINOS IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, a pictorial h...
Episode 236: Storytelling with Randy Ribay
In this episode the TFAL crew has a conversation with author Randy Ribay. The crew has discussed Patron Saints of Nothing multiple times, so this co...
Episode 235: Joke Lungs w/ Vincent Collyer & Charles Collyer
In this episode Producer Mike and Elaine have a conversation with TFAL graphic designer Vincent Collyer and his brother Charles Collyer about Charles’...
Episode 234 – Dirty Kitchen with Jill Damatac
In this episode the crew has a conversation with author and filmmaker, Jill Damatac, who shares her journey from the Philippines to the States to th...
Episode 233 – Ryan and Joe Talk Fatherhood
Amidst the chaos, we still have hope. A couple of weeks ago, Ryan and Joe had a conversation about being relatively new dads. With Father’s Day approa...
Episode 232 | How Did You Get Here? (Hex Hector Mix) | Gaysians with Mike Curato
TFALpodcast kicks off PRIDE month with a conversation with author and illustrator Mike Curato. In this episode Elaine and Producer Mike learn about Mi...
Episode 231 – Meeting the Moment: A Conversation with Los Angeles City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado
On Election Day 2024, while most of the level-headed American public mourned the re-emergence of the far-right orange man, local folks in Los Angeles...
Episode 230 – TFAL x Dear Flor – A Conversation with Lisa Angulo Reid
In this episode TFAL’s Elaine and Producer Mike have a conversation with Lisa Angulo Reid, founder of Dear Flor @lovedearflor. Dear Flor’s mission is...
Episode 229 – Filipinx Studies and its Radical Possibilities with Allan Lumba
In this TFAL episode, Joe talks to Dr. Allan Lumba, writer, researcher, historian, and professor at Concordia University in Montreal, about potential...
Episode 228: TFAL talks Animation with Bobby Pontillas (Rise Up Animation)
The TFAL crew is no stranger to the world of animation. In episode 28 (TFAL talks Voice Acting (and Secrets & Fears)), the crew had a conversation wit...
Episode 227 – Coming Home for the First Time – Elaine and Producer Mike go to the Philippines
Is it truly “More Fun in the Philippines? Well technically not any more, because that marketing campaign ended in 2023. Now it’s “Love the Philippin...
Episode 226 – Filipino American Masculinity
For generations, society has taught Filipinos and Filipino Americans what our specific gender roles should be. For men, masculinity is usually associa...
Episode 225 – Sexual Pleasure with Goddess Cecilia
Did you know that men from the Philippines prior to colonization wore penis pins and rings in order to pleasure their sexual partner during intercours...
Episode 224 | Living with the Land – A Conversation with Dennis Arguelles
Episode 224 | Living with the Land – A Conversation with Dennis Arguelles This past fall, TFALpodcast’s Elaine took a California Naturalist Training I...
Episode 223 – TFAL x Toronto – Sounds of the 6ix with Pantayo and Ruru
If it’s a music episode, you know Producer Mike is behind it! In our 3rd and final episode in our Toronto series, we got to get a hangout with Michell...
Episode 222 – TFAL x Toronto: Politics and Golf with the Honourable Rechie Valdez and Rise Bogey League’s Adam Robles
We continue our Toronto series with discussions on two very important issues that affect us – politics and golf. As with every visit to another city,...
Episode 221 – TFAL x Toronto: Welcome to “Torono” with Carlo De La Fuente and Alia Rasul / Pinay Collection with Jovie Galit
In honor of Filipino American History Month, the TFAL crew goes to Canada!!! A couple of weeks ago, we had the wonderful opportunity of visiting our...
Episode 220 – Island Women Rise – Ask Tita Faith w/Faith Santilla
Last but most certainly not least in our series of Island Woman Rise episodes, we have returning guest Faith Santilla! This episode is a wee bit diffe...
Episode 219: Island Woman Rise – Collective Wisdom w/Kimmortal
Continuing our Island Woman Rise series with a lovely conversation with Filipino-Canadian Kimmortal! The TFAL crew shares how we tried to reach out to...
Episode 218 – Island Woman Rise – Keepin It Klassy
What what? Another episode of TFALpodcast? Yup. This time the TFAL crew chops it up with Klassy, the youngest artist on the Island Woman Rise line up....
Episode 217 – Island Woman Rise – Words of Wisdom with Rocky Rivera
Surprise episode drop! Leading up to Island Woman Rise we’re dropping two episodes this week! In this episode the TFALpodcast crew has a conversation...
Episode 216 | Island Woman Rise: Rising Up w/ Ruby Ibarra
Continuing our series of Island Woman Rise episodes, the TFAL crew has a conversation with the uber talented multi-hyphenated artist who inspired the...
Episode 215 | Island Woman Rise: Connecting with Producer Kat Carrido Bonds
In this episode the TFAL crew talks story with Kat Carrido Bonds, our fam and frequent fill in for food appreciator Ryan. Kat shares her journey fro...
Episode 214 – In the Year 3000: Ryan and Joe Predict the Future
“In the Year 2000…” If you know that line, you remember it was a bit that Conan O’ Brien did during his late night talk show where he and his co-host...
Episode 213 – Go for Gold: TFAL Talks Olympics
Every four years (two years if you care for winter sports) athletes from around the world come together to compete in sporting events at the Olympic G...
Episode 212 – Sauce-Maryosep: Filipino Flavors with Fila Manila
Ay SAUCE-MARYOSEP!. Have you ever thought of what kind of Filipino sauces and condiments are in your kitchen? Patis, toyo, suka, bagoong, banana ket...
Episode 211 – Breaking Bed: Rethinking Sex Education Among Filipino Americans
Who taught you about SEX? Was it through school? Was it through watching porn? Whatever means you learned (or are learning) about the various aspects...
Episode 210 – Building and Sustaining Healthy Communities in Hawaii
TFAL goes to Hawaii! Well, actually just Joe goes to Hawaii. While attending a conference in Honolulu, Joe took the opportunity to do an additional i...
Episode 209 – Tagnawa: An Ilocano Response to the Maui Fires
On August 8, 2023, Maui experienced the largest wildfire in the “United States” in more than 100 years, killing 101 people and displacing 6,500. Natio...
Episode 208 – Confessions of a Bad Filipino
“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 d...
Episode 207 – Bayani Komixtape with Bayani Teodosio
In this episode the TFAL crew talk with Bayani Teodosio about Bayani Komixtape, the hip hop mixtape follow up to The Realest Bayani, Teodosio’s graphi...
Episode 206 – Experiences of a Filipino Adoptee with James Beni Wilson
Did you know that there are currently over 1.8 million orphaned or abandoned children in the Philippines? While formal adoption rates of these childr...
Episode 205 – Hilaw Pa 6.0
Here 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 ou...
Episode 204 – Filipino Psychology and Spirituality with Carl Lorenz Cervantes
How do Filipinos practice indigenous spirituality through Catholicism? Who are these “spirits” our parents or grandparents keep talking about that are...
Episode 203: TFAL talks Palestine w/ Michael Arage & JT | Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation
In this episode the TFAL crew talks with TFAL alum, Michael Arage, and JT of Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation @npl_palestine. In this episode we ha...
Episode 202 – Vision Boarding Abundance
New 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...
Episode 201 – Lost LA: Historic Filipinotown
Last 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, wh...