Episode 140 – The Good (Ha) Place – TFAL Thinks Happy Thoughts (Social Distance Series)
So… there’s a lot going on in the world. A lot of it not so great. And while we talk about many of...
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Episode 139 – Cleaming the Gube: TV Writing with Rene Gube (Social Distance Series)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to write a TV or movie? If you had total creative freedom to pitch...
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Episode 138 – A Year of COVID 19: A Conversation with Cindy Evangelista (Social Distance Series)
It’s been one year since most of the United States has been under quarantine, significantly changing our lives. In this TFAL episode, we...
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Episode 137 – tFalling in Love: TFAL Talks Valentine’s Day (Social Distance Series)
Roses are red. Violets are blue. These brown hands Choo choo choose you! Hello TFAL listeners, join us as the TFAL Crew reflects...
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Episode 136 – A Good Death: A Conversation with Death Doula/Midwife Michelle Mondia (Social Distance Series)
2020 will go down in history as one of the most difficult years for so many of us. At the time of writing,...
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Episode 135 – Purge Towards New Beginnings (Social Distance Series)
New Year. Covid’s still here. Let’s start purging and clear… The energy for 2021. We all know that 2020 was a roller coaster...
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Episode 134 – Philippine Archaeology and the Ifugao Rice Terraces with Stephen Acabado (Social Distance Series)
Did you know that the Banaue Rice Terraces are actually only approximately 200-300 years old hundred years old, and not 2,000 years old...
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Episode 133 – TFAL Sweet Talks: Filipino Desserts with Ginger Lim Dimapasok of Café 86 (Social Distance Series)
Filipinos are notorious for their sweet tooth. We put sugar in almost all of our dishes. So much so our spaghetti would be...
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Episode 132 – Bumoto Kami: Filipino American Electoral Politics (Social Distance Series)
Election season in the US has come and not quite gone, and regardless of who you voted for (and how you feel about...
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Episode 131 – Who Ordered Tax? TFAL Talks Pinoy Humor (Social Distance Series)
Filipino humor. You know what it is. Super corny one-liners your mom or dad, aunt and uncle might have said. It may be...
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Episode 130 – Dance Dance Revelations: Filipinos and Hip Hop Dance with J. Lorenzo Perillo (Social Distance Series)
Dance off! Dance crews and line dancers, dance fanatics, and dance contest watchers – gather around for another episode of TFAL as we...
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Episode 129 – Digging up the Truth: The Celine Archive with Celine Parreñas Shimizu (Social Distance Series)
In 1932, Celine Navarro, a young Filipina American, was buried alive and murdered by other Filipinos just outside of Stockton, California. The murder...
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Episode 128 – A Stoner’s Parable: TFAL Talks “Call Out” Culture (Social Distance Series)
“Call out” culture, an inevitable part of online conversations, has become a bigger part of public discourse over the past few years. While...
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Episode 127: TFAL Live – Do The Hustle
Can you believe it’s been six months of quarantine? The TFAL Crew, including sleep deprived new dad Joe, came together this past Wednesday...
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Episode 126 – LINGUA FRANCA: A conversation with filmmaker Isabel Sandoval (Social Distance Series)
In this episode the TFAL crew, with Kat Carrido Bonds filling in as a guest host, have a discussion with Isabel Sandoval,...
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Episode 125 – When Nature Calls: TFAL Goes to the Great Outdoors (Social Distance Series)
Trading the city and WiFi for nature and No Service may be the break our overstimulated brains need to recharge. In this...
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Episode 124 – A Feminist’s Journey Through Pregnancy with Angela Garbes (Social Distance Series)
TFAL is having a baby! Actually, just Gerlie and Joe are having a baby. The latest change in their lives prompted a discussion...
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Episode 123 – Culture Shock: How Filipino Americans deal with Americana (Social Distance Series)
Being raised in the United States, we as Filipino Americans have learned American cultural practices that we’ve grown accustomed to and even embraced...
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Episode 122 – Hold the Line: Standing Up for Press Freedom with Maria Ressa (Social Distance Series)
Have you ever thought about how do you get your news? Obtaining news has quickly evolved over the years. Just in the TFAL...
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Episode 121 – Urban Gardening and Restorative Justice with Richard Garcia of Alma Backyard Farms (Social Distance Series)
The late Asian American activist Grace Lee Boggs towards the end of her life began to devote her activism to the urban agricultural...
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