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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Episode 120 – Fil Am Allyship in the Black Lives Matter Movement (Social Distance Series)
The murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others at the hands of the police department has ignited outrage all...
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Episode 119 – The Social Distance Series: Mental Health in times of Quarantine with Alyssa Lia Mancao
Early in the TFAL podcast journey we discussed therapy and mental health in Episode 2. As time has progressed the TFAL community...
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Episode 118 – The Social Distance Series: Pilipino Graduations
Pilipino Graduation. P-Grad. Fil-Grad. Filipina/o/@/x Grad. Whatever the nomenclature, these ceremonies celebrate the educational accomplishments of Filipino Americans at many universities, colleges, and...
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Episode 117 – The Social Distance Series: Hilaw Pa 4.0
TFAL is back with yet another edition of Hilaw Pa, the ultimate Filipino American brainstorm where the crew comes up with half-baked ideas...
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Episode 116 – The Social Distance Series: TFAL talks ECQ in Metro Manila with Isabelle Lacson
As we continue our social distance series, we wanted to know what the Covid-19 experience was like in the Philippines. For that perspective...
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Episode 115 – The Social Distance Series: Pilipino Cultural Nights
Pilipino Cultural Night, aka PCN, aka PACN, aka Barrio Fiesta, aka Filipino Night, etc. is an annual production performed by countless Filipino American...
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Episode 114 – The Social Distance Series: Raising Multiracial Children with Farzana Nayani
When we began our podcast journey several folks reached out to us about covering the multiracial Filipino experience. The question came to mind...
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Episode 113 – The Social Distance Series: Burlesque with Mizon Garde and Di’ Lovely
What a tease! In the midst of this doomsday-esque reality that we are experiencing through the coronavirus pandemic, we thought it would be...
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Episode 112 – The Social Distance Series: Live with Nurse Practitioner Therese Golingay Donnelly
On this episode of our Social Distance Series we were able to live stream via our Youtube Channel and on Instagram. The TFAL...
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Episode 111 – The Social Distance Series: Live with Eugene Cordero & Mitch Narito
Continuing the California mandate of social distancing the TFAL crew hosted another virtual live podcast with special guests Eugene Cordero & Mitch Narito....
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Episode 110 – The Social Distance Edition: TFAL on Facebook Live
Coronavirus is here. We’re all required to practice social distancing. For many of us, this type of isolation is normal, for others, not...
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Episode 109 – Documenting Filipino American Stories: A Conversation with Marissa Aroy
Documentaries are essential for our community. There are certainly a number of good films that document the Filipino and Filipino American experience –...
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