Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Stories about art, commerce and being unapologetically Filipino American. Featuring Ruby Ibarra, Genever bar in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown, and H.P. Mendoza’s Bitter Melon. With a quick field trip to The Oinkster.
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The stories in this episode were originally produced for the following public radio programs:
KPCC The Frame: Meet the Filipina American rapper making music about bi-culturalism and empowerment
KCRW Good Food: Serving Cocktails and Culture in LA’s Historic Filipinotown (made possibly by the KCRW Independent Producer Project)
KPCC The Frame / LAist: Bitter Melon Thrills by Showing Filipino Americans Not Sweeping Things Under the Rug (A text version of this story was published on LAist)
Media
This episode mentions the following works and features clips from some of them. The works are shared below and are as follows: “Us” music video from Ruby Ibarra with Rocky Rivera, Klassy, and Faith Santilla; “Taking Names” music video from Ruby Ibarra with Bambu and Nump; Bitter Melon trailer; Videos by Jo Koy, Eater, Tastemade, and the Food Network; a video from Francis Magalona’s performance of “Man from Manila”; a video of film critic Roger Ebert at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival screening of Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow. Also included is the trailer for H.P. Mendoza’s Bitter Melon, from which clips as well as music like the Tinikling song were used.
Sources
Research and interviews were conducted by Paola Mardo. Food taste testing performed by Patrick Epino and Paola Mardo at The Oinkster.
Credits
Long Distance is hosted and produced by Paola Mardo.
Co-producer is Patrick Epino.
Art
Cover art is by Celina Calma.
Title design by Paola Mardo.
Music
Theme Song is “Comin’ Along” by C. Light and the Prisms. Most music is sourced through royalty-free music libraries. For the Bitter Melon story, clips were used from the trailer for Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow and from a videotaped clip of Roger Ebert at the Sundance Film Festival screening of the film in 2002. Excerpts from the following songs were used in throughout the episode:
What’s Behind the Door - Lee Rosevere
Ghost - Rosie Plaza
Can’t Judge a Book - SZA with Ruby Ibarra, The Tracks, Radkey, Victoria Canal, William Prince, Noe Socha
Mga Kababayan - Francis M
Us - Ruby Ibarra
Crazy Filipinos - Ruby Ibarra
7000 Miles - Ruby Ibarra
The Otherside - Ruby Ibarra
Brown Out - Ruby Ibarra
Playbills - Ruby Ibarra
Great Balls of Fire - Dinah Dominguez
Tinikling provided by H.P. Mendoza from the movie Bitter Melon
Assembly Line Work - Dee Yan Key
Colma Stays - H.P. Mendoza from the movie Colma: The Musical
Slow Lights - Lee Rosevere
Happy Place - H.P. Mendoza from the movie Colma: The Musical
Stories about art, commerce and being unapologetically Filipino American. Featuring Ruby Ibarra, Genever bar in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown, and H.P. Mendoza’s Bitter Melon. With a quick field trip to The Oinkster.
Support Long Distance and join the Long Distance Radio Club!
patreon.com/longdistanceradio
More info on Long Distance:
LongDistanceRadio.com
Our video and podcasting gear:
amazon.com/shop/NationalFilmSociety
kit.com/NationalFilmSociety
More about Ruby Ibarra and Circa91:
rubyibarra.com
amzn.to/2oKqkUN
More on H.P. Mendoza and Bitter Melon:
hpmendoza.com
amzn.to/2o1jav6
amzn.to/2o65peQ
More on Genever:
geneverla.com
More on The Oinkster:
theoinkster.com
Subscribe to Long Distance podcast:
LongDistanceRadio.com/subscribe
Listen to more episodes of Long Distance Season 1 on YouTube:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy01C2bQHkU_hgSdP2QQKP7e-7onio4D1
Watch more Long Distance TV (LDtv) about Long Distance podcast:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy01C2bQHkU-QCjUfxMS4xeZL-ryfJpKt
Follow Long Distance:
instagram.com/LongDistanceRadio
facebook.com/LongDistanceRadio
Connect w/ Paola:
PaolaMardo.com
twitter.com/PaolaMardo
instagram.com/PaolaMardo
Connect w/ Patrick:
PatrickEpino.com
twitter.com/PatrickEpino
instagram.com/PatrickEpino
About National Film Society:
NationalFilmSociety.com
twitter.com/NatFilmSociety
instagram.com/NationalFilmSociety
Sources:
Radio
The stories in this episode were originally produced for the following public radio programs:
KPCC The Frame: Meet the Filipina American rapper making music about bi-culturalism and empowerment
KCRW Good Food: Serving Cocktails and Culture in LA’s Historic Filipinotown (made possibly by the KCRW Independent Producer Project)
KPCC The Frame / LAist: Bitter Melon Thrills by Showing Filipino Americans Not Sweeping Things Under the Rug (A text version of this story was published on LAist)
Media
This episode mentions the following works and features clips from some of them. The works are shared below and are as follows: “Us” music video from Ruby Ibarra with Rocky Rivera, Klassy, and Faith Santilla; “Taking Names” music video from Ruby Ibarra with Bambu and Nump; Bitter Melon trailer; Videos by Jo Koy, Eater, Tastemade, and the Food Network; a video from Francis Magalona’s performance of “Man from Manila”; a video of film critic Roger Ebert at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival screening of Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow. Also included is the trailer for H.P. Mendoza’s Bitter Melon, from which clips as well as music like the Tinikling song were used.
Sources
Research and interviews were conducted by Paola Mardo. Food taste testing performed by Patrick Epino and Paola Mardo at The Oinkster.
Credits
Long Distance is hosted and produced by Paola Mardo.
Co-producer is Patrick Epino.
Art
Cover art is by Celina Calma.
Title design by Paola Mardo.
Music
Theme Song is “Comin’ Along” by C. Light and the Prisms. Most music is sourced through royalty-free music libraries. For the Bitter Melon story, clips were used from the trailer for Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow and from a videotaped clip of Roger Ebert at the Sundance Film Festival screening of the film in 2002. Excerpts from the following songs were used in throughout the episode:
What’s Behind the Door - Lee Rosevere
Ghost - Rosie Plaza
Can’t Judge a Book - SZA with Ruby Ibarra, The Tracks, Radkey, Victoria Canal, William Prince, Noe Socha
Mga Kababayan - Francis M
Us - Ruby Ibarra
Crazy Filipinos - Ruby Ibarra
7000 Miles - Ruby Ibarra
The Otherside - Ruby Ibarra
Brown Out - Ruby Ibarra
Playbills - Ruby Ibarra
Great Balls of Fire - Dinah Dominguez
Tinikling provided by H.P. Mendoza from the movie Bitter Melon
Assembly Line Work - Dee Yan Key
Colma Stays - H.P. Mendoza from the movie Colma: The Musical
Slow Lights - Lee Rosevere
Happy Place - H.P. Mendoza from the movie Colma: The Musical
