Season 4 Recap

Carmina and Patch recap Season 4 and marvel at the resilience of our ancestors and the collective perseverance of today’s Filipinos in keeping the culture alive. They look forward to future episodes and are excited about how much more there is to discover about their beloved Philippines. Many thanks to you, FilTrip listeners, for your continued support! See in you in 2026!

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Transcript

Welcome to FilTrip, a podcast where we explore everything fun, weird and in-between about the Philippines. 

Hi, Patch.

Hi, Carmina.

We just ended Season 4 of FilTrip.

I can't believe we made it this far.

Yes, and that we continue to find so many interesting things to talk about.

What would you consider your highlight, whether it's one episode or a recurring theme of this season? For me, one of the most memorable was the Lost For Words episode because it really made me think about, we have a podcast, right? And obviously, we use words, and it just reminded me the power of words and how sad it is that we are losing a lot of traditional language.

And so I was very, very saddened, but also I really appreciated the new technology and the new efforts that are being made to preserve the language.

For me, I feel like the undercurrent and a lot of the things that we talked about is the resilience of our pre-colonial ancestors. The fact that we're still able to talk about these very obscure things means that through the centuries, even through centuries of being colonized, they found a way to perpetuate it and to make it survive so that people like us hundreds of years in the future can still talk about it and cannot just imagine how hard they fought to keep these things alive. And perhaps the secrecy under which they were doing it, the double meanings that they infused in a lot of the Catholic traditions, I really admire our ancestors for finding a way for future generations to still know about these things

Right. And to your point, finding a way for future generations to still know about these things, that also includes our recent episode, the Tu Ebaras, because these two powerful, creative, intelligent women are doing exactly that. Finding a way to preserve our culture in very creative ways and preserving it for future generations.

Yeah. And that's replicated across many different slices of culture, right? So we've got fashion designers who are incorporating indigenous weaving, you know, patterns and techniques into modern styles.

And a lot of architects and designers, interior decorators in the Philippines, are also trying to find ways to use indigenous materials in homes. All of these collectively contribute to our knowledge of our past.

And what do you hope to talk about in future episodes? Any thoughts about it?

I mean, in future episodes, I guess even if we recycle topics, what we find out is that we keep finding many, many interesting things about the same topic. So I foresee in the next season, Season 5, that we might, you know, for example, still talk about the galleon trade, but exploring a different aspect of it.

Even historians are discovering something new, right?

How about you?

I, for one, know that I want to talk about food.

I know. Did we touch on food at all this season? I don't think we did.

No.

And the reason why I mentioned that recently, there's news that Michelin has announced the Guide to the Philippines. And that's really exciting for me. Maybe we can talk about that.

Absolutely, the food culture in the Philippines is fascinating to me.

And even here, it's really getting more and more popular. You're talking about Michelin in the Philippines. More and more Filipino restaurants here in the United States are also getting a Michelin.

Right. So that's always a popular topic, at least in my opinion.

Why don't we do a whole season about food?

That would be amazing.

Well, it's something to look forward to.

Yeah, you don't know what we'll discover.

Yeah, that is really something to look forward to, and I hope our listeners look forward to that too. 

So Patch, I want to wish you a really banging end to 2025.

Yes. And of course, I want to thank you, my co-pilot in this adventure, and of course, our listeners. We hope that you continue to listen and continue to have this connection with you.

So we'll see you in 2026. 

O siya, siya.

Ingat.

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