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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
-- of the authenticity of really immigrant Filipino food.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
And I think that it's just something to think about. Yes?

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{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
Hi. Hi, thank you all so much. I just had a quick question.

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{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
You all have been sort of touching on this, but could you speak more about the art of spoken word, especially as it relates to migration and anti -- not anti -- cross-generational sort of migration.

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{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
You've definitely talked -- touched on it, Jerrica, but maybe a little more, Regie?

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{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
And also where can we find your work? Do you all have any chapbooks out? Do you all have videos? Where can we access your amazing work?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
I have -- my poems are online. I don't have a specific one collection, but all of my videos are out there.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
I would say a lot of them are pretty raunchy, so you wanna hide them and keep them away from the kids. I'm definitely PG-13 this morning.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
But I do want to commend the Smithsonian for allowing -- there's no censorship. They just want us to tell our story authentically.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
As far as spoken word in the Filipino culture, there is the oratory Balagtasan kind of "debate style" of oral oratory.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
But the art of slam -- I don't know that there are slams in the Philippines. I don't even know if there are any. I doubt that there is. I hope that there would be.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
So I feel like what I'm drawing from is just my dad's humor, and I'm drawing from just the storytelling that is just inherent.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
And I think that's probably, in all, the tackle that happens every Saturday night.

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{SPEAKER name="Jerrica Escoto"}
And poetry --


Transcription Notes:
5/30/21 edits: - Balagtasan confirmed as the correct word at 00:41:54 - Removed some filler words and feedback (Jerrica saying "yeah" along with Regie)