This week we have an episode from the Pacific Underground Archives!
Lilian Dirrebes Ongelungel speaks with Pacific Underground producers Jake
and Kat about being the only Pacific Islander in the room, Moana, tattoes,
and storytelling / oral histories.
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What does it mean to make sense of the most horrific use of weapons of mass
destruction on a civilian population, and how that effects us as human
beings, much less if that specifically impacts our family tree?
For Yukiyo Kawano, this means letting ancestors interfere w...
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Emily Jungmin Yoon is a Korean Canadian poet who wrestles with history.
Producers Jake and Sara join Emily to talk about her debut full-length poetry
collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species which explores the history of
Korean “comfort women” during World War II. Throu...
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We're kicking off the New Year with music! We have had the pleasure of
interviewing truly talented musicians and artists at Pacific Underground and
today, we curated a playlist of songs by API musicians. Not all of them have
been on Pacific Underground and some of the songs...
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What would Western North America look like if the Axis powers had won WW2?
In Peter Tieryas's new dystopian alternate history novel, Mecha Samurai
Empire as well as his previous, United States of Japan, this scenario is
explored with frightening detail. In conversation wit...
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It's time for another food episode here on Pacific Underground. Past guests
and friends of the show give their recommendations on where to eat in town.
We also hear stories from a segment we produced for our first food episode in
season one where we explore what made us ...
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