Based out of Las Vegas and raised in the Philippines, Paulo Pambustan (@kooya_creativestudios) and Maica Pambustan (@katha_minatures) are miniatures artists and makers of dioramas. Paulo is inspired by horror and lore. Maica specializes in polymer clay and cozy art. They love to interchange their specialties! Their art is inspired by an array of iconic pieces, lore, and landscapes from Filipino culture. Tune in to this episode of Bruha Baddies how they arrived at their craft and how they met each other. Our first Mininfluencers!

A great episode how the arts intersect and inspire.

Nicole’s meet cute with Paulo and Maica:

International Market of Miniature Artisans (IMOMA)

Recommendations

Maica

1. Sandbox VR Las Vegas (Town Square Location)
2. Ari Sushi & Izakaya 
3. The Rainfall Market by You-Yeong Gwang

Paulo

1. Drive properly
2. Follow movie theatre etiquette
3. Go to IMOMA
4. Polyphia

Nicole

1. The Promise LV (donate pantry items or clothes)
2. Southern Nevada Health District free Narcan training
3. Cornerstone Park in Henderson, NV

Jean

1. MEGACLAW
2. Teso Life
3. Red Rice (Guam Restaurant in Las Vegas on Eastern and Silverado Ranch area)

Gabe Oliveros is BB's most frequented guest. Celebrate our 100th episode with our personal favorite and 4th Baddie! We talk about his life updates: job changes, layoffs, internet evolution, pet grief, and great reads. Never a dull moment with Gabe, our wellspring of wisdom, wit, and recommendations.

If there's a rec you have for us after listening, please email [email protected]

Show Notes:

Previous Gabe Episode in 2023

First Appearance Episode in 2020

Recommendations:

Gabe

1. West cecil, retired professor turned YouTube essayist 
2. A short stay in hell (novella by steven L. Peck)
3. Paddleboarding

Nicole

1. Emergen-C (no water type)
2. Travel Nevada “experience passports” scavenger hunts
3. Dr. Toby and the crew from Nevada Pet Hospice

Daniel

1. Nico’s Eats - guava chicken rice bowl, lumpia
2. Yesteryear book 
3. @kalamansi.reads lol 

Jean

1. Womack Sisters
2. Squalo and Mage vs the Rage of the Bakunawa by Kara Bodegon-Hikino
3. The Lucky Ride by Yasushi Kitagawa

Last Co-Host of BB Jean Munson talks about comics in and out of graduate school, ending of employment, visiting the Philippines, buying a print shop, and grief therapy over podcast hiatus years 2024-2026. Catch up with the resident Virgo during Virgo season.

Regular episodes will resume to every Second Sunday of the month! Catch you for our next episode on September 13.

Special shout out to Pinay Author Grace Talusan!

Recommendations: 

1. Snail Mail

2. Paper Doe @paperdoelv

3. Comics Coworking Meet up every 3rd Saturday 2-4pm at Package Plus Printing @sundaycomicscorner

4. Heatsink Comics Collective Online Comics Meet Up

Co-Host to BB Nicole Espinosa takes us down memory lane on their catch up with trying new sports, attending K Pop concert for the first time, zine making, grad school, graduation, and grief! Tune in for this part 2 of 3 catchup comeback!

Recs:

1. Guerilla Pizza Company on 900 S Las Vegas Blvd Unit 120, Las Vegas, NV 89101 
2. Analog Hobby Club first Monday at The Griffin from 11am-6pm @lasvegasgriffin
3. I Kissed a Girl on Disney Plus

Welcome back to a new season of Bruha Baddies after a 3 year hiatus. For the next 3 Sundays, we are treating our listeners to updates on our cohosts. We open with Daniel Nero and his journey in library school, teaching, career switches, family, and being a cat dad! Listen to his updates and laugh along with your favorite Bruhahahahas!

On our last episode for 2023, special guest Isabel Bagsik (she/her), a former Art Director turned Creative Wellness Guide who has held community spaces for over 300+ BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ changemakers, and supports creatives claiming their gifts from a place of rest. Tune into a perfect way to close out the year by returning to yourself and your creative pleasures.

Show Notes:

You can find more on Isabel here:

@unconventionalbliss

Quick Links on Isabel

Unconventional Bliss website: https://unconventionalbliss.com/

Her free newsletter: https://unconventionalbliss.substack.com/

Recommendations:

Isabel

1. Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2. Beautiful Chorus
3. Plantains 

Daniel

1. Pan fry Chicken for Adobo
2. Donors Choose: If you’re a teacher in Nevada, you can submit a project for your classroom and get funded for approx. $700! Hurry hurry before the $$ runs out.
3. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry

Nicole

1. Kylie Prosecco ($15.99 at Total Wine)
2. Dropout.tv
3. Sometimes you gotta use a mean voice

Jean

1. Lopez V Lopez on Netflix
2. InPulse App
3. Headspace Sleep Guide

As the year winds down, the BB team sits down with long time supporter, friend, and fan Gabe Oliveros as we catch up about his visit back to the Philippines and uncovering family secrets.

Show Notes:

• Dr. Gloria Padoongpatt for Microaggressions research
• ISTORYA
• Kumu
• Ruby Ibarra

Top tuned in BB episodes thanks to y'all!

• Hoy Chismosa
• Microaggressions
• Daughters of Immigrants

Recommendations:

Gabe:

1. Dilaw (Filipino band, genre-bending)
2. Kill 6 Billion Demons (web comic)
3. China-A-Go-Go Chicken

Daniel:

1. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus “Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back… Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what YOU will change. And then get started.”
2. ** Take some time for yourself every day. **
3. Zippys

Nicole:

1. GamersUp waifu cups and energy drinks energy drink
2. Thermacell Mosquito Protection 
3. https://www.her86m2.com

Jean:

1. Yukon Pizza
2. All She Wrote Bookstore (order from them online)
3. Aki Matsuri event
   1. Crunch of Aloha

Allyson Remigio (@allysonr) is a Baddie from the Bay to Vegas and now Sac. Her research interests include Integrative Health & Wellness, and Motherscholarship. She currently works in rare disease education. BB hosts sit to catch up with Ally on (visiting the Philippines, tiny home living, and parenting). Together they hop on zoom to talk about grief in our Filipino culture and families.

How do we, as Filipino-Americans, deal with the (corporeal) loss of loved ones and of those closest to us?

On today’s episode, we share the honor of remembering Teresa Dancel Fernandez nearly a year after her passing. We invite Allyson to recall the depth of their love and to impart with us her navigation of grief. It is our longest episode to date, but is best delivered in its full completion as tribute.

Show Notes:

• Las Vegas Aces Back to Back WNBA Champions (@lvaces)
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
• Uniform Project Barangay Masili, Philippines
• Dr. Mark Padoongpatt (connected Ally to BB)
• Dr. Constancio Arnaldo

Recommendations:

Ally

• Tapping @katehenn.healing
• Apple Cider Vinegar and Hot Water to help with digestion
• Sparkly Nail polish

Daniel

• The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber. Book about weird theories and coincidences. If you’re into that shit – it’s great on audiobook!
• Costco’s Cashew Clusters
• Get your COVID and flu vaccines now – while they’re freeeee

Nicole

• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur 
• Stick With Chicken is a Las Vegas-based food truck specializing in Lao Sticky Rice, Baked Bone-In Chicken and Hot Sauce (@stickwithchicken)
• The Multicultural Collective at Nevada State University is located in room 110 of the Dawson building. It is hosted by the Office of Community, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. 

Jean

• Full House Barbecue (@fullhousebbqlv)
• Buc-ee’s Beaver Twists
• Aces All In YouTube series: inspirational back stories

Anime was a big part of our collective childhood as Filipina/o/x Americans and as Asian Americans. Sailor Moon is iconic and we know that our listeners stand. What makes this anime so pivotal in shaping 90s kids in our community? Today our Bruha Baddies cohosts reminisce how this show had deeper layers that led to a more intellectual awakening as adults especially with its queer and feminist under and overtones.

Notes:

• Pinay Power Dr. Melinda De Jesus

Recommendations

Daniel

1. Strangers by Nature (Adele)
2. Yunchan Lim’s performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 3
3. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLC: Teal Mask 

Nicole

1. Couch Console
2. The Promise Merch
3. Dimitri Beauchamp

Jean

• Manna Coffee
• Rest your eyes from screen time. 
• Draw fan art

Meet Zwei, long time fan and new friend of BB. We learn about the many layers of life, growing up in the South as the only Filipino son that attended a Catholic military school while learning of his queerness. Grappling with creativity while also surviving Las Vegas with his partner working in hospitality. Join our cohosts learn and celebrate his story.

Recommendations:

Zwei

1. Bottoms Movie
2. Bomb Rush Cyberpunk
3. Queen Las Vegas

Nicole

1. Kylie Minogue's Tension Album
2. Shifa Ligeiro Apartment Life DJ 
3. Teaching with Tenderness by Becky Thompson

Daniel

1. Sauteed Mushrooms and Onions on RICE
2. Creepy Mystery Youtube Channel: @BarelySociable
3. Graphic Novel: “Stamped from the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi

Jean

1. Bulk food section of Winco to make your own halloween snacks
2. Skimos Coffee shop in Henderson
3. Dapper Donuts in Henderson

Bruha Baddies team takes a field trip to Black Sacrament Tattoo to interview Pinay Tattoo Artist Kayla Talastas. We learn how she's her own boss, her art journey, her family migration story from the Philippines, to Hawaii, and then Las Vegas. This expands on Las Vegas as the 9th Island that we discuss in a past episode with Armina Guelas. 

Tune into learn about being a tattoo apprentice and then full on CAREER!

Be on the lookout for a Patreon Exclusive of Nicole's time getting tatted by Kayla after this episode recording. Follow us on patreon.com/bruhabaddies

Filipino/a/x Tattoo Colleagues recommended by Kayla

@kuyajona

@mintyxlovemachine

Recommendations: 

Kayla

1. Black Sacrament Tattoo
2. Firefly, order Date Bacon Wrap
3. Hydrate

Nicole

1. CONFIRMED HOW GOOD Black Sacrament Tattoo
2. Evelyn at Carmax
3. Diana Lee Inosanto in Ahsoka

Daniel

1. Bookpage magazine
2. Burrata Sandwich
3. Lodge Dutch Oven

Jean

1. Hui Lan Shan
2. Sempio Mushroom Fried Rice
3. All Things B podcast