The Halo Halo Podcast

On this warm up, Jezzie and Sigi are joined by Christine Abrigana of Lagim: A Filipino True Crime Podcast to assemble their own versions of a Scooby gang to solve mysteries. Find out who Sigi poaches from the Mission Impossible and Charlie’s Angels crews. Find out who Christine recruits for her squad and why we all need to get on board with shipping her and Dave Bautista. And find out who from the...

To kick off Crime and Punishment theme for this March on The Halo Halo Podcast, Sigi and Jezzie welcome special guest, Christine Abrigana, the creator and host of Lagim: A Filipino True Crime Podcast . Joining the hosts virtually  from Greece, Christine dives into the podcast to talk about her immigration story; growing up in Davao City; where she is locating herself at the moment and Miss Univers...

To end off our Social Justice episodes this February, Jezzie and Sigi revisit Community Care. They both acknowledge that taking action through social justice work can be tiring and note the  importance to take care of ourselves and others.  One way of taking action can be about providing community care, in any way we know how.  At the end of the day, community care is about infusing this world wit...

On this revisiting of social justice topics for the month of February, your co-hosts make even more room for anger and decide to linger on this topic further.  As they linger on this topic of anger, Sigi and Jezzie are reminded of how anger reveals the true source of injustice that marginalized communities face and decide to recall Episode 309 - Righteous Anger & Indignation, where we are reminded...

Your co-hosts continue to revisit previous episodes of their Social Justice Collections for this month of February. In this episode revisit, they return to Episode 216.5 - "Making Room for Anger," where they discuss how anger naturally comes after communities mourn a tragedy.  Sigi and Jezzie discuss the importance of needing to make room for that anger and being prepared for it.  They speak of ho...

The Halo Halo Podcast brings back its Social Justice centered episodes for this month of February. The co-hosts revisit Episode 312.625 "Empowerment through Solidarity and Mourning" in light of the community feelings that emerged from the Lunar New Year Shooting in Monterey Park California. In this episode revisit, they discuss the overwhelming range of emotions that were encountered in the Asian...

In time for Jezzie and Sigi's last foray in the pop culture vault this year, and on the heals of Madonna's recent announcement of the "Celebration Tour" covering 40 years of chart-topping music, Jezzie does a taste test of Madonna's latest remix album and retrospective of her 50 number one dance hits on Billboard's Dance Music Charts.  Find out what premium cocktail this reminds Jezzie of, and how...

We grew up with some music icons, can you equate?

On the episode of The Halo Halo Podcast,  Jezzie and Sigi begin with a catch up and talk "Velma", The Golden Globes and Elevated Super Bowl parties. They go into the pop culture vault and talk about the music they were into when they were 33. They also reference a new study which was based mainly on data from U.S. Spotify users, concludes that age 33 is when, on average, people stop discovering ne...

On this Taste Test of The Halo Halo Podcast, Jezzie and Sigi go into the pop culture vault in 1993 and sampled "The Joy Luck Club" Find out why the co-hosts would pair this movie with king crab and ginisang ampalaya at hipon. Listen in as they discuss the relationships of these Chinese immigrant mothers and their first generation daughters in San Francisco. As Jezzie likened ginisang ampalaya, thi...

The Halo Halo Podcast ventures back to the vault and dream casts their Sitcom Family of their dreams! Find out who would want Tony Micelli as their dad; The Americans as their next door neighbour and Moira Rose as their matriarch. Listen in and find out who would star in That’s So Sigi and The Untitled Jezzie Project.

On this all new episode of The Halo Halo Podcast, Jezzie and Sigi go back to the pop culture vault and talk about 80’s Family Sitcoms. Before they dive in, Sigi finds out about Jezzie’s past birthday adventure in Las Vegas and Jezzie elaborates on “5 Dinners for 5 Decades”. As the co-hosts revel in Alex P Keaton’s Reagan obsession; serious reasons to never hitchhike and the cool things in an 80s m...

On the Meryenda Episode of The Halo Halo Podcast, Jezzie and Sigi talk about a classic Christmas Noche Buena Filipino Dessert, the Fruit Salad. Find out how how each of the hosts feel about this dessert and how timing is of the essence on its consumption. Analogies run amok as Jezzie and Sigi create their virtual fruit salad of pop culture and their podcast for 2022. From all of us, have a wonderf...

On this Taste Test Epsiode Jezzie samples the movie he has on repeat, "Spirited," now streaming on Apple TV. This tale is a post-modern, post-truth retelling of Dickens “A Christmas Carol” where Clint, an unredeemable media consultant played by Ryan Reynolds, meets Will Farrell’s Ghost of Christmas Present and the entire Industrial Haunting Crew. Find out why Jezzie would pair this treat of a movi...

On this warm up of the Halo Halo Podcast, Sigi and Jezzie revisit their quick hot takes on their favourite Holiday cocktails, Starbuck order, holiday song, dessert and movie. Find out what Christmas Album is on constant repeat at Sigi’s house and what Christmas movie Jezzie is obsessed about!

On this festive episode of The Halo Halo Podcast, our co-hosts get into the holiday and birthday spirit!  In a bit of a throwback to season 2, Episode 205, “The Spirit of Hallmark Christmas Movies” Sigi and Jezzie discussed how the Hallmark Channel created the Industrial Christmas Rom Com Complex–started in 2009 with their “Countdown to Christmas”. This year, the co-hosts focus on Netflix’s take o...

On this Taste Test Episode Sigi samples "Wakanda Forever." Find out why he likens the sequel to a visit to the decadent steakhouse Smith and Wollensky. Beware listeners this episode is filled with SPOILERS. So, get your tickets to watch "Wakanda Forever" in theaters, then download and listen to this taste test!\\ Listen in as Sigi takes Jezzie through the long awaited movie by Ryan Coogler with re...

On this warm up called Phased In,  Jezzie and Sigi cite their highs and lows in the phases of the MCU. Join in and find out why for Phase 3 both the co-hosts struggled with their own versions of Sophie’s Choice in the Marvel Universe!

On this new episode of The Halo Halo Podcast, Jezzie and Sigi talk about Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Multiple Truths. Jezzie likens the previous phases to his own personal journey into social justice and Sigi explores the parallels in his journey with Jezzie on this creative venture. Phase 4 and the Multiverse Saga bring to mind for Jezzie this idea that there is a multiplicity of...

On this Taste Test, Sigi takes a big sample of "She-Hulk" now streaming on Disney+. Find out why he would pair this show with an elusive candy bar he received in 2017 from his Uncle Danny. Listen in as he revels in the legal comedy that managed to break fourth walls; host a ton of cameos; have some key supporting roles by some Filipinos (Ginger Gonzaga and Trevor Salter); showcase the amazing show...

On this warm up, Sigi and Jezzie are joined by Allan Matudio, author of the graphic novel " Kasama ". They discuss the first comics they purchased and consumed as young kids. Find out which co-host got very confused about Archie comics. Also, Sigi asks Allan for some recommended reading for our listeners! To learn more about Allan and get your copy of Kasama, go to www.allanmatudio.com and follow...

On this episode, Jezzie and Sigi welcomes Allan Matudio into the virtual Halo Halo Podcast studios to discuss his graphic novel, " Kasama ". Allan shares that his research on the pre-colonial Filipino aesthetic led  to volunteering in his local community. He had learned a lot from his own kasama in Montreal and it brought an urge to share what he had learned with a greater audience. As an illustra...

On the season five premiere, Sigi and Jezzie have a livestreamed talkback session with the writer( Marie Beath Badian ) and director ( Niña Lee Aquino ) of Factory Theatre 's production of " The Waltz ".  On this live recording, with an in-studio audience, Sigi and Jezzie discuss stepping into the Prarieverse and discuss how "The Waltz," a coming-of-age love story under the Saskatchewan Sky, is a...

For this Meryenda Episode, your co-hosts talk calamansi cocktails and close off Season 4 of The Halo Halo Podcast. Sigi and Jezzie take a look back at Season 4 on memorable topics, funniest discussions and  the plethora of guests who graced them with their presence for 2021-2022. Big thank you to all of you listening, elevating and celebrating. Over 19 000 downloads and counting, cannot wait to co...

On this last Taste Test of Season four, Jezzie samples " Trixie Motel ". Find out why Jezzie compares this show to authentic Greek food and how Trixie Mattel and her crew finds ways to integrate themselves into the community of Palm Springs. If you are a die hard Trixie Mattel fan or anyone who would want to venture to Palm Springs, this show may be up your alley.