The Halo Halo Podcast

Episode 709.5 - A Simile Warmup with Chelle

Chelle Turingan (Jezzie’s cousin and creator of the Halo Halo Podcast theme music) joins Sigi and Jezzie in the Halo Halo Podcast virtual studios for Filipino Canadian Heritage Month. On this warm up–SIMILE, the trio looks for parallels to the phrase, American as apple pie in three parts. Find out who is like, poutine, lumpia, pandesal and a gallivanting teen. This warm up will get your taste buds going!
Chelle’s documentary Small Town Pride (@smalltownpridedoc) will be screened  @hotdocs in Toronto on Friday June 27, 2025  Check it out and it is available on CBC Gem.
For more about this creative, follow them on insta @chelleturingan.

Episode 709 - Spotlight on Chelle Turingan

Since It is June and Filipino Canadian Heritage Month and The Halo Halo Podcast invites and spotlights some Filipino Canadian creatives to the virtual studios. Chelle Turingan, Jezzie’s cousin and creator of The Halo Halo Podcast theme music joins Sigi and Jezzie in the virtual studios. The trio jumps right into a pop culture catch up to discuss Bond Themes, Hacks, Severance and the new Drag Race format. Later, Chelle shares their career journey and how being a storyteller and their intersectionality plays a pivotal role in their creative process. They encourage listeners to, “Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
Chelle’s documentary Small Town Pride (@smalltownpridedoc) will be screened  @hotdocs in Toronto on Friday June 27, 2025  Check it out and it is available on CBC Gem.
For more about this creative, follow them on insta @chelleturingan.

Episode 708.5 - Audition Tea Warmup

Audition Tea! As Sigi muses about musical, he coaxes Jezzie to share some tea about an audition story from the Halo Halo Podcast Host vault. Listen in on this fun warm up where Jezzie peels back a layer and shares some memories involving showing potential at a musical audition and behind the scenes on a tv show!

Episode 708 - Filipinos Take Over Broadway & Sing!

As Jezzie and Sigi wrap up Musical May, they dive into Filipinos Taking Over Broadway. On their pop culture catch up they rave over Hacks-Season 4, Thunderbolts, Prime Target, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and what Kellyanne Conway is up to. They segue into their Broadway ep from an earlier season and how Lea Salonga, their queen has found her way back to Broadway and in addition many Filipinos taking over “The Great White Way.” They revel over the representation in  7 musicals with Filipino leads and several who also happen to be Tony nominated. Jezzie sums up how the Filipino language as sonorant and encourages listeners to ‘Sing you heritage.’

Episode 707.5 - Turn it Up Warmup!

On this warm up, your hosts turn up the volume and share their top three bangers that make them sing at the top of their lungs in the car. From hairography from Gaga, bittersweet feelings from Olivia, feeling the fantasy with Ariana, Madonna and ‘being a sheep in wolf’s clothing’ with the Odds, the co-host take you through their top 3!

Episode 707 - Kylie Minogue's Tension Tour & Community Care

The Halo Halo Podcast enters the Month of May with a Musical Theme. On this episode Jezzie recounts his Kylie Minogue experience. He recounts his amazing spectacle and how, “Say Something” really touches on community care. Further Jezzie guides the discussion on how the Filipino Community understands community care because of our values especially during the events of The Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver. Community Care entails collective responsibility, mutual aid, and being relationship and social justice centered. We encourage our listeners to listen to ‘Say Something’ by Kylie Minogue but more importantly heed its call and help each other and help the community.

Episode 706.5 - Kindness (Part 4 of 4 on Social Justice)

For our Social Justice episodes this April we decided to focus on the Values of the Halo Halo Podcast in a  four part series, Bravery/Courage, Grace, Kindness and Generosity. On the fourth and final episode,  Jezzie and Sigi discuss the how the previously discussed values set us up to be kind. As they take a deep look of what does it mean to be kind and how it is much deeper than being ‘nice’. As they take a moment of introspection, Jezzie and Sigi discuss examples of kindness in their own life and sharely warm their pop culture examples which include Some Good News, Good Hang Podcast, reluctant Jedi-master Obi Wan Kenobi and Hiccup Haddock from How to Train Your Dragon. For our fixing we ask our listeners, “How do you bestow kindness to others?”

Episode 706 - Generosity (Part 3 of 4 on Social Justice)

For our Social Justice episodes this April we decided to focus on the Values of the Halo Halo Podcast in a  four part series, Bravery/Courage, Grace, Kindness and Generosity. On the third episode of this four part series, Jezzie and Sigi discuss the value of Generosity and how it is  not only about giving but also working from a space of cooperation. They discuss the bayanihan spirit and pop culture models of generosity including Dolly Parton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Good Will Hunting and Pose. For this fixing this week, we ask listeners,  ‘How can you be generous to others?’

Episode 705.6 - Grace (Part 2 of 4 on Social Justice)

For our Social Justice episodes this April, we decided to focus on the Values of The Halo Halo Podcast in a four part series, Bravery/Courage, Grace, Kindness and Generosity.
 
On this second episode of this four part series, Jezzie and Sigi discuss the value of  Grace and how to allow people to take up space. Upon further discussion and searching for pop culture examples they revisit their favourite series– Ted Lasso and Schitts Creek. For the fixing of the week, we ask listeners, ‘How do you provide grace to others?’

Episode 705 - Bravery & Courage (Part 1 of 4 on Social Justice)

For our Social Justice episodes this April, we decided to focus on the Values of The Halo Halo Podcast in a four part series, Bravery/Courage, Grace, Kindness and Generosity.
On this episode, Bravery/Courage, Jezzie and Sigi explore this value and discuss the contrast of the two. The delve deeper and look to examples in fiction, Hunger Games and Harry Potter which illustrate characters exhibiting these values in extraordinary circumstances. For the fixing of the week, we ask listeners, ‘How do you summon your courage?’