Episodes
13 hours ago
Episode 611.5 - EGOT Warmup
13 hours ago
13 hours ago
Join Jezzie and Sigi in this warm up and they chart out an alternate universe where they achieve their EGOT status. Find out who plans to win their Emmy hosting a show and who will win their Oscar in the ensemble piece, “Puzzle”. Suspend your disbelief and follow their trails to acquire their EGOT status.
4 days ago
Episode 611 - Oscar 2024 Debrief
4 days ago
4 days ago
The Halo Halo Podcast is back for this month of March in fine pop culture form breaking down the 2024 Oscars. From observing shimmering dresses and shiny male brooches on the red carpet to adjusting to the early start time, Jezzie and Sigi share their hot takes on one of their fave events. Meaningful speeches and flowers from previous Oscar winners got the podcast hosts elated and vibrating from a crowd pleasing Gosling/Slash performance.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Episode 610.5 - Joining (Part 4 of 4 on Social Justice)
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
The Halo Halo Podcast brings back its suite of four Social Justice centered episodes for this month of February. In this fourth and final episode, Jezzie reviews the framework we shared with our listeners to aid them to decipher the value of a social movement. This framework can also serve as a basis to help us engage in a more meaningful fashion as opposed to just superficial engagement. It also means that it takes time, commitment and being a good ally. Good allyship involves:
Being actionable— does what we say match our behaviour ?;
Using your privilege to support those that we are joining in a social movement;
Being okay with being criticized and sometimes embracing the discomfort;
Not expecting the social movement or others to educate you and
Not equating your own struggles with those of the social movement.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Episode 610 - Learning (Teachability, Part 3 of 4 on Social Justice)
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
The Halo Halo Podcast brings back its suite of four Social Justice centered episodes for this month of February. In this third episode, Jezzie guides us in our continued discussion that cultural humility and discernment in joining social movements means not only learning about other cultures, but also learning about ourselves and social systems. This learning is continual and encourages us to be teachable and learn more about the deeper parts of one’s culture. There is a need for us to move away from being ethnocentric to ethnorelative. Striving to do this and being willing to learn about ourselves in an honest fashion and debunking social systems that we are in can help us understand other cultures and histories in an authentic and respectful way, thus make us ultimately teachable.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Episode 609.5 - Humility (Part 2 of 4 on Social Justice)
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
The Halo Halo Podcast brings back its suite of four Social Justice centered episodes for this month of February. In this second episode, the focus is on Cultural Humility. It is first described by Melanie Tervalon, as a mindset which requires us to: learn from others–while honoring those that we learn from; understand and accept the differences we have with others; and be self-reflective and engage in critical self-reflection. Jezzie discusses further that when we adopt a culturally humble stance, we are in a position to then discern.
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Episode 609 - Discernment (Part 1 of 4 on Social Justice)
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
The Halo Halo Podcast brings back its Social Justice centered episodes for this month of February. In this episode the focus is on Discernment on Movements and Counter-movements. Discernment is key to understanding social movements and counter-movements. Jezzie guides a discussion on the meaning of discernment and the need to understanding the arguments behind a movement; not getting swept up in the urgency; questioning information sources and being critical of our own motivations.
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Taste Test of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (Episode 608.625)
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Write Up-On this Taste Test, Sigi goes into the 1999 Pop Culture Movie vault an rewatches The Talented Mr. Ripley. Find out why he would pair this flick with a duo cocktail of gin and sin and a rye and tonic. From the classic direction of Minghella, the beauty of Italy and the talented cast, you will find yourself immersed in this psychological thriller that may have inspired shows like You and movies like Saltburn.
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Episode 608.5 - Deep Cut, Vanity Fair Cover Casting Warmup
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
On this warm up, Sigi and Jezzie dust off old issues of Vanity Fair and revisit the famous Hollywood Issue where ingenues and popular stars graced the cover to promote their movies/shows for the year. They face the imaginary task of being the guest editors and cast the Hollywood 2024 Vanity Fair cover shoot. Find out who is one the list and will land on the cover!
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
On this week’s episode, Sigi and Jezzie remain in the 1999 movie vault and focus on two movies—American Beauty and Cruel Intentions. Later they discuss the “Implications of ‘Bahala Na’”. The pop culture recap gets down to latest with Jezzie and his attendance at two shows of Madonna’s current tour. Find out firsthand about his experience and that this marks the beginning of his own “Madonna tour”—definitely tune in to hear more about various legs of this tour as our dear co-host travels across North America in awe and fandom for his dear Madge.
Join the two co-hosts as they revisit two movies that turn 25 this year. The first being an Academy award winning and ensemble cast that covers themes that haven’t aged well since 1999—American Beauty.The second, inspired by the book and movie, Dangerous Liaisons, set in the upper class neighbourhoods of Manhattan and being a predecessor for shows like Gossip Girl and Euphoria--Cruel Intentions. The conversation laters shifts into the cultural capital topic of “Bahala Na” which has a deterministic idea that things will work out in the end and not to worry—more precisely, don’t care too much about the situation and circumstance. Jezzie discusses where this term originates and where it is well rooted and what kind of difficulties can be encountered when this stance is skewed. Our fixing of the week challenges our listeners to be resourceful when active acceptance of choices are unavailable.
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Taste Test of ”Sixth Sense” (Episode 607.625)
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
On this Taste Test Episode, Jezzie open up the pop culture movie vault of 1999 and re-samples "The Sixth Sense". Serve yourself up with a matcha latté as Jezzie takes us through M. Night Shyamalan’s breakthrough hit “The Sixth Sense” –a psychological thriller starring Bruce Willis, playing child psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Crowe and Hayley Joel Osment, as his troubled patient Cole Seer who apparently talks to dead people. Find out how Jezzie’s revisit to this timeless, unique movie with a well documented twist brought up current themes in 2024.