The Halo Halo Podcast

Episode 410 - Calling In vs Calling Out as Community Care

In this third part of this year's Halo-Halo Podcast's Four-part Collection on Social Justice, your co-hosts continue their meditation on community care, and discuss how calling out and then calling in can be a more interventionist approach to taking care of communities in need.  Listen in on how Sigi asks Jezzie to outline and define what calling out and calling in entails, and the differences between these two ways of intervening on biased and oppressive comments.  Later, Jezzie outlines how oppressive comments can take the form of microaggressions, microinsults, microassaults and microinvalidations.  Despite the tension that calling in and calling out can make, Jezzie reminds us that it may be okay to irritate.  
In the Mix:
Calling In Vs. Calling: How to Talk about Inclusion

Episode 409.5 - Buycotting as a form of Community Care

In this second part of this year's Halo-Halo Podcast's Four-part Collection on Social Justice, your co-hosts explore how ethical consumerism, brand activism and buycotting are daily, informed ways of taking care of communities that you support or champion.  Jezzie recounts the history of how buycotting has been a form of political action since the 1990s and how today these daily buying choices can add up to make a difference in supporting and caring for communities in need.  Later, Sigi brings us up to speed on Filipina/x/o businesses and enterprises where our patronage can show them that we care.  As we mention in this episode Halo Halo Listeners, check out the following Instagram accounts:
For The Groggy Owl: @thegroggyowl, @sarah.dizonsowinski
For Entrepinayship: @entrepinayship, @foundher.podcast
For Filipinos of Montreal: @filipinosofmontreal, @sharimramos, @terrie.reyes, @feliciano_je  Check out their post on #supportyourfriends2022

Episode 409 - Community Care

Every February at the Halo Halo Podcast we devote our episodes to Social Justice.  To kick off this year's four-part collection, we build on last year's concepts of self-care by Jezzie outlining how we all need to practice some community care before we can expect ourselves or others to engage in proper self-care.  Later your co-hosts talk about how community care is not a new notion to the Filipino community.  Rather, community care is really just bayanihan and that perhaps maybe North America and Westernized nations could learn from Filipinos on how to substantively engage in taking care of one another.

Taste Test of the ”Tender Bar” (Episode 408.625)

Khristia continues to guest as co-host as she spells off Sigi while away on assignment, and helps lead her Kuya Jezzie through his taste test of the "Tender Bar".  As Jezzie savours this Amazon Studio offering, listen in on how he likens this movie to a trip down memory lane with a cross-border chocolate candy haul to boot!  Like a Nestle Crunch, the "Tender Bar" has sweet moments of childhood along with crisp lessons about life, love and becoming confident in your career. Enjoy!

Episode 408.5 - Truancy Warmup with Khristia

As Sigi is on assignment for the remainder of this month, Khristia continues to take over as co-host and warmups with her Kuya Jezzie to take on this truancy warmup for the Halo Halo Podcast.   Find out from these two unassuming hosts which one impersonated an adult to get a fellow sibling to skip school, and who, like Ferris Bueller on his day off, joined a parade.  Find out these facts and much more on this episode! 

Episode 408 - Revisiting 80s Teenage Delinquency Films and the Scenic Route

On this visit back to the pop culture vault, the Halo Halo Podcast visit 80s Teenage Delinquency films with educator and special guest co-host Khristia (while Sigi is away on assignment) alongside your very own Jezzie.  Listen in on how your co-hosts for this episode are rule-based learners, and are ironically poised to discuss two of John Hughes' films all-time classics, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "The Breakfast Club."  Listen in on how they learned from these films to be mindful as well as to be kind to others, because you never know what others might be facing in the background!  Later, they talk about the value of taking the scenic route for your career and education, how you're never too old to keep on learning, and that the its the direction that counts, and not the destination!  Bueller? Sigi? Buller? Sigi?    

Taste Test of ”Emily in Paris” Season 2 (Episode 407.625)

On this week’s Halo Halo Taste Test Episode—Jezzie and Sigi sample "Emily in Paris" Season 2, now streaming on Netflix. Find out why your co-hosts would pair this show with Filipino fruit salad and a Jack Astor’s milkshake. If you want to escape to see a show with a gorgeous colour palette of fashion, to hear amazing music from Mean Girls Broadway star—Ashley Park or to crush on some beautiful French actors and actresses--this is the show for you! Play 'Mon Soleil' and listen in!

Episode 407.5 - ’On Trend’ Warmup

On this 'On Trend' Warm Up Jezzie and Sigi recounts some trends they followed from their teens. Jezzie shares a poignant and touching story about his father and trying to attain a personal career goal. Sigi taps into his 13 year old self and revels in his Lola making a special purchase for him when he played tennis. Put on that Ralph Lauren polo, Tretorns and let’s search for a posh tennis club in the late 80’s!

Episode 407 - Revisiting 90s Supermodels and the Pinoy Touch

The Co-Hosts of the Halo Halo Podcast start 2022 by going back to the vault for the month of January. Jezzie and Sigi revisit 90s Supermodels.  So play some Freedom 90, take out those Herb Ritts inspired photos and you better work! After some gushing over Cindy, Linda, Christy and Naomi, the co-hosts talk about some Filipino fashion designers that catch their eye—Cara Sumabat, Mark Tumang, Francis Librian and Zaldy. Each designer manages to add their own Pinoy Touch and our fixing of the week encourages that whatever you create, ask yourself how can you add you own Pinoy Touch?

Episode 406.75- Meryenda on San Miguel Beer

On this Mereyenda Episode of The Halo Halo Podcast, Jezzie quenches his palette and talks about San Miguel—the iconic and number one selling beer in the Philippines. Along with Sigi, the co-hosts toast pop culture highlights as the close out 2021. Happy New Year and Maligayang Bagong Taon from The Halo Halo Podcast! Here’s to many more episodes coming in 2022!