The Halo Halo Podcast

Taste Test of L Word: Generation Q (Episode 214.625)

While Sigi's on assignment, Chelle takes over co-hosting duties with their Kuya Jezzie on their taste test of the revival of a 2000s queer classic, the L Word: Generation Q.  Both Chelle and Jezzie have their amuse-bouche say on all the original and beloved characters as well as the new cast in tow.  Along the way, Chelle enthusiastically shares their review and personal experience of Ma'am Sir, a Filipino restaurant in Los Angeles, featured in Generation Q.  Later, listen to Jezzie wax on how this gem of a show captures a new wave of California Cool.  Finally, if you can't get enough of analyzing the L Word: Generation Q and want to hear more, head on over to Chelle's podcast, Off The Chart from Xtra.   

Episode 214.5 - The Ultimate 90s Music Quiz

This impromptu warmup has Sigi take Beano's The Ultimate 90s Music Quiz.  As Sigi and Jezzie continue to mine the pop culture vault for 90s Music, find out why this warmup is an impromptu exercise courtesy of Jezzie, and take the quiz to see if you can best Sigi's score!  Good luck!

Episode 214 - 90s Teen Movies and Filipino Copycats

For the entire month of May, your Halo Halo podcast hosts will visit the pop culture vault.  Sigi and Jezzie hope that each visit to the vault will inspire you to consume pop culture classics in any unbudgeted time that you might have found as we all adjust temporarily to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In this foray to the vault, they reach in and dissect 90s teen movies as smart sendups of old classics.  From "10 Things I hate about you" to "My Own Private Idaho," they reminisce on how each one of these fresh takes on old classics, become a classic in their own right.  Later, they analyze how gaya-gaya (copycatting) in the Filipino culture is a double-edged sword, but find a way to understand this behaviour positively with a twist of its own.
In the Mix this Week: 
Wikipedia entry on "The Rooms",
Art for Kids Hub,
"Clueless" ImDB Entry,
"Cruel Intentions" Trailer,
"Romeo + Juliet" Trailer,

Taste of "From Rufio to Zuko" (Episode 213.625)

Before we finish this month of podcasts and head to the pop culture vault for the month of May, Sigi cleanses our palates with a taste test of Dante Basco's "From Rufio to Zuko."  Sigi reviews how this straightforward and unapologetic memoir shares important wisdom that this Filipino American actor and poet has learned in his career thusfar.
In this Taste Test:
Banagrang- The Prequel to Hook on You Tube, Rufio origin story,
ImDB's entry on "Hook",
ImDB's entry on "The Debut",
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)

Episode 213.5 - Small Town Warmup Quiz

Continuing with our love letter theme to Schitt's Creek and all things related to village life, we expand our ode, in this Reader's Digest Quiz, where Sigi takes Jezzie through a national Canadian tour of small towns with strange names.  Find out which ones Jezzie gets right, and which small town is right near where Sigi grew up.  Play along and tell us how you do an all our socials.  Have fun!

Episode 213 - Open Love Letter to Schitt's Creek

Here, at Halo Halo, we ADORE Schitt's Creek!  This is our love letter to the entire made-in-Canada, six-season series.  This well-told study of Canadiana life and the riches-to-rags, urban, elitist family finding itself in the unlikely setting of Schitt's Creek, is a breath of fresh air on the pop culture landscape. Listen to your co-hosts delight in the wonderful themes and comedy explored in this gem of a show.  Later, Sigi and Jezzie unpack the colonial legacy and adopted value of mañana time and rethink it as a call to enjoy what we have today.  
 In the Mix this Week: 
Wikipedia Entry on "Community",
Amazon's "Making the Cut",
ABC's "Modern Family",
ImDB's Entry on Cameron Crowe,

Taste Test on "RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12" (Episode 212.625)

Halo Halo Listeners get a double treat with a double taste test by both Jezzie and Sigi on the most current offering of RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 12.  Listen in on how this bubble gum season is not only chewy and poppy, but also familiar and yet tangy.  Enjoy!

Episode 212.5 - Drag Lingo Quiz Warmup

Halo Halo Listeners!  Start your engine, and may the best quiz-taker win!  Take this test with Sigi and see if you can pass with flying colours.  Jezzie finds out how much Sigi has studied RuPaul's Drag Race and quizzes him on drag lingo from the Glossary of Drag Terms from Enter the Queendom.  And snaps to those that get a dusted mark, and we hope this warmup gives you life! Okurrrr!!!

Episode 212 - The Kiki and T(olerance) on Drag Race

Halo Halo listeners, start your engines!  Your co-hosts kiki on RuPaul's Drag Race and dissect how its creator has not only created an industrial complex on the art form of drag, but promoted a cultural movement on self-love and authenticity.  Later, they discuss Traditional Filipino views on the silent tolerance of homosexuality, and discuss how finding another person's humanity as the key to accepting diversity.
 In the Mix this Week: 
ImDB's entry on "High Fidelity" TV Series,
ImDB's entry on "Little Fires Everywhere",
Amazon Prime's "Hunters" trailer,
ImDB's entry on "The Man in the High Castle",
RuPaul and Milton Berle incident 1993 MTV Music Awards,
Photographer explores Filipino 'bakla' culture,

Taste Test on CNN's "Unseen Enemy" (Episode 211.625)

On this taste test, Jezzie gets the honest and enlivened truth from CNN's "Unseen Enemy" 2017 documentary on the lurking viruses and bacteria that may lead to the next global pandemic.  Like the lozenges, Fisherman's Friend, this documentary makes the sharp point that battling the next pandemic will take more than just a super vaccine and quarantine measures.  Take care of yourselves and the most vulnerable around us.