The Halo Halo Podcast

Episode 619.5 - Lunchpail Snacks Warmup

On this warm up, Sigi is inspired while making lunches for his kids and ask what school-aged Sigi and Jezzie list out their top 3 snacks in their lunchboxes. So as they discuss their “baon” find out which treats topped their list!

Episode 619 - Abbott Elementary (Back to School Collection)

The Halo Halo Podcast is back to tie up Season 6! After a summer of adventures to East Coast Canada, casinos and concert combos, soaking up the sun and sharing some new pop culture indulgences, the co-hosts are back to school this fall and fawn over Abbott Elementary. They discuss what attracts them to the award winning hit network sitcom which leads to Jezzie pondering about learning about Filipino Excellence growing up. Further he encourages to educate Filipino Canadian youth around us about Filipino successes.

Episode 618.5 - A Question in three parts Warmup (Part 2) with Filipino Public Servants Network

To wrap up Filipino Heritage Month, here is Part Two of this warm up! Jezzie and Sigi welcome Diyyinah and Carlo from the Filipino Public Servants Network (FSPN) into the Halo Halo Podcast virtual studios to play “A Question in 3 Parts” and the co-hosts and guests reflect on what makes them Filipino Canadian. Listen in as they dive into this ice breaker and find their commonalities and discover their personal thoughts behind these questions.

Episode 618 - Filipino Public Servants Network (Part 2)

It’s June and in honour of Filipino Heritage month in Canada, we are showcasing Filipino Canadians who elevate and celebrate our community.  Last episode we brought into the Halo Halo Podcast Studios Diyannah and Carlo from the Filipino Public Servants Network who shared their story of how the FPSN was founded.  In Part Two with the FPSN we spend more time talking about how they recruited for the Network and later on in this episode we find out their thoughts on lateral mentorship.  
What are you waiting for? Download and put on those earbuds to find out how Diyyinah went old school and cold called people and maybe hear Sigi ask Carlo to share a little of his Texas accent.
If you’re a current federal public servant of Filipino descent, and want to know more about the FPSN send an email at fpsn.rfp@gmail.com for a monthly newsletter and regularly scheduled events. You can find FPSN on GCxchange and GCpedia, as well as on their Facebook group.

Episode 617.5 - A Question in three parts Warmup (Part 1) with Filipino Public Servants Network

On this warm up, Jezzie and SIgi welcome Diyyinah and Carlo from the Filipino Public Servants Network (FSPN) into the Halo Halo Podcast virtual studios to get their get voices ready for their full two-part episode. They play “A Question in 3 Parts” and the co-hosts and guests reflect on what makes them Filipino, and Canadian. Listen in as they dive into this ice breaker and find their commonalities and discover their personal thoughts behind these questions.
If you’re a current federal public servant of Filipino descent, and want to know more about the FPSN send an email at fpsn.rfp@gmail.com for a monthly newsletter and regularly scheduled events. You can find FPSN on GCxchange and GCpedia, as well as on their Facebook group.

Episode 617 - Filipino Public Servants Network (Part 1)

Since it is June and Filipino Heritage Month, The Halo Halo Podcast elevates and celebrates the Filipino Public Servants Network (FPSN) in a special  TWO PART full episodes dropping this month!  In Part One: Jezzie and Sigi welcome Diyyinah Jamora and Carlo Carandang to the virtual studios to create the “Canada sandwich” with all four of them podcasting from Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. The co-hosts dive into Diyyinah’s and Carlo’s immigration stories and follow their paths beginning in Vancouver (Diyyinah) and Texas (Carlo) to the Public Service.  From reveling in the fact that both of our guests worked in stores where their families sold Filipino snacks, Diyyinah shares how the FSPN came into fruition.  Download Part One of this episode now! Stay tuned for Part Two in 2 weeks!
If you’re a current federal public servant of Filipino descent, and want to know more about the FPSN send an email at fpsn.rfp@gmail.com for a monthly newsletter and regularly scheduled events. You can find FPSN on GCxchange and GCpedia, as well as on our Facebook group.

Episode 616.5 - Gossip folk warmup

On this warm up, Jezzie and Sigi hold their cups of tea and rhyme out their top 3 gossip folks in pop culture. Find out who cites Alec Mapa and Jacob Ben Israel in their top 3. They dedicate this warm up to their two real life gossip folk in their friend group–you know who you are because your hair is so big because it is filled with secrets. XOXO.

Episode 616 - Mean Girls 2004 vs. 2024 & the Value of Tsismis

On this episode Jezzie and Sigi dive into a compare and contrast of Mean Girls 2004 and the Mean Girls Musical 2024, but before they jump into all things fetch and the allure of Regina George, they discuss Jezzie’s Monorail Bar Crawl in Vegas, Rachel Zegler in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Filipino Lords in Bridgerton Season 3. As they share notes on Tina Fey’s classic 20 year old staple and the newly released movie based on the musical, they revel in an amazing cast, cameos and debate elaborate shownumbers. Later the co-hosts discuss gossip and that in Filipino culture scholars suggest there is gossip and tsismis. Jezzie shares the two-fold value of this concept and observes how it sometimes begs for information and resources to be shared so someone can benefit.

Episode 615.5 - Who's Your Mother Warmup

This warm up has both co-hosts share their top 3 pop culture moms. Jezzie also gives Sigi a vocabulary lesson about the ballroom origin of the term “mother.” Find out who tops their lists of sitcom, musical and reality tv moms.

Episode 615 - Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again and Filipina Matriarchy

For this month, The Halo Halo Podcast tailored the set of upcoming eps to a Maternal May. Jezzie and Sigi go into the pop culture vault to revisit Mamma Mia the musical, movie and the sequel. Listen in as Jezzie suspends his disbelief and revels in the jukebox musical while Sigi litters the convo with consistent “WHAT IS HAPPENING?!” After much discussion on the Meryl Streep of it all, Amanda Seyfried’s dewy face, the classiness of Christine Baranski and Cher wandering into the movie, the convo shifts to mothers and motherhood. Jezzie references Wilfred Galila’s essay on the “Power of Pinays” where he discusses how pre-colonial and before the arrival of the Spanish, Philippine Society was seen as Matriarchal. Further, Jezzie discusses the power shared by Filipina Women in the diaspora is a quiet power. 
The fixing of the week encourages Halo Halo Listeners to celebrate the Filipina Women in our lives and happy mothers’ day to our mothers!