Episodes

Monday Oct 22, 2018
Episode 103.5 - Identity and Identify
Monday Oct 22, 2018
Monday Oct 22, 2018
Here's your extra helping of the Halo Halo Podcast, as we map ourselves onto pop culture and ask the questions of who do I identify with or which identity would I take on? Play along with us and tell us who you would be? Who we identify with tell us so much about ourselves and what we value. Find out which one of us would be the stylish one, and who would gladly be the sidekick!
In this extra helping:
Optimus Prime,
Tygra of Thundercats,
Balki Bartokomous of "Perfect Strangers",

Friday Oct 19, 2018
Episode 103 - The Meta Episode and What's in your Box?
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Welcome to our Meta episode! Before we podcast about podcasts, we learn about the recent Tornados that tore through the Ottawa Region and find out that we can help through our financial donations at the Red Cross (Donations can be made online and provide victims of the storm hot meals or call 1-800-418-1111). We contemplate what house at Hogwarts that Sigi would be in and then look at what podcasts that we are both listening to on our media devices or digitial boxes. We list the podcasts that we adore, analyze their greatness and explore what they say about us. Finally, we take a personal examination of the balikbayan boxes and also analyze and explore what they mean to us and the broader Filipino-Canadian Community. We open up how the balikbayan boxes are a call to not only visit the Philippines as an opportunity to learn, but to share the wealth that any overseas Filipino may have gained.
In the Mix this Week:
Balikbayan Box,
Late Night Whenever with Michelle Buteau,
How I Built This,
Good Job Brain,
Anna Faris is Unqualified,
Black Men Can’t Jump,
How Did This Get Made,
Fresh Batch with Michelle Collins,
Nerdist (pre drama),
Aisha Tyler's Girl on Guy (cancelled),
Pop My Culture (cancelled),
NYT’s Still processing,
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour,
Tom & Lorenzo’s Popstyle Opinionfest,
RuPaul: What’s the Tea with Michelle Visage,
CBC Radio’s Power and Politics,
Vox’s Borders

Monday Oct 08, 2018
Episode 102.5 - Agree/Disagree or Believe/Disbelieve
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Here's your extra helping of the Halo Halo Podcast--Thanksgiving Edition! Listen in on our behind the scenes warmup, where we play the forced-choice game: Agree/Disagree or Believe/Disbelieve. Play along with us in this wishbone-of-a-game, as we take sides on the better Shonda Rhimes show, who has the best coffee, and the better Canadian Season. Happy Thanksgiving!
In this extra helping:
Carrie Underwood's duet with Keith Urban "The Fighter",
Celine in Las Vegas,
Shonda Rhimes' "Scandal",
McCafe, McDonald's Coffee,
Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Friday Oct 05, 2018
Episode 102 - To All the Filipino Canadians We Love!
Friday Oct 05, 2018
Friday Oct 05, 2018
In our Thanksgiving Episode, we unpack the stuffing and goodness in Netflix's "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" staring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. We reminisce about the predecessor's to this gem of a movie and remember the films of John Hughes (e.g., "The Breakfast Club," 16 Candles," and "Pretty in Pink"). We find out that Jezzie likes triple-fried adobo and that turkey stuffing gives you currency at the watercooler or the playground, on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving day. Finally, we process how "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" stands apart (and different) from the other movies in the young adult genre, take an initial look at the diffences among Filipino Canadians, and celebrate how we are not a monolithic community. Happy Thanksgiving!
In the Mix this Week:
To All The Boys I've Loved Before,
John Hughes' IMBD entry,
Filipino Canadians,
Domestic Worker Program

Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Surprise! Here'a an extra helping of the Halo Halo Podcast. Here's a behind the scenes listen to our warmup before we start our podcast. Enjoy our silly banter, Sigi seranading us (i.e., you've been warned), our dream to see Bali and podcast from there, plus we wax and wane about 1993. Also, how would you spend a million dollars?
In this extra helping:
19 Day Cruise from Singapore, via Bali to Sydney,
Madonna & Prince's "Love Song",
Vulture - Entertainment News - TV, Movies, Music, Books, Theater, Art,
Detroit Become Human Video Game,
New York Times,
Lotto Max. Play Responsibly!

Friday Sep 28, 2018
Episode 101 - Fall TV, Superstore and We're Immigrants Here
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Friday Sep 28, 2018
On this premiere episode of the Halo Halo podcast, we introduce and explore halo halo, not only as a unique Filipino desert, but a model of cultural identity. We also review what we are looking forward to TV watching this fall and unpack the genius of “Superstore.” We gush, a little bit, on Nico Santos and recognize that all settlers need to acknowledge that we are all immigrants. We also challenge any cultural amnesia that the dominant culture might have and remind listeners that we are more than enough when it comes to debunking the deficit model of being Filipino Canadian.
In the Mix this Week:
"Beautiful Boy",
Stars Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet Become Award Contenders,
Charles Michael Davis from the “Originals” and fellow Filipino ,
Find “Superstore” here,
The last Blockbuster Video Store,
Land Acknowledgements