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Each week, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness take you on a journey.

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Season 3 Episode 99

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/12/26

Original Air Date: Monday 25 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: Making every Monday night merry and bright since before many of you were even born, your friends in podcasting and broadcasting hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Christmas. Unless you don't celebrate Christmas, in which case, Dean and Phil hope you are having an awesome Monday! Among the many topics to be enjoyed in this week’s audio stocking stuffer are an honor being bestowed upon one of the most important directors of "The

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Season 3 Episode 98

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/12/19

Original Air Date: Monday 18 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: Is Dean’s Detroit-adjacent neighborhood of Birmingham, Michigan a winter wonderland? What are bath bombs? What is conveyor belt sushi? These are just some of the pressing questions answered by your friends in podcasting (and broadcasting) at the outset of this week’s show, before they get down to the business of remembering a founding member of Moody Blues and Wings, an Emmy-winning TV cop, a 1960s TV star-turned-casting

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Season 3 Episode 97

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2023/12/12

Original Air Date: Monday 11 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week’s show begins with a mea culpa to those of you who actually listen to the show in podcast form. After that, your friends in podcasting and broadcasting follow up on last week's "What We're Reading" with amazing tales of the Knights of Malta and of the great artist Caravaggio's time in Malta. Then the Hall & Oates "Lawsuit of the Week" gets revisited and clarified, before loyal listener Maurice Terenzio sets Dean

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Season 3 Episode 96

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/12/05

Original Air Date: Monday 4 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week marks the 4th anniversary of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour moving to live broadcasts, which you can find Monday night’s at 9 pm Eastern on Subspace Radio (http://subspace.radio) and the I Heart Radio app. Dean & Phil celebrate this milestone by bringing back the "Live Event of the Week" (involving Phil scaring children!), "Celebrity Deaths" (wherein an award-winning filmmaker, a legendary actress, a groundbreaking

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Season 3 Episode 95

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2023/11/28

Original Air Date: Monday 27 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: The night before Thanksgiving, Dean and Phil met high atop a certain “historic building in downtown Los Angeles” for a very thoughtful conversation about gratitude, authenticity, a Japanese tea house, three restaurants in Malta, an American cemetery in Tuscany, Veterans Day, and yes, even Hall & Oates (in the return of “Lawsuit of the Week”). It’s heartfelt, its hilarious, it’s your friends in podcasting (and broadcasting) at

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Season 3 Episode 94

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/11/21

Original Air Date: Monday 20 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: Phil is back from his continental adventures and he and Dean actually got together in person on the mean-streets (and rooftops) of Los Feliz to have lunch and record this week’s show! Hear all about Dean’s epic improv performance in San Jose, Popeye Village in Malta, the Blue Lagoon in Comino, jellyfish stings, the movies Showing Up and Five Nights at Freddy’s, and learn why Dean and Phil think the recently negotiated SAG-Aftra

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Season 3 Episode 93

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2023/11/14

Original Air Date: Monday 13 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: Because Phil is still traveling in Europe, this week's episode is a very special show. Several weeks back, Slate published a "hit piece" on the comedic actor Martin Short, questioning his talent, his career, and accusing him of being nothing but annoying (while also acknowledging that he might just be the most genuinely decent and kind person in show business). Many people have weighed in and come to Martin Short's defense since

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Season 3 Episode 92

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/11/07

Original Air Date: Monday 7 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: Phil is in Malta. Before he left, he sent Dean an itinerary of his trip. Dean was aghast. That itinerary was a jam-packed 7 pages of information about travel, accommodations, meals, beverages, sites and activities. On this week’s show, recorded prior to departure, Phil sat still long enough to answer Dean’s questions about the trip.

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Season 3 Episode 91

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/10/31

Original Air Date: Monday 30 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week, in honor of the spooky season, you will find your friends in podcasting and broadcasting in fine form, discussing one of Dean's favorite horror films, the Swedish silent classic Haxan, and because nothing is spookier it seems than AI, they also discuss the recent sci-fi epic The Creator, and this summer's Mission: Impossible entry. Phil predicted what he think is going to happen in the coming hours/days regarding the

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Season 3 Episode 90

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/10/24

Original Air Date: Monday 23 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: As we approach Halloween, the spooky and the scary are foremost on the minds of Dean and Phil, and we aren't just talking about the actors' negotiations with the giant media companies! Of course, your friends in broadcasting and podcasting DO talk about those negotiations, but they also discuss such spooky films as the 1980s vampires-with-great-hair spectacle The Lost Boys, the influential Ingmar Bergman classic The Magician, the

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Season 3, Episode 89

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/10/17

Original Air Date: Monday 16 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean (in Detroit) and Phil (in Los Angeles) celebrate the lives of three amazing women: Performer-turned-novelist Echo Brown, Pilot-turned-architect Beverly Willis, and Detroit's very own screen legend Piper Laurie. The latest implosion in the negotiations between the actors and the studios gets discussed, analyzed, and what it means for TV and Film production gets predicted. Where television is concerned, your friends in

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Season 3 Episode 88

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/10/10

Original Air Date: Monday 9 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week's Canadian Thanksgiving installment features follow-ups on several topics from past episodes: Are the most important pop culture figures of the last quarter of the 20th century all named "David"? Why is contemporary art so abundant with creativity and so full of joy? What are some of the most thrilling aspects of Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia? And speaking of Savannah, why is The Pirate House so darn haunting

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Season 3, Episode 87

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/10/03

Original Air Date: Monday 2 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week’s show covers a lot of ground thematically AND geographically! The death of João Donato takes us to Brasil and the era of bossa nova. The death of Dianne Feinstein takes us back to San Francisco of 1978. The death of Jane Birkin inspires discussion of her daughters, fashion, Hercule Poirot, Dirk Bogarde, and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania! And the death of Sir Michael Gambon inspires Phil to get up on his soapbox railing

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Season 3 Episode 86

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2023/09/26

Original Air Date: Monday 25 September, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean was still battling Covid and Phil was heading to Savannah, Georgia, so this week's installment of was recorded several days early. In it, Dean offers suggestions to Phil of sites he should visit in the Hostess City of the South and Phil regales Dean with the history of the place where he would be staying. Dean and Phil preview what they expected to happen in the ongoing labor strife in Hollywood. A deep discussion of improv

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Season 3 Episode 85

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/09/19

Original Air Date: Monday 18 September, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean came back from PhileFest with a case of the Covid-19 and rumors about the forthcoming reboot of "The X-Files". Phil questions him about both! Phil also asks about a potential guest on a forthcoming show, before sharing a story of how Ann Arbor, Michigan was named for a family member. Last week's discussion of some great contemporary Japanese cinema leads to a follow-up about Japan's entry into this year's Academy Awards

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Season 3 Episode 84

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2023/09/12

Original Air Date: Monday 11 September, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week’s show spans three weeks, three cities, and three different time zones. It starts with a conversation about the Detroit Institute of Art and the “Murder She Wrote” board game, recorded in Birmingham, Michigan, during a terrifying storm. It continues with a conversation recorded for last week’s show about a message Dean received from a fan and about Phil’s enjoyment of the FX revival series “Justified: City Primeval”. Then,

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Season 3 Episode 83

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2023/09/05

Original Air Date: Monday 4 September, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week's Season episode is quite the mélange and it begins with a cold open featuring a musical duet recorded late at night in Dean's Motor City-adjacent home last week while Phil was visiting. Then, it is back to the "now" with Dean previewing his forthcoming trip to Minneapolis for a convention celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The X-Files” and Phil reveals the challenges he faced getting home from Detroit. Then, Phil

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Season 3 Episode 82

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/08/29

Original Air Date: Monday 28 August, 9 pm Eastern Description: This past week, your friends in podcasting & broadcasting were reunited in Michigan. You can hear all about the tour Dean gave Phil of some of his Detroit stomping grounds, and their neighboring environs. You can learn about the Mandela Effect. You can get your taste buds watering as you discover the joys of Detroit pizza and home-made ginger ale. You can recoil in horror at both the latest behavior by the AMPTP and the studio

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Season 3 Episode 81

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/08/22

Original Air Date: Monday 21 August, 9 pm Eastern Description: Pop quiz: What show features discussions about the great Motown artist Barrett strong, founding member of The Eagles Randy Meisner, Tony Bennett, Pee-wee Herman, the director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, a rock musical parody of The Exorcist, Dean’s final (?) “X-Files” improv (at a forthcoming “X-Files” convention), and the classic comedy films of Jacques Tati? Answer: This week's brand new Season 3 Episode 81 of YOUR

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Season 3 Episode 80

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2023/08/15

Original Air Date: Monday 14 August, 9 pm Eastern Description: This weekend, Dean and Phil recorded one VERY LONG conversation that will be edited into the next two installments of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. The next time they record, they will be together in Dean's Motor City-adjacent stomping grounds! This week, you will hear your friends in broadcasting and podcasting discussing the new cinematic releases Medusa Deluxe, Afire and Barbie as well as a new Taiwanese film on Netflix (Marry

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