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

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Season 3 Episode 40

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/11/08

Original Air Date: Monday 7 October, 9 pm EasternDescription:This week’s show opens with a brief interview with one of the stars of a "Live Event of the Week". Dean is in Washington, D.C. and he gives a full report on one of the most beautiful road trip sights he has seen and an exhibit at the National Gallery focusing on Joseph Singer Sargent. Phil has just returned from his (penultimate?) trip to Turlock to finalize "family business" and he is in an exhausted, tormented, philosophical mood,

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Season 3 Episode 39

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/11/01

Original Air Date: Monday 31 October, 9 pm EasternDescription:Happy Halloween! Come trick-or-treating with Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness as they take a cinematic tour of “Horrorville USA”, the new nickname Phil has coined for Detroit! Several horror films get discussed, including the current Detroit-set shocker Barbarian as well as non-Detroit-based classics like The Leopard Man and Séance on a Wet Afternoon. Dean has started watching HBO's "Avenue 5" and he finds that scary! Phil also weighs in on

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Season 3 Episode 38

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/10/25

Original Air Date: Monday 24 October, 9 pm EasternDescription:A cold open about the horror classic (?) Phantasm gets the ball rolling on a fascinating, funny, free-wheeling conversation between Dean and Phil about such topics as Dean’s forthcoming creative endeavors, Phil’s stressful experience judging a costume competition, the ongoing Los Angeles city council scandal and the difference between “representing” and “reflecting”. A message from someone very close to Dean about the most recent Palme

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Season 3 - Episode 37

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/10/18

Original Air Date: Monday 17 October, 9 pm EasternDescription:Dean is getting into the spirit of Halloween, Phil is dressing up in steam punk to judge a fashion show, and they are both curious about Jim Thorpe PA, and they talk about all of this! The death of Nikki Finke inspires a celebration and analysis of the Deadline Hollywood website that was her creation and a discussion of a recent headline on the site about ageism in Hollywood. In "Celebrity Deaths", Phil rants about people claiming anyone

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Season 3 - Episode 36

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/10/10

Original Air Date: Monday 3 October, 9 pm EasternDescription:During this week’s cold open, Dean and Phil finish up their discussion of Marlon Brando and Jack Lemmon, offering up some final movie recommendations. Phil is back after a lengthy trip to the east coast and he returns with tales of a Shakespeare Theater production about Leonardo Da Vinci and thoughts inspired by Hurricane Ian about how human beings become fixated on the statistically anomalous and he also shares with Dean the exciting way

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Season 3 Episode 35

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/10/04

Original Air Date: Monday 3 October, 9 pm EasternDescription:After another hilarious cold open, Dean and Phil briefly discuss the actors George C. Scott and William Shatner, the time their careers intersected, and how memory might have played a role in their careers. Then, it's a deep dive into the careers of two of the most accomplished screen stars of the 2nd half of the 20th Century: Marlon Brando and Jack Lemmon! Some of the greatest movies, filmmakers and writers take their turns in the

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Season 3 Episode 34

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/09/27

Original Air Date: Monday 26 September, 9 pm EasternDescription:Ike Eisenmann starred in the "Witch Mountain" movies for Disney. He acted alongside such giants as George C. Scott. He appeared in award-winning movies like Martin Ritt's Cross Creek. He worked with William Shatner on numerous occasions. He even "stayed at his post while the trainees ran!" in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Currently, he is the co-host of the excellent "Pop Culture Retro" podcast. He joins Dean and Phil for a

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Season 3 Episode 33

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/09/20

Original Air Date: Monday 19 September, 9 pm EasternDescription:After a cold open that involves a fascinating horror film from the UK in the 1940s (a rarity at the time) and the scientific theories it helped spawn, Phil reveals the horrific travels he undertook since he last convened with Dean on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! In “Celebrity Deaths”, the political cinema of Jean-Luc Godard gets analyzed, and the lives and careers of five performers and a jazz master get celebrated. Then, it’s back to

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Season 3 Episode 32

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/09/13

Original Air Date: Monday 12 September, 9 pm EasternDescription:This week, Dean and Phil pick up right where they left off … With Dean enjoying the weather in Michigan, Phil in COVID isolation in Los Angeles, and Robert Blake’s Cinefantastique interview about David Lynch’s Lost Highway providing the basis for a “cold open”. The themes of transition, embracing what wants to come forward, emotional intelligence and more get explored deeply in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The

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Season 3 Episode 31

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/09/06

Original Air Date: Monday 5 September, 9 pm EasternDescription:If you're in the USA, we hope you are having/had a wonderful Labor Day. If you are elsewhere in the world, we wish you a wonderful Monday! Either way, we think this installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour will help you get the week off to a good start! Phil is playing hurt, battling COVID, migraines AND the intense L.A. heat wave, yet nevertheless brings his "A" game as he and Dean take their talk of "transitions" to a whole new

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Season 3 Episode 30

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/08/30

Original Air Date: Monday 29 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:Dean and Phil start the show by answering a question they posed last week about The NeverEnding Story. A question about Dean’s painting leads into a deep-dive discussion about scheduling, energy management, and the time of transition in which we all find ourselves. In “Celebrity Deaths”, a character actor-turned-acting instructor gets remembered, as does a true renaissance man known primarily for playing gangsters! Olivia Newton-John’s

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Season 3 Episode 29

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/08/23

Original Air Date: Monday 22 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:This week’s show begins with a cold open about a … last week’s cold open! Lord Turlock then shows up to explain the unique heat patterns of the town of Turlock. From there, Dean and Phil discuss their pal, David Dean Bottrell’s remembrance of working with Anne Heche. That leads into “Celebrity Deaths” and celebrations of not only Anne Heche, but of filmmakers Wolfgang Petersen and Bob Rafelson, and actor David Warner. Then, Dean and Phil

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Season 3 Episode 28

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/08/16

Original Air Date: Monday 15 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:A cold open about a … melon festival (?!) … inspires a story about racial hostility in Turlock in the early 20th century. From there, Phil is inspired to pick up on a brilliant observation Dean made last week about Mike Nichols’ Working Girl and apply that observation as a potential thru-line for this celebrated director’s career. Alec Baldwin gets into hot water for tweeting support for Anne Heche and Salman Rushdie gets stabbed on-stage

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Season 3 Episode 27

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/08/09

Original Air Date: Monday 8 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:On this week's show, Dean shares with Phil his jury duty "cheat code", Phil shares with Dean fascinating historic facts and rumored hauntings surrounding the town of Turlock, and they discuss another David Lynch-Mark Frost television collaboration from the late 1980s, and this one was supposed to star Steve Martin and Martin Short! Speaking of those comedy greats, their co-star from "Only Murders in the Building" has a new movie in

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Season 3, Episode 26

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/08/02

Original Air Date: Monday 1 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:Welcome to August 2022! Because Dean and Phil are both on the road, this week's show is a bit of a pastiche (even more so than usual!). After a brief cold open from Turlock (cue Lord Turlock!), six actors, two musicians, a young comedian, and an iconic pop art sculptor get remembered and hailed in "Celebrity Deaths". Then, after the break, Dean interviews the "real-life Dana Scully", longtime FBI agent Kathy Stearman who wrote the book

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Season 3 Episode 25

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/07/26

Original Air Date: Monday 25 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:This week's show runs the gamut culturally, from a production of "Uncle Vanya" in “Live Event of the Week” and a discussion about whether the play is a comedy, to stories of jury duty prompted by a “Lawsuit of the Week”, from an excellent documentary recommendation by a loyal listener like you (yes, YOU!) to a deep dive analysis of the U.S. box office (including a quiz!). The success of Where the Crawdads Sing gets paid particular attention,

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Season 3 Episode 24

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/07/19

Original Air Date: Monday 18 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:Because Phil had to travel to Turlock, that means two things for this week's show: 1) It features a cameo by Dean's "Lord Turlock" character, and 2) The show was pre-recorded. And it's a good one, wherein Dean and Phil drill down into the improv form known as "deconstruction" in "Live Event of the Week" and while posing the question "Why can't we have nice things?" the bombing and destruction of the Georgia Guidestones gets discussed. In a

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Season 3 Episode 23

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/07/12

Original Air Date: Monday 11 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:Dean and Phil knew they were going to be celebrating the career of the great actor and star James Caan on this week's show and then the floodgates opened, with many beloved character actors exiting the stage, so after a brief and hilarious cold open, Season 3 Episode 23 begins with "Celebrity Deaths". Then, the whole concept of "celebration" as a lost "art" gets explored, before your friends in podcasting use it as a springboard to discuss

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Season 3 Episode 22

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/07/05

Original Air Date: Monday 4 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:This week’s show is a bit of a pastiche, cut together from snippets of different conversations Dean and Phil have had these past couple week. So, after a hilarious “audio check” cold open, if you hear references to topics not yet covered, don’t worry, it all weaves together wonderfully by the end in what might just be one of our best shows of the year! Phil discusses the forthcoming Netflix reboot of Beverly Hills Cop and the (unwanted by the

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Season 3, Episode 21

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2022/06/28

Original Air Date: Monday 27 June, 9 pm EasternDescription:This week, Dean and Phil discuss a limited television series about the making of "The Godfather", Season 3 of Amazon's "The Boys", the new AMC series "Dark Winds", and whether Dean was ever in an episode of “Lonesome Dove”. Phil's travels to Turlock get talked about, as do lava rocks, the recent planetary alignment, Lily's final week as president of The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, safety (or "warning") art, and Braille Institute’s Braille

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