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Chillpak Hollywood Hour

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

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Year 19, Episode 7

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/06/23

Original Release Date: Monday 23 June 2025 Description: Dean is back home in Birmingham, Michigan. Phil is at home in Los Angeles. They connect via Zoom to discuss the fire damage Dean witnessed while he was in L.A. last week, as well as his ongoing and evolving thoughts regarding Captain America: Brave New World which he caught up with on a flight. Phil has thoughts about the recent Mickey 17, and about the current theatrical releases Caught by the Tides and Friendship. The talk then turns to

63:50

Year 19, Episode 6

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/06/16

Original Release Date: Monday 16 June 2025 Description: From a secret location somewhere in America (actually a rooftop high atop the historic village neighborhood where Phil resides): Dean and Phil got together IN PERSON, and Phil’s better half, Lily Holleman, joined them, first to see an experimental film from 1990 (All the Vermeers in New York) at the American Cinematheque, and then to discuss it (over cocktails). You have probably NOT seen the movie, but the discussion is both interesting

73:39

Year 19, Episode 5

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/06/09

Original Release Date: Monday 9 June 2025 Description: Dean and Phil have quite the array of topics to discuss, including a recent Marvel film, a Neil Simon comedy from the 1970s, all the big award-winners at the recent Cannes Film Festival, and a director's cut of Chris Carter's The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Both the Australian and the American versions of "Laid" get discussed, and art, architecture, history and more get discussed in the return of "What We Are Reading". Two beloved

72:12

Year 19, Episode 4

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/06/02

Original Release Date: Monday 2 June 2025 Description: Dean and Phil commence the proceedings with a cold open wherein they address a fantastic voice message they received from a loyal listener in Germany. Then, after finding out when Dean expects to no longer be living in his one-room art studio above the garage, Phil dedicates the rest of the show to celebrating movies from around the world and from across the decades! The recent blockbuster Sinners, the current blockbuster Mission:

60:33

Year 19, Episode 3

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/05/26

Original Release Date: Monday 26 May 2025 Description: It’s Memorial Day in the USA. Dean Haglund in Michigan and Phil Leirness in California are joined by Jon Lawlor in New Jersey to discuss New Jersey Transit, the importance of celebrating everyone, and the challenges involved when someone you meet or care about is experiencing memory loss issues. May is also Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the USA. To celebrate this, Phil sits down for an in-depth personal interview

70:09

Year 19, Episode 2

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/05/19

Original Release Date: Monday 19 May 2025 Description: If you are interested in movies, movie making, or the movie business, you are going to find this week’s show fascinating. Dean and Phil do deep dives into the cinematic delights brought to us by the Marx Brothers, the Canadian films produced under that country’s 100-percent Capital Cost Allowance tax shield for investors, Jon Voight’s plan to save Hollywood and the wildly different reactions to that plan within the industry, the ways the

69:59

Year 19, Episode 1

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/05/12

Original Release Date: Monday 12 May 2025 Description: Phil is back from Fort Worth, Texas, and has a Logan’s Run location story to share with Dean. Phil also regales Dean with the story behind a delicious cocktail at the Grand Hotel in Oslo (named in “honor” of pop icon Madonna). Dean and Phil try to make sense of Jon Voight's plans to "save" Hollywood and how the President seized on those plans while probably misunderstanding them completely and/or intentionally. Meanwhile, "Sinners" might

71:40

18th Anniversary Show

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/05/05

Original Release Date: Monday 5 May 2025 Description: During this week in 2007, YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour was born! Of course back then, we were called From the Heart of Hollywood until a “cease and desist” led to us … ceasing … and desisting. This week, your friends in podcasting and two special guests on Monday as they celebrate (in style!) the show that continues to "change the way people listen to the internet" becoming old enough to be out on its own! They will discuss the "Poverty Row"

71:50

Year 18, Episode 51

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/04/28

Original Release Date: Monday 28 April 2025 Description: Our last show before our 18th Anniversary is also our last show to be recorded via Skype! It’s also an action-packed 72 minutes that boasts the return of “Lawsuit of the Week”, where Dean and Phil get down and dirty discussing the Paramount merger with Skydance, the fate of CBS’ long-running “60 Minutes”, DEI initiatives, the FCC and Trump advisor Stephen Miller. Several films get discussed in depth, including Easter Parade, Diary of a

76:03

Year 18, Episode 50

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/04/21

Original Release Date: Monday 21 April 2025 Description: Welcome to a very freewheeling episode! It begins with Dean Haglund revealing what he's watching these days. The action then shifts to a rooftop roundtable discussion with two special guests all about television. "Baby Reindeer", "The White Lotus", "Severance", "Hacks", "Slow Horses", "Poker Face", "The Residence", the Marvel Studios shows, the "Star Wars" shows and two special recommendations all get discussed. Then, it's back to Dean as

62:15

Year 18, Episode 49

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/04/14

Original Release Date: Monday 14 April 2025 Description: This week's episode finds Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness in fine form, discussing this year's Oscar-winning animated feature Flow, how it was made, and why actual cats might be enjoying it! The "Lawsuit of the Week" returns, and it is a rather astounding one involving a once Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Phil and Dean both relate to a recent Substack post by one of Phil's favorite journalists entitled, "We Are Schrödinger's Cat". You will

62:57

Year 18, Episode 48

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/04/07

Original Release Date: Monday 7 April 2025 Description: One month from their 18th Anniversary (of changing the way you listen to the internet!), your friends in podcasting are still recovering from their European Adventures and during this week’s installment they start by discussing the Marx Brothers, and end by revealing architecture and fine art discoveries they made while overseas. In between, they discuss the Netflix CEO declaring war on movie theaters, a movie soon leaving Netflix, and a

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Year 18, Episode 47

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/31

Original Release Date: Monday 31 March 2025 Description: Phil is in Los Angeles, Dean is back in home in Detroit (or its environs) and normalcy is restored on this week's show. Dean offers up his final thoughts about Lisbon, shares the status of his ongoing home renovations, and wighs in on the in-flight movies he availed himself of: John Woo's remake of his own The Killer and a zombie dog horror film from South Korea. Phil weighs in on a once-great television series that has jumped the shark

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Year 18, Episode 46

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/25

Original Release Date: Monday 25 March 2025 Description: Due to the ridiculous travel itineraries of your friends in podcasting, this week’s show is coming at you one day late, but is jumbo-sized to make up for its tardiness! The festivities get started on a midnight train ride through Denmark two Saturdays back as Phil Leirness and Jon Lawlor discussed sandwiches, the English language, the honor system of Copenhagen and swapped tales of the magnificent Copenhagen City Hall. Then, back in Los

57:24

Year 18, Episode 45

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/17

Original Release Date: Monday 17 March 2025 Description: Today is not only St. Patrick’s Day, it’s also Dean Haglund’s wedding day! Therefore, this week's installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour is an absolute travel adventure. First, Lily Holleman joins Phil at the Hotel Kong Arthur in Copenhagen to share her thoughts about their trip to Venice. Then, we switch locations to a pub in Helsingør near the Kronborg Slot aka Hamlet's Castle and the spot where Dean will be entering into the

69:10

Year 18, Episode 44

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/10

Original Release Date: Monday 10 March 2025 Description: Coming at you from Venice, Italy, Los Angeles of the 1980s and everywhere in between, this week’s show is a wild pastiche. First, Phil gets the ball rolling from Venice, as he welcomes frequent contributor over the years, Lily Holleman (Leirness), who shares some thoughts about the ancient world capital. Phil issues a warning to anyone who is listening to the show from Los Angeles of the 1980s. Then, after Christopher Walken leads us

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Year 18, Episode 43

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/03/03

Original Release Date: Monday 3 March 2025 Description: Later this week, your friends in podcasting depart for Europe. Last night, the Oscars were held. Last week, one of their dear friends celebrated his 81st birthday, another friend had a brain tumor removed, and another friend died. So, you will forgive Dean and Phil if this isn’t the most polished installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. It IS epic in length, and it is full of the heartfelt, the insightful, the irreverent and even the

63:13

Year 18, Episode 42

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/24

Original Release Date: Monday 24 February 2025 Description: Your friends in podcasting have two more shows before they make their way (separately) to Europe and reconvene in Denmark! So, understandably, they have a full discussion agenda for this week's show. They discuss the theft of thousands of art works from Venice and how a 1954 cinematic masterpiece helped in the reconstruction of one of the landmark buildings of that city. They discuss TWO "Live Events of the Week" and in so doing,

59:45

Year 18, Episode 41

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/17

Original Release Date: Monday 17 February 2025 Description: Phil is celebrating his 6th wedding anniversary, the USA is celebrating President’s Day, and the rest of the world, we hope, is going to have a lovely Monday! Certainly Dean and Phil are doing their level best to get your week off to a great start as they discuss anniversaries, bar mitzvahs and bus rides! In the return of “What We’re Reading”, Dean discusses an influential book by Edward Bellamy published in 1888, and Phil discusses a

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Year 18, Episode 40

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/10

Original Release Date: Monday 10 February 2025 Description: What do the movies The Brutalist, The Substance, Red Rooms and Anora have in common? They all made BOTH Dean AND Phil's lists of the Top Ten Films of 2024! The Critics have all had their say, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have announced their nominations for the Best in Cinema 2024, and on this week’s show, your friends in podcasting finally have their say. Learn what other films made their lists as they count down

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