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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 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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Year 18, Episode 39

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/02/03

Original Release Date: Monday 3 February 2025 Description: Following what many people seem to feel was the longest January on record, your friends in podcasting return to get February off to a good start, freewheeling their way through a variety of topics, including the closing of the most odd airport in the world, the reasoning behind Quentin Tarantino’s move into live stage work, a listener’s response to Dean and Phil’s dismissal of Oscar Best Picture nominee A Complete Unknown, and the

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Year 18, Episode 38

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/27

Original Release Date: Monday 27 January 2025 Description: For what it's worth, awards season in Hollywood is firmly upon us and on this week's show, your friends in podcasting examine the top ten 2024 releases at the U.S. box office, the top ten films according to critics, and the ten films selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Best Picture Oscar nominations. They analyze the surprises, the snubs and the meaning behind the Oscar nominations, before taking a deep

60:44

Year 18, Episode 37

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/20

Original Release Date: Monday 20 January 2025 Description: Your friends in podcasting have a great deal on their minds ... Cold weather in the nation's capital, the hell of home renovations, fire and long-term unhealthful air and the Olympics in Los Angeles ... And they discuss it all on this week's show. They also remember the late David Lynch, suggesting that no artist has ever loved Los Angeles more than he did. They discuss the latest in the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively (and now Ryan

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Year 18, Episode 36

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/13

Original Release Date: Monday 13 January 2025 Description: If any week warranted an episode of epic length, it was the week that was. With Phil Leirness coming at us from the beaten and battered City of Angels and Dean Haglund coming at us from an air mattress on a hardwood floor not far from the Motor City, this week's show covers a lot of terrain in a little more than 68 minutes. Your friends in podcasting discuss Copenhagen wedding plans and the role that city played in our understanding of

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Year 18, Episode 35

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2025/01/06

Original Release Date: Monday 6 January 2025 Description: The first show of 2025 find Dean and Phil in good form and discussing a wide array of topics including the landscape and geography of NY's Central Park, nature photography, the It Ends With Us controversy and lawsuit, and the near future of motion picture distribution both theatrically and via streaming. The truncated nature of this year's mad dash Awards Season will get analyzed before the Netflix series "Man on the Inside" gets

69:45

Year 18, Episode 34

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/30

Original Release Date: Monday 30 December 2024 Description: Your friends in podcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness, participate in a “side project” called The Art Life with good pal (and creator of many Chillpak Hollywood Hour theme songs) Jon Lawlor. Each week they hold each other’s feet to the fire as they try to free up their creativity, make it manifest in the world AND encourage each other to live more artful, authentic lives. In the first Chillpak episode of 2024 (Season 3, Episode

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Year 18, Episode 33

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/23

Original Release Date: Monday 23 December 2024 Description: Because of Dean's peculiar living conditions at present, because of Phil's adventures this week in the nation's capital, and because of a message from a loyal listener (about plein air painting, about microphones, about Bing Crosby, about the body horror comedy/thriller The Substance), this week's show will be full of fascinating, inspiring and hilarious conversation. The show will also include one of the saddest "Celebrity Deaths"

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Year 18, Episode 32

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/16

Original Release Date: Monday 16 December 2024 Description: Are Dean and Phil filled with the spirit of the holiday season? This week, we will all find out! They certainly are immersed in the spirit of the Hollywood Awards Season and they discuss the top ten films according to critics, and delve into the top films and performances according to the Golden Globes. They do deep dive analyses of two films - one current award hopeful, and one all-time classic from a true giant of cinema. Then, in

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Year 18, Episode 31

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/09

Original Release Date: Monday 9 December 2024 Description: Your friends in podcasting have returned from travel adventures and have tales about art galleries in the nation's capital and jazz clubs in the Big Easy. You will learn more about they year 1874, and more about the Marigny District of New Orleans, than you have ever heard before on this show! Much of this week's episode involves movie box office news, movie award news, and movie reviews. In fact, two current releases and one recent

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Year 18, Episode 30

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/12/02

Original Release Date: Monday 2 December 2024 Description: Dean traveled to D.C. and Virginia. Phil traveled to New Orleans, Mississippi and Memphis. Therefore, this seemed like the perfect week for a pre-recorded Top Ten show! As this is the 10th year of Netflix original movies, your friends in podcasting spend the entire hour discussing their all-time favorite Netflix films. Ordinarily, Dean and Phil have some overlap between their lists. This time, they have no favorite films in common

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Year 18, Episode 29

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/25

Original Release Date: Monday 25 November 2024 Description: Happy Birthday to our friend in podcasting, Phil Leirness, who is celebrating many returns of the day in New Orleans today! Before departing Los Angeles, and before Dean Haglund departed the environs of Detroit to head to the nation’s capital for Thanksgiving, they convened via zoom to record this week’s show. In it, they discuss their travel plans, before Dean regales with tales of his recent improv performance (with Gary Jones) in

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Year 18, Episode 28

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/18

Original Release Date: Monday 18 November 2024 Description: Dean flies into Los Angeles. Phil picks him up at LAX. You get into the back seat. Highway adventured and high fidelity hijinks ensue! The first two-thirds of this week’s show are recorded during Dean & Phil’s drive to downtown L.A. as they discuss Dean’s upcoming two-man improv show, his future performing plans, his prolific productivity as a fine artist, how his life would be different if he still lived in Los Angeles, raunchy

58:35

Year 18, Episode 27

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/11

Original Release Date: Monday 11 November 2024 Description: Dean is back from Japan. He will speak about his trip on this week's show. Phil is grieving the death of his sister. He has some thoughts about her and about grief and about two wishes he has that he will share. If you would like to read about Phil's sister, he included a tribute to her influence on him in “Haunted”, the most recent essay he published for his The Voice of Los Feliz Substack (https://philleirness.substack.com). Dean

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Year 18, Episode 26

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/11/04

Original Release Date: Monday 4 November 2024 Description: On Halloween in the USA (November 1 in Japan), Phil and Dean recorded this week's show via zoom for a far out and far east installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. In it, you will hear accounts of Dean's adventures in the Land of the Rising Sun. You will also hear the sad tale of Phil's sister, and Phil’s full report on the big live show he hosted, and the show he was performing in that night. There will be deep dive discussions of

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Year 18, Episode 25

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2024/10/28

Original Release Date: Monday 28 October 2024 Description: Dean is in Tokyo, but before departing the U.S., he recorded a grand conversation with Phil for this week’s show! Jeremy Saulnier's Netflix original Rebel Ridge, the comedy Thelma starring June Squibb, the sports-based love triangle Challengers, and the Netflix documentary Will & Harper are just some of the new and recent films they discuss. Then, they take the time to celebrate the lives and legacies of Broadway actor-singer-dancer

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Year 18, Episode 24

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/10/21

Original Release Date: Monday 21 October 2024 Description: Phil is back from New York City. Dean is preparing to travel to Tokyo. They have a lot to discuss on this week's installment. Phil talks about a live show he saw in New York, about the work of an all-time great stone-cutter, about Columbus Day, and about Indigenous Peoples Day. Dean talks about the fish market he can't wait visit, and the "Venice of Japan", and previews the drawings he will do while far out and far east. "Hogan's

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Year 18, Episode 23

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/10/14

Original Release Date: Monday 14 October 2024 Description: No matter which of our theme songs through the years you have enjoyed the most, odds are Jon Lawlor is responsible for it. Jon joins Dean and Phil this week for a conversation all about the "Art Life". In it, you will learn about what they are all working on, what they are struggling with, where their focus lies, who they talk to when working through problems in their work, how they know they are finished with a creative project, what

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Year 18, Episode 22

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/10/07

Original Release Date: Monday 7 October 2024 Description: Dean is in the process of re-examining the cinematic legacy of Roman Polanski, separate from his personal legacy. The timing is fortuitous as Phil re-watched Polanski’s 1976 cult favorite The Tenant, which also inspired thoughts about The Shining. Phil also re-watched two masterpieces by John Cassavetes in the wake of the great Gena Rowlands’ death: A Woman Under the Influence and Love Streams. Finally, Dean and Phil celebrate Paris,

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