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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 21

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/09/30

Original Release Date: Monday 30 September 2024 Description: Because of some crazy travel plans (London! New York! Tokyo!), the next three episodes of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour promise to be unusual even by our standards! This week’s topics include a forthcoming Broadway revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross", the crazy, big screen experience Megalopolis, the lineage of Longlegs director Oz Perkins (and a bit about one of the film's stars), and a “smart house” thriller from Canada, Red Rooms. The

62:15

Year 18, Episode 20

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/09/23

Original Release Date: Monday 23 September 2024 Description: On this week's episode, Dean and Phil answer the following questions: 1) Was Vincent Van Gogh a mathematics genius? 2) What does a Frisbee have to do with airline aviation? 3) Does Phil's hatred of The Fall Guy know no bounds? Then, a review of the neo-noir pastiche Love Lies Bleeding leads into a brief discussion about distributor A24's output. The recent Chillpak discussion of Joaquin Phoenix bailing on his planned collaboration

67:52

Year 18, Episode 19

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/09/16

Original Release Date: Monday 16 September 2024 Description: Welcome to one of our most cinematic episodes of the year! Dean and Phil talk nothing but movies, doing deep dive analyses of the new Dave Bautista action-comedy vehicle (and tax dodge?) The Killer’s Game, the current Tim Burton-directed smash hit Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Michael Keaton-starring vehicle and directorial effort Knox Goes Away, the recent “thriller in six chapters” Strange Darling, this year’s box office disaster

64:28

Year 18, Episode 18

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/09/09

Original Release Date: Monday 9 September 2024 Description: This week's show boasts several great stories, both about your friends in podcasting and about show business notables. Phil shares a touching tale of being reunited with a very famous old friend. He also shares personal memories about the late acting and singing star James Darren, and the NBA great Alvin Attles. And although he died almost two months ago, Dean and Phil finally take the time to offer a heartfelt remembrance of beloved

58:40

Year 18, Episode 17

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/09/02

Original Release Date: Monday 2 September 2024 Description: It’s a Labor Day edition of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour and Dean and Phil regale with tales of the labor they had to put into Labor Day Weekend, and discuss the history of the day itself. Phil rants about the truncating of summer before he and Dean revisit the following topics from last week: Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s 11th hour bid to take over Paramount, the cinematic legacy of the great leading man Alain Delon, and the nonlinear

79:16

Year 18, Episode 16

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/08/26

Original Release Date: Monday 26 August 2024 Description: When does an hour turn into 80 minutes? When it’s this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! Dean is back in Michigan and has travel horror stories. Dean and Phil tackle the latest bizarre turn in the ongoing saga of Paramount changing ownership. An "all icons" edition of "Celebrity Deaths" involves the fascinating story behind the creator of Famous Amos, the hilarious reason Peter Marshall became the long-running host

65:39

Year 18, Episode 15

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/08/19

Original Release Date: Monday 19 August 2024 Description: This weekend, your friends in podcasting got together on the pool deck of a certain “historic building in downtown Los Angeles” and boy did they have a lot to discuss! The status of downtown, Dean’s travels AND his official “wedding engagement” get covered. The Olympics closing ceremony and Tom Cruise’s role in it get revisited. The “Live Event of the Week” is “Duo it Again” a brilliant and psychedelic game of telephone that is the

64:42

Year 18, Episode 14

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/08/12

Original Release Date: Monday 12 August 2024 Description: After a brief cold open where Phil and Dean discuss Dean’s trip to Los Angeles this week, your friends in podcasting get into a spirited and frequently hilarious discussion about the Olympics. Then Phil has notes for the brilliant Jon Batiste about his hot mess of a live show. A legendary agent and a trailblazing actress get remembered in “Celebrity Deaths”. Dean plays “armchair executive” in analyzing the news surrounding the

63:44

Year 18, Episode 13

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/08/05

Original Release Date: Monday 5 August 2024 Description: Dean is back from his birthday break and reveals just how he celebrated. Phil went to Montecito to prepare for a big show and has tales of a spectacular venue on the water. Have Dean and Phil been watching the Olympics? We find out. Last week, one special guest, Marc Hershon spoke about all that is excellent in television right now and Phil follows up on that by singing the praises of Season 3 of HBO's "Hacks". The other guest last

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Year 18, Episode 12

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/07/29

Original Release Date: Monday 29 July 2024 Description: Birthday boy Dean Haglund has the week off, so Phil Leirness welcomes Marc Hershon to discuss the recent Emmy Awards nominations and all that is excellent right now in what we used to call "television". Marc is a screenwriter, author, improv professor, comedy impresario, columnist, editorial cartoonist, and corporate branding expert. He is also responsible for Dean and Phil seeing many of the shows they have discussed over the past several

63:59

Year 18, Episode 11

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/07/22

Original Release Date: Monday 22 July 2024 Description: Dean and Phil have thoughts about the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump and these thoughts bring back memories of John Lennon's murder and of vigilante films of the 1970s, especially Taxi Driver as well as the American classic on which it was based, The Searchers. On this week's show, you will hear all that before your friends in podcasting get down to remembering the great Bob Newhart and the singular Shelly Duvall,

63:32

Year 18, Episode 10

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/07/15

Original Release Date: Monday 15 July 2024 Description: This show runs the gamut geographically from the U.K. to Detroit, and from Los Angeles to Laguna Beach. And it features a wide array from topics, including the supposed demise of radio in general, the new hopes for one station’s programming in particular, the death of a great actress, the acquisition of a legendary Hollywood company, and the latest (and final?) news in the prosecution of Alec Baldwin. There are also a slew of TV and movie

61:47

Year 18, Episode 9

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/07/08

Original Release Date: Monday 8 July 2024 Description: We hope you are hungry this week because Dean and Phil are serving up Detroit-style pizza, Japanese-Italian fusion, and red, white and blue margaritas! They discuss their 4th of July activities, celebrity sightings of a Supreme Court Justice and a former President of the U.S., modern and contemporary and text-based art, and a classical music "Live Event of the Week". In "Celebrity Deaths", one of the greatest screenwriters of all time and

64:36

Year 18, Episode 8

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/07/01

Original Release Date: Monday 1 July 2024 Description: This week's episode finds Phil in the "DMV" (DC-Maryland-Virginia) area and Dean safely ensconced back in Michgan. Phil quizzes Dean about Renaissance man Martin Mull, iconic Winnipeg musician and broadcaster Ray St. Germain, two Oscar-winning composers, and an Oscar-nominated documentarian. Dean and Phil also sing the praises of perhaps the greatest actor to NEVER get nominated for an Oscar! Such streaming fare as "Tulsa King", Season 4

63:01

Year 18, Episode 7

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/06/24

Original Release Date: Monday 24 June 2024 Description: Dean and Phil got together in Los Angeles this week to watch David Robert Mitchell's It Follows, to see if it's as good as they remember OR if, as Quentin Tarantino claims, the film does not "play by its own rules". You will hear the discussion in real time as your friends in podcasting watch the film and analyze it. First though, because a loyal listener like you (yes, YOU!) asked, Dean & Phil will tackle the controversy surrounding

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Year 18, Episode 6

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2024/06/17

Original Release Date: Monday 17 June 2024 Description: In more than 17 years of bringing you free, weekly entertainment, we don’t believe either Dean or Phil have mentioned the great theologian, humanist, educator, philosopher and satirist Erasmus. Finally, that oversight gets rectified! Sci-fi, radio, journalism, history, education, the "sound of the future" and the scenic delights of Middlesbrough are just some of the topics covered as lifelong broadcaster, educator and friend of the show

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Year 18, Episode 5

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/06/10

Original Release Date: Monday 10 June 2024 Description: Dean will be heading to Los Angeles this week and plans to deal with a “haunted vacuum”? Paramount Pictures (and its parent company) are for sale. Dean and Phil discuss the ramifications of this. Many great films premiered in competition at the recent Cannes Film Festival. Dean and Phil examine the award-winners. A film festival favorite available now on Netflix is Richard Linklater's dark romantic comedy Hit Man. Dean and Phil discuss

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Year 18, Episode 4

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/06/03

Original Release Date: Monday 3 June 2024 Description: This week’s show begins with a correction about the great Death Race 2000 (discussed two episodes back) and about the talented filmmakers behind it. Then, in “What We’re Reading”, Dean discusses the Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries and Phil reveals his thoughts inspired by Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality. These thoughts, in turn, lead to stories about UCLA great Bill Walton, who died this past week, and the Integratron, which Phil visited

67:33

Year 18, Episode 3

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/05/27

Original Release Date: Monday 27 May 2024 Description: The best thing about being podcast-only (again) is that for the first time in years, Dean and Phil can produce shows of whatever length tickles their fancy. Indeed, this week’s Chillpak Hollywood Hour gives you more than 10% more “hour”! The show begins with a cold open, wherein Phil reveals that he is not the only filmmaker who gets upset when other filmmakers don’t follow the rules they themselves have set up for a particular movie. In

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Year 18, Episode 2

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2024/05/20

Original Release Date: Monday 20 May 2024 Description: Phil is back from a weekend excursion to Catalina and regales with tales of his trip. Dean previews his forthcoming trips to London, Los Angeles, Japan and Europe. Many different Netflix shows starring comedian John Mulaney get discussed, and his work ranging from stand-up to sketch to performance art gets analyzed. Three recent movies also get analyzed: the “found footage” horror favorite Late Night with the Devil, the Ian

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