Chillpak Hollywood Hour

Original Air Date: Monday 12 February, 9 pm Eastern Description: Who doesn’t love a sequel?! Your friends in broadcasting & podcasting return with part 2 of their celebration of the best in cinema from 2023. If you listened to part 1, you know this is no ordinary “Top Ten” show. Ultimately, dozens of films and just as many topics will get explored. This week the topics include editing, black a...

Original Air Date: Monday 5 February, 9 pm Eastern Description: Welcome to part one of a two-part installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour wherein Dean and Phil will discuss the best in cinema of the year 2023. This is no ordinary “Top Ten” show. Ultimately, dozens of films and just as many topics will get explored. This week’s show actually begins with discussion of atmospheric rivers, of spre...

Original Air Date: Monday 29 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Welcome to a truly great episode and it all starts with an alternately touching and hilarious cold open! In "Celebrity Deaths", Dean and Phil remember a jazz music pioneer, an actor who was an important influence on Dean, and a versatile, prolific, Oscar-winning filmmaker. Last week’s Oscar nominations get analyzed, as does the ensuin...

Original Air Date: Monday 22 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: In a cold open, this week’s show begins where last week’s show left off, with Phil delighting Dean with some surprising facts about the late comedic genius Tommy Smothers. After that, Dean and Phil dive into “Awards Season” news, offering up thoughts on the recent Emmy Awards, the forthcoming Oscar nominations, and on how viewing of a...

Original Air Date: Monday 15 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Last week, Dean and Phil got Season 4 of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour underway with an hilarious and fascinating installment recorded in the nation's capital. This week, Dean is back in Detroit, Phil is back in Los Angeles, and they have a ton to follow up on, as well a great deal of show biz to news to catch up on! Here is just some...

Original Air Date: Monday 8 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Last week, Dean and Phil said hello to 2024 and said goodbye to "Season 3" by welcoming a special guest and discussing their creative intentions for the year. This weekend, Dean and Phil got together in the nation's capital to get "Season 4" underway by swapping stories about art galleries, historic battlefields, historic D.C. clubs, t...

Original Air Date: Monday 1 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Years back, Dean & Phil used to start each year with a show where they revealed their New Year's Resolutions. They stopped doing this because their perceived failures to fulfill their resolutions started to become depressing! Flash forward to present day and your friends in podcasting and broadcasting participate in a "side project...

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 a...

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 foundin...

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 "Lawsu...

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!...

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 o...

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...

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 ki...

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.

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: Impossi...

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-...

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...

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...

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, Penns...

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...

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 contemp...

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 rec...

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 o...

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-...