Chillpak Hollywood Hour

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-...

Original Air Date: Monday 21 August, 9 pm Eastern Description: Pop quiz: What show features discussions about the great Motown artist Barrett strong, founding member of The Eagles Randy Meisner, Tony Bennett, Pee-wee Herman, the director of The Exorcist and The French Connection , a rock musical parody of The Exorcist , Dean’s final (?) “X-Files” improv (at a forthcoming “X-Files” convention), and...

Original Air Date: Monday 14 August, 9 pm Eastern Description: This weekend, Dean and Phil recorded one VERY LONG conversation that will be edited into the next two installments of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. The next time they record, they will be together in Dean's Motor City-adjacent stomping grounds! This week, you will hear your friends in broadcasting and podcasting discussing the new cine...

Original Air Date: Monday 7 August, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week, after a cold open involving Pee Wee Herman and David Hasselhoff, Dean and Phil discuss Dean's travel plans, a big 30th anniversary "X-Files" convention and the latest news involving the Hollywood labor battles. Then Dean offers up another suggestion of a vintage television series you might want to avail yourself of while no n...

Original Air Date: Monday 31 July, 9 pm Eastern Description: It's Happy Birthday to Dean Haglund and boy has he been celebrating! On this week's show, you will hear all about his celebrations. You will also hear about his road trip to upstate New York. And you will hear about a very bizarre social calendar for Phil! The latest news in the writers and actors strikes gets discussed, as does the cont...

Original Air Date: Monday 24 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week's show picks up where last week's show left off, in a cold open about Godard's Contempt and Scorsese's Raging Bull . Then, Dean and Phil talk about the importance of supporting movie theaters, and Dean offers up another vintage TV title ripe for viewing/re-viewing during what promises to be a very lengthy halt in television pro...

Original Air Date: Monday 17 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: A question from a loyal listener like you (yes, YOU!) leads to a passionate and thoughtful discussion about what television and movies you should be watching while no new television and movies are being made due to the writers' and actors' strikes. Moreover, Dean and Phil will discuss the ways all of us can greatly improve the chances of...

Original Air Date: Monday 10 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week’s show begins with a cold open about Spanish film star Carmen Sevilla. It continues with Dean and Phil previewing an email from a loyal listener (that they will answer on NEXT week’s show). The email involves the ongoing Writer’s Guild strike and Dean and Phil use it as a springboard to discussing the latest labor negotiation n...

Original Air Date: Monday 3 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: A question about UFO Disclosure from a listener leads to a fascinating, hilarious and inspiring opening to this week's show. Afterwards, Dean and Phil follow up on their (ongoing) discussion surrounding the Kirk Douglas-starring musical version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by appreciating the all-too overlooked actress Susan Hampshire and...

Original Air Date: Monday 26 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: The riddle: What show covers the best film of 2023 (thus far), one of the best films of the 21st century (a movie from Hungary), the 11th greatest film of all time (according to the Sight and Sound poll), AND one of the worst films of all time (a musical version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ), in addition to drag shows in Florida, the char...

Original Air Date: Monday 19 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: After a cold open about the found of Hollywood’s Magic Castle and about the greatest professional football player of all time, this week’s show gets started with Dean discussing upcoming "X-Files" convention appearances. And, thanks to an email from a loyal listener like you (yes, YOU!), Dean will share one of the most hilarious behind-t...

Original Air Date: Monday 12 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: This week’s show begins with Dean and Phil discussing one of Dean's all-time favorite films and filmmakers: My Winnipeg by Guy Maddin. Phil hails it as perhaps the greatest film NOT to be on the Sight and Sound poll of the 250 greatest films ever made. From great movies to great television, your friends in podcasting and broadcasting shi...

Original Air Date: Monday 5 June, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean previews his upcoming improv show. Phil previews his forthcoming travels with his cat. Dean and Phil analyze the latest news in the escalating showdown between the Hollywood studios and the creative unions, including the terms of the tentative agreement between the studios and the directors. Then, the rest of the show is about a hand...