Chillpak Hollywood Hour

Original Air Date: Monday 31 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Will this week be the final episode of "Season 2"? Will it be Dean and Phil's final show Odysy Radio? They will discuss these matters (but, spoiler alert: yes to both!). They will also discuss Dean’s coddling of robots, Phil's latest round of eye surgeries, Dean's forthcoming watercolor series, Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, t...

Original Air Date: Monday 24 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean and Phil discuss the death of a genuine L.A. icon, the changes sweeping thru Phil's beloved neighborhood, the "right" time to move, a TCM podcast about Peter Bogdanovich, his film Saint Jack, workplace safety on the films of Roger Corman and more thoughts on the recent releases The Last Duel and Nightmare Alley. All that, plus th...

Original Air Date: Monday 17 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean and Phil discuss Martin Luther King Day, share three messages from loyal listeners like you (yes, YOU!), reveal a handful of new nicknames for Phil, and analyze three recent cinematic releases. They also celebrate the lives and legacies of several music legends, a couple of beloved sitcom stars, and a true Hollywood icon.

Original Date: June 19, 2009 At the end of last week’s show, Dean and Phil promised a theme show this week focusing on the greatest heroes and villains ever to grace the silver and small screens. Unfortunately, technical difficulties are preventing that show from coming your way. The good news is that we have a very cool theme show for you anyway, as Dean and Phil reveal their Top Films of All Tim...

Original Air Date: Monday 10 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: Because people have asked, on this week's show, Dean and Phil will explain (yet again) why this is "Season 2" of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! They will also follow up on last week's "Twelfth Night" episode all about Shakespearean film adaptations with stories about Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the Shakespearean qualities of De...

Original Date: April 2, 2018 Your friends in podcasting have been teasing episode #568 for weeks! They had really been looking forward to counting down their all-time favorite Mystery films and the final results prove to be a lot of fun. So, get those Netflix queues handy, because Dean and Phil will hit you with more than two dozen movies they discuss at length with four films actually finding a p...

Original Air Date: Monday 3 January, 9 pm Eastern Description: We hope this finds you having enjoyed a happy and healthy New Year. Twelfth Night is a festival that takes place on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany. Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (or "What You Will"), is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 160...

Original Date: January 1, 2018 This week’s show is an interesting one that your friends in podcasting recorded together in Los Angeles. It starts with Dean describing two “Live Events of the Week” – a production of Something Rotten! and the debut Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation exhibit at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center on Wilshire – and Phil describing the truly horrible Office Christma...

Original Air Date: Monday 27 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: On Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, your friends in podcasting (and broadcasting!) got together in-person for this very special (and pre-recorded) holiday treat! Dean discusses his Los Angeles adventures, including the Cerritos mall, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and nudists! Phil discusses his east coast adventures, in...

Original Air Date: Monday 20 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: Somehow, through almost 15 years of bringing you YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour free every week, Dean and Phil have never dedicated an entire show to the career, artistry and genius of Bill Murray. This week, that oversight gets remedied, as your friends in podcasting march right into the holidays by programming a film festival they ar...

Original Air Date: Monday 13 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: It’s the midst of the holiday season. Travel plans are ramping up and the awards season is starting to heat up! The American Film Institute has revealed its honorees as the top (ten) films of 2021 and a consensus has begun to form through critics Top Ten lists about the best movies of the year as well. Dean and Phil discuss it all. T...

Original Air Date: Monday 6 December, 9 pm Eastern Description: Your friends in podcasting (AND broadcasting!) have quite the week to discuss! As the holidays approach, and Covid-19 dashes Dean's travel plans, Awards Season in Hollywood gets underway. The National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners of the best in cinema for 2021, and a consensus has begun...

Original Date: December 22, 2014 Before taking off on their holiday travels, your friends in podcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness are doing what they do best: Making sense of a (show business) world gone wild … They weigh in on the cyber terrorist attack against Sony. They celebrate a milestone achieved by one of their favorite shows. They discuss live events starring the likes of Angela Lan...

Original Air Date: Monday 29 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: You might not know the name Don Phillips, but you will definitely know the names of many the performers whose careers he launched as a casting director, and the films with which he was involved. He is one of four cultural titans that Dean and Phil remember in "Celebrity Deaths" on this week's show, including a poet and founder of the...

Original Date: November 27, 2017 With how much ground your friends in podcasting cover on this week’s show, you’ll forgive them going almost eight minutes overtime, won’t you? The show starts with a “Live Event of the Week” as Phil regales Dean with tales of his 49th birthday celebrations on a day that involved marionettes, Norse mythology and the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. Then, for the firs...

Original Air Date: Monday 22 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: After a funny cold open where Dean tells about another of his haunted house adventures, Dean and Phil kick off this week’s show by sharing what they are thankful for during this Thanksgiving week, Dean battling Covid-19, Phil reflecting on his mother’s death two years ago. The career of Dean Martin, his work with Jerry Lewis, and a t...

Original Air Date: Monday 15 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean and Phil follow up on their deep dive analysis of the quality and box office fortunes of a wide variety of cinematic releases with an even DEEPER dive into the box office calamity that has befallen Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel. From a movie that died at the box office to “Celebrity Deaths”, a pioneering stand-up comic, an inspir...

Original Air Date: Monday 8 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean and Phil get the ball rolling by discussing the most “fun” (?) cities in California. Then they discuss the role film critics play as we emerge from a pandemic. The quality and box office fortunes of The French Dispatch, The Eternals, Last Night in Soho, Dune, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and No Time to Die get analyzed and discuss...

Original Air Date: Monday 1 November, 9 pm Eastern Description: Your friends in podcasting are celebrating 100 episodes of broadcasting! That's right, this is their 100th episode since moving their franchise to Odysy Radio! Dean and Phil celebrate this milestone by sharing personal stories of on-set safety in the wake of the emerging details behind the fatal shooting on the set of Rust. They discu...

Original Date: April 13, 2009 Why is Willard Scott kissing our asses this week? Because we just turned 100, baby! Dean and Phil celebrate this milestone with a special show where they take you on a tour of their DVD collections! Many intimate details are revealed: Such as what titles are “rainy day” favorites, what selections are excellent to have on in the background while doing work, which ones...

Original Air Date: Monday 25 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: There may be tricks aplenty, but we can assure you, this week’s Season 2 Episode 99 will definitely be a treat for the listener! Before Dean and Phil can fully celebrate the spooky (like Dean's live exploration this weekend of the haunted Wheeler Mansion), they have to discuss the truly horrifying - a real-life horror story ending in...

Original Date: September 5, 2016 Halloween is only eight weeks away, so your friends in podcasting thought it was the perfect time to reveal their Top Ten All-Time Horror Films! Such classics as the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, its 1978 remake, John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Devil’s Backbone from director Guillermo Del Toro, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Cabin in the Woods all...

Original Air Date: Monday 18 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: It's Halloween season, so this week, Dean and Phil will get into the spooky spirit of things by celebrating "All of the Them Witches" - programming a dream film festival of witch-themed double-features! Of course, there is a ton of spooky, unsettling and downright terrifying show biz news for them to cover as well, including the poten...

Original Date: March 30, 2009 Dean is back from doing a comedy benefit in San Jose, California. Phil spent all weekend doing paperwork (hush, hush film development work), though he got out to see a comedy benefit here in Hollywood. They discuss both these shows before launching into analysis of a wide range of films. From German cinema “you will never forget,” to the career challenges of once-hot...