Episodes
-
Year 20, Episode 25
Original Release Date: Monday 26 October 2026 Description: Halloween week gets off to a spooky good start with this scary fun episode! Dean and Phil reveal “What We’re Reading” and both books involve France! In the return of “Live Event of the Week”, Dean talks farmers markets, and Phil talks an...
-
Year 20, Episode 24
Original Release Date: Monday 19 October 2026 Description: This week’s show was recording during the midst of Phil’s emceeing duties for the third annual Porchfest L.A. He offers a full report on this community event while also regaling with tale of the logistic showdown between Porchfest and No...
-
Year 20, Episode 23
Original Release Date: Monday 12 October 2026 Description: Is this brand new show “an action-packed crowd-pleaser”? Give it a listen and find out! It sure is long, we’ll guarantee you that! The cold open deals with the year 1939. Then the show officially starts with all the news you can use…
more -
Year 20, Episode 22
Chillpak Hollywood Hour – Year 20 Episode 22 Original Release Date: Monday 5 October 2026 Despite being recorded later than we like, and despite one of your friends in podcasting definitely “playing hurt”, this installment certainly proves to be a delight. Much hilarity starts the show, in no…
more -
Year 20, Episode 21
Original Release Date: Monday 28 September 2026 Description: If we know anything after almost 20 years of podcasting, it’s that people love hearing “production meetings on the air”! If that’s true, then what a show we have for you, with not one, but THREE production meetings – two of genuinely...
-
Year 20, Episode 20
Original Release Date: Monday 21 September 2026 Description: Hindsight, like this episode, is 20/20 (Year 20 Episode 20, get it?) and so Dean and Phil begin this week’s show with a clip from the long-running ABC news magazine show “20/20” from the mid-1980s remarking at just how contemporary…
more -
Year 20, Episode 19
Original Release Date: Monday 14 September 2026 Description: Dean Haglund is back from Stockholm and he has brought tales of family mysteries with him! Because Dean is also jet-lagged, Phil Leirness figured this show was the perfect time to ask him about the science of combatting jet lag, about...
-
Year 20, Episode 18
Original Release Date: Monday 7 September 2026 Description: Dean Haglund is in Stockholm, so for the bulk of the show, this week’s guest co-host, music, arts and culture journalist Yoshi Kato joins Phil Leirness to discuss the death of an all-time jazz great, the implosion of more than one jazz...
-
Year 20, Episode 17
Original Release Date: Monday 31 August 2026 Description: From free sex bungalows to Phil’s new monthly stage show, from two popular Netflix series to two Palme d’Or winning movies, from whisper quiet roller coasters to the proper pronunciation of the word “behemoth”, from a sci-fi cult film…
more -
Year 20, Episode 16
Original Release Date: Monday 24 August 2026 Description: In a cold open, Phil tells of the “Live Event of the Week”. Then, in the return of “Lawsuit of the Week”, the ongoing saga of Paramount’s desired merger with Warners gets updated, and the recent UK privacy lawsuit involving such notables…
more -
Year 20, Episode 15
Original Release Date: Monday 17 August 2026 Description: In a cold open, Dean and Phil share how impressed they are with an animated short made by the college student son of one of Phil’s high school classmates. In the return of “Lawsuit of the Week”, the most recent threats and developments...
-
Year 20, Episode 14
Original Release Date: Monday 10 August 2026 Description: In some ways, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness pick up where last week’s show (the one thousandth episode of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour) left off, by reminiscing about a couple of their early years spent “changing the way people listen to...
-
Year 20, Episode 13
Original Release Date: Monday 3 August 2026 Description: Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness commemorate this, the one thousandth episode of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour (originally called “From the Heart of Hollywood”), by reminiscing about their first few years of “changing the way people listen to...
-
Year 20, Episode 12
Original Release Date: Monday 27 July 2026 Description: One episode shy of their 1,000 installment of this show, Dean and Phil jokingly compare notes on the tolls reaching such a milestone have taken. Phil hints at some of his weekend 40th high school reunion adventures, Dean updates the…
more -
Year 20, Episode 11
Original Release Date: Monday 20 July 2026 Description: In a truly confusing, but nevertheless hilarious, cold open, Phil offers a correction about “Malt Air”. Thanks to emails from loyal listener and frequent contributor Maurice Terenzio, Dean and Phil have a ball talking about three great…
more -
Year 20, Episode 10
Original Release Date: Monday 13 July 2026 Description: It was a rough weekend for Dean Haglund, whose beloved Doberman, Leeloo, is undergoing emergency spinal surgery as we publish this show. It has also been a rough week for the media business where fear over job loss is concerned. In the UK…
more -
Year 20, Episode 9
Original Release Date: Monday 6 July 2026 Description: It was a big weekend, and your friends in podcasting have a lot of big topics to discuss, from the World Cup to the art of Caravaggio, from a masterpiece of German literature to the creation of synthetic life that demonstrates most of the...
-
Year 20, Episode 8
Original Release Date: Monday 30 June 2026 Description: Tomorrow is Canada Day and the end of the week is Independence Day in the USA. Your friends in podcasting have thoughts about celebrating. They have thoughts about Team Canada’s big win in the World Cup. They have thoughts about why very few...
-
Year 20, Episode 7
Original Release Date: Monday 22 June 2026 Description: There are two Carolinas in the USA. North and South. Phil is exploring both of them. So, this week’s show was pre-recorded quite a few days earlier than usual. In it, Dean and Phil discuss The Actor’s Gang, a well-respected theater company…
more -
Year 20, Episode 6
Original Release Date: Monday 15 June 2026 Description: In a rather shocking cold open, Phil reveals not only that he has World Cup Fever, but also that he is genuinely thrilled about the early tournament achievement accomplished by Team Canada! Brief remembrances of artist David Hockney and...
-
Year 20, Episode 5
Original Release Date: Monday 8 June 2026 Description: Phil was actually worried he and Dean wouldn’t have enough to discuss to fill this week’s show and wow was his worry unfounded! The gentlemen get the conversational ball rolling with the return of “What We’re Reading” wherein four quite...
-
Year 20, Episode 4
Original Release Date: Monday 1 June 2026 Description: Even we are impressed at the ground covered in only 74 minutes this week by your friends in podcasting! They start by going deep into the improvisational jazz of Sun Ra and dissecting comments Sonny Rollins made in a podcast about jazz being…
more -
Year 20, Episode 3
Original Release Date: Monday 25 May 2026 Description: Great theaters and great comedy are on the minds of your friends in podcasting. First, Dean and Phil pat themselves on the backs for taking the time at the beginning of the year to preview the film that ended up winning the Palme d’Or at the...
-
Year 20, Episode 2
Original Release Date: Monday 18 May 2026 Description: On this second episode of Year 20 (“the year we get it right!”), Dean and Phil have crime on their minds! They start with an appreciation of director Jules Dassin’s classic film noir Night and the City. Then a Hitchcockian thriller, Mirage…
more -
Year 20, Episode 1
Original Release Date: Monday 11 May 2026 Description: Welcome to Year 20 (“the year we get it right!”). On this, their overall 988th installment, Dean and Phil really put the “Hollywood” into “Chillpak Hollywood Hour” with showbiz news, analysis, previews and reviews. It starts with a discussion...
-
19th Anniversary Show
Original Release Date: Monday 4 May 2026 Description: Welcome to a show 19 years in the making! Special guest co-host Jon Lawlor, and special guests Erynn Petrulis, Yoshi Kato, Lily Holleman, and Marc Hershon join the festivities and help Dean and Phil celebrate this milestone event! Topics…
more -
Year 19, Episode 51
Original Release Date: Monday 27 April 2026 Description: We are one week away from Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness celebrating 19 years of “changing the way people listen to the internet” through YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour (now the flagship of the “Chillpak Hollywood Presents” expanded universe…
more -
Year 19, Episode 50
Original Release Date: Monday 20 April 2026 Description: After a cold open wherein Phil gives everyone the lay of the land, outtakes from last week’s show are picked up off the floor, dusted off and used, revealing an obviously drunken Dean and (a perhaps tipsy) Phil continuing their discussion…
more -
Year 19, Episode 49
Original Release Date: Monday 13 April 2026 Description: Dean Haglund is back in Los Angeles and he and Phil went up to the rooftop studio high atop the historic neighborhood of Los Feliz to get their drink on and to record this episode all about travel, commuter trains and movies. Dean sings the...
-
Year 19, Episode 48
Original Release Date: Monday 6 April 2026 Description: In his final show from his current trip to the East Coast, Phil regales with thoughts of Easter and tales of cherry blossoms. Dean explains why he did not see Project Hail Mary. An email from a friend of the show leads to further discussion…
more -
Year 19, Episode 47
Original Release Date: Monday 30 March 2026 Description: Phil is in the nation’s capital, and reveals that he really doesn’t understand much about weather at all. Dean is in Birmingham, Michigan, where the ongoing airport delays prevented him from participating in this weekend’s “No Kings”...
-
Year 19, Episode 46
Original Release Date: Monday 23 March 2026 Description: This week’s episode starts off with a follow-up to a fascinating bit of silent film history discussed on this weekend’s “Celebrity Deaths” show. That leads into discussion of the landmark 107 year-old Santa Monica Airport and what is to...
-
Year 19, Episode 45
Original Release Date: Monday 16 March 2026 Description: This week’s show begins with Dean and Phil discussing the World Baseball Classic and sharing (and answering) an email from a loyal listener who wanted to celebrate the recent 25th Anniversary of Dean’s series “The Lone Gunmen”. Recorded on...
-
Year 19, Episode 44
Original Release Date: Monday 9 March 2026 Description: After comparing notes on their forthcoming respective travel plans, Dean and Phil roll up their sleeves and discuss the 25th anniversary of “The Lone Gunmen” series. Then, in what will be a multi-week exploration, they begin to delve into…
more -
Year 19, Episode 43
Original Release Date: Monday 2 March 2026 Description: Dean and Phil discuss the fallout from Paramount supposedly closing the deal to acquire Warner Bros. and its assets. They celebrate the feat that Richard Linklater became the first-ever American filmmaker to achieve this week. They review...
-
Year 19, Episode 42
Original Release Date: Monday 23 February 2026 Description: After discussing the latest news regarding Netflix, their attempts to purchase Warner Bros, and what the current President of the U.S.A. is demanding they do, Dean and Phil talk about more of the intriguing movies coming out in 2026...
-
Year 19, Episode 41
Original Release Date: Monday 16 February 2026 Description: Your friends in podcasting discuss Netflix's (perhaps misleading) embrace of movie theaters, they celebrate the resurrection of Todd Hayne's seemingly dead but now forthcoming detective film (with Pedro Pascal replacing Joaquin Phoenix),...
-
Year 19, Episode 40
Original Release Date: Monday 9 February 2026 Description: It’s part two of a special two-part episode! 2025 was a truly great year in cinema and Dean and Phil have a great many topics to discuss as they each reveal their Top 5 films from the year that was (consult Year 19 Episode 39 for their…
more -
Year 19, Episode 39
Original Release Date: Monday 2 February 2026 Description: It’s part one of a special two-part episode! After a rather hilarious cold open, Dean and Phil immediately get down to the serious (ridiculous?) business of counting down their respective lists of the Top Ten Best Films of 2025. This…
more -
Year 19, Episode 38
Original Release Date: Monday 26 January 2026 Description: Phil is playing hurt with a nasty head cold. Dean is braving the sub-zero temperatures. And somehow, they manage to bring you one of the most epic installments yet of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! They start the show by discussing some of...
-
Year 19, Episode 37
Original Release Date: Monday 19 January 2026 Description: Phil gets things started by singing the praises of “The Lowdown” (and its emotional intelligence), and of Marc Hershon, who had this Sterlin Harjo-created Ethan Hawke-starring series on his list of the best television of 2025. Some…
more -
Year 19, Episode 36
Original Release Date: Monday 12 January 2026 Description: On the eve of the Golden Globes, Dean and Phil got together via Zoom with the Best of 2025 very much on their minds. They discuss the recent Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild award nominations. They discuss why the Writers Guild...
-
Year 19, Episode 35
Original Release Date: Monday 5 January 2026 Description: Our first installment of 2026 finds your friends in podcasting discussing why the President of the United States is so insistent on there being another Rush Hour movie from director Brett Ratner. Then, Dean and Phil delve into the two…
more -
Year 19, Episode 34
Original Release Date: Monday 29 December 2025 Description: Our final installment of 2025 finds your friends in podcasting discussing Dean's holiday travels, the health of Phil's wife, the latest on the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery and the use of AI (and self-learning programs) in a wide array…
more -
Year 19, Episode 33
Original Release Date: Monday 22 December 2025 Description: Dean and Phil got together high atop a certain “historic building” in downtown Los Angeles to watch the sunset on the winter solstice, to enjoy a lovely bottle of Malbec, and to record this week’s show! They discuss Dean’s holiday…
more -
Year 19, Episode 32
Original Release Date: Monday 15 December 2025 Description: Dean and Phil share seasonal decoration news, holiday plans, and Christmas travel tales. Then, Phil tells a hilarious story about an awards screening he attended. Wake Up Dead Man (“A Knives Out Mystery”) gets a deep dive analysis which...
-
Year 19, Episode 31
Original Release Date: Monday 8 November 2025 Description: On this week’s show, Dean Haglund is finally using a microphone once again. It makes his audio better, to be certain, but somehow it also manages to create several cameo opportunities for his dogs! Don’t let those moments dissuade you,...
-
Year 19, Episode 30
Original Release Date: Monday 1 December 2025 Description: Dean and Phil compare notes on their Thanksgivings and reveal how (and probably why) Phil got sick on his birthday! Then, they discuss a wide array of brand new and classic movies from various genres and from locales around the world,...
-
Year 19, Episode 29
Original Release Date: Monday 24 November 2025 Description: This week, Dean and Phil will begin to slowly roll out the new era of Chillpak Hollywood, releasing much more content each week. Phil provides details at the outset. Then, he and Dean engage in much show biz “water cooler” discussion.…
more -
Year 19, Episode 28
Original Release Date: Monday 17 November 2025 Description: Big changes are coming, with much more content each week. This week, Dean and Phil hint more at what these changes might bring, while whetting the appetite thru discussions of art, culture, television, movies and acting. The festivities...