Death is a Photograph

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• Season 1, Gen X — Episode 36 — Gen X Wrap Up

  September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

  After a year, your hosts are ready to wrap Gen X. Season One is at a close. What did we learn about the self-professedly forgotten generation? What has Banksy to do with the spirit of the age? And, most importantly we answer the question…

• Season 1, Gen X — Episode 35 — American Movie (1999)

  September 13, 2026 · 49 min

  DPP is back, baby — and this time for an encore. Chase and Sam thought they'd round out the season — find a 'capstone', if you will — for the last year. That pediment takes the form of Chris Smith's fly-on-the-wall documentary American…

• Summer Break

  August 2, 2026 · 5 min

  Out of Office

• Season 1, Gen X — Episode 34 — While We're Young (2014)

  July 30, 2026 · 57 min

  Fear the coming of the trilby. Yes, that's right — today, in the last episode of our first season, we're looking at Gen X accelerating towards middle age and a crash encounter with those coming up behind them: millennials. No one captured…

• Season 1, Gen X — Episode 33 — Amores Perros (2000) + Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

  July 20, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

  Patreon here. It's the early 2000s in Mexico — and everyone is feelin' fine. The PRI's uninterrupted one-party 71-year reign of social-democratic, but also neoliberal, authoritarian incompetence is over. The insanity of the drug war…

• Season 1, Gen X — Episode 31 — No (2012)

  July 5, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  Patreon here. This week, DP heads south. South to Chile — a nation which ended its military junta and dictatorship through an advertising-powered referendum just as the Cold War was ending. Could there be material that's more End of…

• Season 1, Gen X — Episode 30 — Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

  June 28, 2026 · 52 min

  Patreon here.  This week DPP delves into Guy Ritchie's feature debut Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). What did the 1990s rebirth of Cockney-cool during the Blair era mean for Gen X? How did London feel just before the turn of…

• Special Episode – Gerontocracy in America (2026) w/Samuel Moyn

  June 25, 2026 · 12 min

  Patreon and full episode here. In the second of DPP's special book episodes, Sam and Chase interview Yale Law and History professor Samuel Moyn on his new book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old are Hoarding Power and Wealth – and What…