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October 25, 2026 · 47 min

Chase and Sam are taking on the ultimate quest—a boomer Epic of Gilgamesh, Shahnameh, Middlemarch, or Buddenbrooks, if you will. In honour of Michael Apted's decades-long Up series (1964-2026) coming to an end this autumn, DPP thought…
Mini Season — The Up Series — Episode 1 — 7 Up (1964) and 7 Plus Seven (1970)

October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

Patreon here. Chase and Sam are taking on the ultimate quest — a boomer Epic of Gilgamesh, Shahnameh, Middlemarch, or Buddenbrooks — if you will. In honour of Michael Apted's decades-long Up series (1964-2026) coming to an end this autumn…
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…
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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…
Season 1, Gen X — Episode 29 — Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

June 21, 2026 · 36 min

Patreon here. This week, DPP explores the cult film — Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered (2001). Panned at the time by venerable critics like Roger Ebert — Freddy Got Fingered has only grown in influence in the last two decades, generating a…
Season 1, Gen X — Episode 28 — Brat (1997)

June 14, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

Patreon here. This week, the DPP lads head east — to the wild years of Russia in the 1990s after the fall of communism. That's right — we're talking about 1997's gangster coming-of-age feature Brat by Aleksei Balabanov, a film that…