This week we're joined by podcaster, writer, artist and academic Matthew Ellis [https://x.com/matthiasellis?lang=en] to talk about Wes Anderson's 2007 hit-and-miss feature The Darjeeling Limited. Can Gen X find spiritual sustenance in the East, or will they fail like their Boomer forerunners, empty, cold, confused and shivering in some pay-as-you-go ashram? Isn't it more fun to go shopping anyway? Sam (as a Brit) gets his Indian-hat on and Chase freaks out about Anglican hymns. This, and more, in today's episode. You can find Ellis's podcast at the Andersonianlly named 'The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm/id1712416222].' Check out his Substack, "Histories of the Present." [https://www.historiesofthepresent.com/] DPP Patreon: [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod] 

In today's episode Sam & Chase are joined by American novelist, founding editor of the LA Review of Books, and screenwriter Matthew Specktor — who worked directly on the optioning of David Fincher's 1999 classic adapation of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1996). Was 1999 the height of human civilisation? Or simply the start of a rage fueled dissent into middle child syndrome? Listen to find out. Find our Patreon at [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod]. 

Chase & Sam launch DEATHPHOTOPOD with a series of questions: what is Tony Blair? Who is the End of History? Whither Gen X?  Head to our Patreon at [https://www.patreon.com/c/deathphotopod] Dedicated to a paragon of Gen X virtue: Giles Alexander Hardyman-Charter (1967-2025).