Are Generations Even a Thing?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We all love to tour our generation's superiority, but who decides where the split occurs and what to name it? And is this even a thing or just an arbitrary division?

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here.
0:19.6	Just a few Gen Xers hanging doing our thing,
0:22.9	being too cool for you. I'm drinking Mountain Dew, Code Red. And that's it. Wow. Look at you.
0:32.9	On fire already. I don't know about that. I could have done a lot better, but that was off the dome.
0:39.5	Yeah, well, off the dome,
0:41.6	that's probably a millennial or Gen Z saying.
0:44.8	I got that from you.
0:46.8	Well, I got that from Noel.
0:49.0	Oh, well, Noel's definitely a millennial.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.2	He is a millennial through and through.
0:53.9	As we'll see, the birth
0:56.9	cohort that Noel and every one of his age cohort was born into are exactly alike, and they're
1:04.0	different from everybody older and younger, and it's pure science that's proven that.
1:09.4	Yeah, and by the way, we're talking about Noel co-host, obviously, of stuff they don't want you to know, among other great things that he's done, including former mini movie crush co-host. Yeah. I didn't know if you were going to say that for a second. I was going to jump in and be like, don't forget Movie Crush.
1:28.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:28.5	He hosted those minis with me.
1:30.2	Yeah, for sure.
1:31.4	And he was,
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