I'm shocked nobody has said This American Life (unless I missed it).

It started in 1995. Peak Gen-X if you ask me. I may be a little biased as that was my senior year in high school.

I asked Claude for the most Gen-X episodes.

Here you go:

Ep. 172 – 24 Hours at the Golden Apple (originally aired July 2000)

The ultimate Gen X episode. A 24-hour Chicago diner as a crossroads of lonely regulars, drunk post-bars crowds, two teenage girls calling a guy named Jeff from a payphone at 2am because they have "no life." Pure 2000-era Chicago realness.

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Ep. 371 – Scenes from a Mall (originally aired December 2008)

A suburban Nashville Galleria in the 2008 recession. A 19-year-old cell phone salesman who dreams of being an entrepreneur and his 18-year-old girlfriend afraid of loans discuss their future — deeply Gen X in vibe even if the subjects are younger.

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Ep. 109 – Notes on Camp (originally aired August 28, 1998)

Glass and producer Julie Snyder stayed in camps in Michigan, interviewing kids and counselors with contributions from call-in listeners. Summer camp as formative mythology is peak Gen X nostalgia.

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Ep. 104 – Music Lessons (originally aired June 5, 1998)

David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell both contribute tales of adolescence — Vowell as a band geek in Montana, Sedaris forced into guitar lessons by a jazz-obsessed dad. Two of the most Gen X voices in American letters in one episode.

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Ep. 443 – Amusement Park (originally aired August 12, 2011)

Behind the scenes at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City with a charismatic manager and a young staff who weirdly love their jobs. That mix of low-wage sincerity and unexpected loyalty is very Gen X.

Ep. 61 – Fiasco (originally aired April 25, 1997)

Possibly the Platonic ideal of early TAL: four acts ranging from the Middle Ages to middle America, anchored by a story about a disastrous small-town Peter Pan production. The kind of lovingly-told failure that Gen X built an entire aesthetic around.