How The Outsiders Changed Youth Culture and Created Our Biggest Stars- Episode # 819
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Cathy and Todd explore how The Outsiders became a defining moment for Gen X identity—and launched a generation of future stars who dominated Teen & Tiger Beat. They break down how the movie came together, what it taught us, and why its themes still resonate today, for us and our kids. Plus, all the WTF moments, random facts, unforgettable quotes, and cringe-classic scenes that make it both iconic and fun to revisit.
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| 0:00.0 | Too bad it can't stay like that all the time. |
| 0:05.0 | Nothing gold can stay. |
| 0:07.0 | Huh? |
| 0:09.0 | Nature's for screen is gold. |
| 0:12.0 | Her hardest hue to hold. |
| 0:16.0 | Her early leaves a flower. |
| 0:20.0 | But only so an hour. |
| 0:21.6 | Their leaves subsides to leaf. |
| 0:26.6 | So Eden sank to grief. |
| 0:30.6 | So dawn goes down today. |
| 0:34.6 | Nothing gold can stay. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh, Johnny. |
| 0:45.7 | Oh, pony boy. |
| 0:46.7 | Oh, pony boy. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome back to our second officials and pop parenting podcast. |
| 0:53.3 | Where Gen X pop culture meets real life reflection so you guys know |
| 0:58.4 | what we're doing here you didn't do the clapping baby there it is i didn't know when oh i didn't know |
| 1:02.9 | that we're still figuring out where the clapping goes maybe we should just clap a lot but so what |
| 1:07.4 | are we doing here mindful living and emotional awareness through the music movies and moments that shaped us that's right that's what we doing here? Mindful living and emotional awareness through the music, movies, and moments that shaped us. |
| 1:13.9 | That's right. |
| 1:14.2 | That's what we're here. And this one that we're doing today, it shaped us. |
| 1:18.6 | I was excited. I was very excited to do this podcast. And then you and I watched it on Friday night. |
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