The Outsiders House - Danny Boy O'Connor Turns Movie History into a Cultural Landmark

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Danny Boy O’Connor from House of Pain returns to update the incredible story behind The Outsiders House Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma! He explains how a random tour stop and a $15,000 gamble turned into a lifelong passion project preserving one of the most iconic movie sets in pop culture history. Danny details the painstaking process of restoring the dilapidated home used in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders, how he tracked down rare memorabilia including Matt Dillon’s leather jacket, Rob Lowe’s flannel, and Coppola’s director’s chair, and how community donations from the likes of Jack White, Billy Idol, and The Outsiders author S.E. Hinton herself helped make it all possible. Danny also talks about turning the house into a Tulsa landmark, the thousands of students who tour it every year, and the upcoming Outsiders House Benefit that aims to raise funds for an S.E. Hinton Museum. Plus, Danny shares stories about meetin the original cast, his favorite moments from the movie, and what “Stay Gold” really means to him. Purchase tickets to The Stay Gold Gala at The Outsiders House Museum on October 12th: https://www.theoutsidershouse.com/ Talk Is Jericho is available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/ChrisJerichoFozzy 👍 Don’t forget to Like, Subscribe, and hit the 🔔 to stay updated on new episodes! More from Talk Is Jericho: 📸 Instagram: @chrisjerichofozzy | @talkisjericho 🐦 Twitter/X: @IAmJericho | @TalkIsJericho 🌐 Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	Talk is Jericho, Mama, talk is me.
0:13.0	All right here with Danny Boy, and this is the Outsiders Museum.
0:18.0	It is, the Outsiders House Museum, and you are the first guest. So I will, go ahead. I'm sorry. No, no, no. I was just going to say that. Welcome back. Thank you. I was here eight years ago when you originally first bought the place and you just mentioned I was the first guest of the. place did not look like this it was almost like
0:39.7	dilapidated you could have just you know tore the whole place down trash and holes and I mean my goodness
0:46.5	man you have built this into such a beautiful place and such a it's a it's a monument in Tulsa now
0:53.1	it is and you know what thank you welcome
0:56.2	back uh I was you know when you caught us originally I think WWE was in town yeah and you had come
1:04.2	by sight on scene you just kind of made your own way here ironically somebody from Brooklyn and I
1:09.4	knew knew somebody who was like
1:11.3	working back end for that and was trying to get people, he was excited about it because he knew
1:15.3	me through my friend. And then I was like, do you know? And you're like, no, I just came by. I was
1:19.7	like, what? Which is even more impressive because once we, we met and we started to talk, we realized
1:25.4	we were both 80s pop culture fans.
1:29.4	Yeah.
1:30.0	I always say, like, you know, the television raised me.
1:33.2	The movies raised me.
1:34.3	I'm a latchkey kid with a very small family.
1:37.5	So I got a lot of like tips and tricks and marching orders, if you will, from some of my favorite characters, whether they
1:45.4	were comic, book, book, not that I was reading a lot, but definitely movies and television.
1:51.6	I mean, Fonzie was the first, like, rebel in my mind, you know, and I know that very much
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