What The Hunger Games Teaches Us About Dehumanization with Jacey, Camryn and Skylar Adams Episode #827
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Our daughters Jacey, Camryn, and Skylar join us as we explore the themes behind The Hunger Games books and movies and what they say about power, survival, and the cost of being human in an inhumane system. We talk about the Capitol’s need for control, how hope threatens oppression, and what happens when kids are forced to grow up too soon. Plus, we connect it all to parenting—what it means to show up and why sibling bonds matter when systems fail.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you, are you coming to the tree? |
| 0:05.1 | But dad may call down for his life to flee. |
| 0:09.5 | Strange things did happen. |
| 0:11.4 | You know, stranger rooted. |
| 0:13.3 | If we met, admit, met in the hangage. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to Zen Pop Parenting, where Gen X-Pop Culture meets Real Life Reflection. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Kathy Adams. Todd is here, but he's off mic because we have some special guests today. |
| 0:27.8 | This is episode number 827, and we are going to be discussing The Hunger Games. |
| 0:34.7 | Trilogy, I guess we'd call it, because we're going to talk about the movies, but |
| 0:38.4 | no, trilogy is the books, right, girls? |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.3 | Three books and four movies. |
| 0:44.4 | Okay. So our guests today are our daughters. And if you listen to Zen Parenting Radio or |
| 0:50.3 | our other podcast called Pop Culturing, you probably already know them, but they haven't been in the studio for like a year or two. |
| 0:56.5 | So I'd like to, you have some clapping ready there, Todd. |
| 1:00.9 | I'd like to welcome back, J.C. Adams. |
| 1:03.4 | Hello. |
| 1:04.6 | J.C. Adams is 22 years old. |
| 1:06.3 | She just graduated from college. |
| 1:11.2 | I'd like to welcome Cameron Adams. |
| 1:13.9 | Present. |
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