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On the Way to School" Series, Season 4 Episode 6

Join a working mom and her teenager for the real, unfiltered conversations that happen on the way to school. as they navigate everything from the big questions about life, friendships, and the future, to the daily chaos of homework, pop culture, Background music and constant disagreement . No experts, no scripts—just honest talks in the one place we're all a captive audience: the car. It's a podcast for parents and teens who know the morning drive is about more than just getting from point A to point B

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 1:21

You know you can drive there, right? You know you can drive back there and actually drive the right direction.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:57

Such a thing I wonder in this process. I'm a stranger in this town, play with me.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

Reminded me, I need my rice today.

SPEAKER_08 2:35

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Love to go to the side.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

Oh so scary. Because sometimes I don't know where it's coming from. I like left and right, the front and back. I saw it to be fair, it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Are you reading books these days or no? I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

Are you?

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Yes. What you read it? Uh the next five years of China. Yours reads such different books from me. I read all kinds of books, this is just one kind of. I also read the what do you I don't remember English word? You write it after the people die. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:37

I know, I saw you.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

So what are you reading?

SPEAKER_04 6:52

I read the outsiders. Do you know what that is? So you've read No. Okay, I see. Do you know what it is? No. Yeah, no. So what it is? It's a it's a book that normally you read in school, but like we did. And like there's this group of kids. Yeah. They're called greasers. Yeah. Very greasy.

SPEAKER_03 7:21

It's a novel.

unknown 7:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

Okay. But I need to understand what you can't do it, but not to the only kids.

SPEAKER_04 7:27

But you understand when I don't practically there's like there's Pony Boy. Yeah. There's Soda Pop. Yeah. There's Barry. Yeah. There's Dali. Well, there's Dali. And there's Tubit. Right? And that's like their gang. Yeah. And they're a gang. And then there's also this other gang they call well, when I read it, I called them socks because it's about S-O-K. But they're called Soch because it's short for socialites. Okay. But I'm gonna call them Socks because it sounds better. So we're gonna call that. Okay. So they're socks, and they're like rich people. Yeah. They're like rich teenagers. Yeah. And they like bully the greasers because they're not rich. The greasers are poor. Right, you feel me? And then one night, Johnny and Pony Boy, they were like outside in the parking lot because um Johnny gets hit hit by his father, so he doesn't like going home. So they were out in the parking lot. And then these stupid so socialite sock, whatever people come, and they like start trying to drown Pony Boy in a fountain. So a Johnny stabs one of them. And then they run away to a church because they have to hide from the police because he just killed someone. Do you feel me? I follow you. Yes, you feel me? And then um they asked Dally for help. So Dally came and they had to cut their long, greasy hair, whatever, like it was very dramatic, yeah. And then the church caught on fire, and Johnny went in to save like two children, and then but he didn't come out, so Dally wanted to save Johnny. But Johnny was like really burnt and stuff, and then he was in the hospital for a while, but then he died, right? And then Dally kind of just went insane, and Dally got killed by the police because he's like a fugitive. It's like all very dramatic. But yeah. So he got killed by the police, and then it just kind of went on like that. It's a good book, you should read it.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

The name of the book is The Outsiders. The Outsiders, yeah. Okay, so the people who are not in the normal social, outside the normal social.

SPEAKER_04 9:43

Yeah. Okay. I just like like Pony, his parents are dead. So he lives with his brother Darien Soda Pop. You know? Do you find anything the book associated with you? No. Okay. I'm not really poor, nor did my parents die. Nor do my parents beat me. I hope not. But like I also don't bully people. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

Where I didn't see.

SPEAKER_04 10:19

See, why did you see one direction and then go to the other? Does it have a hot shot? Scam artist. Oh, that's the next place. We need bags.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

We need what?

SPEAKER_03 10:36

We need bags and ideal.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

See, you say that the last time they didn't have a box.

SPEAKER_03 10:40

Is it a box?

SPEAKER_00 10:41

Did they do they have boxes?