This Week in Outrage

Mar 10 2025 98 ep. 73 mins 1

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An informal chat where Lisa and David from Outrage Overload discuss items from the news and other topics of outrage. The main podcast is Outrage Overload, a science podcast, recorded and mixed in the highest quality, where David interviews scientists, researchers, authors, and other experts about outrage in society & politics and lowering the temperature. outrageoverload.net

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Guest Co-Host: Outrage with a Twist - 3/9/2025

Mar 10 2025 70 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about… wait, there’s no Lisa this week. This week, David is joined by guest co-host Addison. We talk about Canadians being angry; DOGE actions; Supreme Court says Trump must unfreeze foreign aid payments; Democratic messaging problems; a quarter of startups in YC's current cohort have codebases written by AI; crypto and eliminating the dollar as t

Lisa Respects Tesla Trolling: Cybertrucks Turn into Projection Screens - 3/2/2025

Mar 03 2025 75 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about Zelensky, Trump, Vance Oval Office catastrophe; FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's flu vaccine; shakeups at MSNBC; faux Epstein papers release; time-traveling Trump theory; measles outbreak and deaths; H5N1 bird flu spread; U.S government shifts from bureaucracy to active malice; middle of the night shuttering of 18f at

You Can’t Just Go Back: The Future Won’t Play by Old Rules - 2/23/2025

Feb 24 2025 70 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about misapplication of scientific research in disinformation campaigns; Lisa supports Kash Patel in rebuffing Musk’s email about five things; J6 pardoned proudboys getting newly arrested; Trump court cases work their way through the system; RFK Jr. orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads; CPAC comments; how immigration came to be a prominent concern in

Outrage, FOMO, and how Lisa misses the Gossip - 2/16/2025

Feb 17 2025 61 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about Lisa has FOMO about outrage; Musk’s kid X Æ A-Xii tells Trump to shush his mouth (probably); Pete Hegseth saying it is "unrealistic" to expect Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 borders; Musk, DOGE, corruption, and division; DOGE taking steps shield its communications and records from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests; crisis and mass

Lisa is done with Chris Cuomo and his Werther’s-fueled self-aggrandizing - 2/9/2025

Feb 10 2025 59 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about the federal workforce; Cuomo on NewsNation; the Democrats’ version of opposition of sternly shaking their heads while the Trump admin bulldozer keeps rolling; NOAA targeted by DOGE; Lisa’s TikTok sacrifice; Lisa also deleted her Twitter/X account; Grammys and Kanye’s wife, Bianca Censori’s “naked dress”; the firing and eviction of Li

Autocracy in America - 2/2/2025

Feb 03 2025 73 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about how we woke up in an autocracy (see references below). The Trump administration's recent actions, which we characterize as autocratic and illegal. Elon Musk and his team have taken over the Office of Personnel Management and the Treasury Department, dismissing officials who opposed them and gaining access to sensitive information. They have also

Handshake Snubs and the Petty Parade - 1/26/2025

Jan 27 2025 76 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about VP Harris snubbed by spouses during swearing in; Caitlyn Jenner brutally mocked online after executive order recognizing only two genders; performers at inauguration; Mel Gibson calls Trump “daddy”; Elizabeth’s Warren’s letter to Musk; Oscar nominations; Jan 6 pardons; purge of inspectors general; Lewis Hamilton and Sofia Vergara; immigr

Houston, We Have a Rat Problem - 1/19/2025

Jan 20 2025 77 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about Diet Coke and Inauguration Day cringe; TikTok ban and national security threats; MSNBC Rachel Maddow coming back to daily and president stepping down; UnitedHealth’s stock down nearly 20% since UnitedHealthcare's CEO was killed; military vax discharges; Aaron Rodgers documentary and ayahuasca retreats; drug-eating rats invade Houston PD eviden

Lisa’s Denny’s Story of Syrup and Sadness - 1/12/2025

Jan 13 2025 64 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about LA wildfires; Meta eliminating fact-checkers; Giuliani held in contempt (again?); Biden extends legal status for nearly 1 million immigrants; 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES); ex-FBI informant sentenced to 6 years for lying about Biden-Ukraine connections; latest distractions by president-elect; John Fetterman plans Mar-a-Lago visit, citing

Welcoming 2025: Surviving the Holidays with a Broken Oven and White Carpet - 1/5/2025

Jan 06 2025 70 mins

This week, Lisa and David talk about holiday craziness; Elon Musk sock-puppet accounts cringe; Josh Hawley accuses credit card companies of monopolistic behavior; Tesla self-driving AI turns on AI Tech CEO Jesse Lyu; Meta reinvents "Tom from Myspace"; AI experts think AI will destroy all humanity; missing Rep. Kay Granger found in a memory care facility; Georgia Judge who lost re-e