Outrage Overload: Finding calm through science and balanced perspectives

By David Beckemeyer

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If you're a curious person fed up with outrage culture and looking for thoughtful, balanced discussions, this podcast is for you. 40 minutes every few weeks. It will change your life.

Outrage Overload is a show dedicated to exploring the pervasive impact of outrage in society and politics, and providing strategies to lower the temperature. In each episode we explore a different aspect of the outrage industry with leading scientists, researchers, authors, community leaders, and other experts. Topics include political polarization, outrage exhaustion, extremism, civility, incivility, healthy conflict, disinformation, information literacy, outrage fatigue, stress, media, social media, and even technology and artificial intelligence.

Join us to rediscover humanity in your rivals, improve your mental health, and find practical solutions to navigate the landscape of outrage.


Episode Date
BONUS - Post-Election 2024 Special: What Are Voters Really Saying?
Nov 14, 2024
51. You can't shift a negative mindset by just saying you will - Gary Simonds
Nov 06, 2024
BONUS - Tech Bro Apocalypse Dreams - David Troy
Oct 30, 2024
50. I got to the point where I just didn't even want to consume the news anymore - Julie Rose
Oct 23, 2024
BONUS - You can't influence someone you are not connected to - Karin Tamerius
Oct 16, 2024
49. What would an environmental saint look like? - Roger S. Gottlieb
Oct 09, 2024
BONUS - We don't have for election day any particular culture - Jonathan Bernstein
Oct 02, 2024
48. People were also getting a little boost in outrage - Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello
Sep 25, 2024
BONUS - Centrism is no longer viable - Steve McIntosh
Sep 18, 2024
47. People have already decided what is factual and correct - Samuel C. Spitale
Sep 11, 2024
BONUS - Rethinking Your News Diet: Two Approaches to a Healthier Information Intake - Drew Steigerwald & Alex Fink
Sep 04, 2024
46. The emotions are so high right now that really optics matter - Robert Gutsche
Aug 28, 2024
BONUS - Project 2025 and Agenda 47 - Sean Evans
Aug 21, 2024
45. A Messy Synthesis of Rational Decision-Making and Subjective Assessment - Guy Burgess
Aug 14, 2024
BONUS - We're Different. You're Not Going to Turn a Conservative into a Liberal - Michael Anderson
Aug 07, 2024
44. We tend to have the strongest emotions over things that we understand the least - Melanie Trecek-King
Jul 31, 2024
BONUS - When “Listen to the Other Side” Isn’t Enough (Emergency Panel) - Phyllis Leavitt and Lisa Swallow
Jul 24, 2024
43. Enemy at First Sight: Decoding the Neural Shortcuts of Political Division - Carsten Sander
Jul 17, 2024
BONUS - OMG, those other people are not insane - Lisa Swallow
Jul 10, 2024
42. Maybe we were not ready - Michalis Mamakos
Jul 03, 2024
Okay Boomer - Housing - Cameron Lee Cowan and Jake Didinsky
Jun 26, 2024
41. You can't make something settled just by saying it's settled - Ilana Redstone
Jun 19, 2024
BONUS - Negativity Addiction - Travis Monteleone
Jun 12, 2024
40. You're funneled down this rabbit hole of extremist beliefs - Jack Wippell
Jun 05, 2024
39. The Poisoning of the American Mind - Lawrence Eppard (rebroadcast)
May 22, 2024
BONUS - America on the Knife’s Edge
May 15, 2024
38. Was it social media in the living room with the candlestick? - Thomas Zeitzoff
May 08, 2024
BONUS - Believing pencils are charming becomes politicized - Dino Carpentras
May 01, 2024
37. There is an enormous amount of distrust and gullibility - Andreas Schedler
Apr 24, 2024
36. It's not as if there's only certain types of people that are affected by this – Åsa Wikforss
Apr 10, 2024
35. We're not giving the wrong answer, but we're asking the wrong question - Hyrum Lewis
Mar 27, 2024
34. It has to be person to person for it to mean anything - Luke Nathan Phillips
Mar 13, 2024
BONUS - They're not evil. They just think differently than you - Tami Pyfer
Mar 06, 2024
33. There's been a lot of pushback against this - Alia Braley
Feb 28, 2024
BONUS - GuesSync! you don't need to know politics to play the game - Ashwin Rajadesingan
Feb 21, 2024
32. We just dig our heels in and make assumptions that are often wrong - Ken Futernick
Feb 14, 2024
BONUS - It doesn't seem as if we're all playing by the same rules - Shannon McGregor
Feb 07, 2024
31. In a democracy you get exactly the government you deserve - Kevin Smith
Jan 31, 2024
30. The History of Outrage TV - Robert Thompson
Jan 17, 2024
MLK Day Special - Hajar Yazdiha
Jan 15, 2024
29. This is basically trying to avoid civil war - Peter Coleman
Jan 03, 2024
BONUS - A lot of angry reactions (remix) - Steven Rathje
Dec 27, 2023
28. Listening is more important than talking - Matt Levendusky
Dec 13, 2023
BONUS - One-year Anniversary Special – Peter Ditto
Dec 06, 2023
27. Make sure that you're not getting high on your own supply - Dannagal G. Young
Nov 29, 2023
BONUS - There's a lot of pressure to conform - Lawrence Eppard
Nov 22, 2023
26. The cascade process is a way that minds change at scale - David McRaney
Nov 15, 2023
25. So we thought we would do a tournament - Jan Voelkel
Nov 01, 2023
BONUS 2023 Recap – Meet Austin Chen
Oct 25, 2023
24. The good news is we really do know a lot about what we need to do - Phyllis Leavitt
Oct 18, 2023
23. For the most part, people are speaking into the void - Sanjay Jolly
Oct 04, 2023
BONUS - If traditional medicine was doing a good job, there wouldn't be as much demand for alternatives - Britt Hermes & Michael Lenz
Sep 27, 2023
22. The Dignity Index - Tami Pyfer
Sep 20, 2023
21. I don't try to make sense of it anymore - Courtney Heard
Sep 06, 2023
20. Make Hondas fly across the news - Yevgeny Simkin
Aug 23, 2023
BONUS - Samizdat Online's Battle Against Censorship - Yevgeny Simkin
Aug 23, 2023
19. About half the people simply don't notice the gorilla - Chris Chabris
Aug 09, 2023
BONUS - Step one: storm the capitol - Ben Hamilton
Aug 02, 2023
18. You can't necessarily just vote your way out of this - David Troy
Jul 26, 2023
BONUS - Secret docs Trump indictment - Jon Marshall
Jul 19, 2023
17. The billion dollar question for democracy - Tobias Rose-Stockwell
Jul 12, 2023
16. The biggest conspiracy of all is that nobody really knows what they're doing - Michael Serazio
Jun 28, 2023
BONUS - Street Outrage - Unfiltered Trio
Jun 21, 2023
15. Validation is the WD40 of our world - Hesha Abrams
Jun 14, 2023
14. The danger is, of course, when Dennis Nedry deactivates them - Lawrence Eppard
May 31, 2023
BONUS - An anthropologist goes to CPAC - Alexander Hinton
May 24, 2023
13. This is really primal stuff - Ritsaart Reimann
May 17, 2023
12. Not everybody wants to talk to a sexologist, yet everybody has sex - Tiffynee Terry-Thomas
May 03, 2023
BONUS - ChatGPT vs. Human Political Persuasion - Hui Bai
Apr 26, 2023
11. The neuroscience of outrage porn - Alex Korb - Part Two
Apr 19, 2023
10. The neuroscience of outrage porn - Alex Korb - Part One
Apr 05, 2023
BONUS - We dismissed him as a buffoon - Kevin Bass
Mar 29, 2023
9. A lot of angry reactions - Steven Rathje - Part Two
Mar 22, 2023
8. A lot of angry reactions - Steven Rathje - Part One
Mar 08, 2023
7. What took us five years of research he understood intuitively - Jeffrey M. Berry
Feb 22, 2023
BONUS - Ninety-nine percent were so nice
Feb 15, 2023
6. Stealing their dishwasher - Kurt Gray
Feb 08, 2023
BONUS - Twitter and Mastodon - David Troy
Feb 03, 2023
5. Holocaust Denial - Luke Berryman
Jan 25, 2023
4. We've Met the Enemy. And it's Us. - Sean Evans
Jan 11, 2023
BONUS - ChatGPT weighs in on outrage porn
Dec 28, 2022
3. It Just Said "See Incivility" - Russ Charvonia
Dec 21, 2022
BONUS - Outrage porn's impact on the midterms - Sean Evans
Dec 08, 2022
2. Buckle Up - Peter Ditto - Part Two
Dec 08, 2022
1. Buckle Up - Peter Ditto - Part One
Dec 08, 2022
Pre-release Trailer
Oct 08, 2022