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Outrage Overload

David Beckemeyer

If you're part of the "exhausted majority" who is fed up with outrage culture and wants to be less stressed out, listen to this. 40 minutes every few weeks. It will change your life. Outrage Overload is a show about outrage in society and politics, and lowering 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.

27. Make sure that you're not getting high on your own supply - Dannagal G. YoungNovember 29, 2023
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BONUS - There's a lot of pressure to conform - Lawrence EppardNovember 22, 2023
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26. The cascade process is a way that minds change at scale - David McRaneyNovember 15, 2023
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25. So we thought we would do a tournament - Jan VoelkelNovember 01, 2023
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BONUS 2023 Recap – Meet Austin ChenOctober 25, 2023
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24. The good news is we really do know a lot about what we need to do - Phyllis LeavittOctober 18, 2023
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23. For the most part, people are speaking into the void - Sanjay JollyOctober 04, 2023
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BONUS - If traditional medicine was doing a good job, there wouldn't be as much demand for alternatives - Britt Hermes & Michael LenzSeptember 27, 2023
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22. The Dignity Index - Tami PyferSeptember 20, 2023
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21. I don't try to make sense of it anymore - Courtney HeardSeptember 06, 2023
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BONUS - Samizdat Online's Battle Against Censorship - Yevgeny SimkinAugust 23, 2023
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20. Make Hondas fly across the news - Yevgeny SimkinAugust 23, 2023
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19. About half the people simply don't notice the gorilla - Chris ChabrisAugust 09, 2023
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BONUS - Step one: storm the capitol - Ben HamiltonAugust 02, 2023
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18. You can't necessarily just vote your way out of this - David TroyJuly 26, 2023
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BONUS - Secret docs Trump indictment - Jon MarshallJuly 19, 2023
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17. The billion dollar question for democracy - Tobias Rose-StockwellJuly 12, 2023
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16. The biggest conspiracy of all is that nobody really knows what they're doing - Michael SerazioJune 28, 2023
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BONUS - Street Outrage - Unfiltered TrioJune 21, 2023
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15. Validation is the WD40 of our world - Hesha AbramsJune 14, 2023
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14. The danger is, of course, when Dennis Nedry deactivates them - Lawrence EppardMay 31, 2023
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BONUS - An anthropologist goes to CPAC - Alexander HintonMay 24, 2023
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13. This is really primal stuff - Ritsaart ReimannMay 17, 2023
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12. Not everybody wants to talk to a sexologist, yet everybody has sex - Tiffynee Terry-ThomasMay 03, 2023
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BONUS - ChatGPT vs. Human Political Persuasion - Hui BaiApril 26, 2023
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