Outrage Factory

#What made the internet angry this week? Another famous guy got chased off the internet for doing something offensive! You can't call your partner your partner, unless you're gay! Cartoons aren't as sexy as they used to be! People are drawing on horses for heartwarming and/or nefarious reasons! Mayonnaise ice cream! Plastic straw bans are ableist AND sexist! All this and more! Talking points: Dan...

#What made the internet angry this week? Facebook takes the brave and totally comprehensible step of defending Holocaust deniers' feelings, we start a new survivalist cult, and the inevitable downside of cultivating a world where roving mobs of angry people can get anyone fired from their job. Also: Dale and Derek share their problematic tweets! Talking points: Facebook thinks holocaust denying is...

#What made the internet angry this week? We decide which book is the ultimate 'white dude owns this but has never read it' book of all time, Elon Musk makes a hard left turn to Bond villain after his advances are rebuffed by a bunch of Thai boys, Dale turns on his hero Jordan Peterson, we sell out to the alt-right, Amazon fails to keep up with demand on the shopping holiday they invented, why reta...

#What made the internet angry this week? Extra-special guest host and friend of the pod Julie Robertson joins us to discuss gender reveal parties, the perfect shitstorm of internet outrage that was the #PlaneBae fiasco, share some Jordan Peterson takes, and explain when it's okay to drown a 16 year old in a vat of fast food soda. Also: all the sensitivity training in the world can't cure Philadelp...

#What made the internet angry this week? It's our fiftieth episode extravaganza! Also, in honoUr of Canada Day, we look at Canada's greatest and most-not-great contributions to the world, discuss our now-official trade war with the U.S., and talk about why Yelp is now the political weapon of choice for people with holes in their brains. Talking points: Things Canadians did Buy Canadian! The Red He...

#What made the internet angry this week? What made the internet angry this week? On an internet outrage-related podcast, we can only go so long without talking about Trump; specifically, this week, his practice of throwing children in cages. And then the First Lady wore a $50 jacket to make a point about...something? Also: The Republican Party is just gaslighting us all, we're socialists now, libe...

#What made the internet angry this week? Dale and Derek spend five minutes sampling the best (only?) Scottish contribution to international cuisine, the breakfast place that also serves burgers now serves more burgers, a stern dad goes overboard getting his child to eat brussels sprouts, we reminisce about the good ol' days of child discipline, Chris Hardwick gets exposed, hell hath no fury like a...

#What made the internet angry this week? Dale shares his vacation highlights with us, Dale and Derek take a look at social media response to two high-profile suicides this week, Star Wars fans are the goddamn worst, Miss America takes the 'objectification' out of 'beauty pageant', Trump continues to fuck up decades of diplomatic ties. Talking points: Posting the suicide hotline online doesn't help...

#What made the internet angry this week? Dale's still off being a tourist so the effervescent Brandee Brown fills in on guest hosting duties, where we take on Trudeau's $4.5b gift to the oil industry, there's always money in the lemonade stand, and rich people getting mad about rich people shit. Talking points: We bought a pipeline Lemonade-funded healthcare is the future Shedding a tear for peopl...

What made people on the internet angry this week? This week, we discuss the mysterious case of the Tim Horton's poo-flinger, Morgan Freeman's harassment allegations, why professional trolls like Tomi Lahren deserve to be doused with water in public, and the NFL's botched response to anthem protestors.

What made the internet angry this week? Racism? At a DENNY'S? In the future, everyone will get 15 minutes of hate, police social media fails, YouTube stars are the fucking worst, Chris Brown still sucks. RIP KLOUT.

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What made people angry on the internet this week? Cosmo's awful dating advice (6:10), Dale's encounter with spicy water (10:06), the worst thing we ever pretended to like for a woman's affection (17:48), Rupi Kaur is not good (18:24), a dad makes a joke as old as time and it goes horribly wrong (22:12), everyone's crazy for puck girl (31:24), Derek explains shoes to Dale (40:57), potheads are the...

What made people angry on the internet over the past three weeks? Derek vs. social media, Zuckerberg vs. old people who don't understand things, millennials vs. themselves, thoughts vs. prayers, hipsters vs. other hipsters, and Dicks vs guns. Songs: 'Bad' by Save Face 'Going Out of My Head' by Fatboy Slim

What were people angry about on the internet this week? U.S. Customs agents want the keys to your Snapchat, the world's greatest response to vegan protestors in history, a tempest in a tiny frying pan. Also: we design the world's greatest dating app for middle-aged folks. Songs: 'Chevy Chase' by Arvo Party 'Help is Needed' by Dom Fricot

What made people mad on the internet this week? The Zuckership continues to take direct hits, Dale and I share our sordid Facebook ads history, we explain how social media ad targeting works one more time, for the people in the back, hot takes on the Stormy Daniels/Trump affair, the latest victim in the millennial murder spree, Dale is a monster. Linkage: Get your Facebook data here: https://www.f...

What made people angry on the internet this week? We learned that dogs don't belong in overhead storage, Trump is going to bring every sci-fi movie to life, and China has some pretty good ideas! Plus, Dale talks about Transformers movies for 15 minutes. Read: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-dog-dies-flight-attendant-forces-it-into-overhead-bin/ https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/finance-t...

What made people angry on the internet this week? WE'RE GLAD YOU ASKED: Shkreli gets Shkrelincarcerated, Trump's Big Korean Adventure, Miami doing Miami things, and more! Songs: 'Applause' by Tiny Moving Parts 'Animal' by LadyTron

What made people angry on the internet this week? We take a preemptive look at what will piss people off about the Oscars, discuss why people are angry about the best picture nominees, and relive the 'accidental' Best Picture announcement from last year. Also: child brides, racist statues, Alex Jones, shifty social networks, female-fronted movies, and more! Songs: 'Wild Style' by Hockey 'Everybody...

What made people angry on the internet this week? We take a look at all the Olympic news that was, including Derek's favorite Olympian EVER, Canada getting trampled at their own national pastimes, and the ongoing are-they-or-aren't-they of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. Also: avocado-related proposals, a pet pig meats an untimely end, and the ongoing stupidity of the gun control debate in the U.S. S...

What made people angry on the internet this week? For starters, our dumb podcast is a year old! (That's 7 in podcast years, for those of you keeping count). Also: Happy Meals are now sad, nutritional advice from the two least nutritious dudes on the planet, our live reaction to a nipple on cable TV, France (and Hedley's) statutory rape problem, horns for horniness, mouthkissing your children, and...

What made people on the internet angry this week? Lady Doritos, our dumb Prime Minister, provincial politics smackdown, attack of the toilet hamsters, why parents are the worst. Songs: 'Flo' by Smash Mouth 'A Milli vs. I Can Smell It' by Starfucker

What were people on the internet angry about this week? Sexist anthems, overtly racist sports mascots, Tinder's age discrimination, emotional support animals are bullshit. Songs: 'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle' by FIDLAR 'I Will Follow You' by Said the Whale

THIS WEEK IN OUTRAGE: Trump does another extremely presidential thing, Hawaii narrowly escapes a missile attack, the great Hollywood gender wars of 2018, millennials are reduced to eating laundry soap to survive. Songs: "Linóleo" by Sin Effectos "The Yabba" by Battles

New year, new outrage: in the first episode of 2018 we look at the hot new startup disrupting drinking water, the tell-all Trump administration book that may or may not be factually true, and why raising the minimum wage is the end of the world as we know it, for real this time! Songs: 'Time and Trigger' by Megadrive 'Let's. Get. Dangerous.' by Iron Chic 'Limit of the Deadline' by The Brinks