This Week in Outrage

This week, Lisa and David talk about Senate Dress Code; Billy Jean King nominated by bipartisan group of senators for Congressional Gold Medal; Lauren Boebert non-apologies; singer Maren Morris leaving country music because MAGA; Iran prisoner swap; possible new identified human species; Google Maps GPS sends man off a bridge; new Pew Survey finds people exhausted by politics; Sen. Bob Menendez in...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (NRA Barbie) theater performance; baseball pitch clock; student-member of the school board; Las Vegas casinos hacked with ransomware; the Drew Barrymore Show and the writers strike; Rudy Giuliani is embarrassing; new cave art discovered in Spain; Kim Davis ordered to pay $100000 to same-sex couple she denied marriage license; Anita Du...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about Danny Masterson sentencing; Mike Lindell losing his marbles; safe storage for firearms; Mom Influencer Ruby Franke charged with 6 counts of child abuse; Rollings Stones are unveiling a new album; what’s up with George Santos; shout out to Mookie Betts; Freedom Convoy folks facing charges in Canada; Ken Paxton AG trial begins; Covid is not gone; Mark Meado...

This week, Lisa and David talk about: voter fraud; 12-yo kid kicked out of school for backpack with “don’t tread on me” Gadsden Flag; parental rights vs. student privacy in the age of transgender identity; burning man; more former Proud Boys leaders sentenced for January 6th attack; Truth Social financing; conservative activists pushing ‘trafficking’ laws to prevent women from traveling for an abo...

This week, Lisa and David talk about: customer service; Yevgeny Prigozhin killed; Covid pandemic divisiveness; our new rescue dog; more concerts; naming the Fulton County 19 gang; Oliver Anthony; Ohio abortion ban; 2024 election cycle; sleep horoscopes; AI tech for enabling speech for people with paralysis; and more. Links: Outrage Overload Podcast Listen live on the Wisdom app to ask questions vi...

This week, Lisa and David talk about: buoys in the Rio-Grande; Giuliani is broke; hurricane watch in So Cal; no Trump press event; fake Melania? Utah man suspected of threatening Biden killed by FBI; pig kidney transplant; Michael Oher ‘The Blind Side’ lawsuit; FTX crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried back in jail; AI is better than humans at solving image-based CAPTCHAs; popular wedding songs; 4000 s...

This week, Lisa and David talk about: new nuclear reactor goes live; Paul Reubens, Pee-Wee Playhouse; crazy state-fair food; sex-ed in school; Kyle Davis tried to secretly video an underage family friend while she was using the bathroom; TikTok trend drinking borax; Pac-12 exodus; Kanye and the new X (formerly Twitter); Jaylen Brown is smart; DeSantis and Newsome debate? leprosy on the rise in Flo...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about their bout with Covid; history and practices of forced sterilization in the United States; Congregations leaving United Methodist Church over LGBTQ bans; UPS Union deal; Kevin Spacey not guilty; hazing in college sports; Sinéad O'Connor's death; Elon Musk infatuation with the letter X; Michigan charges participants in 2020 fake elector plot; Lisa rages ab...

Note: I screwed up and didn’t get this episode out until now. COVID is running through our household so episodes of “This Week in Outrage” are in limbo for a while. In this episode, Lisa and David talk about the Iowa abortion ban; new Schoolhouse Rock; cocaine in the White House; MTG, the Freedom Caucus, and throwing lawsuits at the wall; Ninth Circuit homelessness ruling; followup on causes of in...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about the Supreme Court; Moore v. Harper; Bipartisan cooperation; hedge funds; Rust movie charges; Wheel-of-Fortune; Harvard body parts scandal; free-lunch programs in schools; high level of pedestrian deaths; teen medical abortion prison sentence; Netanyahu criminal case; Pepsi Colachup; aspartame cancer risk; Tom Brady Raiders ownership; ESPN layoffs; Bobby B...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about Desantis banning direct car sales; Santos and who paid his bail; MGT and Lauren Boebert feud and civility in politics; Hunter Biden and conspiracy theories. Then we go off into a deeper dive into conspiracy theories in general, where they start, the psychology behind them, how to speak to people about them, Musk’s Twitter, and more. We conclude with a lis...

Lisa and David, along with some special guests, talk about Minneapolis police violations; Golden Globes; Mass shootings; local New York state politics; Silvio Berlusconi who died; AI can fix climate change?; unusual special requests from hotel guests; Cava restaurants raise IPO funds; Dolly Parton new album “Rockstar”; Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue mass shooter convicted; Hot Coffee 2011 docum...

This week, David and Lisa talk about Chris Licht leaving CNN; thou doth protest too much; four kids survive plan crash in Amazon; links between viral infection and neurological disorders; mosquito repellent deters 99% of mosquitoes; Showtime pulls 'Vice' episode about Ron DeSantis' time at Guantanamo; sharks looming near swimmers; American flag code; Voting Rights ruling; Trump indictment highligh...

This week, David and Lisa talk about how folks define woke; Minnesota reforms; Wear clothes for your driver’s license photo; spelling bee winners; Danny Masterson rape conviction; Bill Cosby new sexual assault charges; Study shows seeing stories of kindness can counteract negative stories; Migrants flown to Sacramento and dropped off in front of a church; molecular skeletal editing breakthrough; P...

This week, Lisa and David talk about the debt ceiling and fourteenth amendment; Congressman Swalwell and former San Francisco 49er Bruce Miller “harmless game of would you rather”; Lisa is mad at grapes; Montana bans TikTok; Durham report; Elizabeth Holmes must report to prison; Deutsche Bank $75M settlement for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring; lab-grown money embryos; habits t...

In this episode, David and Lisa talk about the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation liability judgement compared to OJ liability that has never been collected - there are no consequences; Shawn Ryan lies (surprise) shouting something must be done about a “Democrat Politician” child porn offender, when it turns out the offender was actually a “red-pill libertarian” who was already convicted...

This week, David and Lisa talk about transgender teen poet laureate; gun violence, what the majority of Americans want; education fails; sedition and choosing to die on the hill that January 6 was not an insurrection; Title 42 expiring; E. Jean Carroll case; credit scores and bank fees clickbait; insider trading in Congress; January 6 sentences; horse deaths at Kentucky Derby; ChatGPT and The Dign...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Washington State banning assault weapons; USA is categorized as a “flawed democracy” based on the 2022 Global Democracy Index; Can You Enjoy Good Art by Bad People? Celebrities calling co-workers the C-word; Disney vs. Desantis; Wrexham getting promoted; Tucker Carlson and his anti-trans noxious father; Idocracy and Crocs; Barry Humphries ‘Dame Edna’; OpenAI Re...

This week Lisa and David talk about how the My Pillow guy must pay $5 million over brag; Space-X Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly; Alex Baldwin charges dropped; Dominion settlement; students excluding colleges over state-level politics; ChatGPT and LLM AI; Buzzfeed shutting down Buzzfeed News; NRA and Gun Safety; Behind the accusation about Swalwell and the Chinese spy; Supreme Court kick the can dow...

Note: the audio quality on this episode is not great. The phone app we use for these is not compatible with my studio gear. We tried some external mics but it didn’t turn out too well. I did what I could to improve the audio, but it’s still not great. On this episode, David and Lisa talk about Jack Teixeira leaked secrets; Military using Discord to recruit Gen-Z; Congress is old; Lisa loves Katie...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about book bans, concerns about civil war in America, life before the pandemic, poisonous birds, and more. Harvard-trained psychologist: If you use any of these 9 phrases every day, ‘your relationship is more successful’ than most: 1. “I appreciate your effort.” 2. “I like you.” 3. “Help me better understand this.” 4. “I’m listening...” 5. “I’m sorry.” 6. “I fo...

Lisa talks about personality tests and self-awareness; a guest talks about generational gaps. We talk about the indictment, particularly reactions; controversy over Michelangelo’s statue of David; 30,000 school board seats on the ballot; Kevin Bass wants scientists to admit they were wrong about Covid; partisan sorting; hypocrisy; AI updates; NBA finals; Baseball is back. Outrage Overload Podcast...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about Flint Michigan water settlement award; who’s freaking out about the word “woke”; Afroman getting sued by the officers that raided his house; now COVID originated in a wet market again, not a lab; hypocrisy and trust in institutions; more local vs national politics; more AI news; healthcare challenges; polarization and trust in science; California outlawin...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about local vs. national politics; how AI is moving fast; Silicon Valley Bank CEO; research showing how social media is a cause of mental illness in girls; Meta (Facebook) to layoff another 10,000 workers; Russian jets engage U.S. drone; Trump voters if he is indicted; the Pope considers allowing priests to marry; neuroscience; COVID origins (again); and more L...

In this episode, Lisa and David talk about the Silicon Valley Bank failure; grizzly bears; Daylight Saving Time; new COVID antiviral from Japan; Marjorie Taylor Greene acting House Speaker; sobering shot; fake news and AI; AI replacing workers; humans pretending to be AI; libraries; and other random stuff. Links: Outrage Overload Podcast Connors Forum Guide to Trustworthy News Outlets Media Bias F...