America Addicted to Rage: Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott on the Kirk Assassination
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This segment zooms in on the psychology behind America’s division. With insight from psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, the panel dissects how social media outrage, tribal thinking, and dopamine-driven rage responses have turned political discourse into psychological warfare. Tony Brueski and co-hosts explore why so many Americans are trapped in “us vs. them” narratives, and how misinformation fuels distorted perceptions that can escalate into violence. Shavaun draws on clinical experience and neuroscience to explain why people become addicted to anger — and how that cycle makes tragedies like the Charlie Kirk assassination feel inevitable.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.5 | It's sad and it's shocking because this is something where I feel like both sides are digging in even deeper to things that are not real. |
| 0:17.0 | Where you see one side going, well, every, you know, every Democrat hates him and this is horrible. They're all celebrating. You're like, no. I don't see. I mean, maybe I'm sure if I dug deeper, I could find some real horrible assholes who were celebrating. Sure. Not much. But you know what? For the most part, nobody was. Yeah. For the most part, anybody I knew who was a respectable Democrat were heartbroken. |
| 0:40.3 | We're like, holy shit, this is not good. |
| 0:42.9 | This is horrible. |
| 0:44.7 | So reality check for everybody on this. |
| 0:48.6 | No, most sane, healthy thinking people, nobody is celebrating this shit. |
| 0:55.7 | They are not. You can find an extremist somewhere, yes. And on the same token, well, he said this, he said that. Take a look. |
| 1:02.6 | Take a look and see if it's actually what he said, or if it's just what Matilda you saw tweeted, |
| 1:07.0 | who heard it from her cousin, who heard it from that and this and her, you know, |
| 1:11.1 | third cousin's cat told them in a dream. |
| 1:13.7 | And now it's on a tweet and must be true because I saw it. |
| 1:17.4 | And all my girlfriends or all my friends said that that's what he said. |
| 1:22.2 | There was so much of it that it's not even real that we base our rage on. |
| 1:28.2 | We have this rage that we have that's based on fear and not reality. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.3 | But we live in a country where you can hate somebody. |
| 1:42.6 | You can disagree with people. You can be wildly obsessed with hate somebody. You can disagree with people. |
| 1:44.7 | You can be wildly obsessed with hating somebody because of something they said. |
| 1:50.7 | But that doesn't mean that person needs to die. |
| 1:53.6 | They deserve to live just like you do. |
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