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Apologies Accepted

Apologies Accepted

We offer an entertaining look at some of the big issues in history by examining public apologies of the famous and infamous. We’re looking at politicians, serial killers, actors, and you! Send us an apology you would like to make and we’ll read it on the podcast and give you the chance to redeem yourself or just get some guilt off your shoulders. We’re here for you, once a week, maybe more if you are really, really sorry.

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53:25

Mark Foley: Republican Rehabilitation

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2023/04/13

Ah Spring is in the air and so our thoughts turn to rebirth. When what has rotted to the core and decomposed to earthworm food becomes the rich fertile ground from which new life may spring! The miracle of rebirth is all around us! Look at the trees, the bees, the flowers, and Mark Foley! He's now a power player in Florida politics! Don't say Gay bills are simply the GOP protecting parents' rights. Mark wasn't always so concerned about parental rights. In 2006 former Congressman Foley,

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54:07

Drug Cartel: Business as Usual

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2023/04/04

Drugs are big business. The most recent UN estimates place total retail sales of illegal drugs around $320 billion or roughly 1% of the entire world's GDP. That means there is a lot at stake when drug cartels set up shop. They run themselves like corporations, with hierarchies, distribution models, business strategies, and public relations campaigns. A Mexican drug cartel employed the PR tactic after the Scorpions, a division of the Gulf Cartel, had a shootout in the town of Matamoros, Mexico. An

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58:40

Artificial Intelligence: The Big Secret

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2023/03/29

It took Facebook and Twitter five years to reach 100 million users. TikTok reached 100 million users in 9 months. Chat GPT took 64 days. As Bill Gates proclaimed, The Age of AI is here. Sort of. It's here but Humanity isn't quite sure what it is or what it means for our future. We do know that it means big money for corporations, huge changes in the way we work, and that it will raise issues of ethics and morals as it integrates with our society and begins to control the way decisions are

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56:26

Elon Musk: Money Talks

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2023/03/22

We're not very good at social media, and as it turns out neither is Elon Musk. He bought Twitter and ran it into the ground almost overnight. The wunderkind boy genius is really just a rich boy from an emerald mine owning family who loved sci fi as a kid and has aspirations for being the father of the future of mankind, helping to bring equality to humans and humanity to the stars. Unless you work for him at one of his companies. Then good luck and don't let the door or the cash register hit you

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01:03:28

J.M. Roth: Road Rage Rules

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2023/03/15

J.M. Roth was a cop who offered free legal advice online: if you want to run down a Black Lives Matter protester who is marching in the streets, follow these rules. And then he gave the step by step process for how to beat the legal charges for intentionally running a human being down with your car. Without even going any further you can bet that J.M. Roth was not his real name, brave people always hide behind fake names! But don't worry because people on the internet figured things out pretty

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56:47

Encore Will Smith: A Slap Full of Love

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2023/03/09

It's an Encore episode just in time for the 2023 Oscars! Let us take you waaaay back in time, all the way back to last year, March 2022, when a certain actor slapped a certain comedian and shook the world. You know the Oscars are going to mention the slap - so here's a friendly recap of what happened to get you ready for Hollywood's biggest night! If you haven't heard, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face during the March 2022 Academy Awards. If he had done naked cartwheels across the

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01:15:20

Encore: Amazon: Child’s Play is not for Children

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2023/03/03

It's an open secret that children work for next to nothing and don't complain a lot. That's why they make great workers, only it's kind of illegal in a lot of countries to employ children. But don't worry because corporations have found the wonder of willful ignorance and plausible deniability, two factors that mean they can hire companies that in turn hire other companies that hire subcontractors who hire kids (and sometimes buy them) to work in factories, fields, and mines. Tang Mingfang. a

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01:04:21

German Ballet: Art in Bad Taste

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2023/02/23

OK so here it is: Ballet is boring and stupid. But not to Marco Goecke! He takes his ballet as serious as sh*t. He is a German Ballet choreographer and he recently smeared dog poo in a critic's face who had dared to criticize his work. He's got a lot to say about how this critic hounded (ha!) him for years and he just happened to have a bag of dog poo in his pocket and maybe this wasn't his best movement (ha!) but really the media should consider this type of journalism more carefully because

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01:01:19

Encore: Elmo - Reality Rocks

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2023/02/20

It's an Encore episode! Elmo and Zoe are friends. Rocco and Zoe are friends. Rocco and Elmo are not friends because Elmo cannot be friends with a rock. At least according to Elmo. Elmo had it one day in 2004 and lost his cool on Sesame Street over Zoe saving the last cookie for Rocco to eat (because rocks don't have mouths and why are we explaining this, you get it, rocks are rocks). Elmo refused to apologize and thus began the great debate: can you be friends with someone who fundamentally

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01:01:34

Brock Turner: Dreams Destroyed

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2023/02/07

Brock Turner had it all: A scholarship to Stanford (it's not Harvard but they try!), all-American boy-next-door good looks, a real shot at Olympic gold swimming for the US Olympic team - his life was one that many people would envy. Everyone believed him to be a super nice guy on his way to do super nice guy things - like represent America in the Olympics and win some medals and then graduate from an almost-but-not-quite Ivy League school. It probably would have happened too if it hadn't been for

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43:31

Alan Turing: Turing Tricks

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2023/02/01

Alan Turing was a British mathematical genius, known today as the Father of Artificial Intelligence. He famously broke the Nazi's "Enigma Code," a discovery which helped end WWII. His work for the British government was top secret, so when he was arrested for being gay, he couldn't pull the "but I'm a hero card" to save himself. He endured two years of chemical castration before killing himself (or eating an apple laced with cyanide due to an accidental cross contamination - which feels more

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01:07:04

Encore! Skinwalker Ranch: Paranormal Paradise

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2023/01/25

In this encore episode we take you to the fabled land of Utah and revisit the world famous Skinwalker Ranch! Skinwalker is a ranch in Utah recently owned by a billionaire who wanted to study the paranormal. Before that, the ranch was owned by a different billionaire who was studying flying saucers. Before that, it was owned by a nice ranching family who did not care for UFOs or the paranormal, they just wanted to raise some cattle in peace and quiet – not have to fight off scary monster-wolves

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01:00:40

Graza: Olive Oil’s Sorry Success

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2023/01/18

Graza is a startup company that really understands olive oil - and apologies. The company launched in January 2022 and by December they had over 35,000 orders for olive oil. It was a tiny bit more than the 5-person company was prepared to handle, but they tried! The orders were mostly gifts and a number of shipments arrived after the holidays and some of the bottles were dented. If that wasn't enough, some of the cute artwork on the labels started to flake off. People were upset and they let

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43:36

Sharks! Hollywood is Sorry

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2023/01/11

Not Hollywood exactly, but one of the most important filmmakers in Hollywood! Steven Spielberg apologized for the role his movie, "Jaws," played in turing public opinion against sharks. Back in the 70s people didn't know that sharks were important to the ecosystem, or survivors of every apocalypse to ever hit the planet Earth, or gentle kind creatures who don't kill humans as often as toilets or cows! No one understood that sharks were among the first creatures on the planet, and that we should

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51:24

Harry and Meghan: Another Tabloid is Sorry Again

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2023/01/04

It's a New Year but same old slander and muckraking for UK tabloids! This time "The Sun" apologized for an article written by Jeremy Clarkson where he said he hated Meghan Markle more than some serial killers. He would like to see her paraded through every street in England, naked, with crowds of people shouting "shame, shame" and throwing excrement at her. He was referencing a Game of Thrones episode (or his secret fantasy, he never specified in the article). What is wrong with Jeremy Clarkson?

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45:16

Doctors: Sorry Isn’t Bad Anymore

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2022/12/28

Newsflash: doctors are people and they have feelings. Sometimes they make mistakes and feel bad about the errors and apologize. In some States, those apologies are admissible in court as evidence. California recently passed a law that allows doctors to express human feelings of regret and to say things like "I'm sorry that your mother died because I forgot to sew her back up and all her organs fell out when she stood up," and their expression of regret is not considered evidence. The doctor

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01:15:48

Encore! Baby Jesus: Away With the Manger

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2022/12/21

Russ and Phylis have been victims of Christmas pranksters since 2016. One year the baby Jesus was stolen out of their nativity scene, later returned thanks to the miracle of faith and a very passive aggressive 3-foot-tall sign that Phylis posted on the front lawn. Another year baby Jesus was stolen and never returned. In 2019 the merry pranksters struck again, stealing the entire nativity scene…only to return it a few days later with a note of apology (surely returned thanks again to the miracle

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46:53

Jesus vs Santa Claus: The Catholic Church Takes a Side

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2022/12/14

So it's come to this, an Italian Bishop told a group of school children that Santa Claus did not exist. The Church has resorted to lies to win the war against Christmas! The Bishop's assistant apologized and explained that the Bishop meant to remind everyone of the true meaning of Christmas (again, lies). The War on Christmas has some deep roots, the commercial versus the religious aspect has troubled people for over 200 years - people have been downing on Santa for years and it's time to stop.

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45:32

Balenciaga: Satanic Sex Purses

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2022/12/07

What are satanic sex purses and how much do they cost you ask? Well Balenciaga, the fashion house, decided to turn some teddy bears into purses and dress the bears in S&M gear, mostly leather harnesses and chaps because teddy bears aren't hard core into S&M (this is a science fact that everyone knows). Then they had some little kids stand on some beds and hold the purses. People freaked over the sexual implications and suddenly Balenciaga turned from a fashion house into a devil worshiping sex

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29:20

KFC: The Bots Did It

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2022/11/29

Kristallnacht - heard of it? It's The Night of Broken Glass, the night many historians say was the start of the holocaust. It's the night when the Nazi party ran wild in the streets, terrorizing innocent civilians. 91 people died and 30,000 innocents were arrested and sent to the camps. What better way to commemorate the start of the holocaust than with a delicious crispy chicken sandwich from KFC? That's what a marketing bot coughed out onto social media...in Germany. KFC was pretty quick to

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