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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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01:13:30

*Encore* Charlie Brown: Guess Who’s Coming to...

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2022/11/24

Snoopy is cooking Thanksgiving dinner and everyone is invited! Jellybeans and toast for all - including Franklin, the only black kid in the world of Charlie Brown and Peanuts! Franklin gets a seat at the table all by himself as the other kids crowd around the opposite side of the table. Some people see this moment in the show as emblematic of the black experience in America: included but excluded at the same time. Other people see this as Franklin getting a place of honor: by sitting alone he

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01:14:28

Cryptocurrency: No Money Mo Problems

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2022/11/16

FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange and "somehow" lost a bunch of digital money which means now they are in a lot of real world trouble. Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder and head of FTX and he laid out a big apology on Twitter (yes, it's still up and running). He's sorry for losing billions and billions of dollars and he's working to make things right. What is Cryptocurrency, where did it come from, and when is it going away? What is money for that matter? We have the answers and it will only cost

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46:28

September 11th: Food for Thought

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2022/11/08

Nothing says "remember our fallen heroes" like a dinner menu! At least, that's what The Clubhouse at Aquia Harbor thought when they created a Sunday Seafood menu with 9/11 themed menu options like the "Pentagon Pie" or the "Flight 93 Redirect" (it's a hot crab dip). In September of 2022 the Clubhouse wanted to remind people of the importance of September 11th and mark the occasion of the 21st anniversary with some good old fashioned American seafood and booze (the remember-tini at $12.99). The

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01:02:30

Kanye West: Ye Gods

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2022/11/02

As it turns out, Kanye has issued many public apologies. Across the years he has been a never-ending wellspring of "sorry I said that." In our most unfortunate story to date, Ye speaks volumes about his inner worldview while sharing his most recent apology story with a group of reporters in a parking lot. He's been on an apology tour for antisemitic remarks and no one around him has the courage to slap the microphones away from Kanye's mouth. So now Kaney is building a road to obscurity made from

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01:02:43

LA City Council: Behind Closed Doors

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2022/10/25

Everything is recorded these days. Every. Thing. But that was a newsflash to 3 members of LA's City Council when they met behind closed doors to talk about redistricting. And boy did they talk. They talked about "the blacks," and "the jews," and Armenians and those "tan feos" Oaxacan people who live in Koreatown. They mock a fellow council member who is gay and compare his 3-year-old son to a monkey. That last bit is not so bad, right? 3 year olds are always running around like crazy and doing

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38:04

Haunted Hoochie: It’s Not What You Think

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2022/10/18

A hoochie is another name for a shack. Merriam Webster doesn't know this and will tell you that a hoochie is a "sexually promiscuous young woman" (like that's a bad thing). But the Oxford English Dictionary thinks that a hoochie is a WWII reference for a "lean-to" or a temporary shelter. So, let's go with shack because OED is a more authoritative source than judgey Merriam Webster. A Haunted Hoochie is therefore a haunted house and the most famous of all Haunted Hoochies is The Haunted Hoochie

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45:53

Holmesburg Prison: Skin in the Game

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2022/10/11

Skin, it's what covers your bones and what you rub creams on to see how many blisters you can raise. If you don't rub poisons onto your skin to observe the after effects, you can thank one Dr. Kligman for doing the research for you. Dr. Kligman discovered that prisoners have skin and that they were willing to sign up for experiments so he got them to sign a bunch of papers that they didn't understand and then he got busy. For 20 years, starting in the 1950s and ending in 1973, Kligman injected the

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39:01

Revenge Porn: The Naked Weatherman

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2022/10/04

Spectrum News provides a local cable news channel for every city with Spectrum Cable. It's rarely hard-hitting news and leans more towards inoffensive local stories about kittens in trees. It would be the news channel for barbie dolls if they watched news. Local Spectrum News channel 1 in NYC became an exception to that policy when they quietly fired Eric Adame, the local fan favorite weatherman on Channel 1. They fired him for engaging in online sex in a private sex-webcam-chat-porn-site. This

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01:01:09

100th Episode Celebration

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2022/10/02

It's our 100th episode and we are celebrating by reviewing 4 of our lowest rated apologies! No one is ever sorrier than when their apology gets reviewed a second time. And what's worse, is reviewed and then followed up with updates. Who honored their promises to do better and fell flat (hint: it's in the word "Better" as in better.com)? Is it OK to like Chrissy Teigen again? Did Alice Sebold get lucky with a second review of her apology? And did that funeral home director say anymore about

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49:43

Pakistan Floods: Water Under the Bridge

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2022/09/21

Resham is one of Pakistan's biggest stars, having acted in film and TV since the 90s. She's beautiful, talented, and a bit of a litter bug - if you want to judge her solely on one tiny video posted to her 600,000 followers on social media when there are so many bigger problems in the world! Resham will let you know that she is a force for good in the world and if you come for Resham, you better bring the receipts. People did bring the receipts, and Resham apologized. So what happened? Resham

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01:04:25

Hamilton: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

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2022/09/14

Hamilton the Musical is a broadway phenomenon that took the world by storm. The show features people of color in leading roles portraying America's founding fathers. This juxtaposition of the Founding Fathers as black and brown highlights the fact that many Americans are still engaged in a battle for freedom. It's a show about the importance of inclusion and diversity. And awesome songs. The Door McAllen, a non-denominational Christian church in Texas, thought this would be the perfect vehicle

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39:51

New Jersey Wekfest: The Racecar and the Turtle

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2022/09/07

Wekfest is an annual convention held in New Jersey for custom car enthusiasts. At the end of the convention, fans stand around the exit of the convention center to watch the cars leave. Sometimes drivers put on a show for the fans, they rev their engines or do donuts or whatever else kind of stuff you can do with a car. The fans love it, but Wekfest is clear that this is not a sanctioned part of the convention. Good thing too because at the end of the show this year there was a majorly bad

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01:01:10

Ellen DeGeneres: The Be Kind (of Nice) Lady

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2022/08/31

Hi Everyone! Vacation ran a week over so we are re-releasing a fan favorite with assurances that we will be back next week (we said that last week, but that turned out to be incorrect because someone - out of kindness we're on purpose not mentioning Theo by name - can't read a calendar). 2020 was not a great year, not for most of the world, and certainly not for Ellen DeGeneres. The opening monologue of Season 18 of The Ellen Show began with some jokes, included an apology, and finished with some

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01:12:26

Allison Mack: NXIVM Queen (rerelease)

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2022/08/24

It's still us and we are still on vacation! But have no fear, we have a classic fan favorite and will be back next week with a new episode and a whole lot of sorry for having been gone for two weeks! Being number one is great, but being number two is pretty nice, too. Just ask Allison Mack. She was second in command of the NXIVM cult and the leader of a devoted group of women who called her "master" and did her bidding. Sounds great! Except it involved a cult and blackmail and sex-trafficking

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01:11:04

Alice Sebold: Convicted Until Proven Innocent...

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2022/08/17

Hi Everyone! We're on vacation over the next two weeks because our producer told us we were working too hard on the show (no he didn't) and so we've reached into the vault to re-launch a fan favorite! And don't worry, the world has not run out of apologies and we will be back in two weeks with a brand new episode! Alice Sebold misidentified a man as a rapist and that man spent 16 years wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. She wrote a memoir about the rape and the trial of the man

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49:38

Kevin Spacey: Hands Off!

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2022/08/10

Kevin Spacey is a hollywood legend (for his grabby hands). He has won numerous awards (not for his grabby hands) and was once an icon. But one day in 2017 a story came out that Kevin had sexually harassed a 14 year old and after the accusation came out, Kevin came out. Kevin apologized for the assault and then told the world what he had long held secret, he was gay. People said he was coming out only to distract from the real story, that he had sexually harassed a 14 year old. Recently Kevin was

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01:05:21

Singapore on Alert: Clown Scare

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2022/08/02

Parents in Singapore were alarmed to learn that clowns were standing outside of elementary schools talking to children. Facebook reports of evil clowns luring children away spread across social media. It turned out that a local language school had tried to promote itself by posting clowns outside of elementary schools and offering parents and children flyers - it was all just a harmless promotion and nothing to worry about. But people were still mad and a certain language school had to find the

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56:31

Kim Burrell: Don’t be Ugly

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2022/07/27

Kim Burrell is a pretty famous gospel singer. She is also a pastor because why not. Kim said some words while preaching to her congregation, saying some stuff about how people are ugly but hiding it well under their Sunday hats, and some people in the audience felt pretty insulted, others perhaps understood that she was trying to be funny. Either way, Kim issued an apology and then issued a second apology, apologizing for the first apology and explaining that her attorney was to blame. Kim has

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57:18

Cobra Snake: Wild Life

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2022/07/20

North Carolina is pretty much about freedom unless you have a vagina - but honestly that is not what this episode is about but then it sort of is. Until recently you could basically have any kind of pet you wanted if you lived in North Carolina. Gorillas, tigers, bears - name a dangerous wild animal and if you could catch it and keep it in a cage, it was yours. Chris Gifford (yes, famous Tik Tok Chris Gifford) had over 75 snakes and some of them were deadly - but that was perfectly fine because

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01:08:54

Cremation: Body Parts for Sale

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2022/07/15

A funeral director by the name of Megan Hess ran a funeral home and a body-part distributing company. Both. Under. The. Same. Roof. And no one blinked or thought that was strange at all. After a few years of selling body parts to medical research and academics, the FBI came knocking at Megan's door and the agency was shocked to its core to discover that someone named Megan would stoop so low as to pulling out gold teeth from cadavers and then dismembering the bodies and selling the pieces…and

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