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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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01:06:15

Friends: Race to Diversity

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2022/07/06

Marta Kauffman created a little TV show called "Friends" and it was a giant hit for ten years. Over the years, the show received some criticism for lacking diversity. Marta heard the criticism and felt it to be unfair: of course her popular TV show was being singled out for criticism. People are jealous and they will rip your TV show to shreds if given the chance. Then all of a sudden it was 2020 and the culture shifted. Race, diversity, and inclusion were now part of the conversation. Looking

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01:09:25

Lizzo: Word and Action

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2022/06/28

Lizzo is a superstar performer and a superstar person. Some fans reached out and took objection with a word in her new song Grrrls, explaining that it is commonly used as a slur against disabled people. She was accused of being ableist, forgetting that disabled people are alive in the world and have the same feelings as anyone who has a slur used against them. Lizzo took fast action, re-recording the song and changing the word, then issuing an apology. Lizzo explained that she understood the

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01:07:00

Exxon Valdez: Still Recovering 30 Years Later

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2022/06/22

Our first request and a huge thanks for the story idea! It's one of the most memorable apologies ever given by a corporation. The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 was the largest environmental disaster in American history. 11 million gallons of oil covered 1,300 miles of coastline and killed off 250,000 birds and thousands of marine mammals. The Exxon Valdez story has it all: a drunken sea captain easily blamed, an unqualified pilot operating without radar, corporate greed, and an innocent town

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01:09:23

Eric Lander: Burned to a CRISPR

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2022/06/15

Who is Eric Lander you are asking? He served as the Science Officer for the Biden Administration. He lasted eight months. He resigned after accusations of bullying and sexism forced the White House to say "ummm, hey, wait a minute, this is supposed to be a stupid-easy cabinet post, why are we hearing so much about you." Eric Lander had the chance to be a real life Dr. Spock, the first Chief Science Officer on Planet Earth. Instead he made his staff feel undervalued and apparently this was a

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01:07:14

Stonewall: Birthplace of Pride

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2022/06/07

Back in 1969 a small group of 8 police officers went into the local gay bar to conduct a weekly shakedown of the mafia-bar-owners for some cash and to hassle some queers. The Stonewall Inn was the night home to all the queers: gays, lesbians, transgender people, drag queens, and assorted randos. The cops went in on a normal night, just before midnight on June 27th, ready to check some genitals (for real) and grab some cash; they came out a few hours later on the morning of June 28th to a brave new

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01:06:07

Juneteenth: Walmart Sells Everything

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2022/06/01

Juneteenth is now a nationally recognized holiday. If you haven't heard of it, it's the day that the Union Army liberated the last of the enslaved people in the US. They rode into town and decreed "you were freed two years ago" and the 250,000 newly emancipated people celebrated. The following year they celebrated again, but then some laws came down that prohibited black people from publically celebrating anything ever. Even emancipation. Juneteenth was still observed privately by families and

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01:13:41

Lufthansa: Antisemitism for all!

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2022/05/26

Luftwaffe (sorry, sorry, we mean Lufthansa) airline had an issue in early May. Apparently a handful of people had not worn their face masks properly (or at all - it's a bit confused as to what actually happened) on an international flight from NYC to Frankfurt, Germany. The 5 or 10 people were jewish and on their way to Hungary in observance of a holy day of memory. Luftwaffe (sorry, sorry, we mean Lufthansa) decided that ALL 100 to 150 JEWISH PEOPLE ON THE FLIGHT WOULD HAVE TO BE DETAINED AT

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01:16:09

Radiation: Y 5 a X2b or The Glow from Within

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2022/05/18

No surprise that the US Government conducted secret radiation tests on civilians in the 1940s and up through the 1970s. It's almost not even worth mentioning that the radiation was injected secretly, without warning or consent, into innocent people to see what happens. What happened was a formula that allowed scientist to backtrace from your internal bodily radiation levels to the point of exposure, the Langham Power-Function Model or Y 5 a X2b. Oh, and a bunch of people died, but not from

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01:13:09

Vegans: Soy Sorry

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2022/05/10

Hot Irish twin brothers, Dave and Steve Flynn, are mega-vegan influencers and owners of The Happy Pear, a café and lifestyle brand (and podcast!). They love helping people get healthy and happy. They recently gave some advice around beating breast cancer – eat mushrooms! There was also some stuff about increasing your soy intake that became mixed up with the idea of vegetables increasing or decreasing cancer…it’s confusing because none of it is true but it’s all science-y enough that it starts to

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01:26:05

Rachel Dolezal: Not Sorry for Who I Am

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2022/05/05

Rachel Dolezal became world famous on June 11, 2015 when a reporter asked her if her father was white. This seemed like an odd question, why would anyone care? Weirdly, people cared. Rachel had been presenting herself as black for years but the reality was both her parents were white and so was she. Rachel had constructed a public persona of a black woman, and it was believable. She had photos of a black man she said was her dad, had two black children, and had worked tirelessly as an activist

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58:17

Scotland: Witches are Lit

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2022/04/28

On International Women's Day in March of 2022, Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, issued a formal apology for the thousands of people Scotland burned at the stake from the 1500s to the 1700s. Most of those people were women, and it seemed fitting to the First minister, as the first woman to ever hold the title, to apologize during international women's Month (it's every March, guys), on March 8th, International Women's Day, for all the women (and men) the government of Scotland murdered

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01:02:19

Kenny Shiels: Soccer Boys Don’t Cry

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2022/04/20

Kenny Shiels is the coach of the Northern Ireland's women's national team, and he has something he wants you to know about women. Their emotions get in the way of their ability to play sports. See, women are toooooooooooo emotional to play sports, and that is the hardest part about coaching women. His team lost 5-0 defeat to England, a loss which ended their chances at the Women's World Cup in 2023. That's a pretty big deal in the soccer world. After his comments to a press group, there was a bit

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01:00:42

The Pope: A Sorry for All Time

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2022/04/12

He's back, this time with an actual apology. When the hidden grave sites of 215 children were discovered in 2021 at a Residential school in Canada, the Pope expressed sorrow without expressing an apology. Now it's 2022 and 1,700 children's graves later, the Pope apologized in person to victims and families of the Catholic Residential School system. Residential schools were active until 1998 and the hidden graves of children are still being discovered today. Some estimates go as high as 6,000

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56:47

Will Smith: A Slap Full of Love

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2022/04/06

If you haven't heard, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face during the March 2022 Academy Awards. If he had done cartwheels across the stage, naked and on fire, we couldn't have been more surprised. Chris had made a joke about Will's wife's shaved head, and Will wasn't having it. First he laughed, and then seconds later he strode across the stage and slapped Chris Rock, a comedian, across the face for telling a lame joke. If only we all had such power - Look out, Amy Schumer! Will

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01:13:01

Jane Campion: No Filter

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2022/03/30

Jane Campion stuck her foot in her mouth at the Critics Choice Awards this year. She was talking about how she had tried to play tennis and found it really hard. She was funny and charming and self-depricating. She was off to a good start. Venus and Serena Williams were sitting right in front of her and she was paying them a compliment for their skills as professional athletes. But, Jane said, as great as the sisters are at tennis, they don't play against men the way that she, Jane Campion,

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57:38

Billie Eilish: Rerelease

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2022/03/22

In honor of Billie Eilish's nomination for Best Original Song this year at the Oscars, we are rereleasing our Billie Eilish episode. Also it's Theo's birthday weekend and this is what he wanted and also Juliette had to drive really far and also Brent had his birthday last week and is still unwrapping gifts so...here we are with our first ever rerelease! Audio Note: Issues still exist but it's still a life-changing episode if your name is Billie Eilish. A new album, new look, and old videos of

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01:08:26

Disney: It’s not a Queer World Afterall

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2022/03/15

Disney has entered the culture wars, but only after first trying to avoid being drafted. Florida has passed a law making it illegal to mention gay people in school. The law is pretty broad and general, allowing any parent to sue a school district if information about gays is mentioned in class. In Florida, Sally can have two mommies, but she better shut up about it in class. Like all corporations, Disney donates money to politicians across the ideological spectrum. Right, left, center, - if

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01:15:20

Amazon: Child’s Play is not for Children

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2022/03/09

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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44:34

Martin Hyde: Bully for You

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2022/03/02

Someone had a pretty-rotten-no-good-awful moment with a cop. That someone was a guy named Martin Hyde. If you don't know Martin Hyde, you are dumb. Martin Hyde is a really important super big shot deal and everyone who doesn't know that is just stupid. He's friends with all the super powerful and important people in Sarasota, Florida (so yes, this is a "Florida Man" story) and everyone knows to respect Martin Hyde and treat him like the god-man he is. So when Martin Hyde was driving at 57 miles

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01:02:55

Harriet Tubman: Underground Humor

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2022/02/22

Russell Simmons learned the hard way that some historical heroes are not to be mocked. His YouTube channel had released a short 3-minute video skit of the Harriet Tubman Sex Diaries. The comedic take was that she used her feminine charms to seduce her enslaver and captured the encounter on video, only to use it as blackmail and get his help building the underground railroad (which in the skit required a shovel and a command to "get digging!"). Of course, that's not how the underground railroad got

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