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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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01:12:58

Awkwafina: Accentuate the Positive

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2022/02/16

Awkwafina is living the American dream. She jumped from YouTube to rap albums to Hollywood in a few short years and got there by showing her appreciation for hip hop culture. Some people think she got there by cultural appropriation, and have been pretty vocal about it. Awkwafina has heard them and issued an apology. She's an allie, she's got your back, but she's having a hard time saying that she's sorry. What is cultural appropriation? Is it the same thing as cultural appreciation, cultural

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01:07:29

Hallmark Lesbians: Don’t Let Them Eat Cake

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2022/02/09

The Hallmark Channel is famous for its loving take on life. It's the feel good channel with all the feel goods. But that changed in December of 2019 when One Million Moms took offense to some commercials that were airing on Hallmark, commercials that featuring a lesbian couple getting married. The one-woman force behind One Million Moms started a petition to criminalize and destroy the Hallmark Channel forever, unless they did what she demanded. Hallmark pulled the commercials, but then after

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01:01:19

Elmo: Reality Rocks

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2022/02/02

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 disagrees with you on the

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01:09:37

Barilla Pasta: Momma (and Momma) Mia!

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2022/01/26

In 2013 Guido Barilla, immediate member of the Barilla family and part owner of the world’s largest pasta company, casually mentioned on a radio interview that his company would never cater to gay families. He graciously offered that there was lots of pasta in the world (and there is!) and if gay people and their families did not like his words they could just eat some of the other pasta. There was a lot of blowback (sorry) and Mr. Barilla said wait wait wait, I was promoting women and how

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01:07:50

Wordle: More Than Money Can Say

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2022/01/19

Josh Wardle invented a fun word game to play online for his girlfriend and she loved it. So did her friends and family. Josh opened the game up to the world and it caught on quickly - so fast that someone decided to try and make money off of it. Zach Shakken took Wardle's Wordle and sold it as an app and got excited about how much money he was making. But the internet got mad at Zach for stealing an idea and marketing it as his own. Zach apologized for being a businessman in business doing

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56:59

Blake McCoy: The News Becomes You

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2022/01/12

Blake McCoy was a TV news reporter who wayback about one year ago Tweeted (and because it's Twitter, you know there is gonna be an issue) that obese people shouldn't be prioritized for vaccines. He felt that the priority should go to all essential workers like health care workers and newscasters. He got some heat and apologized 3 hours later, deleting the tweet and then eventually his social media accounts. He was suspended from his job, later to be terminated. Was his apology sincere or

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38:55

Santa Monica: Paved Over Paradise

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2022/01/05

In the 1960s, during the time of peace love and groovy, the City of Santa Monica forced an entire community of People of Color to move so that a freeway could be built to allow more (whiter) people direct access to the beach. Santa Monica had been home to a thriving community of black business owners, homeowners, and renters. The first freed black man to register to vote in California (looking at you 1880!) lived in Santa Monica, and the first black professional-amateur surfer (hello 1920!) also

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01:02:36

Dash for Cash: Playing on Thin Ice

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2021/12/29

Teachers are America's heroes. They work hard and are largely undervalued for the important role they play. An ice hockey (is all hockey played on ice?) team decided to honor some teachers by inviting them to apply for a half-time "Dash for Cash." The idea was simple: put a bunch of teachers together around a big pile of dollar bills and let the fun begin! Teachers got to keep the cash and use it in their classrooms because America really values public education. A video clip of the Dash for

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46:11

MetaPod: The Interview

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2021/12/23

It's our annual bonus episode! Apologies Accepted is the guest podcast this week on MetaPod. Catch Juliette and Theo in their first recorded interview as they talk about the show and all things apology. MetaPod introduces listeners to new and different podcasts from across the world (which is round and contains more countries than just Los Angeles and San Francisco as Theo has recently learned!). Listen in as they answer questions from MetaPod's golden-voiced hosts, Wendy and Kevin.

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01:04:14

Black Pete: Christmas Culture Clash

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2021/12/22

It's our Christmas episode. Christmaschristmaschristmaschristmaschristmaschristmaschristmas. We love it - the lights, the music, the cookies, the racist caricatures! Ah, Christmas - the yuletide celebration that brings the world closer together. A lovely time of year when we ask ourselves the eternal questions like: what is the meaning behind a black man dressed for a renaissance fair who has curly black hair and red red lips and puts children in a sack and beats them with a stick while taking

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01:11:08

Better.com: Better Just Got Worse.com

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2021/12/15

Business rule #1 is donut mess with the cops (it’s a pun! And episode 43!). Business rule #2 is don’t lay-off 900 people as if you were sad about having to take out the garbage and then go on an anonymous chat board to say people deserved it. Vishal Garg (not a Smurf) didn’t know about rule #2, or chose not to follow it because the rules don’t apply to him. Either way, he laid off 900 people on a Zoom call, told them how sad he was, and then promptly bricked all their laptops and left them to

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01:11:04

Alice Sebold: Convicted Until Proven Innocent

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2021/12/08

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 she believed assaulted her. The memoir was a huge bestseller and she went on to literary fame, writing several novels to both critical and commercial success. Recently her memoir was in production to become a film when one of the executive producers noticed some things in the trial that didn’t quite add up. He hired

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01:15:48

Baby Jesus: Away With the Manger

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2021/12/01

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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01:13:30

Charlie Brown: Guess Who is Coming to Dinner

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2021/11/25

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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01:17:39

Paris Hilton: The Role of a Lifetime

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2021/11/17

In the early 2000s, Paris Hilton was seen as a joke. She was a dumb spoiled rich girl, and it seemed as if the media was forcing her upon the world for. No. Good. Reason. When a private video tape was released, the public largely said she deserved what she got – and maybe she was even using the video to get more famous. Either way it was somehow all her fault. Few people felt sorry for Paris. She was a target for ridicule of comedians and the media. To protect herself, she played a character

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01:21:58

Billy Porter: Saying Sorry With Styles

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2021/11/10

Harry Styles found himself in a bit of hot water with Billy Porter. Harry had posed on the cover of Vogue, in a dress, and Billy was pretty angry over all the praise Harry was receiving. Billy said some things that he later apologized for, explaining that all he’d ever received was scorn for wearing women’s fashion, but here comes a handsome straight white guy in a dress and the whole world swoons over how brave Harry Styles is. Billy set the record straight (pun and it stays) explaining that it

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01:01:33

MOVE: Philly Holds a Grudge

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2021/11/03

MOVE was a quasi-political organization that began in the 1970s. Ex-members say it is a cult, current members say it is a peaceful back-to-nature movement meant to reunited mankind with the natural world. In 1978 the City of Philadelphia said it was a terrorist organization that needed to be dealt with, and the city did just that with 400 cops, tanks, bulldozers, hand grenades, and guns. An officer died and nine members were sent to jail based on the forensic work of the police. In 1985 Philly

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01:44:18

Salem: Witches Everywhere!

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2021/10/27

It’s our Halloween special! One summer in 1692 some village girls began behaving strangely. Witches were the only explanation and so began one of the darkest periods in early American history – The Salem Witch Trials. 200 people were sent to jail and 20 were killed by public execution. The Witch Trials lasted about a year, and seemingly stopped just as suddenly as they had started. The big question has always been: why? Why did a group of young girls accuse grown adult women of attacking them

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54:25

Award Show: Winners Everywhere

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2021/10/20

Our first season draws to a close and our big take away – there are a lot of apologies out there! So we are going above and beyond as we highlight the most notable and give awards to some really deserving apologies. Not every apology earns an award, but each one was already a winner for having been a show episode. Although it’s the end of season 1, have no fear - we’re marching straight into season 2 with a whole bunch of new apologies and a lot of swear words (sorry, moms)!

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01:07:04

Skinwalker Ranch: Paranormal Paradise

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2021/10/13

Totally planned and absolutely *not* by accident, our Spooky October Month-Long-Spectacular continues with an episode about Skinwalker Ranch, a ranch in Utah owned by a billionaire who wants 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

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