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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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01:15:20

Child Labor: Child’s Play is not for Children

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2023/09/08

Hi everyone! It's a two week vacation while Juliette travels and Theo moves and we're rereleasing one of our classic episodes about child labor! 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

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40:47

Brazilian Barbie: Racist Beauty Standards

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2023/08/31

Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel, Xuxa for short, is a world famous entertainer, singer, model, and businesswoman. She's worth over $300 million dollars thanks to her talents and it all started thanks to her looks. She was (and still is) beautiful. Tall, thin, blond, and white, she not only met the beauty standard, she raised it. People called her the Barbie of Brazil and her fans around the world adored her for her beauty and charm. Recently Xuxa issued an apology for being used by corporations and

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41:41

Medical Assistance in Dying: Maid to Order

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2023/08/27

Kathrin Mentler wasn't in a good space and went to Vancouver General Hospital to get some help. She'd been thinking about harming herself and the doctor asked if she had ever considered asking for medical assistance in dying. MAID is a program in Canada that allows terminally ill people the option of dying in a controlled environment. Kathrin was shocked. She had come to the hospital for help in staying alive, not help in planning her death. To think that death was being offered as a choice

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52:58

Megan Thee Stallion: Off Like A Shot

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2023/08/17

You know who she is so you don't need the backstory! She is a hip hop artist who seemingly overnight was recording duets with Beyonce and Beyonce (seriously what other artist do you need after Queen B?). And then she was famously shot in the foot and the entire world had something to say about it. Megan is now accused of being a liar, called a hero, a prime example of misogynor, the imperfect black woman victim, a champion for truth - her story has been twisted by anyone with a hand to twist -

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50:52

Miranda Sings: The Sorry Song

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2023/08/12

Miranda is a character created by comedic actress Colleen Ballinger. For a hot minute in the pre 2010s Miranda was all over YouTube and had a army of adoring fans. Miranda is oblivious to her lack of talent and her entire life is dedicated to becoming a star. But while Miranda's dreams never left her bedroom, Colleen's dreams took her to Netflix for her own Miranda special, around the world performing before live audiences, and across the internet, smashing subscription numbers and raking in the

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48:08

Carlee Russell: Gone Girl Fail

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2023/08/02

Carlee Russell called 911 to report a toddler walking along the side of the highway at 9:30 at night (21:30 for the rest of the world!). Her car was found with the car door open and engine running on the side of the road. Her belongings, her purse and cell phone remained behind, untouched. The takeout dinner sat in the back seat, unopened and still warm. She was missing for two days before appearing at her parents' home, frightened and distraught. In the two days of her disappearance, her story

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41:19

Graffiti Tourist: When in Rome

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2023/07/27

A tourist from the UK carved his name into the Roman Colosseum in 2023 ~ approximately 2,000 years after it opened to visitors. He claims he didn't know how old the Colosseum was but he sure is sorry that all of Italy and most of Europe wants to see his blood splashed against the Colosseum floor in exchange for carving "Ivan & Haley 4Evah" onto the walls. It turns out that graffiti is nothing new and people largely had the same d*ck jokes 2,000 years ago as they do today. So should this UK

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01:01:57

**Encore** UFOs: The Truth is Still Out There

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2023/07/19

Summer Vacation for Apologies Accepted! We'll be back next week, but for now enjoy this encore episode because UFOs/UAPs are now back in the news! We take our second deep dive into the topic of UFOs and government cover-ups! On March 13, 1997 a huge flying object was reported by thousands of people across Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Sonora, Mexico. The air force scrambled fighter jets to investigate. Local and national news stations covered the event, which became known as “The Phoenix

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01:13:47

**Encore** UFOs: The Truth is Out There

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2023/07/12

Kevin Day was a radar operator for the Navy and working with the latest and greatest radar and tracking technology onboard the USS Princeton on November 10, 2004. He was highly trained, highly qualified, and highly respected for his skills – so people took notice when he spotted something on the radar that wasn’t supposed to be there. He reported it up the food chain because that was his job. November 10 was an important day, four military pilots were conducting training exercises and the new

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01:16:09

**Encore** Radiation: Y 5 a X2b or The Glow from Within

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2023/07/05

It's an encore episode in honor of lady scientists everywhere! 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

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50:54

Women in Science: It Take a Man

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2023/06/30

Two postdocs wrote an article on gender differences in hiring rates in the sciences and discovered that men had a much easier time than women in getting articles published and getting hired. The article went out for peer review prior to publication and the critical feedback they received was that the article would have been better had a man helped them write it. Perhaps, the reasoning went, the two postdocs allowed their own lady-biases to color their interpretation of the data. Because it just so

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49:00

L.A. Dodgers: Foul Balls

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2023/06/15

Peanuts, Popcorn, Crackerjacks and Queers! It's Pride Night at the Ballpark but all was not gay. The Los Angeles Dodgers (Brooklyn still hates ya!) celebrates diversity all year round. There is Black Heritage Night, Korean Heritage Night, Asian Pacific Islander Night - everyone gets a night, even the Alphabet Mafia! Pride night wasn't a homerun for the Dodgers. They'd invited The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a charity-street-performance-advocacy group that dresses in drag as nuns. The

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45:55

The Cupcake Thief: Taking a Bite Out of Crime

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2023/06/06

Who among us hasn't wanted to kick in the front door of a bakery and run out with a half dozen free cupcakes? We are all pastry thieves at heart. One lucky Canadian hero got to live his best life when he kicked his leg through the glass front door of "Sweet Something" bakery of Vancouver (that's in Canada and is the Los Angeles of the North). He was a polite burglar, he cleaned up after himself and then ran off into the night with cupcakes. Again, who among us would be strong enough to resist the

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01:07:29

*Encore* Hallmark Lesbians: Don’t Let Them Eat Cake

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2023/06/04

Encore presentation! 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

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01:05:10

Matty Healy: Ice Spice is Nice

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2023/05/27

Matty Healy (Government Name: Matt Healy) is the lead singer for The 1975, a British pop band that was formed in 2002 by a bunch of guys who met in High School and formed a band and then got famous and are still at it - kind of like the Beatles but way less famous. Matty is a bit wild card, a bad boy, a provocateur - or that's how his publicist present him to the press. Who is he? We all need to know because he is dating Taylor Swift and this has spun pop culture into crisis mode. Can she save

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51:10

Tom Sachs: The Artworld Sux

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2023/05/20

Everybody is so creative, but not everybody is so nice. Tom Sachs is an artworld darling with his own production studio, deals with Nike, and lots of servants who work for him in order to be close to the creative fire that burns bright within his darling-artworld-mind. Oh wait, not servants but staff. No, not staff, employees. Whatever you call them it doesn't matter because they don't matter. At least that's the story that comes out of studio. Tom Sachs is accused of underpaying and

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57:52

Syphilis: Guatemala Guinea Pigs

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2023/05/10

It turns out that people in Guatemala do not eat guinea pigs on the street, but they were used as guinea pigs in the 1940s by the US Government. The US really needed some human subjects to observe the effects of syphilis on the human body so they injected sex workers in Guatemala with syphilis and then sent them into the local jails to help spread syphilis to the prisoners. The sex workers were injected with syphilis without their knowledge or consent, and the prisoners only knew that someone had

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44:32

Pity City: A Nice Place to Visit

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2023/05/04

Furniture is big business and big money - at least if you are the CEO of MillerKnoll. MillerKnoll makes office furniture, including that famous chair made out black mesh that everyone loves so much. But sales have been a bit soft lately and the sales team was worried about not making their bonus. During an all staff Zoom call (beware of those Zoom calls!) the question of bonuses came up and Andi Owen, CEO and passionate believer in equality, reminded her entire staff that there was a $26 million

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01:00:07

Bud Light: Straight Talk

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2023/04/29

Dylan Mulvaney is a trans woman who isn't campaigning to be the face of beer, she's just trying to do her thing and live her life. But Bud Light thought working with Dylan would be a perfect way to show solidarity to the queer community (and market themselves to GenZ beer drinkers) and so they gave her a ceremonial case of beer with her face on 24 cans. Dylan posted a couple of lovely videos talking about how honored and excited she was and graciously thanked Bud Light. And some people lost their

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01:06:13

Racist Expressions: Words Can Hurt

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2023/04/18

John McPartland is a member of the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Board of Directors and was censured in January 2023 for for using a racist expression. McPartland told three Black staff members at a meeting Jan. 12 that their work on BART's ongoing racial equity initiative was "cotton-pickin' inspirational." McPartland apologized after learning that people were offended by his choice of words. He had never intended for his words to be racist. It's not his first embarrassing brush with racist

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