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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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Hi Everyone! It's early summer break and we are happy to share another fan favorite episode while we tan and drink martinis poolside: The hosts of MFM have legions of adoring fans. Karen and Georgia are down to earth, funny, relatable, and share their innermost thoughts and fears freely on the air. They also share the thoughts and feelings of other…
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Summer break for us! Enjoy this rerelease of a favorite episode from season 1 - she's released a new album recently so in honor of the new album a trip down memory lane :) Imma tell you about this episode but first I want to say that Beyoncé had one of the best podcasts of all time! And one of the best videos too! Kanye is not forcing us to type th…
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It's Orson Wells' birthday (May 6, 1919) so we are reaching into the vault, all the way back to episode 2! Did a radio show purposely create a nationwide panic, sending people into the streets and mothers with shotguns into bathtubs? Or were newspapers just blowing it all out of proportion because they were jealous of the newest form of media, radi…
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Yohoho and a bottle or rum! Former Congressman Ted Yoho makes a return to the world stage after admitting that he did call Congresswoman AOC an “F’ing B”. Comedian and Tik Tok star, Ben Palmer, pranked Congressman Yoho in 2020 for a couple of months, pretending to be a conservative with the website “Parler.” If you are not familiar with the website…
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Grimes (aka ex-Mrs. Elon Musk) is a musician and not a performer, something she proved to the world during the first weekend of Coachella. There was a technical malfunction and because she had not done any real show prep, she was reduced to yelling and complaining on stage that nothing was working correctly. She apologized to the world and promised…
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Easy Tiger is a local Austin bakery/pub and very popular with locals - but not with the workers! Proof of that came when the Department of Labor contacted the 7th Street location and informed the bakery that they had received a tip (hahaha and not sorry) that the restaurant was in violation employment laws around tipping. Tips are for front of hous…
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Ben Bolch is a columnist who writes for the LA Times. Recently he compared two women's basketball teams as "milk and cookies" vs "dirty debutantes" and boy was that not the comparison to use! Dirty Debutantes will always win every game, always! He received a fair amount of pushback from the world and issued a public apology on instagram. And now we…
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Jonathan Shewchuk is a Berkeley Computer Science professor and somewhat of a controversial figure who is known for offensive comments towards women. When asked for dating advice on a class online forum, he advised the student to leave the Bay Area and head to a place where women are plentiful and know how to act (we're paraphrasing here but also th…
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We're having a bit too much fun with the AI service and decided to share the AI recap of the episode - enjoy! ;) AI Recap: In this enlightening episode of Apologies Accepted, hosts Theo and Juliette dissect the fall from grace of Dan Schneider, a revered icon of Nickelodeon. They discuss the recently aired docuseries 'Quiet On Set,' which brought a…
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Oh Kensington PR Department, you are all so fired! Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has not been seen publicly for three months. This is notable because her whole job is to be seen doing good, publicly. The internet ran wild with rumors, so to squash those rumors, the Palace published a mother's day photo of Kate with her 3 children. She wasn…
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LA Opera's PR team published a post to Instagram that was about periods and the women who have them. The post meant to be empowering to women and celebrate International Women's Day by celebrating menstruation. That post received some backlash because not all women menstruate. The all female PR team issued an apology and things got a little wonky b…
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Our Robot Overlord is the special guest star copywriter this week! The following is an AI generated recap and it makes us sound much smarter than we are! Welcome to another riveting episode of Apologies Accepted, as your hosts Theo and Juliette explore the complexities of gender and sex. Discover how these elemental aspects of identity are more tha…
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Bobby Leonard is a Baptist Pastor who went viral in a video (not for herpes) from August 2023 (which is in the 21st Century) for stating that he would let a rapist go free for raping a woman who was wearing shorts because "A Man is a Man". See, men just love shorts. They don't like dresses or overalls or skirts - it's shorts that fire up the engine…
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This is one for the history books. RFK Jr. is the son of Bobby Kennedy and the nephew of John F Kennedy - two renowned American historical figures and responsible for shaping much of 20th century American politics. RFK Jr. is trying to follow in their footsteps, but he has some big shoes to fill. He's running for President in 2024 and a political a…
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Our corporate overlords have paused this episode of Apologies Accepted, the Podcast, to remind everyone of the joys of work and the joys of not complaining about it. We return you now to your regularly scheduled work day: Someone said the quite parts out loud on a podcast, but she wasn't talking for herself. She got a lot of pushback and fulll disc…
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Martyrdom is a Black Metal band from Texas and they did the most Black Metal thing they could think when performing at a local Houston venue, they threw a pig's head into the crowd. Some people were into it: Black Metal is about anti-establishment Satanic performative screaming! Pig Heads are awesome! Some people were not into it: Black Metal is ab…
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Right Wing Media will have you know that Sherita Hill Golden is the DEI (Diversity, Equality, Inclusion) officer at John Hopkins Medical Center and she sent out an email that said that white people, Christians, and men are privileged. The slant of the articles and opinion pieces and onscreen televangelists – sorry we mean onscreen television news c…
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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, t…
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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 bla…
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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 s…
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FabFitFun is a monthly gift subscription box that arrives filled with surprises. The idea is that the total cost of the items in the box is worth waaaay more than your monthly subscription price. Subscribers love it and it's been kicking around since 2010 just delighting people and making money. That is until the company decided to throw its advert…
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Weight Watchers used shame as part of their buffet of options to motivate people to lose weight. You are what you eat and your self control is visible in the extra pounds you carry around. It was all tied together nicely and that's the way it was until Ozempic showed up and was like "hey friend, I gotta let you know a secret" and the secret was you…
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Matt Rife is/was a comedian who rose to fame on Tik Tok. Most of his followers are/were female, to which he credits his glow up from average to pretty dang good lookin! On Tik Tok, he comes across as empathetic, caring, not afraid to cross a line and offend in the name of humor, and just super likeable. On his Netflix special, Natural Selection, he…
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In honor of Thanksgiving, a super special bonus encore episode of our fan favorite, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. If you are celebrating or if you are not, we wish you the very best for the upcoming holiday season. May your Quorn Roast be toasted to perfection! Snoopy is cooking Thanksgiving dinner and everyone is invited! Jelly Beans and toast for…
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Right Coast Pizza put out an ad in an edgy music magazine. The ad showed a pilgrim woman offering a pizza to an indigenous man and apologizing for "all the smallpox." The ad was meant to be funny, but instead it created a social media backlash and both the magazine and the restaurant apologized. A town meeting was held and ended in hugs, but did th…
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Jann Wenner founded Rolling Stone magazine in 1967 and become the voice of Rock and Roll journalism for 45 years. The fact that the voice was white and male was a reflection of the times, and the times kind of never changed for Jann. Rolling Stone captured the revolutionary spirit of the 60's counter culture and helped make it mainstream. The magaz…
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All we can say is daaaammmmnnnn. Britney Spears released her memoir and told the world some things and now the world is having a re-think about Justin Timberlake. Pop culture history has it that Justin and Britney were the golden couple and super happy until she cheated on him and he expressed his sadness in a couple of pop hits. He dragged Britney…
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Happy Halloween! It's a bonus encore episode in honor of Halloween (aka gay Christmas). We'll be back live in the studio next week because as our manager has reminded us, vacations are not supposed to last forever. One summer in 1692 some village girls began behaving strangely. Witches were the only explanation and so began one of the darkest perio…
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It's Halloweeeeeeeen! And our encore holiday episode celebrating candy and the commercialization of the spooky season! In these strange times we take you back to the more innocent days of childhood. Stealing a bowlful of Halloween candy from your neighbor’s porch seems like a gentler crime from gentler days…but there is a social contract involved! …
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It's a Halloween Encore Episode! We will be back live in two weeks. 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 sh…
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It's an encore episode! Juliette is in Sweden and Theo isn't and is pretty mad about it. 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. Loca…
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It's our 150th Episode and what better way to honor the occasion than with a story about Nazis! The Canadian Parliament honored a 98 year old World War II veteran in September 2023. He received a standing ovation for his service during the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in attendance and joined the applause. Now Vladimir Putin is a…
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Lauren Boba Fett was sent to congress by Colorado's 3rd District for a second term because 546 people wanted the rest of the US to see how dumb she was. They didn't want to hog all the stupidity for themselves and thought the national stage was the best place to showcase her world class idiocy. Thanks, Colorado's 3rd district, the following is all …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 s…
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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…
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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 fo…
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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…
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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…
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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, M…
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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 i…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 wa…
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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 Mil…
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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 pre…
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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 the…
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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 …
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