Apologies Accepted

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 this and he is not saying that you should totally skip ...

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, radio?

What happens when you apologize for other people’s reactions to something you di...

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, Parler was going to be the new Facebook for conservatives, until it imploded and d...

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 that the following show would be stellar.

Who is Grimes and why should we care?  I...

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 house staff only, servers and bartenders, tips are not to be shared among all staff.  T...

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 make way for our newest feature on the show, a word from our A.I. Robot overlord:

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 that was the subtext of the Professor's response).

Because it is Berkley and because i...

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 allegations of sexism, racism, and verbal abuse against Schneider into the limelight....

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't wearing a wedding ring and the kids had mismatched arms and 3 eyes so the inte...

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 because the internet allows anyone to voice an opinion.  Not everyone is good at thi...

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 than binary concepts, through an enlightening discussion on chromosomal variables, sex ...

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 engines of lust and overwhelm a man's sensibilities and turn him into a rapist.  It's pret...

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 action committee spent 7 million dollars on an ad which aired during the Super Bowl....

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 disclosure I am blissfully hight righ now during my personal time!  I can do what I w...

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 about authenticity and throwing a pig's head into the crowd is rude - we're here for...

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 casters – would have you believe that she is calling for America to open up prison ca...

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, the commercial versus the religious aspect has troubled people for over 200 years - ...

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 a...

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...