The Hardest Word
Real apologies from real people around the globe. Each short episode showcases an apology ranging from hilarious to heartbreaking. Hosted by the show's creator Brett de Hoedt. The show is intimate - total strangers reveal themselves - and genuinely most diverse. Apologies come from China, Palestine, Australia, Bangladesh, Macedonia, New Zealand, Kenya, the Philippines, India and more. Original score by Brian Wallace.
Episodes
We've collected our complete Ukraine series in the one place. Enjoy.
Visit our website for the videos.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace, USA.
Video Director: Svitlana Selivanova, Ukraine.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt, Australia.
This 100% independent and advertising free podcast needs your support. Subscribe, review and recommend.
Our final Ukraine series features new apologies from a range places and perspectives.
Visit our website for the videos.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace, USA.
Video Director: Svitlana Selivanova, Ukraine.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt, Australia.
This 100% independent and advertising free podcast needs your support. Subscribe, review and recommend.
Some fight, some stay behind, both apologize. Note: the soldier and wife in this episode are not married to each other. They do however represent what millions of Ukrainians are currently going through.
Visit our website for the videos.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace, USA.
Video Director: Svitlana Selivanova, Ukraine.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt, Australia.
This 100% independent and advertising free podcast needs your support. S...
Another episode from our archives in honour of Mother's Day
The third in our MD special.
Part two comes from the Phillipines.
For other's Day 2022 we're re-releasing this (somewhat controversial) apology. More importantly: happy Mother's Day to all the Moms and Mums out there.
Not every Russian is pro-Putin. Some think for themselves and have a soul.
Visit our website for the video.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace, USA.
Video Director: Svitlana Selivanova, Ukraine.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt, Australia.
This 100% independent and advertising free podcast needs your support. Subscribe, review and recommend.
Animals are suffering along with their Ukrainian owners. NOTE: the video for this story is updated with a HAPPY ENDING.
This episode features a BONUS apology from the archives: Gaza Kitty.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace, USA.
Video Director: Svitlana Selivanova, Ukraine.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt, Australia.
This 100% independent and advertising free podcast needs your help. Subscribe, review and recommend.
Even safety feels bad in a war.
Watch the videos our Ukraine-based Video Director Svitlana Selivanova is making for this series.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt
Now please - tell someone about this 100% independent and advertising free podcast immediately!
A brat makes an apology. (Note - some swearing involved.)
Audio Director: Brian Wallace.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt
Now please - tell someone about this podcast!
Slava Ukraini!
Not everybody wants to fight.
Watch the video our Ukraine-based Video Director Svitlana Selivanova made for this episode.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt
Now please - tell someone about this podcast!
Unlike our first Ukraine apology from Maryana, Olexandra decided to leave the war behind. Here, she apologizes. Listen to them both.
Audio Director: Brian Wallace
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt
Check out our new, improved videos by Ukraine-based Video Director: Svitlana Selivanova.
There is a haunting video to accompany this episode made by Ukrainian editor & cinematographer Svitlana Selivanova. Watch it - she made it in a war zone.
This episode is audio directed by Brian Wallace of California. Host and creator Brett de Hoedt lives in Melbourne.
The third in our series of apologies inspired by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This comes from a young man in Ukraine who once felt the pull of Russian "fraternal nations" propaganda. Brett also ventures into Reddit to ask Russians if they feel if they owe anybody an apology for the war.
There are more Ukraine Apologies to come and they will break your heart.
The Hardest Word showcases real apologies from real people. This 10...
This is the second in our series of apologies inspired by and in response to the criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It comes from a young man in Belarus. There are more to come.
The Hardest Word showcases real apologies from real people. This 100% ad-free and independent podcast is brought to you by:
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt
Audio Director: Brian Wallace.
This is the first in a series inspired by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Watch the moving video we have created for this episode.
Maryana talks to us from Kharkiv - now a war zone. Her life has changed forever.
We have apologies from Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and yes, Russia. They reveal personal and thepolitical aspects of this atrocity. The Hardest Word always airs real people making real apologies.
Creator and host: Brett de Hoed...
BONUS EPISODE: To mark IWD 2022 we have rereleased this collection of female apologies.
They come from the types of people and places we rarely hear from - even within the feminist / woke / pro-diversity world.
Not only that - they are uninterrupted and entirely free of corporate, celebrity or government pinkwashing.
If you can't tell, we're pretty proud of them.
Have you ever taken up a hobby, enjoyed it, then abandoned it?
We travel to Atlanta, Georgia to listen to new Mum Shaniqua's apology to a collection of inanimate objects. Objects that seem to hold a strange amount of power over her.
Plus a bonus apology on a similar theme from India.
Creator and host: Brett de Hoedt
Audio director: Brian Wallace
Intern: Natalie Haddad
A university lecturer in Ireland has seen the error of his ways.
Note: We are now twice as sorry.
This episode has a bonus apology from the archives - another bully apologizes. We'll be doing this more often than not as a way to explore a theme and bring old apologies to new listeners.
We are 100% independent and ad-free.
Creator & Host: Brett de Hoedt
Audio Director: Brian Wallace
Intern: Natalie Haddad
Popular Podcasts
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people.
A straightforward look at the day's top news in 20 minutes. Powered by ABC News. Hosted by Brad Mielke.