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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 shelter.  So, let's go with shack because OED is a more authoritative source than judgey Merriam Webster.  A Haunted H...

Skin, it's what covers your bones and what you rub creams on to see how many blisters you can raise. If you don't rub poisons onto your skin to observe the after effects, you can thank one Dr. Kligman for doing the research for you.  Dr. Kligman discovered that prisoners have skin and that they were willing to sign up for experiments so he got them to sign a bunch of papers that they didn't unders...

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.  Local Spectrum News channel 1 in NYC became an exception to that policy when they quietly fired Eric Adame, the local fan favorite weatherman...

It's our 100th episode and we are celebrating by reviewing 4 of our lowest rated apologies!  No one is ever sorrier than when their apology gets reviewed a second time.  And what's worse, is reviewed and then followed up with updates.  Who honored their promises to do better and fell flat (hint: it's in the word "Better" as in better.com)?  Is it OK to like Chrissy Teigen again?  Did Alice Sebold...

Resham is one of Pakistan's biggest stars, having acted in film and TV since the 90s.  She's beautiful, talented, and a bit of a litter bug - if you want to judge her solely on one tiny video posted to her 600,000 followers on social media when there are so many bigger problems in the world! Resham will let you know that she is a force for good in the world and if you come for Resham, you better b...

Hamilton the Musical is a broadway phenomenon that took the world by storm.  The show features people of color in leading roles portraying America's founding fathers.  This juxtaposition of the Founding Fathers as black and brown highlights the fact that many Americans are still engaged in a battle for freedom.  It's a show about the importance of inclusion and diversity.  And awesome songs. The D...

Wekfest is an annual convention held in New Jersey for custom car enthusiasts.  At the end of the convention, fans stand around the exit of the convention center to watch the cars leave.  Sometimes drivers put on a show for the fans, they rev their engines or do donuts or whatever else kind of stuff you can do with a car.  The fans love it, but Wekfest is clear that this is not a sanctioned part o...

Hi Everyone!  Vacation ran a week over so we are re-releasing a fan favorite with assurances that we will be back next week (we said that last week, but that turned out to be incorrect because someone - out of kindness we're on purpose not mentioning Theo by name - can't read a calendar). 2020 was not a great year, not for most of the world, and certainly not for Ellen DeGeneres.  The opening mono...

It's still us and we are still on vacation!  But have no fear, we have a classic fan favorite and will be back next week with a new episode and a whole lot of sorry for having been gone for two weeks!   Being number one is great, but being number two is pretty nice, too.  Just ask Allison Mack.  She was second in command of the NXIVM cult and the leader of a devoted group of women who called her "...

Hi Everyone!  We're on vacation over the next two weeks because our producer told us we were working too hard on the show (no he didn't) and so we've reached into the vault to re-launch a fan favorite!  And don't worry, the world has not run out of apologies and we will be back in two weeks with a brand new episode!   Alice Sebold misidentified a man as a rapist and that man spent 16 years wrongfu...

Kevin Spacey is a hollywood legend (for his grabby hands).  He has won numerous awards (not for his grabby hands) and was once an icon.  But one day in 2017 a story came out that Kevin had sexually harassed a 14 year old and after the accusation came out, Kevin came out.  Kevin apologized for the assault and then told the world what he had long held secret, he was gay.  People said he was coming o...

Parents in Singapore were alarmed to learn that clowns were standing outside of elementary schools talking to children.  Facebook reports of evil clowns luring children away spread across social media.  It turned out that a local language school had tried to promote itself by posting clowns outside of elementary schools and offering parents and children flyers - it was all just a harmless promotio...

Kim Burrell is a pretty famous gospel singer.  She is also a pastor because why not.  Kim said some words while preaching to her congregation, saying some stuff about how people are ugly but hiding it well under their Sunday hats, and some people in the audience felt pretty insulted, others perhaps understood that she was trying to be funny.  Either way, Kim issued an apology and then issued a sec...

North Carolina is pretty much about freedom unless you have a vagina - but honestly that is not what this episode is about but then it sort of is.  Until recently you could basically have any kind of pet you wanted if you lived in North Carolina.  Gorillas, tigers, bears - name a dangerous wild animal and if you could catch it and keep it in a cage, it was yours.  Chris Gifford (yes, famous Tik To...

A funeral director by the name of Megan Hess ran a funeral home and a body-part distributing company. Both. Under. The. Same. Roof.  And no one blinked or thought that was strange at all.  After a few years of selling body parts to medical research and academics, the FBI came knocking at Megan's door and the agency was shocked to its core to discover that someone named Megan would stoop so low as...

Marta Kauffman created a little TV show called "Friends" and it was a giant hit for ten years.  Over the years, the show received some criticism for lacking diversity.  Marta heard the criticism and felt it to be unfair: of course her popular TV show was being singled out for criticism.  People are jealous and they will rip your TV show to shreds if given the chance. Then all of a sudden it was 20...

Lizzo is a superstar performer and a superstar person.  Some fans reached out and took objection with a word in her new song Grrrls, explaining that it is commonly used as a slur against disabled people.  She was accused of being ableist, forgetting that disabled people are alive in the world and have the same feelings as anyone who has a slur used against them. Lizzo took fast action, re-recordin...

Our first request and a huge thanks for the story idea!  It's one of the most memorable apologies ever given by a corporation. The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 was the largest environmental disaster in American history.  11 million gallons of oil covered 1,300 miles of coastline and killed off 250,000 birds and thousands of marine mammals.  The Exxon Valdez story has it all: a drunken sea captai...

Who is Eric Lander you are asking?  He served as the Science Officer for the Biden Administration.  He lasted eight months.  He resigned after accusations of bullying and sexism forced the White House to say "ummm, hey, wait a minute, this is supposed to be a stupid-easy cabinet post, why are we hearing so much about you."  Eric Lander had the chance to be a real life Dr. Spock, the first Chief Sc...

Back in 1969 a small group of 8 police officers went into the local gay bar to conduct a weekly shakedown of the mafia-bar-owners for some cash and to hassle some queers.  The Stonewall Inn was the night home to all the queers: gays, lesbians, transgender people, drag queens, and assorted randos.  The cops went in on a normal night, just before midnight on June 27th, ready to check some genitals (...

Juneteenth is now a nationally recognized holiday.  If you haven't heard of it, it's the day that the Union Army liberated the last of the enslaved people in the US.  They rode into town and decreed "you were freed two years ago" and the 250,000 newly emancipated people celebrated.  The following year they celebrated again, but then some laws came down that prohibited black people from publically...

Luftwaffe (sorry, sorry, we mean Lufthansa) airline had an issue in early May.  Apparently a handful of people had not worn their face masks properly (or at all - it's a bit confused as to what actually happened) on an international flight from NYC to Frankfurt, Germany.  The 5 or 10 people were jewish and on their way to Hungary in observance of a holy day of memory.  Luftwaffe (sorry, sorry, we...

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 exposu...

Hot Irish twin brothers, Dave and Steve Flynn, are mega-vegan influencers and owners of The Happy Pear, a café and lifestyle brand (and podcast!).  They love helping people get healthy and happy.  They recently gave some advice around beating breast cancer – eat mushrooms!  There was also some stuff about increasing your soy intake that became mixed up with the idea of vegetables increasing or dec...

Rachel Dolezal became world famous on June 11, 2015 when a reporter asked her if her father was white.  This seemed like an odd question, why would anyone care?  Weirdly, people cared.  Rachel had been presenting herself as black for years but the reality was both her parents were white and so was she.  Rachel had constructed a public persona of a black woman, and it was believable.  She had photo...