Apologetical | Radiolab Podcast

From the Radiolab podcast: What does “sorry” even mean? Content warning: one story mentions the death of a teenager. Another story mentions the death of a very young child. How do you fix a word that’s broken? A word we need when we bump into someone on the street, or break someone’s heart. In our increasingly disconnected secular world, “sorry” has been stretched and twisted, and in some cases weaponized. But it’s also one of the only ways we have to piece together a sense of shared values and beliefs. Through today's sea of sorry-not-sorries, empty apologies, and just straight up non-apologies, we wonder in this episode from 2018 what it looks like to make amends. Episode Segments: 0:00 Justin Trudeau's Elbowgate 13:19 Apology laws and Michael "Mike" Dukakis [death of a teenager] 25:40 Heinrich IV and Pope Gregorius VII 30:01 When hospitals apologize [death of a young child] 51:16 Willie Horton and the negative ad campaign 🎧 Subscribe to Radiolab wherever you listen to podcasts: https://bit.ly/3trXDLe 🔎 Subscribe to Radiolab on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3I9KI53 🖋 Subscribe to Radiolab’s Newsletter: https://radiolab.org/newsletter 🌱 Check out Radiolab's Starter Kit Playlist: https://bit.ly/3sX8f4P 👍 Like this video ✏️ and leave us a comment! Follow Radiolab: Instagram —   / radiolab   Twitter —   / radiolab   Facebook —   / radiolab   Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today: https://radiolab.org/the-lab Guests are: Abigail Saltonstall Michael “Mike” Dukakis Lee Taft Nick Smith Jennifer Robbennolt Pam Wells Leilani Schweitzer The episode includes mentions of: Justin Trudeau Elbowgate Senator Bill Saltonstall George Bush Lee Atwater Willie Horton Image by Jared Bartman