Apologetical

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🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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 what it looks like to make amends. The program at Stanford that Leilani went through (and now works for) was a joint creation between Stanford and Lee Taft. Find out more here: www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/patient-family-resources/pearl This episode was reported by Annie McEwen and was produced by Annie McEwen and Simon Adler. Special thanks to Mark Bressler, Nancy Kielty, and Patty Walters. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Chad. Before we start, let me just tell you about something. We, about a week ago,
0:07.2	we sent out a message to the database of people who subscribe to the Radio Lab newsletter and who are
0:14.4	new contributors to Radio Lab. We sent a message to that list of people and we said, sort of out of the
0:20.8	blue, we said, hey, here's a number to call.
0:23.2	If you're willing, call us up today.
0:27.6	Tell us a couple things.
0:28.7	First, who are you?
0:29.6	Hi, I'm Fiona.
0:32.0	It is 420 here in California.
0:34.7	Where are you in the world?
0:35.9	In Florida, Houston, Texas. Amaloooo. Here in Seattle, Washington are you in the world? We're in Rio Nevada. Houston, Texas.
0:38.3	Honolulu.
0:39.3	Here in Seattle, Washington.
0:40.3	Frankfurt, Germany.
0:41.3	Nashville, Tennessee.
0:43.3	Narragansett, Rhode Island.
0:44.3	Sydney, Australia.
0:45.3	Davidson, North Carolina.
0:47.3	I'm in Kansas City, Missouri, Chicago.
0:49.3	Boston, Massachusetts.
0:51.3	It was kind of amazing.
0:53.3	And just a short period of time we had almost a thousand calls from all over the world.
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