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The Bunker

Why sorry seems to be the hardest word in politics

The Bunker

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A good apology can make or break a politician. So why are so many public figures so bad at saying sorry? Jacob Jarvis unearths the fine art of apologising with ‘sorry watchers’ Susan McCarthy and Marjorie Ingall, co-authors of Sorry, sorry, sorry: the case for good apologies. “We rarely teach children why they should apologise, we just tell them they should.” – Marjorie Ingall “Apologising is hard, and so it’s instinctive to protect ourselves because we don’t want to mess up.” – Susan McCarthy Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Lead producer Jacob Jarvis. Bunker music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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1:16.3

Nobody really likes to say sorry do they I think we'd all like to find ourselves rarely

1:20.4

in the position of needing to apologize but a good apology can go a long way. It can

1:25.3

repair relationships, open up conversations and foster closeness when we might otherwise

1:30.3

drift apart. And for public figures it can make or break their

1:34.4

credibility. If a politician gets it wrong but they apologize and fix it we're a

1:38.9

lot more forgiving than if they obfuscate and shift the blame. Unfortunately, plenty do the latter.

1:44.1

So why are people so bad at apologies?

1:47.4

And what makes a good one?

1:49.2

Here to discuss this with me are the Sorry Watchers

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