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“Hey friends,” an announcement on Mohanad Elsheiky’s Instagram read. “I’ve been trying to figure out how to address this but there’s no easy way to say what I’m about to say.”
“Long story short, I have a new podcast coming out today, I’m Sorry, which is the name of the podcast and not how I feel.”
Elshieky’s post poked fun at Notes app screengrab apologies that, to be honest, had their heyday and are no longer considered acceptable formatting in the public square of social media.
Explaining Notes app screengrabs and why they no longer work is likely on the menu of I’m Sorry, the new podcast about modern apology from former Portland comedian Elshieky and his two co-hosts: Chicago comedian Hoja Lopez and Talk of Shame founder Kiki Monique.
The three form a real powerhouse of interesting philosophical hot takes, bouncing between sincere statements like Lopez’s prediction that our society is in the “Mesozoic era of treating people kindly…and this is the growing pains of that” and Elsheiky asserting that he can’t be canceled in the Western world because all of the Libyan-born comic’s tweets from 2011 were written in Arabic.
“So I will be like ‘wrong translation,’ no matter what you find,” Elsheiky jokes.
I’m Sorry is only one episode in—halfway into a two-part opener about model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen, who is called “the Mayor of Twitter” for yet unrevealed reasons. Monique unfolds her vast celebrity knowledge to take listeners through the model’s life, breaking open different eras of Teigen public apologies and the apologies she demanded from others.
It’s a fun listen, even if you don’t know much about celebrity culture. The three hosts keep the pace moving and go off on far fewer tangents than normally found on a comedy podcast.
At this point, the only thing that seems like it could go wrong are the hosts being canceled themselves. “Please don’t cancel us,” Lopez adds at the end of the show, which is probably just a tag line and not a real appeal.
Listen to I’m Sorry on Lemonada Media and wherever else podcasts are streamed.