• Rejecting Ellen DeGeneres
    Oct 23 2024

    Ellen DeGeneres has 34 Emmy Awards and a Presidential Medal of Freedom to her name. Her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ran for nearly 20 years. But back in 1997, DeGeneres was starring in the sitcom Ellen, when she made a historic decision: to come out as gay. Making DeGeneres the first openly gay star of a television show. But what came next, not even her critics could have predicted.


    You might think you know this story, but take a listen. You may just learn something new.


    Hope you'll join us.


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    30 mins
  • Meet The Worst Podcast
    Oct 16 2024

    This week, we’re excited to share a brand-new podcast we think you'll enjoy. From our friends over at Canadaland, meet The Worst Podcast.


    Hosted by award-winning filmmaker (and noted curmudgeon) Alan Zweig, The Worst Podcast is Canadaland’s first celebrity interview pod. Zweig finds typical celebrity interviews surface-level and predictable, so he found a solution: conversations with notable guests about the worst things in life. Rejection, anyone?


    In this episode, Zweig sits down with Ron MacLean. Find The Worst Podcast wherever you’re listening right now.


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    37 mins
  • Rejecting A Wrinkle In Time
    Oct 2 2024

    A Wrinkle In Time has sold 16 million copies worldwide. Time Magazine named it one of the 100 best fantasy books ever written, and the 1962 bestseller is still in print today. But when established author Madeleine L’Engle first pitched the novel to publishers, she was told it was too…strange. 10 years of rejection. 30 rejection letters from editors. One great gesture of renunciation.


    This rejection story is out of this world.


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    32 mins
  • Rejecting Still Alice
    Sep 18 2024

    Still Alice the book, sold 1M copies worldwide – a national bestseller. Still Alice the movie, sold $45M worth of tickets at the box office – and won an Academy Award. But back when neuroscientist Lisa Genova first penned the novel, it was rejected by 100 book agents. She was told no one would read a book about Alzheimer’s Disease, that the subject matter was too depressing and that neuroscientists shouldn’t write fiction.


    Hope you’ll join us.


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    33 mins
  • Rejecting Yennier Cano
    Sep 4 2024

    Cuban pitcher Yennier Cano was told he’d never make the Cuban National Series. Then when he tried to leave Cuba to play in the Majors, his government banned him from playing baseball. When he finally made it to America, Cano floundered in obscurity in the minors. Today he’s one of the best relievers in Major League Baseball.


    Hope you’ll join us.


    Tell us YOUR rejection story:

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    34 mins
  • Rejecting Sir Harold Ridley (Inventor of Modern Cataract Surgery)
    Aug 22 2024

    Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide – 50% of the world’s blindness is a result of cataracts. For 200 years, treatment of the condition involved removing the lens of the eye and substituting the function of that lens with a pair of thick glasses. But in 1949, Dr. Harold Ridley had another idea. What if he replaced the natural lens of the eye with an artificial one? Well, let’s just say the field of ophthalmology didn’t see the vision.


    Hope you’ll join us.


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    35 mins
  • Listener Rejection Stories
    Aug 7 2024

    Each week on this podcast, we tell the stories of famous names who overcame debilitating career rejection. We’ve talked through the careers of actors, artists, authors, athletes and even an astronaut. But rejection affects us all. So this season, we wanted to hear from you.


    We put out a call for your rejection stories.


    You sent us voicemails, emails, comments, posts and messages. Take a listen.


    Tell us YOUR rejection story, and you may be featured in an upcoming episode:

    Record your voice: https://speak-to.us/rejection

    Write to us: hello@apostrophepodcasts.ca


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    20 mins
  • Rejecting Pedro Pascal (Encore)
    Jul 24 2024

    This week it's our mid-season break, and that means an encore presentation of one of our most-loved episodes: Rejecting Pedro Pascal.


    Pedro Pascal is the man of the moment. In 2020 he was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year, and in 2023 he became one of the highest-paid actors on television. But only 10 years ago, Pascal was struggling to make rent, rejected for parts and told he was aging out of Hollywood – quick. Until one afternoon, when he picked up a script for a 30-something bisexual Lothario from the 15th century...


    Tell us YOUR rejection story, and you may be featured in an upcoming episode:

    Record your voice: https://speak-to.us/rejection

    Write to us: hello@apostrophepodcasts.ca


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    35 mins