The Texting Episode (with Dr. Mimi Winsberg)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week, Erin and Sara sit down with Dr. Mimi Winsberg, a Harvard- and Stanford-trained psychiatrist and expert text decoder. They discuss how to avoid spiraling, what emojis can tell us about personality, the red flags to avoid in a new texting relationship, and more.
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
Associate Producer: Montana McBirney
Audio Engineer: Josh Windisch
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen Sarah's put the cost. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. Okay. You keep saying okay. Like we're here, we're live, we're rolling. |
| 0:17.0 | The audience is listening. Okay. Listening. Okay. I think we should start this off with you |
| 0:23.8 | thinking, thinking me for getting your birthday present. I got Sarah a birthday present. |
| 0:31.7 | There are diamonds involved. I mean diamonds is generous. Yeah, that's true. Diamonds is |
| 0:36.4 | generous. Okay. So I will say this and I don't think Jen would mind because she's, she, |
| 0:40.0 | she gets it, right? Yeah. Of course. Okay. So Sarah posted these earrings on her on |
| 0:45.9 | Instagram like two weeks ago and was like, kill me. I want these earrings and it was a close-up |
| 0:51.6 | photo and these earrings looked like big diamond earrings. Like they look like big hoops that |
| 0:55.9 | had diamonds all around it and then look a little thing dropping off. And I, I actually, wait, |
| 1:00.7 | you know that I, I sent it to Jen right away when you posted and said I should get these for Sarah |
| 1:04.4 | for her birthday because she was screaming me and I accidentally sent it to you. Yeah, you did send |
| 1:08.0 | it to me and I just ignored it. Like I knew you were getting those. I accidentally responded to you |
| 1:13.2 | instead of Jen. But can I just, can I just interrupt for two seconds to then go back to that? How does |
| 1:18.0 | that not happen more? Like you know when someone sends you, when someone forwards you someone's |
| 1:22.5 | story where they're being lame and embarrassing, I'm sure ours has been forward to many people. |
| 1:26.4 | The amount of times I've gone to then respond to that person being like she's so brutal. She's so |
| 1:32.2 | she's so embarrassing like and and then halfway like through the sentence is like, oh my god, |
| 1:37.5 | I'm writing it to that person. Sometimes it could be like the universe really just helping you |
| 1:40.8 | clean out your friends, you know? It has happened a few people not people we know but a few randoms |
| 1:45.0 | have written me like she's so pathetic and it gets sent to me. Oh, that sucks. That doesn't |
| 1:50.2 | ever happen to me. Yeah. Okay, so I see these pictures of these earrings and I was like, okay, |
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