Prompt Cast
Procrastination and Guilt: The Stories Behind Unsent Emails
TLDR Reply All Producer Fia Benin speaks with three individuals who have been avoiding sending important emails, including one person who wants to apologize for standing up his high school prom date, another who is struggling to respond to a message scratched into a college desk, and a listener who plans to use a holiday as a deadline to finally reply to overwhelming support after losing her job and mother.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
In honor of E-mailed out for goodness' sake, Reply All Producer Fia Benin talks to three people who have been putting off sending emails and hears their stories.
02:35
John has been wanting to send an email apologizing to a girl he dated in high school for missing her prom, but he has been avoiding it due to guilt and conflicting feelings about their relationship.
05:31
John wants to send an email to his high school prom date explaining why he stood her up, not because he wants forgiveness, but to let her know that the world is not as cruel as he made it seem.
08:04
Amin has been meaning to send a message to someone he used to study with in college, but he has been struggling to come up with a clever response to the message that was scratched into the desk they used to sit at.
11:03
Amin's girlfriend confesses to being the person who wrote the message on the desk, shocking Amin and making him question his view of the world.
13:57
A listener named Mackenzie discusses how she lost her job and her mother died on her birthday, causing her to feel overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and guilty for not responding to emails, but she plans to use the holiday as a deadline to finally reply.
17:27
Reply All thanks Mackenzie and everyone else who participated in Email Debt Forgiveness Day, and encourages participants to visit emaildebt.club to get a free patch made by artist Miki Zakeli, but only if they are Gimlet members and sign up by May 8th.
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