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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

💙 NEW EP 💙 The hilarious Negin Farsad joined us to talk about answering her kid's existential Q's. Plus, we pose our own Q's to the former FDNY commissioner (see video - hot firefighters are invoked 🔥🚒) 🎧 GET THE EP: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3QA

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

✨NEW EP✨ Kate Casey's father abandoned her as a child. She later used her anger toward him as fuel to create a stable family. (And... she learned the dark truth about why he left.) 🎧LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Qc

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🌱 NEW EP 🌱 @renee.bsky.social and @byreginamahone.bsky.social proudly share their ab0rtion stories, which led one of them to realize she wanted to be a mom, and confirmed for the other that she didn’t. Plus: s*x after ab0rtion. 🎧LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3PQ

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚒 NEW EP 🚒 As the first female fire commissioner of the FDNY, Laura Kavanagh faced many false rumors… but the most hurtful was the one about her supposed pregnancy. For the first time, she shares what was *actually* going on in her reproductive life. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Od

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🫦NEW EP🫦 Are things gettin’ dry in perimenopause? Painful? Maybe your O’s are disappointing? Dr. Lauren Streicher is here to explain why & how to get help 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3NH

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🤔 NEW EP 🤔 A lot of us wrestle with whether to start a family, or to grow the one we have. Helena de Groot shares the messy, intimate, confusing process of getting her husband to believe her wishes around whether or not to become a mom. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Nq

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🤰 NEW EP 🤱 Holly Schechter always knew she wanted to be a mom. But getting there was a *journey*. Today, Holly shares her remarkable story of IVF… with a hopeful ending. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Na

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

😱 NEW EP 😱 WTF is perimenopause?! The docs from OvaryActive join us for a fun and irreverent primer 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3N2

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🥊 NEW EP 🥊 Maia Molina-Schaefer is a boxing champ and combat veteran. But she's also been asked weird, discriminatory Qs in job interviews and pumped in a closet like any working mom 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Ml

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Hillary Frank @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🚨 Help! 🚨 My IG account was suspended for violating “community standards on child sexual exploitation, abuse, and nudity.” Other than clicking the appeal button, is there anything I can do? Anyone have experience with this?

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🍌NEW EP🍌 Zaraia Fabunmi became a s3x educator AND a doula as a teenager. Today she shares how she's used that training to help her peers — and, at times, her teachers 🙄 — plus the fascinating research she did in India 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Lz

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Honored that @tinkmedia.bsky.social asked me to contribute to this year's Audio Delicacies ✨🎧✨ As an avid David Lynch fan since I was 13, I knew I had to pick MUBI's new season "Ladies of Lynch." Check out the entire list: tinkmedia.co/audio-delica...

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🎈NEW EP 🎈The vulnerable & hilarious @jhe.bsky.social on the life cycle of her breasts. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Ku

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🔥NEW EP🔥 S3x Bingo! Music! Shafia Zaloom walks us through her playful approach to teaching young ppl about healthy relationships - plus some tricky situations with her own kids. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3K6

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💦 Is it safe to swallow? That and more anon Qs from teens in this week's ep - a pilot for an LST spinoff called YOU KNOW WHAT. Excerpt below. 🎧 LISTEN to the full pilot + reach out if you want to partner or help make this show a reality. We need it now more than ever! wp.me/p4bvGZ-3JX

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🍔 NEW EP 🍔 Loved talking to Elise Hu! Tune in for her dad’s refugee story involving sharks 🦈, the unique challenges of parenting a tall girl 👧🏻, what she ate in childbirth 🍔, and a 3rd grade disappointment that shaped her career in journalism 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Jw

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🤯 NEW EP 🤯 8 years ago, Matt Katz came on the show to talk about his mysterious bio dad. At the time, he had no clue how deep the mystery really was. Tune in for the bonkers update! 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3IX

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EPISODE #234: Katz BACK in the Cradle

Eight years ago, Matt Katz came on the show after nervously revealing to his 5-year-old daughter that the man she thought was his biological father was not, in fact, his biological father. But Matt wo...

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🦅 NEW EP 🦅 It's not a little nub, it's a bird! Science writer Rachel Gross dispels myths abt the cl!t + neighboring organs. You won't want to miss this delightfully nerdy voyage, whether you have a v@gina or not. (Ca-caw!) 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3If

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Episode #233: A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross

Join us for a deep (and delightfully nerdy) dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas, where we’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs — and th...

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🎉 HOORAY 🎉 Thrilled to be on @time.com's incredible 100 Best Podcasts of All Time list, along w/some of our fav colleagues time.com/collections/...

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'The Longest Shortest Time' Is on The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time

Here's why "The Longest Shortest Time" made TIME's list

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

✨ NEW EP ✨ Such a delight talking to Brian Crano + David Joseph Craig abt the true story behind their adoption horror-romcom "I Don't Understand You" 📽️ starring Nick Kroll + Andrew Rannells 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3HK

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Episode #232: Adoption, but Make It a Horror-Romcom

Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig knew starting a family would be hard — but they didn’t expect the twists and scares that inspired them to write a movie.

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

⭐ NEW EP ⭐ Loved talking to the wonderful @amandahess.bsky.social abt her unexpected, eerie bond w/her fertility app during pregnancy 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Hg

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🔥 NEW EP 🔥 So excited to have Sara Reardon, aka "The Vagina Whisperer," on with all the tips you need to keep things healthy down there for the next 40+ years 🤸‍♀️ 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Fs

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EPISODE #230: Secrets from the Vagina Whisperer

Leaky vaginas! Dry vaginas! Painful vaginas! Smelly vaginas! Aging vaginas! Sara Reardon, aka The Vagina Whisperer, joins us with tips on taking care of your pelvic floor.

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🔥NEW EP🔥 The incredible @xylafoxlin.bsky.social joins us to tell her story abt the intersection btwn birth control, mental health & the FAA. (Plus an airplane named Lady Lamar ✈️) You're gonna ❤️ this one. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3F4

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Ashley Parker @ashleyrparker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

So fun chatting w @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social on @longestshortest.bsky.social about parenting, politics, teenage mishaps (👙), and my miscarriage essay in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi... Listen here—> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Ashley Parker on Raising Girls While Covering the White House

Podcast Episode · The Longest Shortest Time · 04/30/2025 · 42m

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Ashley Parker @ashleyrparker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Even before I was a mom, @longestshortest.bsky.social was one of my favorite podcasts. Now it’s back after a 5-year hiatus, and I was so honored to join @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social to talk parenting, politics, and Varsity Blues whipped cream bikinis (IYKYK): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Here is the moving essay @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and I talk about in today's episode: "Ashley Parker on Raising Girls While Covering the White House"

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW EPISODE 🏳️‍⚧️ Some media outlets lately have backed away from airing trans stories for fear of losing funding. LST is proud to share the delightful, poignant, and raunchy tale of how CJ Rivers achieved their lifelong dream of becoming a dad. Pls REPOST so more ppl can hear: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3DP

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EPISODE #225: Becoming a Single Dad While Trans 2

When we last heard from CJ, they were struggling to figure out how to achieve their lifelong dream of becoming a dad. CJ now has a kid, but getting there was a total rollercoaster. Buckle up, because ...

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

✨ Wanna hear something uplifting? ✨ Our new ep of YOU KNOW WHAT features college student Niko talking about his approach to healthy arguments with his girlfriend. Join the club to hear the full convo: longestshortesttime.com/club

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📚 NEW EPISODE! 📚 Psyched to have the fabulous Traci Thomas @bitracial.bsky.social on with reccos to help teens & tweens navigate the complex world of sex & relationships. We've also got a few titles to help parents spice things up in the bedroom! 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3CF

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EPISODE #224: Sex-Positive Books for Tweens and Teens (And Parents!)

Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast joins us to suggest books that help tweens and teens navigate the complicated world of sex and relationships. We’ll cover fiction and nonfiction — plus a few picks t...

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Last time we heard from @andreasilenzi.bsky.social she was single and shopping for sperm so she could become a mom without a partner. Five years later, we've got an update! (Hint: She's no longer single AND no longer shopping.) LISTEN TO THE EP: apple.co/3Xptg72

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"The news is going to news whether we listen to it or not." Check out our new ep with the wonderful Cyndie Spiegel if you need to un-news a bit: apple.co/3CMThWN

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🎧 NEW EPISODE! 🎧 "How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a R*pist" is about what works and what doesn't when teaching teens about consent. Hint: 'canceling' someone does not. LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3zM

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

⚡Our new spinoff show is here!⚡ YOU KNOW WHAT features a panel of fun, thoughtful college kids answering Qs from teens + adults about sex, dating & relationships. Here's a clip. Hear the full ep by signing up for LST+ (where you also get access to our community!) longestshortesttime.com/club

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Hillary Frank @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I’ve got an op-ed in @nytopinion.nytimes.com today arguing that sex ed should not be taught by squeamish gym teachers but by teens. Read it here! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

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Opinion | Our Kids Cannot Learn About Sex Just From Squeamish Gym Teachers

American students are not getting adequate sex ed, just when they need it most.

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

All true! So happy to be back. Thanks for the shout-out @thisamericanlife.org !

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The Longest Shortest Time @longestshortest.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We're back after a 5-year hiatus! 1st new ep is up NOW and is about my anxiety over my daughter's first encounters with unwanted male attention + trying to get her school to teach consent ed. LISTEN HERE: apple.co/3PJZDZF

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