The Longest Shortest Time
@longestshortest.bsky.social
A podcast about the surprises + absurdities of raising other humans, hosted by Hillary Frank https://lnk.bio/longestshortesttime
🎈NEW EP 🎈The vulnerable & hilarious @jhe.bsky.social on the life cycle of her breasts. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Ku
October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🎈NEW EP 🎈The vulnerable & hilarious @jhe.bsky.social on the life cycle of her breasts. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3Ku
🔥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
October 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🔥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
💦 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
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
💦 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
🍔 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
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🍔 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
🤯 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
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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August 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🤯 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
🦅 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
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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August 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🦅 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
🎉 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/...
'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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July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🎉 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/...
✨ 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
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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July 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
✨ 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
⭐ 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
July 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
⭐ 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
🔥 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
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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June 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🔥 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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I was on one of my favorite podcasts, @longestshortest.bsky.social, talking about my experience getting a salpingectomy!
The Permanent Birth Control Option Doctors Rarely Mention
Podcast Episode · The Longest Shortest Time · 05/28/2025 · 37m
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May 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I was on one of my favorite podcasts, @longestshortest.bsky.social, talking about my experience getting a salpingectomy!
✨NEW EP✨ One of our fav parenting + repro health writers @annanorth.bsky.social talks abt her decision to get sterilized + the surprising imagery it brought up for her. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3FB
EPISODE #229: The Permanent Birth Control Option Doctors Rarely Mention
Anna North spent years reporting on reproductive health — so she was surprised when her doctor suggested a birth control method she’d never heard of. Hear why she chose to end her potential for having...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
✨NEW EP✨ One of our fav parenting + repro health writers @annanorth.bsky.social talks abt her decision to get sterilized + the surprising imagery it brought up for her. 🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3FB
Excited to be featured in @montclairlocalnews.bsky.social 😊 If you’re in Montclair and care abt sex ed, reach out! montclairlocal.news/2025/05/mont...
Montclair’s Hillary Frank Reimagines Her Parenting Podcast
Explore Hillary Frank's journey as she brings back her acclaimed podcast to tackle teen issues and reproductive health.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to be featured in @montclairlocalnews.bsky.social 😊 If you’re in Montclair and care abt sex ed, reach out! montclairlocal.news/2025/05/mont...
🔥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
May 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🔥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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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...
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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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April 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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...
Listen here—> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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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...
May 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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...
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"
Too many women have miscarriage stories. This is mine. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
Miscarriage and Motherhood
What having a baby taught me about the illusion of control
www.theatlantic.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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I'm thrilled to be a guest on one of my fav podcasts, @longestshortest.bsky.social, w @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social! I go deep on parenting, pregnancy, childbirth... and a mistake I made as a teen involving "whipped cream bikinis." 👙 😬🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3EG
EPISODE #227: Ashley Parker on Raising Girls While Covering the White House
Political reporter Askley Parker opens up about her obsession with birth stories, pregnancy loss, raising girls in the digital age, and a mistake she made as a teenager involving a camera… and boobs.
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April 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm thrilled to be a guest on one of my fav podcasts, @longestshortest.bsky.social, w @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social! I go deep on parenting, pregnancy, childbirth... and a mistake I made as a teen involving "whipped cream bikinis." 👙 😬🎧 LISTEN: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3EG
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Political reporter @ashleyrparker.bsky.social opens up abt pregnancy, childbirth, raising girls & "whipped cream bikinis" 👙 (IYKYK). This is Ashley Parker as you've never heard her before. 🎧 LISTEN NOW: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3EG
EPISODE #227: Ashley Parker on Raising Girls While Covering the White House
Political reporter Askley Parker opens up about her obsession with birth stories, pregnancy loss, raising girls in the digital age, and a mistake she made as a teenager involving a camera… and boobs.
wp.me
April 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Political reporter @ashleyrparker.bsky.social opens up abt pregnancy, childbirth, raising girls & "whipped cream bikinis" 👙 (IYKYK). This is Ashley Parker as you've never heard her before. 🎧 LISTEN NOW: wp.me/p4bvGZ-3EG
🏳️⚧️ 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
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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April 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🏳️⚧️ 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
✨ 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
March 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
✨ 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
📚 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
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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March 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
📚 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
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
March 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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
Always love talking to @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social 💫
Just recently, Hillary Frank relaunched her popular podcast The Longest Shortest Time. This archive episode of Sound School takes us back to Hillary's early days, when she was just finding her way in podcasting -- as we all were. @longestshortest.bsky.social @thisishillaryfrank.bsky.social
Revisiting: The Longest Shortest Time - Transom
Revisiting: The Longest Shortest Time - Transom
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February 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Always love talking to @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social 💫
"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
February 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"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