The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #204: Breaking Cycles (and Chairs!) with Kulap Vilaysack

When comedian Kulap Vilaysack decided to resolve questions from her family history, she did it in the most extreme way possible: by directing a documentary about her own life.

EPISODE #195: Vasectomies! Get Nuts! Go Nads!

Everyone and their mother is getting a vasectomy…

EPISODE #193: The Qualities and Characteristics of 7th-Borns

Robby Hoffman is a comedian and the seventh-born child in her family. She’s never met another #7 … until now.

EPISODE #191: Dani Shapiro’s Family Secret

When a bestselling memoirist took a DNA test on a whim, the results were confusing. But then, her whole life suddenly made sense.

EPISODE #190: Rewriting Your Adoption Story

When you decide to have a baby, you plan on extending your family. But when Nicole got pregnant, she took that really seriously.

EPISODE #181: Must Love Fish

When Geneva was looking for her future partner, she made a list of 37 things she wanted. Number one was Native.

EPISODE #174: The, Like, Show. Deadass Edition

Talking to teenagers is different from talking to grown-ups. We wanted to know: what advice they would give to parents?

EPISODE #159: A Killer Story

Poet Rachel Zucker is wrestling with the question, “Did I kill my mom… with words?” Tune in for a special Mother’s Day edition of our show.