The Longest Shortest Time

LST Starter Kit

New to our show?
Here’s a guide of where to start, curated by Longest Shortest Time founder, Hillary Frank.

EPISODE #79: Terry Gross on Not Having Kids
If you caught Terry Gross’s interview with Hillary on Fresh Air, you’ll want to hear Hillary interviewing Terry about why she chose *not* to have children. (Plus her recurring nightmare about a baby.)

EPISODES #141, 142, 143, 145: It’s a Real Mother Series
Discrimination against mothers in the workplace is illegal, but it still happens every day. We take this on in a four-part series, It’s A Real Mother, with YOUR stories of discrimination.

EPISODE #88: W. Kamau Bell Asks His Mom About Sex
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom never had sex after she made him. In this award-winning episode, he gets the real story. (If you like this episode, then you’ll enjoy our entire Sex & Parenthood series.)

EPISODE #27-29: Natural Birth Series
A three-part series on natural birth. In Part 1, Hillary attempts to rewrite her traumatic birth story, four years after the fact. In Part 2, Hillary tells Ina May Gaskin, the mother of modern midwifery, that her book Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth made Hillary feel as if she has failed at childbirth.

Ina May *revised her book* five years after that episode aired, largely due to her conversation with Hillary and the listener comments that followed. You can hear about those changes in this follow-up.

EPISODES #61, 62, 80, 81, 125, 144, 211: The Accidental Gay Parents
One weekend Trystan and Biff were clubbing in Vegas; the next they were steeped in diapers and Legos. The story of how two twenty-somethings became parents overnight. And that’s just the beginning of this family’s saga. This is one of our most popular series. Binge it all below.

EPISODE #118: All The Feels with Rob Huebel
Actor and comedian Rob Huebel talks about sneaking onto airplanes, why he doesn’t share a bed with his wife, and what it was like to have their daughter live in the hospital for her first 117 days. Plus, the best placed fart noise ever.

EPISODE #70: There’s Something About Andy
A young Mormon plays a long con on his childhood crush—in the hopes of starting a family with her.

EPISODE #59: Mama Don’t Understand
A game of got-yer-nose turns racial, and a 6-year-old raps to her white mom about not getting her Blackness. Two stories of mixed race kids schooling their mamas.

EPISODE #208-210: The Single Lady’s Guide to Sperm Shopping
A three-part series in which host Andrea Silenzi navigates the world of donor sperm, in a quest to potentially become a single mom.

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