The Longest Shortest Time: A Women’s Health Show for Everyone

By Hillary Frank | RealmHealth & Fitness

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August 20, 2025 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 would later learn that the truth about his biological father was much more complicated than he even realized. As he followed the twists and turns of this story, Matt became a bio dad detective — chasing clues at home and abroad, and concocting intricate, fantastical theories along the way.
*NOTE: Before listening to this episode, we highly recommend listening to the prequel, “Katz in the Cradle,” which you will find in your podcast feed right before this episode.
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Matt’s podcast
Our episode only scratches the surface of this wild story. In Inconceivable Truth, Matt tells it in full.
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51 min
August 13, 2025 LST FAVES: Katz in the Cradle
Matt Katz is known for his fearless reporting on New Jersey governor Chris Christie. But when it comes to telling his 5-year-old daughter the truth about his dad... well, that freaks him out. In today’s show, he does exactly that.
⭐️ This episode originally aired on June 14, 2017. Since then, Matt has discovered even more secrets about his family history. Secrets that turn this original story completely on its head. Tune in next week for the wild update!
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47 min
August 06, 2025 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 the research on female anatomy we still desperately need. Science writer Rachel Gross is our fearless guide.
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Recommendations from the archive
#27 Rewriting Your Birth Story
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Writing by Rachel
• Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage (using this book link supports our show!)
• Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It? (NYT)
• Women in Menopause Are Getting the Short Shrift (The Atlantic)
• What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood? (The New Yorker)
• Body Language (NYT series on the history of medical language)
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More on the clitoris & friends
• The Clitoris, Uncovered (video by Rachel for Scientific American)
• Cliteracy Reel (3D depictions by Sophia Wallace)
• SEX-ED+ (company that makes silicone molds of clitorises and vulvas for educational purposes)
• Tight Lipped (grassroots movement by and for people with chronic vulvovaginal and pelvic pain)
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40 min
July 30, 2025 LST FAVES: 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 biracial kids schooling their mamas.
⭐️ This episode originally ran on Fri, 05 Jun 2015 and is a favorite from the archives. We hope you enjoy, and we’ll be back next week with a brand new episode.
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39 min
July 23, 2025 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. In this episode, they share the true, messy tale behind I Don’t Understand You, their horror-romcom starring Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells.
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Recommendations from the archive
#95 The True History of a Child Chef & His Mom
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39 min
July 16, 2025 LST FAVES: The True History of a Child Chef & His Mom
Judah is 12. He makes a mean beef Wellington. Hear how he became a child chef, and how his mom had him when she was just a kid herself.
⭐️ This episode originally ran on September 7, 2016 and is a favorite from the archives. Find fun pictures of Judah and Kara at our website. We hope you enjoy, and we’ll be back next week with a brand new episode.
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41 min
July 09, 2025 A Tech Writer's Eerie Bond with Her Fertility App
Amanda Hess writes about the internet for a living. So she didn’t expect to form an emotional bond with a fertility app during her pregnancy. But when Amanda’s pregnancy got complicated, her relationship with the app got complicated, too.
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Recommendations from the archive
We recently re-aired some favorite episodes from our ongoing Sex + Parenthood series. Check them out in your podcast feed (the most recent eps before this one) or find the full series here.
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More Amanda Hess
• Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age (using this affilitae link supports the show!)
• Amanda’s work in the New York Times
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36 min
July 02, 2025 LST FAVES: Real Teens, Fake Babies
Did your high school health teacher ever try to teach you the risks of sex by making you carry around an egg and pretend it was a baby? These days, the pretending isn’t as much of a stretch. Lots of schools are opting to use robotic babies that cry throughout the day and night just like a real infant. In this episode, we follow two teenage girls over the course of 48 hours with the “babies,” and their conclusions surprise us! We also revisit the story after an eye-opening study in The Lancet that shed new light on our reporting.
⭐️ Versions of this episode originally aired on March 1, 2015 and November 16, 2016 and the story is a favorite from the LST archives. It’s also part of our ongoing Sex & Parenthood series. We’ve been airing a few episodes from the series over the next few weeks, while we gear up for our next batch of new episodes. You can find the full series here.
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46 min
June 25, 2025 LST FAVES: The Parents' Guide to Affairs with Esther Perel
Most of us, at some point, will be touched by an affair—whether in our own relationships, or because one of our parents cheated, or because we are a trusted confidant. It’s a scary thing to think about, especially when kids are in the mix. Couples therapist Esther Perel joins us with advice on how to navigate affairs and how to keep them from happening in the first place.
⭐️ This episode originally aired on December 6, 2017 and is a favorite from the LST archives. It’s also part of our ongoing Sex & Parenthood series. We’ll be airing a few episodes from the series over the next few weeks, while we gear up for our next batch of new episodes. You can find the full series here.
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Books by Esther Perel (using our affiliate links supports the show!)
• The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
• Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
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Esther’s Podcast
• Where Should We Begin?
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46 min
June 18, 2025 LST FAVES: W. Kamau Bell Asks His Mom About Sex
For most of his life, comedian W. Kamau Bell assumed his single mom, Janet, never had sex after she made him. But in his 40s, Kamau started to get the feeling he was wrong about that. At 43, he bravely asks for the real story — and Janet, at 79, even more bravely, delivers.
⭐️ This episode originally aired on July 12, 2016 and is a favorite from the LST archives. It’s also part of our ongoing Sex & Parenthood series. We’ll be airing a few episodes from the series over the next few weeks, while we gear up for our next batch of new episodes. You can find the full series here.
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43 min

About The Longest Shortest Time: A Women’s Health Show for Everyone

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Stories of pregnancy, birth, fertility, intimacy after kids, and the surprises of perimenopause. The Longest Shortest Time is your companion for all stages of reproductive and women's health. Host and journalist Hillary Frank brings depth and humor to conversations about the physical and emotional realities of parenting, and of living in a body that keeps changing—but you don’t have to be a parent (or woman) to listen!