Brian Can't Stop Fact-Checking His Mother-In-Law

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Today we bring you an episode from Proxy, the podcast that investigates your niche emotional conundrums. Listeners bring host Yowei Shaw the kinds of problems that don’t have easy answers, and then Yowei connects them with a stranger with relevant life experience, in the hope that they can help. In this episode, Yowei talks with her friend, journalist Brian Reed, who spends his professional life tracking down and confirming facts. The problem is… he can’t stop fact-checking his mother-in-law, even though he knows she has Alzheimer’s. If you like what you hear, you can find more episodes of Proxy wherever you listen. … • Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! • Follow us on Instagram • Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media • Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!) • Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, longest, shortest time listener. Be honest. Do you like listening to stories about
0:08.7	parenthood and reproductive health? Do you like when they're bold and complicated and funny and
0:14.3	poignant all at the same time? Of course you do. That's why you listen to the show, and it's part of what makes you special.
0:22.2	So I want to invite you to join our special club. It's called LST Plus, and when you join, you get all kinds of cool stuff.
0:30.7	You get to be part of our community where you can bond with other listeners.
0:34.3	You get to suggest story ideas for future episodes. You get access to a whole other show
0:39.8	with super awesome college kids talking about sex, dating, and relationships. And you get to hang out
0:45.9	with me and reproductive health experts and past guests and ask them questions. Membership is just
0:52.7	50 bucks a year or seven bucks a month. And if you want to
0:55.9	give more, you can. We've relaunched independently. So when you join the club, you're helping this
1:01.8	show to simply exist. Sign up is easy. Just go to longest shortest time.com slash club. See you there.
1:12.9	Now all all the traitors present? Let's get started, shall we?
1:17.6	From rags to riches. I'm so sick of this. Working like a dog and being treated worse.
1:22.2	Yorkshire to New York. Poor climbers, you and me. A life dedicated to revenge.
1:29.3	Let's make this an occasion to remember. A Woman of Substance on Channel 4, stream now.
1:33.3	A door, a locked door that I can't open.
1:37.3	That's the first thing I always see.
1:39.3	I call it Baby Jail. I'm like, this is Baby Joke.
1:42.3	You could come to jail because it's easy, right?
1:45.1	But to get out, it's hard.
1:47.3	It's real hard to get out.
1:49.3	You know, we're on a constant loop.
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