Hey everybody this is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary Frank.

Last time I said these words it was 2019. Five years ago, pre-Pandemic,

pre-Roe falling, pre- AI taking over the world.

So much has changed.

So much is going to change.

There's a lot to talk about.

And that is why, in just a few months,

I'm bringing back the longest shortest time.

I started the show in 2010, not long after I had a baby. But by the time we put the show to bed, that baby was nine.

And now, I'm 14.

And I'm going through Perrymenopause or am I who knows what even is perimenopause

This is exactly the sort of thing we're gonna cover on the show. We're coming back with a reproductive health focus. Just like before,

we'll tell great stories about becoming parents and being parents to kids of all ages. And

we'll also go deep on stuff like birth control, abortion, pregnancy,

and the many different ways that babies are made. And because I love talking to teens, and

I've got a teenager myself now you will hear lots of

teens on the show they'll talk about sex ed consent periods and some of the most

urgent questions of our time.

Like, how exactly do we define the word hot?

I'd say it's like a little bit more lacking of emotion

than pretty or beautiful and like a step above cute.

I think hotness is a state of being. I think you know it's like, oh people really like, we

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