Presenting: The Staircase (with The Longest Shortest Time)
Proxy with Yowei Shaw
Yowei Shaw
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
New episodes of Proxy return in April. In the meantime, we're sharing something we love — an episode from The Longest Shortest Time that digs into a conundrum so many of us deal with: guys being creeps. After a troubling incident involving her daughter, Hillary Frank sets out to understand how her daughter's middle school is teaching consent... and what she discovers throws her for a loop.
Find The Longest Shortest wherever you get your podcasts.
Hillary put together this list of organizations and individuals doing innovative work on sex ed:
- SafeBAE
- Scarleteen
- SIECUS (Sex Ed for Social Change): Sex Ed Profiles by State
- Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between by Shafia Zaloom
- You Know, Sex by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
- Mr. Health Teacher
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start today's show, I want to shout out another member of the Radiotopia family, Radio Diaries. |
| 0:08.0 | For almost 30 years, Radio Diaries has been helping people document their own lives and histories. |
| 0:14.3 | Now they're back with a new series called Orson Wells and the Blind Soldier, |
| 0:19.0 | about a small town crime that sparked the desegregation of the U.S. |
| 0:24.1 | military. In 1946, a Black World War II veteran named Isaac Woodard was blinded by a white |
| 0:31.7 | police officer. Nobody knew who the officer was or where the attack happened, but when famed director Orson |
| 0:40.2 | Wells found out about the attack, he pledged to not only broadcast it, but solve it on the radio, |
| 0:48.7 | week by week. |
| 0:50.0 | Wash your hands, officer, X, wash them well, scrub and scour. You won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran. |
| 0:55.7 | You're going to be uncovered. |
| 0:57.8 | We will blast out your name. |
| 1:00.3 | And I will find means to remove from you all refuge, Officer X. |
| 1:05.6 | You can't get rid of me. |
| 1:07.6 | Listen to Orson Wells and the Blind Soldier. |
| 1:10.6 | Out now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:14.6 | Hey, everyone, it's EOA. On proxy, people bring me very specific emotional conundrums, the kinds of |
| 1:21.0 | problems that make them feel alone. And I go looking for a stranger who's lived something |
| 1:26.3 | close enough to help them get a little less stuck. |
| 1:29.2 | If this is your first time here, a great place to start is our episode Bisexual Wife Guy. |
| 1:35.2 | We'll be back with a new batch of cases in April. |
| 1:38.1 | So follow the show if you want the next one to land in your feed. |
| 1:42.2 | In the meantime, I am sharing episodes from shows that I |
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