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Parenting is a Joke

Parenting is a Joke

著者： Ophira Eisenberg
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You know when you talk to your friends about your childhood and end it by saying, "But look at us, we're fine!" Here's my question: Are we fine? Because we're sitting here doused in CBD oil under a weighted blanket recording a podcast called Parenting is a Joke. Each week, host and standup Ophira Eisenberg talks to a different comedian about their career and their kids. Conversations tackle the tooth fairy, eating sticks, summer camp anxiety, the hidden horrors of childbirth, and the obvious horrors of our own childhoods. We celebrate the absurdity of shuffling a career with raising a kid, and highlight less traditional parenthood journeys, all while relishing in the fact that no one knows what they're doing, but we're all trying! Sometimes even our best. New episodes every Tuesday. New Season October 1st.2024 © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent 人間関係 子育て
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  • Repair the Rupture with Hillary Frank

    Repair the Rupture with Hillary Frank
    2026/10/27
    Podcaster and Author Hillary Frank returns to talk to Ophira Eisenberg and offers a deeper look into what she’s learned from years of reporting on parenthood, why conventional parenting advice so often misses the mark, and how to survive the transition from little kids to teenagers without losing your mind. A standout theme is the gap between the parenting we’re told to expect and the reality: Hillary remembers feeling that the exhausting early days would last forever, until a friend gave her the phrase that became the title of The Longest Shortest Time. She shares how she turned a daughter-and-friend squabble into an unexpected moment of peace by doing a headstand in the living room, why she has a love-hate relationship with the relentless positivity of fitness influencers, and how her daughter’s cautious approach to social media shapes their conversations about its benefits and dangers. Hillary also reflects on the stories she’s collected about fertility struggles, doctors who become more empathetic after experiencing parenthood themselves, and the persistent tendency to treat parenting content as a niche market—even though, as she points out, desperate parents are very appealing to advertisers. When Ophira asks for advice about her ten-year-old’s first hints of puberty, Hillary offers a practical reminder that things will fall apart sometimes, and what matters is learning to repair the rupture afterward. Follow Hillary Frank : https://www.instagram.com/thisishillaryfrank Listen to her new Audiobook “Wedlocked”: https://www.hillaryfrank.com/work/wedlocked Follow and Listen to Longest Shortest Time: https://www.instagram.com/longestshortesttime Check out Ophira’s NEW Comedy Special “I Used to Be Nicer” is AVAILABLE on Amazon Primehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8NVMB3B?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Listen to it as an Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/1rHqPoBYc78gzMnCrCFoZy Come see Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ 📍October Shows are in Watertown, SD, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, Catskill, and NYC SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    32 分
  • Let the Teenager Teenager with Hillary Frank

    Let the Teenager Teenager with Hillary Frank
    2026/10/20
    Hillary Frank, creator and longtime host of the award-winning parenting podcast The Longest Shortest Time, and author of the new Audiobook Wedlocked joins Ophira Eisenberg to talk about the gap between what motherhood is supposed to look like and what it actually feels like. After a difficult childbirth left Hillary with years of chronic pain, she struggled with feeling like a failure because her experience didn’t match the idealized version of birth she’d read about — and she eventually confronted midwife Ina May Gaskin about how those expectations had affected her. That experience helped shape Hillary’s new fictional audio thriller, Wedlocked, about a fitness influencer whose alarming health symptoms are repeatedly dismissed, exploring the pressure on women to smile through pain and the consequences of being medically gaslit. Hillary also explains how loneliness and postpartum depression inspired her to start The Longest Shortest Time, why she faced judgment for choosing to have one child, and how she learned to stop treating every teenage slammed door as a personal emergency. Along the way, she shares the story of the doctor who sent “shame letters” to six colleagues who had misdiagnosed her, while Ophira reflects on generational stoicism, inherited emotional habits, and the challenge of giving a ten-year-old more independence in the chaotic streets of Brooklyn. Their conversation makes room for anger, repair, and the possibility that parenting gets better with age — especially when you finally learn to let the teenager teenager. Follow Hillary Frank : https://www.instagram.com/thisishillaryfrank Listen to her new Audiobook “Wedlocked”: https://www.hillaryfrank.com/work/wedlocked Follow and Listen to Longest Shortest Time: https://www.instagram.com/longestshortesttime Check out Ophira’s NEW Comedy Special “I Used to Be Nicer” is AVAILABLE on Amazon Primehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8NVMB3B?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Listen to it as an Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/1rHqPoBYc78gzMnCrCFoZy Come see Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ 📍October Shows are in Watertown, SD, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, Catskill, and NYC SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 分
  • Jena Friedman Wants to Feel It, Not Act It

    Jena Friedman Wants to Feel It, Not Act It
    2026/10/13
    Jena Friedman talks with Ophira Eisenberg about the strange collision of grief, motherhood, politics, and the practical business of being a working comedian as she brings her solo show Motherf*cker from Edinburgh to New York. She explains why the missing “you” on the show poster is intentional—a visual representation of the hole grief leaves behind—and how a painting she made of her mother in high school ultimately became the poster after Jacqueline Novak suggested it during a FaceTime call. Jena also recounts the spectacularly dysfunctional Edinburgh venue where she performed: puddles of water around electrical cords, filthy fans, unreliable Wi-Fi, a separate box office that left audience members unable to get into the show, and Jena eventually standing outside with a bucket collecting ticket money. On one particularly brutal night, grief overwhelmed her during the final five minutes of the performance and she ugly-cried while continuing to deliver jokes she had memorized, then had to go outside and collect cash and loose change from the audience. That experience becomes part of a larger conversation about performing grief without turning it into acting, finding the right level of emotional control onstage, and what happens when audiences come backstage carrying their own losses; in Edinburgh, as many as ten people from a 120-seat audience might approach her after a show to tell her about someone they loved who had died. Jena talks about how her mother’s death while she was pregnant continues to surface in unexpected ways, including seeing her mother in her young son when he suddenly says “let me finish” over Vietnamese food, or hearing herself say the exact little phrase her mother used to say at night: “Kitchen is closed.” The parenting conversation then widens into Jena’s complicated hopefulness about raising a child in the age of AI and social media, her belief that despair can become a form of complacency, and her affection for the idea of “Fuck You Joy” as a way of staying engaged with life when the world feels bleak. By the end, the conversation has moved from the mechanics of collecting ticket money after crying onstage to the much quieter realization that Jena will never get to know her mother as a grandmother, a loss that surfaces in the simple thought that her son will never have the kind of elementary-school photo with grandparents that other families take for granted 📍October Shows are in Watertown, SD, Pennsylvania, Niagra Falls, Canada, Washington, DC, Catskill, and NYC Follow Jena Friedman : https://www.instagram.com/jenafriedman Get tickets to her Off-Broadway Show Motherf*cker: https://www.sohoplayhouse.com/see-a-show/jena-friedman-motherfucker See Ophira LIVE: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/events/ Check out my NEW Comedy Special “I Used to Be Nicer” is AVAILABLE on Amazon Primehttps://www.ophiraeisenberg.com Listen to it as an Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/1rHqPoBYc78gzMnCrCFoZy SUBSCRIBE so you never miss O thing: https://www.ophiraeisenberg.com/sign-up Follow PIAJ: https://www.instagram.com/parentingisajoke/ https://parentingisajoke.substack.com/ Follow Ophira: https://www.instagram.com/ophirae/ https://www.facebook.com/OphiraEisenberg/ https://www.tiktok.com/@ophiranyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    31 分
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