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

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! •

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Brian Can't Stop Fact-Checking His Mother-In-Law is an episode from The Longest Shortest Time by Hillary Frank | Realm.

This episode is 55:30 long.

This episode was published on Mar 30, 2026.

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