Bras. Known for being supportive. Famous for being secret. Not everybody thinks much about them, so podcast all about why being alive

is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone because

I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, listeners have selected this topic. What is your

relationship to or opinion of bras? I've literally never heard of such a thing.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

That's good.

I think I can explain these in detail from a manful perspective.

What would be a word for doing that?

Yes.

What would be a word for that?

Yeah, I, you know, as someone who has a feminine body type, I am familiar with bras.

They serve a function.

And, you know, I appreciate them for that.

I do appreciate that, like, they now come in a much more comfortable

sort of variety than I think they used to. I think we used to maybe, like, do sort of a bunch of

twigs that we would sort of create a box around the rib cage, use some rope and stuff.

I don't really know exactly how the old bras used to work, but I assume they were bad.

And now you can get a whole bunch of different kinds of bras for different needs,

different sizes.

And I do, I appreciate the innovation. Corsets, I think, used to be

bras, and I'm not about that. I mean, we're probably going to get into it. I know there's

some myths about corsets, but like, generally speaking, I'm happy about the innovation with bras that we have today. Now, if only you could have a

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