Podcasts by Nice Try!
Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of domestic self improvement they have made, kept and broken.
From Curbed, New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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The Keeper from 2021-12-02T09:00
On this season of Nice Try, we’ve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What kinds of utopia they promise, and what they deliver with the latest technology. But even the most faddish of ...
ListenThe Mattress from 2021-11-11T09:00
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep—which often run counter to our actual, biological needs for sleep. Enter the mattress: a lig...
ListenThe Weight from 2021-11-04T08:00
Fitness trends come and go. But the weight, about as low-tech and simple as it gets, is an anchor in the shifting tides of culture. As workout equipment has become canonized into the realm of home ...
ListenThe Crock-Pot from 2021-10-28T08:00
Countertop kitchen appliances—cookers that range from slow to fast—promise healthier, easier, better ways to feed the body. These gadgets of convenience have raised the standards for how much varie...
ListenThe Vacuum from 2021-10-21T08:00
One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who does this work, and how good do we have to be at it? When is it okay to depend on some kind of help?...
ListenThe Vacuum from 2021-10-21T08:00
One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who does this work, and how good do we have to be at it? When is it okay to depend on some kind of help?...
ListenHerland: Reimagine Utopia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely driven by the will and power of a charismatic leader - usually a man, usually white. How do you build a utopia...
ListenGermania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements of which exist today. The Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin features designs that specifically evo...
ListenOneida: Utopia, LLC from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise could be found on Earth through nontraditional sexual an...
ListenLevittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first opportunity at home ownership, but typically excluded African Americans. While William Levitt used...
ListenChandigarh: The Modernist Utopia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to design the city of Chandigarh, to signal India’s rise on t...
ListenJamestown: Utopia for Whom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, and especially from the 1995 Disney animated film. A g...
ListenIntroducing: Utopian from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perp...
ListenGo For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble from 2020-10-29T09:00
Go For Broke is a new narrative series from Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network exploring the 2000 dot-com bubble... and what happened when the bubble popped. Listen wherever you get yo...
ListenIntroducing: Utopian from 2019-05-04T01:36
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perp...
ListenIntroducing: Utopian from 2019-05-04T01:36
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perp...
ListenIntroducing: Utopian from 2019-05-04T01:36
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perp...
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