Nice Try!
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The Keeper
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12/02/21 • 39 min
5.0
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 gadgets might just improve a person's life, because we can fall in love with things. Join us for the last episode of Season Two: a love story.
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12/02/21 • 39 min
5 Listeners
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The Vacuum
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10/21/21 • 30 min
5.0
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? A story of community, labor, and dirt—as told through the lens of the vacuum cleaner.
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10/21/21 • 30 min
5 Listeners
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Oneida: Utopia, LLC
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06/20/19 • 37 min
5.0
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 and familial structures, including complex marriages and communal childraising. Hundreds of people followed him, and for many years their community succeeded. But the center could not hold, and the community pivoted — into a thriving business that became one of the world’s most prominent makers of flatware.
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06/20/19 • 37 min
5 Listeners
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The Crock-Pot
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10/28/21 • 39 min
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 variety and excitement one can reasonably expect from a meal. But what do we do with the time we've saved?
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10/28/21 • 39 min
4 Listeners
Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia
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06/06/19 • 38 min
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 the world stage. But the city’s architecture and design has become known more for its Western modernist roots, and less as a symbol of Indian nationalism, and furniture that had been intended for the masses are now being auctioned off as high art pieces that wind up in Kourtney Kardashian’s dining room.
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06/06/19 • 38 min
4 Listeners
Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
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05/30/19 • 39 min
5.0
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 gripping recounting of the true story of how the settlement failed and recovered, and the toll it took on the English and Native Americans, shows how failure can be a transformative experience, and also how the stories we tell ourselves about the failures inform the way we live today. EDITOR'S NOTE -- one instance of explicit language.
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05/30/19 • 39 min
4 Listeners
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The Doorbell
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10/14/21 • 43 min
The American dream of a suburban house with a white picket fence cordons off the home as a haven, separate from the outside world. This personal, private utopia becomes defined by who gets let in. And that is determined by a device that isn’t often thought of as technology. But it's the first thing that you touch when you enter someone else’s home.
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10/14/21 • 43 min
3 Listeners
06/27/19 • 36 min
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 evoke the Third Reich. Following the end of World War II, the airport became a crucial access point for the US and British to bring food through the Berlin Blockade. It was closed in 2008, and then became a park, and emergency refugee housing. But the buildings remain. What do we do with the everyday reminders of a dark history? EDITOR'S NOTE: one instance of explicit language.
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06/27/19 • 36 min
3 Listeners
Introducing: Utopian
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05/04/19 • 2 min
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 perpetual search for the perfect place, the ways that search can go spectacularly wrong, and what comes after. Thursdays starting May 30th.
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05/04/19 • 2 min
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The Mattress
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11/11/21 • 38 min
5.0
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 lightning rod for sleep performance, and a tool for modern self-improvement that's as mysterious and necessary as sleep itself.
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11/11/21 • 38 min
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FAQ
How many episodes does Nice Try! have?
Nice Try! currently has 20 episodes available.
What topics does Nice Try! cover?
The podcast is about History, Design, Podcasts and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Nice Try!?
The episode title 'The Keeper' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Nice Try!?
The average episode length on Nice Try! is 34 minutes.
How often are episodes of Nice Try! released?
Episodes of Nice Try! are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Nice Try!?
The first episode of Nice Try! was released on May 4, 2019.
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