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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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    Oneida: Utopia, LLC

    והרי ההמלצות! 😎אם תרצו לשתף לחברים חסרי טלגרם, יש [**פוסט בבלוג**](https://project12.co.il/%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%93%d7%a7%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%99%d7%9d/%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%93%d7%a7%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%a2%d7%9c-%d7%91%d7%99%d7%96%d7%90%d7%a8-%d7%93%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d/). #המלצהאורחת**פודקאסטים על ביזאר ודברים מוזרים!****1. פודקאסט: למזק (Lamzak)** פרק: [**האדם הכי חי בעולם **](https://pca.st/994oq65p)למזק הוא אחד הפודקסטים הישראליים האהובים עלי, ובאמת כל פרק שלו היה יכול לעבוד פה. הם מדברים על תופעות מוזרות, ספרים מוזרים וכל מיני מוזרואידים בכללי. בפרק הזה הם נכנסים לתופעה של soverign citizens והנסיונות הביזאריים להביא אותה לארץ.**2. פודקאסט: MusicalSplaining **פרק:[** Diana: The Musical**](https://pca.st/a6im501c) מיוזיקלספליינינג הוא פודקסט על מחזות זמר שמיועד גם לאנשים שלא אוהבים או לא ראו אותם. זה מעניין הרבה יותר משזה נשמע – ובפרק הזה הם מדברים על מחזמר שמבוסס על חייה של הנסיכה דיאנה. רעיון ביזארי מתחילתו ועד סופו שהפך למחזמר גרוע במיוחד.**3. פודקאסט: Nice Try! **פרק: [**Oneida: Utopia, LLC **](https://pca.st/81t5) נייס טרי היה פודקסט על אוטופיות – ולכן אין ברירה אלא לעסוק בכמה דברים מוזרים לחלוטין. בפרק הזה היוצרת דיברה על משהו שצריך לשמוע כדי להאמין: איך קומונה דתית פוליאמורית הפכה בהדרגה למפעל לייצור סכו"ם.**4. פודקאסט: הסטוריה גדולה, בקטנה **פרק:[** #17 ד"ר דני אורבך והמרגלים הנאצים בעולם הערבי **](https://pca.st/7txfuqhr) אחד הפרקים הראשונים של הפודקסט שלנו, בו דיברנו על הנאצים שהמשיכו להסתובב במזרח התיכון עשורים אחרי נפילת הרייך השלישי. האנקדוטות על ההשקה שלהם למוסד הישראלי הפכו את הפרק הזה להזוי במיוחד לדעתי.**5. פודקאסט: Behind This Bastard **פרק: [**Steven Seagal Wrote a Book (We Read It)**](https://pca.st/2y16oysw) ביהיינד דה בסטרדז הוא פודקסט שמאלני לאללה שלרוב לועג לכל מיני עריצים, נאצים ועוזריהם. מדי פעם הם גם לועגים למה שהם עשו – כמו בפרק הזה שהם קוראים חלקים מהספר שסטיבן סיגל כתב, ואני לא יכול לחשוב על משהו יותר מוזר מספר שסטיבן סיגל כתב.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ רוצים גם להמליץ? [**נכנסים לאתר וכותבים המלצה**](https://project12.co.il/%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%93%d7%a7%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%99%d7%9d/5-%d7%94%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%9c%d7%a6%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%9a/) על כל נושא שאתם אוהבים או שחשוב לכם שאנשים אחרים יכירו 🤩 @podcastsrec#######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.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    The Keeper

    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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  3. 15

    The Bidet

    The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. And the American bathroom has long contained a stable trinity of fixtures: the toilet, bath, and sink. But is there room for another? This week, the riddle of the Western bathroom and our modern attitudes toward cleanliness—all wrapped up in the mystery of why Americans cannot seem to fully embrace the bidet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    The Mattress

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    The Weight

    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 appliances, this heavy metal object aids in our dual—and sometimes conflicting—pursuit of athletics and aesthetics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    The Crock-Pot

    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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    The Vacuum

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    The Doorbell

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Season 2: Interior

    Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, and sleep -- as we attempt to sail to the unreachable shore of a better life. Hosted by Avery Trufelman. From Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Thursdays starting October 14th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Disney World: Celebrating Utopia

    Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding, Caity Weaver grew up vacationing in utopia. Specifically: Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. During a recent live event at the 92Y in New York City, Avery asked Caity to bring us back to those vacations. As a reminder that discussion about utopias - and the failures and successes inherent in them - is an ongoing one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Herland: Reimagine Utopia

    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, then, for people in society who really need it? In our season finale, we visit worlds where there are no men. In fiction, and real life. Read more about all Utopian episodes - from Jamestown to Biosphere 2 - and the books that inspired us this season here: http://bit.ly/nice-try-utopia If you're in the New York City area, see Avery discuss utopias with a very special guest at the 92 Street Y on August 6th at 7:30pm. Get your tickets now: http://bit.ly/nicetrylive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia

    In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem in a domed research facility in Arizona. Inside the dome, there was a man-made savannah. A rainforest. A farm. An ocean with tropical coral reef. And all of these habitats would be populated with life. Things did not go according to plan. But was it a failure? EDITOR'S NOTE: one instance of explicit language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard

    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 explicit racial covenants and other tactics to keep his famed Levittown developments white, one builder used racial quotas to create an integrated community — and succeeded, for a while. Can the suburbs be a utopia for all? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Jamestown: Utopia for Whom

    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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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    Introducing: Utopian

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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