On Thursday, October 14th, Curbed and New York Magazine are launching season two of Nice Try!, the critically acclaimed podcast hosted by Avery Trufelman about humanity’s quest for perfection.
Podcast host Avery Trufelman.
Following its first season, which took listeners on a global tour of utopian experiments over the ages, from the Jamestown colony, to the sci-fi debacle that was Biosphere 2, in season two,
Nice Try! will take the premise of the show one step further, exploring humanity's quest for perfection through the lens of consumerism. Delving into the past and present of items like the crockpot, the barbell, the vacuum, and more, Trufelman will look at the struggle for individual improvement, and how over and over again throughout the decades, consumers have been sold iterations of the same products.
Speaking with historians, entrepreneurs, and other experts, Avery Trufelman will take a curious and open-minded look at the world of lifestyle technology – and the promises that these products have made, kept, and broken.
The diamond in this podcast series is the host, Avery Trufelman. She is an alumna of the award-winning design podcast 99% Invisible.
In September 2018, she launched a limited-run series about clothing
and fashion called Articles of Interest, which was declared one of the
best podcasts of 2018 by the New Yorker. If you've not listened to
Articles of Interest, you should check it out. Your ears will thank you.
She is also the host of The Cut, from New York Magazine. Trufelman shines here, displaying her sharp powers of observation, her ability to collect disparate trends and explain them as a coherent whole, and her willingness to insert her personal experiences into the narrative.
The trailer for Nice Try! is available here.
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