Season 2: Interior

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History, Arts, Leisure, Home & Garden, Design

4.4 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Let me turn it on and you'll hear that little sing at the beginning as it comes up to speed.
0:13.0	In the Cisophician turn of days, it feels like I repeat the same motions over and over again.
0:20.0	I clean, I eat, I exercise, or I don't exercise and I feel guilty about not exercising.
0:25.2	I shower, I sleep, and I can't help but feel pressure to do it all better.
0:31.8	Because there's a whole suite of products out there promising a new and improved life.
0:37.8	Prosperity involves a lot of consumption.
0:40.4	Kitchen appliances that make meals in an instant.
0:43.2	We aren't doing something to be slow and deliberate about it.
0:46.9	We need to do more than one thing at the same time.
0:48.8	Workout equipment and weights in all shapes and sizes that help you cheat mortality.
0:54.3	Everyone should be lifting weights.
0:55.9	I'm not saying you should be lifting weights to look like on a social network or what I'm no.
1:00.0	You should be lifting weights to improve your quality of life.
1:02.4	Matrices that will knock you out for a solid eight hours a night.
1:06.4	There's like green team mattresses and CBD is like an accessory to these mattresses.
1:13.5	They're selling.
1:14.5	So there's a ton of marketing going on.
1:17.2	It feels like there's this genre of domestic technology attempting to turn our homes into little personal utopias.
1:24.8	Can the private home be a sort of utopia?
1:27.6	Well, that's a $64,000 question.
1:35.8	From Curved and the Box Media Podcast Network, this is nice try.
1:40.5	Our second season is called Interior.
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