From Curbed: Why Jamestown Failed as a Utopia (Nice Try Episode 1)

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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. Hosted by: Amanda Kludt (instagram/twitter) and Daniel Geneen (instagram/twitter). Complain to us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you, this is Daniel Janine, co-host of the the show this week we are running instead of
0:54.6	food stories which will be back next week I promise and then going forward
0:59.6	with so much consistency that it's going to be absolutely astounding.
1:04.6	But this week we have an episode, also from the Vox Media Podcast network, from our sister's
1:08.8	site, Curbed, which covers homes, cities, and communities. It's very good. The show is called nice try and it's about
1:17.5	Man's never-ending search for the perfect place. Each season you're going to hear stories about people who tried to design a better world
1:25.8	and what happened when those designs didn't go according to plan.
1:30.4	This season is called Utopian, and it's hosted by Avery Truffelman, who you might know from 99% invisible.
1:37.0	I'm going to let her take it from here.
1:40.0	Quickly I will tell you that this show is great for me because it is little bite-sized
1:44.4	nuggets of history that are all driving at one thing and even in this
1:49.9	episode I learned so much about the Virginia Company and colonization that I didn't
1:54.3	know before so I hope you like it and here it is.
1:57.8	Listen to those birds just chatting it up.
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