Crap Towns and Caffs (not Cafes) ft. Isaac Rangaswami
The early 2000s were a fever dream: why was pop culture so mean? Specifically, why was it acceptable to write off entire cities - and the people within them - as crap? This is the question posed by ou...
19 Sep 202446min
Airbnb: Prints of Thieves
They are marketed as democratised holiday rentals, where you get an ‘authentic’ experience by literally living in someone's home - so why are Airbnb’s full of crap, generic art? The answer is obvious ...
4 Sep 202418min
Racist Mugs and Legitimate Concerns with Labour
If smart, humane, pro-migration Ed Miliband really hated Labour’s infamous ‘Controls On Immigration’ coffee mug – both of his parents were Jews who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Britain – then...
25 Juli 202422min
The Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen
How do you start collecting objects for a cursed museum? Kasia and Dan spend all of their money in the gift shop of the Museum of Neoliberalism (well, it wouldn’t be a Museum of Neoliberalism if you l...
10 Juli 202450min
Cursed Objects, Live! #1 Notes from the museum shop
Troubling war merch, Van Gogh bucket hats, Soviet space dogs and the scourge of ‘world’ history - Kasia and Dan stage their first-ever live show to celebrate 100,000 downloads! They tell a sell-out cr...
28 Juni 202415min
Bone music, Soviet outlaws and X-ray rock ‘n’ roll ft. Stephen Coates
A record etched onto an x-ray of a (probably, now) dead Soviet citizen’s head. That is the uniquely cursed object Stephen Coates came across in a Russian flea market in 2014. Weird, eerie, and almost...
13 Juni 202456min
The Unstoppable Many vs. The Immovable Few (Emergy P for the Snappy G)
Oh god, not another one! When BREAKING NEWS bursts through the wall, we spring, gently and apologetically, into action, with a (cough) emergency p for the snappy g. That’s right guys, we’ve got a boot...
30 Maj 202422min
Black Frankenstein and White Corporate Diversity ft. Anamik Saha
What if there was an object so cursed that it was never even made? This week we are joined by culture studies don Prof Anamik Saha to discuss anti-racism, racism and corporate diversity in pop culture...
16 Maj 202451min
