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Imagine ‘show and tell’, but about how humanity has gone wrong. A podcast about big ideas, weird history - and tat. Join Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox as they get drunk in the gift shop with the Angel of History. Find us also on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Zuckerbergs' favorite instagram e-thot / political commentator 'Neoliberalhell' aka 'Ana' teams up with well-read, theorygram poisoned pussy-getting twink 'Matthew'. With the help of Ryan ANTIART, The Massachusetts inbred WASP and the only Jew from central Illinois converse about their liberal elite New York City dweller lives and dig deep into the culture during these dire times ----- BONUS EPISODES: https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalhell
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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 our special guest Isaac Rangaswami, journalist, writer and brains behind Instagram sensation Caffs not Cafes. Isaac’s object is the wildly popular 2003 …
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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 (predatory venture capitalism), but the effect is cursed in uniquely jarring ways. Welcome back from your summer holidays - to a new season of Cursed …
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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 why did he let it happen on his watch? Why is there so much cowardice, ignorance and fiction at the heart of our immigration conversation? Why does L…
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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 left with more money than you entered with). They find a world curated by Darren Cullen - artist, activist and collector of some of the most mundanely …
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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 crowd about some of their favourite cursed objects from museum shops, plus some of their favorites from the podcast. And we heard from YOU - via audienc…
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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 polyphonic in quality, these DIY records captivated him and sparked a mission to find the bootleggers who had risked up to *five years* in a gulag for…
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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 bootleg Keir Starmer mug and we’re not afraid to do a podcast about it. Real change. Change you can believe in. Change for you, change for me, change for …
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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 - via Agatha Christie, Yellowface, American Fiction and One Day - woke agendas and cultural elites, colourblind casting, sensitivity readers and cult…
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Were you into Cursed Objects before it was cool? Like Grandpa Simpson remembering the war, this week Dan and Kasia are holding a seance for those perennial whipping boys and girls, the hipsters – and recalling the green remembered hills of artisan beards, cereal cafes and small-batch trucker hats. Kicking off with a revisit to seminal, frequently p…
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The police just follow the law, right!? Our guest Melayna Lamb thinks we need to flip this thinking around - and see the police as a law unto themselves. Using the example of the very cursed ‘thin blue line’ police badge, Melayna challenges the police’s foundational idea that they are the ‘thin blue line between order and chaos’. What happens if - …
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How do you like your eggs in the morning? Hopefully not wet?? It’s Easter, so in the spirit of bringing you some seasonal #content, Kasia and Dan explore what came to be known as ‘wet egg discourse’ via a Morrisons food-to-go container of six hard-boiled eggs. Is it ever appropriate to eat an egg on a train? Why are eggs eaten around the beginning …
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Forget everything you thought you knew about the housing crisis! This week we have a very special guest, housing lawyer Nick Bano, with a hugely enlightening and at times shocking lesson in just how we got into this mess. Drawing on his searing new book Against Landlords, Nick argues that the YIMBY / NIMBY argument is distracting us from the real p…
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Kasia and Dan are earning their lunch. And it’s a big, steaming bowl of cuteness! They go to the Somerset House ‘Cute’ exhibition to unravel how this seemingly benign cultural phenomenon has come to infect our brains with adorable kittens and kawaii. Often seen as infantile and saccharine - can cuteness be emancipatory or is it an escape from the g…
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This week, Dan and Kasia are getting into a submersible and heading into the dark blue depths, poking around the extremely cursed domain of Britain's unnatural party of government, THE CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY. The Tories. The true Blues. That lot. Specifically, we're talking Tory merch. Just what the hell is going on in the Tories' online s…
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We're baaaack! And we're feeling FIT, while also reassuring you that it's what's inside that counts. Kasia and Dan return with a new series, where today we're talking about the beauty industry, vanity and gender, and - following a Cursed Objects outing to the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition The Cult of Beauty - early modern German wife-prettyi…
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It's a classic Haunted Dickensian Cursed Objects Office Christmas Party! If you think Halloween is the spookiest time of year - you’re dead wrong. We’re gathering round the metaphorical office photocopier to delve into the pagan origins of festive ghost stories. What can a mysterious RNLI lifeboat poster in Kasia’s hallway tell us about the ‘happy …
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Service! This week, we are hovering around ‘the pass’, checking our plating is okay, and asking how a simple labour-saving device, a coffee shop palette knife, caused Kasia so much angst and strife – “like a dagger to my heart”? Maybe it’s because of the uniquely painful and exhausting nature of working in food and drink service. Kasia and Dan disc…
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Mice, lice, moths…and prehistoric-looking ‘weta’ grasshoppers. We are in the grips of a pest control moral panic. Could the humble hedgehog be the solution to the bedbug APOCALYPSE that newspapers keep telling us is wracking London? From Ancient Greek prayers for worms to eat someone else's crops, to lousy experiences of the Spanish Civil War, and …
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Jake Hanrahan (founder of Popular Front) is a conflict journalist and documentary filmmaker who is a legitimately disrupter in alternative news media. His page, Popular Front, uses his roots as a former Vice reporter to give the world honest, unbiased gonzo journalism that has a lot of heart and a lot of perspectives you won't see anywhere else. We…
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Recorded on a hungover rainy Sunday, it's a history-on-TV episode, and it's an episode about HISTORY IN THE FIELD. Literally in the field, or rather in a field: metal detecting, archeology, and a little bit of mudlarking on the side. Don't we all want to find some buried treasure? This week, Dan and Kasia talk about the sweet and gently profound Ma…
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It's our 50th episode! Sort of. There's an asterisk. But it's sort of our 50th episode! To mark the occasion, Dan and Kasia are tackling their own logo, the Cursed Objects avatar and icon: the beans clock. They take on the politics of time, and discuss the use of the clock to discipline people into docile worker-drones. They learn the helpful unit …
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What happens when a revolution dies? Jack Shenker witnessed firsthand the phenomenal Egyptian strike waves of the late 2000s that led to the toppling of the Mubarak regime, reporting from Tahrir Square and the towns and factories beyond - in 2016 publishing The Egyptians. This episode, our very special guest brings in a mug from the April 6th Youth…
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Ana & Matthew sit down with Rolling Stone's Best Album of 2009 and 2010 receiptiant Alan Palomo, who's band Neon Indian defined the late "indie sleaze" era. He's back with a new album, World of Hassle, which is available now on all streaming services. He talks about his humble beginnings, losing an album, erotic thrillers, pizza pies, Seinfeld, and…
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Welcome to a new series of Cursed Objects! For the first episode back, very special guest historian Charlotte Lydia Riley brings in a souvenir mug commemorating the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 – where the very normal exhibits included a working coalmine, a model of the Prince of Wales sculpted out of butter, and… actual human beings brought b…
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For the next Patreon-only Cursed Summer Session, Dan and Kasia get stuck into a decades-old British institution, with a TV review of Antiques Roadshow - comparing the huge gulf between the show in 1990 and 2023. Is it the most suffocating, reactionary show on TV? Twee middle-class commodity fetishism? Or is there more to it than that - couldn't thi…
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Sit up straight, hippies! Kasia and Dan have some questions for you, and it's high time you answered. Where did all this magic mushroom merch come from? What makes tye-die and flares swing in and out of fashion? What is the thread between psychedelia in 1960s pop culture and medieval dance manias? What does Camden market have to do with all this? A…
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Pukka! We’re dancing in the moonlight with the king of the English culinary world, Jamie Oliver. How did someone so cringe achieve such dizzying levels of fame and power? How did he end up being an unofficial advisor to Tonty Blair? Special guests Jonathan Nunn and Biz take us through Jamie’s Naked Chef years, the Downing Street years and the Jerk …
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Ana and Matthew update everyone on what's been going on in their lives before getting into the Titanic Submarine Implosion, Impractical Jokers, Balloon Boy, Dimes Square Drama and much more. For bonus episodes subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalhell Timestamps 1:40 - AI 3:00 - I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE 3:30 - IMPRACTICAL JOK…
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Come fly away with us and Alain de Botton (sorry but he's coming too), and take a trip on Venga Airways - but we're not leaving the ground: you're trapped with us in the departure lounge, for ever. Are airports the most cursed spaces in the modern world? Liminal spaces between nations and cultures, a surveilled, high-security purgatory, with access…
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It's a source of strength, life, sickness, disgust, delight and deep nausea. It's fraught with climate controversy and tensions over rights, care, state power, social democracy, misogyny and outrageous colonial history. Where did we learn that strong kids drink milk? Why is the Laughing Cow not laughing anymore? Why have neo-Nazis adopted it as a w…
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Oh so you're 6 months old and you say you're a true Guns 'n' Roses fan? Name their top 3 albums then! Coming to you live from the furious and cathartic heart of the moshpit, this week Dan and Kasia take on the golden age of RAWK, homemade metal 'battle jackets', music fandom and nerdery, masculinity, authenticity and the long history of rock 'selli…
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Smoking is almost too on-the-nose a subject for Cursed Objects. But vapes - candy-coloured, daftly-named, targeted at children, making wads of $$$ for the same tobacco companies - vapes are perfect. How are these cursed little dummies - cheap plastic disposable tat, destined for landfill - marketed? Why did fags disappear from the movies? How has B…
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The desire to feel like you are 'part of history' can turn even the most ardent republican into a flag-waving monarchist shill. So why are we all so desperate to tell subsequent generations that we were 'there' and how does this urge corrode politics? Just in time for the King's Coronation, from our Patreon to main feed, we explore the period of na…
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On this episode, your favorite duo gets up close and personal with big oil's number one opp, Steven Donziger. He and his team historically won a multi-billion dollar case against Chevron for their pollution of cancer-causing chemicals in Ecuador, a case that lasted nearly 30 years. He was subsequently put on house arrest for alleged contempt of cou…
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SUB TO OUR PATREON OF THE FULL EPISODE!!! WHOA! THAT WAS A FUN ONE, GEEZ. Frost Children are a sibling musical duo making some of the most exciting music in the genre of hyperpop and electronic music today. They talk with Ana and Matthew for 2 and half hours while SEEDMAXXING off the Crisco. You plebs only get an hour and 20 sorry :( They discuss t…
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Kasia and Dan address their toughest question yet: are cats left wing? Springing from a shared love of feline friends, they trace the history of cat-obsessed activists and intellectuals through Kasia's cat The Professor's very gross lost claw. Why did the left choose to welcome these ruthless killers into their homes? Are cats incapable of love, or…
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There is a gift shop in Guantánamo Bay. That’s it. That’s the episode. From ‘mindfulness’ mugs to lip balms, Kasia and Dan explore the extremely cursed Guantánamo merchandise and everyday objects on offer - alongside ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ like waterboarding, and the kidnapping of foreign nationals for long-term detention without charg…
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Chris Wade, producer extraordinaire of Chapo Trap House and co-host of Hell On Earth joins us to discuss Tár, Donald Trump's indictment (that never happened) and much more. Patreon Exclusive Ep. OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/80682949?pr=true CHAPO PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse…
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After a brief pause from podding and hosting, Ana & Matthew are back to catch up on each other's lives. They discuss Matthew seeing The View & The Daily Show with his mom, St. Patrick's Day, Ana's endless birthday party spree, and the unjust cancellation attempt on friend of the pod Marianne Williamson. Full EP on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ne…
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A plain ham sandwich, a bottle of still water and a pack of ready salted crisps – it's a meal (deal) fit for a King, and a Cursed Objects x Lecker collab! This week, legends in their own lunchtimes Kasia, Dan and special guest Lucy Dearlove delve into claggy sandwiches, terrible sushi and supermarket psychology and ask: what the hell is going on in…
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Could we BE any more cursed? This week, Dan and Kasia talk about the strange, mutant afterlife of Friends, the world's least cool situation comedy. On the agenda, such questions as: has some kind of Friends merchandise atom bomb been detonated in recent years? What does the show tell us about the politics and culture of the 1990s - and why is that …
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Kasia and Dan explore the crisis in British swearing through Robert Peston’s very cursed book ‘WTF’. What does it say about our society that a leading political pundit sells his books through expletives? And with groans of despair viscerally being felt across the UK whenever someone calls Matt Hancock a ‘cockwomble’, what has become of swearing as …
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https://www.patreon.com/ This week, Ana & Matthew switch it up and record an episode at Ana's spot. They sit down with very tall dudes, Kareem Rahma and Adam Faze, who created the TikTok taxi show Keep The Meter Running where Kareem has NYC cabbies take him to where they want to go (nice lil uno reverse). They discuss some wacky stories in producin…
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https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalhell This week, Ana & Matthew (finally!) got on former and possible future presidential candidate, ecofeminist, activist and best-selling author Marianne Williamson. They discuss the past, present and future of U.S. politics, Laura Dean, AI, and everything in between. Full video also available on our Patreon!…
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SUB TO THE PATREON FOR FULL VIDEOS, EXCLUSIVE EPS AND DISCORD ACCESS April! and Grace of GIRL GOD, the most famous trans comedy duo of all time, join Ana & Matthew to discuss pretty privilege, Justin Trudeau, Dave Chappelle, Tootsie, bi lesbian sapiosexuals, Illinois & more. Catch them on tour in a city near you, tickets on their site here [The ter…
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https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalhell On this segmented special episode, Ana & Matthew dive into the concept of "clout". They start off one-on-one by discussing the origins of the term and it's evolution, and react to some clout-themed cultural touchstones. Then, they take their theory and turn it into praxis at the [redacted] Club where they were…
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