BONUS episode - Herbal Tea Advent Calendar
What happens to the space-time continuum if you open an advent calendar in April? What are the healing properties of "different flavours of damp twig"? This week, Kasia and Dan are exploring the quasi...
30 Jan 20239min
Me and USSR and Everyone We Know
Go east! Kasia and Dan tackle a satirical boardgame about queuing in Cold War-era Poland and go deep into 'Ostalgie' -- how do people remember the Soviet era, especially people who don't actually reme...
17 Jan 202359min
Cursed and Blessed Ghosts of Christmas Past - ft. Archie Bashford and Mr Beatnick
IT'S CUUUUUURSEDMAAAAAAAS! We're having a work Christmas party and you're all invited -- we've got some festive VKs and gingerbread milk stout, and we're going to finally determine who's been naughty ...
15 Des 20221h 13min
Abject Pumpkinism
It's spooky season, it's harvest season, it's pumpkin season, it's nesting season, it's hygge season, it's cuffing season, it's christian girl autumn -- but where do all these labels and ideas come fr...
21 Nov 20221h 3min
*UNLOCKED* The Walter Benjamin Escape Town
FROM PATREON TO MAIN FEED: it's a Hot Geist Summer episode where Kasia and Dan take a cursed journey into the darkest parts of the experience economy... from yuppie ballpit bars and escape rooms in Sh...
9 Nov 202255min
*PREVIEW* - Marmalade Sandwiches and National Mourning
We've done our duties Paddington, now take us to straight to hell (boy). Two weeks of pent-up angst, hilarity and bewilderment comes out in a wild ride through Britain's "period of national mourning"....
17 Okt 20229min
There Goes The Neighbourhood ft. Les Back
Postcode paraphernalia – check! Neighbourhood nationalism – check! Commodified cities? All here. We are very excited to be joined by iconic sociologist Les Back as he reflects on his much beloved, but...
5 Okt 20221h 11min
Lost in the Supermarket - Bags for Life and Loyalty Fobs
Nectar selectors and club card members: where do your loyalty cards lie? This week, Dan and Kasia are discussing how supermarkets became so all-powerful that they can "campaign" on political and envir...
12 Sep 20221h 1min
