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Geekstorians - With Dave From Geektown

Geekstorians - With Dave From Geektown

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Geekstorians is a documentary-style podcast uncovering the secret history of geek culture — from the first sci-fi fan clubs and comic conventions to video games, cosplay, and streaming fandoms.


Hosted by Dave from Geektown, each episode dives into the stories, creators, and communities that shaped modern pop culture. Discover how fans built the worlds we love: comics, film, gaming, and beyond.


Perfect for anyone obsessed with Doctor Who, Star Wars, Marvel, anime, or the evolution of fandom itself. A smart, witty journey through the origins of everything geek.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Geekstorians Episode 10: The Secret Language of Geekdom - How Fans Built Modern Geek Culture
    Feb 18 2026

    Language doesn’t just describe culture.

    Sometimes, it creates it.

    In the Season One finale of Geekstorians, Dave explores the hidden history of geek language — how fans invented their own slang, references, in-jokes, and shorthand, and how that language quietly shaped modern geek culture and the internet itself.

    From handwritten letters in the back pages of early science-fiction magazines, to fanzines, conventions, badges, and costumes… from Monty Python quotes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, to arcade slang, tabletop role-playing games, online gaming, text-message shorthand, memes, and chat rooms. This episode traces how fandom learned to communicate long before social media existed.

    Along the way, we explore how shared language helped fandom survive moral panics, cancelled shows, shifting technology, and changing formats, not through manifestos or rules, but through jokes, references, and community shorthand.

    Geek culture didn’t just grow around stories.

    It grew around conversations.

    This episode marks the end of Season One of Geekstorians. All ten episodes, plus the Christmas special, are now available.

    If you’ve enjoyed the series, please consider rating, reviewing, or subscribing. It really helps the show find new listeners. You can also share your thoughts on Season One over at Geektown.co.uk or on social media.

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    35 min
  • Geekstorians Episode 9: The Plastic Empire
    Feb 11 2026

    Toys were never just toys.

    In this episode of Geekstorians, Dave traces the rise of the Plastic Empire — the moment when action figures, model kits, bricks, and collectibles stopped being side products and started becoming entire universes.

    From the Star Wars Early Bird box that accidentally rewrote the rules of merchandising, to the 1980s cartoon-toy industrial complex, moral panics, and the birth of gender-segmented aisles, this is the story of how plastic shaped imagination, identity, and fandom itself.

    Along the way, we explore LEGO’s uneasy relationship with licensed worlds, Gunpla’s transformation of fandom into craftsmanship, Warhammer’s hobbyist ecosystems, the rise of collector culture and shrine shelves, the collapse of toy superstores like Toys “R” Us, and how blind bags, loot-box logic, and digital skins quietly gamified collecting.

    Finally, we look at the strangest evolution yet — a future where fans no longer wait for companies to make their toys at all, but design and print their own.

    Because the Plastic Empire didn’t disappear.

    It decentralised.

    If you enjoyed this episode, make sure you’re subscribed or following Geekstorians wherever you listen, so you don’t miss future deep dives into the hidden history of geek culture.

    You can find every episode at https://www.geektown.co.uk, along with Geektown Radio, our weekly show covering the latest TV, film, and gaming news.

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    40 min
  • Geekstorians Episode 8: The Anime Underground - How Fans Smuggled a Medium Into the West
    Feb 4 2026

    Anime is everywhere now. Streaming platforms, cinema screens, fashion, music, TikTok, gaming. But it didn’t arrive in the West through studios, marketing campaigns, or corporate strategy.

    It arrived through fans.

    In this bumper-length episode of Geekstorians, Dave uncovers the real, messy, rebellious story of how anime travelled from post-war Japan to British living rooms and American college basements. It’s a journey that begins with lone animators and wartime propaganda films, explodes into giant-robot fever, and eventually spreads across the globe through mail networks, tape-trading rings, fan-subtitling groups, Channel 4’s late-night experiments, the chaos of SMTV: Live… and one film that hit like a cinematic meteor: Akira.

    This is the tale of the people who carried anime by hand, copying tapes at 3am, mailing fanzines in brown envelopes, hosting screenings in overheated hotel rooms, building early websites on dial-up, and refusing to let shows like Gundam, Yamato and Macross slip into obscurity.

    It’s the hidden history of how a scattered, passionate, wildly inventive fandom reshaped global pop culture, long before the industry realised the world was watching.

    If you enjoy the episode, don’t forget to follow, rate, and share Geekstorians. It genuinely helps the series grow and reach more listeners. And for more geek culture deep-dives, visit Geektown.co.uk. lBpEafq5XiZIpS64QLST

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    1 h et 13 min
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