THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN

We’re Not Saying It’s Aliens But… Did Next Week Cause This Week? Mahmood Mamdani, one of the most respected voices in post-colonial scholarship, is suddenly being discussed alongside Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party. We look at how these two completely different figures ended up in the same conversation and explore what it says about the moment we are living through. We also talk a...

Fresh back from  round two of Graeme’s wedding  (the “attention-based one,” his words) and a very soggy  van week in France , we kick off with Paris myths,  Versailles fanboying (Louis XIV, Napoleon’s big wall-sized portrait) , and why the city still slaps in the rain. That segues into the week’s wildest story: the  Louvre-style museum heist  done in  broad dayli...

Gen Z in  Nepal  have officially had enough of  nepo babies and censorship , so they did what any overstimulated, terminally online generation would do: they  overthrew the government . Turns out, when your leaders act like TikTok influencers, the comments section eventually comes for them IRL. Meanwhile,  nepo babies  are breeding faster than AI influencers — Hollywo...

The week’s most unsettling headline dropped out of Utah:  far-right agitator Charlie Kirk has been shot dead at a university event , a shocking act of political violence in an already overheated United States. On  Social Meltdown , Graeme and Dylan sift through what’s confirmed, what’s conspiracy, and why this matters far beyond one man’s fate. Kirk built his brand by  pushing anti-...

🔥  Topics this episode: UK emergency "alert" - a blatant nuclear zap drill vs. China’s nuclear parade - the same week Zack Polanski: Green Party’s new eco-populist leader Trump renames the Pentagon “Department of War” Listener reactions: fear, laughter, and mass-text panic What would you do with the real 3-minute warning? This week on  Social Meltdown , Graeme Smith and Dylan Evans dive...

Pot Noodles have gone all woke and cardboard, an emboldened far right is waving flags everywhere, and Elon Musk is sharing AI porn. It's another totally normal week on planet what the f*ck. Meanwhile the polar bears are livid as the ice caps melt and Russia gets ready to open Club Med: Siberia. Dylan Evans and Graeme Smith are here to laugh at the collapse — from student debt to supermarket raids...

Leading UK TikTok creator Dylan Evans  and  award-winning LGBTQ+ podcaster and broadcaster Graeme Smith  are two long-time mates from Liverpool who dive headfirst into their news feeds – then try to make sense of what they find. Whilst the planet is unravelling. With a show very loosely based on how the world is unravelling and using the respected but depressing subreddit R/Collapse...

The slow collapse of civilisation continues being a bit funny at times. It’s official: July 2025 was one of the hottest months in all recorded history. But don’t worry — we’ll deal with that existential horror  later . First up, let’s talk about the other thing currently on fire: half the planet. France, Spain, Canada… basically, if it has summer, it has wildfires. From there, we take a sharp...

Graeme’s got an oddly nostalgic bought of COVID that has brought him to his knees and made him sound even more nasal, and somehow it all spirals into ket flashbacks from the noughties in a carpark in Leeds. We cover the unsettling topic of whether robots are already better friends than people, what we're putting into the time capsule for the end of days so humanity won't be forgotten and theres pl...

After we threw down the gauntlet with episode 1....You lot have been on with questions. About the slow collapse of civilisation. Isn't that always the way. Thankfully it's the theme of this podcast as well as the background music to all of our lives. But how are we re populating earth when everyone's died off? And other matters that have come up since our first chat. We also check the latest real...

Experts say the collapse of civilisation isn’t coming — it’s already underway. So we decided to loosely base a show on the expert doomerist sub reddit r/collapse. It's democratically moderated by people with the right qualifications and temperament to pass on the verified info about civilisation unravelling. People take comfort in the sobering pessimistic facts, they make the days count. From nucl...

In this 10-minute mini pilot,  Dylan Evans  (UK TikTok star and showbiz royalty on Merseyside) and  Graeme Smith  (award-winning LGBTQ+ podcaster and national radio voice of reason) give you a flavour of what happens when two longtime work mates from Liverpool start spiralling. It’s messy. It’s honest. It’s got jokes. It may or may not include a rant about some weird but compelling issue from the...