CollapseCast

Episodes

1. 13

   Transformer Shortage — The Machine Nobody Can Build Fast Enough - EP 14

   Just before one in the morning on April 16, 2013, someone cut the fiber lines outside a California substation called Metcalf and opened fire on it with rifles. Seventeen transformers went offline. The lights stayed on, but only because the bullets hit the cooling systems instead of the machines...

   Oct 16, 2026

   45m
2. 12

   Data Center Attacks - The New Front Line - EP 13

   At 2:38 in the morning on January 17, 1991, the Gulf War opened with American helicopters destroying the radar sites Iraq used to see incoming jets. Thirty-five years later, on March 1, 2026, the first strikes in another Gulf war hit something different: an Iranian drone set an Amazon data center...

   Oct 6, 2026

   37m
3. 11

   Paper Water — The River We Allocated More Water Than It Had - EP 11

   In 1922, seven states divided the Colorado River based on a single number: how much water it carried in an average year. That number was wrong — and the man who proved it, field hydrologist Eugene LaRue, handed his corrected data straight to the commission that ignored it. A century later, Lake...

   Sep 29, 2026

   44m
4. 10

   Magnetic Pole Reversal — The Flip - EP 10

   Earth's magnetic poles have reversed hundreds of times. The last reversal completed 780,000 years ago. The average interval is 200,000 to 300,000 years. The current interval is 780,000 years. The field is already weakening. This episode covers what a reversal actually involves — not the clean...

   Jul 18, 2026

   35m
5. 9

   South Atlantic Anomaly — Something Is Wrong With Earth's Shield - EP 9

   South Atlantic Anomaly — Something Is Wrong With Earth's Shield There is a region of the planet — stretching from the coast of South America across to southern Africa — where Earth's magnetic shield has weakened by more than 30 percent. It has a name. NASA has it on their maps. The European Space...

   Jul 4, 2026

   28m
6. 8

   The End of Simple Medicine: Antibiotic Resistance and the Collapse of a Modern Miracle - EP 8

   For nearly a century, antibiotics have been one of civilization's invisible foundations. They made modern surgery safer. They reduced deaths from infection. They helped support advanced medicine, food production, and a global population that grew from roughly 2.5 billion people in 1950 to more…

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   Jun 6, 2026

   33m
7. 7

   The Thirst of AI - EP 7

   Artificial intelligence feels effortless. You type a prompt. You get an answer. Fast, clean, immediate. But nothing about it is free. Behind every response is a growing system pulling from the same resources everything else depends on—power, water, land, and infrastructure that doesn’t scale...

   Apr 25, 2026

   24m
8. 6

   Death of the Content Creator - EP 6

   We are living through a creative paradox. More content is being produced than at any point in human history — books, audiobooks, music, videos, scripts — yet more human creators are quietly disengaging, adapting, or disappearing altogether. This episode of CollapseCast explores The Death of the...

   Jan 30, 2026

   35m
9. 5

   The Brondo Effect — When Thinking Became Optional - EP 5

   There was no vote. No announcement. No moment where humanity decided to stop thinking. We just… stopped needing to. In this episode of CollapseCast, we examine The Brondo Effect — the quiet collapse that happens when convenience replaces cognition and thinking becomes optional. Borrowing its name...

   Dec 28, 2025

   35m
10. 4

    Orbital Trash Compactor: How Kessler Syndrome Could Kill the Sky - EP 4

    What if one bad day in orbit turned the sky above your head into a permanent shotgun blast? Since 1957 we’ve hurled over 60,000 objects into orbit. More than 36,000 of them are still up there. Only about 6,000 are working satellites. The rest? Dead hulks, exploded fuel tanks, lost tools, and...

    Nov 26, 2025

    32m
11. 3

    The Empty Future: What Happens When no One is Born? - EP 3

    🎧 CollapseCast — Episode 3: The Empty Future “What happens when no one is born.” Collapse doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, it just… stops. No wars. No plagues. No fire — just silence. In The Empty Future, host Zeroack and the machine-voice companion Zerobit trace a quiet kind of collapse — one...

    Oct 27, 2025

    32m
12. 2

    The Ogallala Aquifer: When the Water Runs Out - EP 2

    Collapse doesn’t always begin with fire. Sometimes, it starts with silence. In this episode of CollapseCast, we unearth the slow-motion crisis beneath America’s breadbasket—the Ogallala Aquifer. Spanning eight states and supporting over $35 billion in agriculture, this underground water source is...

    Aug 25, 2025

    27m
13. 1

    The Shape of Collapse | EP 1

    In the premiere episode of Collapse Cast, we’re not starting with explosions — we’re starting with erosion. This isn’t about the apocalypse. It’s about the process — the slow, systemic failures no one wants to admit are already in motion. From the collapse of trust to the failure of…

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    Jul 31, 2025

    27m