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THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN
by DYLAN EVANS AND GRAEME SMITH
The Social Meltdown is a weekly glance at the latest chaos in a world on the perma-brink. AI hallucinations. Big Tech force-feeding us slop, Influencers crying in ring lights ... UNHINGED politics and of course Your letters! Yes Yours! Based very loosely on the sub Reddit R/Collapse, where people share stories and theories on how little time humanity has left. Be part of our community of agnostic doom preppers. Because if we really do only have about 20 years left, let's spend them having a laugh with two hosts who are neither expert nor well prepared. But they are sometimes funny. Dylan Evans and Graeme Smith used to work together on the checkout at Lidl. It was from here they first honed their skills on the in store tannoy. They were eventually given a teatime show on the tannoy of the Liverpool store by the big wigs at head office in Slough and the rest could have been b
Episodes
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We’re Not Saying It’s Aliens But… Did Next Week Cause This Week?
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…
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The Louvre Job, The Amazon Web Wobble & Why AI has fed the everything bubble
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…
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How Gen Z Just Overthrew a Government (And Why Everyone’s Distracted)
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....
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Charlie Kirk: When the culture war becomes real
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…
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⚠️ How was your UK Alert system test? , China’s Nuke parade & Trump’s “Department of War”
🔥 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...
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Pot Noodles and Flag sh*gging. The collapse of society gathers pace.
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....
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THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN TRAILER
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...
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Any Poppers Before My Probing Please, ET?
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....
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Ebola, Porn Laws &... your last meal before the Apocalypse ?
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…
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You've been on. So things got weird ...fast.
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...
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20 years left if we're lucky...Your two favourite prophets have returned to chart the end of days!
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...
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EPISODE ZERO: grow your baby in a bag because childbirth is like toothache.
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…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Social Meltdown is a weekly glance at the latest chaos in a world on the perma-brink. AI hallucinations. Big Tech force-feeding us slop, Influencers crying in ring lights ... UNHINGED politics and of course Your letters! Yes Yours!
Based very loosely on the sub Reddit R/Collapse, where people share stories and theories on how little time humanity has left.
Be part of our community of agnostic doom preppers. Because if we really do only have about 20 years left, let's spend them having a laugh with two hosts who are neither expert nor well prepared. But they are sometimes funny.
Dylan Evans and Graeme Smith used to work together on the checkout at Lidl. It was from here they first honed their skills on the in store tannoy.
They were eventually given a teatime show on the tannoy of the Liverpool store by the big wigs at head office in Slough and the rest could have been b
HOSTED BY
DYLAN EVANS AND GRAEME SMITH
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The Social Meltdown is a weekly glance at the latest chaos in a world on the perma-brink. AI hallucinations. Big Tech force-feeding us slop, Influencers crying in ring lights ... UNHINGED politics and of course Your letters! Yes Yours! Based very loosely on the sub Reddit R/Collapse, where people...
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