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THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNWe’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 in the same conversation and explore what it says about the moment we are living through.We also talk about what a realistic future for the Greens might look like and whether the United Kingdom could ever see a Green Prime Minister under the curren...
2025-11-2147 minTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWNThe Louvre Job, The Amazon Web Wobble & Why AI has fed the everything bubbleFresh 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 daylight—think cherry-picker, glass cutters, seven minutes, scooters. Cinema.Then the internet falls over. We unpack the AWS US-East hiccup that nuked everything from banks to doorbells, and Graeme’s current obsession: Yanis Varoufakis’ “techno-feudalism”—how Big Platforms became our new...
2025-10-221h 12THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNHow 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.Meanwhile, nepo babies are breeding faster than AI influencers — Hollywood, politics and definitely old school broadcasting!We also revisit the timeless Boris Johnson “dead cat” trick — the ancient political art of dropping a scandal so chaotic that everyone forgets the first one. Fun fact: it’s still working globally! From Wes...
2025-10-0727 minTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWNCharlie Kirk: When the culture war becomes realThe 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-LGBTQ talking points, anti women's rights, spreading election lies, and culture-war outrage—and now his killing risks turning him into a martyr for the very movement he helped radicalise.Answeri...
2025-09-1738 minTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWN⚠️ 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 weekZack Polanski: Green Party’s new eco-populist leaderTrump renames the Pentagon “Department of War”Listener reactions: fear, laughter, and mass-text panicWhat would you do with the real 3-minute warning?This week on Social Meltdown, Graeme Smith and Dylan Evans dive head-first into the week’s chaos — from the UK’s bizarre “zap drill” phone alert to China rolling out nuclear weapons alongside Russia, Iran, and North Korea. While one side tests push notifications, the other shows off nukes —...
2025-09-0957 minTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWNPot 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. Dylan Evans and Graeme Smith are here to laugh at the collapse — from student debt to supermarket raids — with your letters on which alien you’d sleep with and where in LIDL you would hide if society collapsed somewhat faster...
2025-09-0155 minTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWNTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWN TRAILERLeading 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 as its guide through the unravelling of civilisation, we aim to make the depressing demise of us all accessible but ultimately pretty funny at times. Because what else can we do?From...
2025-08-3101 minTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWNAny 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. France, Spain, Canada… basically, if it has summer, it has wildfires.From there, we take a sharp left turn into the Collapse Community inbox, where one listener shares how the fascist takeover of the USA is giving them full-time anxiety. ICE raids, bir...
2025-08-141h 06THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNEbola, 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, what we're putting into the time capsule for the end of days so humanity won't be forgotten and theres plenty of unhinged messages from you lot.This week, we're watching again as the world collapses slowly:The algorithm that’s brain-rotting us into...
2025-07-311h 25THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNYou'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 everyone's died off? And other matters that have come up since our first chat.We also check the latest real time threats to life on earth on the reddit subgroup R/Collapse who provide us inspiration and information to...
2025-07-261h 00THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN20 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 unravelling. People take comfort in the sobering pessimistic facts, they make the days count.From nuclear war to climate-triggered volcanic mega-eruptions, the next two decades are looking… spicy. Dylan Evans (chronically online gen z/milennial / internet treasure/ showbiz royalty on Merseyside) ) and Graeme Smith (elder millenni...
2025-07-141h 10THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNEPISODE 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 honest. It’s got jokes. It may or may not include a rant about some weird but compelling issue from the depths of their FYPs. On this occasion it's the baby in a bag. The future of fertility. Think of it as the amuse bouche before the algorithmi...
2025-07-0410 min
2022-01-3146 min
THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNTHE SOCIAL MELTDOWN : TRAILERLeading TikTok creator DYLAN EVANS and radio DJ GRAEME SMITH are two mates who sit down in Liverpool and chew through what's REALLY going on in the world right now, ripping the p*ss out of each other and anyone.
They scroll to the depths of their news feeds and bring their unique mix of laugh out loud humour alongside a unique, unfiltered, take on the latest news, viral videos and trends on social media.
Prepare to open your mind, expand your outlook and occasionally soil yourself with delight x
[TIK TOK / NEWS / VIRAL / FUNNY / UK}
2021-05-1600 min
THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNSHORTS: FORCED TO EAT MASH WITH THEIR HANDSIS IT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD THOUGH. A FUNNY CHAT ABOUT MASH THAT THE BOYS HAD IN EPISODE 16.SUBSCRIBE TO THE NTR PODCAST FOR WEEKLY CONTENT
2021-03-0307 min
THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNEVEN WORSE BITS with DYLAN EVANSRemember the time Graeme was click baited into a story that was supposedly about famous swingers.Or the news about Anne Summers lockdown sales?Or Dylan learned all about gay role-play?RELIVE THE LOT IN TEN MINUTES HERE...
2020-08-2509 min
THE SOCIAL MELTDOWNTHE WORST BITS with GRAEME SMITHThis is a selection of our most harrowing and funny moments.Remember the Uberhole and the Baby in a bag?HERE IS A REMINDER....
2020-08-1910 min