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THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN

DYLAN EVANS AND GRAEME SMITH

The Social Meltdownis 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

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All Episodes

1:12:52

The Louvre Job, The Amazon Web Wobble & Why AI has...

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2025/10/22

Fresh back fromround two of Graeme’s wedding(the “attention-based one,” his words) and a very soggyvan 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: theLouvre-style museum heistdone inbroad daylight—think cherry-picker, glass cutters, seven minutes, scooters. Cinema.Then the internet falls over. We unpack theAWS US-East hiccupthat nuked everything

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27:12

How Gen Z Just Overthrew a Government (And Why...

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2025/10/06

Gen Z inNepalhave officially had enough ofnepo babies and censorship, so they did what any overstimulated, terminally online generation would do: theyoverthrew the government. Turns out, when your leaders act like TikTok influencers, the comments section eventually comes for them IRL.Meanwhile,nepo babiesare breeding faster than AI influencers — Hollywood, politics and definitely old school broadcasting!We also revisit the timelessBoris Johnson “dead cat” trick— the ancient political art of dropping

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38:43

Charlie Kirk: When the culture war becomes real

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2025/09/17

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.OnSocial 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 bypushing anti-LGBTQ talking points, anti women's rights, spreading election lies, and culture-war outrage—and now his killing risks turning him

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57:06

⚠️ How was your UK Alert system test? , China’s Nuke...

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2025/09/09

🔥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 onSocial 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

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55:50

Pot Noodles and Flag sh*gging. The collapse of...

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2025/08/31

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

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1:06:07

Any Before Poppers Before My Probing Please, ET?

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2025/08/14

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 horrorlater. 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 theCollapse Community inbox, where one listener shares how the fascist takeover of the USA is

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1:25:28

Ebola, Porn Laws &... your last meal before the...

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2025/07/31

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

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1:00:40

You've been on. So things got weird ...fast.

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2025/07/26

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

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1:10:44

20 years left if we're lucky...Your two favourite...

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2025/07/13

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

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00:10:40

EPISODE ZERO: grow your baby in a bag because...

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2025/07/04

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

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00:00:31

THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN TRAILER

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2025/07/04

Leading UK TikTok creator Dylan Evans and award-winning LGBTQ+ podcaster 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.From AI coming to eat us all, to Trump’s latest meltdown, to the slow death of humanity via social media bed-rotting – it’s all fair game. Sometimes it's dark. Sometimes it's wholesome. Sometimes it's just two men having a minor breakdown over pop culture and the absurdity of modern

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00:46:42

NTR THROWBACK EPISODE

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2022/01/31

THROWBACK TO A CLASSIC NTR !! xx--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-social-meltdown/message

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00:00:29

THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN : TRAILER

THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN ·

2021/05/15

Leading 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

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00:07:31

SHORTS: FORCED TO EAT MASH WITH THEIR HANDS

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2021/03/02

IS 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-social-meltdown/message

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00:09:49

EVEN WORSE BITS with DYLAN EVANS

THE SOCIAL MELTDOWN ·

2020/08/25

Remember 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... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-social-meltdown/message

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00:10:57

THE WORST BITS with GRAEME SMITH

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2020/08/19

This is a selection of our most harrowing and funny moments.Remember the Uberhole and the Baby in a bag?HERE IS A REMINDER.... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-social-meltdown/message

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