🔥 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 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 — so what does that say about the world we’re living in?

We also take on the Green Party’s new leader, Zack Polanski — an openly gay former actor and hypnotist who calls himself an “eco-populist.” Can he really take on Farage and make socialism and the environment interesting again? Did he really offer to hypnotise your boobs bigger during a stint as a psychotherapist? Does it matter given the situation we're in?

Meanwhile in the US, Trump is rebranding the Department of Defense into the Department of War — with talk of using it for immigration raids and using his military on "rebel" cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington DC.

Plus: we pull the best listener letters of the week — from awkward zap alert train rides to parents dealing with terrified kids, and whether the government should be allowed to mass-text us about food shortages and energy crises. And we close with the big one: if the real 3-minute warning ever came, what would you do?

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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 than we have been anticipating.

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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 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 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.

Episodes weekly,

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