The 2 Best Things Fell Apart Podcast Episodes
1) 1. 1000 Dolls
It's the early 1970s. Frank Schaeffer is an American kid living in the Swiss Alps – the son of an influential Christian art historian - who daydreams of one day making Hollywood films. But for that he...Show More
2) 5. A Scottish Jewish joke
This is the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed because of something they did online. It’s 1988, the internet exists only in its most nascent form, and a software designer, Brad Templ...Show More
3) S2. Bonus episode: An Audience with Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s second season of unexpected human stories from the culture wars focused on the divisions that erupted in the wake of the Covid lockdown. It was a number 1 hit podcast and received five st...Show More
4) S2. How Things Fell Apart, with Jon Ronson and Adam Buxton
In this bonus episode, Jon Ronson's friend and fellow podcaster Adam Buxton chat about the latest season of Things Fell Apart. They discuss their favourite moments from the show and how to best naviga...Show More
5) S2. Ep 8: Mikki’s Hero’s Journey
How a former actor and model, burned by Hollywood and devastated by the death of his brother, has become a leading culture warrior, fueling the flames of every story we tell this season.Written and pr...Show More
6) S2. Ep 7: You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy
How a young man with a novel idea for affordable accommodation, and an Oxford man with a plan for bus lanes, and a Danish woman writing a thought experiment about car rentals, unwittingly became hate ...Show More
7) S2. Ep 6: A Hierarchy of Trauma
How a bestselling book about trauma - lockdown’s number one bestseller - helped the culture war over free speech burst out of colleges and into the workplace. A shift some people pejoratively call the...Show More
8) S2. Ep 5: Things Weren’t Going Back To Normal
How an argument between a mother and her teenage daughter during lockdown led Governor Ron DeSantis to enact new and far-reaching laws in Florida.Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah ...Show More
9) S2. Ep 4: Spicy Brando
How a disenfranchised young man, maddened by the strict lockdown laws in Michigan, joined a club of like-minded men and suddenly found himself under arrest for the most unlikely and horrific crime.Wri...Show More
10) S2. Ep 3: Tonight’s the Night, Comrades
How an American media polarized over Antifa led to an innocent family on a Twilight-themed lockdown-escaping camping trip getting barricaded in the woods by armed, hostile townspeople.Written and pres...Show More