Escaping The Cave: The Toddzilla X-pod

Todd grudgingly returns to life after shortwave with a sore jaw, a jacked neck medicated with Leinenkugel's, and a prostate full of unimpaired sarcasm. Fresh from oral surgery and his final WWCR broadcast, he jumps straight back into New York’s new Marxist soap opera: Zorak's rise, the DSA’s full-blown takeover of the Democrats, and the party’s desperate rebrand from identity equity to affordability. It’s a kind of hangover episode with bite: part recovery diary, part political exorcism. Between complaints about aging, painkillers, and Marxist cosplay, Todd wonders out loud. again, whether the “Red-Green Alliance” is just Jonestown with Wi-Fi. It’s cranky, funny, and 100% X-Pod; the start of a new chapter, minus the religious radio filter!

The Thompson Show – October 24, 2025 (WWCR 4840 kHz) Todd closes the curtain on The Thompson Show’s shortwave era with a defiant, reflective, and emotionally charged finale. After months on WWCR’s legendary 4840 kHz frequency, he signs off with a sweeping critique of modern politics, a warning about human nature, and a reminder of what made the show—and shortwave itself—worth keeping alive.

The Thompson Show – October 17, 2025 (WWCR 4840 kHz) Back home in southwest Michigan after a week on the road, Todd returns to the airwaves sounding a little under the weather but fully in fighting form for a wide-ranging episode that blends nostalgia, tribute, and a passionate defense of exploration, courage, and country.  

The Thompson Show – October 10, 2025 (WWCR 4840 kHz) Broadcasting from a cabin in the Smoky Mountains, Todd takes The Thompson Show on the road for a fiery, wide-ranging episode that ties world events to the tightening noose of digital control.

The Thompson Show – October 3, 2025 (WWCR 4840 kHz) Todd’s back at the mic for the October 3rd edition of The Thompson Show, broadcasting across America and Europe on WWCR 4840 kHz. This week’s episode mixes satire, political commentary, and a few sharp cultural dissections, all delivered in Todd’s trademark counter-revolutionary style. • Government Shutdown Theater Washington’s annual act returns, with both parties playing their roles in the same tired production. Todd explains why the latest standoff is less about governing than survival theater, and why the Democrats’ “resistance strategy” has become a desperate act of self-preservation. • The Mormon Shooting and Real Compassion After a gunman attacks a Mormon church in Michigan, Todd recounts the astonishing response: Mormons raising $250,000 not for victims, but for the shooter’s family. A meditation on grace, empathy, and walking the walk in an era obsessed with moral posturing. • Greta Thunberg: Celebrity Messiah Complex Greta’s second “aid flotilla” t

Can a democracy defend itself without destroying the freedoms that define it? Todd explores the collapse of free speech into spectacle, the lure of censorship and strongmen, and what happens when citizens start begging for order over liberty. - This week on The Thompson Show (WWCR), Todd rips into the hypocrisy of cancel culture, collapsing media institutions, and the dangerous slide from free speech to approved (licensed) speech. From Kimmel’s suspension to the killings of Charlie Kirk and the Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, this episode asks whether free speech has now become the insurgent-weapon-of-choice aimed at liberal democracy itself? If so, can a free society defend itself without dismantling the freedoms that define it? Drawing on Walter Lippmann’s century-old warning about propaganda, "special pleading" and the “hullabaloo of sophistry,” Todd dissects how algorithmic media, tribal militias, and weaponized outrage are pushing citizens to beg for censors or Caesars. At stake is more than free speech. C

Toddzilla X-Pod #171 Recorded Sept 17, 2025 In this spontaneous and gloriously unmapped episode, Todd takes stock of a country whose fabric is visibly fraying and reaction has become the story. He opens with the online ghoulishness around Charlie Kirk’s killing and the equal-and-opposite counter-reaction: firings and public consequences for people who cheered it on. The line he draws is clear: speech is free; consequences aren’t, but the state must stay out of it. (He calls out attempts to criminalize awful speech, noting the backlash from the right against that idea.) From there he unpacks why debate keeps collapsing. Using campus showdowns as examples and borrowing from Jonathan Haidt’s “elephant and rider” model, Todd argues that many disputes start with a snap emotive conclusion and then invent reasons to justify it. When the rationalizations run out, the insults start. That feeds a broader doctrine, “words are violence”, which quietly normalizes physical confrontation by redefining speech as a violent

Narratives > facts. Todd Thompson dissects the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s killing, the UK's massive Unite the Kingdom march, and a new frontier: identity-based “self-defense” militia groups moving from slogans to weapons. When speech is spun as violence, dialogue, then people, die. -- Broadcast on WBCQ 7490 kHz (Sept 15, 2025, 10 p.m. ET), Todd Thompson takes on a week where storylines outran facts. He starts with the media spin surrounding the UK’s Unite the Kingdom marches and the online chaos after Charlie Kirk’s killing—noting how even basic details now fracture along partisan lines. From there, the episode tackles the asinine “words are violence” doctrine and why it normalizes deadly confrontation. Todd examines public materials and reporting around Armed Queers of Salt Lake City—a self-described socialist, anti-capitalist collective that promotes “queer resistance.” Posters featuring rifles, militant rhetoric, and campus events have circulated widely; as of broadcast, there was no confirmed official

On Charlie Kirk’s assassination, media bias, and the unraveling of American unity. Candid, challenging, and unfiltered.. Broadcast September 12, 2025, on WWCR 4840 kHz, this episode confronts one of the most volatile weeks in recent memory. Thompson examines the murder of Charlie Kirk, the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, and the selective coverage (and outrage) that followed. Together, these stories reveal how far the boundaries of political discourse have collapsed and how normalized violence has become in a fractured culture. Todd explores the deeper pattern: how identity politics has replaced shared citizenship, how media narratives are weaponized to excuse or inflame, and how the political class falls back on stale platitudes about “lowering the rhetoric” while the fire continues to spread. The episode also briefly connects to foreign influence strategies, where outside actors and digital platforms amplify division rather than heal it. Todd closes with reflections on the anniversary of Septe

Broadcast September 8, 2025, on WBCQ shortwave (7490 kHz), this episode challenges the idea that human beings are “blank slates.” Todd Thompson argues that much of what is labeled racism is better understood as cultural and tribal reflex — instincts wired by evolution, not just products of environment. Drawing on research by primatologist Frans de Waal, Todd shows how empathy, loyalty, and group boundaries appear in chimpanzees and humans alike. These instincts shape culture and survival, and when they’re ignored or denied, societies fracture. From Rwanda and Yugoslavia to American Indians to today’s unrest in Europe and the United States, history demonstrates the cost of refusing to acknowledge human nature. The broadcast also explores Cold War lessons. Former KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov described a four-stage strategy of subversion: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. While he was speaking in the 1980s, the pattern is recognizable today. Modern influence campaigns no longer need spies

When consensus collapses, the gatekeepers reach for new tools of influence. This week’s broadcast takes on the breakdown of consensus and the rise of what’s being called the “censorship industrial complex.” From Europe’s expanding speech laws to the collapse of trust in legacy media, Todd explores how official narratives are manufactured, how they collapse, and what fills the vacuum when conventional wisdom dies. Europe’s new model of speech control and why it matters. How trust in journalism collapsed from NPR to the Washington Post. Informational anarchy and the death of consensus. Why shortwave increasingly matters in a pre-curated digital world.

Shortwave signals cut past the feed, but belief still carries a price. In ETC 170, we look at the reach of unfiltered broadcasts — and the unintended consequences of conviction. This week I slip back into the podcast chair after a month of shortwave chaos. I dig into two fronts: Shortwave revival — why Cold War–era radio bands may outlast the algorithm, how signals from Nashville carry into Europe, Africa, and beyond, and why listeners sick of curated feeds may look back to unfiltered airwaves. Unintended consequences of belief — from grievance culture to irreversible choices, how ideology locks people in, why mistakes can’t be walked back, and what happens when social momentum collides with irreparable regret. Unfiltered signals, unavoidable consequences. Share, rate, review!  

*When memory collides with myth and borders refuse to disappear.* This week’s broadcast cuts through nostalgia, mythology, and manipulation — from the reality of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath to the performance art of political protest, and Europe’s current struggles with borders and "shifting populations." Todd weaves firsthand accounts with sharp cultural critique to show how old wounds and new delusions collide. Revisiting the legacy of Hurricane Katrina: lived experience vs. media spectacle. “Moonbeam” politics — when activism becomes performance instead of substance. Europe’s modern turmoil: "shifting populations", cultural assimilation, and "renewed identity politics." The dangers of ideological cosplay and self-mythologizing movements. Why remembering the past without illusions matters for navigating the present

  The Thompson Show on WWCR – August 29, 2025 | Episode 4 In this explosive installment, Todd Thompson confronts the cultural and ideological fault lines rupturing across America and beyond. The show opens with a searing breakdown of the Minneapolis school shooting, committed by a transgender mass killer. Todd dissects its manifesto, the media's cowardly deflections, and how radical identity politics and grievance culture directly feed into increasing violence. Key topics include:

In thie episode of The Thompson Show, Todd traces the Red–Green Alliance from London to Minneapolis — exposing how Marxists and Islamists fuse identity politics, anti-Western rhetoric, and insurgent tactics into a permanent political front. Broadcast August 25, 2025 (WBCQ 7490 kHz), this episode takes a deep dive into the Red–Green Alliance — the unofficial but very real cooperation between far-left revolutionaries and Islamist movements. Todd unpacks how this alliance has played out in Europe and America: In England: from Ken Livingstone welcoming Muslim Brotherhood clerics into City Hall, to the Respect Party’s fusion of Trotskyists and Islamist activists, to Jeremy Corbyn calling Hamas and Hezbollah his “friends.” These examples show how segments of the British Left traded legitimacy to Islamists in exchange for turnout and street power. On campuses and in media: post-colonial narratives reframed Islamist extremists as victims, while far-left academics embraced “decolonizing knowledge” and dismissed fa

Todd Thompson exposes today’s ideological Left as a new religion — with saints, martyrs, blasphemy laws, and holy wars. From DEI rituals to the Jonestown Warning, this broadcast shows how ideology has replaced faith and why the Red–Green Alliance threatens Western civilization. - Broadcast August 22, 2025 on WWCR 4840 kHz from Nashville, this week’s edition of The Thompson Show dives headfirst into the theme of ideological religion — the secular Left’s new faith, complete with saints, martyrs, blasphemy laws, and holy wars. Todd examines how today’s ideological zealots: Canonize their saints and martyrs — from Marx and Lenin to George Floyd and Greta Thunberg. Enforce blasphemy laws in the form of speechcrime and cancellation. Sacrifice truth, tradition, and common sense on the altars of DEI, climate zealotry, gender ideology, and ritualized propaganda. Wage holy wars through riots, uprisings, and cultural purges in the name of “justice.” From Joan Didion’s warning about “moral imperatives” to Jacqu

On this week's WBCQ Broadcast, Todd again took aim at the Red–Green Alliance—the tactical partnership between Marxist radicals and Islamist movements—showing how it's infested American politics via the Democratic Socialists of America. From Zohran Mamdani’s ideological engineering to AOC’s social-media storefront, from Bernie Sanders’ Trojan horse campaigns to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s Islamist grievance politics, Todd shows this is no conspiracy. It's a strategy playing out in real time. In the closing stretch, Thompson draws on Orwell to warn that the real target is America’s cohesive narrative: patriotism itself. National pride, he argues, is the last barrier against ideological colonization, and once it’s stripped away, nothing stops the replacement of the individualist American story with a hollow collectivist counterfeit.  

Broadcast: August 15, 2025 Todd Thompson kicks off his new weekly broadcast with a personal and philosophical deep-dive into the moral void left by a culture replacing "God" with ideological religion. What begins as a true story from 2008—being stranded in rural North Carolina and picked up by a Christian biker—becomes the anchor for a larger revelation: that modern “atheists” didn’t abandon religion. They just swapped it for something more dangerous—a punishing, re-branded Marxist orthodoxy obnoxiously masquerading as progress. Inside: A raw account of a chance meeting with “The Lord’s Bikers” and a sermon by Pastor Snake that shattered preconceptions. Reflections on Dennis, Andre, and other real travel encounters that shaped Todd’s rejection of utopianism and return to spiritual humility. A dismantling of Rousseau’s Noble Savage fantasy and the rise of moral performance on the virtual street corner over honest introspection ad accountability. A hard pivot in the final segment: the enemy isn’t relig

Episode 2 – August 11, 2025 On this week’s WBCQ broadcast, Todd dives deep into one of the most paradoxical coalitions — the Red-Green Alliance between far-left radicals and Islamist extremists. From its historical roots in the Soviet era to its modern presence in universities, activist networks, and even elected offices, Todd begins unpacking how two ideologies with irreconcilable differences unite against their shared enemy: Western civilization, particularly the United States. Along the way, he draws rhyming parallels to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, exposes the rhetorical and tactical playbook, and warns what history says will happen if either side wins. Hint: nothing good for Marxists. Who says Todd's always negative?  Find more on Substack at toddzillax.substack.com, and don’t miss the debut of Todd’s brand-new show on WWCR — premiering this Friday night at 11 PM Central / Midnight Eastern / 0400 UTC Saturday on 4840 kHz.

  The Sacred Lie: Enlightened Masses, Media Manipulation & Digital Pentecostalism In this sharp-edged, high-density solo episode of the Toddzilla X-Pod: Escaping the Cave, Todd Thompson takes a sledgehammer to the sacred myth of democratic wisdom. Are “the people” really wise and self-governing—or are they dopamine-driven echo chambers manipulated by narrative engineers? Using thinkers like Walter Lippmann, H.L. Mencken, Edward Bernays, Jacques Ellul, Jonathan Haidt, and Neil Postman, Todd dissects the machinery of consent and the myth of the Enlightened Voter. He explores how social media rewires brains, how propaganda evolves into an ecosystem, and why moral outrage trumps rational thought in the Age of the Algorithm. Highlights include: The myth of the rational electorate and the machinery that exploits it Bernays’ vision of democracy as a theater of persuasion Jonathan Haidt’s “elephant and rider” model as the operating system of tribal politics Tristan Harris, humane tech idealism, and why yo