The Toddzilla X-Pod

Todd Thompson

The Thompson Show looks at how language, culture, and media shape the way we see our country and ourselves. Each week Todd Thompson brings together shortwave broadcasts and podcasts to explore messaging, cultural shifts, and the pressures of modern worldviews on everyday life. From WWCR and WBCQ’s direct style to the podcast’s unapologetic, unfiltered edge, the mission is the same: cut through euphemisms, examine the narratives we live in, and preserve a sense of shared memory. Two formats, one arc: Escaping the Cave (ETC) — long-form analysis of narratives, identity, and self-delusion. Shortwave (“The Thompson Show” on WBCQ & WWCR) — direct broadcasts for a global audience beyond the algorithm.

  1. WWCR - Censors, Caesars, and the Facade of Reason

    SEP 20

    WWCR - Censors, Caesars, and the Facade of Reason

    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. Can open societies can survive the assault of illiberal forces without becoming illiberal themselves? (hint: it's still the people) Fight algorithmic totalitarianism! Rate, Review, and Share!  Broadcast Info: 📡 WWCR 4840 kHz, Fridays 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET 📡 WBCQ 7490 kHz, Mondays 10 p.m. ET Replays: Toddzilla X-Pod Perfect for listeners who want direct confrontation with the roots of our cultural crisis—delivered clear, sharp, and challenging.

    1 hr

  2. SEP 17

    #171 - Agitation, Retribution, and the Matrix Mind

    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 assault. Finally, Todd examines why the cancel-culture boomerang snapped back this week, warns against turning subjective “hate speech” into a government weapon that will eventually change hands, and returns to a recurring theme: social media as the staging ground of a civil war. Finally, a familiar concept gets a new name: The Matrix Mind. Bodies live in the real world; minds live in the feed. When we reduce people to avatars, it becomes easier to treat speech as violence — and to answer it with the real thing. Unfiltered, candid, and uncomfortable by design.   Subscribe, review, rate, SHARE!! Algorithms suck. 📡 WBCQ 7490 kHz, Mondays 10 p.m. ET 📡 WWCR 4840 kHz, Fridays 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET

    37 min
  3. WBCQ - Je Suis Charlie 2.0: The Deadly Cult of Rhetorical Violence, Marxism's Rainbow Militia, 2020's Boomerang Returns

    SEP 16

    WBCQ - Je Suis Charlie 2.0: The Deadly Cult of Rhetorical Violence, Marxism's Rainbow Militia, 2020's Boomerang Returns

    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 link to the Utah shooter, and Todd makes the larger point: once identity politics moves from slogans to weapons, taboos disintegrate and copycats follow. Closer to home, he touches on a ridiculous incident in Kalamazoo where an Office Depot "manager" refused to print a Charlie Kirk vigil poster and was promptly fired; an emblem of the cancel-culture boomerang finally, and predictably, striking in the opposite direction. The through-line is trust: collapsing institutions, informational anarchy with incompatible “truths,” and a culture that can't even agree on what happened five minutes ago. Blunt and unfiltered, the broadcast argues that dialogue only works if both sides still want a country to share. When moral certitude replaces inquiry, and institutions reward loyalty over facts, tribes do what tribes have always done. Subscribe, rate, review, and share!  📡 WBCQ 7490 kHz, Mondays 10 p.m. ET 📡 WWCR 4840 kHz, Fridays 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET

    1 hr
  4. WWCR - Je Suis Charlie: Political Violence in a Fractured America

    SEP 13

    WWCR - Je Suis Charlie: Political Violence in a Fractured America

    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 September 11th. He contrasts the fleeting unity of 2001, when flags flew in every neighborhood and the idea of America still bound people together, with the rabid tribalism of today. The question is no longer how to recover unity, but whether unity is even possible in a culture where grievance trumps allegiance. The conclusion is blunt and unsparing: America’s “Humpty Dumpty” has fallen, and no amount of political spin can put it back together again. What remains is the fight over how people will live inside the fracture and whether patriotism can still serve as a bond strong enough to resist collapse.   Not surprisingly, this podcast and The Holy Algorithm are bitter enemies! Rate, review, and share, please!   📡 The Thompson Show   WWCR 4840 kHz, Fridays at 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET / 4 a.m. UTC  WBCQ 7490 kHz, Mondays at 10 p.m. ET / 2 a.m. UTC   Missed it? Catch every episode on the Toddzilla X-Pod, available wherever you get podcasts

    1 hr
  5. WBCQ - It’s Not Racism. It’s Culturism.

    SEP 9

    WBCQ - It’s Not Racism. It’s Culturism.

    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 in every institution — social media amplifies divisions at the speed of light. Every divisive slogan, every cultural flashpoint becomes a lever. The final segment turns to today’s grassroots pushback. In Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden, and even Australia, ordinary citizens are reclaiming their flags and cultural identity. These aren’t marches for empire, but local communities refusing to surrender their way of life. Todd argues that what’s dismissed as extremism is more often people defending memory, tradition, and cohesion. The conclusion is clear: tribes that fail to rise above internal fracture are replaced by those that can. In practice, the broadest “tribe” available is the nation itself. Patriotism — allegiance to country above grievance — remains the only force strong enough to resist both ideological pressure and foreign manipulation. And as Todd reminds listeners, we are not heirs to apology but to resilience; descendants of people who endured unimaginable hardships fighting to build our nation out of nothing.   📡 WBCQ 7490 kHz, Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/ 2 a.m UTC 📡 WWCR 4840 kHz, Fridays at 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET/ 4 a.m.UTC

    1 hr
  6. WWCR - European Censorship, Conventional Wisdom, and the New Gatekeepers

    SEP 6

    WWCR - European Censorship, Conventional Wisdom, and the New Gatekeepers

    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. 📡 Broadcast: WWCR 4840 kHz — Fridays at 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET / 4 a.m. UTC 📡 Broadcast: WBCQ 7490 kHz — Mondays at 10 p.m. ET / 0200 UTC

    1 hr

  7. SEP 4

    #170 - Short Waves and Unintended Consequences

    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!   📡 Shortwave Times WWCR 4840 kHz — Friday 11 p.m. CT / Midnight ET / 4 a.m. UTC WBCQ 7490 kHz — Monday 10 p.m. ET / 2 a.m. UTC

    35 min
  8. WBCQ - Katrina Remembered, Europe Awakens

    SEP 2

    WBCQ - Katrina Remembered, Europe Awakens

    *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 📡 Broadcasts  Friday 11 p.m. CT / midnight ET on WWCR 4840 kHz  Monday 9 p.m. ET on WBCQ 7490 kHz

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The Thompson Show looks at how language, culture, and media shape the way we see our country and ourselves. Each week Todd Thompson brings together shortwave broadcasts and podcasts to explore messaging, cultural shifts, and the pressures of modern worldviews on everyday life. From WWCR and WBCQ’s direct style to the podcast’s unapologetic, unfiltered edge, the mission is the same: cut through euphemisms, examine the narratives we live in, and preserve a sense of shared memory. Two formats, one arc: Escaping the Cave (ETC) — long-form analysis of narratives, identity, and self-delusion. Shortwave (“The Thompson Show” on WBCQ & WWCR) — direct broadcasts for a global audience beyond the algorithm.

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  • Creator
    Todd Thompson
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    196
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright TZX 2025 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    The Toddzilla X-Pod