The Toddzilla X-Pod
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.
Episodes
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...
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.
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Europe’s new...
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:
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Shortwave revival — why Cold War–era radio bands may outlast the algorithm, how signals from Nashville carry into Europe, Africa, and beyond, and why...
*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.
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Revisiting...
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 ...
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 mov...
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.
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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...
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 t...
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 som...
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: West...
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...
In his explosive WBCQ premiere, the freshly resurrected and notorious radio legend Todd Thompson launches a scorched-earth offensive against the ideological virus hollowing out the West from within.
This opening salvo dives straight into the heart of the modern insurgency—unmasking the Democratic Socialists of America as a parasitic force infecting the Democratic Party through euphemism, moral camouflage, and Marxist entryism. Draw...
Three days before the WBCQ shortwave debut, the freshly rebranded Toddzilla X-Pod returns to its roots with a brutal, updated dissection of media literacy, mass manipulation, and ideological self-delusion. In this special Escaping the Cave edition, Todd revisits his foundational 2018 thesis—"It’s the People"—with sharper insight and seven more years of watching the informational apocalypse unfold.
From Bernays to Ellul, Le Bon to L...
In this episode, Todd continues dismantling the transformation of modern political movements into ideological religions—complete with dogma, heresy, excommunication, and a mob-ready priesthood of online enforcers. Drawing on figures like H.L. Mencken, Joan Didion, Noam Chomsky, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, he explores how belief systems—left and right—have become substitute faiths, powered by dopamine, hashtags, and performative outrag...
In this scathing and soul-punching episode, Todd eulogizes more than just Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan—he autopsies America’s descent into ideological fundamentalism. What do woke mobs, medieval witch trials, and Facebook shares have in common? The answer: moral certitude without grace.
Todd dissects how modern ideological tribes—particularly on the Left—have replaced traditional religion with secular dogma, complete with martyrs, ...
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Weaving together current events, political polarization, and the power of storytelling over facts, this episode explores the fragility of democracy in the digital age. Todd examines insights from George Washington, Walter Lippmann, Jonathan Gottschall, and Nicholas Carr, questioning whether media literacy or ethical gatekeeping can overcome our tribal instincts. This episode offers a candid look at the roots of division and the pos...
As the weather heats up, so does the stream of "news!"
Bernie Sanders is back on the agitrail stoking civil unrest. "Are you ready for the revolution?"
From the riots to Iran, everyone's interpretation is determined by political affiliation. Shall we have another failed impeachment party?
After Wisconsin, we heard the same tired and temporary refrain: "no place for violence!" Since when?
What happens when the people themselves are ...
Largely inspired by a strange trip to the dentist and Nicholas Carr's new book, Superbloom, Todd returns from his latest covert CIA mission to delve into how we've all been lied to: it turns out "sharing" more actually doesn't make people like you! Also, the disillusioning effects of abandoning comforting stories for naked truth. And why most instinctively avoid it.
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The Blue Origin "crew" thinks they made history. Laika the Space Dog and Valentina Tereshkova would like a word.
Bernie and AOC's Revolutionary Agitation Tour continues. So do the arson attacks. Weird, huh?
Bill Maher's blasphemous dinner at Berchtesgaden.
Liberals are as responsible for Trump as MAGA.
Any open society is by nature defenseless against effective totalitarian movements. Centrism is the only bulwark against fanaticis...
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