The Toddzilla X-Pod

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. Drawing from firsthand experience inside the Occupy movement, Todd lays bare how identity has replaced class in the new dialectic, and how victimhood has become the currency of power in a society addicted to narrative performance.

Topics include:

The DSA as the “Red Tea Party”

An introduction the the Red-Green Alliance

Ideological religion and the rise of digital priesthoods

Weaponized empathy, speechcrime, and the new moral caste system

Why corporate America bows to DEI cultism

The soft revolution: psychological warfare disguised as virtue

And why the path to reclaiming reality begins with ideological disobedience

Broadcast from Southwest Michigan and blasted worldwide via shortwave, this is not just a show.

It’s the opening shot in an information war.

This is The Counter-Insurgency.

No soft landings. No apologies. Just fire.

Broadcast Monday night 10-11pm (2-3am Tuesday UTC) on 7.490mHz

Streaming: WBCQ The Planet

Episodes uploaded immediately after.

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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 Lippmann, this episode connects propaganda history to today’s dopamine-driven mobthink and the collapse of objective truth. Todd explores how media isn’t simply broken—it’s perfectly optimized to feed a tribal, narrative-addicted public. And if you're still blaming "the media" without examining your own complicity? You're part of the problem.

Also discussed: sociological propaganda, algorithmic conformity, the myth of ideological autonomy, integration vs. agitation propaganda, the digital crowd, and the psychological toll of drowning in data without the tools to convert it into wisdom.

Recorded in Southwest Michigan. Blasting worldwide beginning Monday! 

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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 outrage.

Todd weaves in cognitive science (via Nicholas Carr and neuroplasticity), propaganda theory (via Jacques Ellul and Edward Bernays), and personal experience to reveal how the digital age has eroded attention spans, critical thought, and individual conscience. Social media becomes the new pulpit. Echo chambers replace dialogue. Heresy now means thinking for yourself.

At the core is a warning: intellectual autonomy now requires personal and moral courage. The courage to be disliked. To reject tribalism. To say, “That’s bullshit”—especially when it comes from your own side. From Mencken's skewering of revivalist mobs to the modern cancellation of NPR apostate Uli Berliner, Todd paints a bleak but brutally honest picture of conformity culture, urging listeners to reclaim their minds—even if it means exile.

This is not a feel-good sermon. It's a call to arms for the heretical unicorn.

*Recorded in Southwest Michigan and blasting worldwide on WBCQ 7490 starting next week! Details inside.

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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, heresies, rituals, and catechisms. Using Hulk Hogan's post-mortem cancellation as a case study, he exposes how one taboo word now carries more social weight than actual violence, rape, or corruption. The result? A society where redemption is off the table, and performance is king.

From Ozzy’s “The Ultimate Sin” to McLuhan’s media warnings, this episode drips with unfiltered cynicism and cultural excommunication. If you’ve ever wondered how virtue-signaling replaced virtue—or why dissent now threatens belonging more than reason—don’t miss this blistering analysis.

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Starting August 4, I'll have a weekly show on 7.490 WBCQ The Planet. It will air from 10-11pm ET (2-3am Tues, UTC).

No receiver? No problem. You can listen online at www.wbcq.com or do nothing and wait until I upload the episodes right here. Who loves you like I do? 

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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 possibly futile search for solutions in a hyper-connected world.

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- 00:00:00] Introduction and podcast rebrand announcement

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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 the agitprop agents with global reach?

Why moderates don't matter.

Will MAGA and the Marxists ever hug it out and go bowling? Show me your work! 

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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 fanaticism. 

Congrats Broncos!

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Some believe AI levels the playing field. Will these tools castrate human creativity and imagination instead? Making everyone seem superficially clever but without an ounce of depth?  

New surveys indicates the left is increasingly embracing assassination and political violence as a whole. Duh. We needed a poll to tell us that? The media is asking why. The answer is surprisingly simple and resides in my archives: propaganda's goal is to create proselytes and militants; fanatics who are primed to take political action at a moment's notice. Bernie blew that oligarch whistle last month while Black Barry (bam ba lam) upped the agitation ante last week. Will run-of-the-mill conservative ever bother to respond or are they content posting memes?  

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