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.

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Broadcast on WBCQ 7490 kHz (Sept 15, 2025), Todd Thompson examines a week where storylines outran facts. He opens on the media spin around the UK’s Unite the Kingdom marche and the online chaos after Charlie Kirk’s killing, noting how even basic details now diverge along partisan lines.

The episode then tackles the “words are violence” mantra and why it normalizes physical confrontation. Todd looks at reports about Armed Queers of Salt Lake City—a self-described socialist, anti-capitalist group that promotes “queer resistance.” He outlines what’s public (posters with rifles, militant rhetoric, and campus events) and what’s not (no confirmed official ties to the Utah shooter as of broadcast), and makes the larger point: once identity politics moves from slogans to weapons, taboos fall and copycats follow.

Closer to home, he covers a ridiculous Kalamazoo incident where an Office Depot "manager" refused to print a Charlie Kirk vigil poster and was promptly fired; an emblem of cancel culture’s boomerang now striking the other direction. The thread through all of it is trust: collapsing institutions, incompatible “truths,” and a society that can’t even agree on what happened five minutes ago.

Blunt and unfiltered, Todd argues that dialogue only works if both sides still want a country to share. When that breaks, and when institutions reward moral certitude over inquiry, tribes do what tribes have always done.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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*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

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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:

• 📍 The “Trans Butcher of Minneapolis”: A manifesto of nihilism, vengeance, anti-Christian hate, and brainwashed delusion

• 🧠 Gender Dysphoria vs. Gender Identity Disorder: Euphemism as propaganda and the normalization of delusional mental illness

• 🏴‍☠️ The Zizian Cult: A real, ideologically militant trans cult linked to multiple killings, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont

• 🔁 The Boomerang Effect: How integration propaganda triggers backlash, and why mainstream deflection fuels insurgency

• 🪦 When Progressive Ideology Meets Suicide-by-Cult: The common thread from Nashville to Minneapolis to trans militants training with firearms and calling it “justice”

In the second act, Todd shifts to Cracker Barrel’s failed rebrand and the cultural significance of its rapid public retreat.

• 🎯 Why a logo redesign was perceived as cultural desecration

• 🛐 Cultural institutions as ideological temples — and what happens when they're scraped clean

• 📉 The ideological priests vs. rocking chairs and biscuits

• 🧭 Patriotism as resistance: Why Orwell was right—international socialism collapses when confronted with sincere love of country

Plus:

• A preview of next week’s segment on the UK’s “Raise the Colours” movement and the exploding backlash to migrant hotel policies

• Why Cracker Barrel, Bud Light, and even Major League Baseball all became battlegrounds in a war for national memory

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