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Palm and Pine PodcastToddzilla Unleashed: Todd Hutchings on Arm Wrestling Glory and Defying Age at 58Get ready to grip the table for an explosive interview with Todd “Toddzilla” Hutchings, the 58-year-old world champion arm wrestler who’s still crushing the competition! In this high-energy episode, Todd reveals how a chance Google search in 2000 sparked his journey from Arizona bouncer to global arm wrestling legend. Discover his secrets to dominating the sport in his late 50s, blending brute strength, technical mastery, and relentless training. From beating icons like John Brzenk to thriving in the World Armwrestling League, Toddzilla’s story will pump you up! Perfect for fans of strength sports, fitness, and inspiring comebacks. Subscribe now and...2025-06-1719 min

Escaping The Cave#157 - Dead Eye Jake & the Dementia Coup, Historic Media Shift, When Paid Agitators Attack(2/27/25) Todd opens 157 reflecting on the habit of using cliches in radio broadcasting, the Detroit Pistons' surprising winning streak, and shares an anecdote about an image which was taken down by Facebook for supposedly violating their guidelines. He humorously recounts his appeal and the continued absurdity of Facebook's supposedly improved moderation system. After obnoxiously congratulating himself on reading Trump's Ukraine strategy, your humble host again focuses on the seismic media-consumer shift that's killing the legacy liberal media cartels. From Joy Reid's firing to Maddow's and Olbermann's response to MSNBC's replacement, Ginger Goebbles, to Jake Tapper hilariously writing a b...2025-02-2859 min

Escaping The Cave#150 - Calm the F**k Down, Lions FansIt happened again. Originally intended as the show opener, Toddzilla starts with discussing last Sunday's epic Lions game with the Bills, and the great Josh Allen, then ends wondering why a famished fanbase can't just be happy with precisely the prime rib buffet they've been hoping for. Michigan: Australian for toxic! Look for the rest of what was supposed to be this episode soon! Like it? Share it! More: https://substack.com/@toddzillax https://www.youtube.com/@ToddZillaX 2024-12-2018 min

Escaping The Cave#149B - Joe's Pardon Party, Patriotic Pesticide, A Penny Resurrects BLM, Luigi HoodPart 2 of 2. After another quick overdose of praise for the Detroit Lions(!), this begins by discussing Joe Biden's pardonfest. Focussing on the possible preemptive pass for Dr. Fauci regarding any lab leak coverup, Todd concludes that a pardon *could* be a good thing. Also, Daniel Penny's exoneration brought our disgraced BLM friends back out of their agitprop closet, just in time for Trump's inauguration. Coincidence? Or are we in for another Summer of Black Marxist Violence? Factor in Brian Thomson's public assassination, and how Little Luigi's being explained away and lionized, it's clear where we're he...2024-12-1342 min

Escaping The Cave#148 - Storytellers Not Truth Seekers: The Climate FolliesIn episode 148, Mr. Warmth begins by diving into the ominous developments with the Ukraine conflict, highlighting Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles and the potential repercussions with Russia. Amidst the backdrop of nuclear war threats, he briefly navigates through the political maneuvers involving Biden, Zelensky, and Trump, questioning the motives and possible outcomes. The episode also covers the controversy within the "scientific" community, spotlighting Neil DeGrasse Tyson's recent comments to Bill Maher and the ridiculousness of Scientific American. The discussion explores the ideological capture of science and how that influences public perception and obliterates...2024-11-241h 16

Escaping The Cave#145 - Kamala, Trump, and Democracy's Storytelling BloodsportAs Halloween approaches, Todd takes listeners through a whirlwind of topics, from the Lions to that horror we can't escape: politics. The episode kicks off with musings on Halloween and the host's own experience with the holiday in a small town setting. As the conversation shifts, Toddzilla dives into the world of sports, providing a passionate overview of the Detroit Lions' impressive season and the new controversies surrounding Jameson Williams. From his performance-enhancing substance suspension to possible new legal troubles, the episode dissects the team's direction with him as well as how fan reactions mirror those of...2024-10-301h 00

Escaping The Cave#144 - Informational Anarchy, Propaganda Osmosis, Manchurian MarxistsThe show returns to familiar form after a short baseball hiatus. Recorded on October 7th, 2024, this episode marks the anniversary by delving back into the thrilling and happy world of politics, disinformation, and the psychology of propaganda. In this episode, Todd reflects on his podcasting journey, revealing the challenges of balancing different content themes. He candidly discusses the internal conflict of addressing varied topics, from propaganda and anti-woke content to his passion for baseball, and the impact of audience expectations on content creation while examining the near-futility of attempting objectivity amidst the proliferation of propaganda and the...2024-10-0749 min

Escaping The Cave#138 - Ideological Religion, White Savior Racism, & The Self-Righteous Whine of HysteriaIn episode 138 of Toddzilla's podcast, recorded on June 27th, 2024, Todd muses on the rapid passage of time and the peculiar spring weather in Michigan. The episode takes a deeper dive into the possible impact of climate change, pondering whether the weather changes will be all "bad", and revisits the folly of choosing performative prevention programs instead of acceptance and adaptation. Transitioning from weather to ideology, Todd again takes on one of his favorite topics, the socialist facade, and critiques the fervor of activism in general, arguing that rabid self-righteous zealotry may boomerang into being counterproductive. He explores t...2024-06-2759 min

Escaping The Cave#137 - Rumination Nation: The Therapy TrapWelcome to episode 137 of "Escaping the Cave," hosted by the ever-lovable Toddzilla. In this episode, Todd delves into the impact of modern psychotherapy on today's youth, referencing Abigail Shrier's eye-opening book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up. Recorded on June 11th, 2024, Todd explores how therapeutic practices may inadvertently harm rather than heal, creating a generation unprepared for life's challenges. Todd also shares his admiration for Bill Maher's ability to call out his own political tribe, highlighting Maher's recent interview with John Fetterman. The discussion touches on Fetterman's moral clarity regarding Israel and Gaza and his...2024-06-111h 17

Escaping The Cave#115 - It’s Still The PeopleAs the podcast approaches the 5-years mark since its return, Todd revisits his Media 101 episode and further explores why the for-profit media sucks. (Hint: see the title!) Also, how personal attachments corrupt an already frail sense of basic reason, why emotionally compromised victims (and others) should never be consulted, and how a supposedly idealistic cultist "morality" eventually seeks out and crucifies its traitorous blasphemers & heretics, like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. Segment 2 starts (27:30) with an overdue return to Joan Didion's essay (and handy extremist test!) On Morality, transitions toward the Woke Book of Shouldism, Haidt's elephant, and s...2023-01-271h 23

Moon Hunters PodcastMoon Hunters Radio message from DJ Toddzilla (Guild Leader- Toddzilla75)A message from the guild leader on both servers for Moon HuntersMOON HUNTERS ESO # 1 WEREWOLF AND VAMPIRE GUILD [NON MEMBER WEBSITE] - Home (weebly.com)2021-09-1902 min

Moon Hunters PodcastMoon Hunters Radio Drop In- Moon Hunters Radio # 1 ESO guild -Boston Higher Power PromoMOON HUNTERS ESO # 1 WEREWOLF AND VAMPIRE GUILD [NON MEMBER WEBSITE] - Home (weebly.com)Station plays Guilds Theme song from legendary band Boston! Higher Power & more great tracks Hosted by DJ Toddzilla 2021-09-1700 min

Escaping The Cave#106 - Political Cults & Mobs 101After a 2021 open, your friendly virtual Toddzilla mines early episodes, from 2014 & 2018, as a foreshadowing refresher on ideological religions and the Holy War being fueled by their proselytizing zombie hordes. Remember kids, mobs: they're f***ing stupid! Ask your doctor if intellectual autonomy is right for you! (RE27) More: https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.escapingthecave.com 2021-02-2256 min

Escaping The Cave#100 - American Zapatistas, Saboteur in Chief, The Lone BoogalooWith troops flooding DC, Trump's term ends in two days time. Why doesn't it feel certain that it will? Was a nation of "patriots" suddenly afflicted with insurrectile dysfunction on Sunday? Is Donald Trump a foreign agent? Who cares? He performed like one. What lies at the confluence of technology & idiocracy? Also, letting escaped cultists find their way home, When Stories Attack: factional storytelling is propaganda, and Toddzilla stalks Telegram! How did this thing make it to 100? (SM7B) More: https://www.escapingthecave.com https://toddzillax.substack.com 2021-01-1854 min

Escaping The Cave#95 - Demagogues & Prairie DogsThe afterglow is now the aftermath. Essentially two episodes in one, Brian and Todd begin by reflecting on how the vibe has changed since Biden's victory speech then touch on fundamental social psychology. What happens when cognitive cliches begin breaking down and we're forced to explore unfamiliar ground? Is too many choices as bad in the political and informational marketplaces as it is on Netflix? What's the relationship between age and wisdom? Around 53:00, the conversation pivots. Why do Democrats seem to always lose even when they win? Bill Maher offered a very familiar answer! Is the Moderate Majority in...2020-11-161h 39

Escaping The Cave#90 -The Trumptober Surprise; Leo Ryan & The Dennis DoctrineTodd's a bit cranky this weekend,Trump has the virus, and we all "wish him well." Do we? Do we really? The trustpocalypse: it's telling how many suspect the dramatic diagnosis may be part of his reality show's season finale. Todd also discusses our unprecedented institutional meltdown, his chronically "angry" tone and the distinction between honesty and truth. He also pays a personal tribute to a childhood idol, Bob Gibson, and shows how Leo Ryan's Jonestown example adds texture to the Dennis Doctrine and the firm belief that fanatical sectarians should be exiled not engaged: "the switch is internal." 2020-10-051h 02

Escaping The Cave#87 - The Social Dilemma: War of the Virtual WorldsTodd and Brian discuss The Social Dilemma, the new Netflix documentary probing the exploitative, corrosive, and polarizing effects of social media, both psychologically and socially. Also, the addictive nature of the medium, how it manipulates evolutionary psychology, the potentially dangerous side effects of performance withdrawal and how, once you escape, you become an organic organism in a digital ecosystem. We also tinker with solutions and discuss the horrific dystopia awaiting us if we fail to find them. Hint 1: It's the people. Hint 2: The tube: it's social media and Google! Like it? Tell a friend! Even o...2020-09-141h 22

Escaping The Cave#85 - Cyberspace Monkeys & The Boiling CalderaFormer radio personality, psychologist, and current PR guy, The Professor joins the show as perhaps the perfect co-host discussing propaganda and hyper-connective technology's unknown effect on an oblivious public. Todd then chats about mail-in voting and the looming post-election storm, a minor kancel kultur attack and the ensuing process of deciding whether to continue a "Singing For Helen Keller" podcast, and what it's like being ahead of the curve then watching people slowly catch on. Thanks for your patience, subscribers and new listeners. Like it? Share it! Then prepare yourselves. ;) More: www.escapingthecave.com 2020-09-1058 min

Escaping The Cave#84 - Intellectual Populism, Enemy of the People, The Humanovirus S**tshowDetailing the gloriously organic results coming from a month of social media, news, and podcasting detox. Also, boutique "news" & democratized opinion's relationship to mob rule: Ibsen's Enemy of the People, the humanovirus and its ubiquitous invasive species traits, the Dennis Doctrine, and podcasting without Sausage Party Hope and with a severed validation stream leaves one pesky unanswered question: "why the f**ck am I doing this?" More Drew Michael: https://www.youtube.com/user/drewmichaelcomedy/videos More Me: www.escapingthecave.com 2020-08-191h 17

Escaping The Cave#83 - Discourse? Or Just Waiting To Talk?On the Social Media Disease: how exhibitionist combat and agitprop disguised as "debate" is having an effect on verbal comprehension and the ability to engage in meaningful organic conversations. Also, demagogues exploit and thrive on chaos, boycotting the for-profit Media Division Complex in favor of each other, and the switch: it's internal. It's still the people. Like it? Share it! More: www.escapingthecave.com and www.facebook.com/escapingthecave 2020-06-2053 min

Escaping The Cave#82 - A "Real Conversation"? Allow Me to Retort...You say you want a real Great Racial Awakening™ dialogue? Great! Quit proselytizing long enough to take a stiff drink and have a listen. Remember: when you clicked you asked. Also: supporting lockdown protests and the 2A while mocking militia stalkers at the capitol, burning heretics and blasphemers at the free speech stake, influencers exploiting and monetizing catastrophe and chaos, electoral Ground Hog Day, and why Biden's VP choice is maybe more important than anything. Like it? Share it! More: www.escapingthecave.com and www.facebook.com/escapingthecave.com 2020-06-191h 00

Escaping The Cave#81 - Activist Media, Dogma as God, Marrow of HumanityWhen the entire media's just abandoned their "objective" pretenses, where do you go? Also, digital detox and cutting the incoming noise, homogenous consistency of thought throughout a congregation qualifies as "religion", retained ideological attorneys, the difference between organic human beings and their virtual online projections, and the Marrow of Humanity: who we are when no one's looking. Don't worry. I'll get to the protests, riots, and thought-purges soon enough. Prepare yourselves accordingly! Like it? Share it. More: www.escapingthecave.com and www.facebook.com/EscapingTheCave 2020-06-1631 min

Moon Hunters PodcastMoon Hunters DJ Drop in for Radio station SET CThis is for the Moon Hunters North American Server Xbox Guild for Elder Scrolls Online. https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/ (please support, the background music was used for this podcast) also please support Anchor and Spotify.2020-05-2800 min

Moon Hunters PodcastMoon Hunters Radio Drop in SET B with MusicFor the ESO Moon Hunters guild North American Server for Xbox Drop in Please support: https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/ which I used for the background music and please support Anchor and Spotify. I mixed and created this myself (being a DJ)2020-05-2801 min

Moon Hunters PodcastMoon Hunters Radio Drop in with Music AThis is created for the ESO Moon Hunters guild on the North American Server. https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music ( Music was used from this) Please support them and Anchor & Spotify I mixed the track together. Drop in date 5/27/2020 2020-05-2700 min

Moon Hunters PodcastMoon Hunters Podcast - Drop in Set 1This is for the ESO guild I run, Moon Hunters for XBOX on the North American server. Using this for the radio station. 2020-05-2500 min

Escaping The Cave#80 - The Stalker Militia, A Hydroxy Hardon, Woke YouthSo, about that silly "in this together" thing... Topics include Trump's bizarre and supernatural hydroxychloroquine erection, quarantine and consumerist withdrawal, free-rage extremism and Michigan's armed stalkers closing the capitol, ideological bleed-over, identity politics infecting the virus, humble ignorance, a COVID-exploiting Woke Youth Recruitment video seizing the national airwaves, and what happens when I go off my gated social media reservation and why it's becoming nearly essential to completely disconnect. More: www.escapingthecave.com 2020-05-201h 15

Escaping The Cave#79 - Stories, Hope, and The Propaganda ParadoxAdventures in leaving the house after 5-weeks, a quick review of the crappy Vaporesso Target PM-80, populism and the supposed "wisdom" of the bewildered herd, belief and truth are mutually exclusive, atheists: leave the non-phallus swinging faithful alone, the crucial crusading distinction between religious & ideological zealots, and why the simple human need for hope probably makes us powerless against tasty propaganda. --More: www.escapingthecave.com and www.toddzillax.com --Be sure you're subscribed to an genuine and authentic Escaping The Cave feed! 2020-05-091h 15

Escaping The Cave#78 - Social Media Disease: A Cacophony of NothingTodd's merciful Bat Plague boycott continues with more spiritually uplifting content like: "F**k Subaru. I hate them and you should, too." Also, 2020's Jill Stein; Steinbeck, Salinas, and digital detox; social media "should" be regulated like radio; data overload is killing democracy; the Wisdom of the People™ doesn't exist therefore populism is pandering to a screeching herd; and rejoice! The Devil's all up in ya! Can you feel him? --More: www.escapingthecave.com and www.toddzillax.com --Be sure you're subscribed to an genuine and authentic Escaping The Cave feed! 2020-04-291h 01

Escaping The Cave#77 - The Blacklands AbyssTaking an improvised break from Bat Plague punditry by focusing on more "uplifting" material like cancerous cynicism! Also, a few old hitchhiking yarns and the metaphysical notion of trail magic, losing your religion, the God/Devil parable, and ignoring the positive side of universal human duality. Just for optimistic kicks, I also muse about my podcast's course and its ultimate futility. A warm and fuzzy episode? Believe it or not, kinda. And, no Covid! You're welcome. --Be sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --More: www.escapingthecave.com and www.tod...2020-04-2845 min

Escaping The Cave#76 - Hot Pockets & Lysol"Idiocracy 2: The Pandemic" continues. Todd discusses how the coronavirus hype has matched the reality, his digital detox, covid's ominous sign for star spangled socialist "revolutionaries", hot pockets, and how one quarantine doesn't fit all. He also asks where the Lansing protest's ideological diversity was (not what you think) and rages against Trump supporters and the intellectual treason of joining his limp and lame post hoc orgy. Children's parties: booked thru May! Book June's bat mitzvah or graduation party now! Promo code: "Brawndo" gets you 50% off! Clip: Jim Gaffigan. --Be sure you're subscribed to an authentic E...2020-04-2737 min

Escaping The Cave#75 - Seekers, Preachers, The Covid Reality WarsToddzilla delivers his overdue Message of Hope™ featuring topics like strutting stupidity, social media's performance addiction, Hobbes' inevitable civil war, the need for propaganda, and releasing our infected cattle back into the bewildered herd. Book your children's party now! Use promo code "Leviathan Rising" to get 50% off! --Make sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --More: www.escapingthecave.com 2020-04-2436 min

Escaping The Cave#74 - Detroit, Intellectual Distancing, The Glowing AntichristCan Detroit and rural Michigan bear what they say is coming? Social distancing as an apt metaphor and how it can be useful. A crisis instinctively prods a frightened herd into a closed-tribe psychology, which is nationalism. How data overload contributes to it and helps obliterate the utopian Brotherhood of Man mythology. Why many quietly want Trump to fail, whether they admit it or not. --Make sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --More: www.escapingtheccave.com 2020-03-2841 min

Escaping The Cave#73 - Incompetent Negligence and Economic EugenicsSacrifice yourselves at Mammon's Altar, proles! As coronavirus cases spike, your president holds a FOX News rally, decides the public health experts are wrong, and that the social distancing guidelines are "too extreme." Re-election trumps public health. Criminal negligence, the Dennis Doctrine, and our vulnerable healthcare workers. Where's Fauci? We're history's lab rats. --Be sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --More: www.escapingthecave.com 2020-03-241h 08

Escaping The Cave#72 - Informational Anarchy In A PandemicA potentially catastrophic stress test as the healthcare system drowns inside a divided country who chose informational tribalism over preparation. Detachment is essential. ALSO: - Media exhaustion & anxiety - Governmental malpractice - Trillions in revenues sacrificed to a "hoax?" Really? - Coronavirus & 9/11 - You can't be in a play and watch it at the same time "ToddzillaX" on most social media. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com 2020-03-2050 min

Escaping The Cave#71- The Primaries: Noise Makers vs. The MajorityThe Sober Majority and why Biden's resurrection and surge should surprise no one. Bernie's "revolution" was always fueled by Clinton disgust and a foolish dependency on a Youthquake fantasy. Mike Pence is a Biden asset, Jill the Vulture is back, and embrace Biden: he's far from certain but all you've got; the only thing that "can" work. Also, a 2024 wokeflake warning. --Don't settle for imitations! Be sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --More: www.escapingthecave.com 2020-03-1132 min

Escaping The Cave#70 - COVID Media: Crying Blitzer, Aftertruth & The Religious MindCOVID-19: the media sounds like the Weather Channel sensationalizing a hurricane. They'd better get it right or the Aftertruth Age fully arrives. "There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies." Why doesn't matter. Also: -Competing incompatible "realities" -Personalized Informational Warfare -Informational becoming literal anarchy. "ToddzillaX" on most social media. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com 2020-03-1124 min

Escaping The Cave#69 - "Insurgent Drag Queen" Or "Go Be a Snake"The Michigan primary is here. Which will it be? The invasive ideology or the country? An extremist biopsy and how they're using our own poorly guarded institutions and exploiting hatred to hijack the political parties. "The fascists seize power to forestall the communists; the communists seize power to forestall the fascists": choosing between authoritarians and totalitarians means we all lose. Also, "Lizzie was sunk by sexism!" Was she? Was she really? --Don't settle for imitations! Be sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --More at www.escapingthecave.com 2020-03-0640 min

Escaping The Cave#68 - Insurrection, Resurrection, and The RubiconSuper Tuesday Politics Dump. How did Biden revive himself? It's simple, really. Fighting extremism with extremism is suicide. Also, fanatical ideological religions, the UK canary in the colony's coal mine, our own wokeflake tumor, the Youthquake fantasy, and your righteous revolution: who's actually buying? --Don't settle for imitations! Be sure you're subscribed to an authentic Escaping The Cave feed! --Also check out www.escapingthecave.com --F*ck Twitter! 2020-03-0551 min

Escaping The Cave#67 - Propaganda, Trust, Coronavirus, and YouHow will the for-profit boutique/reality show/agitation news media model affect how we respond to the virus? Have a drink. Make sure it's not bleach. Includes a quick introduction to Matt Taibbi's book Hate Inc. and material from Your Undivided Attention on the reality apathy and the abandonment of trust in public institutions and each other. "ToddzillaX" on most social media. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A Rachel Botsman's Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541762703/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie...2020-03-0200 min

Escaping The Cave#66 - Authentic Courage vs. Crying With The Pack"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." Genuine courage is required to stand apart against the deafening conformity of the cowardly mob. Ask Andrew Sullivan! People are inherently tyrannical. Shared secular delusions: our 21st century religions. God needs the devil; Sapiens need an enemy. Lippmann, the fragility of free speech, and democracy's Achilles Heel: an ignorant "public." https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.twitch.tv/toddzillax https://www.escapingthecave.com/ Music by Yellow Pills! http...2020-02-2954 min

Escaping The Cave#65 - Conform Or Be Cast OutSocial validation & conformity: the evolutionary default setting. Why choosing intellectual autonomy over the herd is nearly impossible. Also, standing apart in self-reliance, the drifter, and mending holes in the firewall. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.twitch.tv/toddzillax https://www.escapingthecave.com/ Music by Yellow Pills! https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rDvBzvGcNPV3BYZ1n5VdZ 2020-02-2733 min

Escaping The Cave#64 - Social Media Disease: The Dopamine Drip"Whoever owns social validation..." Performance addiction and how the masses have become junkies gorging on validation's dopamine stream. How various influencers, including podcasters, have monetized validation in the name of "brand building". Propaganda, validation, dopamine, and Ellul's "conditioned response." How social momentum works: Tony McAleer on Your Undivided Attention. Also, how ideological boldness is a surefire sign of a propagandee. Listen to "Your Undivided Attention" here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.twitch.tv/toddzillax htt...2020-02-2633 min

Escaping The Cave#63- "Vladdy Loves Bernie?" Or "It's The Destabilization, Dummy!"Of course Putin's playing both sides and assisting Bernie in the Democratic primary. It's about agitation, discord, and eroding the public's already fractured belief it itself, not ideology. This is the perfect insurgent agitation storm: who in this country are more divisive than Bernie, AOC, and Trump? The Russians aren't to blame. We are. Also, why Informational Education programs aren't coming, the simple and cynical reason our for-profit media outlets and political "leadership" won't help us immunize ourselves from foreign propaganda, and Walter Lippmann on free speech and why Facebook must eventually take the fall for our unwillingness to...2020-02-241h 03

Escaping The Cave#62 - Authenticity, The Mask, and The Beast UnleashedOn independent thought, authenticity, social momentum, and permitting redemption. Also, You're not the Elephant Whisperer, let Dumbo feed! Detecting doctrinaires, the Warm Glow of the Herd's Fellowship, manipulative monkeys dancing for their lunch, and a mask, the core, and the id walk into a bar. A format change is underway. Make sure you're subscribed to an Escaping The Cave feed!* More at www.escapingthecave.com. 2020-02-2128 min

Escaping The Cave#61 - Unimpressed Sobriety & Sanity’s TouchstoneToddzilla's latest Message of Hope formally introduces the loyal listener to Mr. Lippmann: a Man of the People! Touched on are Lippmann's "The Phantom Public", his iconoclastic thoughts on technologically pre-historic data overload, emotional detachment, objective reality, the presumed wisdom of We the People™, and democracy's fate. Have a drink first. Also, institutions and trust are dead, less-not-more is the answer, a defense of the "elites", a need for collective humility, and generalists vs. specialists. * Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck. * Also check out www.escapingthecave.com 2020-02-121h 01

Escaping The Cave#60 - The Wokeflake FolliesThe Iowa Boner, The Rips Heard 'Round the World, and impeachment fails. All by Wednesday. This is the alternative? ALSO: Scripture, agitation, and The Herd Mind, Democracy implodes without the public's consensual trust, The means, ends, and Salem Witches, Romney, Amash, Manchin, and the Principled Pit of Hell, Howard Dean says Democrats will challenge November's election, * Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck. * Also check out www.escapingthecave.com and www.christophermedia.net 2020-02-0746 min

Escaping The Cave#59 - Conformist Suicide"Imitation is suicide." How independent thought gets smothered in infancy, the need to belong: why standing apart from the impaired herd is not only hard, it runs against our social and evolutionary grain. Also, collective and self-delusions protecting us from unpleasant discoveries that might destroy our notions of being special, divine, or even "good." ALSO: -Tending to personal and commercial attachments -How political and marketing swine manipulate attachments via identity -Meditation and Buddhist philosophy as tools to disconnect -Blank Slatists: Beware -Emerson's Self-Reliance: read it. -Su...2020-02-0147 min

Escaping The Cave#58 - Independent Thought vs. The Need to BelongThe next great war: intellectual autonomy. The bold certainty of the herd, the challenges of independent thought and why seeing someone who is genuinely their own Man is so rare, the media has supplanted the church, disengaging from the ideological Holy War in favor of political atheism, and Toddzilla's Paradox: the conflict between intellectual independence and the desperate human need to belong. Still available for children's parties! Now doing bat mitzvahs! ALSO: A quick impeachment fart You want an authoritarian Political Vampires Algorithms, Lippmann, Bernays, and You Silver Spoons: A Hate Crime The filthy Centrus Americanus ...2020-01-281h 01

Escaping The Cave#57- Hilerpes; Bernie & The SuckerfishHilary's flared up again, this time on Bernie's groin while Tulsi sues to find out if Valtrex is right for her. Also, It's time for the Democratic Socialist's Red Tea Party to get off the DNC's guest couch, pack their stuff, and find their own place. Go be a dragon, Daenerys. Also, Toddzilla didn't kill himself. * Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck * Also check out www.escapingthecave.com 2020-01-2331 min

Escaping The Cave#56 - Richmond: The 2A and MLKWokeflake Twitter was apoplectic when the Richmond pro-gun rally turned out to be peaceful while the rest of world asked, "What? No Antifa? Do they not believe in their holy crusade against Fascismo de Naranja?" Not really. No one asked that. I discuss Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, how it affected Gandhi and MLK, and how that's an unexpected and possible path for gun advocates to reclaiming the narrative. Also: The Invasive Species has a name The Democrat's fracture has gangrene Daenerys and the Utopian Teet Don't call a backdraft a boomerang F**K Twitter * Subscribe on...2020-01-2159 min

Escaping The Cave#55 - Snakes, Survival, & Sabotage: The Need to Feel AliveTodd discusses collective human boredom in relation to the need for a sense of purpose, struggle, and the addictive rush of just feeling alive. How a dormant survival instinct comes alive during a crisis and how, absent that, we'll manufacture one just to have something to endure, battle, and survive. Also, some some predictions for the 20's. Book those children's parties now! Also: San Agustin, The Special Tour, and an evening with Pablo Escobar's "chemist" A naked man kills a fer-de-lance Men, middle age, and the power plant Healthy anxiety vs. fear This election won't matter ...2020-01-1555 min

Escaping The Cave#54 - Apocalypto and The Red Star of MoscowHappy 2020! Are we ready? After a 2-month hiatus spent illegally hunting rhinoceros and snipe in the wilds of the West Michigan wilderness, Todd welcomes the 20's with a quick episode discussing apocalyptic thinking, the coming electoral season, where to find balanced news coverage, and the rarely-used technique of actually listening to "opposition" media simply to understand where they're coming from. Eureka! *Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck. *Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com 2020-01-1332 min

Escaping The Cave#53 - Disinformation '16, Weaponized Truth, Hillary The Halloween ZombieThis episode focusses mostly on disinformation and interference in the 2016 election and includes selected audio clips from the Your Undivided Attention podcast episode "From Russia With Likes" (#1) featuring disinformation expert Renée DiResta. Her expertise connects incredibly well to my Propaganda series. Topics include: the seemingly innocent methods used by the Russians exploiting personal identity to create online communities that can be manipulated via agitative identity politics later on, The Call to Action: The Manchurian Propagandist, more on the propaganda dopamine connection: validation, attacking trust in political institutions and the media, anger and apathy, exploiting freedom of speech, and th...2019-10-301h 32

Escaping The Cave#52 - Presidential Anarchy, Goebbels & Advertising, A PrayerTrump's not actually retarded, is he? Pray with me, won't you? Also: Quitting smoking: it sucks Nicholas Carr and the "influencer" Goebbels ❤️'s Bernays My poor defenseless podcast is attacked by a zombie Happy Halloween? Fu*k Twitter *Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck. *Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com 2019-10-2449 min

Escaping The Cave#51 - Pinching The Impeachment LoafAre you stuck trying to build a well-reasoned, impartial, and detached impeachment snowman from competing piles of steaming cable news shit? Yeah. Me too. The only lens that works: the wide-angle agitation propaganda lens. First, a virtual colon cleanse in the form of a micro-pod. ALSO: Fcuk Twitter Twice Hard *Like it? Share it. You are the "marketing" team. *Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't absolutely suck. *Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com 2019-10-0931 min

Escaping The Cave#50 - Agitational Dysfunction & Revolutionary HatredAn introduction to LeBon, his ideas on mobs, and The Psychology of Revolution--specifically: hatred. The forthcoming electoral reality show, 2020's prepared script, how the spinoffs will be cast, and what happens when our Matrix Avatar Superheroes stumble into the Desert of the Real. ALSO: Unrealistic expectations inside the steaming pile of Twitter Was it your childhood dream to be Saul Goodman? More on pseudo-environments and internal narratives Fcuk Twitter. (Not a big part of the episode. Just felt like saying it.) *Like it? Share it. You are the "marketing" team. *Subscribe on any po...2019-10-011h 09

Escaping The Cave#49 - Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent MobInstitutions fail and democracy descends into mob rule when representative are paralyzed and terrorized by fear of their voters. Trump, Ukraine, and 2020's year-long electoral reality show disguised as an idealistic impeachment. Informational sectarianism and how it's easy to see "their" propaganda. Yours? Never! Their demagogue is your savior. There may be a way for a detaching informational unicorn treat that. MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper; when everything is spin and propaganda, who's a political infidel supposed to believe? Also: Alternate Informational Universes Half-assed media sophistication: not enough Why can't we wat...2019-09-271h 15

Escaping The Cave#48 - The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse"The fiction is taken as truth because the fiction is badly needed." A quick introduction to Walter Lippmann and the commonality between him, Ellul, Bernays, Haidt, and Harari. People can't personally perceive the world beyond their own sliver of firsthand experience. Therefore, the Current Events Man is beholden, dependent upon, and therefore exploited by the propagandist and his digital distortions. If democracy is demands an "enlightened citizenry", it's likely doomed from the start. Paradoxically, there's a stab at some hope in here too. Weird. ALSO: Te Nosce, bitches Competing Scandals; Competing Networks; Competing Narratives Smoking, Facebook, and...2019-09-261h 26

Escaping The Cave#47 - Wokeflake Comedy: Sociological PropagandaA rare ETC podcast: one topic. The stage that was once the playground of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, and even Andrew Dice Clay has been stormed by a mob of Social Vengeance Warriors hell bent on using comedy as a delivery mechanism for textbook sociological and agitation propaganda, complete with its own version of the Ten Commandments (now in print!) and a handy scapegoat Satan. When does the "Thank You, Comrade!" showcase start? ALSO: Controlling speech is controlling thought; Speechcrime is Thoughtcrime Unless Nickelback is your standard, nothing great has ever come fro...2019-09-2459 min

Escaping The Cave#46 - Newton's Third Law of Totalitarian MessiahsAgitation propaganda doing its work, speechcrime taking root in the form of virtual media mobs enforcing cancel culture and its point-of-view authoritarianism, the Wokeflake Messiah will arrive soon, Newton's Third Law of Extremism, slave's spirituals and frightened children scrambling to the ideological church to be soothed by visions of a future Heaven on Earth. ALSO: Toxic Compromise The Election Won't Matter At all. Wokeflakes Becoming Trump We The Authoritarian People *The Propaganda and Social Media Disease theme resumes soon. It's a good time to catch up on what you may have missed.* *Lik...2019-09-1846 min

Escaping The Cave#45 - Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen OnesSocial validation, dopamine, and social media's Walter White; the predictably ridiculous reaction to Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special and how comedy has evolved from truth telling to Wokeflake proselytizing; more on how people are more willing and eager than deceived when it comes to swallowing fiction and disinformation; choking on data leading to confused gullibility; honestly in a crisis; Sausage Party Hope: children demanding their happy ending. Where's the spring of genuine hope? ALSO: The Battle of the 21st Century The iceberg bobbing off our bow Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: Walter White cutting his meth supply? Pinke...2019-09-111h 12

Escaping The Cave#44 - Propaganda: Agitating the Inner ApeAgitation and Integration: two often closely related but very different types of propagandas: one used to provoke internal conflict the other to shape members of a population into a mold. Agitation: The propaganda of insurgency and revolution. Includes how internal enemies are used as scapegoats to manufacture then exploit hatreds as means to an insurgent's end, Mao's view on "the enemy residing in every man" and fitting him into the "Socialist Mold", Hitler's internal agitation, spontaneous volunteer propagandists, and how facts and "truth" are irrelevant to the person burning with primal hatred. ALSO: Agitation propaganda during the A...2019-08-291h 28

Escaping The Cave#43 - Monetized Agitation, Unleashing Hatred, Poking CrackerbearsThis quick primer episode is the uncomfortable preface to Jacques Ellul's agitation propaganda. I explore how our Matrix Avatars themselves act as agitation propaganda and the way the informational cyber-swamp has actually managed to monetize it. Also Ellul on the dangerous effects of suppressing innate drives and human nature, the Ideology of Happiness, the universal violent human instinct, the devastating effects of dissolving human domestication to unleash and exploit primal hatred, and the self-defeating ignorance of poking the hibernating Crackerbear. When it's done, to quote William Munny, "Have a drink, kid." Jacques Ellul's "Pr...2019-08-2850 min

Escaping The Cave#42 - Propaganda: Contradictions, Agitation Media, Typhoid MarkPropaganda's ambiguity and contradictions including: creating tensions while relieving others, the Outrage Media Complex and introduction to the companion propagandas: agitation and integration and how they overlap; self-justification and imposed guilt; attachment and ostracizing oneself to join the "enemy; politicization and privatization; "Why die for Danzig?' and how political orphans benefit extremists and authoritarians. ALSO: Andrew Sullivan on the boomerang Post-Truth hatred and division: a bigger threat than climate change Don't blame the bartender for getting you drunk Twitter, Facebook, and Typhoid Mary Atomic Ping Pong Our personal broadcast stations The Russia investigation saved the...2019-08-221h 38

Escaping The Cave#41 - Propaganda: Drunks In DenialOn Ellul's "The Need For Propaganda." We've both developed a tolerance for and a psychological dependency on propaganda's certainty-stoking, justifying, and and self-worth generating narratives, social media is a propagandist's dream, desensitization and an increasing desire for the excitement felt from being immersed in the constant, and necessary stream of propaganda, how our addiction has allowed both traditional media and social media "influencers" to monetize the Outrage Industrial Complex, our role as retained ideological attorneys, and wishful thinking (and possibly disastrous effects) of suddenly eliminating 320-million people's propaganda narratives. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Grab a s...2019-08-182h 24

Escaping The Cave#40 - Propaganda: Righteousness & SimplicityThe Propaganda opus resumes with Ellul's take on psychic "dissociation". Includes more on wordknapping, how righteous and simplistic propaganda narratives silence the self and numb natural cognitive dissonance, replacing reality with the electronic eyes of the "verbal universe", the effects of disconnecting a person's personal opinion in favor of an acceptable "public" opinion, and how opposing propagandas affect the target. ALSO: Democratic Socialists: as ridiculous during Occupy as at their "convention" Aligned, Premeditated, and Secret Consciences: Individuality and Haidt's Elephant Disconnecting thought & action Opposing propagandas: political abstention or fanaticism? The IDW: Agitation Propaganda Data Overload and t...2019-08-151h 48

Escaping The Cave#39 - Wanted: Wokeflake Demagogue, Dignity And The Useful Idiot, Tyrannizing The VanquishedTodd, Chris and Rich discuss the Dayton shooter's leftist leanings being swept aside, poking the Crackerbear and how a real conflict between Woke Island and Trumptown might resemble an episode of "Lambs to the Wolves", Los Tíos Tom Blancos and their own dignity, informational chum agitating swarming ideological sharks, how suppressing a defeated ideological Holy War enemy might look in the 21st century, and we revisit "reparations" just to, you know, lighten things up. (Send the bill to Boris!) The Propaganda opus continues next time. ALSO: Chris & Rich educate Todd on "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo" T...2019-08-101h 28

Escaping The Cave#38 - Informational Anarchy & Deadly InsignificanceAfter more shootings, Chris & Rich rejoin the show to discuss our "news" (propaganda) consumption, and the predictably tribal response. We're malleable psychological adolescents and clearly unprepared for this informational responsibility. Also, the same recycled arguments with a few new propaganda twists, did you know the Dayton killer was a self-proclaimed Leftist? Is it coincidence that most "news" coverage is in El Paso? Remote rhetorical assaults and the usefulness of "physical accountability": smacking bullies in the snout. ALSO: "Can I believe this" vs "Must I believe this" Snorting pacifists: lambs to the wolves Arya Stark: she was f...2019-08-081h 14

Escaping The Cave#37 - Propaganda: Intellectual Autonomy & Banishing FabricantsHow propaganda acts as an informational virus to destroy critical thought and alienate the person from himself. More on data overload, the uninformed Current Events Man knowing a little about everything and a lot about nothing, mistaking feelings for thought, having to accept or reject an entire doctrine in total, losing intellectual autonomy, and how artificial tensions are often accompanied by dubious solutions. ALSO: Artificial solutions to real needs Real solutions to artificial needs "Influencers", their product, and their Patreon The Tribal Dance of Rhetorical Fuckery We're a species of sleazy lawyers and pathological liars Self-stereotyping cari...2019-08-061h 43

Escaping The Cave#36 - Propaganda: Rationalization & The Religious MindThe conclusion of Ellul's "Psychological Crystallization" featuring the makeup of its slogans & how they're used to replace thought. Also, collective belief and obsessions, self-justification/rationalizations and how they spawn the self-righteous Puritan, the closing of the crystallized mind, propaganda's religious personality, and the bizarre media phenomenon: monetizing your mind rape. ALSO: - Marianne Williamson: The New Trump? - Introducing the father of American propaganda: Edward Bernays - They know you better than you know yourself - Propaganda's side-effects and how they mirror the '60's definition of "neurosis" ...2019-08-021h 01

Escaping The Cave#35 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & Vicarious AtonementBegins with a takedown of "white privilege", self-flagellation vs. self-interest, and the asinine/futile demands of our Social Vengeance Warriors; beware the boomerang, Moonbeam. From there, I move on to Ellul's dissection of how propaganda hijacks the political cultist's mind. The first of two parts, this episode focusses on the distinction between doctrine and critical though as well as homogenous thought, codifying social, political, and moral standards, exploiting latent pre-existing prejudices, and the power of implanted stereotypes & symbols used as triggering mechanisms. The elephant is strong in this one! Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com...2019-08-011h 06

Escaping The Cave#34 - Propaganda: Manufacturing Proselytes & MilitantsPropaganda isn't what you may think. Ellul's ideas on pre-propaganda, propaganda's conditioned reflexes, myths, and "orthopraxy". Including the triggering of active and passive action (activists, influencers, collaborators), widespread participation by "committed" zealots, the separation between thought and action, exploiting the abyss between what we say and what we do, mobilizing men for action counter to their own values, and being unable to reverse ourselves once "action" has begun. ALSO: Exiling naked sectarians Agitation and organization How the Internet rejuvenates and revives conditioned reflexes Technology indoctrinates us much faster than before Presuppositions, stereotypes, and political education disguised as...2019-07-301h 22

Escaping The Cave#33 - Propaganda's MindcrimeMore on agitation propaganda and the psychological effects of propaganda including: loss of individuality, suppression of critical thought, creation of the mob and how critical thought is literally impossible as part of a group, the creation of a fanatically self-righteous social "conscious" leading to the demonization of the out-group, and more on the sphere of the sacred. Then, how propaganda partitions society (identity politics) via verbal fiction creating sects of victims who only speak "to themselves." Also: Propaganda's only heard by its choir creating alternate factual universes: The Echo Chamber Manchurian activists primed for provoked outrage & ac...2019-07-281h 40

Escaping The Cave#32 - Spinning Mueller & The Sacred CowsCongressional grandstanding for the cameras, Mueller's testimony: viewed and spun in parallel universes, deciding whether to read the report, voting your own self-interest (Yes! Do it!), the Current Events Man, asking the right questions, when boutique news becomes fatal, and the sacred Golden Calves. Also: Leaving the mob Evolution lurks Mythology and the Devil within *Like it? SPREAD IT! F**k The Zuckerbeast & Twitter. YOU are my marketing team. *Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podcatcher. *Also check out www.christophermedia.net and www.escapingthecave.com 2019-07-2549 min

Escaping The Cave#31 - Humanist Puritans, Wokeflake Jesus, Manchurian CrusadersThe extreme left's totalitarian purity test and its search for Utopia's messiah; self-righteous moral certainty and the narcissistic narratives of the secular humanist religion. Then, agitation propaganda creates armies of proselytes and militants while unleashing an uncontrollable and destabilizing primal hatred for "the evil other." No one's immune; would you even know if you're devouring propaganda? ALSO: Silent Collaborators The Sunday School of political insemination Political missionaries always rapping at the smart phone's door Being right vs. "looking" right Ignoring history You're solely responsible for protecting and maintaining your own mind *Like it? SPRE...2019-07-221h 32

Escaping The Cave#30 - Renouncing Patriotism And The Nationalist BoomerangTodd, Chris, and Rich discuss how the left always inadvertently triggers heated nationalism with its self-defeating renouncement of patriotism and Zinnification: exploiting idealistic naiveté; how Zinnified agitation propaganda attacks national unity by destroying symbols and cohesively fictitious myths. Also: “Racism” isn’t a "white thing" nor exclusively an American trait The ridiculous notion that propaganda-farting fleshbots are “changing minds” The slow crawl of social progress Paying Granddaddy’s social debts Immigration and "becoming American" “Socialism rules!" Then why was there a Berlin Wall? Your special personal experience doesn’t matter Child Worship? But, children are literally ignorant *Like it? SPREAD IT! F**k T...2019-07-1959 min

Escaping The Cave#29 - Guidance Is InternalChris & Rich sit in on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. We discuss the achievement, the courage of those undertaking it, and how subsequent generations were cheated of their signature crowning moment in history. ALSO: -Data overload, informational suffocation, and how the compulsive "current events man" is actually less informed. -Are we "really" evolving? -Patriotic appreciation vs. copycat anti-Americanism *Like it? SPREAD IT! F**k The Zuckerbeast & Twitter. YOU are my marketing team. *Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podcatcher. *Also...2019-07-1752 min

Escaping The Cave#28 - Wordknapping, Propaganda's Effects, A Reckoning"He who defines is your master." More on twisting definitions as a malicious propaganda tool, how institutional propaganda systems affect a population, and where a species oblivious of its own shortcomings ultimately ends up. Also: -Communing with the organic dead -There's no such thing as collective critical thought -Intelligence as a handicap -Foreshadowing a Walter Lippmann re-think *Like it? Share it! F**k The Zuckerbeast & Typhoid Jack. YOU'RE the marketing team. *Subscribe on your favorite podcatcher. *Also check out www.escapingthecave.com...2019-07-0853 min

Escaping The Cave#27 - Propaganda: Agenda + JournalismDefinitions, journalism as a euphemism for propaganda, Amash goes rogue, Antifa gets played by Patreon's punching bag, I have a creative reparations solution, FOX gets savvy and begins filling a void. Part two coming soon. Also, -What happened to our Nuremberg rally? -More on these ridiculous Democratic debates -Justice isn't real -Is the extremist worm turning? *Like it? SPREAD IT! F**k The Zuck & Twitter. YOU are my marketing team. *Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podcatcher. *Also check out www.christop...2019-07-0557 min

Escaping The Cave#26 - Broken Beasts of Intellectual BurdenA digital detox update and re-connecting with the organic world, Trump's 4th of July spectacle and the predictable "outrage", why I'm rooting against the US women's soccer team, the ridiculous debates, and half as many young people consider themselves "gay allies." Why? Beware the boomerang! Also: -Social media is the new talk radio -Visceral emotive manipulation and monetized propaganda -Algorithms as propaganda delivery systems *Like it? SPREAD IT! F**k The Zuck & Twitter. YOU are my marketing team. *Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podc...2019-07-0356 min

Escaping The Cave#25 - Convulsive Twitch and The Damage DoneAre we representing ourselves accurately via these one dimensional social media avatars? I update the digital detox progress and talk about my over-amplified virtual projection, Toddzilla, destroying meaningful relationships, how the tweet is in the eye of the beholder, missing a funeral for a friend, and maybe a faint glimmer of not-so-Sausage Party Hope. *Like it? SHARE IT! F**k The Zuck & Twitter. You are the marketing team. *Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podcatcher. Missing one? Tell me! *Also check out www.escapingthecave.com and www.christophermedia.net 2019-06-271h 06

Escaping The Cave#24 - The Signal To Noise Ratio and A Digital PretoxHow does someone whose life is based online digitally detox? Good question. Let's find out; here's how it's going to start. Should be a hoot! *Like it? SPREAD IT! F**k The Zuck & Twitter. YOU are my marketing team. *Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and your favorite podcatcher. Missing one? Tell me! *Check out www.escapingthecave.com & www.christophermedia.net 2019-06-2533 min

Escaping The Cave#23 - The Social Media Disease - Distraction Sickness, Electronic Eyes, Thought ShamingHi New Zealand! Find yourself logging onto to the LaBrea Twitter Pit or Facebook and suddenly you've lost far more time to it than you intended? Me too. More on Digitally Enhanced Avatars, Digital Detox as a treatment for a distorted virtual perception/socialization as well as depression, anxiety, cynicism, and generalized anger. Also, -The universal nature of both our inner and shared stories -Propaganda is a story. -What happens when conflicting propagandas collide? -Social Vengeance Warriors moving beyond "justice" and discrimination into thought control. 2019-06-2255 min

Escaping The Cave#22 - Pick Your Authoritarian WiselyWrapping things up with Chris & Rich, we discuss how public relations is, literally, a euphemism for propaganda, manufacturing opinion, euphemisms and twisting words to fit the propagandist's purpose, informational overload creating political non-entities, and partisanship rotting political, cultural and social institutions. Also: -Abandoning basic American principles; Patriotism's vicious backlash -Social upheaval or an authoritarian police state resulting from the governed revoking their consent -The Great Utopia is not only impossible, its illusion is held together only by chains -The ridiculous argument that people are voting "against their own interest" ...2019-06-1752 min

Escaping The Cave#21 - Social Media Disease - Virtue Batsignals, Puritans, Exhausted MajorityTodd, Rich, and Chris discuss the unwiring of social evolution, totalitarian tribes spawning skittish clones, and an exhausted "center" with nowhere to land that's not infested by puritans. Also: the outright refusal to see our own team's propaganda, the "wisdom" of youth, and more on thoughtless opinions and how "branding" affects Social Media Political Influencers. Like it? Share it. F**k Twitter. You're the marketing team. More: www.escapingthecave.com 2019-06-141h 05

Escaping The Cave#20 - The Social Media Disease: Net Rage, Poking the Ape, Unleashing the IdCyber Space Monkeys continued. In part 1-of-3, I'm joined by Chris & Rich to discuss the effects of social media on individuals and society as a whole. Propaganda kerosene and the disinformation detonator, the connection between road rage and net rage, much of the IDW: for-profit social media brands and "right adjacent" influencers producing "content" for handouts, Nicholas Carr and how the Internet physically changes our brains, good deeds done solely to post the selfie, and more. Like it? SHARE IT! F**k The Zuck & Twitter. You're my marketing team. 2019-06-1253 min

Escaping The Cave#19 - Hey, Hilltucky! Reptilian Truth & The Outrage FeverNo Politics! Lots of drilling to the "get the f**k away from me!" meltdown core. -Bulls**t Jousting -The truth probably won't set you free -Sausage Party Hope and the fueling Audacity of Belief -How & why disinformation works: a first person play-by-play. More: www.escapingthecave.com Visit: www.christophermedia.com Also: www.christophermedia.net You found it. Now, subscribe, ya jerk. What's the matter with you? 2019-06-071h 32

Escaping The Cave#18 - Propaganda 101: Corrupt Data & Telling Truth From Falsehood“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Lippmann. At 35:25: The difference between clever & smart and more on the DIKW pyramid and what happens when citizens ignore corrupt data. The first 35-minutes: - Justin Amash and the criticism from the left. - Mueller's fumble and the Democrat's ensuing demand that he star in their 2020 reality show/campaign ad. - To Impeach or not Impeach: just do it or STFU! - Democrats are politica...2019-05-311h 22

Escaping The Cave#17 - The Social Media Disease: The Illusion of Knowledge & Democratized OpinionTechnology enables, and social media perpetuates, informational anarchy and prioritizes the cheap appearance of knowledge over fostering knowledge itself. Also, how the Internet changes cognition and the abandonment of expertise to the holy opinion: "my ignorance is equal to your knowledge." Also: -The DIKW pyramid and drowning in data. -The Id on Parade, the natural state of man, and Leviathan. -What happens when reasonable voices abandon the public square to mindless mobs of roving avatars? -When avatars attack -A classic full-frontal Toddzilla rant salvaged from The Lost Epis...2019-05-231h 39

Escaping The Cave#16 - The Social Media Disease: Virtual Mobs, Conformity, & External TruthUnsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual's intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the "other" via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones. Also: Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism "ToddzillaX" on most social media. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/channel/U...2019-05-141h 16

Escaping The Cave#15 - The Elephantitis Pandemic; Winter is HereHaidt's elephant and how it relates to our constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism, and our likely dystopian future. "Evolution didn't end with opposable thumbs." The thin veneer of civilization Self-dehumanization Extremists v. Moderate The Social Media Disease 2019-05-1056 min

Escaping The Cave#14 - Political Orphans & Constitutional HospiceParties, their power-first representatives and constituents, fundamentalist ideologues, extremists, etc. are failing everyone. Government institutions are melting down and the faith of the governed along with it. Hey! What could possibly go wrong?!? Need more Toddzilla? 1) Seek help. 2) Click the links. You can listen on your way to therapy. More episodes/subscribe: www.escapingthecave.com My travel archives: www.toddzillaX.com 2019-05-0859 min

Escaping The Cave#13 - The Boomerang Effect: "Hold My Beer"Confused as to why your righteous demands aren't being met? Behold! Narratives, mythology, religion, and how they bind us together The Grand Design & Ideological Religions Making Enemies of Allies Haidt's Elephant Intellectual refinement and allowing yourself (and others) to make mistakes and change your mind External Truth and Reason Authoritarian creep No Hitler references! www.escapingthecave.com https://soundcloud.com/toddzillax Use as directed. 2019-05-0457 min

Escaping The Cave#12 - Media 101: It’s The PeopleAre you wondering why every source of "news" and information sucks? It's because everyone from MSNBC to NPR to FOX to Alex Jones to Social Media "Influencers" operate according to the same for-profit model: drawing eyeballs to their product to sell someone else's. The re-resurrection begins by re-laying the foundation. More on the way. Need more Toddzilla? 1) Seek help. 2) Click the links. You can listen on your way to therapy. More episodes/subscribe: www.escapingthecave.com My travel archives: www.toddzillaX.com 2019-04-291h 11

Decibel Geek PodcastToddzilla Returns - Ep355Back by popular demand, we bring you one of our favorite guests ever as Toddzilla Returns! For the uninitiated, Toddzilla is a Nashville music scene fixture. His amazing image (tall hair, flashy suits, etc) is only outshined by his incredible guitar playing. Furthermore, Todd is a master storyteller and this episode doesn't disappoint. This is a fun conversation and Todd gives his views on a ton of different subjects. Toddzilla Returns Toddzilla now fronts an amazing show entitled Toddzilla's Rip-Roarin' Rock 'n' Roll Big Top. This killer show features Toddzilla fronting a great band...2019-03-271h 32

Finding Fulfillment#12 – Todd “Toddzilla” Austin: Be Yourself…No, ReallyTodd “Toddzilla” Austin is a musician, songwriter, bandleader and guitar expert based in Nashville, TN. Originally from Greensboro, NC, Todd has been a Nashville icon for over 20 years, with his signature style and jaw-dropping guitar performances. He has also been a fixture for many years as electric guitar guru at Nashville’s premier independent professional … Continue reading #12 – Todd “Toddzilla” Austin: Be Yourself…No, Really →2018-07-1100 min

Escaping The Cave#11 - The Social Media Disease: Cyber Space MonkeysFirst Social Media Disease antibiotic treatment. Starting with an X-Pod flashback to 2014, Todd discusses Cambridge Analytica before turning to more recent effects of our collective addiction to social media on society and how a bilateral abandonment of a commitment to basic common facts--in favor of tasty propaganda--is having a dehumanizing effect and rapidly eroding the social contract. Also: cyber space monkeys, avatars showing off for each other in the Matrix, and the digital-organic hybrid: meme belching Cyborgs. Need more Toddzilla? First, seek help. Second, click the links below. You can listen on your way to therapy. M...2018-03-241h 22

Decibel Geek PodcastSix Songs Toddzilla Thinks You Should HearNashville music scene legend and dear friend of the show Todd Austin returns for Six Songs Toddzilla Thinks You Should Hear. If you are new to the show and unfamiliar with Toddzilla, be sure to familiarize yourself with his first two appearances on Decibel Geek. His first appearance, Roth-Era Van Halen Discussion, introduced the listeners to a master storyteller. Todd's memories of growing up a Van Halen fan in the late 70's and his hilarious stories of seeing the band live made him an instant hit to Decibel Geek listeners. [caption id="attachment_32949" align="alignright"...2017-10-212h 14

Decibel Geek PodcastConversation with Toddzilla - Ep165One of our favorite past guests and friend of the show returns this week for a more personal reason. Todd Austin (aka Toddzilla) returns to the Decibel Geek Podcast this week and boy is he packing some great stories. If you don't remember, Toddzilla was Aaron and Chris' guest for Episode 113 - Roth-Era Van Halen Discussion. In that discussion, the guys picked favorite tunes from Eddie and co. but Toddzilla's stories were so memorable and entertaining, they elicited a lot of listeners asking for him to return. In this con...2014-12-011h 45