Rod Cambridge
Born on 11 April 1978; Rod Cambridge is now a field reporter for Go Animate City News. He was notably a news reporter for Detroit’s All-News station WRQ. Rod is a third-generation reporter, following the footsteps of his late father and late grandmother. He is also an honorary member of the Black Phantoms Motorcycle Club in Detroit.
Early Life
As a Toddler, Rod lived in Philadelphia, PA. His late father covered the Centralia incident. Rod was also a Rock DJ in Watertown, SD. Rod, in his pre-teen to teenage years, also lived in Los Angeles. He was also in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots. He also served as a play-by-play announcer during his high school and college years.
Events
In 2017-2019, Rod played a newsman at WRQ from 5 pm to 10 pm. He covered the power outage in St. Clair County and also the Soundboard Hacks. Rod was in the WRQ building on 26 June 2019 when the building was struck by lightning. Rod also covered the 2019 Detroit Zombie Tragedy in two intervals. The zombie outbreak entered the WRQ building while Rod broadcast. He and Russ Lindberg escaped the outbreak.
At around 1 am that day, Rod called WHAC to report the residents of Detroit fighting back the zombies. With the help of the Black Phantoms Motorcycle Club, Rod returned to WRQ to broadcast during the tragedy. After the tragedy, Rod began to develop PTSD and a drinking problem. He would later move from the evening to the lunchtime spot: 10 am-3 pm, while Russ Lindberg moved to the midnight shift.
Rod broadcast during the Great Lakes Bomber tragedy. Including the time they captured Ben Greenhorn. He had to come to work hungover after drinking heavily the previous day. During the Alien Attack in South Dakota, Rod told the WRQ listeners of the incident. Two days later, he said the WRQ listeners about the end of the incident.
Rod was also behind the desk during the beginning of the Supernatural Tragedy of 2021. He received a day’s suspension for his insult to Caitlyn Jenner, which sparked outrage from the MCMV. On the day he was suspended, Rod was asked to come in to fill in the late-night shift cause of Russ Lindberg’s absence. He was notably drunk and swore on the air. Thanks to producer Dora Krandle, she bleeped it out. Rod continued to cover the events during the Supernatural Crisis, including the ending in Michigan.
Rod covered the 2024 Nuclear Plant Incident in Freedom Township, MI. He and Russ Lindberg also covered the standoff between David Gardner and the police after the explosion.
Rod was in Los Angeles, CA, when the events of Pacific Coast Nightmare erupted in August 2025. Rod was the special guest announcer during a game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Detroit Tigers. Rod covered the 2026 Zombie Attack in Detroit.
Soon after, WRQ abandoned the All-News format in favor of Sports Talk. WRQ kept Rod on board for a couple of months, hosting the Rod & Jerk show. This lasted until a physical altercation with a psychotic listener, Matt. After the altercation, Rod was fired from WRQ and later saw employment as a field reporter in Go Animate City. Rod would be close to zombies during his first days in Go Animate City, when Caillou raised the dead to scare people in line for Chuck E. Cheese.
Rod would later have an on-air argument with music critic Ann Cowers over Beyoncé. He would later be attacked on social media by Beyoncé fans, but he dismissed them and moved on, citing “he has seen worse.”
Rod covered Caillou and Dora’s cherry bomb incident for GNN.
Personal Life
When living in suburban Detroit, Rod had a shed at his home, and Shawn Haws (as a zombie) lived there. The two occasionally play video games together, kinda like Shaun of the Dead. Rod has mentioned he was a fan of the game Doom and the Sega Genesis when those came out in his teenage years. Rod is also a fan of the late Walter Cronkite.
He is an honorary member of the Black Phantoms M/C.
Rod is a third-generation journalist. He has mentioned his late father, Ken Cambridge, also worked in radio. He had a grandmother who was also in radio. Rod said during the Supernatural Tragedy that he considered leaving journalism for another career, but didn’t have the desire to “start again,” and he believed the world was going to end soon. He has privately admitted that journalism is going in the wrong direction and didn’t think highly of CNN.
When talking to Caillou and Dora in Go Animate City, Rod stated he wasn’t happy with WRQ going to Sports Talk. He noted the “opinions of Monday Morning Quarterbacks drove him up the wall.” Rod has called Caillou a bratty kid. However, he may have been too drunk to notice him and Dora as they were when they met him at Ye Olde Dirty Hore bar. Rod is a heavy drinker, stemming from the 2019 Detroit Zombie Tragedy. When Caillou was having a psychedelic trip and being stalked by an alien figure, the exact alien figure was called Rod Weinerbutt. Rod mistakenly took it for someone else at the Dingleberry Farmers Market.
Rod had a relationship with a woman in the mid-2000s; her child was a fan of Caillou’s show. During the three-day stay in GoAnimate City before he received the job from GNN, Rod had a one-night stand with Miss Martin.