The Tao of Lloyd
By Lloyd Dobler
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Category: Philosophy
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 0
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 53
Description
The Tao of Lloyd is a satirical philosophy and culture podcast that reimagines Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything as a middle-aged zen-punk dissident trying to survive late-stage everything.
Part guided meditation, part political satire, part Gen X existential mixtape, the show blends Taoist philosophy, pop culture, spiritual reflection, and cultural critique into something between a meditation app and a protest flyer left behind in a laundromat.
Think Ram Dass by way of Rage Against the Machine, filtered through a VHS copy of Say Anything melting on the dashboard of American decline.
The show is currently evolving into a live solo performance premiering at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Tao of Lloyd blends fiction, satire, commentary, and real-world events. Some characters, scenes, and narrative elements are fictionalized. The headlines, unfortunately, are real.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
The Meridian Doctrine (S2.Chapter 35)
|
May 21, 2026 |
|
Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley Messiah, Would Like to Sell You a Ticket to the Ark (S2. Chapter 34)
|
May 13, 2026 |
|
What if The Story Chooses You? (S2. Chapter 33)
|
May 05, 2026 |
|
A Gen X Manifesto for Surviving Late-Stage Everything
|
Apr 28, 2026 |
|
What Is Our One Demand? (S2. Chapter 32)
|
Apr 21, 2026 |
|
Stupid Bloody Tuesday (S2. Chapter 31)
|
Apr 07, 2026 |
|
Operation Epic Missing Endgame (S2. Chapter 30)
|
Mar 31, 2026 |
|
A Case for Regime Change in the USA (S2. Chapter 29)
|
Mar 25, 2026 |
|
Yin, Yang, and the Secretary of Armageddon (S2. Chapter 28)
|
Mar 17, 2026 |
|
Iran, Empire, and the Blowback Cycle
|
Mar 10, 2026 |
|
The Memory Hole (Part 3) — Repeat (S2. Chapter 27)
|
Mar 02, 2026 |
|
The Memory Hole (Part 2) — Replace (S2. Chapter 26)
|
Feb 26, 2026 |
|
The Memory Hole (Part 1) — Erase (S2. Chapter 25)
|
Feb 25, 2026 |
|
Pam Bondi and The Dow of MAGA vs. The Tao of Lloyd (S2. Chapter 24)
|
Feb 19, 2026 |
|
The Lloyd Dobler Sit-Down Uprising (S2. Chapter 23)
|
Feb 16, 2026 |
|
Harness Your No (S2. Chapter 22)
|
Jan 29, 2026 |
|
How to Be Water When the House Is on Fire (Mixtape Rewind, S1)
|
Jan 15, 2026 |
|
Guided Meditation for When the News Won’t Let You Breathe (Mixtape Rewind, S1)
|
Jan 12, 2026 |
|
Late Stage Everything (S2. Chapter 21)
|
Jan 05, 2026 |
|
Morning Meditation: Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better
|
Jan 01, 2026 |
|
Late-Stage Compliance (Why Do We Obey in Advance?) (S2. Chapter 20)
|
Dec 29, 2025 |
|
Late Stage Capitalism (Who’s Stealing Your Time?) (S2. Chapter 19)
|
Dec 25, 2025 |
|
Let Go of 2025 (a Lloyd Dobler sorta guided meditation)
|
Dec 22, 2025 |
|
We Got the Guillotine, You Better Run (S2. Chapter 18)
|
Dec 18, 2025 |
|
On Refusing Orders (S2. Chapter 17)
|
Dec 15, 2025 |
|
About My Road Rage (S2. Chapter 16)
|
Dec 11, 2025 |
|
Let the Mud Settle (S2. Chapter 15)
|
Dec 08, 2025 |
|
The Future Keeps Ghosting Us (S2. Chapter 14)
|
Dec 05, 2025 |
|
The Slow-Drip of Fascism (S2. Chapter 13)
|
Dec 02, 2025 |
|
A Trojan Horse Walks Into Open AI (S2. Chapter 12)
|
Nov 28, 2025 |
|
Pluribus. We Is Us (S2. Chapter 11)
|
Nov 25, 2025 |
|
Can I Write My Way Home? (S2. Chapter 10)
|
Nov 18, 2025 |
|
Do Your Job and Go the F* Home (S2. Chapter 9)
|
Nov 14, 2025 |
|
Be Water, My Friend (S2. Chapter 8)
|
Nov 11, 2025 |
|
Zohran Mamdani v. Donald Trump (S2. Chapter 7)
|
Nov 07, 2025 |
|
The Algorithm in a Long Swinging Red Tie (S2. Chapter 6)
|
Nov 04, 2025 |
|
Does the Center Hold? (S2. Chapter 5)
|
Oct 31, 2025 |
|
What If the Hippies Won? (S2. Chapter 4)
|
Oct 29, 2025 |
|
The Art of Letting Go When ICE Comes Calling (S2. Chapter 3)
|
Oct 24, 2025 |
|
Stop Naming the Fight (S2. Chapter 2)
|
Oct 21, 2025 |
|
The Tao That Can’t Be Podcasted (S2. Chapter 1)
|
Oct 17, 2025 |
|
Season 2 Trailer: Lloyd Dobler’s Field Guide for Late Stage Everything
|
Oct 14, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 10: A Sort-of Guided Meditation for Life in the Department of War Era
|
Sep 09, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 9: Trump's Museum of Lies: A Sort-of Guided Meditation for Erased Histories
|
Aug 26, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 08: Kurth Cobain and Lao Tzu vs. Palantir
|
Aug 19, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 7: So, I Got an Email from Diane Court...
|
Aug 12, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 6: Donald Trump’s Obituary: A Meditation on Death. His, Yours, and Mine.
|
Jul 29, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 5: A Gen X Manifesto for the Trump Era: How to Be Water in a House on Fire
|
Jul 22, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 4: Superman vs. The Ministry of Truth Social
|
Jul 15, 2025 |
|
Trailer: The Tao of Lloyd- season 1
|
Jul 09, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 3: Lloyd Dobler’s Sort-of Guided Morning Meditation for When the News Won’t Let You Breathe
|
Jul 08, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 2: A Sort-of Guided Meditation for People Who Meditate Badly (And That’s Okay)
|
Jul 01, 2025 |
|
S1. Episode 01: Sacred Refusal in the Trump Era
|
Jun 03, 2025 |