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The Tao of Lloyd

A Zen-punk field guide for late-stage everythingImagine Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything as a middle-aged dissident: still romantic, still defiant, and thumbing through the Tao Te Ching to turn ancient philosophy into an anti-fascist dharma mixtape for the Trump 2.0 era.

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117:21

Be Kind, Rewind: A Recap of Season 2, Chapters 1–10 |...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/11/21

Send us a text Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membership New to Season 2? Behind on a few episodes? Need a long exhale? This is your on-ramp. About Season 2: Lloyd Dobler is back, reimagined in an unauthorized sequel to the film Say Anything, as a middle-aged dissident with a podcast and a political axe to grind. Like the Tao Te Ching, Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd unfolds across 81 chapters. But where Lao Tzu offers timeless wisdom in a few spare li...

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S2. Chapter 10: I Gave Her My Heart. She Gave Me a...

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2025/11/18

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler sits with one of the most personal moments of his past: a letter from Diane Court, written in 2011 and rediscovered in a box labeled IMPORTANT. What begins as a relic from an old life becomes a catalyst for self-recognition, softening, and stumbling toward the version of himself he thought he’d lost. This episode weaves the questions of Chapter 10 of the Tao Te Ching—“Can you soften? Can you step back from your own mind?”—into Lloyd's attempt to reconnect with the ...

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S2. Chapter 9: Do Your Job and Go the F* Home | Tao...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/11/14

Send us a text Somewhere in the multiverse, Lloyd Dobler is calm. This episode is… not that timeline. In Chapter 9 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd digs into the ancient wisdom of “Do your work, then step back,” and discovers it pairs surprisingly well with a viral TikTok urging everyone to “do your job and go the f— home.” From Black Friday brain spirals to red-light enlightenment, Lloyd wrestles with the art of not overfilling the bowl, unclenching the jaw, and resisting the urge to reorganize yo...

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11:01

S2. Chapter 8: Be Water, My Friend (And Other Ways to...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/11/11

Send us a text Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd In Chapter 8, Lloyd Dobler channels Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, and Standing Rock to ask: how do we stay liquid in a country obsessed with hard takes? Be Water, My Friend is a meditation on softness as strength, ego as ice, and the radical art of flowing through empire. Support the show Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd link tree: https://linktr.ee/TaoofLloyd Season 2: https://www.taoofllo...

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11:25

S2. Chapter 7: Zohran Mamdani v. Donald Trump — TURN...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/11/07

Send us a text Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd Lloyd Dobler reads Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching and finds himself caught between a matador and a bull. Zohran Mamdani just moon-walked into City Hall like the Bronx was the birthplace of the Bodhisattva, Queens was the crucible of revolution, Brooklyn is the block-party of rebirth, Staten Island suddenly saw through the static, and like Manhattan was no longer the monument to money’s moral bankruptcy, but the bonf...

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S2. Chapter 6: The Tao of Lloyd | The Algorithm in a...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/11/04

Send us a text The Tao says: “The Great Mother is empty yet inexhaustible.” Lloyd Dobler says: Cool, but try telling that to the Algorithm in a long swinging red tie. In this chapter, Lloyd reads Chapter 6 of the Tao Te Ching and wrestles with what it means to let go in an age where everything is engineered to keep you holding on. From AI hype and Trump-era theatrics to the quiet rebellion of washing one dish instead of arguing about it online, this episode finds softness in the absurd. It’s ...

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8:00

S2. Chapter 5: Does the Center Hold?

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/10/31

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler cracks open Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching and ends up between Lao Tzu and Yeats, trying to breathe through the noise of late-stage empire. It’s a mixtape meditation on balance, burnout, and what it means to “hold the center” when every voice is a megaphone pointed at itself. From baristas on Adderall to monks in Margaritaville, Lloyd searches for stillness that isn’t performative—and discovers that sometimes the center only holds when you stop trying to own it. k...

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13:20

S2. Chapter 4: What If the Hippies Won?

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/10/29

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler asks what the world might look like if peace, poetry, and protest had actually beaten profit. Chapter 4 of the Tao Te Ching meets Gen X nostalgia and political satire. What if the hippies actually won? Lloyd Dobler peers into chapter 4 of the Tao Te Ching “the well that’s never used up” and finds his own reflection—half boombox philosopher, half aging protest kid. From Sound of Music antifascists to Reagan-era sellouts, Lloyd wonders how close we came to building a...

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10:51

S2. Chapter 3: The Art of Letting Go When ICE Comes...

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2025/10/24

Send us a text What does “practice not forcing” mean when empire kicks down the door? In Chapter 3 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lao Tzu’s wisdom — “The Master acts without doing anything” — collides head-on with the modern empire. From ICE raids to Steve Bannon’s third-term fantasies, Lloyd Dobler wrestles with what it means to “practice not forcing” in a world addicted to control. Through the lens of Wu Wei — the Taoist art of letting go — Lloyd examines protest, power, and the woman in the polka-do...

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11:14

S2. Chapter 2 — The Tao of Lloyd

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/10/21

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler reads the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 2, and muses on letting go, fascism’s feedback loop, and why even your trauma has a subscription plan. Lloyd Dobler returns with Chapter 2 of the Tao Te Ching and asks what it means to let go in the age of algorithmic empire. From Overton windows that can’t see healthcare but can see ICE signing bonuses, to the strange calm of wu wei in a world built to monetize trauma—this episode drifts between meditation, rebellion, and satire. Pa...

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14:49

S2.E1: The Tao That Can Be Podcast Is Not The Eternal...

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2025/10/17

Send us a text The Tao that can be podcasted is not the eternal Tao. But that won’t stop Lloyd Dobler from trying. Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd begins here — one chapter of the Tao Te Ching at a time. In this premiere, Lloyd wrestles with Chapter 1, chasing stillness in an empire addicted to noise. Along the way, he confesses to losing his breath, his center, and possibly his last remaining Patreon subscriber. Expect spiritual irreverence, political despair, and the occasional flash of transc...

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Season 2 Trailer — Lloyd Dobler’s Field Guide to Wu...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/10/14

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler is back. Older, grayer, and still trying to meditate through a coup. In Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd, the Gen-X dissident and accidental anti-guru starts over—using the Tao Te Ching as both the lens and the light to find stillness in Trumplandia. Eighty-one chapters. Two episodes a week. Tuesdays and Fridays. One middle-aged dissident trying to remember how to breathe in a collapsing empire. You can’t binge the Tao Te Ching like it’s Squid Game. Join Lloyd f...

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75:24

11B: Patreon Pledge Drive — Be Kind, Rewind: Side B

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/09/21

Send us a text https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd In Side B of Be Kind, Rewind, Lloyd Dobler revisits Episodes 6–10 of The Tao of Lloyd. From Trump’s obituary to Diane Court’s Palantir reveal, from Cobain vs. Lao Tzu to Trump’s Museum of Lies, to life inside the Department of War era—this is the midseason recap and pledge drive special. A mixtape of grief, satire, and refusal, stitched together with honesty, heartbreak, and a solidarity jar appea Support the show Support the show on Patreon: ...

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11A. Patreon Pledge Drive — Be Kind, Rewind: Side A

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/09/17

Send us a text Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TaoOfLloyd Welcome to Side A of Be Kind, Rewind. This is the midseason checkpoint: Episodes 1–5, revisited with Lloyd’s commentary, regrets, and the occasional new rant. New listeners—this is your catch-up tape. Long-time listeners—you’ll hear the backstory behind the mixtape. And yeah—it’s also pledge week. Support the show on Patreon to keep the tape rolling. Support the show Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/T...

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10. A Sort-of Guided Meditation for Life in the...

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2025/09/09

Send us a text The Department of “Defense” just dropped the act and rebranded as the Department of War. Not a glitch, not Orwellian doublespeak—just truth in advertising. In this episode, Lloyd Dobler guides you through a sort-of meditation that uses breath like a crowbar, prying open myths about defense, empire, and silence. Seven affirmations. One loud monkey mind. And a reminder that kindness, refusal, and joy are stronger than any budget line item. Sit down, breathe, and join Lloyd as he ...

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09. Trump's Museum of Lies: A Sort-of Guided...

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2025/08/26

Send us a text In Episode 9 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler drags you through Trump’s “Museum of Lies,” where impeachments vanish, slavery gets rebranded as a “skills-based migration program,” and the Confederate Chess Set comes standard with burning crosses and Handmaids as queens. From Smithsonian erasures to school board book bans, Lloyd calls out both Trump’s propaganda machine and the Democrats’ spinelessness, before flipping the tape into a guided meditation on memory, purpose, and re...

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08: Kurth Cobain and Lao Tzu vs. Palantir

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/08/19

Send us a text What happens when Kurt Cobain's punk-rock manifesto collides with Lao Tzu's Taoist wisdom? In this episode of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler leads a sorta guided meditation for anyone caught between raw rebellion and calm detachment. Through breath, affirmations, and a little monkey-mind mischief, Lloyd explores what it means to "hate your enemies, save your friends, find a place, speak the truth" — while asking how we balance rage with compassion, noise with silence, and prote...

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07. So, I Got an Email from Diane Court...

The Tao of Lloyd ·

2025/08/12

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler gets an email from his high school sweetheart, Diane Court — and spirals into a mix of Gen X heartbreak, that sinking “what can one person do” feeling when the system feels rigged from the inside, and a sort-of guided meditation on what happens when your ex joins the machine. Side A: (00:01) So, I Got an Email from Diane. Side B: (06:00) A Sort-of Guided Meditation for When Your High School Ex Reaches Out and Isn’t Happy with Who You’ve Become Support the sho...

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06. Donald Trump’s Obituary: A Meditation on Death....

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2025/07/29

Send us a text In this episode of The Tao of Lloyd, Gen X icon Lloyd Dobler returns with a death meditation disguised as an obituary and then flips the mixtape over for a Buddhist reflection on impermanence. This one’s about Trump. And Gaza. And your ex. Featuring the Five Remembrances and Lloyd’s monkey mind in full existential spiral. Support the show Website http://www.taooflloyd.com facebook https://www.facebook.com/TaoOfLloyd instgram https://www.instagram.com/taooflloyd/ twitter/ X htt...

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05. A Gen X Manifesto for the Trump Era: How to Be...

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2025/07/22

Send us a text Lloyd Dobler returns with a Gen X manifesto for the Trump Era—equal parts sacred refusal, cultural critique, and spiritual punk rock. This episode dives into the collapse of counterculture, the commodification of rebellion, and how to be water when everything’s on fire. It’s part mixtape, part middle finger, and part meditation on what comes after empire. From John Lennon to Reaganomics, from protest to podcast, this is Lloyd’s love letter to a generation that never asked to be...

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