Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmerica 250—America Throws Itself a Birthday Party (S2. Chapter 37)
Season 2 Episode 39
America is turning 250, and Lloyd Dobler is not bringing a casserole.
In Chapter 37 of The Tao of Lloyd, America250 becomes the starting point for a d…
5 hours ago
Bonus: The Tao of Lloyd Goes to Edinburgh Fringe
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This is not a traditional Tao of Lloy…
6 days, 6 hours ago
The Kids on the Bus (S2. Chapter 36)
Season 2 Episode 38
Pete Hegseth stood at West Point and gave the graduates a story in which the enemy is legible, the mission is clean, and unity means everyone sings t…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Meridian Doctrine (S2.Chapter 35)
Season 2 Episode 37
What happens when affirmation becomes more intoxicating than action?
Lloyd Dobler gets invited to speak at an exclusive corporate retreat hosted by Me…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley Messiah, Would Like to Sell You a Ticket to the Ark (S2. Chapter 34)
Season 2 Episode 36
What happens when a 2,500-year-old Taoist philosophy collides with Peter Thiel, Palantir, billionaire apocalypse bunkers, and the theology of ownersh…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
What if The Story Chooses You? (S2. Chapter 33)
Season 2 Episode 35
Self-knowledge, identity, and Tao Te Ching Chapter 33: when knowing yourself isn’t peaceful, and the story shaping you may not be your own.
What if yo…
1 month ago
A Gen X Manifesto for Surviving Late-Stage Everything
Season 2 Episode 34
What if Gen X wasn’t apathetic? What if we were just early to the end everyone else is still calling normal?
Before burnout became a personality, befo…
1 month, 1 week ago
What Is Our One Demand? (S2. Chapter 32)
Season 2 Episode 33
Lloyd Dobler revisits Occupy Wall Street, a broken projector in a 1996 indie cinema, and the lesson one stranger in the dark understood before he did…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Stupid Bloody Tuesday (S2. Chapter 31)
Season 2 Episode 32
What happens when war starts to feel like content?
In this episode of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler takes on Chapter 31 of the Tao Te Ching—an ancien…
2 months ago
Operation Epic Missing Endgame (S2. Chapter 30)
Season 2 Episode 31
What happens when momentum replaces strategy?
Blending satire, Taoist philosophy, and cultural commentary, Lloyd explores the law of counterforce and …
2 months, 1 week ago