Podcast Episodes

America 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…

7 hours ago

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Bonus: The Tao of Lloyd Goes to Edinburgh Fringe

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6 days, 8 hours ago

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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