The Tao of Lloyd
Zen-punk mixtape meditations from iconic Gen X Everyman Lloyd Dobler. Think Ram Dass by way of Rage Against the Machine, filtered through a VHS tape of Say Anything left to melt on the dashboard of American decline.
Imagine 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; on a mission to craft a field guide for late-stage everything.
The Tao of Lloyd
Latest Episodes
S2. Chapter 32: What Is Our One Demand?
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.What if movements fail not because they ask too much, but because they forget they’re a...
S2. Chapter 31: Stupid Bloody Tuesday
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 ancient meditation on violence, restraint, and the human cost of war—and drags it straight thr...
S2. Chapter 30: Operation Epic Missing Endgame
What happens when momentum replaces strategy?Blending satire, Taoist philosophy, and cultural commentary, Lloyd explores the law of counterforce and why pushing harder doesn’t mean winning, and why every escalation eventually pushes back...
S2. Chapter 29: A Case for Regime Change in the USA
Is the revolution something you force… or something you stop preventing? Lloyd Dobler makes the case for regime change in the United States—not as a partisan power shift, but as a complete dismantling of the underlying system: billionaires, war...
S2. Chapter 28: Yin, Yang, and the Secretary of Armageddon
Lloyd reads Chapter 28 of the Tao Te Ching against militarized masculinity, performative strength, and the political theater of domination.Beginning with Pete Hegseth and widening into war budgets, denied healthcare, and America’s addict...