The Tao of Lloyd
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.
The Tao of Lloyd
Latest Episodes
Bonus: The Tao of Lloyd Goes to Edinburgh Fringe
Go Fund me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Tao-of-Lloyd-Goes-to-Edinburgh-FringeWebsite: https://www.taooflloyd.com/<...
The Kids on the Bus (S2. Chapter 36)
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 the same song.Lloyd knows that song.He sang it once. On a school bus in 1979, to a...
The Meridian Doctrine (S2.Chapter 35)
What happens when affirmation becomes more intoxicating than action?Lloyd Dobler gets invited to speak at an exclusive corporate retreat hosted by Meridian Systems, where billionaire futurists, wellness branding, political power, and te...
Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley Messiah, Would Like to Sell You a Ticket to the Ark (S2. Chapter 34)
What happens when a 2,500-year-old Taoist philosophy collides with Peter Thiel, Palantir, billionaire apocalypse bunkers, and the theology of ownership?In Chapter 34 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler takes apart the worldview of Silicon ...
What if The Story Chooses You? (S2. Chapter 33)
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 you don’t choose your story… what if it chooses you?Chapter 33 of the Tao Te Ch...