S2. Chapter 3 — The Art of Letting Go When ICE Comes Calling
How do you practice not forcing when fascism’s testing the guardrails?
In Chapter 3, Lloyd wrestles with Wu Wei in real time — from ICE raids to the woman in the polka-dot dress flipping off empire with perfect alignment.
This episode moves from Lao Tzu’s verse to Rosa Parks, Fred Hampton, Audre Lorde, Greta Thunberg, and Colin Kaepernick — exploring what effortless action looks like when the world demands resistance. Part sermon, part meditation, and fully Lloyd.
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S2. Chapter 2: Solving for X in the Algorithm of Empire
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.
Part spiritual transmission, part mixtape rant, part guided non-meditation for people who meditate badly.
So sit still. Or don’t.
Either way, you’re one paradox closer to peace.
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S2. Chapter 1 — The Tao That Can Be Podcasted Is Not the Eternal Tao
In Chapter 1, Lloyd reads the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching and immediately breaks the first rule: he podcasts the un-podcastable. With Gen X humor, spiritual irreverence, and political clarity, Lloyd explores desire, distraction, and what it means to sit still inside a democracy mid-autopsy.
Lloyd Dobler returns for Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd — a satirical field guide for staying human in collapsing times. In Chapter 1, Lloyd reads the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching and immediately breaks the first rule: he podcasts the un-podcastable.
With Gen X humor, spiritual irreverence, and political clarity, Lloyd explores desire, distraction, and what it means to sit still inside a democracy mid-autopsy.
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Season 2 Trailer
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.
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 for Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd—where sacred refusal meets spiritual survival.