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The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 24: Pam Bondi and The Dow of MAGA vs. The Tao of LloydPam Bondi screams, “The Dow is over 50,000!” when asked about Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators.And suddenly the mask slips.Is it deflection? Gaslighting? Or is it translation?In Chapter 24 of the Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler explores what happens when performance replaces truth, when the market matters more than the missing, when green arrows outweigh human beings, and when even resistance starts to feel like auditioning.Because here’s the uncomfortable twist:It’s not just Pam Bondi performing.It’s all of us.Using Chapter 24 of...
2026-02-1912 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 23: The Lloyd Dobler Sit-Down UprisingWhat if the most anti-fascist thing you can do today is… sit down and get quiet?In S2 · Chapter 23: The Lloyd Dobler Sit-Down Uprising, Lloyd Dobler takes Chapter 23 of the Tao Te Ching: “express yourself completely, then keep quiet”—and turns it into a spiritual practice with political teeth.Because the system doesn’t just want your labor—it wants your attention. It wants you jittery, reactive, scrolling… so you never do the one thing that scares it: get clear.This episode includes a Tao Te Ching reading, a guided “sort-of meditation,” and Lloyd’s most embarrassingly...
2026-02-1610 min
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy PodcastSay Anything: Deep Thoughts About Romance, Masculinity, and Gen X Nostalgia for Boom BoxesSend us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I'm incarcerated, Lloyd!!This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily shares her analysis of one of the classic movies that happened to miss the Guy girls the first time around: Say Anything. Cameron Crowe's 1989 romance/comedy created some iconic moments in our collective Gen X childhood--notably the scene of John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler holding the boom box playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" over his head. Crowe's storytelling also turned a curious eye to toxic masculinity by s...
2026-02-1052 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 22: Harness Your NoMinneapolis. January 2026. Lloyd Dobler drops a chapter that refuses to “perform coherence” while the empire insists your eyes are lying.This is The Tao of Lloyd: a zen-punk mixtape meditation where Lloyd duct-tapes each of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching to the collapse of American empire like a sticky note that says: Be kind. Rewind. Revolt. Meaning: refuse to cooperate with the lie.In Chapter 22, Lloyd reads the Tao Te Ching’s paradox like a message in a bottle that just washed up on the shore of Minneapolis:If you wa...
2026-01-2917 minThe Tao of LloydHow to Be Water When the House Is on Fire (Mixtape Rewind, S1)New episodes return Thursday, January 22. Until then, here’s an essential Season 1 rewind: the manifesto episode. Gen X grief, late-stage everything, and wu wei resistance—be water, find the cracks, and help each other build what comes next.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, your reluctant middle-aged dissident. No ads. No paywalls. Just clarit...
2026-01-1516 minThe Tao of LloydGuided Meditation for When the News Won’t Let You Breathe (Mixtape Rewind, S1)New episodes return Thursday, January 22. Until then, here’s a curated Season 1 rewind for your nervous system. This one’s a sort-of guided morning meditation for when the doomscroll hits before you’ve even brushed your teeth.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, your reluctant middle-aged dissident. No ads. No paywalls. Just clarity, chaos, a...
2026-01-1212 min
Podnews Daily - podcast industry newsGlobal acquires sports content studio The OverlapSponsored by Lean & Loaf. Joining a gym is hard. Hiring Lean & Loaf is easy. They edit video for your podcasts while you loaf. See for yourself.
In the UK, Global have acquired a majority stake in The Overlap, one of the world's most popular football and sports destinations with more than 38 million monthly views on YouTube. The Overlap was founded by footballer Gary Neville, and recently acquired broadcasting rights for the German Bundesliga. The news comes in a World Cup year, after the launch of Global Studios and Sport by Global last October, and Global's acquisition of The...
2026-01-0603 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 21: Late Stage EverythingIf Late Stage Everything is when the system still runs—just not for humans, have we arrived there yet? In Chapter 21 of the Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler (yes, that Lloyd Dobler) drops a zen-punk mixtape meditation for doomscroll times. When your phone buzzes like a casino slot machine designed by a sociopath, your nervous system is getting hit with endless war + climate catastrophe + AI apocalypse before coffee, and “normal life” feels like a group project run by billionaires.Chapter 21 is not “five steps to inner peace.” It’s a chapter about learning to stop clinging—to...
2026-01-0509 min
The Tao of LloydMorning Meditation: Try Again. Fail Again. Fail BetterA morning meditation with Lloyd Dobler—yes, from Say Anything—all grown up and trying (imperfectly) to become a dissident sorta-guru.This is a repeatable ~10-minute practice for mornings when you woke up tired, hit snooze too many times, or you’re already commuting to the capitalist timeclock circus.Built around four “sacred questions” (popularized by Deepak Chopra):Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose? What am I grateful for?Expect breath cues, monkey mind interruptions, cultural critique, and permission to meditate badly—because not all of us can di...
2026-01-0108 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 20: Late-Stage Compliance (Why Do We Obey in Advance?)What rules are you still following that no one is enforcing anymore?Chapter 20 of the Tao of Lloyd takes on burnout culture: late-stage compliance, people-pleasing, and self-policing disguised as “professionalism.”Then a calm, deadpan guided meditation on opting out quietly, imperfectly, and without needing to prove anything today. With Lloyd Dobler.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fa...
2025-12-2909 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 19: Late Stage Capitalism (Who’s Stealing Your Time?)What happens when we mistake overworked and exhausted for virtue? Lloyd Dobler turns to the Tao Te Ching to examine why Americans are so tired, so rushed, and so starved for time with the people they love. Blending spiritual commentary, political critique, and dry Gen X humor, Lloyd asks what it would mean to design a life—and a society—where human beings matter more than productivity metrics. This is not a productivity hack. It’s a meditation on refusal, presence, and reclaiming time. Inspired by Liza Featherstone’s piece in Jacobin titled “Americans Want More Time To Spen...
2025-12-2515 min
The Tao of LloydLet Go of 2025 (a Lloyd Dobler sorta guided meditation)Ready to let go of 2025?This special episode of The Tao of Lloyd is a short, unorthodox guided meditation for anyone crossing the finish line of the year feeling braced, exhausted, and still carrying more than they meant to.Lloyd Dobler (yes, that Lloyd) all grown up—leads a calm, dry, anti-guru meditation built around four simple questions: what you’re still bracing for, what you’re carrying that you don’t need, what you can set down without forgetting, and what presence feels like without armor.Expect monkey mind interruptions, dark humor, and perm...
2025-12-2208 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 18: We Got the Guillotine, You Better RunWhy do powerful men keep fantasizing about public punishment?Lloyd Dobler riffs on “The Guillotine” by The Coup, written by Boots Riley, using the song’s provocation to examine how structural violence gets normalized under capitalism.In Chapter 18 of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu suggests that when a society forgets the Great Tao, fear hardens into spectacle—and power starts mistaking cruelty for strength.This episode was sparked by comments from Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, who recently fantasized publicly about executions—revealing how surveillance culture, m...
2025-12-1811 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 17: On Refusing OrdersWhat does it actually mean to refuse an unlawful order—when no one’s watching, and no one’s officially in charge?In Chapter 17 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler moves from a humiliating road-rage incident in a Whole Foods parking lot to a chilling national moment: U.S. lawmakers reminding the military of a long-settled legal truth—that service members are required to refuse unlawful orders, only to be accused of sedition punishable by death.Drawing on Chapter 17 of the Tao Te Ching, Lloyd explores why the best leadership is almost invisibl...
2025-12-1515 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 16: About My Road RageWhat happens when road rage turns into a near-death experience?In Chapter 16 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler sets out to explore stillness, emptiness, and non-reactivity, and then promptly fails in spectacular fashion at a red light. A reckless moment of political rage escalates into a real-world confrontation that nearly ends very badly, forcing Lloyd to reckon with the gap between spiritual ideals and how the nervous system actually behaves under threat.Grounded in Chapter 16 of the Tao Te Ching, this episode becomes a darkly funny, uncomfortably honest meditation on anger, ego...
2025-12-1115 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 15: Let the Mud SettleChapter 15: Let the Mud Settle Subscribe free: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloydMonthly supporters get the bonus universe: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membershipLloyd aims the Tao Te Ching at Trumplandia like a spiritual weather report for a country vibrating itself into madness. Using Chapter 15, he explores three versions of where he comes from: Seattle, the Big Bang, and a VHS copy of Say Anything that slipped into the multiverse.This is a guided meditation for people who metabolize news like caffeine, a political satire for listeners w...
2025-12-0812 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 14: The Future Keeps Ghosting UsWhat if the future keeps ghosting you because it doesn’t want to be predicted? In this chapter of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd wanders into prediction culture, political chaos, and AI riddles, using the Tao’s reminder that you can’t know the future—but you can inhabit the present. It’s a meditation on uncertainty, refusal, and staying human while the algorithms keep guessing.Subscribe free: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd | Monthly supporters get the bonus universe: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membership Send a text. Ask a question & I...
2025-12-0513 minThe Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 13: The Slow-Drip of FascismLloyd Dobler uses the Tao Te Ching to make sense of a tragedy in Washington DC: a National Guard member killed, another critically wounded, and a political system that turned grief into ammunition before the scene was even cleared. Lloyd traces the scapegoating of Afghan refugees, Trump’s threat to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries,” and the creeping authoritarianism that arrives not with a bang but a slow-drip leak no one bothers to patch.What follows is a guided meditation through the Tao Te Ching Chapter 13— a chapter that warns that success i...
2025-12-0210 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 12: A Trojan Horse Walks Into Open AIAI acceleration meets sensory overload meets the eerie quiet that appears when you finally silence your notifications. Lloyd uses the Tao Te Ching to navigate machine-learning hype, Gen X dread, and the possibility that enlightenment may just be your brain in airplane mode. A Taoist meditation on clarity in late-stage everything.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Do...
2025-11-2810 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 11: Pluribus. We Is UsLloyd Dobler returns with a guided meditation for an America that feels like it’s been written by Vince Gilligan on a bender with a quantum physicist.This chapter looks at the Tao Te Ching’s reminder that “the many” and “the one” are illusions we cling to when we’re scared, and how the Apple TV+ series Pluribus accidentally became a funhouse-mirror metaphor for our moment. Alternate selves, divided societies, infinite timelines, and the spiritual plot twist that We Is Us whether we like it or not.If Pluribus cracks open the multiverse, Chapter 11 asks: Wha...
2025-11-2510 minThe Tao of LloydBe Kind, Rewind: A Recap of Season 2, Chapters 1–10 | Tao of LloydSend us a textSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/taooflloyd/membershipNew to Season 2? Behind on a few episodes? Need a long exhale?This is your on-ramp.About Season 2: Lloyd Dobler is back, reimagined in an unauthorized sequel to the film Say Anything, as a middle-aged dissident with a podcast and a political axe to grind. Like the Tao Te Ching, Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd unfolds across 81 chapters. But where Lao Tzu offers timeless wisdom in a few spare lines, season 2 of th...
2025-11-211h 57
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 10: Can I Write My Way Home?A rediscovered 2011 letter from Diane Court kicks off a guided-meditation crisis. Lloyd turns to Chapter 10 to sift through memory, softening, relationships, Gen X nostalgia, and the parts of himself that once believed in things like tenderness and courage. A Taoist deep dive into self-reflection, heartbreak, and emotional archaeology.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, your reluctant mi...
2025-11-1914 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 9: Do Your Job and Go the F* HomeBurnout meets spiritual wisdom as Lloyd tries to follow the Tao’s advice to “step back” while TikTok insists you “go the f home.” From Black Friday chaos to yoga calamity to a Diane Court breadcrumb, he tackles unclenching, trauma alphabetizing, and resisting a culture that treats exhaustion as a patriotic duty.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from...
2025-11-1510 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 8: Be Water, My FriendLloyd channels the Tao Te Ching, Bruce Lee, and Standing Rock to figure out how to stay fluid in a country addicted to certainty, shouting, and weaponized confidence. A Taoist survival guide to softness, resilience, and not cracking like a ceramic mug dropped on concrete.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, yo...
2025-11-1111 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 7: Zohran Mamdani v. Donald TrumpLloyd holds Chapter 7 up to New York and accidentally walks into a borough-wide spiritual awakening involving Zohran Mamdani, a bureaucratic bull, and a matador with excellent timing. A Taoist meditation on revolution, clarity, compassion, activism, and the rare moment when capitalism finally blinks.Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloydSend a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Ge...
2025-11-0711 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 6: The Algorithm in a Long Swinging Red TieA cryptic Taoist passage meets an AI-fueled attention storm, and Lloyd tries to loosen his grip without dropping the entire plot. Between tech hype, political theater, spiritual commentary, and soft rebellion, he explores whether small human softness can survive a system designed to monetize your nervous system before breakfast.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, your re...
2025-11-0409 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 5: Does the Center Hold?Is it possible to stay centered when everything around you is engineered to panic? Lloyd attempts to meditate inside late-stage America, also known as a 24-hour anxiety carnival sponsored by lobbyists. With Lao Tzu whispering calm on one shoulder and W. B. Yeats muttering doom on the other, he searches for one breath that isn’t manufactured by crisis. A Taoist riff on clarity, culture, mindfulness, and why everything seems to be screaming all the time.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the show...
2025-10-3108 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 4: What If the Hippies Won?What would the world look like if the hippies won? Moving from nostalgia to social justice, from Reagan-era greed to democracy’s questionable taste in role models, this episode traces a quieter counterfactual: what might have happened if gentleness, softness, and care had been allowed to win—even once. Part meditation, part cultural memory, this chapter asks whether letting go isn’t retreat, but a different kind of resistance.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd i...
2025-10-2913 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 3: The Art of Letting Go When ICE Comes CallingHow do you practice letting go when the world refuses to stop escalating?Lloyd Dobler takes on wu wei—effortless action—by immediately trying far too hard to achieve it. Using the Tao Te Ching as a loose compass, he wanders through activism, moral clarity, and the temptation of spectacle, asking how to resist without burning out or becoming what you oppose. Part guided meditation, part political commentary, this episode is a Taoist survival guide for staying human when the pressure to react never lets up.From the edge of empire and the cent...
2025-10-2411 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 2: Stop Naming the FightWhat if the more precisely you name the fight, the harder it becomes to let go?Lloyd enters Chapter 2 determined to practice wu wei—effortless action—only to discover how difficult non-reactivity becomes when the algorithm keeps lighting up his phone with ICE hiring sprees and panic-bait alerts. This episode blends Taoist philosophy, political commentary, and Gen-X nervous system management into a meditation on control, naming, and the subtle ways outrage monetizes cortisol. Taoism, tech culture, and low-grade panic—now in one inconvenient episode.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe...
2025-10-2111 min
The Tao of LloydS2. Chapter 1: The Tao That Can’t Be PodcastedWhat happens when you try to podcast something that can’t be explained?Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd opens with Lloyd Dobler cracking the Tao Te Ching and immediately committing a cosmic error: trying to record the unrecordable. What follows is a duct-tape meditation, a philosophy podcast trapped inside a political commentary show, and a Gen-X attempt to stay human while democracy performs its own mid-life autopsy. If you want Taoism, mindfulness, satire, and spiritual resistance delivered like a half-remembered 1990s fever dream. Press play.Send a text. Ask a question & I wi...
2025-10-1714 minThe Tao of LloydSeason 2 Trailer: Lloyd Dobler’s Field Guide for Late Stage EverythingLloyd 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. Every Monday and Thursday.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 sa...
2025-10-1400 minThe Tao of Lloyd11B: Patreon Pledge Drive — Be Kind, Rewind: Side BSend us a texthttps://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloydIn Side B of Be Kind, Rewind, Lloyd Dobler revisits Episodes 6–10 of The Tao of Lloyd. From Trump’s obituary to Diane Court’s Palantir reveal, from Cobain vs. Lao Tzu to Trump’s Museum of Lies, to life inside the Department of War era—this is the midseason recap and pledge drive special. A mixtape of grief, satire, and refusal, stitched together with honesty, heartbreak, and a solidarity jar appeaSupport the showSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfL...
2025-09-221h 15The Tao of Lloyd11A. Patreon Pledge Drive — Be Kind, Rewind: Side ASend us a textSupport on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TaoOfLloydWelcome to Side A of Be Kind, Rewind. This is the midseason checkpoint: Episodes 1–5, revisited with Lloyd’s commentary, regrets, and the occasional new rant. New listeners—this is your catch-up tape. Long-time listeners—you’ll hear the backstory behind the mixtape. And yeah—it’s also pledge week. Support the show on Patreon to keep the tape rolling.Support the showSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TaoOfLloyd link tree: https://linktr.ee/TaoofLloyd
2025-09-171h 31
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 10: A Sort-of Guided Meditation for Life in the Department of War EraThe Department of “Defense” just dropped the act and rebranded as the Department of War. Not a glitch, not Orwellian doublespeak—just truth in advertising. In this episode, Lloyd Dobler guides you through a sort-of meditation that uses breath like a crowbar, prying open myths about defense, empire, and silence.Seven affirmations. One loud monkey mind. And a reminder that kindness, refusal, and joy are stronger than any budget line item.Sit down, breathe, and join Lloyd as he finds stillness in hostile conditions—and maybe slips a crowbar into the hinges of empire while he’s at...
2025-09-1014 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 9: Trump's Museum of Lies: A Sort-of Guided Meditation for Erased HistoriesLloyd Dobler tours Trump’s “Museum of Lies,” where history gets rewritten and propaganda poses as public service. Then he flips the tape into a guided meditation on memory, purpose, and resistance using the four sacred questions: Who am I, what do I want, what is my purpose, and what am I grateful for?A fast, funny mix of political satire, meditation, and Taoist clarity.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for la...
2025-08-2613 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 08: Kurth Cobain and Lao Tzu vs. PalantirWhat happens when Kurt Cobain's punk-rock manifesto collides with Lao Tzu's Taoist wisdom? In this episode of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler leads a sorta guided meditation for anyone caught between raw rebellion and calm detachment.Through breath, affirmations, and a little monkey-mind mischief, Lloyd explores what it means to "hate your enemies, save your friends, find a place, speak the truth" — while asking how we balance rage with compassion, noise with silence, and protest with peace.It's part mixtape, part meditation, and all Lloyd: equal doses of humor, nostalgia, and reflection from the ed...
2025-08-1915 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 7: So, I Got an Email from Diane Court...Lloyd Dobler gets an unexpected email from Diane Court and immediately spirals into equal parts Gen X heartbreak, existential dread, and political clarity. Side A unpacks the shock of hearing from an old love who may now work for the machine. Side B flips into a sort-of guided meditation for anyone who’s ever been ghosted, disappointed, or quietly horrified by who their high school ex grew up to be.Part nostalgia, part political commentary, part meditation you definitely weren’t ready for.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episode
2025-08-1212 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 6: Donald Trump’s Obituary: A Meditation on Death. His, Yours, and Mine.Lloyd Dobler writes Donald Trump’s obituary, turns it into a death meditation, and then accidentally drifts into Buddhist wisdom about Gaza, grief, and the ex you definitely shouldn’t text. Expect the Five Remembrances, a monkey mind doing cartwheels, and a reminder that impermanence applies to everything.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, your reluctant middle...
2025-07-2913 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 5: A Gen X Manifesto for the Trump Era: How to Be Water in a House on FireLloyd Dobler drops a full-volume Gen X manifesto for the Trump Era. Equal parts sacred refusal, spiritual punk rock, and cultural roast, this Gen X manifesto dismantles the myth of counterculture, calls out rebellion-as-brand, and asks how the hell we’re supposed to “be water” when everything’s on fire.With detours through John Lennon, Reaganomics, protest nostalgia, and Taoist clarity, this episode becomes a mixtape/meditation combo for anyone who grew up weird, stayed honest, and still remembers how to say no to empire.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a epi...
2025-07-2215 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 4: Superman vs. The Ministry of Truth SocialIs Superman too woke for America? Or is America just too asleep?In this episode of The Tao of Lloyd, our favorite boombox-wielding dropout-turned-anti-guru takes aim at Fox News, MAGA outrage, and the performative freakout over David Corenswet’s Superman daring to show empathy.SIDE A: A Mixtape Molotov Cocktail for the Snowflakes Who Fear EmpathyA high-flying, red-caped rant against fascist snowflake meltdowns, where Kellyanne Conway meets Orwell and Trump’s sealed Epstein file gets name-checked in a kangaroo court.SIDE B: A Guided Meditation for When Superman gets...
2025-07-1512 min
Rom-Com RescueBoomboxes, Blind Spots, and Bad Dads: A Deep Dive into Say Anything (1989)Any takeaways from this episode?We're kicking off our totally tubular '80s summer rewind series with the cult classic Say Anything (1989), starring Ione Skye and John Cusack. Kira’s teenage heart is swooning, while Izzy is…confused. We’re unpacking emotional enmeshment, obsessive crushes, and that infamous boombox scene (spoiler: it doesn’t go how you remember it). Come for the nostalgia, stay for the love lessons—and the healthy dose of side-eye.What We Cover:Lloyd Dobler: Dream guy or giant red flag?Diane’s wild ride from golden girl to jail visi...
2025-07-1039 minNew Podcasts - trailers for new and noteworthy showsThe Tao of Lloyd Comedy, Commentary, News, Culture, Society
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What if Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything grew up, got political, and accidentally became a spiritual teacher? The Tao of Lloyd features Lloyd as a middle-aged dissident broadcasting "mixtapes of sacred refusal and midlife mischief from the burned-out cassette deck of the multiverse—straight into the algorithmic hellscape of late stage everything."
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2025-07-1000 minThe Tao of LloydTrailer: The Tao of Lloyd- season 1"The Tao of Lloyd" Imagines What Happened to the Say Anything Icon After 35 Years.About The Tao of LloydThe Tao of Lloyd is a satirical first-person audio podcast featuring the fictional Lloyd Dobler as a middle-aged spiritual teacher navigating contemporary political and cultural chaos. Episodes blend meditation guidance, philosophical reflection, and pop culture commentary through the lens of one of cinema's most beloved romantic characters.New episodes are released Monday and Thursday and are available on all major podcast platforms."I'm not the truth. I'm the boombox pointing...
2025-07-1000 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 3: Lloyd Dobler’s Sort-of Guided Morning Meditation for When the News Won’t Let You BreatheYou wake up, open your phone, and immediately get slapped in the face by whatever fresh nonsense “that effing guy” cooked up overnight. Before you lose a single brain cell to the scroll, Lloyd Dobler hijacks your morning with a 10-minute sorta-guided meditation.He walks you through breath, stillness, and existential comedy while asking four sacred questions:Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose? What am I grateful for?Lo-fi vibes, Zen side-quests, political clarity, and the boombox guy trying very hard to keep your nervous system from filing a comp...
2025-07-0812 min
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 2: A Sort-of Guided Meditation for People Who Meditate Badly (And That’s Okay)A guided meditation for the spiritually curious and chronically distracted. Hosted by Lloyd Dobler, this 10-minute session blends Buddhist affirmations, Taoist wisdom, and monkey mind meltdowns wrapped in a Gen X mixtape vibe. It’s meditation for overthinkers—one beautifully glitched breath at a time.Send a text. Ask a question & I will answer, maybe in a episodeSupport the showABOUT / The Tao of Lloyd is a Zen-punk mixtape for late-stage everything—blending Tao Te Ching meditations, Gen-X philosophy, and anti-fascist satire from Lloyd Dobler, your reluctant middle-aged dissident. No ads. N...
2025-07-0113 minThe Tao of Lloyd03. Trump’s Iran War vs. The Desert of the RealLloyd Dobler breaks down Trump's bombing campaign against Iran, tracing 70 years of American intervention from the 1953 CIA coup to today's "Operation Midnight Hammer." Featuring a satirical Department of Defense recruitment ad, an open letter to Trump, and spiritual wisdom from the Tao Te Ching on how to hold both donuts and democracy in a time of empire.Show notes / Link mentions:Full transcript and sources available at TheTaoOfLloyd.comWebsite http://www.taooflloyd.comfacebook https://www.facebook.com/TaoOfLloydinstgram https://www.instagram.com/taooflloyd/twitter/ X...
2025-06-2428 minThe Tao of Lloyd02. Namaste, Motherfascists!!! or, Zen and the Art of Civil Disobedience | The Tao of LloydLloyd Dobler is back with a second transmission from the edge of empire.This time: a Marine deployment in LA, ICE raids rebranded as campaign optics, and a meditation session repeatedly interrupted by the fascist news cycle.From Sunset and Alvarado to Arjuna and Krishna, Lloyd navigates sacred refusal with a mixtape of riot gear, Ram Dass, and radical love.It’s spiritual resistance for the doomscroll age.Not just civil disobedience—Zen and the art of shutting down empire.Chapters include:• The Battle for LA• How to Medit...
2025-06-1120 min
Reel Sisters RewindSay AnythingGrab your boom box and cue up Peter Gabriel—this week on Reel Sisters Rewind, sisters Amanda Stephens and Missy Washam are revisiting Say Anything, the unforgettable 1989 teen romance that made us all fall for Lloyd Dobler.
In this episode, Amanda and Missy break down the iconic moments that turned this Cameron Crowe film into a pop culture touchstone—from that serenade in the rain to the heartfelt portrayal of first love and finding your voice. They’ll also share behind-the-scenes trivia, fascinating facts about the cast and crew, and why this movie still resonates decades later.
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2025-06-081h 20
The Tao of LloydS1. Episode 01: Sacred Refusal in the Trump EraLloyd Dobler returns! older, sharper, and trying to stay human in the Trump 2.0 era.In this debut episode of The Tao of Lloyd, he explores sacred refusal as a survival strategy, weaving together Zen philosophy, Gen X perspective, and cultural critique. From ICE raids to Project 2025, WarGames nostalgia to Ram Dass reflections, Lloyd examines what resistance looks like when the world feels upside down.Part meditation, part mixtape, and part political self-defense, this episode introduces the tone, humor, and defiant stillness that shape Season 1.🎧 Subscribe at TaoOfLloyd.com✊ Support the show, sign up fo...
2025-06-0327 min
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell BarrettIt’s Rom-Complicated! How Nice Guys Can Get the Girl: Lessons from ‘Say Anything’ (with Hollywood Producer Cristina Nava)“It’s Rom-Complicated!” returns, helping you find love by watching rom-com movies. This time, dating coach Connell Barrett shares love lessons from the 1989 Cameron Crowe classic “Say Anything.” He’s joined by special guest Cristina Nava, a Hollywood producer who specializes in making rom-coms! (Her latest movie, the very funny “Say a Little Prayer,” is now streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.) Can a quirky nice guy like Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) really win over his dream girl, Diane Court (Ione Skye)? Or does it take a boombox, a trench coat, and a questionable lack of boundaries? Let’s break it down.
2025-02-201h 20
80s Flick Flashback#128 - "Say Anything..." (1989) with Bethany WellsIn 1989, Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything became an iconic 80s romance that captured the awkwardness and sweetness of young love. The story follows Lloyd Dobler, a charming high school grad unsure of his future but knows he wants Diane Court, the smart yet emotionally distant valedictorian. This isn’t your typical romance—Lloyd isn’t the usual leading man, and Diane isn’t the stereotypical love interest. Instead, the film subverts expectations to deliver a heartfelt, unconventional love story that still resonates today. Join Tim Williams and guest co-host Bethany Wells as they dive into this classic on the 80s Flick Fl...
2025-02-141h 28
Doom GenerationSay Anything (1989): "I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."Graduating class of 89's valedictorian, Diane Court "whoa" (Ione Skye) has worked so hard on her future she hasn't had time to enjoy her present. Enter Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), emotionally mature, kickboxing military brat who decides to just call her up and ask her out. Diane wins a fellowship and is set to leave for England and Lloyd just wants to spend as much time with her as possible, but her father (John Mahoney) warns her against distraction even as his life is falling apart. A pen, a boom box, and a years long IRS investigation later; Lloyd an...
2024-02-101h 37
Turn Positivity Into Possibility202: How to Rock at Life…Think Like Lloyd DoblerHow to Rock at Life…Think Like Lloyd Dobler After listening to The Untitled Gen-X Podcast Episode On Repeat: Say Anything (1989) I was inspired to rewatch the movie Say Anything and I was amaZed at the wisdom of Lloyd Dobler. Tune in and listen how the wisdom of Lloyd should be the rules for life then and now. How does Lloyd wisdom speak to you? What advice will you put into action? Let's connect and share what spoke to you?
GenX Badasses what if I could show you a simple tool that could increase yo...
2022-10-2826 min
Turn Positivity Into Possibility202: How to Rock at Life…Think Like Lloyd DoblerHow to Rock at Life…Think Like Lloyd Dobler After listening to The Untitled Gen-X Podcast Episode On Repeat: Say Anything (1989) I was inspired to rewatch the movie Say Anything and I was amaZed at the wisdom of Lloyd Dobler. Tune in and listen how the wisdom of Lloyd should be the rules for life then and now. How does Lloyd wisdom speak to you? What advice will you put into action? Let's connect and share what spoke to you?
GenX Badasses what if I could show you a simple tool that could increase your...
2022-10-2826 min
The Untitled GenX PodcastON REPEAT: Say Anything (1989) — with Pat!PAT IS BACK! Join Lori and Pat ON REPEAT as they fall in love all over again with one of the most romantic films of our generation, 1989’s Say Anything, starring John Cusack and Ione Skye.
From men who are best friends with women, coming of age moments in cars, and Lloyd Dobler as a warrior for optimism, to wanting to get hurt, friends with potential, and pens as parting gifts, they raise their boombox in high praise of Cameron Crowe's directorial debut.
"Nobody Thinks It Will Work, Do They? ‘Say Anything…’ Turns 30" by Elizabeth Nelson
2022-10-251h 22
The Friendship DilemmaEpisode 13: Say AnythingAfter a decade of raunchy teen sex comedies with a pubescent mentality and a momentary elevation through the work of John Hughes, the 1980s graduated with a teenage romance that took things to a new level. In the middle of Cameron Crowe’s tale of love between a directionless good guy and a driven valedictorian was a friendship rarely seen before or even since in the movies. John Cusack’s Lloyd Dobler and Lili Taylor’s Corey Flood were besties who advised and looked out for each other through past pain and the potential for future greatness and sadness. Erik...
2022-08-021h 25
The Rom-Com RoomSay AnythingThis week in “The Rom-Com Room,” Kendra and Mercedes finally get to one of Kendra’s all-time favorite rom-coms, SAY ANYTHING. Can Kendra find it in her heart to roast this summer-after-high-school classic? IS Lloyd Dobler the perfect man? There’s only one way to find out. If you’d like to submit questions or notes for our hosts, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @MeetCuteRomComs on Twitter and TikTok.You can listen to Meet Cute stories on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Join the rom-com conversation on our Discord.
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2022-07-0138 min
Max, Mike; MoviesEpisode 199: Singularity (2017)And we come to the end of our “Focus on: John Cusack” series and a short but wild ride it’s been. Wasn’t “High Fidelity” cool? Didn’t you just love Lloyd Dobler as a character? Wasn’t the Savannah setting in “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” intriguing? Yeah . . . welp, that about sums up the series, thanks for joining us! For next time . . . hm? What’s that? THIS week’s movie? 2017’s “Singularity”? Yeeeeaaahhhhh . . . right . . . that one . . . uh . . . sure, I mean, we can talk about it. If you really want to. I mean, John Cusack’s in it . . . pretty much. For s...
2022-06-2053 min
I Hate It But I Love ItSay AnythingThis week, it's an unexpected I Love It But I Love It as we discuss Cameron Crowe's Say Anything! We chat about the perfection of Lloyd Dobler, a perfectly realized bad guy in John Mahoney, and how Corey is all around perfect. This episode brought to you in part by Jenni Kayne. Curated, stylish staples that work with everything in your closet. Adding Jenni Kayne to your wardrobe will instantly make you the best-dressed version of yourself. Find your forever pieces at www.jennikayne.com and get 15% off your first order when you use code LOVEIT at chec...
2022-02-161h 06
That's OutrageousSeason 3, Episode 5: The Cusack Classic, "Say Anything" plus the Superman of the Tsunami, a promposal goes viral and the newest Guinness RecordsAs if high school weren't filled with enough anxiety, along comes the Promposal to inject even more stress into an already emotionally fraught situation. However, one high school Connecticut boy not only got his "yes" but the moment went viral. Find out why everyone is going "aw". Plus, a man is swept away in the horrific Tonga tsunami and lives to tell a tale of incredible survival and an update on the Guinness Book of World Records. One man set a new record every week for a full year. Now Anne ("I don't have the heart of a champion") a...
2022-02-0354 min
The Play me Tape podcastEp 55 - Part Deux of Music in MoviesWelcome to Part 2 of our New Years Music in Movies spectacular! This episode, Jake, a certified movie nut, chooses his favourite songs that were used in Movie soundtracks. He's got some great ones kids and some are shocking! Lloyd Dobler would be proud! Get out your boombox, strap on your rollerskates, bring an umbrella, and turn up the volume for a song packed episode that will leave you saying BANG!
2022-01-081h 17
FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHTFriday Family Film Night: SAY ANYTHING reviewIn which the Mister and Monsters join me in going all the way back to the 80s and reviewing SAY ANYTHING (1989), currently available on HBO MAX but also other platforms. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, the film follows the budding romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) and Diane Court (Ione Skye) in the Summer after high school graduation and before Diane departs to college in England. Her father James (played by the late/great John Mahoney) isn't too keen on Lloyd and sees him as a "distraction". A family crisis rips Lloyd and Diane apart but will love sav...
2021-11-0617 min
Revolution ChurchHaphazardly HumanBack from the New York Premiere of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jay gives a brief talk about humanity before answering viewers questions about his experience on the “Pink Carpet.” Before diving into the ups and downs of his premiere experience, Jay visits, as usual, the apostle Paul and discusses what Paul has to say about our humanity and also talks about how we can live a life that is based in reality - where we can recognize the hypocrisy in our own lives and the things we do to fill the ‘lack within us.’ He discusses the idea of “fall...
2021-09-241h 21The Untitled GenX PodcastSay Anything (1989) — with Pat!PAT IS BACK! Join Lori and Pat as they fall in love all over again with one of the most romantic films of our generation, 1989’s Say Anything, starring John Cusack and Ione Skye.
From men who are best friends with women, coming of age moments in cars, and Lloyd Dobler as a warrior for optimism, to wanting to get hurt, friends with potential, and pens as parting gifts, they raise their boombox in high praise of Cameron Crowe's directorial debut.
"Nobody Thinks It Will Work, Do They? ‘Say Anything…’ Turns 30" by Elizabeth Nelson
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2021-09-141h 22
Finding Harmony PodcastCasey Palmer: A Proto Punk Pioneer in PortlandAs you’re quickly becoming aware, We, in our little Ashtanga Yoga Land, have a culture. This word stems from the Latin meaning “to cultivate or to toil over.” And, this cultivation of the soil, slowly became a cultivation of the mind.
This is were we get the word ‘cult’ from... which is to say, “cultivated, or inhabited.”
In a way, our work in yoga, leads our mind to become inhabited. We become Self-possessed.
Without really sitting down to talk with Casey Palmer before now, what we noticed immediately, is that we share a common exper...
2021-08-081h 52
Brokenhearted BlockbusterSay AnythingSay Anything: This week guest Courtney Merrell comes to the podcast with two cans of wine and cheese-- what could go wrong? This one is for all you 80's kids! Say Anything is a 1989 teen romantic comedy-drama written by Cameron Crowe. The film follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student, and Diane Court (Ione Skye), the class valedictorian, immediately after their graduation from high school. Jill and Courtney drink wine, sing Peter Gabriel and feel the earth move.
2021-07-091h 12
TryloveEpisode 125: SAY ANYTHING (1989)Our Polly Platt series comes to an end with one of the producer, production designer, and hitmaker’s best-known works: the ur-teen romcom SAY ANYTHING… We discuss the movie’s status as romcom classic, the questionable influence of the American dream over the lives of vulnerable youth, whether or not Lloyd Dobler is a simp, and whether or not they should’ve cut the “ding” from the final shot of the movie. IYKYK. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www...
2021-06-301h 23
Crazy TownComplexity and Armageddon, or… the Story of the Hemp MicrophoneSociety has become so complex that all the complexity begets more complexity. And if that’s not complex enough for you, jobs have become so specialized that hardly anyone knows how anything is made or works. Join Jason, Rob, and Asher as they contemplate how to make a microphone from scratch, break down the tertiary jobs in a pirate economy (parrot tenders and eyepatch makers), and explain the Lloyd Dobler hypothesis. They also explore a conundrum: even though the industrialized economy is bumping into the limits to growth and risking environmental meltdown, most people remain locked into their specialized jo...
2021-04-211h 13
Minding the MultiverseEpisode 12: The Punisher - Part 2This week we complete our contract on The Punisher, witness Frank have his Lloyd Dobler moment and find out which one of us caused the podcast to be late by folding like the cheap beach chair he is.
2021-03-041h 44
Podcast | The Wise Fool Art PodcastChief Curator + Director of Programs, Rachel Adams, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE, USA)We discuss: How to write a residency application, In an application, fill in every field, How to structure your documentation of your work for submissions, Why me and why now, The importance of diversity in the participants, The application process is competitive, 1 in 30 are accepted, The desire to make family friendly residencies, Budgeting funds and space for work created during residencies, Thrift and antique opportunities are abundant in Omaha, Being on the residency circuit, The Lloyd Dobler gallery
People + Places mentioned:
John Michael Kohler Arts Center – https://www.jmkac.org
Omaha Steaks – https://www.omahasteaks.com
2020-09-291h 02The Wise Fool Art PodcastChief Curator + Director of Programs, Rachel Adams, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE, USA)We discuss: How to write a residency application, In an application, fill in every field, How to structure your documentation of your work for submissions, Why me and why now, The importance of diversity in the participants, The application process is competitive, 1 in 30 are accepted, The desire to make family friendly residencies, Budgeting funds and space for work created during residencies, Thrift and antique opportunities are abundant in Omaha, Being on the residency circuit, The Lloyd Dobler gallery
People + Places mentioned:
John Michael Kohler Arts Center - https://www.jmkac.org
Omaha Steaks - https://www.omahasteaks.com
San Francisco...
2020-09-291h 02
High School Slumber PartySay Anything...Hold your boombox over your head for this one as Kate Hudson returns to talk Say Anything Brian continues his back and forth trip through Cameron Crowe's career by chatting about his first film in the director's chair. Luckily for him, John Cusack super-fan and Lloyd Dobler loyalest Kate Hudson helps break down everything that makes Say Anything such an ICONIC film. Also staring Ione Skye, Joan Cusack and John Mahoney; find out which characters Kate loves, which she can't stand and what she thinks of the ending. Ding!
2020-09-142h 21
Sons of the Double CheeseburgerSay AnythingKevin and Brandon talk about the latest happenings, including the fire season in the Western US, experiences with bees, and Lloyd Dobler, among other things.
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2020-09-1444 min
MoneyNeverSleeps096: The Trilogy: Elaine Deehan, Starling Bank and EWPNThis week, we welcome Elaine Deehan from Starling Bank back to the show with a session recorded as part of a Virtual Meetup organised by FSCom for the European Women’s Payment Network last month. Elaine was originally on episode 23 when she was the founder of Pocketwire, and we remastered that for episode 76 as it’s one of our most popular episodes.
This episode is kindly sponsored by Ireland’s fintech and financial services recruitment specialists, Top Tier Recruitment. If you would like an intro to the team at Top Tier Recruitment, please click here.
For insig...
2020-07-3131 min
Imitating Art with Don & ChuckSay Anything, High Fidelity, and Healthy RelationshipsWhat are your top five favorite life lessons from movies of all time? Don and Chuck may disagree on which John Cusack movie stands as his best, but one thing is for sure: both films can teach us a lot what does and doesn't belong in a healthy relationship. As an added bonus, hear Chuck rail against Rob Gordon's repugnant personality! Lloyd Dobler would be disappointed, Rob.
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2020-07-281h 04
Trick or Treat RadioTorTR #417 - Dial D for DementiaSend us a textA daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by the manifestations of podcast hosts as they consume the family's home. On Episode 417 of Trick or Treat Radio we get ready for our eight year anniversary show next episode by talking about Relic, an Australian Horror flick from first time feature director Natalie Erika James. We also talk about our big plans for the eight year anniversary show, MZ gives us the details about the release of Morbid Tales, and a lot of chatter about the fear of mortality, losing your mind and loved ones...
2020-07-242h 22
My Worst DateI Love That Journey For YouThis week, Keegan, Cassi and Christina dish about Love is Blind, play FMK with Lloyd Dobler, Bender and Jake Ryan, talk about a naïve first time Netflix and chill, go on a rollercoaster ride of a date with Jaeger, and cringe about an awkward first time in a tent. Keegan wraps it up with the Crazy in Love story of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood.
Got a crazy story? Share it with us at http://www.myworstdatepodcast.com. Also check out our friend at http://www.alternativedreamclothing.com for exclusive merch designs!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...
2020-03-042h 05
What A WeekThe Joke's On Us, I Guess75% of voters want to hear new witnesses and John Bolton's out there doing his best Lloyd Dobler impression outside the capitol building but Senators Ernst and Grassley couldn't care less. They, along with 49 other Republicans voted not to hear any further evidence in the impeachment trial.Republicans in the Iowa House tried to take a bottle of white out to the Iowa Civil Rights Act but were stopped by... Steve Holt?And we're joined by Sue Dinsdale of Iowa Citizen Action Network to talk about their drug price reduction platform and how you, an Iowa...
2020-02-0115 min
Pop CulturingSay Anything (1989)
Cathy and Todd discuss Say Anything and share why Lloyd and Diane’s love and friendship inspired us to be better people.
Say Anything … is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe in his directorial debut. The film follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student, and Diane Court (Ione Skye), the class valedictorian, immediately after their graduation from high school. In 2002, Entertainment Weekly ranked Say Anything … as the greatest modern movie romance, and it was ranked number 11 on Entertainment Weekly‘s list of the 50 best high-school movies.[3]
2019-08-141h 01
Zen PopSay Anything- Podcast #506We couldn’t tape a show this week because Todd was sick ☹, so this is our Pop Culturing Podcast where we talk about the movie Say Anything… (1989) – we share why Lloyd and Diane’s love and friendship inspired us to be better people. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming next week!
Say Anything … is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe in his directorial debut. The film follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student, and Diane Court (Ione Skye), the class valedictorian, immediately after their graduation from high school. In 2002...
2019-08-131h 03
The Plotaholics Podcast: Movie ReviewsSay AnythingThis week, we have a bittersweet episode for you Plotaholics. We bring The Plotaholics Podcast's first event, The Summer of Cusack, to a close. We have seen some of the best of the great John Cusack, but now we see what is among the best of the best of: the 1989 classic Say Anything...In Say Anything, John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler, an average student at best that's fallen in love with honor student, valedictorian, and Academic Fellowship winner Diane Court played by Ione Skye. This Cameron Crowe-directed film contains one of the most iconic scenes...
2019-08-111h 54Trick or Treat RadioTorTR #363 - How's Your Musk?Send us a textTrick or Treat Radio comes to England, where they must seek an audience with Nimue, The Blood Queen. But their discussion will bring about the end of the world, a fate they desperately cannot avoid. On Episode 363 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss Hellboy (2019) starring David Harbour, and directed by Neil Marshall! Theatrically, this film was pretty divisive, we dig down into the film and compare it to the source material and the Del Toro films. We also discuss our favorite pre-2008 comic book films, talk briefly about Season Three of Stranger...
2019-07-123h 25
Have a Good MovieSay Anything... (1989) / High Fidelity (2000) / Avengers: EndgameFind us at:
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CW: Gaslighting, rape, casual misogyny, brief mention of incels, emotional abuse.
We’re in between series right now, and as we reached for our grab bag, our listener Bill reached out and suggested this fairly fantastic John Cusack double feature! We’re here to swoon over the awkward, scruffy stray puppy charm of Lloyd Dobler and rip his evil, misogynist twin Rob Gordon to shreds. It’s fascinating watching these two movies back to bac...
2019-04-2900 min
Go With The HeatThis Week In Vice 103 – April 30 – May 6, 1989RSS | iTunes | Google | Pocket Casts | YouTube | TuneIn
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Hi pals, coming up on this week's episode of Go With The Heat Stan and Sonny infiltrate a group of white supremacists linked to murders in the episode Victims of Circumstance. On This Week In Vice we're taking a look back to when this episode of Miami Vice aired, from April 30 to May 6, 1989, when Miami Vice was King.
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With the extended period between Vice episodes last week there was more news to cover than time on this show. This week we're go...
2019-01-2502 min
Hey, Do You Remember...? - 27th Letter ProductionsSay Anything... Say Anything is a pretty impressive directorial debut for Cameron Crowe. Not only does it establish all of the hallmarks we now associate with his films, it also does so with more confidence than you usually see with a lot of first-time directors. Crowe's not taking his awkward first steps as a filmmaker. He pretty much hit his stride right out of the gate.Which is not to say there aren't aspects of this that seems a little awkward in retrospect. One of us had never seen this before and so there were a lot of things...
2018-07-2700 min
Hey, Do You Remember...?Say Anything... Say Anything is a pretty impressive directorial debut for Cameron Crowe. Not only does it establish all of the hallmarks we now associate with his films, it also does so with more confidence than you usually see with a lot of first-time directors. Crowe's not taking his awkward first steps as a filmmaker. He pretty much hit his stride right out of the gate. Which is not to say there aren't aspects of this that seems a little awkward in retrospect. One of us had never seen this before and so there were a lot...
2018-07-272h 01
Nashville2Memphis17. Justin Patton: Social Media is Driving Us All MadLike my all time personal hero Lloyd Dobler says, “I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.” It all starts with a nutty bar. The only multi-appearing guest this season of N2M is the one and only Justin Patton. He takes a break from his training for his NBA debut…sorry wrong Justin Patton...
2018-06-141h 07
We Love the LoveSay Anything...YOU. MUST. CHILL. and listen to a new episode of Heart of Podness! This week, Will and Marc take a look at Cameron Crowe's 1989 directing debut, SAY ANYTHING...
Join us for a conversation about Dippin' Dots, John Cusack's passionate input into the role of Lloyd Dobler, and some surprising efforts to remake it.
PLUS: Will and Marc talk #TwilightAt10, gush about John Mahoney, and uncover the true history of the Space Needle. And Mr. Lep speaks at last!
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2018-05-291h 00
Happily Ever AftermathSay Anything...(1989)We made it to our 25th movie and end our Cusack Run as we talk about Polina’s pick Say Anything... (1989). To Polina, Lloyd Dobler holding the boom box over his head is shorthand for the grand romantic gesture. On her viewing of the film, Diana observes that even though Lloyd is “perfect in every way” and manages to do “everything right” he still has to fight for the relationship. A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. Stars John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, and direct...
2018-04-251h 00
American VampireBella Swan Talks to Cacti ("Twilight" Chapters 9-16)In this episode Briana and Sid discuss the middle third of "Twilight", Chapters 9 through 16. Topics include musings on what Bella's life in Phoenix was like, what the unique powers of the Twilight vampires have to do with American Christianity, and the ol' Lloyd Dobler problem of the thin line between "this is romantic" and "I'm calling the cops". PS: Did you know that the "lion and the lamb" line we talk about in this episode isn't actually in the Bible? Neither did we! Apparently the closest you get is: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, a...
2017-12-131h 06
The RE-View PodcastThe Lloyd Dobler Trilogy OR Looking for LloydFinally, a non-geek podcast from the guys! Witness as Samuel and Bentley travel down the emotional highway of John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler character, from his beginnings in Say Anything to The Sure Thing to Grosse Point Blank. Honorary parts of this thematically-unified series of films are High Fidelity and Serendipity, which we also cover!
Honestly, all of these films would have been better with Alan Arkin's therapist from Grosse Point Blank. "See, that wasn't a nice thing to say! That wasn't designed to make me feel good!"
2017-08-1432 min
Miserable Retail SlaveThe Lloyd Dobler of 2017More Tales of Barber Bill/ Tommy’s emo haircut/ being one the guys in the barber shop/ Rags Wilson, “Edsel’s Last Plow”/ Telepathic barbers would make the best hitman/ Hitman barber skills/ Cut the Soul Hair/ Tommy would make a good hitman/ The Glorious Singing Mafia/ Tommy performs Dean Martin/ Win the human race by being born later/ Barber Bill’s Al Capone connection/ The Equinox Bros./ The Bad News Bears of the vehicle crowd/ The world has been strange lately/ Tommy gets in a grocery store fight/ “I A Verbal Street Fighter”/ The Elvis Impersonator/ Everyone should wear pull-away...
2017-05-011h 22