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Oct 14, 2025 • 65:40 minutes

This week on Three for the Founders, we invite you to play America’s favorite quiz: What’s scarier—fraternity hazing or an AR-15? Spoiler alert: one of them can be survived with juice boxes and patience. The other requires ear protection.

Our guest is Alan Wright—fraternity brother, Sigma stalwart, and the one-man YouTube machine behind 2A-N-LA. He walks us through pledging philosophies (“What you gain too easily you value cheaply”) and then—because irony is delicious—explains why he now owns about 80 firearms he definitely did not gain cheaply.

We cover the basics:

• Gun safety 101: Eyes, ears, and making sure your range buddy still has all ten fingers when you’re done.
• History quiz: Did you know gun control laws in California were originally designed to keep Black Panthers disarmed? Yes, even Ronald Reagan had a role in America’s favorite game show: Who Gets Rights?
• Fun fact: “AR” stands for Armalite, not “Assault Rifle.” We know, it ruins half of Twitter’s jokes.

🎧 Questions for listeners:

• If you owned 80 of anything—guitars, cats, Beanie Babies—would your family stage an intervention, or just sell tickets?
• Is a Star Wars “Stay on Target” T-shirt an acceptable segue into a firearms debate, or should we have gone with “Use the Force, Not the Firearm”?
• And seriously—who do you trust more: your newsfeed algorithm or the guy with a Glock who also happens to be your godfather?

📝 Takeaways:

• Brotherhood sometimes means letting pledges breathe. Gun ownership sometimes means letting society breathe—before pulling the trigger.
• The number one new demographic of gun owners is Black women. Yes, America, meet your stereotype breaker.
• Dialogue beats shouting. Especially when shouting happens in an enclosed range with live ammo.

✅ Action items:

• Like, subscribe, and maybe rethink your next meme about “assault rifles.”
• Ask yourself whether your information diet is coming from data—or from whichever politician last yelled “freedom!” the loudest.
• And if you do head to the range… remember Alan’s golden rule: everybody goes home safe.

Because this is Three for the Founders: where we keep our trigger discipline tight, our mic levels tighter, and our sarcasm fully automatic.

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🎙️ Three for the Founders: Episode 1 (Remix)

Airdate: October 6, 2025 • 1 hr, 2 min

Please allow us to re-introduce ourselves. Our name is Three for the Founders:

You’ve heard people say “I’m not racist.” But what if that’s exactly where racism hides?

This week, Three for the Founders reaches back with a director's cut, a remix of their very first episode—where three fraternity brothers trade comfort for candor in a fearless unpacking of racism, white supremacy, and America’s enduring myths.

Lybroan James, Reynaldo Antonio Macías, and Jon Augustine—three men bonded by brotherhood and sharpened by years of cross-racial conversation—take us beyond the slurs and the “hard R’s” into the quiet violence of detachment. Together, they name what many won’t: that neutrality is partnership, that silence is capital, and that America’s favorite myths—from Lincoln’s sainthood to Santa Claus—still serve as the bedtime stories of whiteness.

With humor, love, and uncomfortable honesty, they dismantle the everyday wind that pushes some of us forward and others back. From flag worship and “heritage” hysteria to DEI backlash and redlined neighborhoods, the hosts trace how symbols, language, and laws still do the heavy lifting of white supremacy—even when no one “means to.”

This isn’t a lecture. It’s a living-room intervention—equal parts scholarship, storytelling, and brotherly debate. The kind of talk that would make James Baldwin lean in and say, “Now, that’s the truth.”

So if you’re ready to stop whispering about race—and start defining it with precision—pull up a chair. As the brothers say, this is love work.

Listener Takeaways:

🌀 Redefine racism: It’s not just hate—it’s detachment.

🌬️ Check the wind: Whose back is it at, and whose face is it in?

🏛️ Interrogate the myth: What “truths” are you protecting, and at whose expense?

🤝 Engage: Use your proximity, your access, your discomfort—for good.

Hosts:

•Lybroan — Math educator, futurist, and former Young Republican with a “Ph.D. in white-tea.” (UCLA, Harvard)

•Reynaldo Antonio — Historian, educator, and community builder fluent in identity, language, and legacy. (UCLA, Brown)

•Jon — Musician, executive coach, and a white man initiated into a Black fraternity, navigating whiteness from the inside. (UCLA)

Together, they make up Three for the Founders: a podcast born from decades of late-night talks among brothers who refuse to flinch at the truth—and who want you to stop flinching, too.

Call to Action:

💬 Share your reflections at threeforthefounders.com or on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, or send us a text through Buzzsprout.

❤️ Comment, like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who “doesn’t see race”—they need to hear it.

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🎙️ Hey y’all, it’s been a minute.

This bonus episode of Three for the Founders is what happens when travel plans, grammar jokes, and breaking news collide. Hours after Charlie Kirk was shot, the hosts ask: was it an assassination or did that fool just get shot? They pull apart how the media frames violence, what it says about our politics, and why America still clings to the myth that killing “the bad guy” somehow makes things right.

And it’s not all heavy — there’s banter about speaking three languages in Morocco, the eternal fight over the Oxford comma, and why “I got you” in Black English does more work than a whole paragraph. The team also gets real about their own dynamics — who’s facilitating, who’s participating — and share some big news: the podcast is moving to a biweekly release schedule. Next drop? October 14th.

So: is violence ever redemptive, or just another myth we tell ourselves? Is “assassination” a political word, or just a shiny label the media slaps on whoever’s trending? And, most importantly… why does “probologetic” kinda sound like a word we need?

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Good morning, family. You’re tuned in to Three for the Founders, and we’re coming at you this Monday, September 16th with a brand-new episode that runs a smooth 65 minutes and change.

This week, John, Lybroan, and Antonio start with the kind of banter that’ll have you grinning before you sip your coffee—debating whether it’s sock-sock, shoe-shoe or sock-shoe, sock-shoe (and yes, they manage to turn even that into a DEI joke). They shout out friends from Santa Clara to the San Fernando Valley—and even a new listener tuning in all the way from Vietnam.

Then the crew flips the beat and goes deep:

• What does it mean when we talk about “white time” versus communal rhythms of the global majority?

• How do Black and Brown teachers shift classroom culture from rigid bells and whistles to gatherings that begin when the people are ready?

• And what really happened with integration after Brown v. Board—was it about race, or about resources?

Along the way you’ll hear stories of math made dope, classrooms as lifelong families, Mama James’ “check and hug” survival strategy, and why speaking—like jazz—ain’t about hitting every note, it’s about knowing when to improvise.

And before they sign off, the hosts draw a sharp line between everyday prejudice and the weight of systemic racism backed by government power. It’s candid, it’s layered, it’s got humor and heart—just like hip hop radio in its golden age, but with that NPR-level reflection.

So hit play, stay with us, and when it’s done—share it with somebody who can use it, or somebody who can challenge it. Because these conversations don’t end here, they keep moving when you bring them into your world.

🎧 Three for the Founders: Episode dropping Monday, September 15th

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🎙️ This week on Three for the Founders, the hosts dive into one of the most pressing and uncomfortable realities of our time: racism, proximity, and the ways white supremacy quietly weaves itself into the fabric of modern society.

In this unreleased conversation—titled Exploring Racism and Proximity in Modern Society—you’ll hear candid stories of family, history, and lived experience. The hosts wrestle with parallels between current government actions against communities of color and the haunting echoes of the Holocaust. They unpack how white privilege often goes unnoticed, and how the lack of genuine proximity between people of different races fuels misunderstanding and division.

You’ll also hear Lybroan share a story about sitting down with Peggy McIntosh, the scholar who first coined the term white privilege, and what that moment revealed about hidden advantages many never think twice about. And the metaphor of people of color as “zoo animals”—observed, but not truly engaged—invites listeners to question their own roles in systems of passive observation.

✨ Here are a few questions we invite you to consider as you listen:

• What happens when we move beyond observation and into genuine proximity?
• How do our personal stories shape the way we see—or ignore—systems of oppression?
• If white supremacy thrives on being normalized, what does it look like to denormalize it in our daily lives?
• And perhaps most importantly: what will it take for us to step out of silence and into meaningful dialogue?

🗓️ Mark your calendars: Exploring Racism and Proximity in Modern Society drops Monday, September 8th, 2025. The episode runs 30 minutes, and trust me—you’ll want to sit with every second.

👉 Subscribe now to Three for the Founders wherever you get your podcasts, and join the conversation.

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🎙️ Episode 16 — The Gospel According to Power (Part 2)
📅 Airdate: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Okay, friends—in this second of two parts, this is the one you cannot miss. Episode 16 of Three for the Founders isn’t just the next chapter… it’s the first time they’re bringing in a guest. And not just any guest—Dr. Christopher Carter. Yes, that Dr. Carter—scholar, pastor, and truth-teller whose work bridges faith, race, ethics, and the real-life consequences of what we preach.

This conversation? It’s electric. The kind that makes you want to hit pause just to say “Wait, did they really just go there?” They unpack what happens when pastors turn pulpits into pedestals, why charisma without accountability is dangerous, and how history keeps repeating itself when we don’t interrogate our theology.

💭 Questions for you to think about while you listen:

• Have I confused a leader’s authority with divine authority?
• How has my church’s history shaped the way I read scripture today?
• Who benefits when we don’t ask questions?

📌 Action Items / Takeaways:

• Listen with both your faith and your skepticism engaged.
• Look up one historical example mentioned in the episode and dig deeper.
• Start one uncomfortable but necessary conversation this week—with your small group, your family, or that friend who “just doesn’t like politics in church.”

I’ll be listening with my journal open, coffee hot, and my text thread ready—because this is the kind of episode you’re going to want to discuss immediately.

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🎙️ Episode 15 — Is God Racist? No, But Their Fan Clubs Are.

God’s PR department has been putting in some questionable work for a few centuries now. Reynaldo Antonio, Jon, and Lybroan sit down with Dr. Christopher Carter to unpack how the Being who allegedly made all of us somehow keeps getting represented by people who seem very… selective about which parts of “love thy neighbor” they like.

We follow the trail from slaveholder “edits” to scripture, to modern pulpits draped in flags, to the quiet ways exclusion still hides in plain sight. Along the way, you’ll hear laughs, long pauses, and the occasional theological side-eye. Because here’s the thing: God’s fine—it’s the fan clubs you need to watch out for.

🧠 Things to Ponder:

• When did “love thy neighbor” get a fine-print clause?
• Is God’s biggest problem bad press… or bad readers?
• Can you be part of the club without buying the merch?

✅ Action Items for the Soul (and Mind):

• Read your holy books like a lawyer—not just a believer.
• Trace where your theology came from, and whose fingerprints are on it.
• Talk to God. Ignore the fan club rules for a minute.

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🎙️ Episode 14 — “Why Some Rooms Aren’t for Everybody (and That’s Okay)”

🔒 Exclusive doesn’t always mean elitist. Sometimes it’s the only way to keep a space sacred.
#SafeSpaces #Belonging

Think “safe space” means beanbag chairs and free coffee? Think again.
In this episode of Three for the Founders, Lybroan, Reynaldo, and Jon dig into the real meaning of sacred spaces—the rooms, circles, and communities built not just for comfort, but for survival. Spaces that hold identity, protect culture, and preserve histories too often erased.

They explore the deep roots of Black fraternities and why their existence has always been more than social. They take on the strange, rarely-named phenomenon of white “affinity spaces.” And they unpack how certain kinds of “inclusion” can quietly dismantle the very communities they claim to celebrate.

The conversation asks uncomfortable but necessary questions:

• Who really benefits when everyone is invited?
• How did Brown v. Board of Education open legal doors but shut cultural ones?
• What’s the difference between being excluded and simply not being the intended audience?
• How can well-meaning outsiders avoid unintentionally colonizing a space built for someone else’s healing?

Part history lesson, part cultural roast, part uncomfortable mirror—this episode will have you rethinking the spaces you enter, the company you keep, and what belonging actually means.

💡 Action Items for Listeners:

1. Reflect: Identify a space in your life that feels sacred to you—what protects it, and what threatens it?
2. Listen & Learn: If you’ve been an “outsider” in an affinity space, think about how you showed up—did you listen more than you spoke?
3. Engage: Share your thoughts or your own experiences with sacred spaces using #ThreeForTheFounders.
4. Discuss: Bring these questions to your next group chat, team meeting, or family dinner—see how people define “safe” differently.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. And if you walk away without at least one “oh… yikes” moment, you weren’t really listening.

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