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🎙️ Three for the Founders
Oct 27, 2025 • 69:16 minutes

This week, the hosts of Three for the Founders head to the gun range with guest Alan Wright—better known online as @2A-N-LA—and come back with more than just ringing ears. What follows is a raw, layered conversation on what firearms mean in America: as lived experience, as cultural symbol, as constitutional right, and as public hazard.

From the bing, bing of a Glock that sent one host sprinting, to the data points on suicides, homicides, and mass shootings, to a candid reckoning with how guns conjure both heritage and trauma depending on who’s holding them—this episode refuses to flatten the debate into red-blue soundbites.

Alan offers an inside look at California’s labyrinthine gun laws, breaks down common myths around AR-15s, and situates gun ownership within Black history and the fast-growing reality of Black women arming themselves for safety. The hosts push back, raising questions about school shootings, the “urban” semantics of crime, and what kind of civic covenant—if any—should exist between Americans and their weapons.

The episode doesn’t hand you answers. Instead, it sits in the discomfort: Is fear the real driver of our policies? Are guns scapegoats for deeper wounds like poverty, dislocation, and mental health? And is the Second Amendment the “teeth” behind the First—or a splinter in the body politic?

💡 Takeaways for listeners:

• Guns aren’t just tools; they’re symbols—of freedom, of violence, of belonging, of exclusion.
• The data is messy, and how it’s framed often tells you more than the numbers themselves.
• Common ground exists, but only if we stop outsourcing our opinions to algorithms and start talking like neighbors.

👉 Action items: Subscribe, share your perspective with the hosts, and—if you’re brave—ask yourself which amendment matters more to you: the right to speak, or the right to defend the speaking.

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Oct 14, 2025 • 56:26 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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