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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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Okay, so here’s my take — and yes, I totally geeked out writing this: So, in this episode of Three for the Founders, these three guys from Phi Beta Sigma (it’s a fraternity, but not the wild “college movie” kind) start talking about what it actually means to “be a man” in 2025. And spoiler: it’s not just about being able to lift heavy stuff or never crying.

They talk about how old-school ideas of manhood can be kinda… broken? Like, they don’t leave space for feelings, therapy, or just saying “hey, I’m not okay.” And they explain how brotherhood means actually showing up for each other, not just fist-bumping and pretending you’re fine.

Honestly, it’s like they’re trying to upgrade masculinity so it works for real people instead of some cartoon version of a “tough guy.”

Action Items:

1. Think about what “being a man” actually means to you (even if you’re not a guy).
2. Talk to your friends about mental health without making it weird.
3. Ask your dad, uncle, or brother what they think about manhood — and actually listen.
4. Maybe… cry if you need to? No shame.

Questions to Think About:

• Who decided what “real men” are supposed to act like in the first place?
• Why is it easier for guys to talk about sports than their feelings?
• Can vulnerability be a kind of strength?
• What would happen if men stopped trying to “act tough” all the time?

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🎙️ EPISODE 12 — “The Masks We Wear, The Roots We Bury”

In this incendiary and eye-opening episode of Three for the Founders, the trio wades into America’s murkiest waters—race, identity politics, and immigration policy—with no life vest and no filter. Buckle in as Antonio dares to ask, “What if we just gave the country back to white people?” It’s not a surrender—it’s a provocation. What would it really take for America to confront its foundational contradictions?

👀 What’s Inside:

• Media manipulation, political theatre, and the weaponization of identity in the age of Trump
• “Neowhites” and the strange phenomenon of people of color aligning with oppressive ideologies
• Black and Latino tensions, internalized racism, and the exhausting chase for proximity to whiteness
• Real talk about performative patriotism, assimilation, and the trauma of conditional belonging

🤔 Questions for the Audience:

• Have you ever caught yourself shrinking your identity to fit in?
• What do you gain—or lose—by trying to be seen as “one of the good ones”?
• Who benefits when communities of color turn on each other?

🧠 Takeaways:

• Silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity.
• Identity isn’t just personal—it’s political.
• Assimilation can be a survival tactic, but at what cost?

✅ Action Items:

• Reflect: Journal about a time you felt pressured to “perform” your race or hide it.
• Engage: Talk to a friend or loved one about how media narratives have shaped their political views.
• Challenge: The next time someone says they “don’t see race,” ask them why not?

💥 Expect fire, vulnerability, and maybe even a little guilt—but mostly, expect a real conversation that doesn’t flinch. Because on Three for the Founders, if it doesn’t make you uncomfortable, we’re not doing it right.

🎧 Tune in. Think deeply. Then do something.

📅 Airs Monday, August 4, 2025
🕒 69 minutes of uncomfortable truths, raw introspection, and bold questions

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🎙️ EPISODE 11 — “When immigrants aren't illegal, just immoral!”
📅 July 28, 2025 • Three for the Founders

Let’s cut the polite talk:
Why is it that every conversation about race somehow ends up about white folks' feelings?
Why are immigrants still treated like a national security threat... in a country built by immigrants (and, let’s be honest, on stolen land)?
And what’s with the obsession over “losing our culture” when Taco Tuesday and yoga pants are doing just fine?

This week, Reynaldo, Jon, and Lybroan are stirring the pot—and they’re not holding back.

From the deficit mindset that frames white people as “under attack,” to immigration policies that read like coded warnings from a Fox News fever dream, the hosts bring receipts, perspective, and sharp-tongued honesty.

They ask:

• Who benefits when whiteness is centered in every debate?
• How do immigration laws reinforce racial hierarchy?
• And can we even have honest conversations if fear keeps driving the narrative?

💥 Spoiler alert: You can’t fix a broken house by just painting over the cracks.

Takeaways for listeners:
✅ Spot the signs of whiteness being centered in conversations
✅ Recognize fear-based political messaging (and call it out)
✅ Understand the moral and historical roots of today’s immigration policies
✅ Push past comfort to build real solidarity across racial lines

Action Items:
🧠 Question the narratives you're fed—especially the ones that feel “neutral”
🗣️ Start (or continue) conversations that decenter whiteness
📚 Learn the history your textbooks skipped
👀 Pay attention to who’s framed as a threat—and who never is

🎧 Ready to get uncomfortable in the best way possible? Press play.

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🎙️ EPISODE 10 — “Who Are We Without the Struggle?”
Air Date: July 24, 2025
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What happens when three longtime friends—Reynaldo Antonio, Jon, and Lybroan—sit down to unpack race, identity, and the meaning of brotherhood in a country still haunted by its past?

In this bonus episode, Three for the Founders gets personal. From code-switching and cultural theft to sacred Black spaces and Toni Morrison’s searing question—“What would White people be without racism?”—this conversation doesn’t just ask questions. It lives in them.

🔍 Inside the episode:
• A father’s brutal wisdom on racism and the blues
• Jon reflects on how language shapes power and perception
• Lybroan opens up about the push-and-pull of representing a group vs. owning individuality
• The unspoken rules of barbershops, friendship, and cross-cultural connection
• And why “Black people aren’t a group—we’re individuals, just like White people.”

This isn’t a think piece—it’s a feel piece. A living, breathing conversation between friends who trust each other enough to tell the truth, even when it stings.

🌀 Come for the insight, stay for the vulnerability. Leave with more questions than answers—and that’s the point.

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