Three for the Founders

What do YOU think? Text us! World Cup Chaos, Colonial Ghosts, and the Weight of Melanin The fellas dive headfirst into World Cup madness — a suspicious red card reversal, questions of who really "counts" as French, and the quiet power of watching Black players from Texas to Sweden claim the pitch. From Azteca Stadium heartbreak to a deep cut on Belgium's colonial body count in the C...

What do YOU think? Text us! What's good, fam — welcome back to Three for the Founders , where Brotherhood meets the breakdown. Look, every now and then we get a guest who reminds us why we started this show in the first place. Today's that episode. We're sitting down with a man we're calling "Mr. Nobody" — an active commercial airline captain who's been flying si...

What do YOU think? Text us! THREE FOR THE FOUNDERS — Episode 45 "The Talk (SPF Edition)" What does sunscreen have to do with racism? More than you think. This week on Three for the Founders , what starts as a casual scroll through Threads — while nursing a dog with a neck abscess, because that's how we live — turns into one of the sharpest conversations we've had about white de...

What do YOU think? Text us! "Art Versus Artist, Power Structures, and Huerta’s Revelation” Okay. Stay with me here. Because this one requires you to hold two truths at the same time — and if you’re not used to doing that, today’s episode is going to be uncomfortable. Good. Here’s what we know: Dolores Huerta — farmworker organizer, civil rights icon, the woman who stood next to César Chávez f...

What do YOU think? Text us! “The Map Is the Message” The Supreme Court just redrew the rules — and not in your favor. In a decision that strips race from the redistricting equation, the Roberts Court has handed white supremacy one of its cleanest legislative victories in decades. No hoods. No poll taxes. Just math — and maps drawn to make sure your vote counts less than your neighbor’s. This week,...

What do YOU think? Text us! Commemoration is never just ceremony. Every holiday, every monument, every flag is a choice about whose story gets to be the nation's story. When that choice has consistently excluded the enslaved, the colonized, and the dishonored veteran, the radical act is not destruction — it is insistence . Insisting that the full truth be told. Insisting that the buried be na...

What do YOU think? Text us! Five years. That's it. In 250 years of American history, the United States has been at peace for roughly five years. So what does it mean to wave the flag? To say "thank you for your service"? To call this country a democracy? In Episode 41, Antonio, Lybroan, and Jon don't flinch. They open with Jon's debrief from a white educator affinity sessi...

What do YOU think? Text us! Season 2 | Airing Monday, April 27, 2026 Some episodes are too good to stay in the vault. Originally recorded as the Season 1 finale, Episode 40 never made it to air — until now. Consider it a gift from the archives, and the perfect bridge into everything Season 2 is becoming. Reynaldo, Lybroan, and Jon go deep on something deceptively simple: your name. What it carries...

What do YOU think? Text us! April 20, 2026 Before we begin — a word of care. Today’s episode includes discussion of sexual assault, harm to children, and various forms of violence. Please listen in a way that honors your own wellbeing. There’s a reason we build monuments — and a reason that word carries weight when it turns. When Dolores Huerta speaks, the world listens. And when she confirmed wha...

What do YOU think? Text us! "It Does Matter If You're Black or White" Three for the Founders | Episode 38 | April 13, 2026 | 1 hr. 11 min. The best episodes of Three for the Founders do what the best public radio rarely does anymore: they hold two enormous ideas in the same room without forcing a tidy resolution. Episode 38 is exactly that kind of hour. Lybroan James returns from a...

What do YOU think? Text us! What do you get when three Sigmas start talking about Black nationalism and end up deep in a debate about dog training costs? A bonus episode of Three for the Founders , that's what. The guys open with a pointed question contrasting Black and White nationalism — and how Christian nationalism fits into that conversation — before Obi-Wan the 80-pound problem child hi...

What do YOU think? Text us! Airing March 30, 2026 | 1 hr, 57 min We open, as all great intellectual journeys do, with a word: kerfuffle . Turns out it’s Scottish. Turns out the “fuffle” means to dishevel and the “car-” is a Gaelic twist. Turns out Antonio, Jon, and Lybroan will spend a not-insignificant portion of your Monday morning defending this information with the energy of men who just found...

What do YOU think? Text us! Three for the Founders | New Episode — Live Recording Feb. 21, 2026 · 51 min Three fraternity brothers. One live room. No easy answers. In this week's episode, Reynaldo Antonio, Jon, and Lybroan gather an audience and go somewhere most institutions won't: an honest reckoning with how history gets taught, who belongs in independent schools, and what DEI actuall...

What do YOU think? Text us! Let us ask you something before we even get started. Do you believe what the founders wrote — or what the founders did? Welcome back to Three for the Founders — where Brotherhood meets the breakdown. But first — we have to show some love. Shoutout to Lorelei Newman, UCLA alum, who found this podcast at what sounds like a pivotal moment in her life. She sent us a message...

What do YOU think? Text us! Three for the Founders | Bonus Episode "Hot Takes, Heartfelt Dads & Bringing POCC Home" Feb 23, 2026 • 22 min Fraternity brothers Reynaldo Antonio, Lybroan, and Jon jump back in for a bonus round that moves fast and hits deep. First up: is Stephen A. Smith's $100M ESPN deal turning "the people's voice" into controversy-for-profit — and...

What do YOU think? Text us! Season 2. Episode 2. This one doesn’t ease you in—it drops you straight into the fire. On Episode 32 of Three for the Founders , four longtime friends—Antonio, Jon , Lybroan , and guest David M. Jones—sit with the hardest questions of this moment: ICE, protest, power, and moral responsibility. What does resistance actually do ? When does nonviolence persuade—and when do...

What do YOU think? Text us! Season Two of Three for the Founders kicks off exactly where America gets uncomfortable: at the gap between the quote and the policy. Recorded on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and launching February 2, 2026, this season premiere opens with a toast to brotherhood—and immediately asks the question nobody wants answered out loud: how do you celebrate the Dream on Monday and d...

What do YOU think? Text us! At a time when Americans are tired of scripted outrage and elite-approved talking points, Three for the Founders is doing something different—speaking freely and living with the consequences. In Episode 30, the hosts look back on Season One and tell the truth about what happens when you stop chasing applause, stop curating a “target audience,” and start saying what you...

What do YOU think? Text us! We know something about endings. We know when a beloved teacher hangs up the chalk, when the church mothers finally step down from the usher board, when a job no longer fits, or when a season of our own lives is quietly tapping us on the shoulder saying, “Baby, it’s time.” That’s why this week’s episode of Three for the Founders feels like it was recorded for every one...

What do YOU think? Text us! The Power and Politics of What We’re Called December 15, 2025 • 1 hour, 19 minutes On this episode, Three for the Founders are taking on a single idea— names —and stretching it across culture, politics, history, comedy, and the intimate corners of family life. Reynaldo Antonio Macias, Lybroan James, and Jon Augustine open with the spark: pop culture and present-day poli...

What do YOU think? Text us! 1 hour, 2 minutes We know something about pressure. You can feel it in the church aisles, in the grocery line, in who gets stopped driving down Main after dark. But lately, that pressure isn’t just local — it’s national, creeping in through our screens, our newsfeeds, and the voices of men who look straight into a camera and tell America that power belongs to whoever cl...

What do YOU think? Text us! 🎙️ NPR meets Charlamagne tha God — thoughtful, provocative, and deeply human. Welcome back to Three for the Founders — where classroom truths meet kitchen-table honesty. Today, we’re diving into part two of a conversation that every educator, parent, and student in America needs to hear: “ Private Schools, Public Lies: Who Gets to Belong in Education? ” Our guests — Jul...

What do YOU think? Text us! How do you raise and teach children to be kind and accountable in a world that often rewards neither? This week on Three for the Founders , hosts Reynaldo Antonio , Lybroan , and Jon get real about “gentle parenting,” classroom culture, and what education is actually for—with two powerhouse guests who’ve seen it all from both public and private school perspectives. Juli...

What do YOU think? Text us! Three for the Founders November 17, 2025 • 34:40 Jon’s solo surf trip to Bali was supposed to be about chasing waves — but it turns into a meditation on power, privilege, and what it means to travel without leaving a footprint the size of your passport. This bonus episode opens with salt spray and adrenaline — double-overhead surf at Uluwatu, a sea cave entry straight o...

What do YOU think? Text us! 🎙️Ep. 23 - “Travel Is Fatal to Prejudice — But America Keeps Rebooking the Trip” November 10, 2025 • 1 hour, 36 minutes The hosts unpack how global travel broadens empathy even as America clings to the same old routes of racism, denial, and selective memory. Mark Twain wrote that “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” This week, our hosts update...