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"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 who else is getting rich while Black America pays the tab? The brothers draw the line between hot takes and real takes, and it's a line worth hearing.

Then, they pull back the curtain on an upcoming live session for SoCal POCIS's Bring PoCC Home — a regional answer to the People of Color Conference’s indefinite “postponement". With independent schools navigating the Trump administration's pressure on DEI and the quiet erasure of history, Lybroan, Jon, and Antonio are walking into the room with one guiding question: “D we believe what they wrote, or do we believe what they did?"

And before the credits roll, things get personal. Jon's father-son story — the one that's making grown men emotional in rooms across the country — lands here too, alongside a Robert Bly quote that'll stop you mid-commute, and a Valentine's Day moment from Antonio that hits different when you realize he was channeling his own father without even knowing it.

Bonus episode energy. Founder-level conversation.

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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 does it get ignored? Is working inside an unjust system complicity, strategy, or survival? And how much of your soul is negotiable when money, security, and family are on the line?

Sparked by recent protests, White House messaging shifts, and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the conversation stretches from Minneapolis streets to Ivy League theories of narrative control, from Malcolm X and MLK to modern boycotts and viral hypotheticals. David—COO of a major trade association, political moderate, and longtime friend—brings the inside-the-room perspective: incremental change, pragmatism, and persuasion. Antonio and Lybroanpush back hard, framing ICE as historically continuous with racist enforcement and asking whether silence from “good people” is itself an indictment. Jon presses for precision, accountability, and language that clarifies rather than inflames.

What emerges isn’t consensus—it’s something rarer: honest disagreement held together by trust. This episode wrestles with protest strategy, media ecosystems, “both sides” politics, democratic socialism, long-range planning, and the uncomfortable truth that whoever controls the narrative often controls the outcome. If you’ve ever argued with friends about politics and wondered whether the argument itself still matters—this one’s for you.

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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 dismantle it by Tuesday? From a Los Angeles studio, Reynaldo Antonio, Jon Augustine, and Lybroan James return sharper, looser, and less interested in pretending symbolism counts as action. Thirty episodes deep and freshly into 2026, the brothers set the tone for a season that refuses to separate history, power, and the people paying the price.

The conversation moves with purpose and side-eye. MLK Day as performance versus policy. Free parks, closed futures. DEI rollbacks framed as “fairness.” Whether arguing online is civic duty or just free labor for the algorithm. Ten years into the Trump era, the hosts trace what’s changed—and what’s simply stopped hiding. Along the way: Ghanaian “welcome home” moments, family shout-outs, jokes about thrill-seeking, and a sobering reframe—when your daily life already runs on adrenaline, you don’t need to jump out of planes to feel alive. The laughs land, but so do the receipts: January 6 rebranded, racism deployed as a tool, and capitalism quietly doing what it’s always done—consolidate.

Episode highlights include:

• Why MLK is safest to America as a soundbite, not a blueprint
• How DEI became the villain the moment it threatened comfort
• The myth of “both sides” and who benefits from pretending power is neutral
• Racism as strategy, wealth capture as the endgame
• Whether people are complex—or just committed to lying to themselves
• How repetition, attention, and outrage reshape what we call “truth”

Listener takeaways for 2026:

• Don’t accept the first version of any story—ask say more
• Engage online only where there’s real relationship; starve the bots
• Read Black authors to re-center history and reality
• Spend your energy building family, community, and coalitions—not defending myths
• Remember: symbolism is cheap. Power is not.

Season Two doesn’t offer comfort. It offers clarity. Three for the Founders is back—measured, unfiltered, and unimpressed by hollow tributes. Like, subscribe, and pull up. The dream deserves better than a holiday.

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