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The Mang DojoS1E36 Miyanovich: A Dark Childhood And The Importance Of Vision QuestAs an introduction to the upcoming series with Frank Jasper (and the coverage of the movie Vision Quest), Miyanovich talks about the darkness of his childhood, Vision Quest as a vital inspiration, cutting weight, and disordered eating.
2025-06-1528 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS4G65 Lifelong Special Action And Brandon's Box (Part 2)In Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich discusses: the pernicious beginnings of LGO, the real challenges of providing LGO DevGru trainings, the loss of Bitting, the loss of Bev, the loss of Brandon, the upside-down mass of middle-aged male lib-gunners, "never again": the lesson of Brandon's Box...and Miyanovich's challenge to trade your jabroni relationship with guns with something more evolved.
2025-03-1435 minThe Mang DojoS1E22 Professor David Yamane (Part 1): The Millstone Of Japanese Male Emotionality And Facing Your Own ShortcomingsIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Yamane discuss: what does it mean to be a "strong man", hiding true feelings to be accepted more broadly, conflict aversion, Fire Over Light, aging and the last window of true productivity, the passing of David's father, the fast decline of old age, and the lack of affection in Japanese culture.
2025-02-2754 minThe Mang DojoS1E18 John Van Dreal (Part 3): Pernicious Technology, Male Psychology, And The Humiliation Of The Rampage ShooterIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Van Dreal discuss: the psychological reality of the school / rampage shooter, Incels, young males and humiliation, both jocks and nerds with hobbies don't do school shootings, asshole cops, when the political left shoots itself in the foot, and the evolutionary cost of humiliation for males.
2025-02-1451 minThe Mang DojoS1E17 John Van Dreal (Part 2): Pernicious Technology, Male Psychology, And The Humiliation Of The Rampage ShooterIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Van Dreal discuss: Men dominating both high-power and worthlessness at the same time, "shut the fuck up and get in the dirt, men", men in disenfranchised cultures, value after retirement, the patriarchy punishes itself, and a little on Jordan Peterson.
2025-02-1431 minThe Mang DojoS1E16 John Van Dreal (Part 1): Pernicious Technology, Male Psychology, And The Humiliation Of The Rampage ShooterIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Van Dreal discuss: the negative effects of new tech, gender differences in social aggression, evolutionary psychology, the dangers of passionate people, absolutism, the curse of the helper-man.
2025-02-1452 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS4G60 No One Else Is Coming To Help And The Mang DojoMiyanovich talks about the realities of the core supporters of LGO501c4 and helping with the cascading mid-life issues assaulting his developers.
2025-02-1110 minThe Mang DojoS1E14 Dr. Stephanie Leite (Part 2): Maleness, Dignity And Purpose, And The Realities Of School ShootingsIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Stephanie discuss: masculinity, "The Beige-ists", the effect of the digital reality on all people, getting young kids out of the digital, inner-city struggles with masculinity, and men having fewer options,.
2025-02-0837 minThe Mang DojoS1E13 Dr. Stephanie Leite (Part 1): Maleness, Dignity And Purpose, And The Realities Of School ShootingsIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Stephanie discuss: trauma, the desire for sexual validation, evolutionary realities, dignity and purpose, revenge against and control over women, bullies and outcasts both being odd ducks, Incels and the new porn reality, the hat of the school shooter, casual attitudes about school shootings, the new teenage paradigm.
2025-02-0751 minThe Mang DojoS1E12 Half-Deadpool (Part 3): The Dysfunctional Brothers Club And The Ghost Of "Fuck Half-Deadpool"In this final part of this series, Miyanovich and HDP discuss: the path of yang energy, losing your feels, laughing, grow or die, very-online neuroticism, testosterone realities, very-online misandry, male power and getting off-line, touching grass, and Safeway Oranges at Half-time.
2025-02-0143 minThe Mang DojoS1E11 Half-Deadpool (Part 2): The Dysfunctional Brothers Club And The Ghost Of "Fuck Half-Deadpool"In Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Half-Deadpool discuss: the realities of having highly dysfunctional brothers, the disgusting world of cigarette smokers, some people needing to be blocked from fucking, falling through the cracks of the medical system, Apeshit McGoo, when mothers lack nurturance, reclaiming your energy, mimicry vs. pure original creation, and truly stepping into your power.
2025-01-301h 00The Mang DojoS1E10 Half-Deadpool (Part 1): The Dysfunctional Brothers Club And The Ghost Of "Fuck Half-Deadpool"In Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Half-Deadpool discuss: the hits just keep coming, men stepping in for men, being Pig Pen, the reality of the medical service industry, having no sense of personal boundaries, conflict resolution, tough interventions, and the Buddhist concept of "Idiot Love."
2025-01-2847 minThe Mang DojoS1E9: Rabbi Hillel Norry (Part 2): Caught Between The Scylla And Charybdis Of The Narrow Definitions Of MalenessIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Norry discuss: The Shit End Of The Stick Mythology / Worldview, is masculinity a thing?, polar shifts in gender values, when the pendulum of male sensitivity swings too far, traumatized people carrying forward the M.O. of their abusers, staying out of the battle of the sexes, and the nowhere road of purity tests.
2025-01-2550 minThe Mang DojoS1E8 Rabbi Hillel Norry (Part 1): Caught Between The Scylla And Charybdis Of The Narrow Definitions Of MalenessIn Part 1 of this series , Miyanovich and Norry discuss: Conspiracy theorists, retardation, the expectation of men during sickness, alienation, isolation, compartmentalization, strength, The Beige Mythology, the validity of biology, gender as a social heuristic, masculinity, and liking big boobs.
2025-01-2457 minThe Mang DojoS1E7 Michael Sodini (Part 4) Middle-Age Health, Dysfunctional Upbringing, And Professional ModelingIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: Mike getting picked out of a bar, the centerfold in Playgirl magazine, high-tier good looks, breaking into the industry, landing the Abercrombie and Fitch campaign, landing the Playboy fashion campaign, having a billboard of yourself in New York City, good looks and mental imbalance, modeling and drugs, Mike's old fitness routine, dark gatekeeping in the modeling world, really believing in yourself...and would Mike ever do a professional campaign again?
2025-01-221h 17The Mang DojoS1E6 Michael Sodini (Part 3): Middle-Age Health, Dysfunctional Upbringing, And Professional ModelingIn Part 3 of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: Mike's mom kidnapping him to protect him from a dysfunctional father, when the apple falls far from the tree, not wanting to hurt or disappoint your mom, Mike's half-sisters, when your bio-dad isn't your dad, and needing a dad for youth sports.
2025-01-1844 minThe Mang DojoS1E5 Michael Sodini (Part 2): Middle-Age Health, Dysfunctional Upbringing, And Professional ModelingIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: the brain and its use of glycogen, the mental and physiological effects of being overweight, short and simple workouts, allowing yourself to enjoy the gym, using peptides, and Chris Duffin.
2025-01-1824 minThe Mang DojoS1E4 Michael Sodini (Part 1):Middle-Age Health, Dysfunctional Upbringing, And Professional ModelingIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: middle age health, losing weight, low testosterone and TRT, Magnus Medical Health and Wellness, social media, the carnivore diet, the gym, back problems, mental health, the brain and glycogen, short workouts, peptides, and Chris Duffin.
2025-01-1644 min2025-01-0802 minThe Mang DojoS1E3 Half-Deadpool (Part 2): Cascading Crisis & The Curse Of The Helper-manIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and HDP discuss: saying "no", describing all masculinity as "toxic", not being allowed to frame things as a man, not being heard, the myth vs. the facts of Toxic Masculinity, being perniciously indoctrinated by your mother, Death By 1,000 Paper Cuts, men improving men, The Waking Giant, and hormonal health.
2025-01-0731 minThe Mang DojoS1E2 Half-Deadpool (Part 1): Cascading Crisis & The Curse Of The Helper-manIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Half-Deadpool discuss: when your parents are messed up and you are not, "3rd Puberty", cascading middle-age problems, lethal implications and suicidal thoughts, self-awareness, sensitivity and dinosaur balls, junk food and the Arby's Dick Hat, "Half-Deadpool", the medical system, and The Curse of the Helper-man.
2025-01-0140 minThe Mang DojoS1E1 Podcast IntroductionMen hurt others. But men are also hurting.
Welcome to the nuanced digital dojo where we work out the conflict within.
In this episode:
Who is Miyanovich? What is this podcast going to be about?
Miyanovich takes his sweet-ass time answering these questions...as usual.
2025-01-0135 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G57 2024 Years' End Thank YouMiyanovich wraps up 2024 with a hardy "Thank You."
2024-12-3002 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G56 2024 Election Debrief With Josh Bacon (Part 7): Anarchist Hypocrisy | Meal Team 6 vs Tanky Self-Purge | 2025 Potentials | Doing MoreIn the final part of the 2024 Election Debrief, Miyanovich and Bacon discuss: the hypocrisy of the internet radicals who want to burn it all down, solving all bullshit by letting Meal Team 6 and The Latch-Key Leftists purge themselves out through Civil Derp War 2.0, potential 2025 events, the lobsided economy of violence, the waking giant redux, and people rising up to do more.
2024-12-1920 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G55 2024 Election Debrief With Josh Bacon (Part 6): Original Expectations | Social Psych Problems | Dems Kowtowing To Liberal Bretzels | People Leaving The TentIn Part 6 of this Election Debrief series, Miyanovich and Bacon discuss: Josh's original expectations for election outcome, the psychological dysfunction of our current society, Big Man / Sky-Dad Redux, Chritstofascist Dreams, Trump and Musk are Beta AF, Lakoff's Hierarchy, appealing to the center, the Dems kowtowing to lib-bretz, Josh's liberalism, free speech and Carlin's Bane, and Trump's clown show being a trial run that we failed.
2024-12-1946 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G54 2024 Election Debrief With Adam Sorum And Jimmy Ashe (Part 5): Social Coercion Statement | The New Assassination Script | Everyone Stay Cool | WTF With Randy, Adam, And JimmyIn Part 5 of the Election Debrief, Miyanovich, Sorum, and Ashe discuss: the realities of social coercion and why the use of violence is not really as effective as people think, the emerging assassination script, the potential negatives that we could see in the years to come, the need for everyone to stay focused and cool, and the potential for a quarterly discussion between the boys.
2024-12-1821 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G53 2024 Election Debrief With Adam Sorum And Jimmy Ashe (Part 4): Female President | Abandoning Issues To The Right | Maturity Issues | What Does 2025 Look Like?In part 4 of the Election Debrief, Miyanovich, Sourm, and Ashe discuss: a female being president, the reality of Kamala and Hillary just being unlikable, "liberals" abandoning issues for the conservatives to dominate, the cancer of the left redux, toxic lefties causing people to leave the tent, the expectation of cutting your own throat to help others, maturity issues in idealism, when ideas matter more than serving people, the waking giant of the center, the new dark age, and ideas about what 2025 will look like.
2024-12-1740 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G52 2024 Election Debrief With Adam Sorum And Jimmy Ashe (Part 3): Original Expectations | The Dangers Of MAGA | Lack Of Leadership | Pernicious AbsolutismIn Part 3 of the Election Debrief series, Miyanovich, Sorum, and Ashe discuss: everyone's initial election expectations, the popular vote vs the Electoral College results, cult-of-personality and the dangers of the MAGA movement, universal platform issues, "radical centrism", the negative effects of niche issues, the lack of "liberal" leadership, and pernicious absolutism.
2024-12-1745 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G51 Vietnam And The M16 With Jon Magnuson (Part 2): Chamber Lore | Other Weapons | The Semi-Auto Pinnacle | Plans For Next YearIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Magnuson discuss: the dust cover, "Chamber Lore", the CAR-15, the 1911, the flamethrower, hand grenades, post Vietnam developments, the AR-15 and the Glock representing the complete winners of the semi-auto design game, and what the boys will be discussing next year.
2024-12-1520 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G50 Vietnam and The M16 With Jon Magnuson (Part 1): The Korean War | The Domino Theory | Stoner | The Myth Of UnreliabilityIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Magnuson discuss: the weapons reality of the Korean War, The Domino Theory, the semi-automatic standard in war, the impact of atomic weapons, the need for a new caliber, Eugene Stoner, the traits of the AR-15, Miyanovich no-likey charging handle, the realities and the myth of M16 unreliability.
2024-12-1437 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i94 Byron Blunk (Part 3): Survival Rates Of Stage 4 Lung Cancer | Fuck Cancer | Gun Therapy | Facing DeathIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Blunk discuss: the survival realities of stage four lung caner, saying "fuck cancer", gun therapy, libido, facing death, having end of life conversations, 1 in 2, society doesn't deal with death well, "Floppy and Sloshy", needing dark humor, the afterlife or lack thereof, staying positive, looking after your health.
2024-11-2534 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i93 Byron Blunk (Part 2): Stage 4 Lung Cancer | Starting Chemo | Radical Acceptance | Lung Capacity | Making AdjustmentsIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Blunk discuss: Byron having stage four lung cancer, recognizing the symptoms, chemo, genetics, the environment, radical acceptance, Byron's current lung capacity, managing pain, traveling with lung cancer, making life adjustments, and exercise.
2024-11-2040 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i92 Byron Blunk (Part 1): Getting To Know Byron | Byron's Start With Guns | Waking The Martial Alarm | The Naivete Of The Social ContractIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Blunk discuss: Byron's career and education, Byron's start with guns, the George Floyd riots, when humans are jarred into waking up their self-defense needs, media gun narratives, the con of absolutists, the parts of the socal contract that are naive, and liberals supporting a firearms tradition.
2024-11-1941 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i91 David Yamane (Part 3): What's Next? | Addressing Gun-Related Negatives | Liberals Haven't Done Much For Guns | Saved By Zero | Look Out, 2025!In the last part of this series, Miyanovich and Yamane discuss: what the future holds for David, getting past Gun Curious, addressing the Cultured Despisers of Guns, Liberals doing very little for gun rights, the future of David's gun course, Saved by Zero, leaders leading, and charging into the 2025 unknown.
2024-11-171h 59
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i90 David Yamane (Part 2): The Triumvirate | Penetrating The Media | Pleasing Others | Koi No Taki Nobori | David's First F-wordIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Yamane discuss: The Miyan-Starr-Yamane Borg-mind Weapon for social evolution, penetrating the mainstream media in an unprecedented way, the negatives of pleasing others, dealing with insecurities, same but different, Hitler's nuts redux, getting back-up from your compadres, critical morale boosts, Koi no Taki Nobori, and David's first ever F-word on the podcast.
2024-11-1636 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i89 David Yamane (Part 1): The Gun Curious Book Tour | Closed Minded Liberals | Dealing With Rejection | Believing In Yourself | The Dynamic DuoIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Yamane discuss: the Gun Curious book tour, frustration and disappointment with the broader reaction to the book, wanting to quit, closed-minded liberals and Big Publishing, and the casual alliance between David and Randy starting to created some impact. Hitler's nuts are also discussed.
2024-11-1548 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G49 2024 Election Debrief (Part 2): The Anthropologic Requirement | Anthropologic Throughput | The Visible Backlash | The Waking Giant Of The CenterIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich weaves the concept of The Anthropologic Requirement into his previous discussion and covers: the colorless, genderless, universal reality that lies beneath the resource reality, the toxicity of left-wing irrationality, and the coming backlash from The Waking Giant of The Center.
2024-11-1219 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G48 2024 Election Debrief (Part 1): Democratic Dysfunction | Cultural Cancer On The Left | The Dynamics Of The Village | Demonizing The Status Quo | Classic Jungian EmasculationIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich gives his opinion on the number one reason behind the definitive Trump win: the lack of real leadership in the Democratic Party. He also discusses: the now toxic political and cultural reality on the left, the illiberality of not voting, the dynamics of the human "village", left-wingers demonizing classical political elements and the status quo, the Jungian Emasculation that is now a cancer on the left, and the come-uppance on its way for the left's stifling guilt/shame regime against anyone who wants to also care about issues related to the center.
2024-11-1128 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3L12 Miyanovich: The Religion of The Law | The Hypothesis of Sky-Dad, Sky-Cake, And Big ManIn this run and gun episode, Miyanovich opens up the curtain on the current focus of The Lens research and writing. The following concepts are covered: how the law and religion have the same foundation, seeing the law for what it is, the law's lack of fundamental theory, the anthropology of the law, the arrival of the gods with the arrival of agriculture and pastoralism, the deliberate creation of the Sky-Dad / Sky-Cake / Big Man management scheme, and the transfer of this scheme from the Medieval Catholic Church (and its worship) to secular rule of law in the West.
2024-10-2048 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G47 Miyanovich: Proving The Con Of Big Gun ControlOn the morning of 10/17/24, Miyanovich realizes he can definiteively prove that those involved in supporting "Big Gun Control" are involved in an actual con.
2024-10-1707 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i88 Jon Waltz (Part 3): The 2024 Election | The End Of The Trump-MAGA Clown Show | Digital Doom vs Real World Sobriety Redux | David YamaneIn the last part of this series, Miyanovich and Waltz discuss: The realities of the 2024 election, Trump as an American icon of ass-clown, what the boys think the results will be, no matter what...still fucking vote and vote for Harris / Walz, and the importance of David Yamane's work.
2024-09-2515 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i87 Jon Waltz (Part 2): Trump-effect Gun Surge | Rocket Armory Begins and Ends | Erik Estrada Lowers | Jon's New Podcast: Lo-Fi LeftIn Part 2 of this episode, Miyanovich and Waltz discuss: the effect that the Tump presidency had on liberal gun ownership, the beginning of Jon's FFL - Rocket Armory, why Jon had to shut the business down, Lib-gunner All-Talk-No-Walk Redux, LGO is always going to keep going, forces working against our success, Erik Estrada lowers might be the solution, and Jon's new podcast: Lo-Fi Left.
2024-09-2235 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i86 Jon Waltz (Part 1): Gunderp World | Rural vs Urban Differences | The Erik Estrada Litmus Test | Online vs Real World | Estrada's Hot Ass Redux | Jon's Beginnings With GunsIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Waltz discuss: general gun-derpage on both sides, rural vs. urban worldviews, The Erik Estrada Litmus Test For Implicit Racism, Online vs Real World, Big Wheels, Estrada's hot ass again, Jon's beginning with guns, and Jon being a good natural shot.
2024-09-2036 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G46 Miyanovich: Black Holes and New MovesMiyanovich gives an update on his future.
2024-08-1533 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i84 Carmen Thompson (Part 2): The Early Facebook Years | Left Wing Bullshit | Being A Housewife | The 2024 ElectionIn the last part of this series, Miyanovich and Carmen discuss: the early challenges of the LGO Facebook group, left-wing toxicity, Miyanovich primal screaming with Josh Bacon, being a housewife, the 2024 election, the future of guns, and the end of The White Penis Gun Club For Men.
2024-07-1338 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i83 Carmen Thompson (Part 1): Gun Beginnings | Being A Super Owner | Having Parkinson's | The WolfIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Carmen discuss: Carmen's beginnings with guns, crispy-good revolvers, being a super-owner, concealed carry realities, favorite guns, having early-stage Parkinson's, disabilities and adjustments, and Carmen being known as "The Wolf."
2024-07-1136 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i82 Rabbi Hillel Norry (Part 2): Lex Nugatorious | Tribalism | Keeping An Eye On Your Government | Sky-Dad | Can Institutions Evolve?In the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Norry discuss: Lex Nugatorius (complete legal irrelevancy), that which really motivates people, law vs. deep human drives, both supporting and being wary of government, secular and religious versions of Sky-Dad, the realities of institutions evolving.
2024-06-1651 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i81 Rabbi Hillel Norry (Part 1): Fundamental Mythology | Treating Myth As Literal | Certainty Is Attractive | Emotions Vs. RationaleIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Norry discuss: the fundamentals of myth inside of religion and law, underlying assumptions, treating myth as something literal, the people needing a daddy, the attractiveness of certainty in an uncertain world, emotions vs. rationale, and The Myth of the Chevy Chevette.
2024-06-1455 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i80 Deb Yamanaka (Part 2): Weapons Are In The Blood | Another Anti-Gunner Becomes An Owner | Women Owning Their Self-Defense Needs | Guns And RelationshipsIn the last part of this series, Miyanovich and Yamanaka discuss: how weapons can be deep in the blood, another story of a previous anti-gunner crossing over into connecting with guns, women owning their self-defense needs, butt-ugly concelaed carry purses, men mailing it in, and the complexity of guns and relationships.
2024-06-0939 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i79 Deb Yamanaka (Part 1): Being A Female CEO | Sex Differences In Aggression | Boundaries | The Gun Sausage-fest | Getting Into GunsIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Yamanaka discuss: the challenges of being a female CEO, the sex differences in corporate social aggression, drawing strong boundaries, healthy people vs. toxic people, the sausage-fest in guns, and Deb's entry into gun ownership.
2024-06-0645 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i77 Kofi Kenyatta (Part 2): Kofi Growing Up With Guns | Starting The Black Bottom Gun Club | Trends In Black Gun Ownership | The State And Public SafetyIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Kenyatta discuss: Kofi's father introducing him to guns at a young age, starting the Black Bottom Gun Club with Chad King, the existing stigma against gun ownshership in the black community, trends in black gun ownership, getting beyond motivation to responsibility as the driver, and the role of the state in public safety for the black community.
2024-05-0538 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i76 Kofi Kenyatta (Part 1): Community Involvement | The Luxury of Single Issue Voting | Community Trauma And Root Causes | LiberalismIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Kenyatta start the discussion talking about root causes and more general issues, with gun discussion to follow in subsequent parts. The impacts of guaranteed income on struggling families, the luxury of singel-issue voting, root causes, wrap-around services, the reality of idealism vs. the grindstone, and the boundaries of liberalism are all dicsussed.
2024-04-2844 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i74 Chuck Rossi (Part 1): Absolutism V. Pragmatism | Facebook's Gun Policy | Working On Fix NICS | Anti-Gunners Have An Unattractive PositionIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Rossi discuss: how gun rights absolutism ignores 50% of the rights-based fight, Chuck working with the FBI on Fix NICS in 2016, Facebook's gun content policy, the myth of gun industry dominance, the need for more world beaters, and anti-gunners representing an unattractive position.
2024-03-2849 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i73 Deryck Poole (Part 2): Becoming A Defensive Shooting Instructor | Gun Range Realities | Stupid Gun People | The Future Of GunsIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Poole discuss: Deryck's process of becoming a defensive shooting instructor, the process of evolving Fudd ranges to include real defensive training, the stupid shit that people do with guns, defensive training with a rifle, Deryck's future, and the future of guns in America.
2024-03-2642 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i72 Deryck Poole (Part 1): The Marines | The Civilian World Of Self Defense Guns | Finding Pincus | Unsighted and Sighted FireIn Part 1 if this series, Miyanovich and Poole discuss: Deryck's time in the Marines, the differences in gunfighting between the theater of war and the civilian world, the process of finding Rob Pincus and reality-based defensive curriculum, the importance of both sighted and unsighted fire, and breaking through thick heads with better information.
2024-03-2341 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i71 John S. Beckmann (Part 2): Law Is A Totalizing System | The Administrative State | Legal Fetishes | Where Does This All Lead?In Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Beckmann discuss: law as a totalizing system, the human need to have comfort delivered, social media as a totalizing system, the realities of the administrative state, legal fetishes, jury trials as important but ridiculous theater, and the totalizing nature of law leading to its own demise.
2024-03-0640 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i70 John S. Beckmann (Part 1): John's Legal Background | The Reality Of Being A Lawyer | Deterrence | The Fiction Of Free WillIn episode 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Beckmann discuss: John's background in the law, the reality of lawyers being technically adept but not cognizant of the greater jurisprudential reality, the gap between what people claim laws can do and what they can actually do, the myths associated with deterrence, and the possibility that free will is a ficiton.
2024-03-0440 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i69 Mark Oknyansky (Part 2): California Gun Bretzels Return | Current Proposed Bills | Newsome's 28A | New Nuance Is Needed With GunsIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and MarkO discuss: the general wack-a-doodlery of gun laws in California, the list of the current bills proposed related to guns, policy embedding, disparate impacts, Newsome's 28A, redefining semi-auto rifles as constitutionally unlawful, and the new level of nuance needed at the Guns / Public Safety Nexus.
2024-03-0138 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i68 Mark Oknyansky (Part 1): Gun Owners Big Talk | Mark's Experiences At SHOT Show | Working With The Other Side | Quantifying Liberal Gun OwnershipIn episode 1 of this series, Miyanovich and MarkO talk about the community-wide lack of action by libgunners, the unique opportunity for changing how guns are dealt with in America, working with the conservatives on gun issues, quantifying liberal gun ownership through professional polling, and Mark's experiences at SHOT show with The Liberal Gun Club.
2024-02-2940 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i67 Linwood Johnson (Part 2): The Symbols of America | PICA | Gun Control Realities | The Clinton AWB StudiesIn the final part of the series, Miyanovich and Johnson discuss: how it's illiberal to automatically bend the knee to American symbols, the Protect Illinois Communities Act, the realities of gun control, caring about kids, and the realities of the Clinton era Assault Weapons Ban with the Koper DOJ studies.
2024-02-2537 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i66 Linwood Johnson (Part 1): Black Self-Defense Realities | Starting Off Anti-Gun | African Americans And The 2A Conversation | "Fernfervins"In Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Johnson discuss: Linwood getting into guns through self-defense, bringing nuance to issues, the effects of the pandemic and George Floyd protests on black gun ownership, starting off as an anti-gunner, inner-city violence, stereotypes, misinformation, the black community and the foundational symbols of America, and what Miyanovich calls "Fernfervinism".
2024-02-2352 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i65 Joshua Bacon (Part 2): MILSURP | The De-fudding Of Bacon | Toxic Patriots | Libgunner Negatives | The Future And GunsIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Bacon discuss: Josh's MILSURP roots, Rabbi Hillel and the K98, evolving from a Fudd to someone who understands the importance of modern arms and modern training, toxic patriots, church security, liberals needing to own and represent semi-auto rifles, the negative shit that libgunners do, and the future of guns in America.
2024-02-1746 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i64 Joshua Bacon (Part 1): Hunting In Texas | Liberalism And Guns | Kevin Bacon | Dove Hunting | CaliforniansIn Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Bacon lay down the riffs about: growing up hunting in Texas, deep Texas and stupid gun shit, Hippy Rednecks, Liberaltarians, actual liberalism, the complexity of the liberal gun owning reality, Kevin Bacon, Pennsylvania roots, the essence of cooking Dove, and invasive Californians.
2024-02-1541 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i63 Dr. Gene Deisinger (Part 2): Virginia Tech | Desensitization | The New Internet Reality | The Future Of Mass Shootings | Actual RetirementIn the final part of this series Miyanovich and Dr. Gene discuss: the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting, Gene being hired in response, the psychology of the shooter, our society's issue with desensitization, the internet and social tribalism, the future of mass shootings, and Gene's potential real retirement.
2024-02-1230 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i62 Dr. Gene Deisinger (Part 1): Sense Of Humor | Growing Up With Guns | Gene's Professional Arc | Law, Human Behavior, And GunsIn part 1 if this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Gene talk about: the importance of sense of humor when always facing difficult things, Gene growing up hunting with his dad, doing some competition shooting, hip problems from being a cop and carrying, his profesional arc, co-responder programs, and the nexus between the law, human behavior, and guns.
2024-02-0945 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3G50 Miyanovich: "People Of Substance And Means, Please Hear Me..."The most serious and direct message I have given. It's the last time I say it.
2024-02-0136 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i61 Dr. Stephanie Leite (Part 3): Autism And Threat | Emotionality | More On Sexual Validation | Narcissism And EntitlementIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Stephanie discuss: the realities of Autism and threat assessment, neurologically typical and atypical emotionality, the power of teenage sexual validation, narcissism and entitlement in mass shootings, professional vicitims, and...well...we have to change things in this country with mass shootings. We have no choice. Again: see Threat Assessment.
2024-01-2521 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i60 Dr. Stephanie Leite (Part 2): "High-Risk" | Suicide And Homicide As One Coin | Low-Volume High Social Impact | Sexual Validation And Threat AssessmentIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Stephanie get into some advanced analysis of the school shootings reality: is the term "high-risk" really appropriate? Does gun control get to the root of the matter? With these young kids, why is sucidality given ample resource but the prevention of homicidality treated differently? Why do people believe that statististically low events cannot have large effects on society? Why are all people attracted to the power of homicidality? How can we better understand the lionization of the school shooter and its contribution to mass shootings contagion?
2024-01-2335 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3i59 Dr. Stephanie Leite (Part 1): Forensic Psychology | Threat Assessment | Dealing With Kids | Shitty Parenting | Solving Problems LocallyIn part 1 of of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Stephanie discuss the realities of: forensic psychology, the effectiveness of threat assessment as a practice, the new reality of kids and school shootings, shitty parenting being a significant cause of threatening behavior in kids, the limits of policy and laws in shaping behavior, solving problems locally, and the realities of reachable vs unreachable people.
2024-01-2247 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS3L11 2024 Focus On The Law And Human BehaviorIn the first episode for the 2024 season, Miyanovich breaks the seal on the active analysis he is doing on the the law and human behavior. Why "human behavior" you ask? Why is he not just talking about the same old boring gun culture shit with rights, law, and liberty...and Heller and Bruen and the Bill of Rights...and George Washington's wooden teeth...and "my grandpap used to be able to clean his shotgun in the middle of math class and no one got hurt?" Because...there's a lot more to the law than that. A lot. Tune in...
2024-01-1911 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G49 This Or That With Michael Sodini (R-rated)In the final episode of the 2023 season, Miyanovich and Sodini play their annual comedy game of "This or That" - where Sodini is asked absurd, R-rated, comedic questions about his preferences. The context of the 1980s is used. Come and join Randy and Mike as they discuss: breakdancing, roller skating, arcades, dry-humping, special massages, Run DMC, Steve Perry, Adrian Zmed, Peter Cetera, Mike's high school shop teacher, Joan Jett, and Yoda being a Fudd.
2023-12-2246 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G48 The Winter War With Jon Magnuson (Part 2): The Finns Lose The Winter War | The Interim Peace | The Continuation War | The Lapland War | Russia Is At It AgainIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Mags discuss: Russian small arms during the Winter War, the Finns losing, the small era of peace, the Continuation War (1941-1944), newer weapons introduced during wartime, current Mosin price-points, the Lapland War (1944), Finnish outdoor culture, Russia being up to its old tricks again in Ukraine, the potato masher grenade.
2023-12-2033 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G47 The Winter War With Jon Magnuson (Part 1) : Mags Update | Finnish Civil War | Intro To The Winter War | Simo HayhaIn part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Mags discuss: Mags' surplus collectibles update, the Finnish Civil War (1918), being stuck between Germany and Russia, the beginning of The Winter War (1939), war and weather, the small arms of the Winter War, Simo Hayha, and the Finn's inventing the Molotov Cocktail.
2023-12-1839 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i58 Tony Jones: The Sixteen Candles Church Story | Writing | Hunting and Spirituality | Killing And Butchering | American Social ConflictEarlier this year, Miyanovich interviewed Reverend Tony Jones for the series on religion and anti-gay sentiment. During this interview, we recorded a segment about Tony's personal life and beliefs. During this episode, Miyanovich and Jones discuss: Tony preaching at the church that was featured in the 80's movie Sixteen Candles, being a writer, hunting and spirituality, human agression, modern human aversion to "savagery", the realities of killing and butchering meat, and American social conflict.
2023-12-1636 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i57 Pastor Jeremy Serrano: Self-Defense | Being A Pastor Who Does Guns | Religion And Pacifism | Church Security | Dealing With Root CausesEarlier this year, Miyanovich interviewed Pastor Jeremy for our series on religion and anti-gay sentiment. During this interview, we delved into Jeremy's personal experience with self-defense, firearms, and church security realties. In this episode, Miyanovich and Jeremy discuss: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jeremy's close relationship with his brother, being a pastor who carries a gun and participates in shooting sports, dealing with real-world threats, church security, religion and pacifism, the reality of mass shootings, and dealing with root causes to issues.
2023-12-1439 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i56 Michael Sodini (Part 3): Most People Just Don't Care About Guns | Avidity Arms Update | Corporate Social Responsibility | Pincus In North CarolinaIn part 3 of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: non-gun owning people reacting to LGO, guns not being the center of the universe, Avidity Arms update, spikes in the gun industry, Kraft Singles, corporate social responsibility, being a one SKU company, Pincus moving to North Carolina.
2023-12-1228 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i55 Michael Sodini (Part 2): Farming Out Your Gun Needs | The AR-15 | Mike's Modeling Power | Touch Grass And You'll Find ModeracyIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: when non-gun people benefit from armed people, the reality of the AR-15 and semi-autos, giving the NRA credit for power they no longer have, the power of Mike's naked body, the importance of Chris Cheng, and the real world being truly defined by moderacy.
2023-12-1235 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i54 Michael Sodini (Part 1): WTTA Update | Ignorances Around The Issues | Measuring Cultural Shift | Two Choices For The Future Of GunsIn part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Sodini discuss: the latest with Walk The Talk America, the gun right / public safety status quo, the Aspen Ideas Festival, finding friendly pockets in the non-gun-owning world, noticing cultural shifts around the issues, Avidity Arms displaying evolution, and the two choices for the future of guns.
2023-12-0939 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i53 Chuck Rossi (Part 3): Mitigating Negatives | Bureaucracy Is Not Set Up For Success | What It Would Take To Change Guns Forever | Chuck's NFA Gun DreamsIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Rossi discuss: the inclusion of mitigating the negatives into gun-owner mentality, how government employees are not set-up to succeed in their efforts, what would it really take to progress the gun paradigm permanently, finding good people, OSD's offer to help everyone with gun-related social media issues, and Chuck's select-fire desires.
2023-11-2428 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i52 Chuck Rossi (Part 2): Guns In Silicon Valley | The Black Holes That Surround Guns | The Big Opportunity | Gun-men Who Mail It InIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Rossi discuss: the reality of guns in the Silicon Valley tech bubble, progress at the perimeter of guns being stymied by "black holes", guns being an unprecedented opportunity to change the world, and the difference between male gun owners who have to compromise and male gun owners who just mail it in.
2023-11-2438 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i51 Chuck Rossi (Part 1): Open Source Defense | Living Your Gun Ownership Out Loud | The New Paradigm | Solving Problems From The InsideIn part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Rossi talk about: the gensis of Open Source Defense (and their values), "coming out of the gun closet", the legacy of gun culture negatives, the emerging new paradigm, the realities of the internet, and solving problems by participating with people of all beliefs.
2023-11-1839 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i50 Dr. Curtis Marean (Part 3): Humans Want Further And More Accurate | Evolved Projectile Psychology | Hallucinogenic Salad And Thomas Edison's BallsIn the last part of this series, Miyanovich and Marean discuss: the human drive to advance projectile technology, the possibilities of a genetic basis for the Human-Weapon Relationship, Curtis' experience with a South African hallucinogenic plant, and Thomas Edison's free-association balls. :)
2023-11-1422 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i49 Dr. Curtis Marean (Part 2): Serious Work Takes Time | Coastal / Riverine Hunter-Gatherers And Conflict | When Weapons Drive Progress | When The Sea-Levels DropIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Marean discuss: how critical theoretical work takes years, the reality of increased conflict for coastal/riverine hunter-gatherers, the realities of weaponry stimulating progress, tribalism and pastoral conflict, and the effects of sea-levels declining from 190 - 135,000 years ago on South African Homo sapiens.
2023-11-1432 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i48 Dr. Curtis Marean (Part 1): Back To Fieldwork In Africa | The Reality Of Caves | Randy's Pittsburgh Cave | Ancient Weapons RealityIn part 1 of this 3 part series, Miyanovich and Marean discuss: getting back into fieldwork after the Covid-19 pandemic, the reality of humans and caves, Miyanovich's experience with caves in Pittsburgh, the geographic reality of the ancient South African coast, ancient advancements in cognition and language and how this affected the weapons reality.
2023-11-1235 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i47 John Van Dreal - Youth Violence Prevention (Part 3): The New Book Applies To Many Issues | JVD Consulting | America Would Be In Trouble Without John's Team | The Columbine Effect (Follman)In the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Van Dreal talk about: how the new book can be applied to addressing many issues with kids in school, the current state of JVD Consulting, the importance of John's colleagues, and the effect that Colmbine has had on the national fabric - with a nod to Mark Follman's work.
2023-10-2320 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i46 John Van Dreal - Youth Violence Prevention (Part 2): Mitigation Data | Reticent School Systems | School to Prison Pipeline | Being Too Soft | Bias and EquityIn part 2 of this series Miyanovich and Van Dreal discuss: the difficulty of collecting data related to "stopping a school shooting", when school systems are reluctant to making their schools safer, the reality of the school to prison pipeline, school systems being too soft on student behavior, and potential bias within behavioral threat assessment systems.
2023-10-1934 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i45 John Van Dreal - Youth Violence Prevention (Part 1): The New Book | Connection | Desensitization | Anthropodenial and Evolution | Adrian Raine and Minority ReportIn part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Van Dreal discuss the new book: Youth Violence Prevention - The Pathway Back Through Inclusion And Connection. The book attends to the latest innovations in Behavioral Threat Assessment in the school environment. In the early iterations of these models, models presented to stop school shootings, too many kids were getting punished due to shit-talking. As such, John's system adjusted to focusing on behavior matching language. Deep human behavior, the denial of our origin as a species, and the potentials of future behavioral prediction are all discussed as well.
2023-10-1639 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G46 Adam Sorum and Jimmy Ashe (Part 3): The Future of Lib-Gunning | Only Supporting a Constructive FutureIn the final part of this series, Miyanovich, Sorum, and Ashe talk about what the near political landscape may mean for liberal gun ownership and discuss LGO focusing on a truly constructive future.
2023-10-0916 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G45 Adam Sorum and Jimmy Ashe (Part 2): 2015 The Trump Phenomenon | Special Leftists | 2017 LGO POLSTAT | Could You Have Imagined? | No More One-Way StreetIn Part 2 of this series Miyanovich, Sorum, and Ashe talk about LGOFB 2.0 which beings with the big surge in liberal interest in guns, the influx of destructive "special leftists", the establishment of LGO POLSTAT, imagining the possibility of LGO501c4 inside of a shitty beginning, potential for historic impacts, and the era of one-way street "community" ending.
2023-10-0746 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G44 Adam Sorum and Jimmy Ashe - The Founding of the LGO Facebook Group (Part 1): 2007 Adam Starts the Group | The Shitscape of the Beginning | 2010 Jimmy and Randy Join | 2011 Jimmy and Randy Become Admins | The Fight for LGO BeginsCome join Miyanovich, Adam Sorum, and Jimmy Ashe in this multiple part series on the founding of the LGO Facebook Group. Part 1 is a no-holds-barred talk about how awful the founding period was with both shitty conservative trolls and, more importantly, immature and backstabbing people from our own "community." The boys discuss how idealism about having an open concept was met with the worst of what the internet provides. The solution to this, and the creation of a healthy space was: heavy, no bullshit moderation. Eventually, things evolved...a healthy community became possible.
2023-10-0248 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i44 Martin Nielsen: Guns in Denmark, Joining the Danish Army, "Sketchy Units", Being Strong and Soft, Transitioning into Civilian Life, Favorite GunsIn this interview: Miyanovich and Nielsen discuss his history with guns in Denmark, joining the army, 9/11 impacts, SPECOPS Sketchy Units, soldiers getting therapy, being strong and being soft-hearted, weapons instruction in the Danish Army, transitioning into civilian life, and some of Nielsen's favorite guns.
2023-08-3151 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i43 Dr. Joy Allen (Part 3): The Good/Bad Reality with Guns, Violence in Communities of Color, Showing People their Worth, Laws aren't Magical Behavior ControlIn the final episode of this series Miyanovich and Dr. Joy discuss the human condition, violence in communities of color, how to show people their worth and give them meaning as a solution to problems, and how laws have limited effect on behavior.
2023-08-1820 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i42 Dr. Joy Allen (Part 2): Joy's Start with Guns, The Growth in Black Gun Ownership, Black Female Financial Empowerment, InHERPieceIn part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Joy discuss Joy's beginnings as a gun owner and instructor, the growth in gun ownership and training in the black community, the tectonic plate shift in gun culture, female participation in guns correlating to financial empowerment, differences with female-centered training, and Joy's company InHERPiece Ladies Shooting Club...all ladies, by ladies, for ladies.
2023-08-0723 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i41 Dr. Joy Allen (Part 1): The Deep Meaning of Guns for Women of Color, The Domestic Violence Reality, Women and Co-dependence, and Representation for Female Empowerment is KeyIn part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Dr. Joy get deep right off of the bat and talk about: how armed self-defense brings deep empowerment to women of color, how human evolution and culture both connect on female challenges, how there are cultural realities behind domestic violence and coercion in relationships, how co-dependence training / therapy may be superior to all other forms of training, how the representation of empowered females is a necessary key to solve issues of power.
2023-07-2238 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G43 Religion, Anti-Gay Sentiment, and Self-Defense (Part 5): John Correia on the Christian "Shift", Poor Christian Interpretation, The Evangelical Double-Down, and the Need for Gay Self-DefenseIn Part 5 of this series, Miyanovich and Correia discuss a broad range of related topics that include: John's outreach to the LGBTQ community, supporting The Trevor Project, the limits of certain Christian interpretations, good and bad guardrails, fundamentalist mindsets and their associated negatives, the Apostle Paul and sex in Roman culture, Roman pederasty as a social tool, the next big benchmark in religious thinking on gayness being 30-40 years away, and the need for all people...include gay people...to integrate sober self-defense into their lives.
2023-07-0739 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G42 Religion, Anti-Gay Sentiment, and Self-Defense (Part 4): Rabbi Hillel Norry on Fundamentalists not Really Being About Love, Fundies Being the #1 Global Threat to Gays, Hillel's Gay Child, and We Have More Work to doIn Part 4 of this series, Miyanovich and the Rabbi discuss: how fundamentalists' love is bullshit, how fundies are the #1 global threat to the lives of gay people, the legitimacy of gay self-defense, Hillel's gay child and their experience, and how religious people still have a lot of work to do.
2023-07-0419 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G41 Religion, Anti-Gay Sentiment, and Self-Defense (Part 3): Rabbi Hillel Norry on Long-Term Reality of Evolving Mindsets, "Non-Pathological Minority Expression of Human Sexuality", and how Mainline Judaism has Become AffirmingIn Part 3 of this series, Miyanovich and the Rabbi go in-depth into the Jewish religious reality and its history of being mostly reasonable about gayness. Topics discussed are: the long-term reality of changing religious mindsets, religion rarely leading needed social change, tradition and hesitancy, the normality of homosexuality in Yeshiva schools and all other places where men are grouped with one another exclusively, clergy having a choice, and how mainline Judaism has already moved into being gay affirming.
2023-07-0229 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G40 Religion, Anti-Gay Sentiment, and Self-Defense (Part 2): Pastor Jeremy Serrano on Gay-Affirming Christianity Being on a Long Time-Scale, The Roots of Anti-Gay Sentiment, His Deconstruction from Evangelical Lies, and Change Through RelationshipIn Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Pastor Jeremy discuss: how fully gay-affirming Chrisitianity is going to be a matter of decades or a century, how Chrisitianty is about loving people as they are, the religious roots of anti-gay sentiment, Jeremy's deconstruction from Evangelical lies about gays, and seeking change through relationships.
2023-06-2819 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2G39 Religion, Anti-Gay Sentiment, and Self-Defense (Part 1): Reverend Tony Jones on Religion as a Conservative Force, Religion Dying Out, Christians Drawing the Line at "The Gays", Some People have Greater Need for Self-DefenseIn part 1 of this multi-part series, Miyanovich lays out the framing and joins Reverend Tony Jones for a discussion on: there is no such thing as a progressive religious reality, how religion is dying in the West, how religion in America loses every cultural fight it tries to win, why churches draw the line at "The Gays", Roman pederasty and the Apostle Paul, how only 6 verses out of 35,000 in the New Testament talk about homosexuality, and how some people have a greater need for self-defense.
2023-06-2634 min
The Liberal Gun Owners Lens PodcastS2i39 Guns & "The Devil" with Rabbi Hillel Norry (Part 1): Hillel's Logic on "The Devil", In Reality People are Cruel, Human Ideas Have Never Eliminated Cruelty, Absolutism as UnderminerIn Part 1 if this 2 part series, Miyanovich and the Rabbi break new ground with this unprecedented discussion about human negatives and "The Devil." What part of the concept is helpful? What part of the concept is horseshit? Do our existing institutions and ideas have the ability to adequately explain or stop human cruelty? They also discuss how consistently ineffective absolutism is in human affaris.
2023-06-2229 min