The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast

In this intro to Season 5, Miyanovich covers what he is up to and what to expect this year.

In this episode, Miyanovich and Dr. Will discuss: Will's arc from being pro gun control to pro gun rights because of extreme right-wing xenophobia, the limits of non-violence, having fun with guns, the negative stereotype of black gun usage, not owning guns ALSO being normal, collecting and buying, and a future where we get back to contructive communication.   

In this episode, Miyanovich covers 2025 year-end details for the podcast and gives his thoughts on "liberals" who believe that modern society provides enough protection for humans to eliminate the engagement of self-defense practices and / or martial awareness. 

In this episode, Miyanovich talks about: the recent loss of another developer, the cascading issues with the LGO DevGru, and the red line that he has with people who prioritize guns over health (this part is unrelated to the recent loss).

In the final part of this series, Miyanovich and Hancock discuss the loss of Brandon to a Fentanyl overdose.

In Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Hancock discuss: Will's "Sapper Gentleman" YouTube channel being a very good addition to the lib-gunning world, young men in the world of guns struggling with life, shitty Gun Tubers, and "The Gross Manosphere."

In Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Hancock discuss: the current status of Will's YouTube channel: Sapper Gentleman, the current reaction to Trump and MAGA, Left-wing absolutism, the lack of liberal support for Will's efforts, the general reality of YouTube, and "The Great Macho-ing of Mark Zuckerberg."

In this short segment, Miyanovich and Cheng discuss Chris's recent health challenges and their relationship to his significant heavy metal poisoning.

In Part 3 of this series, Miyanovich and Padovani discuss: the reality of male suffering, hashing things out online, men and martial responsibility, self-defense realties for men and women, male over-estimation of competency, gear or appearance as a substitute for skill, general overcompensating in the psyche, leanring from superior skill in others, high skill people are typically low-ego, and showing grace.

In Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich and Padovani discuss: neutering leadership in the center-to-left reality, liberal cannibalism, The Dems still trying to make the OG Dems happy, taking responsible for your own feelings, Laikoff's Hierarchy, and conservative narrowness.    

In Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich and Padovani discuss: the current lack of objective reasoning, the internet as a tool of manipulation, the need to always be right, biology and political orientation, psychological management in the current reality, the reliquishing of agency happening on both sides, the reality of civic duty, and maintaing society while destroying democracy.

In this short segment from an upcoming series, Self-Defense SME Alessandro Padovani accentuates the importance of mindset, self-defense skills, and medical aid skills during unprecedented times.

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. 

In Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich discusses: the worthlessness of digital opinions, being involved in lifelong special action, mental health, how to approach the news, actual liberalism, and how jabs control boxing outcomes.

In this excerpt from The Mang Dojo podcast, Miyanovich and Yamane discuss the existential realities that are posed by the Trump Administration and MAGA.

In Part 2 of this series, Miyanovich discusses: pseudo-religiosity, January 6th, religious "mission", Bush-League Conversion Theory, the psychological reality of doing something on purpose, the loaded acceptance of American gun culture, pseudo-light, and connecting with real conservatives and real Christians who know that MAGA is pseudo-conservative...and pseudo-Christian.

In Part 1 of this series, Miyanovich discusses: the yin and the yang of guns and human nature, humans being optimzed for objects, liberals having factory psychology, the era of "Liberals Own Guns Too" being over, the three anthropologic reasons for guns, the realities of social coercion, conservatism and disgust trait, the actual reality of christian inclusivity, and the limits of the ability to coerce society through guns.

Miyanovich talks about the realities of the core supporters of LGO501c4 and helping with the cascading mid-life issues assaulting his developers.

No time for details. Just give it a listen.

Keep it cool...real cool.

Miyanovich wraps up 2024 with a hardy "Thank You."

In 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. 

In 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.

In 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.

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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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. 

On 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

Miyanovich gives an update on his future.

In 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.

In 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."

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. 

In 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.

In 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.

In 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. 

In the final part of this series, Miyanvoch and Kenyatta discuss: the limits of the physical guns' importance in matters concerning guns, the gun community being almost entirely reactive to important current issues, and the need for people right and left-of-center to approach problem solving.

In 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.