Shake It Off with Mert & Lucas Live

Our second hour begins with a conversation on last week's GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas, specifically President Trump's promise of a $5,000 stipend to all eligible American adults if Republicans win both houses of Congress in the November midterms. The show wraps with Stephen Reiner, keynote speaker and bestselling author, to discuss his new book Business Changes Fast, People Change Slow: A Leadership Guide to Accelerating Organizational Change and Building Competitive Advantage.Website for the podcast: https://www.nfllp.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 114 begins with Mert, Ryan Pagano, and Alex discussing the 25 year commemoration of the September 11th attacks, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration releasing new documents about the air quality in Lower Manhattan post-9/11 being covered up. Then from the 21st century to the 18th century, Professor Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh, joins the show to discuss his new book Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours, co-authored with Peter S. Onuf.Website for the podcast: https://www.nfllp.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our second hour begins with a look at yet incident in the unfriendly skies. The show wraps with Anne Fundner, the “Angel Mom” whose 15-year-old son Weston was poisoned by fentanyl-laced pills in 2022; a 2024 RNC speaker and founder of the Forever Weston Foundation, she discusses the fentanyl crisis, peer pressure, and her fight for stronger borders and awareness.Website for the podcast: https://www.nfllp.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 113 begins with Mert, Matt Sambolin and Alex dive into facts and figures of Labor Day.  The show then shifts to an interview with Brendan Mahan, ADHD expert and host of the ADHD Essentials Podcast, who joins to discuss his new book Overcoming the Wall of Awful: Why It’s Hard to Get Things Done with ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety (and How to Do Them Anyway).Website for the podcast: https://www.nfllp.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our second hour opens with a discussion of President Trump’s order to substantially reduce annual joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with Kim Jong Un, the high U.S. costs, and Seoul’s refusal to join efforts against Iran. The move sparked sharp bipartisan criticism, raised questions about alliance reliability amid strong public support for the partnership on both sides, and fueled debate over whether “America First” strengthens or undermines long-standing deterrence against North Korea. The show then wraps with an interview featuring Prof. Robert Parkinson, a Binghamton University historian specializing in the American Revolution, whose new book Tyrants and Rogues examines the 27 specific grievances in the Declaration of Independence and the British figures behind them on the document’s 250th anniversary.Website for the podcast: https://www.nfllp.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.