Hour 2: Freedom to Read vs. Opting Out: The LGBTQIA+ Bookshelf Battle. Interview with Robert Boris.
Podcasts > Shake It Off with Mert & Lucas
Tune in each week, as an established lawyer, and a self- proclaimed “man of the people,” debate some of the hottest issues impacting our city, state and nation.
Monday, July 14, 2025
The hosts discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, spotlighting the clash between parental religious rights and LGBTQ+-inclusive education in public schools, and unpack the decision’s sweeping implications. The show concludes with an interview featuring Robert Boris, the Writers Guild Award-winning screenwriter behind Electra Glide in Blue and Blood Feud, who is now out with his debut novel Black Sun—a high-stakes thriller about a rogue AI warplane that hat seizes control of nuclear weapons and threatens global survival.
