Some Sunday nights don’t just spark conversation — they expose the machinery behind the systems shaping our lives.
This week’s SHAKE IT OFF WITH MERT & LUCAS, LIVE! brings two guests who confront failure, power, and responsibility from radically different vantage points: one investigating how institutions collapse from within, the other standing on the front lines where faith, danger, and human resilience collide.
It’s a two‑hour dive into accountability, courage, and the uncomfortable truths we can’t afford to ignore.
Hour 1: Chris Papst — Author, Failure Factory
Investigative journalist Chris Papst opens the night with a hard look at how bureaucracies break down — and what happens when the people entrusted with public resources stop doing their jobs.
In Failure Factory, Papst traces the patterns of mismanagement, waste, and neglect that hollow out cities and leave taxpayers footing the bill.
Expect a conversation grounded in evidence, urgency, and the question every citizen should be asking: How much failure are we willing to tolerate from the institutions meant to serve us?
Hour 2: Judd Saul — Filmmaker, Evangelist & Founder of Equipping The Persecuted (TruthNigeria.com)
Then we shift from institutional collapse to the front lines of human endurance with Judd Saul, a filmmaker‑turned‑missionary whose work in Nigeria has become a lifeline for communities under relentless attack.
For more than a decade, Saul has traveled into regions where Christian villages face violence, displacement, and government indifference. What began as a single mission trip became a calling — one that led him to create Equipping The Persecuted, the organization behind TruthNigeria.com, a platform dedicated to documenting the crisis and amplifying the voices of those living through it.
Saul’s teams deliver rapid‑response aid within 24 hours of an attack: medical care, food, trauma support, and safe relocation. They also train local communities in security awareness, install early‑warning systems, and help rebuild what violence tries to erase. His films and field reports serve as testimony — not from a distance, but from someone who has stood in burned villages, listened to survivors, and refused to look away.
This hour is about conviction with consequences — the kind of work that forces us to confront what responsibility looks like when suffering is not theoretical, but immediate and preventable.
About the Hosts
• Lucas A. Ferrara — New York attorney, law professor, award‑winning film producer, and editorial strategist. Lucas brings legal acuity and narrative precision to every conversation, cutting through noise to reach the ideas that matter.
• Mert Roberts — A seasoned commentator whose wit, clarity, and grounded analysis keep each discussion sharp, surprising, and unmistakably alive.
Tune In
LIVE on AM970 Radio or the AM970 website + mobile app
Sunday, May 24 | 7–9 PM (Eastern)
Replays stream everywhere: Apple, Amazon, iHeart, Spotify, and more.
More info: shakeitofflive.com
Some shows inform. This one pulls back the curtain — and asks what we’re willing to do once we finally see what’s behind it.
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