Shake It Off with Mert & Lucas Live
Sep 7, 2026 · 50 min · 18 segments
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…
Ann FundnerGuestMatthew SambolinHostAlex GarrettHostwho had to be restrained with flexible handcuffs and duct taped to his seat.
There's been photos and videos circulating on social media, but this took place on an American Airlines flight on its way from Dallas to Newark, New Jersey.
Now, I guess you'd think that people in first class should have a level of sophistication.
Now, luckily, a retired former New Jersey police officer was on board who helped restrain the passenger who was also using racial and homophobic slurs.
Now, this man has been arrested on state charges with additional federal charges set to follow.
How should airlines prevent something like this from happening again? We've heard these stories before.
This is actually a great topic because I don't know if you did this on purpose, but Both of the topics we spoke about in the first hour roll into this, because if you think about the condition of the individual in America, a lot of people feel undervalued.
And then you combine that with a lot of undiagnosed mental illness out there because people are being left behind.
forgotten and in certain situations you might have money you might be able to afford a first class ticket but like our first guest said if you got money sometimes your illnesses can be hidden covered up and our first guest said he didn't take his medication he said he was going to overcome his adhd with willpower alone There's a lot of people out there who feel that same way.
And if you have money similar to a Kanye West who has been off his medicine, has said some crazy stuff, lost a billion dollars in in Adidas, risk it all, do it all away.
who had to be restrained with flexible handcuffs and duct taped to his seat.
There's been photos and videos circulating on social media, but this took place on an American Airlines flight on its way from Dallas to Newark, New Jersey.
Now, I guess you'd think that people in first class should have a level of sophistication.
Now, luckily, a retired former New Jersey police officer was on board who helped restrain the passenger who was also using racial and homophobic slurs.
Now, this man has been arrested on state charges with additional federal charges set to follow.
How should airlines prevent something like this from happening again? We've heard these stories before.
This is actually a great topic because I don't know if you did this on purpose, but Both of the topics we spoke about in the first hour roll into this, because if you think about the condition of the individual in America, a lot of people feel undervalued.
And then you combine that with a lot of undiagnosed mental illness out there because people are being left behind.
forgotten and in certain situations you might have money you might be able to afford a first class ticket but like our first guest said if you got money sometimes your illnesses can be hidden covered up and our first guest said he didn't take his medication he said he was going to overcome his adhd with willpower alone There's a lot of people out there who feel that same way.
And if you have money similar to a Kanye West who has been off his medicine, has said some crazy stuff, lost a billion dollars in in Adidas, risk it all, do it all away.
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