Eric and Gabe chop it up with fellow Shakerite; John Dent: Storyteller/Educator/Live music documentarian/Family man and etc.

Eric and Gabe go off topic every so often. Today it was Alex Garland's Civil War.

Episode two dives into "Origins" and "American Fiction," exploring how these films connect to our experiences growing up in Shaker and navigating a society grappling with race and class.

Welcome to our pilot episode of the "Shaker Heights...Experiences may vary" hosted by former Shaker residents; Eric Green and Gabriel Tolliver discussing Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by former Shaker resident; Laura Meckler. The Shaker Heights; "experiences will vary" will feature Shaker residents past and present talking about their hometown and events that shaped them.

A suburb of Cleveland, Ohio - Shaker is a city known for its groundbreaking integration efforts as well being the home to notable people such as; Paul Newman, Gerald Levert, comedians David Wain, Molly Shannon and Kym Whitley, the rappers Machine Gun Kelly and Kid Cudi, and Gary Cohn, a former director of the U.S. National Economic Council. Shaker Heights High School counts among its graduates the novelist Celeste Ng and the Los Angeles Times journalist Jamil Smith, and journalists/writers; Susan Orlean, Andy Borowitz, and Kathryn Schulz to name a few.

Happy Mothers Day! Clarine Thomas joins Eric and I this Sunday to talk about her whereabouts and Shaker past life.