DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on October 16th (Day 290 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on October 18th (Day 292 of 2020)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Okay, so the Browns still haven't beaten the Steelers in Pittsburgh since 2003, but there's good reason to still think this team is finally trending in the right direction. And go Rays! (aka, GO SULLIBALL!)
• Trump has pulled off the greatest con job maybe of all time, and it was reality TV that gave him the platform and power to do so, as well as an audience of idiots so easily duped by the con.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Golf courses should probably not be using native American imagery for their logos either. (begins around the 1:27:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Second String” (begins around the 1:48:00 mark)
• If you're not as interested in sports as you used to be in the Before Time, you are not alone.
• Listing the cinematic rarity of movie sequels and remakes that are actually better than the original.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Murder Hornets are in the news again! John Oliver, Michael Che, and Mollie Ames, the big 3. And finally, ashes are ashes, so even if those ashes are grandma, is it really that big of deal if lose them?  (begins around the 2:48:00 mark)
• Why Disney finally chose to do the right thing and are now properly acknowledging all of the racism found in so many of their classic films.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Calling the cops on a sleeping bronze Jesus, and finding out Twinkies might not have as long a shelf life as a McDonald's single with cheese does.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the Kevin Morby album 'Sundowner'

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on October 9th (Day 283 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on October 12th (Day 286 of 2020)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Browns are 4-1, and clearly we must be living in an alternate reality. About the only thing that appears normal in 2020 so far is JR Smith not wearing a shirt after winning a Championship. Oh, and Jimmy Butler is forever a legend of the game now, and LeBron James is, without question, the greatest to have ever played the game.  (You can also check out Greg Miller’s review of Week 5’s Browns win over the Indianapolis Colts by clicking here)
• RIP Eddie Van Halen, and remembering 'Back To The Future' by watching it again and being reminded that the good ol' days aren't always exactly as how we remember them.
• "Sulliball" is the only rooting interest left in MLB postseason right now
• David Attenburough's newest film "Life On Our Planet" (available on Netflix) is pretty much a 90 minute treatise on why no one should be having a baby right now.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Meatloaf may be terribly named, a gross looking aged popstar, and mostly nothing more than lazily made slop as a recipe, but it's definitely qualifies as a comfort food. (begins around the 1:21:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Night Terror” (begins around the 1:41:00 mark)
• If this vote ends up being the last days of Trump, it's a real shame we are too worried to enjoy the death spin he and his office appears to be in right now.
• Voting early, how to do so in Cuyahoga County, what the experience is like, and the unprecedented importance of voting this year.
• You may be able to fully trust voting by mail but have you ever really looked at the mail you get these days if you get any at all? Some weird sh*t out there that's being sent via the USPS, that's for sure.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Don't worry that new moon in our atmosphere is just some space junk, there are great Heinen's groceries out there, good ones, and not good ones, but there is no such things as a bad Heinen's (except for maybe the one in Middleburgh Heights). And Cleveland Browns brand of wine is a thing, even though it definitely should not ever be a thing. (begins around the 2:41:00 mark)
• The Neilson ratings are stuck in the 50's in how they gather information, so how can we believe anything at all that they list are TV ratings, especially since fewer and fewer people are actually TV in this nation anymore.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – There's cruises to nowhere now... And it might not be that bad of an idea, actually. A Cleveland Baseball Team fan hobo light had a novel way of rooting for their team during the pandemic, and thankfully Delonte West is doing better.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the 2017 album 'Terminal' by the band Circle available via Southern Lord

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on October 2nd (Day 276 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on October 5th (Day 279 of 2020)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Of course the Browns would finally end up being good in a year where the world is turned upside down and inside out, but are they good enough to be a playoff team?  (Also check out Greg Miller’s review of Week 4’s Browns win over the Dallas Cowboys by clicking here)
• Trump tests positive and is hospitalized with the 'Rona, something that anyone with any capacity for critical thinking and assessing complex risk could see coming.
• Masturbation as a "radical act of individualism", and the real story of the hate group called the Proud Boys.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Proud gay men engage the Proud Boys in such the beautiful way. #WankForever #NeverForgetToWank (begins around the 1:21:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Walking Wounded” (begins around the 1:38:00 mark)
• If we can hate Hawaiian shirts on white dudes because of the Boogaloos, can we also hate stupid hipster mustaches because of the Proud Boys?
• Explaining everything that went wrong with the Cleveland Baseball Team, as if we should have ever expected something good to happen in 2020 at all.
• Watching the Yankees on ESPN is like watching the YES Network and its fan hobo coverage of that Bronx team.
• Kyrie Irving has done nothing except ride LeBron's coattails to a title, but that won't stop him from smelling himself way too much, aka, HOORAY, NBA Kyrie drama candy!
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Jimmy Mother F'n Butler! and Mollie’s Weekly Reports: John Oliver is stealing Mollie's thunder, and fine dining in an enclosed igloo may become the norm this winter at all your favorite restaurants.  (begins around the 2:40:00 mark)
• The NFL has its first 'Rona outbreak, further driving home the point that there's no eliminating risk with this virus. All you can only hope to do is limit the risk as best as possible.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Haunted houses and a local carwash converge, swearing birds are the best, and some of the absolutely crazy things being sold on Trump's and Biden's official and unofficial merch pages.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the most recent full length by Mourning [A] BLKstar 'The Cycle' available via Don Giovanni Records

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on September 25th (Day 269 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on September 28th (Day 272 of 2020)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Trump and the Yankees are coming to town on Tuesday... And everything seems to be riding on who comes out ahead by Wednesday morning. Oh, and the Browns beat the two worst teams in the NFL the last two weeks, which means, hooray, the Browns are no longer one of the worst teams in the NFL! Which is definitely something. (Check out Greg Miller's review of Week 3's Browns win over the Washington Football Team by clicking here)
• Art is like cake and we got some cake this week! Finally.
• Explaining the MLB Postseason bubble life that begins on Tuesday, and how it is this unique postseason actually might favor your Cleveland Baseball Team. #TushyRawBeiber!
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Taking a long drive in the country just isn't as nice as it once was, but that doesn't mean there aren't still good people doing good things out there (a trip out to Kinsman and to Red Basket Farms market 'Good Intentions' is a prime example of good people doing good things way out in the outer rim) (begins around the 1:22:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Snow Day” (begins around the 1:51:00 mark)
• How you like the Clevinger trade now?
• Remembering when tickets to Cleveland baseball used to be a real hard ticket to get.
• An idiot in the outer-rim yet again makes headlines for refusing to wear a mask and it's all a reminder of how the lack of scientific understanding and thinking in this country adds up to a very imbalanced and dangerous society. You know, the exact thing Carl Sagan warned us about 25 years ago before his passing.
• Delonte West is a real American story that illustrates the problems people with serious mental health face in this country that doesn't seem to care about them at all.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Turns out you can't change time even in a time machine, when art and billboards converge to greet Trump and his trek to the first 2020 presidential debate, and one very cool rat. (begins around the 2:51:00 mark)
• Reconciling the fact that LeBron is about to win another Championship and being very much okay with it, even though we'll most likely be rooting against him.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – The long list of things you can't bring with you to the debate, kids going to school today will no longer have a day off that kids have always enjoyed before now, and reminding everyone that you can't reuse a condom.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the new album from Spillage Village 'Spilligion'

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on September 18th (Day 262 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on September 21st (Day 265 of 2020)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Your viewers guide for the NBA Playoffs, aka the best thing on TV right now, LSU coach Ed Orgeron is just as contradictory and hypocritical as you would expect, and the importance of voting this year is actually the most important vote you've ever possessed.
• Browns beat the Bengals but let's not get too excited about it.
• Predicting what's going to happen in the NBA Conference Finals (NBA bubble life!).
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The NFL is actually better TV with none of its idiotic fan hobos in the stands to have to look at, and where should we draw the line at click-bait and show teasers? (begins around the 1:28:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Science Project” (begins around the 1:51:00 mark)
• Turns out there is a pretty safe way to go to a theater right now, you just have to rent out the whole theater (which is surprisingly affordable). That said, the main reason to go to the theater right now to see the new Christopher Nolan film is predictably not very good.
• Sean Feucht is the latest Christian conman to come to town, and it's a reminder that Christian pop music and how flat out awful it is should be all you need to rethink this whole being a Christian zealot thing.
• Who knew a farm downwind from a nuclear plant in the outer-rim would end up being an oasis of good people, not to mention amazing produce.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: The best place to live right now is probably Denmark, and the growing destruction, measures take to protect them, and the overall concerns with political signage (and the passive-aggressive act of having that stuff on your lawn in the first place) . (begins around the 2:53:00 mark)
• Your Weekly Cleveland Baseball Team Playoff Probabilities!
• Explaining the 2020 MLB postseason bubble, its rules, and the strategies we are about to see that will be unlike any you've ever seen before.
• Of course the BIG 10 changed course and will now play their 2020 season, and it's all thanks to politics in sports. You know, the thing conservatives have been against but this time they're not saying anything other than "play ball!" Go figure.
• Socialism and the Republican party are crossing streams, at least when it comes to the idea of compensating college athletes, i.e., cognitive dissonance within the party continues to be the only trickle down policy that actually trickles down.
• The Cleveland Public Library is amazing, but like many of the best things in this city most people seem to be unaware of how amazing it is.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Saying farewell to a Cleveland institution, and wondering what's next for the space its vacating.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the new album from A. Swayze & The Ghosts "Paid Salvation" available via Ivy League Records

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Brownsy Opening Day loss by the Browns is one of the only predictably normal things to happen in this pandemic to date, and so begins, assuredly, another long season of losing. (And check out Greg Miller's breakdown of the Week 1 game against the Ravens by clicking here)
• Today's NFL is different than the one back in 2016 when Kaepernick first began protesting police brutality and racial injustice, gone are the days where Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Tom Brady are "the face of the NFL", in 2020 the face of the League are all black QBs.
• Harvard released the findings of a 4 year in depth study of the Massachusetts criminal system and what they found out should shock no one who's been paying attention lately, they found out our entire criminal system is racist against blacks and African-Americans.
• Hooray, USA is... 28th! (and dropping)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – A true story about how you can do everything right, follow all the guidelines and precautions, and still end up catching Covid-19. (begins around the 1:29:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Pumpkin Head” (begins around the 1:48:00 mark)
• USA beach volleyball great Kerry Walsh Jennings is the latest athlete to reveal they shouldn't be listened to at all when it comes to anything other than beach volleyball. And also asking why should we listen to someone who's been entirely complicit with the sexual exploitation within her sport, in the first place.
• Buying whiskey in the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of the week, in the middle of a pandemic. #DontBeHatin
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: "Bleeding Brown", turns out kissing has a lot more going on with it between potential partners than you know, and a new kind of protest in sports we're hoping becomes popular worldwide. (begins around the 2:47:00 mark)
• Colin Kaepernick is the #1 free agent available... In Madden 2020 that is. Meanwhile, in the real world, he and Eric Reid are still being blackballed by the NFL.
• Your Weekly Cleveland Baseball Team Playoff Probabilities!
• What you need to be rooting for this season in the Central Division playoff race if you have any hope of Cleveland making the World Series.
• Nothing is better than the NBA Bubble Playoffs right now. 
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Goddamn dumb gender reveal parties, and a karaoke fan hobo holds a pro-karaoke rally in Canada.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the Tropical Fuck Storm debut full length from 2018, 'A Laughing Death In Meatspace'

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Bullying is the only thing Trump and his supporters really stand for, when boating parades go awry to delight of the majority, and predicting the lucky 6 thousand or so fans who are going to get to go to see Browns games in person this season are sure to be the same douchebags and fan hobos nobody wants to sit next to anyway.
• Your Defend Cleveland Show 2020 Browns season preview with full season predictions, and lots of fan hobo filled happy-fun-time. (And if you haven't yet read Greg Miller's Defend Cleveland Browns 2020 Season Preview, do so by clicking here)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The AL Central Division is the hottest division in baseball but Shane Bieber's tuchus is still the hottest thing of all. And again explaining how the trade of Clevinger is way better than people are giving credit for. (begins around the 1:42:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Slurpy Situation” (begins around the 1:58:00 mark)
• Clay Travis and his Outkick blog that overnight became a success, and all he had to do was sellout to Trump so he could cash in on all the brainwashed Trumpers out there. 
• Explaining the systemic racism that exists and many of the ways there's no more criminal nor worse exploitation in this nation than that which occurs in the big dollar world of NCAA Division 1 sports. Then discussing what a fair share of the revenue would really look like if the players were to be played, and the generational wealth and complete transformation it would mean for so many black and African-Americans.
• Your Weekly Cleveland Baseball Team Playoff Probabilities!
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: "Local artist" finds the best use ever for dildos and butt-plugs. Guidelines for sex during the age of 'Rona and the kink it may end up informing, when a shitty job gets even shittier, and Mollie is as clumsy as clumsy gets. (begins around the 3:02:00 mark)
• Defend Cleveland considers what it would take for Mike and Mollie to sell out to all the right-wing nationalistic crazies out there and cashed in like so many others have.
• Your Cleveland Baseball Team Weekly Playoff Probabilities!
• Nothing is better than the NBA Bubble Playoffs right now. Nothing even comes close.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – You heard all about NFL fan hobos on this show, but wait until you hear about this MLB fan hobo who has a pretty grandiose idea of how to best declare his fan hobo-ism via a whole bunch of tattoos.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the 2016 Kevin Morby masterpiece "Singing Saw" available via Dead Oceans.

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Asking maybe the most important question after the Cleveland Baseball Team traded away its biggest knucklehead in Mike Clevinger to the Padres for a cadre of young talent: Will Zach Plesac be able to step up and fill the team's role of King Knucklehead? And Mollie begins a list of people she wants to hug when the pandemic is finally over.
• The dehumanization of victims in this country and the over-glorification of today's military, and how the two are fueling the problem of our nation's systemic racism and police brutality.
•  Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Is it easier to learn a foreign language or the game of golf? A Defend Cleveland official study is under way to determine the answer. (begins around the 1:30:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Busted Whig” (begins around the 1:54:00 mark)
• The difference between a boycott and what the sports world did in shutting down in protest this past week following the shooting of Jacob Blake.
• The Bail Project in Cleveland receives a huge grant from our city's namesake foundation known largely for its support of local arts, extending its support to provide relief and assistance wherever its needed most.
• Your Weekly Cleveland Baseball Team Playoff Probabilities!
• From Hot Mics in last week's episode to Hot Tweets in this week's episode, and finding out it's impossible for your iPhone to autocorrect to a racist term (no matter how racist you are).
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content –  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Don't plant any seeds you get in the mail from China, and apparently getting USPS mail deliveries in the outer rim sometimes comes with a side of crack.  (begins around the 3:01:00 mark)
• Discussing Cleveland Scene's recent article about CWRU and all the recent allegations of sexual assault occurring on campus.
• Nick Saban saying he only wants to play right now for the players is not only a gigantic lie worth billions of dollars to college football (and an additional 8.3 million of Nick's own yearly salary), it's also literally a life and death gamble during this pandemic that risks almost a thousand other players just so a little more than 3% of them might improve their 2020 NFL Draft value. 
• The UFC sold its soul to the Trump Party a long time ago, and how part of its reward for doing so translates to why only 20% of the revenue generated by the UFC fights actually goes to the fighters themselves. 
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Surprising no one, a lot of people going to strip clubs in Canada during the pandemic aren't using their real names even if it's required for contact tracing.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is the Wharf Cat Records debut full length 'Gentle Grip' by Public Practice. (A must for fans of Pere Ubu, Keith Levene era P.I.L., and The Slits)

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The 10 articles of impeachment filed (from within his own bat-shit crazy party!) against Gov. DeWine by three of Ohio's biggest outer-rim conservative nutcakes are just as hypocritical and insane as you should have expected, and they also further illustrate why Defending Cleveland from the rest of Ohio is clearly the most obvious path to saving us all.
• MLB Hot Mike! Er... MLB Hot Mic! (The many recent MLB f-bombs, and longtime Reds play-by-play Thom Brennamen lets slip on-air what he really thinks before ultimately serving up one of the most insanely unbelievable justifications for it you could ever imagine) 
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Kayaking the Cuyahoga is something every Clevelander should do at least once. And an open letter to Thom Brennamin that's a must read, so we read it for you. (begins around the 1:25:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Our Body, Ourselves” (begins around the 1:48:00 mark)
• Getting in some hot (Covid-19 safely distanced) beaches in the city before it turns into winter. 
• WTAM sticks to their standard racist script by going full WTAM in the middle of a baseball game.
• The body-cam video that clearly depicts Toronto Raptors team president Masai Ujiri was not the aggressor and was instead the one who was actually assaulted (and not the other way around like the racist cop who attacked him wanted everyone to believe) has finally become available to the public, but why did it take so long for this very important evidence to be released?
• The return of your "Cleveland Baseball Team" Playoff Probabilities song and dance!
• Shane Bieber is going full historic right now, and it's about the only thing in MLB that's must see TV right now. And not just because of his tushy.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Make room Beib's, there's a new pitcher for CLE who's also can't miss/must see TV, and Luka Dončić's shot that could be heard all around the water banks of the city. And… Mollie’s Weekly Report: A Cleveland band finally graces the cover of one of the greatest and most respected music magazines of all time. (begins around the 2:49:00 mark)
• Kansas City Chiefs fans are no longer going to be permitted to dress and paint themselves as Native Americans at games anymore, and listening to the uproar it's causing is all too familiar.
• Really good sex, really good drugs, and really good pizza... Pretty much the Big 3! (Focaccia red pie add Romano at Gentile's Bakery in Parma!)
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Mollie went to see Dave Chappelle, and it's definitely okay to be insanely jelly of her right now.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’!

Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is Cleveland's very own (and current Wire Magazine cover story) Mourning [A] BLKstar

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content - Sure, OSU quarterback Justin Fields and so many others like him look really misguided and stupid right now (and in many ways they are), but they are also being manipulated and taken advantage of by fully grown adults who make a lot of money off of them as "student athletes". So don't go planning them the players too much for wanting to play during a pandemic, blame those who are all too willing to put them at risk for money. 
• Adjusting the clock on the "Defend Cleveland 'Then/Now' Time Bending Machine" to see if we are actually cursed.
• Medical experts agree it isn't safe to play college football right now, and only those who are misinformed, too stubborn and/or wholly incapable of comprehending complex risk have any problem with the BIG 10 and Pac 12 suspending their seasons, i.e., sports talk hosts, especially ex-jocks like Dustin Fox and Sean Salisbury, are largely misinformed, too stubborn and/or incapable of comprehending complex risk.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content - Stipe Miocic is the greatest Heavyweight UFC Champion of all time and it's time for statues of the man! Meanwhile, most people in CLE do not seem to care much at all. Which is fine, but if you're a fan of football and the Cleveland Browns and you say the UFC is just "too violent" for you to enjoy, you might need to better define what you mean by too violent. (begins around the 1:25:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Breaks” (begins around the 2:01:00 mark)
• How come the coach, front office and ownership is ultimately held accountable by the public when a sports team fails, yet in this country no one in charge has yet to be held accountable for our nation failing so badly during this pandemic?
• Ratings are down for all sports, not just the NBA like all the conservative racists would have you believe. It is a bit surprising the sports ratings across the board aren't any better than they are.
• Explaining "Uncanny Valley" and why cardboard cutouts instead of fans scientifically don't work.
• The NFL is spinning headlines with their Covid-19 testing numbers like Malcolm Gladwell twists statistics trying to sell a book , and we explain exactly how the NFL is doing it.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content - The NBA is about to change the world with a Yale research they funded. That's right, the NBA might yet save us all! Literally. And... Mollie's Weekly Report this week is a Defend Cleveland Exclusive: LaMalfa Banquet Hall hosted a wedding of 200 people on Saturday (8/15/2020), and as you can probably already guess, Covid-19 protocols and social distance requirements were not only largely ignored by the wedding party and their guests, but LaMalfa and the majority of its staff were even more guilty of not following state mandated safety protocols. (begins around the 3:07:00 mark)
• Seriously, there are very few reasons to have a wedding right now, and planning a large wedding should be out of the question altogether.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Terror Crocodiles, and you might not be able to go to the County Fair because of the pandemic, but you can still lineup in your car for some County Fair Fare.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

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Your recommended listening for the week is the new self-released album 'NO' by the legendary Japanese band Boris.

The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.