DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on August 7th (Day 220 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on August 8th (Day 221 of 2020)

• Cleveland's TownHall keeps living up to its billing representing everything that's wrong with this country, time and time again. (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• The world sucks right now and it's only getting worse, but sports is back and if you're keeping score at home, the safety measures put in place for our pro leagues is sadly and drastically very different than the safety measures the public is working with that don't go anywhere near enough in protecting us.
• The NFL is in camp and just over a month away from beginning... i.e., brace yourself, everything is about to get even more stupid.
• Gustbuster umbrellas and Caddie Daddy's: Golf accessories and racially profiling every degree of white asshole on the spectrum while out on the course. (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:28:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Suspension” (begins around the 1:52:00 mark)
• Watching Beyonce's 'Black Is King' and realizing Disney and its apparent target demo groups and censorship have completely changed.
• MLB has revised its Covid-19 protocols and it is almost unbelievable they didn't have all these rules in place to begin with.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Hasn't Christie's Cabaret effectively been socially distance the day this state outlawed stripping? And you're never going to believe the toy troll Hasbro just had to pull off the shelves. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:51:00 mark)
• The NBA's return is absolutely beautiful. Somehow the pandemic hit and the beautiful game is shining even more beautifully.
• Shane Bieber... seriously. Wow. Just imagine how great this team would be if it spent money and bought a couple bats for the lineup?
• Having a craving for crap food you loved as a kid even when you know it isn't that good is a hard craving to not cave in to, and deciding what is the greater city nickname,"Forest City" or "Porkopolis"?
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Mollie pokes the bear by discussing cardboard cutout fan hobos, and of course you know who has the most Covid-19 state protocol violation complaints filed against it.

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 2018 debut album 'Street Worms' by the Viagra Boys on Year0001 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 July 31st (Day 213 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on August 1st (Day 214 of 2020)

• Counting the ways the opening weekend return of the NBA is so uniquely wonderful, safe, and successful. And religious protests against kneeling in protest are unsurprisingly missing the point altogether (just like is all too often the case with so many things uber religious). (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• Remember last week when MLB was returning to action? Well, it was fun while it lasted, huh? Too bad too, because obviously this was going to be Cleveland's year!
• The parallels of golf are pinball are more than you might think, mostly because both games are endlessly frustrating and difficult to be good at.  (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:34:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Bathroom Of Horrors” (begins around the 1:55:00 mark)
• MLB is comparable to every idiot out there not taking this virus seriously (i.e., Trump minded idiots), whereas the NBA's return to play is comparable to those nation's that have done a much better job of battling the pandemic because they actually listened to experts and turned to science instead of just chasing the money and throwing safety to the wind.
• Even When Kyrie Irving is being praised for his humanitarian efforts it still "smells fishy".
•  Mollie’s Weekly Reports:  The Cleveland Clinic is caring for its employees who get sick with Covid-19 the right way, and mustard is one of the greatest condiments of all, but mustard beer is going too far. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:59:00 mark)
• The original Deadspin crew are coming back! Not back to Deadspin but to a whole new site all their own called Defector. Hooray!
• Will this be our last Playoff Probability of 2020 for Cleveland's Baseball Team...? Go figure that would be the case just when it was really beginning to look promising.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – The crazy tale of the "Cherry King" and Dell's Maraschino Cherries.

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 'A Hero's Death' by Fontaines D.C. available via Partisan 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 July 24th (Day 206 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on July 26th (Day 208 of 2020)

• Counting the MLB Opening Weekend aberrations for a season that's sure to be full of many, many more. And the MLB may have appeared woke on Day 1 of this strange season, but then on Day 2 it appears that shit was just foke (aka - fake woke). (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• Happy Last Weekend In July Opening Day To A 60 Game Regular Season (And 16 Team Postseason) Cleveland Baseball fans...! Buckle up, this shit is going to be weird.
• We’re changing up our long running favorite baseball bit, and we require a little help from our listeners to do so…
• The difference between someone doing something about affecting change (LeBron James), and someone just talking shit about affecting change (Kyrie Irving). And trying to learn golf when you hate golfers is a bit tricky.  (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:19:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Fuck Michigan” (begins around the 1:38:00 mark)
• The Washington Football Team temporarily change their name to... The Washington Football Team.
• Turns out Cleveland does have it's own culinary dish after all and it's called a Polish Boy, which is not at all to be confused with a po' boy.
• Mike finally reveals he's falling in love with golf and Mollie gets really pissed at him, and not just because of the golf thing.
•  Mollie’s Weekly Reports:  Mollie might be a nudist after all, that shit they put in weed vape cartridges might not be entirely weed, and there's still some minor league baseball going on... sort of. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:40:00 mark)
• Of course TownHall in Cleveland has violated more Covid-19 rules than any other business in the city since the reopening. And on top of that, good places are having to close because of the same dangerous pandemic denying idiots who frequent places like TownHall in the first place.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Drivers for Uber and Lyft, and the people having to rely on them for transportation, are finding it difficult to do so safely, and the creative ways in which they're at least trying.

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 'Ultimate Success Today' by Protomartyr out on Domino Recordings

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 July 17th (Day 199 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on July 18th (Day 200 of 2020)

• Psychonaut hiking in the woods is where it's at, and f*@k Nick Cannon and anyone else who touts, or is otherwise, dumb enough to believe these ridiculous antisemitic conspiracies. (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• The Washington football team finally agrees to change its team name, now if we could only get beat reporters and sports news services to stop calling it a "nickname".
• We're changing up our long running favorite baseball bit, and we require a little help from our listeners to do so...
• Discussing baseball's 'Summer Camp'.  (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:30:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Night Shift” (begins around the 1:44:00 mark)
• A-Rod again proves to be self-interest driven only idiot piece of shit. 
• There are only 10 total NBA reporters inside NBA's bubble at Disney World and it's going to be one of the best sports journalism gigs you could ever hope to land, and yet the best NBA beat writer of them all won't be there.
•  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Multi-use thermometer ideas during a pandemic, and a fun tale of how delivery service drivers are out pranking each other. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:47:00 mark)
• Butler County has a Dick Jones Sheriff problem and baseball (still) has an Umpire Joe West problem, but who can tell who’s saying what since both these assholes are clearly reading the same hateful and ignorant right-wing propaganda playbook.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Going to see Bob James (no relation) perform, remembering earlier in the pandemic when DeWine was more of a leader instead of just being the useless cheerleader he's been since, reporting on a treasure hunt with real treasure, and maybe it's time to get rid of coins as a currency altogether.

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 self-released Cloud Nothings album 'The Black Hole Understands'

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 July 11th (Day 193 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on July 12th (Day 194 of 2020)

• Wondering what some of the absolute worst jobs are have right now because of the pandemic, systemic racism and all the right-wing wackadoos out there controlling the narrative.  (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• The Ivy League proves yet again to be the smartest place for higher education in the country.
• Remember when the NCAA used to preach that all their collegiate athletes are students first and athletes second? Yeah, that's been proven to be exactly what we've always known it to be, an absolute lie. 
• A brief explanation of what cognitive dissonance is, i.e., trying to explain how all these conservative nationalist nutcakes out there are always contradicting themselves.
• Speaking of disconnects, how can a network that has forever positively alter TV programming as many times as Fox has over the years also be the same network that propelled Trump to power? (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:11:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “And Still Champion” (begins around the 1:22:00 mark)
• Why is it that it seems like all older Italian men from Northeast Ohio are as misogynistic as they are racist (a tale about Ohio's state legislator Nino Vitale who confirms this stereotype almost every time he posts something)? 
• The new Holy Trinity: Pro-Life, Guns, and Anti-vaccines... Amen. 
• Deshaun Jackson and Stephen Jackson (no relation) are proving any time you delve into any form of 'nationalism', it's largely comprised of hatred and lies all disguised as messages of empowerment and pride.
•  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Waterfalls are nature's bidet, becoming a nudists might be the safest thing to be in Florida right now, and the Red Light District is open in Amsterdam, but only doggy style, please.  (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:27:00 mark)
• Butler County has a Dick Jones Sheriff problem and baseball (still) has an Umpire Joe West problem, but who can tell who's saying what since both these assholes are clearly reading the same hateful and ignorant right-wing propaganda playbook.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Scrabble tournaments finally remove all racists slurs from its dictionary and the same people who you would expect to be pissed off about it, are. And Everclear isn't just good for jello shots and burning a whole in your esophagus, it's also a really good disinfectant (which is something the company clearly has figured out in its new marketing campaign). 

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 debut album 'My Heart Is An Open Field' by Tenci, available on Keeled Scales.

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 July 3rd (Day 185 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on July 5th (Day 187 of 2020)

• This show apparently has a curse on it, and the Cleveland Indians are finally considering changing the team's name which would (finally!) end their curse. We're hoping and pleading this gets done, but please don't name the team Rockers... (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• July 4th, 2020, and counting many of the reasons why we shouldn't be celebrating this holiday this year.
• Baseball is somehow thinking it’s going to get started again here soon, even though every stitch of common sense says it’s a really bad idea that’s most likely to go sideways than crown a World Series Champion. We cover the game’s rule changes that will render it largely unrecognizable, and talk about the inevitable doom this is all leading to, a player strike and the potential for no baseball at all in 2021.
• Our police chief has been lying to us and our only newspaper needs to call him out on it, and the CPPA didn't become racist when Steve Loomis took over, Cleveland's police union has always been racist. 
• Going through stages of grief from just visiting with good friends during this pandemic is now a thing, and Frank Jackson finally decides to make everyone wear a mask but he also seems to be pimping us out to do so. (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:25:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Neighbors” (begins around the 1:50:00 mark)
• Some of our nation's white supremacist groups have appropriated the Hawaiian shirt as one of their symbols of hate, which turns out to be a pretty good reason to get other white people who aren't racist to stop wearing that stupid shit. 
• Sports commentary has its own coded language, and it should be no surprise that this coded language is actually pretty racist.
• Damion Lilliard is right on the money.
• Ian Desmond message to the world of baseball about the state of the game proves he is one of the sport's greatest living heroes.
•  Mollie’s Weekly Reports: The Pawtucket Red Sox have a rather lengthy dinner reservation waiting list, and Stouffer's has unveiled a new mac&cheese "prototype" that has Mike really "proto-pissed off".  (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:54:00 mark)
• Explaining the new MLB rule of starting each extra-inning with a runner second, and whether a team should try to bunt them to third (or not).
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – More of "Mollie’s Life Experiences" and how she's become a better driver, how best to store (and disinfect) your mask, and what are they going to do with all the professional grade fireworks that are leftover this year with so many of the state's official fireworks shows cancelled?

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 one of the greatest albums of all-time, Funkadelic's 1971 masterpiece 'Maggot Brain' released on Westbound 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 June 26th (Day 178 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 28th (Day 180 of 2020)

• Former Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis continues to be a glaring example of everything that's wrong with the police and this nation as a whole. (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• Living in America (The Embarrassing), and wishing it wasn't already too late to move to Canada or Europe.
• Baseball is somehow thinking it's going to get started again here soon, even though every stitch of common sense says it's a really bad idea that's most likely to go sideways than crown a World Series Champion. We cover the game's rule changes that will render it largely unrecognizable, and talk about the inevitable doom this is all leading to, a player strike and the potential for no baseball at all in 2021.
• Remembering 1994, and the last time there was a baseball strike.
•  Tik-Tok has been active lately, and there's a whole lot of good and bad to sift through in its activity. (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:14:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Three Hard No's” (begins around the 1:41:00 mark)
• The three options left for Cleveland and Frankie Lindor, and sadly none of which is the option of paying him what he's worth to stay here.
• NASCAR (pronounced "Nass-Kerr") had to literally defend why it investigated the noose found in its lone full-time African-American's racing stall... Yeah, NASCAR's racism runs through its very core.
• Speaking of racism in the south and racing cars, wait till you hear about what the merchandise a track in North Carolina was selling this last week.
• Native Americans are calling on NFL players who play for Washington to be heroes, and insist their team's racist name be changed or they won't play.
• What's the first thing you think of when you hear the name "The Masters"?
• Cleveland Scene took our advice and removed their comments section, and to no one's surprise the idiots who are the reason why they removed the comments in the first place are all up in arms about it (and making about as much sense as ever in their complaint).
•  Mollie's Weekly Reports: We maybe only hate Guy Fieri because of how stupid he looks (which is enough), but the petition to change the city name of Columbus to "Flavor Country" is beyond even Guy's purposeful over-the-top show of stupidity, and Tina Fey does what's right and she did it for all the right reasons, (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:43:00 mark)
• The number one movie in the country is Jurassic Park (again), watching it (again) and loving it (again), but also realizing it's been over 2 decades since Steven Spielberg has directed a great movie. And he's put out a lot of films over that time, it's not for lack of trying.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Mollie's newest segment " Mollie's Life Experiences" and realizing just how much crap people put on their food, and what are we going to do with all these peanuts in a shell?

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 brand new album 'Inlet' from the legendary band Hum available via Earth Analog 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 June 19th (Day 171 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 20th (Day 172 of 2020)

• Happy Summer Solstice! We're rethinking Father's Day so it specifically celebrates more than the mere act of a man having an orgasm successfully. (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• Sifting through some of the unwavering scientific proof that masks save lives, and how everyone out there raw doggin' air aren't just risking their own lives, they're risking everyone else's lives too.
• Sports in this country apparently has redefined the word 'morale', either that or the word 'morale' simply does not mean what they think it means.
• The owners and the commissioner's office are the ones who have been operating in bad faith here, and don't ever think that's not the case no matter how they try to spin and/or deflect the truth.
• The newly formed NBA "Players Coalition" apparently heeded our advice and changed their point (guard) messenger.
• Calling out "that white bitch" here in Cleveland who attempted to profit from some ad hoc  phone consultations for "non-Black folks" seeking to affect racial justice. (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:16:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Late Fees” (begins around the 1:43:00 mark)
• Recognizing Juneteenth 2020, and recognizing that blacks and their centuries of resistance to slavery and inequalities are the ones who freed themselves, and are also the ones who never stopped fighting for social justice.
• The Wandering Officer has officially (and finally) been proven to be at least twice the problem of all other officers.
• Last week we reported on NASCAR's announcement to ban Confederate Flags and be more inclusive for fans, and this week we report how NASCAR immediately went right back to their racist divisive ways after making that announcement. And thank you to Wikipedia for those few hours where it accurately stated that Kyle Weatherman is a "racist scumbag".
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, podcast edition: Cleveland's corporate radio stations are planning a "Justice For All" simulcast this week that will feature Frank Jackson (what could go wrong?), the Jack Casino is open again (WHAT COULD GO WRONG?), and the abject racist origin stories for some of the most racist food product logos out there. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:46:00 mark)
• Getting rid of racist statues, mascots, symbols and logos (or attempting to), and how these efforts to remove them aren't a new call to action, they have been fought for for decades. And how our nation's over-entitled white majority just doesn't hear these complaints unless people are dying left and right at the hands of systemic racism (and even then it usually doesn't mattered much to them).
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Please don't burn masks like the idiots in North Carolina are doing, and a downtown Cleveland resident came up with a great way to get back at their downstairs neighbors for hanging 'Trump 2020' signs out their window.

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 EP from Dua Saleh "ROSETTA" available via Against Giants. 

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 June 12th (Day 164 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 14th (Day 166 of 2020)

• Apparently there's more than one "C" word these days, and Kyrie Irving might be on message (sort of), but sending out a clown who believes the earth is flat to tackle and convey very important subjects just isn't the best the idea. (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• This time feels different but will this call for social reform actually sustain itself to truly affect change?
• Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's (pronounced "Nass-Kerr") lone full time African-American racer (and only the second African-American ever to be a full time racer in the left turn only circuit), spoke of the long overdue banning of the Confederate flags at races, and lo and behold NASCAR implemented it a mere 48 hours later... (but how it will be enforced and whether it even will once fans return to the stands remains to be seen).
• What do you do when you tell someone during a pandemic that you love and miss them, and they tell you to suck their ass?  (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:24:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Hit and Roll” (begins around the 1:34:00 mark)
• Germaphobes: Our newest heroes of industry.
• An example of a local business flaunting how it's choosing to not follow the state's required safety regulations, and how it is they're likely to get away with it with no real (if any at all) repercussions.
• Pondering what movie would be the first to hit theaters with the reopening of cinemas happening, and becoming 'unhinged' after finding out what movie will be the first released.
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, podcast edition: Feeling a little guilty about being annoyed by trivial shit, and you'll never guess what new level of debauchery is set to take place in Vegas for Juneteenth. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:35:00 mark)
• 511 Epidemiologists and their expert opinion about what activities are soon to be safe to do, and more importantly, which ones decidedly aren't yet safe to do (and just how safe we feel about these things right now, too).
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Maybe it's time to start treating police as equals at all restaurants and stores by making them pay full price just like everyone else (and then going the extra charitable mile beyond that), and the idea of bars staying open until 4am for anyone that has to work at a bar sounds like an awfully bad idea.

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 debut self-titled album by the band Muzz available via Matador 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 June 5th (Day 157 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 7th (Day 159 of 2020)  

• Your brain just isn't as elastic when you get older and it's harder to handle and accept new things. Which is just one aspect of scientific understanding of why it is so tough to get most adults to accept and adapt to significant change (and the older they get this only gets worse and worse). (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content)
• Living in a militarized police state has been 50 years in the making, so don't believe the lies from our political leaders and police forces who tell you otherwise. (please read the book "The Rise Of The Warrior Cop" for more on this shocking historical truth)
• You'll never believe what stadium the LA Police decided to use as a "field jail" to detain the mass arrests of protesters, that is unless you've actually been paying attention during any of this.
• Mayor Frank Jackson tells everyone that Cleveland is viewed as the butt(fart) of America, but if you listen to the whole hour long interview instead of just that 7 seconds of viral stupidity, you'll hear that's far from the only shockingly dumb thing he said.
• Critical thinking is needed no matter what kind of difference you try to affect, and now more than ever. Even things you thought you can trust can turnout to be misleading. (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:25:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story:  "The Walking Wounded"  (begins around the 1:47:00 mark)
• Philly sure does pick and choose which demonstrations in their city they're okay with and those they're not okay with.
• Remember 20 years ago when JayZ didn't appear to be a corporate-white-America sellout yet...
• Playing a new version of the Hunger Games where we target all those in the sports world who've recently pronounced themselves as clearly being on the wrong side of history.
• Meanwhile, Martellus Bennett is firmly on the right side of history. No question. #RealSportsHero
• Mollie's Weekly Reports: Brace yourself July 4th EMT's and firemen, they're about (entirely) legalize fireworks in Ohio, rethinking CBDs, and Spanish pornstar faces manslaughter for believing he was a shaman and overdosing someone with psychedelic frog poison.  (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:49:00 mark)
• The NBA is about to come back again and the only thing we're sure of is that it's sure to be a lot different than anything the NBA has ever done before.
• MLB is looking like it's not coming back, and if it doesn't the only reason will be that of overarching greed. Specifically the unscrupulous greed of the billionaire owners.
• Cleveland Scene has been doing tremendous work of late but they also published a wholly satirical piece that wasn't all that funny (and has since been removed), so we try to help clean up their original idea a little bit.
• Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Chagrin Falls reaction to a BLM rally is exactly what's to be expected from the the outer-rim (aka, white middle America), and is seeing so many black helicopters overhead making you feel like you're all a coke'd up and paranoid like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas? It should.

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 Run The Jewels album 'RTJ4'.   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.