DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, some drug dealers actually have your wellness and best interests in mind. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Coronavirus and you.
• Julia Child, may she forever be recognized as a national treasure.
• Being friends with your neighbors with whom you share walls with makes for some occasionally awkward moments. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:00:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Best Of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Hernia” (begins around the 1:12:00 mark)
• The completely insane, homophobic, evolution non-believing, anti-science, anti-technology, racist, Trump supporting, full on alien invasion believing lunacy that is the real story behind Shen Yun [A Defend Cleveland Special Report] (this segment first aired on the terrestrial on Day 55.2020, and in Episode 121 of the DC Podcast)
• "Do you think we have enough food?", cowboy breakfast and overly preparing for a 3 day log cabin trip. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:12:00 mark)
• Fangraphs has written yet another article about how the Cleveland Indians need to sign Francisco Lindor, now if only the Dolans believed as strongly as Fangraphs do about the subject.
• Going to a Cavs game a couple years after LeBron's departure is obviously a totally different experience nowadays, and not just because the team MC, Ahmaad, has been cranking on the weight.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): It's time to get excited for Minor League Baseball promotions, and have you watched any ax throwing competitions yet? (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:51:00 mark)
• The NBA has a plan they're seriously kicking around, and it pretty clearly involves directly contributing to the further demise of Major League Baseball.

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 record 'OLOS' by the post-punk "sad dance" Lithuanian band Sol Ansamblis available via Artoffact 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:

• There's no explaining that in the lost in found. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Imagining a December 32nd Leap Year instead of the February 29th garbage we have now.
• What's worse, acronyms or food poisoning? (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 38:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Let Me Tell You A Story’ with a brand new offering: “Toilet Bowl Sunday” (begins around the 52:00 mark)
• The difference between being a fan of basketball and someone who is just a fan of the Cavs.
• Happy 20th Birthday to the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern! (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:24:00 mark)
• On brand with Tony Grossi, always putting the Gross in Good Karma Broadcasting, and being on the right side of history really doesn't seem all that complicated.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): "You stole both my stories!" (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:35:00 mark)
• Garth Brooks fans are (still) idiots, but what the hell is going on with legacy music acts these days? Shit's crazy.
• The Dolans very much can afford Francisco Lindor and their ruse that they can't afford him because fans don't show up to games amounts to an outright lie.

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 1984 album Rainy Day by the Paisley Underground super group of the same name.

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:

• Meeting Judge Michael L. Nelson Sr. and the story about how an "asshole" on Super Bowl Sunday made the introduction possible. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Spring is finally here (as long as you tell the seasons by the sports seasonal calendar)!
• The best way to keep baseball in Cleveland is on the table, and how the fallout from the Houston Astros cheating scandal is jeopardizing it.
• How to win tickets to see Bambara at the Beachland (2/26/20) for what's sure to be one of the best shows in CLE this year... (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:17:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Let Me Tell You A Story’ with a brand new offering: “Bathroom Of Horrors” (begins around the 1:26:00 mark)
• EBUG's, aka, how anyone, literally anyone, can end up dressing and playing in an actual NHL hockey match.
• Measuring dick size by the size of your hands, and not necessarily being turned off by lactation porn.  (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:59:00 mark)
• Watching Wilder vs Fury II and being saddened and disappointed that this is the very best the heavyweight division in boxing produces anymore.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Apparently Swagger Jr is having a hard time with his dad dying, and a bunch of outer-rim fan hobos are pissed that their beloved muni-lot might get turned into an outlet mall. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:35:00 mark)
• The completely insane, homophobic, evolution non-believing, anti-science, anti-technology, racist, Trump supporting, full on alien invasion believing lunacy that is the real story behind Shen Yun [A Defend Cleveland Special Report]

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 'Stray' by the band Bambara available via Wharf Cat Records. And be sure to listen to today's Part 2 of the podcast segment to learn how to enter to win tix to see Bambara this week at the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern.

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:

• The Northeast, Ohio DC Defenders backers club... Not to be confused with Defend Cleveland. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• The NBA just served up the greatest All-Star Weekend ever, for any sport.
• RIP John Beilein...
• Acting dumb and celebrating ignorance because you think it's perceived as cool is so dumb, and DJ Khaled is even dumber. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:03:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Let Me Tell You A Story’ with a brand new offering: “Our Body, Ourselves” (begins around the 1:20:00 mark)
• Tuning into a Trump rally called the 2020 Daytona 500.
• Figuring out how to eat and live well beyond eating healthy and exercising, is not the same program for everyone, and it's definitely not going to be found in a fad diet.  (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:53:00 mark)
• The NBA team values according to Forbes are the most valuable pro sports teams in the country, even more than the NFL.
• Kobe Bryant's memorial service at the Staples Center is an expensive ticket, but don't worry, the money is going to a charity which just so happens to be folded into a very much for profit business venture of Kobe's.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Funeral services for Swagger... (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:34:00 mark)
• Trevor Bauer really hates when cheaters make fun of him.
• Using the Urban Dictionary to describe Baker Mayfield's recent offseason headlines to tiptoe through the community standards 

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 'Remote' by the duo Hamerkop available via Drag City 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:

• How to navigate an international menu at authentically legit restaurants, and the story of yet again attempting to get one of the best dishes in the region. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Living in the sports vacuum the week following the Super Bowl, and reaching to the other side of the table with your opinions, whether you're in Hollywood or doing an anti-sports talk show on college radio.
• Fashionistas know nothing about film and it doesn't seem like they ever will.
• Having an uncommon rooting interest watching the Oscars.
• Remembering Geauga Lake and the differences between the cheap options and the best option. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:04:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Let Me Tell You A Story’ with a brand new offering: “The Slurpee Situation” (begins around the 1:17:00 mark)
• Parasite went full Billie Eilish at the Oscars and won everything, and explaining the differences and history between France's best film award and the Oscars.
• Zach Smith is at it again and thanks to blinders affixed on Ohio State honks they'll likely still never agree how much Urban Meyer to cover this up. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:54:00 mark)
• The UFC clearly has an official scoring and judge problem, and they also had a dominant Champ fighting this past weekend who's named Jon Bones Jones.
• The XFL this time around might have staying power, but not exactly how you might think.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Doing the dirty work for you, unfortunate in print headlines, RIP Swagger I, and Gritty was found innocent even though we still don't know who's wearing that costume. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:27:00 mark)
• The DC Defenders...? Professional Fan Hobos are not the sharing type.
• The only good reasons, aka the official rules, for seeing a cover band.
• The NBA Trade Deadline officially narrowed down the field of real contenders, but a few teams beyond that are still going to be real interesting to watch down the stretch.

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 The Homesick available via Sub Pop Records entitled, 'The Big Exercise' 

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:

• Recurring themes. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Sammy Watkins, the most interesting Super Bowl story of them all.
• FOX "early man" programming, and who needs democracy when huge corporations are here to save us.
• Just because it's in French does not make it a love song. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:01:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Let Me Tell You A Story’ with a brand new offering: “The Graduate” (begins around the 1:10:00 mark)
• Openly congratulating yourself on-air for how you and your network covered a tragedy is apparently the new norm.
• Being named after expensive meat.
• One for the (consensual) titty-hitters, and all those who might be living joyous free lives. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:39:00 mark)
• Isn't Post Malone in ICP? #TattooYourFaceResponsibly
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Tim Tebow loses his virginity, KC fan hobos end up with a great wedding, and the best Super Bowl cake of them all.  (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:22:00 mark)
• If ever you are feeling down and need a pick-me-up, buy a big trophy at a thrift store and walk around in public with it.
• It's the single biggest story currently in the NFL, and unsurprisingly it received next zero attention the last two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl.

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 'Juillet' by En Attendant Ana released on the Chicago based label, Trouble In Mind.

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:

• An experiment you can do at home that proves people who know just a little bit are more dangerous when compared to those who know a lot, as well as those who know nothing at all. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Kobe was one of the greatest basketball players of all-time and his death was tragic, but anyone who's praising him as a hero is clearly overstating things a bit.
• Cables, cables, everywhere! And just when you thought the corona virus was the only reason for despair over the Chinese New Year...  (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:09:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  'Let Me Tell You A Story' with a brand new offering: “The Suspension” (begins around the 1:23:00 mark)
• Recapping the 2019 Grammy's and DJ Khaled somehow winning for shouting "Raise Your Hands!", is a win for overweight hype-men with no discernible music talent, everywhere.
• Vaping weed is like huffing paint compared to smoking actual weed. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:50:00 mark)
• We've normalized mass shootings so why not ecological catastrophes, too? And maybe we should care more about saving human lives than we do small furry marsupials with chlamydia.  
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Weed Amnesty Boxes idea, and whoever was wearing the Gritty mascot costume punched a kid in the back. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:24:00 mark)
• Either the elected city officials of LA are complete idiots, or city officials everywhere need to take note and follow their lead.
• The Super Bowl LIV Prop Bet Game.

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 Dan Deacon's newest album on Domino Recording, "Mystic Familiar".

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:

• Mollie falls down... A lot. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Happy MLK Day, and the continued shocking disparity between NFL and NBA rosters and the fans who sit in the best seats to root them on. 
• In a week when a matchup for the ages is determined and set for Super Bowl LIV, all fans are talking about is baseball.
• Apparently Mike Clevinger has a silver fanged grill and now does interviews while getting finger tattoos.
• Congrats to the 2019 Ohio State Pinball Champ, with a side of just a little sour grapes. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:02:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  Let Me Tell You A Story with a brand new offering: “Sock Barrel” (begins around the 1:15:00 mark)
• The parallels MLB greatest controversies and scandals, and wondering why it took so long for this sign stealing story to break.
• Mike has officially booked his trip to the great unknown woodlands of Fuck-Off America. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:46:00 mark)
• The absolute wonders of Ohio City Provisions, how not to clean a cast-iron skillet, and who knew you weren't supposed to eat raw mushrooms?
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: The real story of Red Panda. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:26:00 mark)
• Complete hate for Lakewood, a retraction. And dreaming of a Defend Cleveland food map for all...
• Conor McGregor knocking out Cowboy was just as predictable as the fans overreaction to it is.

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 self-titled debut album from the Rose City Band available on Thrill Jockey.

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:

• Vape lords and surviving the outer rim. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• The Haslams take time away from capturing babies and eating them to hire a new front office.
• Food reviews from the Canton Suppository.
•  The singularly most iconic 'Cleveland' film of all time.(Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:09:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Best Of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Speech Impediment” (begins around the 1:23:00 mark)
• Apologizing for a Rock Hall Inductee playing on Touch Tunes in a local bar is exactly what's wrong with CLE's mostly ignorant developed taste in music.
• Most the things you miss without having cable aren't necessarily things you were really going to watch anyway. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:55:00 mark)
• Calling NBA players "thugs", even accidentally, just simply cannot ever happen. #SlugLife
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Acquiring medicinal marijuana for being a Browns fan is currently being considered, and eating more chicken nuggets than the Denver Nuggets score a game is also a thing. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:32:00 mark)
• The most listened to genres per country, and Neilson's year-end/decade ending lengthy music report illustrates a lot of things, we're just not sure any of it is any good.
• Generations X'rs are more and more often providing Millennials every reason they ever needed to not have much respect for them.

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 Magic Sword's 2013 self released debut "Volume 1".

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:

• That cabin is in the middle of "f*ck-off America", so why on earth in the middle of winter is it still so expensive to rent? (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Answering the question "What do you do for a living?" with a question.
• No matter what you think of the NFL if you are a fan of American football in any way, this past Wild Card Weekend was almost as good as it gets.
• Reminding gamblers how Las Vegas made so much money they built a gigantic, ever growing concrete oasis in the middle of the desert where nothing but scorpions and cactus grow.
• Turns out one of the main things cable was good for was telling time in the living room. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:05:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Best Of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Snow Day” (begins around the 1:23:00 mark)
• The ratings in the NFL are still absolutely killing it no matter what someone's political agenda might have said otherwise a few years ago.
• The Hard Seltzer Wars are clearly going to be long fought on all fronts.
• When cleaning products smell worst than the foul shit they're designed to clean. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:54:00 mark)
• Getting ID'd in the outer rim at 6pm on a Sunday night out in front of an arcade...
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): Fevered Military Industrial Complex BBQ coming to an outer rim near you, and when a promo for minor league hockey goes wrong. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:28:00 mark)
• DVD Screener Season and ringing in the New Year in a manner you'd likely least expect. #PullMyFingerOscarNomination
• Kevin Love is a human acting like how most any human would act if they ever found themselves in the same shitty situation he's in.

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 La Femme's 'Psycho Tropical Berlin' on Born Bad 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.