DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Cable's cut... Now What? (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• How old do you have to be when all of a sudden a decade goes by and it feels like only a couple years have passed, and a couple decades actually feels like a decade?
• Freddie's dead... Turns out big old Bob Wylie was right all along.
• If your favorite restaurant chain has an R&D department full of a bunch of scientists, you probably shouldn't eat there.
• Tim Allen being The Last Man Standing likely means there's no hope for us as a species at all.
• Some of the differences between a rich university with no respected art programs and a state college with a bunch of starving artists as students. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:09:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  ‘Best Of (The Decade!) Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Bologna Summer” (begins around the 1:23:00 mark)
• Seriously, who's watching Tim Allen's Last Man Standing? (Over 5 million people-ish, apparently)
• Tool will always be better than Lana Del Ray, and altogether staying away from ancient bugs with a poisonous stinger seems like a really good idea.
• The worst part about the holiday season is all the poopin'. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:59:00 mark)
• Tim Allen still alive, still? 
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): "The Cycle Of Hope", when tattoo art realism is too real, and Philly sports fans make the city look like a really gross place to be. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:34:00 mark)
• Remembering the 2019 year for the Browns with the bad taste still fresh in our mouth.
• Streaming sports without a password sometimes means you get the strangest feeds for games.
• The gory details of gerrymandering and how Ohio is all the proof you need to lose your faith in voting.

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 Bob James' 1974 classic album "Bob James One".

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:

• Nothing is free: A reminder of the obvious. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Pittsburgh Steeler pinatas full of drugs and the guessing what will be the most annoying sports topics discussed during the holidays.
• Who says yes to ringing a bell all day long?
• Predicting the CLE sports topics that will be the most annoying during the holidays.
• A return to the as promised Pizza Report (Part 3 of 5): Harlow's Pizza, aka, one of the only truly great reasons to visit the outer rim. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:00:00 mark)
• The best Santa Jams, and visiting two Santas for double the magic.
• Il Rione pizza, hands down, no question the best in the region (Pizza Report: Part 4 of 5).
• Having an "affiniation" for Dina's wings and Jo-Jo's. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:53:00 mark)
• Wondering if there's anything in Kevin Love's goofy suitcase fashion statement.
• Mike recounts all his current and past pop-culture dopplegangers, and the craziest commercials have to be perfume ads.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Space Browns and cracking the mystery of who the Cleveland Browns' newest fan hobo really is. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:18:00 mark)
• Guessing the fake NCAA Bowl Game Game: 2019 Edition.
• Coping with Holiday season stress and anxieties.

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 Monster Rally's 2019 release "Adventures On The Floating Island" available on Gold Robot 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:

• Your band name is a dick joke and just because you live in New Orleans doesn't mean you can say you're from New Orleans. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• It may have some talent on it but if you stop and really think about it, is this the worst Browns team ever?
• If only the crap ownership who own the two crap teams (Browns and Cavs) could give money to our one team in town that isn't total crap (Indians)... Just imagine how great that would be.
• The Haslams are baby eating goblins, and you know this to be true.
• A Day 366 Leap Year New Year's Celebration would be the Olympics of party': Another strong argument for a sequential calendar. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:07:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  'Best Of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: “Creepin' on ah Come Up” (begins around the 1:16:00 mark)
• Baker being a popular pet name in the region is still dumb but it's still way better than naming a child Baker.
• Food brings people together, no matter where you're from.
• The best go-to's when eating cheap Chinese food. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:52:00 mark)
• The best way to see Santa Claus each year.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report(s): $14,000 can of beer NFL celebration, "H.A.R.D." isn't the acronym Baker think it is, and cowboy hat wearing pigeons reportedly isn't a crime but it is really funny (in so many ways).  (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:24:00 mark)
• Weed is now as okay as alcohol but the drugs you get from your doctor are not okay, and other rules for MLB that reflect just how crazy and backwards our society is with drugs these days.
• Losing Kluber approaching the back-end of his career is nowhere near as bad as what it's going to be like when we also lose Lindor with his best years still yet ahead of him.
• Let's not forget that soon to be MVP and most exciting player in the NFL, Lamar Jackson, wasn't even the first pick by the Ravens in 2018, and can you imagine how differently fans would treat Baker Mayfield if that dude wasn't white?

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 Matthew J. Rolin's self-titled debut on Feeding 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:

• Bringing home work drama with you when you don't even really work is a hell of thing. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• What do you mean Sling Blade isn't a Billy Bob Thorton biopic about Billy Bob Thorton?
• Deciding which fans are grosser: Jam band fans or NFL football fans.
• Nick Chubb and his body positive surname is the only Browns player worth rooting for. And who knew his family was white?
• Lachlan takes offense to something Mollie says and calls in to the show set things straight.
• Being too competitive for competitive pinball. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:37:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  Let Me Tell You A Story: “Busted Whig” (begins around the 1:52:00 mark)
• Making a competition out of stupid things, no matter how stupid. And seriously, why do we know who Billy Bob Thorton is?
• A "Blue Friday" sale and other racist white people shit in the Southwest. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:26:00 mark)
• Basic algebra is not "fake news".
•  Mollie's Weekly Report: The back of Gronkoski's head has always been jelly, and some staged Fan Hobo insanity. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 3:13:00 mark)
• 20 games into the season and the Cavs are already having the exact kind of problems with John Beilein that anyone with half a brain for NBA basketball knew was going to be problem the moment they hired him.

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 "ENSEMBLE - LIVE!" by the group Arp available via Mexican Summer.

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:

• Trying to get pizza in Lakewood but since Lakewood sucks, we ended up among the Highlands people at Crostatas, which was very good (Pizza Month Special Report - Week 2). (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• If you turn up the National Anthem really loud you'll hear right wing broadcast, and colicky and cuckling are two different things.
• You will not have a meal in Cleveland that's better than what you can get at Larder's. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:12:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  "Best Of" Let Me Tell You A Story: “I'm Going To Hell” (begins around the 1:28:00 mark)
• The real and nefarious reason behind why the NFL set up this charade of a tryout for Colin Kaepernick.
• Juxtaposing the situation to take a look at what's most hypocritical and wrong with the public's reaction to Myles Garrett clubbing Mason Rudolf with his own helmet.
• The Joe Thomas and Andrew Hawkins 'ThomaHawk' live podcast recording was reportedly way better than expected, except for when one drunk local sports talk host and his equally drunk wife almost ruined it. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:12:00 mark)
• Trying to find historical flaws in the film 'Ford V Ferrari' and only confirming that Henry Ford II was a silver spoon asshole, and his nickname was Henry Ford "the Poopie".
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Ralphie Vee, the tale of the out of hand aged hairy buffalo mascot. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:49:00 mark)
• Verlander winning the 2019 AL Cy Young is bullshit, no matter how you look at it.
• Picking the wrong time to give your full attention to the 2019 Cleveland Browns; from fan hobo intros to assault with a deadly weapon, no NFL regular season win has ever been so ugly and gross.

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 2015 album by Minami Deutsch

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 the FCC works is probably not at all what you think, and meanwhile, basing anything regulatory on "community standards" is total bullshit. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Living in a state of fear over local weather alerts exists only to drum up better ratings, as well as to drive any rational person insane.
• Camouflage, if only it made all the people who wear it everywhere actually invisible. 
• Pulling out with the Defend Cleveland Show, is just the safest way to go.
• The stupid headlines of sports talk, and why would you serve a professional athlete any eggs at all if they're allergic to eggs?
• All frozen pizza is garbage, but not all bad pizza is awful (Special Report: Week 1 of Pizza Month) (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:07:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  Let Me Tell You A Story: “Neighbors” (begins around the 1:23:00 mark)
• The best of all art appeals to the dumbest parts of who we are, and to the smartest aspects of who we are as well.
• "Load Management", the NBA story of the week, and why we had to save this actual sports story content for the podcast. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:55:00 mark)
• Baker Mayfield and the racism behind why he's so much more popular and marketable than QBs way better than him who are in a different color skin.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Bills Mafia comes to town and being in full stalker mode, and mustaches are the worst, just stop. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:35:00 mark)
• Realizing we are not having nightmares, we are actually having white-mares.
• Buffalo has the same depressed football culture as we do. In other words they do a whole bunch of dumb fan hobo shit too.
• The story of Deadspin's demise, Jim Spanfeller is a herb, and thanks to this corporate takeover we are now the only irreverent sports talk left.

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 Gene Clark's 1974 absolute masterpiece (and arguably the single greatest country-rock album ever) "No Other", which is currently reissued on 4AD 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:

• If cussing were socially acceptable and everyone did it all the time, then that would be the only time we would ever consider not cussing so much. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• It's hard to decide which is more hilariously sad: the Browns on the field woes or the Browns off the field woes?
• Defining what racism and prejudice terms are and how they work, but is it racist to have a racist term for racists?
• Created a new term that's one of the best things this show has ever come up with: "People-ish"
• The experience of playing in a 24 hour pinball tournament.  (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:10:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  “Best Of” edition of Let Me Tell You A Story: “Speech Impediment” (begins around the 1:36:00 mark)
• Just because you are in uniform and everyone is told to hero worship you doesn't mean you are entitled to be an inconsiderate asshole. 
• Setting off airport security alarms because of your fine, fine ass lovin', and why Mike considered jamming his big metal participation medallion up his tuchus hole. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:11:00 mark)
• Realizing Baker Mayfield is hot trash, and that it's just a question of how long we'll have to wait before the team finally realizes it.
• The best pizza in all of Connecticut, and maybe the world, is Sally's Apizza.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Uncovered titties are the best titties of all, but these strippers captured on the broadcast of Game 5 of the World Series exposing their tits and calling it charity work, are nothing more than nefarious lying assholes, with tits. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:43:00 mark)
• Odell Beckham Jr. needs the ego bubble he exists in to be opened up a bit so a small sample of reality can sink in a little bit.
• Accidents happen and tragedy is a sad part of life, but something isn't adding up about Chris Smith from the Browns getting a citation for failure to control, when the person who hit his broke down car on the median of I-90 that killed the mother of his child wasn't charged with anything.

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 Sudan Archives album "Athena" available via Stones Throw 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 win a pair of tix to a recording of Browns legend Joe Thomas and Andrew Hawkins "Tomahawk Podcast" on November 13th at the House Of Blues (a Grog Shop Presents show). And all you have to do is support this podcast! (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Too many Browns fans are so crazed at this point they actually thought the Browns had a chance to win against the Patriots. Back in reality land it might be time to "Tank for Tua".
• Mizzou University continues to be dumb and racist.
• How does one plan for a 24 hour pinball tournament against some of the best players in the world? And recognizing we are a bunch of total weirdos on this show. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:01:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  "Best Of" edition of Let Me Tell You A Story: “Pumpkin Head” (begins around the 1:17:00 mark)
• Determining who has the bigger "arty" right now, and speaking to the 75 people in Cleveland this week who chose to see a 7 hour black and white, subtitled, twenty-five year old Hungarian film at the Cinematheque.
• If you like Halloween and that's fine, just don't expect everyone to participate in it and like it as much as you do.
• Going on "vacation" when you can't wait to get back home so you can sleep in a bed is not a vacation. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:46:00 mark)
• The obvious tell-tale signs that Halloween as a holiday has officially sold out. 
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Shitty Halloween costumes don't get worse than shitty sports themed Halloween costumes. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:26:00 mark)
• Stuffing winter coat pockets so winter doesn't start off sucking so bad, aka planting future happiness.
• Hearing the boos and chants of "Lock Him Up!" at a World Series is one of the best political moment in sports that's happened all year.
• Brad Daugherty and Austin Carr raised the bar for over-enthusiastic broadcasters calling a 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 new Gong Gong Gong album “Phantom Rhythm” available via Wharf Cat 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:

• Are we the only sports talk show that knows only douchebags belong to a fraternity or sorority. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• With the Cavs season beginning this week we now have two 6' twenty year old guards in the backcourt and a 70 year old first time NBA coach... Yeah, this isn't going to go well.
• Predicting the 2019 World Series and explaining at least one really good reason why you should root against Jose Altuve.
• Doesn't Jim Beilein seem like someone who is willing to do some really embarrassing things that only old people do when they're trying to appeal to young people?
• Learning that there is more than one kind of penis pumps. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:01:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  Let Me Tell You A Story: “Full Frontal” (begins around the 1:12:00 mark)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson and difference between the 3 truths, and how the "objective truth" is without question the most important one.
• Getting a 5 star sex bed and the importance of being an attentive and giving lover, rather than just trying to 'get yours' out of it all the time. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:40:00 mark)
• Who's the bigger sellout, Michael Symon or LeBron James?
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Mollie finally gives up on trying to like American football and instead goes pumpkin hunting in Oregon, and ends up at a boat race. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:26:00 mark)
• Betting on which NBA team will have to kick out the most fans with the new zero tolerance fan policy in place.
• Kyrie Irving is as dumb as we thought he was.
• Practical solutions are better than impractical ones every single time.

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 Gong Gong Gong album "Phantom Rhythm" available via Wharf Cat 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:

• Being freed up by the freedom the digital world allows is a beautiful thing. And it's also healthier for everyone. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• They have Rage Rooms now for Philadelphia Flyers fans? Well, we actually have an original application for this unoriginal idea. We want "Fan Hobo Rage Rooms", and it's likely not at all what you may think, but it couldn't be more needed.
• Firmly reacquainting ourselves with the term "Brownsy". Same as it ever was.
• Baker Mayfield has a real problem and it isn't his lackluster play this season, it's the fact that apparently all the other players he's playing against simply do not like him. #BakerHater #SorryMollie
• Scanning an onion in the self-checkout lane, and the disparate and unequal differences between poor neighborhood groceries and their outer rim equivalents. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:03:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Delivery Man” (begins around the 1:19:00 mark)
• You ever realize that Freddie Kitchens lives on your hand? Learning to do the perfect Freddie Kitchens impersonation with very little effort at all.
• The one Blaxploitation movie that's never been done that we all want to see. Hail Black Santa! 
• Mollie apologizes to a truck driver and Michael tries to talk her out of it. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:46:00 mark)
• The one thing you need to know about advertisements and when you need to outright avoid their product, no matter what it is. It's a simple and easy rule to follow, and it appears to have a universal application.
• After eating an amazing meal at home that was wonderfully prepared, then realizing an apology is in order. And recognizing Julia Child is an absolute American hero.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Scary ass Insider Info on the most recent rash of baby names locally, and trying to find something in the NFL to like about it and not finding it in tailgate party recipes. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:23:00 mark)
• Yakety Sax, the only way to combat systemic racism in this country.
• China's protest of the NBA and it's stance on freedom of expression is taking down each of the guys we've often turned to for direction within the NBA these last few years, thus further clearly illustrating how globally consumed, billion dollar corporate professional sports is definitely not the place to be looking for any role models.

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 Big Thief album (and album of the year candidate!) "Two Hands" available via 4AD 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.