DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• We are finally up and running on Patreon! Are you a weekly listener? Are you a fan of the show? This is your opportunity to give back to Defend Cleveland and make this podcast and all it provides pay to play. Please consider giving today~  (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Striking a bargain with South Park (all samples should now be cleared), and purposefully confusing Charlie Sheen for his brother Emilio Estevez.
• Waking up and touching yourself dangerously, having a Baker Mayfield Chubb in the backfield, and the Steelers being total shit seems to be almost as good as the Browns finally not being shit.
• Michael changes his own tire like a man with rugged strong hands... (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:01:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s  Let Me Tell You A Story: “Soggy Bottoms” (begins around the 1:10:00 mark)
• Stranger Than Paradise is the one (and arguably only) Cleveland filmed movie all true Cleveland'rs must see. 
• Houston is the new Golden State Warriors, and explaining how the Tampa Bay Rays (improbably) winning the World Series would be like a tree falling in the woods.
• The things we would totally not want to do that all of a sudden we would want to do if it's with the right person. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:47:00 mark)
• The Atlanta Braves are continuing the proud American pro-sports tradition of being unaccountably racist in the dumbest and most avoidable of all possible ways.
• People who stink, and Mollie's Weekly Report: Table Slamming, and how a pro-wrestling shtick is making being a fan hobo a lot more dangerous (not to mention dumber). (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:20:00 mark)
• ESPN's Statcast Broadcast vs. Standard Broadcast, i.e., sensible modern television or watching something with dumbass A-Rod calling the game.
• China just cancelled the Houston Rockets over freedom of expression, because of course they did. 

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 Angel Olsen album on Jagjaguwar, "All Mirrors"

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:

• Shit giggles and toilet humor are apparently 2 different things, but should they be? (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Uncles that ain't uncles, aunts that ain't aunts, and what else is there to talk about when the Browns are in first place for the first time in 30 years.
• As if the Browns being in first place wasn't shocking enough, Mike went to a farm in the middle of the deep outer rim instead of watching the game. Craziness.
•  Traveling to see Stereolab in Detroit and we're still in the planning process, i.e., where are we going to eat before the show? (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: “Go Long” (begins around the 1:10:00 mark)
• STEREOLAB WEEK! #WeLoveLatitia
• BangBros and American porn and how it's story of the chicken and the egg, and how so many people end up fucked up by it all. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:45:00 mark)
• Mushrooms are one of the single greatest things in the cosmos.
• Odell Beckham Jr. was nearly choked to death and most everyone seemed to have very conflicted feelings about stopping it from happening.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Send us your panties (and your dollars), Jarvis Landry is an H&M throw away fashionista now, and having a"Browns" wedding surely means your marriage is doomed. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:34:00 mark)
• Bloody nipples. They's very real, and Mike had to deal with one.
• Baker Mayfield is a snarky douchebag, but he's our snarky douchebag. And in all fairness, expecting a professional athlete to be cultured and aware is clearly too much to expect from the vast majority of them.
• Miami not allowing the naming rights of the Heat's basketball team to be licensed by BangBros is absolutely ridiculous.

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

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 EarthGang “Mirrorland” album on Interscope. 

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 listener supported, old VHS porn education, and the modern world where certain people somehow find reason to hate on having the ability to share information literally at the speed of light. Misguided fools. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Episode 101 (of 5,000), and being ready for the upload. 
• You got the keys to the kingdom, now go on your journey to get to the actual kingdom, aka, the Browns are playing on Monday Night Football (no relation). Baby Boomers need not apply.
• Double Header Death Dive.
• The Defend Cleveland Podcast is finally on iTunes! And let us count the ways in which Apple and iTunes suck as we wait 6 days for a digital receipt to arrive from an online digital only company. Seriously, and to think they were reviewing us? (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:13:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s Let Me Tell You A Story: “Date Night” (begins around the 1:30:00 mark)
• Learning important lessons from a visit to "The" Museum Of Art. #TheeMichael
• Leaning towards believing the conspiracies about Antonio Brown ending up with the Pats was the plan all along.
• Stop crapping all over a public toilet and leaving it for someone else to clean it up! (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:04:00 mark)
• "Aaah-haaah-haaah-hoooeeeey!" cartoon screamin' and the most Brownsy aspect of the Week 1 loss to the Titans.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Hitting rock bottom with "Face Paint Mike" and growing weary of dumbass fan hobos and their club - A memoriam of our PFUFA favorites, especially Pinto Ron. "It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday..." (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:42:00 mark)
• The only time in the last 30 years when "Roxanne" was played at a stadium and didn't totally suck.
• Always remember that Ric Ocasek smoked his first joint right here in Cleveland. Rest In Peace, Ric.

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

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 EarthGang "Mirrorland" album on Interscope. 

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:

• A huge 100 episodes of the DC Podcast thank you to Kidforce Pinball(!) for making it all possible, and what to expect for the next 100 episodes... And how a Drag Showcase is way better than a local blues show. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Week 1 of the Browns season didn't go according to script, that is unless you were working from the "Same Old Browns" script from the last three decades because that's exactly what that shit was.
• Dumb people getting hurt or killed doing dumb shit will always be funny to some people, and people who aren't dumb that have preexisting conditions are typically even less likely to do dumb shit because of it, i.e., that shit is still funny.
• Part 1 - The Study's Control: Attempting a swearing experiment inspired by Dr. Emma Bryne's work in the field of swear words, specifically her 2017 book, "Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language". (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:17:00 mark)
• There's no Lachlan MacKinnon story today (we'll have a new one for you for episdoe 101!), so instead take this time to get your weekly fill by checking out the "Browns Roundtable: Special 2019 Season Preview" which features Lachlan, Greg Miller and Mike, and really is the to approach this upcoming Browns season (click here)
• What will Starbuck's drinkers do now that they're marketing coffee that actually tastes like coffee instead of all the shit they mostly sell that's loaded with dairy and sugar just so it doesn't taste like coffee?
• Part 2 - The Study's "Shit!" and "Mother Fucker!" final test: The conclusion of the swearing experiment inspired by Dr. Emma Bryne's work in the field of swear words. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:02:00 mark)
• Realizing how American 'football culture' makes it so you feel like you have to apologize for liking the NFL.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Mike gets written up in an article alongside some friends, and a bunch of fan hobos, and the Browns season ticket holder who wanted a Bud Light Browns Victory Fridge so bad he used some rather flawed logic to try and obtain one (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:38:00 mark)
• Naming your kid after a football player is fucking stupid. The fuck.
• Seeing a performance that's clearly so very special, and how it's easy to go through life and never really understand what that even means: Or, how Mike went to go see Kevin Morby last week and he can't shut up about how crazy great it was.

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

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

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is anything by Kevin Morby. For real.

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.

For this special edition DC Podcast brought to you by Kidforce Pinball, Defend Cleveland host Mike James is joined by DC contributors Lachlan MacKinnon and Greg Miller to talk about all the things we can hope for (and actually expect) from the highly anticipated 2019 Cleveland Browns Season. Enjoy~

Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’! and hear him weekly on the DC Podcast. You can also see Lachlan perform with the reunited Chargers Street Gang at the Grog Shop with Mudhoney on Wednesday, October 16th, 2019.

Be sure to check out more insensitive stuff written by Greg Miller at http://nursethehate.blogspot.com/, and also check out Greg’s great country punkabilly band, The Whiskey Daredevils.

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

For more information about the upcoming September 5th-8th 2019 Cleveland Pinball and Arcade Show brought to you by Kidforce Pinball, click here.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Being really bad at reading the signals when someone is interested in having sex with you.  (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• The Westbound Label logo on all those old Funkadelic records is as much the letter "W" as it is a lesson in sex education, and other examples of how this show is the only sports talk show that's actually good for your earholes.
• Andrew Luck retiring garnered a different response from the media than it would have just 10 years ago, even if a lot of the lowest common denominator fans still acted exactly how you would expect them to.
• Once again learning the hard way that emotions and pinball do not mix. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:11:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s Let Me Tell You A Story: “Obstinate” (begins around the 1:25:00 mark)
• Rapsody is a total badass but tired ass hip-hop video tropes need to stop, they doing more harm than any good at this point.
• The Tribe have been able to keep rolling with key injuries so far all season, here's hoping they can do the same now with Ramirez out with a broken wrist too.
• The "Players Weekend" in baseball clearly appears to be better idea in theory than in reality.
• Discussing one of the elements that will make next week's special 100th Episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast even more fucking special! (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:56:00 mark)
• Trevor Bauer's comments and this week's Browns Fever official measurement is kind of difficult to determine considering NFL Fever in general is also beginning to set in.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: And the winner of the best Minor League Baseball ballpark food contest is... Probably going to be served with a side of beans. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:34:00 mark)
• Rating the world's best sausage: The only way when feverishly proud nationalism isn't a scary and bad thing only occurs when you're talking about who has the best sausage.
• Getting into the science of swearing (just a little bit).

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

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

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

For more information about the upcoming Cleveland Pinball and Arcade Show brought to you by Kidforce Pinball, click here.

Your recommended listening for the week is Funkadelic's 1975 album "Let's Take It To The Stage" released on Westbound Records, because why should some 15 year old buying a record at a record shop in 2019 have better taste than you do?

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:

• Sting is only fucking himself off when he says he fucks for 12 hours. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• CHAMPIONSHIP MONDAY!  ....WOOOOOOOOW! Huge kudos to Stipe Miocic for reclaiming his heavyweight title by knocking out Daniel Cormier.
• You know what people who aren't from Cleveland think when they hear Cleveland is a "blue collar" or "working man's" town, right? Do we really want that image? 
• Part 1 - Seeing Iron Maiden live in concert in 2019 (aka, finding common ground with people who still love pro-wrestling as adults) (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 56:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s Let Me Tell You A Story: “And Still Champion” (begins around the 1:13:00 mark)
• Apparently the heavy metal band Slayer and NASCAR don't share the same "beliefs" with one another, which is to say crazed religious fringe jobs are still wholly untrustworthy when it comes to music and art.
• Jay Z better step up and act or this whole NFL partnership and potential team ownership is exactly the money grabbing soulless charade we most fear it to be.
• Part 2 - Seeing Iron Maiden live in concert in 2019 (aka, finding common ground with people who still love pro-wrestling as adults) (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:49:00 mark)
• Since Stipe won and is champ again that means the Tribe are also going to win the Super Bowl this year... Right? That's stupid but wrestling, real wrestling, has been given a second life and it's called the fantastic world of MMA and the UFC. 
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: "Log Slice Art", a man dies at an extreme food eating contest and finally makes extreme food eating contest something of actual interest, and you've hear of Mr. Freeze, right? Well make room for The Fridge... Literally. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:27:00 mark)
• Citing the most recent examples of the razor thin margin for error that is the reality the Cleveland Indians' roster face when considering their real chances of winning the World Series. 
• Browns Fever Check, Weekly Tribe Playoff Probabilities, and reapplying for consent and what it means to truly feel comfortable around someone.

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

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

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

For more information about the upcoming Cleveland Pinball and Arcade Show brought to you by Kidforce Pinball, click here.

Your recommended listening for the week is the newest release by the band 75 Dollar Bill called "I Was Real" available via Thin Wrist Recording. 

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 showers should have a place to sit in them. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• First place Monday's make everything better.
• Brad Hand doesn't look good of late and there's probably a real good reason why.
• Guy Fieri fans fucking suck as human beings.
• Platform being selling out to AB InBev isn't going to make their shitty beer any worse.
• Almost all the Jersey Jack pinball machines suck (except Dialed In). (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:06:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s Let Me Tell You A Story: “Temple Of Doom” (begins around the 1:12:00 mark)
• Whether you know someone or not, being able to readily relate to them makes their death all that harder to accept: Rest In Peace, David Berman.
• Hiking in the outer rim, and how is it Mollie has never had sake because, and get this, it's "too complicated". (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:44:00 mark)
• "Tito Manager Of The Year" sounds a lot better than those who were clamoring a couple months ago that he should be fired, but no matter what Tito isn't the main reason why the Indians have caught the Twins.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Some 30 year old baseball shaped carved potato from the minor league's, and other curiosities from The Baseball Reliquary. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:21:00 mark)
• The Browns being so exciting right now only means that fan hobos are going to do even more regrettable things trying to get attention: The Story of Bear Kincaid, the fan hobo who puts the woof in the Browns' "woof-woof"
• Peak Browns fever happened last week during a baseball game... The fuck is up with that?!
• Getting all the best of Puig without all the knucklehead parts is awesome.

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

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

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is anything by David Berman. 

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:

• Pinburgh 2019! (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• The trading of one knucklehead for another... Breaking down the Trevor Bauer trade: The (really) good of it, and then the Waiver Wire hot dogs part of it.
• "Xtreme Eating 2019"... It's probably not what you're thinking but it's definitely something that could only happen in America. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:21:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s Let Me Tell You A Story: “Stitches” (begins around the 1:38:00 mark)
• Baker Mayfield might be able to rally a team and a city by shotgunning a beer at a baseball game, but mustaches are the fucking worst.
• PFUFA Hall Of Fame Week: Mama, don't let your kids grow up to be fan hobos. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:08:00 mark)
• What do you mean the city of Cleveland will burn down from the celebration if the Browns ever win a Super Bowl? Seems like it would make a whole lot more sense to burn down the outer rim around Cleveland instead.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: Pig Yoga. Yeah, that's right, fucking pig yoga is a thing now. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:42:00 mark)
• Cargo pants: Every guy has a pair of these dumb looking things but no one should ever need that many pockets.
• Browns Fever Check: Week 2, the fever's somehow reducing.
• Having no have, only a lot of have not. It's tough you know, but at least we'll always have The Muppets.

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

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

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is Mourning [A] BLKStar's newest album "Reckoning" 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:

• The world's largest pinball tournament in the world. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content)
• Not all summer shows at Nautica are created equal, and do you leave your phone ringer on at night?
• Trevor Bauer chucking a ball 400' into the stands out of frustration certainly isn't out of character for him, just like shitty coverage of the team isn't out of character for STO Cleveland.
• Mollie Ames personal library... "Honor me!" (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 1:08:00 mark)
• Lachlan MacKinnon’s Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Hernia” (begins at the 1:12:00 mark)
• Fuck you and the car you had to drive in to get anywhere.
• When fans get to a certain level of fanaticism with something that shit will make you not like shit you like. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 1:41:00 mark)
• How can all the headline state Earl Thomas "flipped the bird" in his final game last season playing for the Seahawks, yet they had to blur the image of him actually flipping the bird. #fuckingstupidshit
• Don't take the highway at your own risk.
• Mollie’s Weekly Report: The Pawtucket Red Sox have had a rough month of July, and the PFUFA Hall Of Fame annual weekend of weekends! (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:20:00 mark)
• The Butthole Surfers are genius and the white outer rim will never get it, and why Mike doesn't endorse bumper stickers.
• Mollie uses the only scientific method currently known to measure "Browns fever".

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

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

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

Your recommended listening for the week is Spacemen 3's 1986 debut masterpiece "Sound Of Confusion"

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.