On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• In the animal kingdom that's called "displaying"
• Does a potential change to the NBA playoff seeding possibly present something that is the last thing CLE wants?
• NBA All-Star Weekend became a spotlight on something other than the greatest athletes in the world competing in a weekend of exhibition, instead it was motivated to be much more
• Pandering to a particular audience isn't new and it isn't necessarily all bad, unless that is of course you're in the Fox News demo
• If black athletes shouldn't be allowed to talk politics because they should stick to what they know, then how is it those same white elitist saying this are allowed to comment on today's African-Americans plight?
• Did Fergie just try to make the National Anthem sexy? 
• Kevin Hart and an overweight, cross-eyed hype man was terrible, but the dancing booty girl twerking to N.E.R.D. might have made up the difference
• Oh, and there was an actual All-Star Game, too
• SPRING BASEBALL STARTS THIS WEEK!
• Is it time for Tito to believe in the youth on the team? #FreeGregAllen

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

Your album recommendation of the week is Car Seat Headrest 'Twin Fantasy', the all new updated 2018 version available via Matador Records

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Welcome back Engineer Mollie! (molly-molly-molly-molly...)
• Cavs offered up historic, roster altering deals at the trade deadline, but is it enough to be whomever comes out the west?
• Not to squash hope and enthusiasm here, but the players the Cavs received back who are in their prime and on deals the team controls for a few seasons, and there just has to be a catch, right? i.e., you can't send off 6 players like the Cavs did and get back something that's as great as we're all hoping it is
• Isaiah Thomas should become a comic book style villain in the league and we know exactly who his arch nemesis would be
• Dwayne Wade, the NBA legend, was effectively just benched for a 22 year old rookie from the Balkans and decided to go back to Miami instead where he's a basketball god. That's right, it's all aboard the Cedi Train from here on out (Choo Choo!)
• Should we really be heaping such praise on Dan Gilbert for investing in his investment?
• We all know you just can't trust white people with dreads
• Figure Skating, aka most popular and covered element of the Winter Olympics, is just plain awful. And the only thing worse than pretending like this is real sport more than it is just an overwrought beauty pageant on ice, is the overly crass duo of Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir acting and looking like Hunger Games judges while behaving so high and mighty about it all
• The interesting story of Bill Veeck, the last Indians owner to win a World Series, the guy who helped break the color barrier when he signed Larry Doby and Satchel Paige, and the guy who's also the one who introduced Chief Wahoo as a team logo
• The Cleveland Indians window in competing for a championship appears to be closing already, will lack of ticket sales be cited as the reason ownership didn't spend more to keep this team competitive?

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

Your album recommendation of the week is Hookworms newest full length 'Microshift' available via Domino Records. 

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Super Bowl LII! We know the Eagles won, but we still have no clue what a catch is
• Good thing billionaire corporations who advertise during the Super Bowl have the public's best interests in mind, right?... Well, as long as you don't ask any questions and continue to buy their products, they might
• The Eagles won because they were a better team not just because of the play of a backup QB. And the G.O.A.T. Bill Belichick is still far greater than his QB G.O.A.T. Tom Brady
• Alex Smith is off the table now, and there's no way Cousins or Nick Foles is coming here, so who's that leave as far as an experience veteran willing to play for the Browns to sign as a free agent?
• Over the weekend Mike James found himself with cop cars all around him, at the end of the barrel of a half dozen police officers, kneeling and cuffed in the middle of the street. True story, and you're absolutely gonna love it
• Cavs drama candy continues to grow to unchecked, unfettered epic proportions, and yet we're still blaming Dan Gilbert for the majority of it. And you should too
• Fun fact: Chemical based air-fresheners smell worse than your asshole does
• Chief Wahoo is gone, it's history will remain, and in both cases we're better for it.
• Should we hold fans accountable who don't want the removal of Wahoo? And we fully understand why the team is still going to sell merchandise with the outdated and deemed racist logo on it, but should they be allowed to profit from it?
• Paul Hoynes, long time beater for Cleveland.com, continues to prove he's yet to figure out that baseball is a business within the entertainment industry, and that it's a world that stretches far beyond the CLE metro area
• Taking notes on what the really stupid people are saying about Chief Wahoo being gone
• A high powered baseball agent is threatening a potential player boycott of spring training, is this a real threat, and what are we really talking about here?

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

The Outro song today is "Tea-Soaked Letter" by Anna Burch taken from her 2018 debut album, 'Quit The Curse' available via Polyvinyl Records

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Discussing that which will not be discussed 
• Cavs drama is at it's most sickening sweet, and it's not LeBron who's stiring the mixture the most this time
• IT4 is playing like the last pick in the Draft (which, he was) instead of a guy who was up for MVP last season (which, he also was), and if this doesn't change he could end up benched or traded
• Mollie gets good news, runs outside naked and gets a bloody nose...
• Pinballs Update: Mike had a good week
• The first ever NBA All-Star Draft was not televised because, apparently, some players have fevered yet fragile egos and have to be coddled, and this should not at all be surprising for a team that last year had Kyrie on its roster
• Kevin Durant did something no athlete does, he apologized for being an asshole, and did so sincerely
• Cormier v Miocic is a super fight we all want to see, so what has Mike so upset about it?
• A story about a racist white guy from Tennessee who plays professional tennis, whose name is Tennys, which, is pronounced like "tennis"... Seriously, you can't make this shit up
• Ronda Rousey goes into "sports entertainment", meanwhile, Vince McMahon is relaunching the XFL and we can't wait to watch it fail spectacularly
• Everything connected to Larry Nasser, no matter how big and powerful, from MSU to the Olympic team, needs to answer for this, i.e., proverbially speaking, burn it all to the ground!
• Why FoxSports isn't talking about the biggest sex scandal in sports history
• Super Bowl predicitions

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

The Outro song today is "Meaning" by Ty Segall & Freedom Band taken from their 2018 release 'Freedom's Goblin' available via Drag City

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Wellness Check
• As predicted on this show, Stipe is still the heavyweight champion of the world, aka, the baddest man on the planet. He's also from Cleveland and couldn't be more Cleveland
• Tom Brady is the pretty boy, golden boy, GOAT, as if you should have expected any other outcome than Pats to the Super Bowl, again
• Browns might hire an Offensive Coordinator, and other things in Cleveland Browns that no one should really care about right now
• Mel Kiper, the biggest scam job for headlines of any NFL offseason
• Chesty Land
• Congrats to Andy Lee, the 2018 Ohio state champion in pinball
• Many are calling for Tyrone Lue to be fired, meanwhile, shouldn't we be talking about the real problem? You know, the guy who ultimately built this roster, that guy is Dan Gilbert and he's clearly most at fault here, that is if we're just tossing blame around 
• The MLB is about to install rules to speed up the pace of play and the real reason why it is the players are against it, i.e., it's time for the Defend Cleveland Decoder Ring to tell us what's really going on! 

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

The Outro song today is "Look At Your Hands" by tUnE-yArDs taken from their 2018 release 'I can feel you creep into my private life' available on 4AD Records

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Happy Martin Luther King Day
• Did you see the show the NFL put on over the weekend?
• If Blake Bortles, Nick Foles, and Case Keenum can end up playing for the Super Bowl next weekend, why is it so hard for the Browns to find a QB?
• It's the oldest recognized rivalry in the NFL, it's just that you have to be old to actually know that the Browns and Steelers are still a rivalry
• Rooting for laundry, and how we could never root for certain teams, no matter their clothes
• Kyrie Irving and J.J. Reddick open their mouths and put the dookie in Dukey, i.e., the absolutely stupid things athletes say, especially when they're convinced they've outsmarted smart people and no one's calling them out for being dumb and misinformed
• Stipe is the baddest man on the planet, but he's about to face "the scariest man in the history of the sport" when he goes up against Francis Ngannou this weekend in UFC 220. (we think Stipe is going to win, and tell you exactly how he'll do it)
• The Pinball State Championship is Saturday, January 20th at Euclid Tavern, right here on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, and what a show of some of the best pinball talent in the world it's sure to be! PINBALLLLLS!

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

The Outro song today is "Concrete" by Shame taken from their 2018 release 'Songs Of Praise' available via Dead Oceans.

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Mollie receives a handwritten letter in the mail that in essence called her a heathen living in sin
• The Parade turned out to be a lot of fun and replete with nothing but those who love the city and are real fans of the team, and for all those who still are angry about it, including the players on the team, largely consist of a mindset in sports culture that drives most sensible people away
• Browns-Browns-Browns-Browns-Browns-Browns... DON'T BOTHER ME WITH ANY OF IT TILL THE COMBINE UNLESS IT'S ACTUALLY IMPORTANT
• The Cavs are ranked 28th in defense, if to make them better in that area alone it's looking like a trade must happen
• Over Yonder Alonzo (giddy-up) is a good free agent pickup, but only if he isn't the only free agent the Tribe pick up this offseason
• Billionaires and billion dollar corporations in this company at this point in history should be considered guilty until proven innocent
• Alabama vs Georgia... Unless you're from that region, or you're betting on the game, who cares. About the only thing of note in this one is seeing what Trump protests there are in-house, and what Kendrick does during his halftime performance 
• The Golden Globes weren't like the Golden Globes this year, and unless you're generating a new and young audience to your craft, you probably aren't all that relevant 
• Isn't that an old Robin Williams joke?

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

The Outro song today is "Hologram" by The Horrors taken from their 2017 release 'V' available on Caroline International

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)

On Today's special New Year's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• I love a parade!
• Why the 0-16 season and the Cleveland's Browns yearly awfulness is the real issue here, and some small time troll hosting a parade for fans to express their frustration is definitely not going to make this any worse than it already is
• What happens when your roommate show's you their junk
• Hormone monsters
• The 1930s sure doesn't seem like all that good a time to have been alive for
• What do you remember most about the 2017 sports year in CLE
• People really need to love LeBron James and appreciate his greatness more than they apparently do
• Why Scene's 20 best concerts of 2017 is more embarrassing than a winless parade
• Gregg Popovich gets it, and why it's too bad that the our countries bightest and best would never go into politics, i.e., how our democracy is failing us because an over 60 year old NBA coach not only looks like a great option for president, there's just no way he'd be dumb enough to want the job
• We truly need rehabilitation programs for our countries pick-up truck culture 

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

"I LOVE A PARADE!" - Sung by Harry Richman in the 1930s. Yep.

This is a mixtape as much as it is a "Best Of 2017" sampler. Tracks included are from recordings released this past year and are used wholly without permission. If you like what you hear, thank the artist(s) who created it by doing something totally fucking novel; go buy the album. With that declaration, we deeply apologize for the censored edited versions presented herein, but with no thanks to the corporate owned, un-evolved perpetrated "community standards" of the FCC, it was unavoidable.  So fuck censorship, and support independent music, never the industry. These simple acts are sure to save your soul. Enjoy~

Vol. 1 (artist/song/album)

• Perfume Genius - Otherside - No Shape
• LCD Soundsystem - Call The Police - American Dream
• Priests - Appropriate - Nothing Feels Natural
• • Oh Sees - Keys to the Castle - Orc
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Undoing a Luciferian Towers - Luciferian Towers
  • Mario Batkovic - Restrictus - Batkovic Solo
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Bosses Hang, Pt. 1 - Luciferian Towers
• Bedouine - Solitary Daughter - Bedouine
• Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything - Lotta Sea Lice
• Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White - Look At What The Light - Gentlewoman, Ruby Man
• Giant Claw - Soft Channel 006 - Soft Channel

Vol. 2

• Walt Wagner - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt - Reworks
• Milo - Poet (Black Bean) - Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!
• Aesop Rock - Hot Dogs
• Sleaford Mods - Just Like We Do - English Tapas
• Protomartyr - Male Plague - Relatives In Descent
• Slowdive - Star Roving - Slowdive
• EERA - Living - Reflection Of Youth
• Automatic Weapons - Cloudburst Burnt Forrest - Young Lovers / Dystopia Future
• Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Complex - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
• Lando Chill - People Are Evil - The Boy Who Spoke To The Wind
• Margo Price - HUMBLE - Live on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
• Sudan Archives - Wake Up - Sudan Archives
• The Courtneys - Silver Velvet - The Courtneys II
• Glass Traps - Rot In A Field - Glass Traps
• Jane Weaver - The Architect - Modern Kosmology
• Daniel Romano - Modern Pressure - Modern Pressure

Vol. 3

• Richard Dawson - Ogre - Peasant
• Alvarius B. - Zion The Rocket Ship - With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven
• Chad VanGaalen - Pine And Clover - Light Information
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest - Rest
• Father John Misty - When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay - Pure Comedy
• St. Vincent - Happy Birthday, Johnny - Masseduction
• Aldous Harding - Party - Party
• H. Hawkline - Love Matters - I Romanticize
• Kevin Morby - Crybaby - City Music
• Craig Brown Band - Shoulda Been Fishin' - The Lucky Ones Forget
• SOPHIE - It's Okay To Cry
• Doom Side Of The Moon - Brain Damage / Eclipse - Doom Side Of The Moon

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)

On Today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Pinball Beetlejuice
• Josh Gordon can still make broadcasters blush, but he doesn't fare as well if you focus on anything else that's obvious about him
• Seriously, the Browns are some depressing ass shit
• The NFL seemingly has more problems than it knows what to do with these days, but the least they should do is fix the catch rule
• Improbably heavy cream facial mask syncronicity, and have you ever tried coconut oil? 
• All apologies to Jose Calderon, we had no idea playing alongside LeBron would turn him into a 10 year old younger version of himself
• Have you checked out this Cedi yet? You should check you out some Cedi
• "Mastering The Art Of The One-Sided Sports Conversation"
• The rules of Santa
• Santana is gone and others, and though the Cleveland Indians haven't served much up from the hot stove for themselves just yet, rumors of a trade with Cubs sure sounds intriguing
• Beer pong, jam band fans, and a great story about hip hop
• Turns out an old white billionaire NFL team owner in the south who made everyone call him "Mister" is racist and a sex offender. Shocking, we know. Guess what his punishment will be? If you guessed something north of 2 billion dollars, DING-DING-DING! You win

All this and so much more, Enjoy~

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.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

The Outro song today is "Imagining My Man" by Aldous Harding taken from her incredible sophomore full length (and without question one of the best 2017 records) 'Party' released on 4AD.

(all music used without permission, so go buy all that shit at a good record store nearest you!)