All terrestrial segments were recorded live on June 10th (Day 161 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on June 14th (Day 165 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – All we want is irritant paid leave for our innate ability to piss off society's assholes, meanwhile a cop displaying Nazi logos ends up with irritant paid leave to the tune of 1.5 mill! This country is insane. Oh, and Lizzo fans do what Lizzo fans do and call out insensitivities, and Lizzo did what Lizzo does which is what gave her this fan base in the first place (she did the right thing)
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:33:00)
• Tony Buzbee is winning the public relations war and making Rusty Hardin look old and, well, a bit rusty
• Deshaun Watson is one thing, but an NFL team? Be forewarned, when it comes to protecting the shield the NFL knows no lengths in its ability to settle and make it all go away
• Should we feel sorry for Coach Stefanski? We compare it to the logic of Kevin Smith's film Clerks to find the answer
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – When dreams effect your waking, and the unwritten social contract of having a dog is definitely the worst part of having a dog (begins around 1:30:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Slurpee Situation" (begins around 1:45:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:52:00)
• All power metal should be sung in German (interlude)
• Social media users be warned: If you only have the power of a "comment", you likely don't have any platform at all and you should be careful when poking a bear
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:49:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:14:00)
• Ohio Pie is some damn good pizza pie, even if they only cut it in squares
• Some Tampa Bay Rays during the 16th year of celebrating Pride Night in the stadium proved to be homophobes who try to use their skewed belief in Jesus to deflect their bigotry. And the real interesting thing is what will happen when the rest of the league participates with the same marketing idea and all 30 teams take part in this Pride promotion?
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the new album from yoo doo right "A Murmur, Boundless To The East" 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

Recorded live June 7th (Day 158 of 2022)

• Podcast (only) content:
• Giving a historically accurate reason to still go ahead and root for the Browns for all those lifelong fans who very justifiably feel as if they can no longer root for our home team as long as Deshaun Watson is on it, i.e., watch it all burn. Burn, baby, burn #BrownsyForever
• Looking up the announced team names for the LIV Golf series on Urban Dictionary to find the truth behind all these greedy a**hole, elitist pro golfers who are jumping ship from the PGA for a money grab, no matter why and where that money comes from (and acknowledging George Carlin said it first, for pretty much anything)
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here.

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on May 28th (Day 148 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on May 31st (Day 151 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Pranksters prank at the NRA Convention, and Gabe Kapler's protest certainly could be better but at least it's something
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:29:00)
• Figuring out a way to get paid to simply go away is the move, for sure
• What is the NRA, why is it so hard to get common sense gun restrictions (when the vast majority of the nation wants them), and why there isn't more research and understanding about gun violence and death is this country? (Part 1)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Further explaining exactly how Top Gun: Maverick and all of the Military Entertainment Complex summer blockbusters aren't films you should ever be spending money to go see (begins around 1:20:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Graduate" (begins around 1:44:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:49:00)
• Golden Shower Hour (interlude)
• History of the NRA and gun restrictions (Part 2)
• Top Gun is and always has been a fascist movie, and as such Tom Cruise himself once said it would be irresponsible for him to make a sequel(s)
• Lane Kiffin declares college football a profession sport played by professional athletes. He's far from accurate with that statement but it's a lot of fun to watch this monumental shift in power dynamics playing out across Div 1 football and basketball
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:44:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:05:00)
• The wait is over, we finally dug into just how dumb Red Hot Chili Pepper song lyrics are, and we really could have never guessed just how stupid they are
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the most recent full length release "IRE" by the band Combo Chimbita 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on May 21st (Day 127 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on May 23rd (Day 129 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Explaining where things are with Deshaun Watson, the Browns and the the NFL and his suspension(s), and how much more pressure will be placed on him to settle after hearing from his accusers Tuesday night on HBO's Real Sports
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:26:00)
• Learning to live with Covid: and update on where we're at with it, what we should do if we get it, and what it looks like moving forward with this disease that has killed so many
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Everyone on this show has created a cheat code for dealing with others, and how the NIL deals have exposed just how much hubris and pettiness goes into being a Div 1 power conference football coach (begins around 1:20:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Suspension" (begins around 1:44:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:47:00)
• Deep diving into the history of Evangelicals, and dangers of a base who teaches the bible is a literal depiction, and who's politicized inconsistent history on abortion is replete with segregation and racism
• Cop Golf! Explaining what LIV Golf, aka Super Golf, and learning that the only golfer who's worse than ol' FIGJAM is definitely Greg Norman
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:45:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:06:00)
• Going to the best new restaurant in the city and then going to its best new bar, too
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the new album by Kevin Morby, 'This Is A Photograph' 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on April 30th (Day 120 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on May 3rd (Day 123 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The conservative packed Supreme Course has been working to strip the definition of liberty from the 14th Amendment to overturn Roe, and that won't be the only right they steal from us if they do
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:26:00)
• 10 million people watched this year's NFL Auction, aka The Draft, which was down in the ratings but still roughly 10 million more people than should have been watching
• Explaining how the NFL Draft is nothing more than a way for billionaire owners to keep costs down and revenues up, and how it has absolutely nothing to do with competitive balance whatsoever
• Do you know what the biggest factor is for getting the Draft right and picking the best talent? Well it sure as hell has nothing to do with Draft Grades and what the gurus think, that's for sure
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – You should be able to talk sh*t pretty much whenever you want, even during dinner (begins around 1:24:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Sock Barrel" (begins around 1:46:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:51:00)
• What's the statute of limitations on art when the artist who created it is/was a monster?
• Yes, Coke used to have cocaine in it, and racism is the reason why they took removed it
• Trevor Bauer's suspension, MLB's sexual assault policy and how it greatly differs from the court of law, and why it all really does look like it's quite possible Bauer might never pitch again
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:48:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:05:00)
• The Minnesota Department of Health released its report on the investigation into the Minnesota Police Department, and not only is its findings horrifying but it's also what anyone who's been objective and critical of the police already knows to be all too true
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the most recent album "G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!" by Godspeed You! Black Emporer 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on April 23rd (Day 113 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on April 26th (Day 116 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Explaining how its long overdue we call the NFL Draft out for what it really is, an auction designed to keep costs down and exploit the majority of NFL players so billionaire owners have bigger profits
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:29:00)
• Explaining how Neilson ratings work, but mostly explaining how it is they don't work
• The unthinkable happened this week, we finally agreed with Novak Djokovic about something. And then an even more unthinkable thing happened, we also finally agreed with something Kyrie Irving thinks!
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Ben Simmons might have somehow become the easiest guy to root against on a team full of guys you want to root against (begins around 1:25:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Busted Whig" (begins around 1:52:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 2:02:00)
• The Book Of Chronicles is from the Old Testament and not only is America not at all mentioned in it, but when that book was written the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe, we followed the lunar calendar, and above all else, America didn't even exist, and neither did Christianity!
• The conservative Supreme Court has already given too much ground to the assistant football coach who led on-field prayers at a public school after football games, and now they might just undermine and rewrite the last 60 years of rulings which has kept church seperated from state
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 3:00:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:20:00)
• Thanking the fact that places like Little Rose Tavern and Crobar exist in Cleveland to give home to the weird and the wild, and in so doing keeping Cleveland strange and beautiful. You know, keeping Cleveland, Cleveland
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the new album "Skinty Fia" by Fontaines D.C. 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on April 15th (Day 105 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on April 19th (Day 109 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Well that sure felt like good ol' CLE this weekend, huh?
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:24:00)
• The unexpected start to the Guardians season more reflected on the quality of their opponents and not the quality of the Guardians. Regardless of any of that, however, KWAN!!!
• A Ramirez official Guardians jersey is a worth purchase, if only the team shop had some
• On Jackie Robinson Day also never forget about Larry Doby, and the fact that so few black people play or care about the sport anymore due to the sports migration the last 3 decades to the mostly all-white outer-rim
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Celebrating Seder in Cleveland and sharing the truest wisdoms of Passover (begins around 1:21:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Neighbors" (begins around 1:43:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:59:00)
• Fans might just be figuring out that the billionaire team owners, and billionaires in general for that matter, simply aren't playing fair
• The great plutocracy of America
• Baker Mayfield continues to display cognitive dissonance
• Taking a look at the newest food options available at Progressive Field this season and wondering who wants to eat this crap?
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:46:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:07:00)
• The actual median viewing age of MLB isn't as old as they say, but it's still older than the other major sports
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the new album "(watch my moves)" by Kurt Vile 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on April 2nd (Day 92 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on April 5th (Day 95 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Some Browns fan are apparently becoming less misogynistic due to their racism, whether they're aware they are racist or not, and this show promises to take legal action if Ohio HB 616 is passed into law
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:35:00)
• Trying to account for all the unnecessary carnage on display each and every day in this country due to ignorance, populism, racism, and the abject foolishness people so easily and willingly buy into - Part 1
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Given all the other for entertainment only crap that gets headlines on sports sites, how come we also don't get Harlem Globetrotter scores and updates? (begins around 1:31:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Full Frontal" (begins around 1:47:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:59:00)
• Trying to account for all the unnecessary carnage on display each and every day in this country due to ignorance, populism, racism, and the abject foolishness people so easily and willingly buy into - Part 2
• Michael gets a dog and it exposes just how selfish and petulant a man he can be
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:54:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:17:00)
• Your (grim) 2022 Cleveland Guardians season prediction
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the new album "GOLD" from Alabaster DePlume 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on March 26th (Day 85 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on March 29th (Day 88 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The slap heard 'round the world
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:35:00)
• Breaking down all the obivous and not so obvious aspects of Watson's introduction in Berea, including why conducting it at the end of a weekly news cycle was clearly the plan all along, just like his signing
• The salary cap for the Browns with Baker still on the roster could get pretty tricky
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Cavs are without question your best ticket in town, even though they're limping to the finish line (begins around 1:35:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Delivery Man" (begins around 1:54:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:59:00)
• In defense of Kyrie Irving... A first for Defend Cleveland, to be sure (and, yes, it pisses us off to have to do this)
• The facts are in, and they're both very distinct and significant: If you live in a red state your quality of life and overall life expectance is far worse than if you live in a blue state
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:55:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:17:00)
• If a restaurant or bar still has QR codes for menus with no physical menu to offer or view otherwise, then we will not be going there, thank you very much
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the new album from Aldous Harding, "Warm Chris" 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

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on March 20th (Day 79 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on March 22nd (Day 81 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The song is about to end on the game Musical Chairs and Baker looks like he might be left standing
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:14:00)
• Please consider donating to WRUW-FM 91.1's 2022 Telethon
• Pointing out what is clearly the biggest issue about Deshaun's arrival on the Browns, while explaining all the details from this deal which looks like a cursed monkey paw wish for the team and its fans
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Bow in awe of the all mighty band Tool, a legacy act who puts on a show unlike any other (begins around 1:09:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Soggy Bottoms" (begins around 1:23:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:46:00)
• Part 2 on our breakdown of Deshaun Watson coming to CLE, what it means for the fans, what to expect, and maybe the only fun part of the whole deal, getting to watch Baker Mayfield play his hand all wrong and ending up costing himself tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:24:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:47:00)
• Explaining what "Rod Stewart Population Theory" is, and how it applies to the Senate's bipartison fast passage of a bill that would finally bring to an end the nonsensical act of Daylight Savings
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ This show is and forever will be dedicated to Big Mamma 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 this week is the 5th and most recent release by the band Tool, "Fear Inoculum" 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