All terrestrial segments were recorded live on March 12th (Day 71 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on March 15th (Day 74 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Coming to terms with the Browns interest in Deshaun Watson, and recognizing it's okay if fans would consider his joining the team as the last straw, and stopped rooting for the team
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:24:00)
• Detailing all the differences in the new collective bargaining agreement between the MLB players and its owners, and wondering how this deal can be seen as a win for the players
• What to expect from the 2022 MLB season, and more importantly for those of us in Northeast Ohio, wondering what the Guardians are going to do
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – BADBADNOGOOD, a isolated win created by Spotify? And getting excited (relatively) for upcoming shows and concerts and wondering if things have, or will return to normal enough to truly enjoy them (begins around 1:23:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Date Night" (begins around 1:41:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:46:00)
• Just when you thought war was bad enough, with atonomous weapons it's about to be a whole lot worse. And of course America is at the front of the line as one of the nation's already spending billions on these "killer-bots" of the future (which are already here, actually)
• Apparently the words "butt" and "fart" are words that are banned in all Texas libraries, and can get you fired from a school district in Mississippi if you read it aloud to its age aproved students
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:43:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:07:00)
• Do we still have Baker Mayfield? Yes? Then it's clear we all still have Baker-itus and any hope for the onset of Browns fever for next year isn't happening
• 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 Fly Anakin released last week entitled "Frank" 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 5th (Day 64 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on March 7th (Day 66 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Combine's unprescedented show of speed should give Baker night terrors, and Jarrett Allen's injury is yet another huge setback for a team that so far has refused to quit
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:22:00)
• Explaining the ways this MLB's owners lockout of the players is a stoppage in pro-sports unlike any other, and why there maybe hope for humanity after all
• The Wunderlic test isn't at all gone from the Combine, nor is the big money cottage industry of other cognative tests the NFL teams and scouts use
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Rest In Peace Hippie John (begins around 1:19:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Obstinate" (begins around 1:33:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:37:00)
• What art your society consumes tells a lot about the society itself, i.e., people who like nothing but shit are shit people, i.e., not at all excited about "Mentor Rocks" and sadened it even exists in the form it does
• Explaining why Aaron Rodgers isn't going to leave Green Bay, in the simplest terms possible
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:32:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:54:00)
• Richard Childress, left turn maker, racing team cheat, and gun manufacturer propagandist and profiteer
• 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 to the 1994 album "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene" by death metal legends Incantation 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 February 26th (Day 57 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on March 1st (Day 60 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Recapping some of the terrestrial content (Fair Warning: This episode has a lot of sports talk for a sports talk show that prides itself in not always talking about sports)
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:31:00)
• Watching the David Whitfield & Whitfield Productions perform and recognizing selling the lord to an audience that believes in Jesus is clearly much easier than selling most anything else
• Jarrett Allen and the difficulty with (and shortsightedness) of aPple devotees
• The MLB owners lockout of the players is digging in for the long haul, exactly like we anticipated
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Maybe for the first time in sports history, this continued MLB owners lockout of its players sees the majority of fans get that it's all about the greed of the billionaire owners way more than it is the greed of the players (begins around 1:27:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "And Still Champion" (begins around 1:45:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:52:00)
• Comparing Russia's invasion of a soverign European nation and comparing it to when the Nazi's (and Russia) invaded Poland to begin WW2, is not that far off of a comparison, actually
• FIGJAM, aka Phil Mickelson, is who we always thought he was
• Explaining De'Aaron Fox's pulling the rug out on his NFT Swipa The Fox, and helping to expose the huge grift/ponzie schemes this blockchain world of unregulated digital investments inherently is
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:47:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:12:00)
• Hue Jackson and the director of his non-profit are in the headlines more now (before he's even coached a game at Grambling) than he was when he was failing to all-time historical levels as the headcoach in CLE (i.e., dude apparently can't help being a loser)
• 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 2022 self-titled debut album by the band caroline 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 February 19th (Day 50 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on February 22nd (Day 52 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Blaming being distracted by synchronicities for accidentally deleting this show and having to re-record it...
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:10:00)
• Thanking Eunice for introducing us to Big Jet TV and Jerry, the most entertaining and mesmerizing airline enthusiast there is
• Picking who's worse between Guy Fieri and DJ Khaled is like picking who's worse with humanitarian rights, Saudi Arabia or China (a quick review of the All-Star Game "celebrities" who were in Cleveland for the weekend)
• The MLB owners lockout of the players is digging in for the long haul, exactly like we anticipated
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Booing Steph Curry and Draymond Green at the 75th All-Star Game makes Clevelanders look like petty assholes, and clearly this is why we rarely ever get afforded any nice things of our own (begins around 1:07:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Temple Of Doom" (begins around 1:14:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:49:00)
• You know what's way worse than subsidizing billionaire team owners and billionaires not paying their fair share in taxes? When billions of dollars are generated annually and the workforce is paid one cent of it, you know, like how it is for college football and basketball players.
• The whitewashing effect of living in the suburbs is a hard thing to escape, let alone to even realize
• The NBA All-Star Weekend and festivities are in Cleveland, and the fun tale of how Mollie ended up with a couple of tix to the game
• The Canadian "Freedom Convoy" is not about truckers, but it is very scary to think about the future of these protestes given how a few hundred crazed lunatics were able to shut down the capitol of a country for over a month
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:15:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:31:00)
• When an ice breaker goes terribly wrong
• 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 2022 debut album "The Overload" by the group Yard Act 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 February 5th (Day 36 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded lived on February 7th (Day 38 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Your 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominations, mostly pronounced correctly. Meanwhile, Black Country, New Road just put out a record, effectively their last with singer, songwriter and guitarist Isaac Wood, and it's an achingly beautiful masterpeice
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:36:00)
• Landon was a snow storm that in every way lived up to billing, and it tasted good too...
• Brian Flores civil suit is the last headline the NFL wanted during its super fortnight, and though they're going to fight the allegations with all their filthy billions and billions, here's hoping it's a transformative moment in racial equality that the NFL very much needs
• This is all quite reminiscent of Curt Flood
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Fox, where you can you work for a dispecable media monster, cash its checks regardless, yet still freak out when one of the media monster's manufactured Frankensteins shows up on the set (begins around 1:35:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Stitches" (begins around 1:39:00)Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:49:00)
• Hue Jackson and his executive director for his non-profit organization are quite a pair, huh?
• The NBA All-Star Weekend and festivities are in Cleveland, and the fun tale of how Mollie ended up with a couple of tix to the game
• Catching up with where we're at with the MLB's lockout of its players. Oh look, Manfred and the owners all up to they're old tried and true nefarious "bargaining" tricks again
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:48:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:13:00)
• Clarifying last week's rant about Neil Young, i.e., doubling down on them with an even heavier handed slap of reality
• 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 masterpiece new album Ants From Up There" by Black Country, New Road 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 terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on January 30th (Day 30 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded live on February 2nd (Day 33 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Turns out with all his greatness Tom Brady is a petty dick, not a Michael Jordan spite-dick, which would have been fun, nope, he's just a plain ol' dick
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:22:00)
• The quantum reality of getting a death certificate
• The best way to offer condolences to people you don't know very well
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – You never know what you'll find (or won't find) when digging through the place of someone who's died... (begins around 1:22:00)Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Hernia" (begins around 1:39:00)Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:42:00)
• Driving across the nothingness of the Southwest with only a blue tooth speaker and some books on tape
• Texas isn't for the faint of heart, especially because who knows what alternate reality these idiots of Texas have been taught to believe
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:35:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:57:00)
• Neil Young is pissed off at Joe Rogan, or is it Spotify, or both... or neither? All we know for sure is that he (like so many legacy artists) sold off half his music rights but he's still fully pissed off (about who knows what all). And the very real business and depressed state of new music
• 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 audiobook "Born A Crime", the autobiography of Trevor Noah (as read by the author) 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 terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on January 15th (Day 15 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded live on January 17th (Day 17 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Pissed off at all the snow but still more pissed off about the Browns, as we recognize another position besides QB they've been just as bad at in identifying talent
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:32:00)
• Remembering back 5 years ago when so many NFL fans lied when they said they'd never watch again
• We are living in the best time to ever be alive, no matter what the news says everyday and however it may seem to be otherwise
• Checking out the list of the 100 most watch television broadcasts of 2021
• Corporate sports talk in CLE is generally terrible whenever they have to talk about basketball, or really, anything besides football
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Death and dying, and paying respects to, and love for, Big Mamma James (1942-2022, rest in peace) (begins around 1:31:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Hit And Roll" (begins around 1:57:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 2:03:00)
• Explaining the biggest difference (and most obvious) between Novak Djokovic and the late Bob Saget
• The real problem with tennis is its wholly unnecessary exclusiveness, well that and its ridiculous manner of scoring
• Wondering if there will ever be accountability on the part of the rich and/or powerful, or will we as a society continue to just settle and keep kicking this big ol' can of inequality down the road
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:56:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:13:00)
• There's currently a Ford F-150 commercial with a Battles song being used in it, and there's also an AirBnB commercial with Kevin Morby song, and you are probably already thinking we hated the truck ad most, but your wrong (explaining when the use of music by groups and artists in advertisements are okay, and when it's decidedly not okay)
• 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 compilation of songs from Mary Lattimore "Collected Works" 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 terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on January 8th (Day 8 of 2022), and all podcast segments were recorded live on January 10th (Day 10 of 2022)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – When a Browns Tailgate show gets even scarier
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:18:00)
• Once again a Browns season ended up all Brownsy: a 2021 recap which also acknowledges rooting for any other team while living in Cleveland would be a dick move, so go Browns, until the end of the earth and time itself, go Browns
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Yes, it is okay to cry, and any other notion you can't is likely due to hypermasculinity and is entirely unhealthy for any and all (begins around 1:12:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Snow Balls" (begins around 1:28:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:41:00)
• Driving to Michigan because Ohio sucks
• Feeling envious of rural conservative voters for a few reasons
• Recreational weed stores are cash only and guarded by a dudes with guns... You know, just like what it's always like to buy drugs when it wasn't legal to do so
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:33:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:56:00)
• The James Webb Telescope is still performing "nominal" and moves closer and closer to answering questions about our universe we don't even know to ask yet (like black holes, which are really cool)
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

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 this week is the 2021 album "Mandatory Enjoyment" by the band Dummy 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 terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on December 30th (Day 364 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on December 30th (Day 364 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Thanking our tens, and fond reminiscing about the worst NFL head coach of all time
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:22:00)
• Understanding this new variant, and explaining where we're currently at and why it really does look like 2022 is when we'll finally be able to live with this virus (that's never entirely going away)
• Watching the show Succession and film Don't Look Up and recognizing that maybe the biggest issue with these two highly recommended works is that they're too spot-on real
• Recognizing that athletes are human too, and that the word "recovery and rehab" is never a fun time for anyone who actually has to go through it
• Yes, your stupid Bowl Game is meaningless these days unless --maybe-- it's for a national title #PayTheKids
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Saying farewell to one of our favorite samples, and realizing you can't visualize within a dream... or something like that (begins around 1:18:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Drive On" (begins around 1:34:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:41:00)
• NYC isn't NYC of norm, but it's still way better than most places
• The best midnight food ever might not be something you've ever had at that hour
• Thinking of a quite possible scenario where you would change your mind about a douchebag jerk and open your arms to them (even though they're a liar, and continually respond as if they're the victim here when they're just being judged against their own decisions, statements and actions)
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:35:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:53:00)
• The James Webb Telescope (if it doesn't yet fail...) will prove to be one of those moments in our species' understanding of the universe around us takes a giant leap forward, and there's really no price tag too great for such achievements
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

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 this week is the album "Kirtan: Turiya Sings" by Alice Coltrane 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 terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on December 5th (Day 339 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on December 7th (Day 341 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Kyrie is rewriting his own history again
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:19:00)
• You think most malls are dead, trying going to Eastgate Shopping Center north of Cincinnati (aka still way to close to Kentucky)
• Realizing there's nothing too absurd you can say to a man pretending to be Santa Claus
• Going down the rabbit hole of vile called Spotify and finding out it's even worse than we already knew
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Pondering the existence of the suburban bowling alley, marveling that it still exists, but wondering how much longer it has left (begins around 1:17:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Super Donut" (begins around 1:37:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:44:00)
• Having to share the same room with Trumpsters is best when you're whipping their ass at pinball
• Never forget the MLB owners locked out the players, that they can't be trusted, and, of course, that they're evil
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:39:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:60)
• No one should ever dumb it down just to fit in
• Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!

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 this week is the album "Space 1.8" by Nala Sinephro

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.