DC's Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on November 27th (Day 331 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on November 30th (Day 334 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The fever killing return to all things must Brownsy
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:15:00)
• Flying today is the same except it's more expensive and more tense and testy... What ever happened to the joys of flying?
• John O'Hurley (aka J. Peterman) finally reveals why he's really, really into Irish Setters
• White men are so awful right now somehow Paul Rudd is considered to be the sexiest of all
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Explaining how absolutely great the new Beatles documentary "Get Back" is, from a total Beatles haters perspective (begins around 1:13:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Night Terror" (begins around 1:30:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:36:00)
• Black Friday Death Count: 2021 Edition
• The city of St. Louis settled its suit against the Rams and in so doing has continued to doom us all to the whims of billionaires who attained and add to their wealth by bleeding the general public dry, and by any means necessary
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:30:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:49)
• Almost dying on the Sandia Mountain in New Mexico
• 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 new IDLES album "CRAWLER"

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 November 21st (Day 324 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on November 21st (Day 324 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Cleveland Browns stadium is proven to be one of the grossest football stadiums in the league, and we're only talking about the food
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:15:00)
• Apparently a broken to pieces Baker Mayfield is still a better than a Case of the Keenums.
• The state of Ohio continues to suck, and it keeps getting worse
• The Dolans are looking to sell... Sort of
• Go Guardians (officially)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The NFL likely has a huge fake vaccination card problem with its players but they probably won't do anything at all about it, and Antonio Brown's biggest issues might all stem from the fact he's really bad at math (begins around 1:11:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Collinwood Famous" (begins around 1:31:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:44:00)
• People who ran out to buy Guardians gear on day one are suckers, and big corporate 4th quarter sales is continuing its slow kill of Thanksgiving
• The difference between journalism and click-bait is getting harder and harder to discern
• Travis Scott is not to blame for the deaths at the festival he played, meanwhile, festivals themselves have been the death of local shows
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (beginNFs around 2:54:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:19)
• The launch of NFT Bay, a place where all the suckers who invested into NFTs discover they were being scammed and what they own has zero value whatsoever
• 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 Harry Nilsson's all-time classic "The Point"

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 November 6th (Day 317 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on November 8th (Day 319 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – What a difference a week makes with the Browns, again... and we're right back where we were a couple weeks ago
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:14:00)
• Microwaves are a useful tool in a space full of single-use tools
• Remember when Belichick, the greatest NFL coach ever, was hated by the local media and the fans back when he was the coach of the Browns? Oh, what could have been
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – We learn this week that if you give consent to have someone pee on your face in front of everyone during a concert, the person who does the peeing doesn't have to apologize (begins around 1:16:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Creepin On Ah Come Up" (begins around 1:39:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:44:00)
• Too much of our country sees violence as a justifiable (and only) means to an end, and this is a very real problem that's only getting worse
• Athletes are overly influential whether they seem themselves as role models or not, and whenever an athlete behaves like an idiot it sadly reinforces the tired stereotype that all athletes are idiots
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:41:00)Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:59)
• Taylor Swift reclaiming the rights to her music as she's doing is a power move by an artists that should be cheered, and it's one whose overall effect is likely to be an even greater influence than her music when it's all said and done
• 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 new album from Aesop Rock x Blockhead "Garbology"

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 November 6th (Day 310 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on November 8th (Day 312 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – What a difference a week makes with the Browns, and the huge, and obvious, difference between being good and being great
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:22:00)
• Never forget the day we all learned who Odell Beckham Sr was for the first time #EverybodyHurts
• Aaron Rodgers would like you to believe he's the victim here, however, all Aaron Rodgers really is is lost in the event horizon of his own hubris (Part 1)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – And now we really mean it, the Cavs on a 4 game win streak, even with 2 starters missing due to injury, are definitely for real (begins around 1:19:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Walking Wounded" (begins around 1:36:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:43:00)
• Aaron Rodgers would like you to believe he's the victim here, however, all Aaron Rodgers really is is lost in the event horizon of his own hubris (Part 2)
• ESPN did a lot of great journalist work this week, who knew they still had strong journalism in them?
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:38:00)Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:04)
• How Mike would spend half a billion dollars
• Ranking the favorite side dish for Thanksgiving by state
• 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 new album from Parquet Courts "Sympathy For Life"

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 October 30th (Day 303 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on November 2nd (Day 306 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The cascade of issues for the Browns doesn't begin (or end) with everyone just now figuring out Baker isn't a game changing QB, and the problems are adding up so quickly this team might not even end up with a winning record let alone a playoff run
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:27:00)
• The scariest thing this Halloween season isn't ghosts, goblins and ghouls, it's all the stories this past week that have come out of the MLB, NFL and NHL that simply isn't get enough attention at all
• Rob Manfred's MLB is a regional one apparently, which of course he stated in a press conference for the "World" Series
• Roger Goodell's reasons for not releasing the emails from the WFT investigation is because he says the League wants to protect the very people who are asking for it all to be released. For real, we aren't making this up
• The Kyle Beach story, and how it is the same tale of sexual assault and its resultant cover up by by team, league and governing bodies sounds all too familiar, and not just because it's the same scandal the Catholic Church still hasn't fully dealt with either
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The way it looks like right now the best odds of any team in CLE making the postseason might be the Cavs... Seriously (begins around 1:23:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "I'm Going To Hell" (begins around 1:35:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:40:00)
• Local great Machine Go Boom returns to the stage for the first time in over a decade, the Rock Hall Inductions also return, and Scene sees fit to release its Top 50 Concerts in CLE of all time, and it's not as bad as you'd think but it's still mostly nothing but banal click bait
• PETA is as crazy as MAGA at this point, which provides the perfect display of how the two extremes in this country is ripping it apart
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:36:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:04)
• Guardians vs Guardians will end exactly how we think it will so stop making it news when it's not, meanwhile, what's going on with Rams owner Stan Kroenke has the NFL owners turning against themselves, and its endgame could change the way owners in all sports conduct business going forward, yet that isn't making much headlines at all
• 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 watching Genesis live in 1973. And for those of you who are actually reading this, who don't know this era Genesis, and who do end up checking out this link, you are very welcome

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 October 23rd (Day 296 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on October 25th (Day 298 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – We should rename our show The Defenseless Kyrie Show given how much this dangerously ignorant and narcissistic ass-hat ends up a part of our discussion
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:24:00)
• Having a Case Of The Keenums and discussing the "Baker Mayfield Dilemma"
• The cheap seats at a Browns game: A sociological study (Part 1)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Predicting Steelers vs Browns, predicting the Cavs season, and predicting the World Series (begins around 1:18:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Late Fees" (begins around 1:43:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:48:00)
• The cheap seats at a Browns game: A sociological study (Part 2)
• Isn't it crazy how the NFL fires a legend in Jon Gruden among a landslide of leaked racist, homophobic and misogynist emails, and yet a week later there hasn't been anything else to see here?
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:47:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:16)
• Beatles fans and Yankees fans, and what the two have very much in common
• 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 Superior Viaduct reissue of the self-titled Suburban Lawns lp

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 October 9th (Day 282 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on October 11th (Day 284 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – And after an epic game where the Browns came up short on the road against a really good Chargers team, somehow Stefanski is now the bad guy? Maybe he just needs a national insurance ad campaign too to help his image around here
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:30:00)
• That sure wasn't too smart of Baker Mayfield to tell the whole world he's playing hurt, and we're so glad none of the sport chatter-heads would shut up about it
• The 3 best reasons to root for the Tampa Bay Rays... (sorry, we recorded this segment before the dreaded Red Sox ending up winning the series, which also means now we have nothing to root for left in the postseason -- ugh)
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Teaching an astronaut how to survive in the vacuum of space sure seems like a lot harder job than talking about grown men playing a kids game (begins around 1:29:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Speech Impediment" (begins around 1:45:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:51:00)
• After almost two years, finally going out and having it feel really good, even though we drank WAY too much
• MLB Playoffs on the MLB Network went about as 82 year old and white as you'd expect it to go
• Urban Meyer is failing in the most spectacular historical fashion each and every week, and it's his on-brand arrogance and ego that's doing most the damage, too (12 more losses and counting until infamy). And remembering way back 2 years ago when Urban was somehow (supposedly) co-teaching a class on "Leadership and Character" at OSU
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:47:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:05)
• Some of the difference between the platform of Dave Chappelle as an artist and Kyrie Irving as a basketball player
• 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 new album from Myriam Gendron "Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found" available via Feeding Tube 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:

All terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on October 3rd (Day 276 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on October 5th (Day 278 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The blown whistle on Facebook, how it happened, why it happened, and why we should never trust the extraordinarily rich to ever do the right thing whenever making more money is the other option
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:22:00)
• Due to the gift shop witches curse our time machine malfunctioned and we got to watch the Browns beat Minnesota before we recorded, i.e., Browns Week 4 review time!
• Baker Mayfield is relatively the same QB as Kirk Cousins in so many ways except he's not an anti-vaxxer and he's generally more likeable (and we say this because it's accurate and not because we hatin')
• The day regular season baseball was more important on a Sunday than the NFL
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Idles band wrote a very cool song called "The Beachland Ballroom", and here's the inside story behind the track (begins around 1:19:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Three Hard No's" (begins around 1:31:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:37:00)
• The most popular Halloween candy in 2021 for each state is...
• Urban Meyer is a train wreck that keeps careening off the rails in new unexpected and exciting ways each and every week
• A reminder that Kyrie and Bradley Beal aren't the only guys in the NBA who haven't received the vaccine, and how it's not right for a couple of black men to be receiving all the attention when there's at least 45 other players around the league who are just as irresponsible and selfish
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:38:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:02)
• A gentle farewell to Country
• 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 lead single "The Beachland Ballroom" from Idles' upcoming new album CRAWLER due out November 12th on Partisan 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:

All terrestrial segments for this episode were recorded live on September 25th (Day 261 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on September 27th (Day 264 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Remembering that the last two weeks when we thought the Browns defense might not be very good. Turns out that was either premature or the Bears have the worst offensive line in the league. And three weeks in and so far so good in the hopes of Urban Meyer going 0-17 in his first season as an NFL coach
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:21:00)
• With the Cavs season set to begin Kevin Love responds to Jerry Colangelo for throwing him under the bus (and we respond to Kevin Love's response)
• The great unvaccinated NBA players and what it means if they play in SF or NY, i.e., Andrew Wiggins and Kyrie Irving (aka Dumb and Dumbest) are about to have to make a 15 million dollar decision that should have already made
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – And now this show has been cursed by a coven of outer-rim gift shop witches, because of it is... maybe (begins around 1:19:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Family Heirloom" (begins around 1:32:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:36:00)
• What if the Cleveland Baseball Team had kept all its best players they've lost the last two years, and asking how much different this year could have been
• Learning another way in which billionaires don't have to pay for things like everyone else, and doing the very simple math of how becoming a billionaire just doesn't add up in the first place (unless of course you are the creators of South Park)
• The worst rated fast food brands in every country
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:34:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:00)
• Discussing the 218 categories in Scene Magazine's "Readers Best Of Cleveland" list for 2021, where it's right, where it's wrong, and witches
• 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 30th Anniversary edition of the Pixies "Trompe Le Monde"

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 September 18th (Day 261 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on September 21st (Day 264 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – How long do we have to be patient with this Browns defense before we find out if it's actually any good or not? And the month old lawsuit filed against Omar Vizquel that no one seems to be paying any attention to that's far more frightening and horrifying than most anything you would ever imagine
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:20:00)
• Talking QB tiers in the NFL and why Baker is in tier 3, which is not just our opinion, it's also the opinion of 50 current NFL coaches and scouts (according to The Athletic)
• Rooting for Urban Meyer to fail is befitting the monster he has proven himself to be time and time again
• If there's no justice, just empty words and promises for the greatest gymnasts this country has ever proved, can we ever expect justice for any other women who are victims of sexual assault and violence?
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Dumb people going to dumb, no matter what (begins around 1:18:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Cleveland's Angriest Door Guy" (begins around 1:33:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:41:00)
• The digital Van Gogh is to the art world what planetarium laser light shows are to seeing Pink Floyd live in concert
• Definitively proving that we are living in the worst decade for music while ranking each era from the 60's to present day
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:41:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:03)
• The new 30 For 30 documentary "Once Upon A Time In The Queens" is fantastic, and not just because of how great and unique the '86 Mets were
• 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 "Structure" by Water From Your Eyes

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.