DC's Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

All terrestrial segments were recorded live on June 19th (Day 170 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 21st (Day 172 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Happy Summer Solstice! Now stay in doors and watch some NBA Playoffs. And here we thought last year's bubble life was unique, this year is also shaping up to be unlike any other
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:23:00)
• Happy Juneteenth, now another national holiday that can't be taught in schools just like Columbus Day and Thanksgiving (Oh, the rich American Irony of it all)
• The return of fans also means the return of Schadenfreude, which is the best thing about fans being at games in the first place
• The Defend Cleveland word association game with the term, "warrior"
• James Karinchak throw ball hard, and he most likely shouldn't be counted on to understand much else
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Now they're telling us, because he's a "hero", Batman doesn't give oral sex?! (begins around 1:24:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Local Legend" (begins around 1:35:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:42:00)
• Rediscovering just how great college radio is in Cleveland, and how it's the most remarkable aspect of the city that so very few of its residents are actually aware of
• Do you live in a real city if you can't buy a cigarette because no gas station is open at midnight on a Saturday night?
• The NFL is effectively outing anti-vaxxers with its new Covid-19 protocols for the upcoming mini-camp and preseason, and Cole Beasley is the first selfish idiot out the gate
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:37:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:57)
• Week 11 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 Gang Of Four "77-81" box set reissue on Matador

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 were recorded live on June 12th (Day 163 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 14th (Day 165 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Being inspired by what was once normal finally returning again, and counting all the ways in which injuries have plagued this NBA postseason
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:22:00)
• Barroco sets the bar in Lakewood (without even having one), and the band Ropa Vieja might be the best band to ever play a restaurant
• Browns fever is running high even in the middle of the offseason
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Euro Championships are on which means for most casual fans in this country, you might actually be watching some soccer (begins around 1:22:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Breaks" (begins around 1:33:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:45:00)
• Here come the Goo Cops!
• As we state pretty much every week because the evidence keeps piling up, billionaire's not only suck they also don't play by the same rules everybody else has to, which makes them suck even more
• The NBA postseason and all the reasons why true NBA fans are tuning in
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:46:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:09)
• Week 10 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 newest album from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "Butterfly 3000"

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 were recorded live on June 5th (Day 156 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 7th (Day 158 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Sad times when the best thing on a sports Sunday is a PPV boxing exhibition between 2 absolutely terrible and despicable human beings, and a soccer match that was tremendously awful in its play that also featured some of the worst fan behavior on the planet
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:28:00)
• No masks are great for all those who are vaccinated but there's still inconsistencies in the messaging
• The NBA doesn't need LeBron or the Warriors in the Playoffs with all the young blood showing off, and if you think it does then you're just not a fan of the NBA
• Noticing the differences between Australian broadcasts and USA broadcasts, and also noticing just how gross fans have been during the NBA playoffs so far
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Realizing without masks that you can see everyone's full face now, but maybe more importantly everyone can now see your full face. And two more very noticeable differences between Australian broadcasts and USA broadcasts (begins around 1:27:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Collinwood SVU" (begins around 1:49:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:53:00)
• The Cleveland Baseball Team announces they have come up with 1,198 possible new names for the team, and that they have been asking a bunch of "local influencers" to help with the process... Yeah, talk about pure marketing BS, and we dissect it all thoroughly for you
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:48:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:15)
• Week 9 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 Can's "Live In Stuttgart 1975" release

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 were recorded live on May 22nd (Day 142 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on May 24th (Day 144 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Contrary to fans of golf (who themselves also mostly suck), rooting for Phil "Mick the Dick' (aka FIGJAM) Mickelson is akin to rooting for the douchey villainous antagonists in every summer comedy film ever made
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:20:00)
• Now that Cedar Point has decided to actually pay it's seasonal help a fair wage... LET'S ALL GO WORK AT CEDAR POINT THIS SUMMER!
• Haslam Corp has a great idea to renovate our city that they will surely be the only ones to profit from, and being ready for them leveraging the Browns leaving in 2028 to get whatever and everything they want
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – This year's NBA Playoffs beginning with the play-in games is rounding out to be the best first round of the playoffs possibly ever (begins around 1:17:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Bathroom Of Horrors" (begins around 1:31:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:38:00)
• Baseball's got a real sticky balls problem on their hands
• Shohei Otani and Mike Trout playing for the woeful, who gives a shit Angels continues to be one of MLB's biggest issues
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:35:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:58)
• Week 7 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 black midi "Cavalcade"

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 were recorded live on May 15th (Day 135 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on May17th (Day 137 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Viagra Boys get some Nike money
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:27:00)
• Vax-a-Million! Good idea or bad idea?
• Celebrating being vaccinated and not worrying about all those who are refusing to get it, except for the few things that are very worrying about it
• There's clearly an equity problem when the prospect of $300 weekly federal aid is better pay than working 40 hours a week, and other basic facts big corporate will one day hopefully be held accountable for
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Kobe's legacy largely gets a pass from discussing its darkest chapter, whereas women often don't get a pass even when they're the victim. (begins around 1:27:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Our Body, Ourselves" (begins around 1:38:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:42:00)
• Discussing the Rock Hall's latest class of great Inductees, and its clear genre prejudice, and also talking a little bit a couple of legends and their infamous Versace vs Armani feud.
• Even corporate sports talk realizes how stupid an event the NFL Schedule Release show is.
• Week 6 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:37:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:02)
• Discussing the obvious reason(s) why people are resisting going back to work to jobs with little pay and no benefits
• 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 St. Vincent "Daddy's Home"

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 were recorded live on May 8th (Day 121 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on May10th (Day 123 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Trying to look past all the barriers and the seemingly unsolvable riddle of finding interest in hockey if you aren't already into it
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:25:00)
• NFL Fan Fiction with Aaron Rodgers
• MLB Fan Fiction with Albert Pujols
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Ranking the only important parts of the Star Wars universe (i.e., justifying "May the 4th be with you" and weeding out the Fan Fiction stuff) (begins around 1:24:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Slurpee Situation" (begins around 1:53:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:60:00)
• Counterintuitively the grossest most disease ridden thing on your person is now a part of the dinner table at most places
• Anderson Varejao signing with the Cavs is yet another classic nonsensical Old Man Gilbert move
• Just in time for his being able to receive a max deal this offseason it's time the Cavs recognize Collin Sexton isn't the cornerstone of a roster before it's too late
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:59:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:26)
• Bribing people to get vaccines is the way it's going to be from now on, and all of us who already got it are probably going to miss out on some sweet offers
• Week 5 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 Squid "Bright Green Field"

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 were recorded live on May 1st (Day 114 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on May 3rd 26th (Day 116 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The month of April sure put a historically large exclamation point on just how out of control strikeouts are in MLB.
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:21:00)
• The recap/aftermath of the NFL Draft coming to Cleveland...
• Whoever Leon is his Kings sure do suck now, and so does their hit song about how it burns when they pee.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Getting to know Joe Woods (begins around 1:18:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "The Graduate" (begins around 1:35:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:39:00)
• NFL Drama Candy isn't as good as NBA Drama Candy but it keeps getting better tasting all the time, and noticing the amount of opportunities afforded Tim Tebow and being pissed off about it.
• Selecting by position the worst First Round picks of the reincarnated Browns of all-time
• 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)
• We clearly kept the wrong Kevin on the Cavs.
• Week 4 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 Topaz Jones "Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma"

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 were recorded live on April 24th (Day 107 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on April 26th (Day 109 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Sometimes drawing too much attention to idiot racist white people in the outer-rim has unintended and undesired results.
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:25:00)
• The biggest football sports story of the year happened last week, and it had nothing to do with the NFL
• The fan frenzy around the NFL Draft is the most nonsensical of all nonsensical big sporting events of the year, but there's maybe nothing more nonsensical than listening to the "experts" who are at best only 20% accurate in their predictions.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Bauer v Tatis Jr, and the Dodgers v Padres being the best stories in baseball (begins around 1:22:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Busted Whig" (begins around 1:38:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:49:00)
• Acclimating to going out again might take a while for many of us.
• The restaurant industry is in serious trouble but the biggest issues were problems that have existed long before the pandemic and aren't going to be easy to fix, if they're fixable at all.
• Defunding the police and abolishing the police are simply bad ideas, but there is one good idea we could establish right now. Because no matter who you are if you think it's okay for so many Americans to be killed by police each year, you're either sick or flat wrong, or both.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:46:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:18)
• Missing Kluber but not as much as expected.
• Week 3 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 Big Brave called "Vital"

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 were recorded live on April 17th (Day 100 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on April 20th (Day 103 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Do you know what all this new money pouring into the NFL means? It means don't worry about the Browns having to cut Sheldon Richardson, this team is positioned to be fighting deep into the postseason for quite some time.
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:23:00)
• Browns were thinking ahead with how much they spent on free agency because the overall talent in the 2021 Draft is looking like it's going to be historically bad.
• The Cavs have a chance of being the 10th seed and how the next couple weeks go will tell us all we need to know on whether that chance is for real, or if it's time to start preparing for next year already.
• Anthony Edwards is not only our vote for NBA ROY, he's also proven (again) he gets our vote for best rookie soundbites, too.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – If everyone sees, feels, tastes and hears the world slightly different from one another, how can we ever expect to agree on anything ever? And experimenting with new baseball rules and playing the game: Name the teams in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (begins around 1:19:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Neighbors" (begins around 1:47:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:53:00)
• "People actually live in Crocker Park!" and other things discovered while making a trip to the cookie-cutter corporate dumping grounds of outer-rim CLE.
• Fine dining and hospitality is in a bad way and it might be years before it comes back, if it even comes back to what it was ever again.
• Taking a look at all those going to Cleveland Baseball Games on a nice Saturday afternoon is looking like anyone who's not a "Wahoo On My Hat!" might want to just watch the game at home.
• The sheer greatness of Bieber and the 5 best reasons to watch the Cleveland Baseball Team right now, even though they're going to be a frustrating .500 team all year.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:50:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:16)
• Week 3 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 Spirit Of The Beehive "ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH"

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 were recorded live on April 3rd (Day 93 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on April 6th (Day 96 of 2021)

• Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The 2021 MLB season is under way and the best and worst things that have happened so far, all of which has nothing to do with the Cleveland Baseball Team.
• Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:21:00)
• WRUW 2021 Telethon and the importance of supporting college/public radio, now more than ever.
• Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – With Deli and "Zero" Love back in the mix for the Cavs (for now...) the young team is again watchable, but the best thing to happen in the world of the NBA involves some drama candy and a retired player we used to hate. (begins around 1:21:00)
• Lachlan MacKinnon's 'Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: "Full Frontal" (begins around 1:38:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:44:00)
• Cleveland (and most other MLB teams) not being able to sign Lindor to the fair market deal he signed is a baseball problem, and the real issue with the Dolan's is that they can actually work to fix this problem but they'd rather blame their fans for not going to games.
• Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:44:00)
• Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:06)
• Week 1 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.
• 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 파란노을 (Parannoul) "To See The Next Part Of The Dream"

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.