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~

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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.