DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:
All terrestrial segments were recorded live on August 14th (Day 226 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on August 16th (Day 228 of 2021)
- Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The relative ho-hum, business as usual, nothing to see here preseason football is officially under way, and it's been another welcome sign that your Cleveland Browns are indeed a good team about to have another good season #FullBlownBrownsFeverInEffect
- Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:15:00)
- Removing 2020 from existence so we can deal with 2021... Hooray, go on with your day.
- Learning that there are still upwards of 3 million children attending school in districts all around the country who still have a schools with a native themed mascot and/or name, and also learning about the National Congress Of American Indians and how they've been tracking these schools in hopes of getting them to change their ways for a couple decades now and counting
- Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Ever have a jazz legend sing happy birthday to your grandma at a sold out show before? (begins around 1:12:00)
- Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Hearing Impaired” (begins around 1:29:00)
- Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:34:00)
- If you write a story of fan fiction that's made into a popular sports fantasy drama... then some three decades later it will become a real thing somehow and end up the most watch regular season baseball game in almost 20 years
- Just when you think it's absolutely impossible that anyone could become a billionaire while maintaining their integrity and moral compass, the impossible has happened
- Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie’s Weekly Reports... (begins around 2:30:00)
- Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 2:48)
- The beauties of DMT
- Week 19 (or is it 20... or who really cares?) 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 new album from the band Clibbus "Horsesatelite"
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.