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DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss: All terrestrial segments were recorded live on August 7th (Day 220 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on August 8th (Day 221 of 2020) Cleveland's TownHall keeps living up to its billing representing everything that's wrong with this country, time and time again. (Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content) The world sucks right now and it's only getting worse, but sports is back and if you're keeping score at home, the safety measures put in place for our pro leagues is sadly and drastically very different than the safety measures the public is working with that don't go anywhere near enough in protecting us. The NFL is in camp and just over a month away from beginning... i.e., brace yourself, everything is about to get even more stupid. Gustbuster umbrellas and Caddie Daddy's: Golf accessories and racially profiling every degree of white asshole on the spectrum while out on the course. (Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 1:28:00 mark) Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “The Suspension” (begins around the 1:52:00 mark) Watching Beyonce's 'Black Is King' and realizing Disney and its apparent target demo groups and censorship have completely changed. MLB has revised its Covid-19 protocols and it is almost unbelievable they didn't have all these rules in place to begin with. Mollie’s Weekly Reports: Hasn't Christie's Cabaret effectively been socially distance the day this state outlawed stripping? And you're never going to believe the toy troll Hasbro just had to pull off the shelves. (Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content, begins around the 2:51:00 mark) The NBA's return is absolutely beautiful. Somehow the pandemic hit and the beautiful game is shining even more beautifully. Shane Bieber... seriously. Wow. Just imagine how great this team would be if it spent money and bought a couple bats for the lineup? Having a craving for crap food you loved as a kid even when you know it isn't that good is a hard craving to not cave in to, and deciding what is the greater city nickname,"Forest City" or "Porkopolis"? Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Mollie pokes the bear by discussing cardboard cutout fan hobos, and of course you know who has the most Covid-19 state protocol violation complaints filed against it. 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 for the week is the 2018 debut album 'Street Worms' by the Viagra Boys on Year0001 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.