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DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss: All terrestrial segments were recorded live on September 11th (Day 255 of 2020), and all podcast segments were recorded live on September 14th (Day 258 of 2020) Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – The Brownsy Opening Day loss by the Browns is one of the only predictably normal things to happen in this pandemic to date, and so begins, assuredly, another long season of losing. (And check out Greg Miller's breakdown of the Week 1 game against the Ravens by clicking here) Today's NFL is different than the one back in 2016 when Kaepernick first began protesting police brutality and racial injustice, gone are the days where Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Tom Brady are "the face of the NFL", in 2020 the face of the League are all black QBs. Harvard released the findings of a 4 year in depth study of the Massachusetts criminal system and what they found out should shock no one who's been paying attention lately, they found out our entire criminal system is racist against blacks and African-Americans. Hooray, USA is... 28th! (and dropping) Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – A true story about how you can do everything right, follow all the guidelines and precautions, and still end up catching Covid-19. (begins around the 1:29:00 mark) Lachlan MacKinnon’s ‘Best of Edition’ Let Me Tell You A Story: “Pumpkin Head” (begins around the 1:48:00 mark) USA beach volleyball great Kerry Walsh Jennings is the latest athlete to reveal they shouldn't be listened to at all when it comes to anything other than beach volleyball. And also asking why should we listen to someone who's been entirely complicit with the sexual exploitation within her sport, in the first place. Buying whiskey in the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of the week, in the middle of a pandemic. #DontBeHatin Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie’s Weekly Reports: "Bleeding Brown", turns out kissing has a lot more going on with it between potential partners than you know, and a new kind of protest in sports we're hoping becomes popular worldwide. (begins around the 2:47:00 mark) Colin Kaepernick is the #1 free agent available... In Madden 2020 that is. Meanwhile, in the real world, he and Eric Reid are still being blackballed by the NFL. Your Weekly Cleveland Baseball Team Playoff Probabilities! What you need to be rooting for this season in the Central Division playoff race if you have any hope of Cleveland making the World Series. Nothing is better than the NBA Bubble Playoffs right now. Mollie’s Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition! – Goddamn dumb gender reveal parties, and a karaoke fan hobo holds a pro-karaoke rally in Canada. 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 Tropical Fuck Storm debut full length from 2018, 'A Laughing Death In Meatspace' 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.