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Ben's Dark East Cleveland Commentary and the Real Housewives of Cleveland

from #241 - Live From Cleveland | The Tim Dillon Show · #241

4 min

Ben's grim observations about East Cleveland crime paired with Chris Hedges on the car radio, followed by a bit imagining a low-rent Real Housewives of Cleveland franchise.

In this bit10 moments
  • Ben is described as demonic and makes a dark opening line about East Cleveland upon arriving.
  • Ben delivers the line about people in East Cleveland murdering crackheads with characteristic vape-wielding deadpan.
  • Tim and Ben drive around East Cleveland listening to Chris Hedges speeches about societal collapse.
  • Tim asks when Cleveland was thriving, citing the Rockefellers, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Millionaires Row.
  • The Real Housewives of Cleveland sketch begins with the observation that cast members winter and summer in Cleveland.
  • Tim satirizes a housewife named Dawn bragging about having two working cars and a husband employed at a tile factory before it burned down.
  • The hottest woman on Real Housewives of Cleveland would simply be someone who can afford insulin for type 1 diabetes.
  • Tim mocks the typical reality show tagline format with a Cleveland version about affording diabetes medication.
  • Tim observes that Cleveland residents are so beaten down by poverty that gender becomes irrelevant.
  • The riff concludes with crude anatomical commentary about poverty-stricken people in the city.
Mentioned here

The Real Housewives of ClevelandChris HedgesEast ClevelandBen AveryDanRock and Roll Hall of FameThe Rockefellers

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