#3563 RHOC S20E13: I Set Fire to the Brain - Live from Chicago!

Ben Mandelker (2:00)

Yeah, so amazing to be back here in Chicago.

Ronnie Karam (2:04)

Okay.

Ben Mandelker (2:04)

On the opening weekend of the In the Mix Tour.

Ronnie Karam (2:08)

Ho-ah!

Ronnie Karam (2:11)

Happy Sports Day.

Ben Mandelker (2:13)

Yes, happy sports day.

Ronnie Karam (2:16)

To all of you who celebrate that shit.

Ronnie Karam (2:18)

It is like being, I don't, you have to understand as a non-sports gay, coming to this town.

Ben Mandelker (2:28)

Every bar is people going, eeeh!

Ben Mandelker (2:31)

Yeah.

Ronnie Karam (2:32)

And the sounds of the whistles and all the guys here in this beautiful place listening to sports everywhere you go.

Ronnie Karam (2:38)

Thank God I have such a gay thing to do tonight.

Ben Mandelker (2:41)

I know.

Ronnie Karam (2:45)

It doesn't get gayer than that. There's no bigger fuck you to whatever ball they're throwing. Been talking crap about Real Housewives for two hours.

Ben Mandelker (2:53)

Listen, I am a sports gay. I'm in two fancy football leagues right now. You're wearing a hat.

Ben Mandelker (2:58)

I'm wearing a hat.

Ben Mandelker (3:01)

We drove by a bar today, and everyone in the bar was just going like this, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, like in unison.

Ronnie Karam (3:08)

Yeah.

Ronnie Karam (3:09)

Where I live, it's the same.

Ronnie Karam (3:11)

I live in Texas, and the Longhorns.

So there's a game there a couple of weeks ago, and the Longhorns are orange, and the Aggies are maroon. And everybody's nice to each other, but you go into the Home Goods and those people fucking hate each other.

Ronnie Karam (3:28)

And it's hilarious. Like an orange will pass some maroon, and they're like, bitch.

Ben Mandelker (3:32)

You see it all over their face.

Ben Mandelker (3:34)

Well, what's amazing is that like, okay, you know, wearing a jersey on game day. I'm personally, I am a sports gay. I'm not a jersey gay.

I'm not going to do that. But people just start like on Thursday. They're like, we were just in Kansas City, and we just saw tons of like Chiefs jerseys on like Thursday. I'm like, you know, the game's not until Sunday, right? They're like, I'm ready, you know?

But you know, there is one other gay thing you could be doing tonight, and we appreciate that you're not doing it, which is watching Real Housewives Ultimate Girls trip.

Ronnie Karam (4:05)

I levitated.

Ben Mandelker (4:07)

I levitated for you all, and you missed it for Ben and Ronnie.

Ben Mandelker (4:11)

How dare you, until you treat me like that.

Ronnie Karam (4:13)

I levitated.

Ben Mandelker (4:14)

You know, it was great. So we flew in today, and Ronnie's been talking about these glasses that he has.

These, like, sunglasses that he wears on planes that actually have TV screens on the inside of them. What are they called?

Ronnie Karam (4:27)

A masturbation station. That's what my friend calls them. Like, I actually watch Housewives on these.

Ben Mandelker (4:33)

Yeah. Ronnie's been talking.

Ronnie Karam (4:36)

I'll plug them into your phone, and it's like a big screen, you know.

Ben Mandelker (4:38)

Yeah. And so, like, when we do our Amazon Live thing, Ronnie is talking about, like, you put these sunglasses on, and people think you're just sitting there with sunglasses on, but you're actually watching TV, and people don't buy them.

Ronnie Karam (4:49)

Sorry, sorry.

Ben Mandelker (4:51)

And people don't bother you. So he showed me them, and they were really cool. It was like, you really can't, it was like, you can watch TV on them. It was so cool. But what was so funny is, I was sitting next to Ronnie on the plane, and he is just sitting there with a hoodie over these sunglasses, so he literally looks like the Unabomber.

And he's just sitting there, and we're just be doing, it's like quiet, and all of a sudden you just hear him go, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. And I just started cracking up, because I know he's watching TV, but people just think it's this guy just staring into space at intermittent moments decides to laugh really loudly. It's like, ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Ronnie Karam (5:27)

Well, it's because Lisa Barlow was on there, and she's like, oh my god, that girl is glitter.

Ben Mandelker (5:33)

She's like the herpes of the craft world.

Ronnie Karam (5:36)

I've never heard that before, glitter, the herpes of the craft world. I rewound it like five times.

Ronnie Karam (5:43)

Also, look how much pain that saved me. And we got off the plane, and I was like, what a great ride. And Ben was like, fuck baby.