Ben Mandelker
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Podcast Appearances
That sounds realistic.
Show us more of your model friends and we'll show, we'll come back.
Okay, we'll do that.
Everything's more fun with friends.
Well, unless you have friends like mine, in which case, totally not more fun.
Am I right, guys?
A panic attack, right?
So then we go back to the event.
Yeah, Mark is still feeling things.
My whole life, trying to protect myself because I was definitely the only person who was obviously gay.
In a school of about 1,000 boys, I could feel this immense shame for so long that I just decided that I wasn't going to tolerate it anymore.
and that I was only going to allow myself to be close to people that I really trusted.
But sometimes, Ben, you just think, wow, maybe the moment you go out of that circle of trust, everyone just really does think you're fucking weird, messy, no.
When he starts crying, I was cracking up.
This was my favorite thing.
Mark Francis crying killed me because his Botox doesn't really let him move his face, and he's just like... It was like a demon was trying to get out of him.
He was trying to transform into something, and it wasn't taking.
It was like the demon was like, let me transform you.
He's like, no!
I mean, I 100% think that his emotional reaction was real.