Billy Eichner
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992 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Billy Eichner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was from the Bronx.
He was in the Korean War.
He loved sports, but he did.
He did love show business also.
But you would think, especially back then in the 80s and 90s, that our age difference or just where he came from, who he was, might have been an issue considering who I was.
But I was very lucky because it wasn't an issue at all.
And this is from chapter five, which is called My Dad.
When I was in fourth grade, I took up a new extracurricular activity.
Was it soccer, you ask?
Perhaps the spelling bee?
No, it was something even gayer and nerdier than spelling bee, if you can imagine.
I participated in my school's storytelling contest.
Except for one other boy, the other competitive storytellers were all girls.
Being the little performer I always was, it suited me well to stand on a stage and dramatically tell a short story.
And it really rang my bell to figure out how to do this better than everyone else.
I performed in Nightingale, a classic children's story by Hans Christian Andersen.
I won the first contest at my own school, which allowed me to advance to the district-level competition.
It was there, on a Saturday morning, that I stood on the stage in a very large, mostly empty school auditorium in front of the dozen or so parents and three judges who were the only ones to show up to watch us, and I killed.
And when the judges got up to announce the winner, and they said, the winner is Billy Eichner.
Jay Eichner, my father, usually a stoic man of few words and never that visibly emotional one way or the other, immediately leapt to his feet, threw his fist up in the air triumphantly, and in this mostly empty cavernous school auditorium shouted very loudly, way to go!
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