Billy Eichner

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992 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · Jen Psaki in conversation with actor and author Billy Eichner · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

as if i had just thrown a buzzer beater in the last seconds of a championship basketball game or scored a winning touchdown when all i had done is won the fourth grade storytelling contest his big bellowing bronx-born voice bounced off the walls and echoed off the vast dark span of empty seats in the school auditorium on a saturday morning in queens and he stayed on his feet beaming

This was when I was in fourth grade in 1986.

I'm 47 years old now, but I can still hear him saying those words.

There's a Stephen Sondheim song, Children Will Listen, in the finale of Into the Woods, a show about parents and children, about how adults have to remember that children listen more than you think.

They listen and learn and remember everything you say and do.

They retain everything.

And that way to go.

I have retained for the rest of my life.

Now, sometimes my parents took their love and encouragement a step too far.

Because I won the district storytelling competition, I advanced to the next level to perform my story in the Queensborough-wide storytelling contest.

And yet again, my father attended with the pride of someone who was watching his son play quarterback at the Super Bowl.

Except this time, I fumbled the football by stumbling over a few words in my story.

And you cannot stumble over your words in a storytelling contest.

I ended up coming in fifth place, losing out to a girl named Jenny Pethpankathon.

That was her name.

I still remember it.

who at one point in her performance paused for a suspiciously long time while staring hard at her mother in the audience.

She had clearly forgotten her next line.

There was some speculation among the other contestants that her mother had mouthed the word she was forgetting, which was, of course, considered cheating.

And yet she was given second place anyway.

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