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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And the girl who took first prize happened to be from that same district where the competition was held.
Well, my father thought this was very suspicious.
I was just mad at myself for stumbling over the words, and I stormed out of the auditorium telling my parents to start the car so we could just get out of there.
I blamed myself, but not my father.
He ranted all the way home in the car about the travesty that these girls had beaten me, that they had cheated, that the competition was rigged to favor the girl from her own district.
My dad was like one of those stop-the-steal guys, but about the 1988 Queensborough storytelling contest.
It was fixed, he shouted.
And I finally had to shout from the backseat to quiet him.
You don't have to make excuses for me.
I just lost.
I was disappointed in myself, but I wasn't about to blame the other contestants, even if they had cheated.
Plus, to be honest, I really didn't care.
I just wanted to go home and eat a bagel and watch TV.
But Jay Eichner had accepted enough defeat in his own life.
So when it came to me, he refused to accept defeat and was particularly sensitive about me not having the same opportunities and advantages that a kid from a richer, more powerful, more well-connected family might have.
That's it.
Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of parents have an expectation for their kids.
You know, I don't have kids myself, which is so funny that all these people are commenting that I wrote a great guide to parenting.
It was not what I was expecting, but I'm only the messenger.
You know, I'm just telling the stories about my parents.
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