Billy Eichner

Algorithm induced spiraling.

Yeah, I mean, I try.

It doesn't always help.

But yeah, I remember those two things, actually.

My mom saying, have fun.

Don't be crazy.

You have to have fun.

Stop being so crazy.

It's so funny to me because it was my bar mitzvah party.

Stop being so crazy.

People will dance.

you know um that's that's stuck with me what really stays with me about my dad is he was this guy from the bronx if you know the actor alan arkin who passed away i think recently he was also from the bronx and around my dad's age like alan arkin and little miss sunshine was very much my dad um and if you're looking for a visual

And my dad had this just instinctive hatred of bullshit, of anything that read to him or felt like bullshit or affectation or artifice, right?

And that...

really is a part of who I am.

And my mother, too.

We did not like affectation.

We loved a great performance on stage.

That was our favorite thing.

But in real life, if someone seemed overly affected or pretentious or something, we were like New Yorkers who had no time for that.