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Danny Jones Podcast

#25 - The Son of a Pitchman | Billy Mays III

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4777 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Billy Mays III is a musician under the name 'Infinite Third',  and the son of American TV informercial icon Billy Mays. Follow Billy: https://twitter.com/infinitethird https://www.instagram.com/infinitethird Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Cool. So today's guest is Billy Mays the third.

0:11.1

What's up, y'all? What's up, bro? So for everyone listening, tell everyone who you are and a little bit about your background.

0:18.7

Hmm. I'm a musician, about your background.

0:30.1

I'm a musician and I perform locally and somewhat nationally as my career.

0:35.6

And I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

0:37.2

Oh shit, Reverend. Yeah, that's where he's from. I'm from

0:38.6

yeah. Yeah. When did you, when did you, uh, I moved to Florida when I was like 10, but my dad,

0:45.8

I moved here with just my mom, so I would always go back in the summer, the winter all year long.

0:49.8

Nice, man. Yeah, all my family still lives there. Cool. Yeah, me too. I love it there. I love Pittsburgh. Hell yeah. It's awesome there. It's too cold, though.

0:56.0

Yeah, it can be. Yeah, I moved down here when I was 18 for college. I went to full sale in Orlando, which is like a, I don't know.

1:07.0

Yeah, I looked into going there actually way back in the day. So I went for recording arts and

1:11.0

entertainment business. And I had a bachelor's degree by the time I was 20, which I find to be

1:18.4

kind of useless, but I never had to tell anyone that I had a degree to get work or to do what I do.

1:24.6

But it was a good experience. And then I sort of moved over to the Tampa area when I was 20, and I've been here

1:33.0

ever since on and off, you know, with a little bit of travel in there and touring.

1:37.3

How did you get into making music and doing what you do?

1:41.6

I remember, so I think one of the biggest things that hit me,

1:47.0

which I thought was like a really good introduction to who you are, was the actually the full sale

1:51.9

video that you did. And you talk about the first album you made in 2009 and you talk about like,

1:59.7

you know, your relationship with your family and the process of making that album and how did that point in time kind of like kick off where you are now yeah is that kind of like a turning point for you yeah i kind of look at that as the the like the launching point i had actually made other albums uh that I didn't really release in any capacity.

2:21.3

When I was in high school, I was making albums on like the most primitive gear and like eight track

2:27.4

digital recorders and guitar and I had no knowledge of what to do. But the one thing that I felt

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