This is Eric Glass.

On This American Life, we like stories that surprise you.

For instance, imagine finding a new hobby and realizing...

To do this hobby right, according to the ways of the masters,

there's a pretty good chance that you're going to have to bend the law to get the materials that you need.

If not, break it.

Yeah.

To break international laws.

Your life stories, really good ones.

This American Life.

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.

It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

Can you remember a moment in your childhood where you were doing something entirely unselfconsciously,

and then somebody called you on it? Or the first time you held back from expressing yourself

because you were afraid you'd be embarrassed? My guest, Keegan Michael Key can, but he says that experience made him a better actor.

I probably already did my 10,000 hours by the time I was 13.

I remember being in a neighbor's basement and I was downstairs dancing.

And I remember, to this day, it's a it's one childhood memory that I have feeling wonderfully free while I was dancing.

And then someone came up to me and said, what are you doing?

Is something wrong with this child?

So it shut me down.

And then in your mind, you start to put an encyclopedia.

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