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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Michael K. Williams had a breakout role on the HBO

show The Wire. He played Omar Little, a Baltimore stick-up man. Omar was a really intense

and rich character. He was menacing. He robbed drug dealers. He was gay. And he lived

by his own strict moral code. Williams played him brilliantly. But when he was cast in the

role, he wasn't in the best place personally. He was trying, though.

I put together this real gaudy package and a hit list of 10 people who I was going to

send this package to, like the real, the headshotout. My homeboy, his mom's work for Tiffany's.

I went and got all these Tiffany pens and Tiffany boxes and I sprayed the tissue with

Tiffany Cologne just going all out. And I sent them off for Christmas presents, right?

I said, you know, Michael's Christmas that it marinate. I watched my clocks. Right around

January 10th, 14th, I should be getting some calls. Like, oh my God, we want to see you.

Man, here we are in March. Like, yeah, man, I kind of slipped into a darkness. I got

a little depressed. That's why I was that when I got the call from Alexa Fogel. I got

for her. She scoured the streets in New York to find me because apparently she did not

see my awesome package. It's Bullseye.

Coming up, I'll talk to Michael about what it felt like to be a club kid. We got a real

gig being a backup dancer. I felt like it's really possible to get paid to do something

you love. You know, that wasn't a job. That was my first glimpse into my career, you

know, with a funky need for Brooklyn to flapish with a career.

But first, I'll talk with the actor and comedian Zach Galvanakis. His character in the new

FX series, Baskets, is a downtrodden rodeo clown. He's pretty nasty. Zach will tell us why

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