Jeff Pearlman

I think one book I did talk to like 704 people, so it wasn't the personal record, but it's number two.

Was there anyone that you tried to get a hold of that you couldn't?

Yeah.

Well, one, what interesting was I was in Jada Pinkett went to high school at Tupac.

He loved her, right?

I think she exaggerates that point a little bit, but he definitely, he liked her.

And I went to, she was doing a book event at the Miami Book Festival.

This is a true weird story.

And I thought, all right, I'm going to go to this event and maybe I'll get her.

And I go to the event and this is after the Will Smith whole thing with the slap.

And it's me and about 500 women and Jada Pinkett on the stage speaking largely about how to have a good marriage.

And she literally has gone through all this stuff.

And all the women there are like, you preach sister, you say, yeah, yeah, standing ovations.

And I'm looking around like, what?

alternative reality have I entered where Jada Pinkett is telling everyone about how to have this great marriage and they're all eating it up.

It was a very weird sort of commentary on celebrity in America.

It was strange.

But you didn't get her?

I did not get her.

I mean, I read her book.