Tanya Mosley (host)

Did any revelations come to you going through some of that stuff?

Like things that in the moment you hadn't thought about, but you're looking through these old scripts or these old bits of paper that have notes from freaks and geeks, for instance, you know?

Yeah.

I'm stuck on this word obsession because there's a story in the book where you collected Billie Jean King's autograph 13 times.

I know.

After a certain point, did you start to have conversations with them?

They're like, this kid is, you know.

I mean, it's a weird hobby, but it also, why do you think you were doing it?

When did that come to mind for you?

Not necessarily that you could do it and you could enter it, but like that spark of, oh, these people are interesting.

I'm kind of fascinated by them.

Seeing the reaction to her action.

Yeah, that was a thing.

Okay, you have to tell this story of you threatening Steve Martin over an autograph.

It was more than a funny letter.

of you as a 12-year-old to kind of threaten him to say, like, I'm going to give your address out to everybody.

Was it like that in your home where you guys would be with each other?

Yeah.

Did you ever get to talk to Steve Martin about that?

Okay, so it started with these autographs, and then it extended to letters.