When Maya and I pitched 1015, we were thinking it was quite funny in that we had all these

stories about being 13 that we weren't supposed to talk about. It's been funny for ages that

boys masturbate, but like, God forbid you did that as a girl. And the deeper we got into the writer's

room and everything that kind of got us excited and was like,

well, yeah, why can't we tell that story? Why does that feel wrong? And then the more we were like,

the patriarchy.

Yeah.

And then suddenly we were making like a feminist show. Hi, Anna. Welcome to Reclaiming.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Yes. I'm so excited because we get to talk about one of my most favorite things, dark humor.

Yes. And your new memoir, the same one. Yes. Yeah. And so you're like a multi-hyphenate as a writer, actor, showrunner, director, right? Yeah. Anything else? Did I. No, I think that's right. Do you play Mahjong? Not yet. Okay, you got to learn if you're in L.A. Do you play Mahjong? I do. I do. I do. I learned a couple years ago and my skill level is pretty much the same. Okay. I haven't gotten better. Okay, this is embarrassing? Is Mahjong the one where you press the, like, kind of like a disc? No. Oh, okay. That would, I think that's, no, I know. No, I was just. Is that air hockey? No, that's air hockey. There's one that's like, it's like a stick with like a that and then you're like pushing a disc. Okay. Is that you know what I'm talking about? No, it does matter. No, no, but maybe you've created a game that you and your mind. What does Mahjong look like?

Oh, well, okay, traditionally, traditionally it's sort of, they're kind of cream-colored tiles.

Okay.

And the ink on each tile is black, red, or green.

Okay.

But with this sort of Mahjong boom and Renaissance that has happened in the last couple years, they're now a million companies, and they make these gorgeous tiles that is half the reason I play. Because they're just so pretty. Okay, great. You know, it's like anything that can make you smile in today's world. Okay, I'm on that. I'm going to get on that. I like floral straws. Yeah, I know. I saw. I'm like, any of the things, right? All the things.

No, I know. Thank you. Wait, so I, we're going to talk about your memoir. I always feel like when someone comes on with a book that I always want to assure them that we're going to get to it. I'm going to talk about some other things.

No, no, but I, you know, because I've had that experience myself of where I just think, oh, no, oh, no, they, like, brought me on to do something else.

They're not going to talk about the thing that we're supposed to talk about, blah, blah, blah.

So, but I really, and I think in setting up the tone of your book, too, so much of you and how we know you is from Penn 15. And although I

want to say Pennis, but you know. You can. Yeah. Penis. Penis. Penice. Penice. And I feel like

you did such an extraordinary job of a creative way of taking us into our world of middle school.

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