I used to tell people Jerry Seinfeld was a cousin of mine. At one friend’s car-ride-away bat mitzvah, it was one of my talking points. “He took out the “ch” for professional reasons,” I said. “Hollywood stuff.”

Regardless if Jerry is long lost kin, today he took to Reddit to do an Ask Me Anything session where he touched on many subjects–of course the magic of Seinfeld, obsessing over the minutiae, and most excitingly, a new project with his right hand man, Larry David.

On his first time meeting Larry David:

“The first time I met him, that’s a long story… I actually was eavesdropping on him talking to another comedian, and I wasn’t even in comedy yet. But he was leaning on my car in front of the Improv on 9th Ave and 44th Street, and this would be probably 1975. That was the first time I ever saw him. But we didn’t talk. But him and this other comedian were leaning on the fender of my car, and I knew that they were real comedians and I was still just flirting with it. So I don’t know if that answers the question.

Then when we finally did talk in the bar Catch a Rising Star on 1st Ave and 78th Street 2 or 3 years after that, we couldn’t stop talking. We were both obsessed with the smallest possible issue.”

On how his white sneaker collection started:

“It started with wanting to be Joe Namath of the 1969 New York jets, who at that time was one of the only football players to wear white shoes. And I wanted to be like him, so I always wore white sneakers. Also, Bill Cosby on I SPY always wore white sneakers. And they were my fashion icons.”

On new Larry David project:

“We never obsess over anything that isn’t mundane. Most recent was intentional mumbling. We wrote this script for this thing that you will eventually see but I can’t reveal what it is at this time. All I can do is tell you is that it’s big, huge, gigantic. Even bigger than that Amazon package.”

On why he chose comedy:

“I chose comedy because I thought it seemed much easier than work. And more fun than work. It turned out to be much harder than work, and not easy at all. But you still don’t have to ever really grow up. And that’s the best thing of all.”

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The inimitable Judy Blume, who’s currently promoting the film adaptation of her 1981 book, Tiger Eyes (which her son directed, aw), sat down for a Reddit AMA (‘Ask Me Anything,’ olds), and it was nothing short of brilliant. Here are the highlights:

She may be to blame for a wave of children swallowing turtles:

Where did you get the idea of fudge eating a turtle?

Read it in a newspaper. No kidding — a real toddler swallowed a tiny pet turtle. Wrote a picture book about it and got back great rejection letters. “Very funny but this would teach small children to swallow turtles.” Great editor suggested writing a longer book (chapter book) and using that story as the last chapter.

She’s a total fangirl:

Are you and Beverly Cleary friends? Please say yes.

I wish! Beverly Cleary was my inspiration. I adore her books and so did my kids. We were supposed to meet last year but then I got a sinus infection and couldn’t fly.

She’s humble—and funny!

How often do you get recognized, or do you ever get recognized at all?

Well, my family usually recognizes me.

She will make you do your homework:

Im procrastinating my science project for you Judy. What made you realize you wanted to write books?

Do your science project!

Sadly, Blume finally had to sign off and go to dinner:

Loved chatting with you. Thanks for all the love and the questions.
Hope you get to see Tiger Eyes. Making it was the highlight of my professional life.
Going to get that pasta dinner now. Husb is starving!

We love you, Judy.

(Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images)

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