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I am not a sportsball fan, but in the 90s worked in a couple (completely unrelated!) places where I met/interacted with a bunch of NFL dudes in a relaxed setting

• Troy Aikman - serious, aloof
• Emmitt Smith - extremely kind, patient with children. The kind of guy you would want dating your sister.
• Daryl Johnston - quiet, private
• Nate Newton - funny and good-natured. Not terribly concerned with the rules. Like standing next to a refrigerator.
• Tony Dorsett - dick, rude, would leave his wife alone so long we used to sit with her to keep her company.
• Jimmy Johnson - helmet-haired dick, belligerent, the law didn't apply to him and he can do whatever the hell he wants. Voted (by me) most likely to ask "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

I also once was in a group dinner with Wayne Hussey (Mission era, rather enjoyable, center of attention but didn't demand it, if that makes sense). Met Vince Neil at an EM club in Germany in the 80s (box of rocks and kinda rude).

Motoo Fujiwara, lead singer/composer of Bump of Chicken.

He was good friends with a friend of mine so we went out to dinner and hung out in his apartment. He'd just turned down the offer to write an opening song for One Piece, because he'd never heard of it, and was regretting it immensely (as a consolation they did the ending of the 2003 movie).

Working in games I've worked with more famous people, like Tim Curry and Billy West, but never met any of them. Still cool to see your name in the same credits roll :D.

I've met Billy Idol two times, he was really nice.

I'm some form of science hermit, so I measure these things by degrees of separation. So I meet people by proxy. Some long after they are deceased, I suppose.

I have two degrees of separation from Paul Erdos (and of course his mother), several prime ministers of Vietnam, Kevin Mitnick, and Keanu Reeves. Three from John Von Newmann and most world leaders.

I also probably have an Erdos-Bacon number. It would be quite large though.

50 cent. He was at a charity function I attended for work. I buckled and joined the people asking for pictures. He was ridiculously nice, absolutely JACKED and smelled incredible.

Slightly different genre I also met Amy Grant at a different charity event for work. Also very nice, slightly less jacked and no discernable smell to speak of.

Numerous metal bands... I can't list them all with any accuracy. In the early 2000s I met most of the Green Bay Packers and numerous WWE wrestlers due to a promotion gig I had.

I didn't actually meet him, but I made Bill Hader smile!

I was walking being him in a parking lot/alley in Venice and when I realized it was him I got super excited, then my friend whispered loudly "keep your cool, don't make a scene" and then when he turned the corner we could see the smile on his face. It was very exciting

I've also walked behind Fred Armisen and Carrie Beownstein when I walked past a place where they were filming Portlandia

If you count the dudes from Last Podcast on the Left, though, I've met Henry Zebrowski so often that he recognized me on the street when I ran into him coming out of a bar. And he was in a Scorsese movie

I met Craig Ferguson a few years ago, I was just a stand-in contestant for a game show pilot he was filming. He was super nice, took the time to say hello and have a quick chat before getting down to business.

It was really cool to watch him, he was so calm and cool until the camera started rolling and then he was just 'on'.

Paul Walker, at blockbuster in Santa Barbara 2008. He didn't have his membership card, had to look him up by his driver's license. I had no idea who he was, my co-workers were freaking out and asked me what his license looked like. I didn't pay attention at all and couldn't remember any details. My guess he probably appreciated being anonymous to me.

When Obama was campaigning he did a stop at my kids' high school. My husband shook his hand.

Couple of years ago a friend and i were at breakfast and started talking to an old guy sitting at the counter beside us. It was photographer Irv Steinberg. He sat and chatted for an hour, telling funny stories about photographing Marilyn Monroe and accidentally eating John Wayne's steak.

When my kids were young they auditioned for ER and we met Anthony Edwards. He said, "hi. I'm Tony," which seemed funny.

Brian Blessed is probably the most known person I've met. He is exactly like his appearance on any TV show you've seen him on. He wants to tell stories, endlessly. He's always got a fascinating story or fact to tell you. He wants to speak to literally anyone about anything.

This was at a convention years ago, and he had two handlers who were ripping their hair out from the frustration - they were bitching about how impossible he is to get from place to place but he's just so goddamn nice.

Other notable meet (to me) was Regi Fils-Aimé. I was wearing a Zelda necklace and he went "ooooh I like your necklace!" and I pretty much resembled that scene where Troy meets LeVar Burton in Community.

in recent years I'd say Dizzie Rascal.

In my entire lifetime that award goes to Mandela

Hayden Panettiere, at the time I was an intern at a recording studio and lionsgate came in and filmed some studio scenes for the show Nashville at our place. Hayden walked in and was looking at this big fish tank that was by the front entry. I honestly had no idea who she was and started talked to her as she asked what type of fish our bright orange parrot fish was. After that she walked off to go get ready. I googled who was on the show later that night as I am totally aloof on anything on TV and actors/actresses in general didn't realize till then I met her. She is really short, pretty and seemed nice.

Looking back my favorite part of that day was the craft food services truck(s) ulimited redbull and snacks. Also one of the camera guys I chatted up and learned he had done some work on Lord of the Rings, which I thought was really cool.

Merkel Probably.

Depends on what you mean by met. There was a thing at a nighclub for blade2 and wesley snipes and for some reason shaq was walking around. Saw them and talked with our friends and said neat but I always felt the nicest thing you can do for famous people is to leave them alone. If that counts well then I used to go to scifi/fantasy cons and there were actors who got paid to go or went to shill something. Did background work and the main actors were there off in the distance. Actually met? Well the guy who was the chef for the obamas worked with a charity with this soup and talk thing and he served the soup but I did not really talk much except saying thanks. He gave some of the talks and even announced where he was going when he was allowed to tell people. He literally looked like michael stipe. Then I worked for evl under Dan Sandin and Tom Defanti who if your in the area they are legends. I would not be surprised if relatively famous folks were around and I did not even realize. Seen politicians at the public transit stations. Oh and my extended cousin is Phil Collins and saw him at some extended family reunions.

Will Wright at one of the E3 conventions during their glory days.

Met Robert Patrick (best known as the T-1000 from Terminator 2).

He had a booth at a Horror convention. I knew nothing about the convention and didn't know a ton about his other work, but his local agent asked their local family if they knew a Graphic Designer because the booth posters for Robert and Billy Boyd got lost in luggage.

I eneded up being a last minute call for help, had the agent send me what official images they had, and threw together what I could in an hour or two so I could get it to a printer in time.

Was right by Robert at his booth all day, interacting with his fans. He seems like he probably has some political views I'd disagree with, but I've never seen anyone spend time with fans like him. He truly put the time and work in with every single person in that line.

Had no clue how many diverse fandoms he was part of. He seems strongheaded, but very professional and super loving to the people that show up for him.

Got to have lunch with him and Billy Boyd that day, and they're total dorks together in the best way. Billy Boyd is 100% the sweetest man and it was hilarious realizing he had voiced Chuckie.

Stan Lee - San Diego Comic Con 1995.

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I cooked lasagne for Todd Barry once. It was a good lasagne, made the pasta by hand and spent a full day to make the ragu.

In music: GZA and Raekwon probably. Bloodywood and Lake Malice are more recent bands but they're still on their rise and not as well known as the Wu-Tang overall.

In comedy: Russell Peters, more recently Nimesh Patel.

General: Gary Vaynerchuck

billy corgan, twice. total dick once, nice the other time. dan aykroyd bought us a shot. ray manzarek of the doors had a strong presence and was direct but polite. chuck palahniuk at a book signing, funny but no opinion either way. john waters was kind and weird, exactly what you'd expect. al jourgensen didn't say much and looked terrible. I corresponded via email with terrence mckenna and he was very kind.

Michael Jordan on a random beach I. The Virgin Islands. He hung out and chatted for a bit then kept walking. We were the only other people on the beach. Seemed chill at the time.

I sat down and had a conversation with Michelle Pfeiffer on a beach in SoCal while she was on break during the filming session. I was just a kid and had no idea who she was at the time; she was just some woman sitting on a stonework. I was too young to even remember what we talked about.

Chat-GPT

I was working at a small gaming studio and talked on the phone with German Garmendia because we wanted to make a game featuring him and his staff. He's a youtuber, I think he was called "the pewdiepie of latin america" or something like that? He had way too many subscribers, I think about 50M

He was a nice individual from what I remember, very hard working and friendly. I think he was recently "cancelled" though but idk I don't keep up with those things.

I didn't meet him per se, we just talked on the phone, and he's not like... A hollywood celebrity or amything but it's the closest I get.

I've been to Garth Brooks' house.

I was next to Al Sharpton at the airport in DC once. I didn't meet him, though. I was too tired to try to strike up a conversation. He is VERY short. You don't really see that on TV.

I met Notch when I was working in Stockholm outside of my job. He had really smooth and soft hands.

Mads Mikkelsen, but it was early in his career - before he went international.

Android Jones. He’s a local artist, I’m not sure if he’s known outside of our area or not, but his art is gorgeous. I cleaned out (physically and digitally) his computer for him after he got back from Burning Man. It was filled with so much sand.

Funnily enough, Kevin Bacon, while working at the CN Tower around the time of the release of Apollo 13.

It was backstage at a concert, we were the very small local band and they (Die Toten Hosen) were the main act and technically I met them but they were shielded from us until they went on stage and had to go through the place we had our backstage together with the second band (Donots).

The Donots guys were very cool, we played football together in the evening, they gave us beer they had with them because they knew that catering for the other bands is shitty when you play with Die Toten Hosen and we drank together, awesome time.

Jimmy Carter, Céline Dion, Michael Gorbatchev, Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many many more. One of the benefits of working in the luxury hotel scope for a few years.