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For me it was Jeff Kinney. I was meeting a different author I love, but there wasn't enough room downstairs and we had to go up. Turns out that's exactly where Jeff Kinney works! He's the author who got me into reading so I thought that was so cool

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I met my high school's class president.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That president? Albert Einstein

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No someone that has less of an impact on anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

in recent years I'd say Dizzie Rascal.

In my entire lifetime that award goes to Mandela

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been to Garth Brooks' house.

Where are the bodies?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't searched his house. I've only been there. His fence line is about 4 miles long, so there are a lot of places for bodies. Wait, what bodies? Did I miss the news?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was working in a kitchen and David hasselhoff came to eat (I live in Austria) so we asked him for a group photo and he obliged, dude was pretty cool about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it's just a marionette of OpenAI, not a self-sustaining person.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Stephen Covey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sam Abell from National Geographic: He was really nice, bought me a coffee and gave me photography advice as a thank you for showing him to the nearest coffee shop!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not sure who'd be the most famous:

  • Mae Jemison

  • John Carter Cash

  • Anthony Rizzo

  • Jason Heyward

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Quite literally bumped into Jacob Rees-Mogg in Chelsea. He looked terrified without his nanny around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Erykah Badu, I did some work at her house a few times. She was very nice when I spoke with her, but usually I dealt with another lady. The first time I rolled up I figured she would be cool when I saw "FORGIVE" spray-painted across her garage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hard to say.

Maybe Louis CK before all that stuff. Twice actually. He was nice, and a bit shy each time.

I met a lot of other comics. Hannibal Burress, Judah Freidlander, Jim Jeffries were all favorites. All seem very genuine.

For musicians, I guess Victor Wooten is the most famous. That was really magical. He was exactly as I hoped, dude is a natural teacher.

Actors… I ran into Adam Scott (Parks and Rec, Severance) when I was quite drunk (and on a date) many years back. We were both in line at a speakeasy ramen restaurant at like 11PM.

I don’t think I met any politicians or other kinds of famous folks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Merkel Probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Spoke for a solid hour with Peter Zeihan, author of The Accidental Superpower, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Very knowledgeable, and much taller in real life than I expected. I highly recommend his books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tim Eicke, the UK judge at the ECtHR. He gave a talk at my university and I briefly spoke to him afterwards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Michael Ironside when I worked front desk at a hotel. Seemed like a pretty cool guy, and surprisingly normal in person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've never actually met a real famous person but the closest was that I once went to school with a girl who later briefly did photo shoots for a vaguely popular magazine. I don't remember her full name but her first name was something like "Kristina" and I'm pretty sure her last name sounded Russian. She randomly friended me on Facebook several years ago but when I messaged to her, it seemed like I was talking to her manager and not her directly, it was very weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I met Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio and Blink 182 for a bit, it was at a festival he was acting and he came.up to me and my mate because he couldn't find the stage he was supposed to be on 5 minutes before talking to us.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I guess the most famous I've met is Screamin' Scott Simon of Sha Na Na. He's friends with my mom. Went to visit one year and he took us to his home in the valley of LA. Lovely guy, and the most insane driver I've ever met.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I used to play dnd with an astronaught

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