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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Dizzy Gillespie. Way back in high school our school jazz band opened for Dizzy at a festival/contest. I was heading to the rehearsal room and saw our director chatting with him, and the director waved me over and introduced me. He said “Hey man, it’s cool to meet you” and shook my hand.
I died.
Woah! Talk about influential legend!
James Randi. Glad I got to meet him before he died.
You win!
Bill Nye (the Science Guy). Total jerk, unfortunately.
Nei Degrasse Tyson on the other hand is the nicest guy. Used to live near him and had a few short conversations. Always made time for people and is a genuinely cool dude.
He really is.
Shame he ends up being the- “well achsssually” guy in online Twitter interactions. Sort of blunts the humble effect.
He strikes me as a highschool teacher that’s really out of touch and can’t turn off their job.
Weird Al. He’s a nice and personable fellow.
That’s who I’d like to meet. Not really a big star person but I’d really like to meet weird al.
Have you seen his new movie? It’s amazing 😆
It was fantastic. “can’t you please stop being yourself and doing what you love” 🤣🤣🤣
Penn & Teller. Really nice guys. Penn is ridiculously tall, and having a conversation with Teller is one of the most surreal experiences I’ve had.
I’ve also met tons of metal bands, too many to list. I’ll say the chillest/coolest I hung out with were The Black Dahlia Murder or GWAR.
Pope John Paul II.
I was working catering in the Vatican for some conference, and they kind of forced me to go to the audience with the Pope. Sort of shook his hand, but he was already late into Parkinson’s.
The best I can say is that I was MSN Instant Messenger buddies with someone who now has 2.4 million Twitch followers, before they started streaming.
Which is to say, I’ve never met a famous person.
Worked for the animation studio that did Clone Wars (TV series ) long time ago , met George Lucas there once. Super nice guy.
Tartakovsky or 3D? Either way that’s cool as hell!
3D, I was involved with clone wars, rebels and one unreleased canceled project.
I think the only famous person that I have met in real life and took picture with was a gay/straight/bisexual? (Im not even sure) man porn star, it was actually funny because I didn’t know who he was, but I saw a couple of people asking for a picture, so I was like, ok let’s just take a picture with him. Then I proceeded to upload it to my social media with a text like “cant believe I got to talk with him today!!!”
Years later, I was fapping away and watched a video of him, and I was like, wait he looks familiar, and then it hit me.
No body knows him but I yesterday I went to the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist where do I get a ticket for the line. Some old guy behind me said its over there, I said thanks and went to get it. When I got back, I saw that the person who answered me was a very famous guy in my country, who hosted talk shows and have multiple gold record from the eighties and now run commercials.
That was wild to me lol
Jim Lahey, Trailer Park Supervisor at the best f’n trailer park in the world.
John Dunsworth was a beautiful human. May he rest in peace. ❤️
I met Quinton Tarantino. Even did a movie with him. Really likes giving pedicures.
But now I just see him out of the corner of my eyes everywhere I go now. It’s weird.
When I was a little nipper, Mother Theresa patted me on the head and said I was a very handsome young man
She was just saying that, obviously
I met Jeremy Clarkson - he was alright, very pleasant and funny
Me too! I was walking around the fish market in Seattle and walked right by him. My partner then said “Wasn’t that the guy from the car show that you watch?” I doubled back and met him. Just said hello and shook his hand.
I met Prime Minister of Economics and Innovation of Lithuania, Aušrinė Armonaitė, back in the days she was just a politician. She tries to be very tactical and friendly person (as most politicians do). Nevertheless, she is one of the most hated politicians right now, probably.
What happened that made her hated?
She is hated mostly by the traditionalists. She proposes decriminalisation (NB: not legalisation) of soft drugs and same-sex partnerships for LGBT. Some have become angry as much that I know people who put all the blame from their life into her party.
I would be happy if I could describe the detailed info but I don’t want to break Rule 2 of this community and put Lemmy on fire.
Ha, no problem, thanks for the explanation! Makes sense!
