Celebrities You Have Met

oh man thats awesome. i met keiko as well.

You met Snoop?

Were you, umm, ya know ... going streaking at the time?

randy couture

jeremy horn

dana white

georges st. pierre

andre arlovski

forrest griffin

kerry schall

spencer fisher

chris leben

mick foley

Webb

Ritz

2 backstreet boys..don't remember the names.

Dee Snyder

Joe Budden

Joe Torre

I'm definetely forgetting some others.

I think some of the definitions of "celebrity" are a bit loose here. Would anyone outside of the track world even know who Dathan Ritzenheim is? Or Bernard Lagat, etc. Mo Greene and Michael Johnson are acceptable, but naming random baseball players shouldn't really count.

well, my buddy plays in the NFL and i played in his Flag football team with a whole bunch of NFL players down in miami, i met snoop through them at a miami hotel and Trick Daddy through his Flag Football team

yeh wrote:

I think some of the definitions of "celebrity" are a bit loose here. Would anyone outside of the track world even know who Dathan Ritzenheim is? Or Bernard Lagat, etc. Mo Greene and Michael Johnson are acceptable, but naming random baseball players shouldn't really count.

Lagat is pretty well known especially in africa and europe, i dont know about Dathan because he aint same level as Lagat

Let's see....

Jim Rice (legendary baseball player)

Tipper Gore (2nd lady/famous scold)

Larry Bird (greatest human ever)

Johnny Mize (baseball great)

That's it. Where the hell do you people meet all these celebrities?

Being as I cater events in Hollywood and anything nearby I've gotten lots of opportunities

Talledega Nights premiere party:

Will Ferrell...'nough said

Sasha Cohen(Da Ali G show, probably the nicest celeb I've ever met, real cool guy)

Rachel Dratch(SNL)

Bruce Willis(kind of a tool, but oh well)

Jane Lynch (40yrOldVirgin Smartech boss"Paula")

Amongst other parties

Harrison Ford

George Lopez

James Earl Jones

George Lucas

Tia Carrere(this girl does not age)

David Foley

Kyle Gass(1/2 of tenacious D)

Sean Connery

Pierce Brosnan

In the running world....

Used to "race" against chris solinsky, or at least we were in the same race a few times

Jorge Torres

Andy Downin

Rod DeHaven (craziest f***er)

Suzy Favor

Alberto Salazar(did a run with him actually, that was a trip, at Oregon Distance camp of '01)

That's about it....

well, i'm not sure if all those baseball players count as celebrities. that said, i've met most of the Oakland A's from '89-96 seasons...including Mark McGuire who came close to running over my (5 year old at the time) sister in his red '88 corvette (this was in '90). i also was teammates with 2 pro athletes, 1 soccer and 1 football, but i wouldn't call them celebrities.

-Bobby Knight (sat in front of me at an A's game)

-Johnny "2 bags" Wickersham (social distortion... also where i picked up my name)

-Danny McGough (also from social distortion)

-Michael Chang is attending my school right now as a grad student and i see him fairly often.

-Jim Belushi finished running at the same spot as my teammate and i in Santa Monica, but i didn't know who he was, my bud had to point him out to me.

-Walt Disney's daughter buys her running shoes at the store i work in

-I drove the ex-CEO of Quiksilver's cars, his Jaguar and his wife's Nissan mini-van

-I drove the CEO of LA Fitness home in my car, and then drove his 2004 Ferrari F-360 Spider later that day

-I drove Barry Maguire's '57 Chevy Bel Air after he dinged it on Memorial Day '05.

-Rashid Ramzi gave me one of his spikes after running the fastest 1500 ever on US soil here in LA a few weeks back... met Boaz, Lagat and Krum that afternoon as well.

-Gene Winfield (famous car customizer, most notably for '48 Mercs)

-bumped into the band Switchfoot in an alley in Hollywood about 3 years ago. nice guys.

my dad met Chuck Norris at a book signing once, and he talked with him in the parking lot for a long time afterwards (this was a long time ago). my dad has also gone outrigger coneing with Tom Selleck--Magnum PI was filmed at my dad's friend's house, and Selleck and my dad's friend are good buds and are members of the Outrigger Canoe Club on Oahu.

My mom graduated with Tom Hanks and knew him in high school.

i've been surfing several times where many well-known surfers have been in the same break as me, but i didn't "meet" them. the one most have probably heard of is Robert "wingnut" Weaver of Endless Summer II, and the late Jay Moriarity.

speaking of surfing, some of my dad's good buds were on monster garage. here's a link of about 30 pictures of them surfing with Jesse James.

maybe i'll add more later. i'm seeing Social Distortion tomorrow night, and i hope to meet Mike Ness (even though i hear he's kind of a prick), but i'd also like to meet Charlie Quintana the drummer. also, the former Bass guitarist for social distortion (John Maurer) goes to the same church as one of the girls that i coach (Rock Harbor in Costa Mesa).

sorry, forgot to post the link for the pictures:

http://www.santacruzwoodies.com/Monster%20Garage/HTML/index.htm?1

I met HARD MAN once.

A real nice guy, under that tough exterior

Hey, I also met Sun Ra! He asked me to go to Saturn with him. No joke. Also met: Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Dave Leibman, Pharoah Sanders, Dizzy Gillespie, Jerry Lewis, Michael Johnson, John Kerry, Tom Harkin, Charles Grassley, Mike Huckabee, Ralph Towner, Jimmy Smits.

Muhammad Ali (during the week of Bush's inauguration)

Mike Tyson (in one of his prior hometowns)

Oprah Winfrey (with Mike Tyson)

Thats a top three nobody is beating.

Alan Webb

Rich Kanah

Jim Ryun

Bill Rodgers

Johannes Gutenburg: Sat next to him in Print Shop Class

Jesus H. Christ: We handed out water(maybe it was wine?) together at a charity road race.

Albert Einstein: We were lab partners

Leonardo DiVinci: was a studio asst. and helped him mix colours for his paintings...cool guy, but a little weird.

Napolean Bonaparte: used to mow his lawn while he lived in

Corsica...what a prick.

Peter Jennings back in the 80s. Wonderful guy, a real class act. Took the time to talk with me as a 9 year old aspiring anchor. Looking back I can't believe he spent so much time talking with me and my parents.

That's it.

Jack Daniels

Richard Nixon