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I met Johnny Cash in a diner in Eugene, Oregon in 1983. Shook his hand. He was having breakfast, it being around 9:00 am. I was drunk.

Nice fella.






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In the Flathead Valley, MT.

I've seen a few movie stars but I hardly consider them to be anything special. The only real celebrity I've ever seen was Ronald Reagan as he drove by in the presidentmobile.

My wife and I had a nice conversation with Paul Newman in the lobby and then elevator of our hotel during the 1991 Phoenix F1 race. He was racing in the the Trans Am race. Raced against Craig T Nelson a number of times in endurance races.. Talked to Marsha Mason several time when she was racing her RX 7 in Seattle. Said hello to Clint Eastwood in Carmel in 1980.

I threw Obama out of my dorm room when I was a senior in college. He was in Law school with his first asian girl friend and was trying to get play from drunk girl right in front of her. I grabbed him by his scrawny little neck and picked him up and hauled him outside. We had Joshua Redman hitting jazz sets and our dorm room was cool as all hell.I also had an altercation with him in a pickup basketball game when he trying to drive the lane and I stayed home. He whined about that as well. He was a little priss then and he didn't change one bit. I got audited 7 times in 8 years when that azzhole was Prez. I received 15 grand in returns after Trump took over because those bloodsuckers were overzealous and my accountant noticed that they were wrong on each one of the returns.

.I knocked both Matt Damon and Andrew Shue(Billy from 90120) in two successive plays during a flag football game against Elliot House when they roughed up our female quarterback. She was legitimately good and helped us win the Coed Intramural championships and they clotheslined her. She was starting center on Women's hockey team got up and spit out a tooth. I told her I would "rekt" them up. They complained to the referees.

I drank beer with Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl on one of their first tours to Boston and Kurt was really nice prior to Courtney Love.

I met Prince Charles and he was actually a very good guy when one of his royal rangers got lost and I had to go out and rescue him on a logging road. Princes Charles gave me an attaboy. I was pretty young at the time.

I saved Timothy Treadwell from getting eaten by a black bear sow and cubs in WSTE National park but I just postponed the end result.

I know many of the Alaska reality stars but that probably doesn't count. Krin is a co-worker and Ashley and Tyler Selden sell stuff out of our shop. Gary Green was my pilot and is a close friend.

I ran into most of those BRO hunting fellers at SW where I work in the camping when they head up to the Brooks Range. Michael Waddell, Shockey, Boddington, Most of them are pretty nice.

I dated Elizabeth Shue for about 1 month until she figured out that I wasn't one of "those" Kennedy but a poor Alaskan one. I had many conversations with Mira Sorvino who graduated in the same class as I did and was much more grounded than most people.

bumped into Jerry Seinfeld in a narrow hallway at work very early in morning pre-coffee....awkward little "how you doing"/"how you doing" exchange...

same/same with Paul Tibbets....and punched some elevator buttons for him

Andy Williams
Bob Hope
Jack Nicklas
Gary Player
Lee Trevino
Max Baer Jr.
^^^^All at La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, CA
However Gary Player, Lee Trevino, and Max Baer Jr. have all spent the night at my parents house while playing at the Colonial National Invitational.
Shot craps with Telley Savalas in Las Vegas, a real [bleep].
Shook hands with John F. Kennedy the night before he was assassinated at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth.

Back in the early nineties I was in Dallas for a trade show. A buddy and I were heading up to our rooms on the elevator, discussing the worm (AKA Denis Rodman) in not terribly complimentary terms (the Spurs were in town for a playoff game)/ There was a third party in the elevator, a woman we didn't know. The elevator stops on the third floor and guess who walks on. That's right, the worm himself and a huge brother. Naturally all conversation ceased, and I was crapping down both legs thinking this lady has my life in her hands. She probably had no idea who he was. The worm and his buddy got off on the 7th floor, I went to the 8th and my buddy and I never discussed it again.

In 1986 two of my high school friends and I bought a 32 foot sloop and were rowing the inflatable back to it from the grocery store in Marathon, Florida with enough provisions to spend three months in the Bahamas. It was a leaky Redcrest 10 footer and was piled high with groceries. The kind of dinghy that took one rowing, one bailing, and one pumping it with air to get anywhere. A motorboat blazed by us and almost swamped us. The driver made a big circle back and then slowed up to us to offer us a tow. He said, “towing isn’t going to work, put those groceries in here and I’ll take you where you are going”. He towed the empty dinghy back to our boat and then left us after we thanked him. It was Gary Burghoff who played Radar O’reilly on MASH. Noticed he has a crippled hand and later heard that he hides it in most of the MASH episodes behind a clipboard or whatever..

I met a guy that took a dump in the house Deflave later lived in, in Havre.

Literally almost walked into Trump Jr at shot show last year. Why do all these guys have earpieces and American flags on their lapels? Oh Chit!

I know a guy who drove across the country with his dog so it could take a dump under Clark’s rainbow painted birdhouse in Harve 😎

Decades ago I got really stoned with one of the original "Canned Heat" members.

Had Alan Hale come in and sit next to me and share a few drinks in a bar in Venice Beach.

Worked for actor Bruce McGill on his boat.

Did a job for Larry Elison's 184' yacht.

Recent photo of me working on Walton (Walmart) family's 281' yacht.

A group of us high schoolers from BFE towns in Alaska on a field trip were in Pittsburgh and ran into Mr Rogers. We harassed him enough he asked us to just leave him alone as he's done with that show. Poor fugger seemed perturbed.


Same trip I saw a genuine negro standing outside a Mellon Bank and got a picture.

Papa Pilgrim's wife cleans the engineering office I work in. Maybe not much of a "celebrity", but just a little awkward sometimes.....she don't say much.

I met deflave in the middle of nowhere montucky...

No bs, my uncle is 2 yrs older than me,he is a big fan of his and was really excited. Price was a really tall man. it was 1980.

Too many to mention...

But if Leanwolf weighs in here, I'll take that as a sign to follow suit...

Waiting to go on, in the wings of the stage at the Kennedy Center in DC, some Bob Hope honors thing, Raquel Welch came around the corner and ran into me. I was more amused than she was. Shorter than I thought, broader face, too. Lotta cleavage...

I was passing thru Montana just on the west side of Billings, as the sun was going down....on I 94.. I slowly passed by an older Late 70s Jeep Grand Cherokee, when it hit me that the guy driving it looked like Peter Fonda.... I let off the gas peddle so he pulled up next to me and I guess I was starring at him....I was thinking God does that guy look like Peter Fonda....Suddenly he looks paranoid and hit the gas peddle and took off at about 90... there was little traffic on the road at the time...

as he pulled away, his Montana license plate as E Z Rider...

kinda verified I was right... on the other hand I thought.. if you are Peter Fonda and want to hang a low profile, having that for a license plate isn't a bright idea.

I think if you travel enough... running into a celeb or two is something that just ends up happening...
Starring seems to be a natural reaction as your mind is trying to process you are actually seeing a celeb.