Hey nudes, junkies, this is Steve from Ocala, mowing lawns again in the hot sun. Anyways, my celebrity meet was I was down in Orlando working um, window cleaning, and pressure washing and I ended up I was washing house and isleworth. I think it was isleworth might not have been, but it was in a Richie Rich place and lo and behold comes to find out I was washing the windows of Shaquille. O'Neal's grandfather's house and he shows up And starts playing basketball. And everything goes up to us, like, hey guys, what y'all doing? Washing my windows. That's cool. All right, I'll see y'all later. Get to this truck and leaves. I don't know. It was pretty cool, though. All right guys. Wiggle wiggle, pop, pop, pop.

So the guy that peed on the other guy's leg at the Morgan Wallen concert, why didn't he just tell him it's raining.

In 2007, I was in Daytona Beach ready for the Nascar race. And I got invited to a private event, uh, I think it was Verizon that was held uh, Beachside where they brought like 20 to 50 people there, something like that. I don't remember exact number. Um, there was a country artist there and I started talking to the country, artist's mom. She was really cool. And I told the country artist that she was really cool. She's really good. She's sweet. She talked to me and my wife for a little bit at, and I was there for the free beer, so that country artist turned out to be Taylor Swift of all people and here I am. Now 1520 years later, kicking myself, and not getting a photo with a 15 year old girl, which would have been really creepy back then, but made a lot of sense. Now,

I don't know if this counts as a true celebrity encounter, but I'm counting it because it's a great story. I actually got the crap beat out of me for lack of a better term at age 12 at a no doubt concert. So this is 2009, they were touring. Um, in parramore was the opener, long story short, a bunch of drunk belligerent girls kind of turned on my mom. And I it was a full-on like fight, so they got arrested for assault, all the things. So, after we're seen in the medical tent and they kind of Shuffle us out the side of the venue, we see, none, other than Paramore stereotypically around their tour, bus around a little campfire, and I begged, the security guard to let me go over, but of course he said, absolutely not. I felt like it was the least they could do. Obviously this has been a great story to tell my whole life um but I just redeemed myself and saw no doubt again at the sphere in Vegas so ha I have a clean record. No child. Abuse and I got to see them again after missing the whole concert the first time, this was song 3, I got my ass beat, okay, bye.

Afternoon. So I used to do Demolition and we were doing a job in the Orlando area for Mark Tremonti, the guitars from Creed and Alter Bridge. Well, the whole month that we were there, I never let on that, I knew who it was, and I talked to them every day or whatever. 1 day, he went to go pick up a snapping turtle that was going across his yard. And I looked at him and I said, hey if you value those fingers as much as I think you do, and You really do. You might not want to touch that turtle, and he looked at me and I think that's when he realized that I knew who he was. Well, that's my story later.

My celebrity meeting was in 199192. Shaquille O'Neal had just signed up for the Orlando, Magic basketball team and I'm working at a swimming pool company. And there we sell basketball hoops that you put on the side of the pool and you can play hoops from the pool, he walks in, with his crew. Asked me about the basketball hoop. He looks at the price and goes, oh my God. That is so expensive. And then walks back out. But he was very nice. And before he did walk out, I was able to get his autograph and give it to my boss's. Nephew who was a huge Orlando Magic fan

Back in the early 90s, I was working at a restaurant called The Patio in the Hamptons and I met Rob Lowe Charlie Sheen. Melissa Gilbert all at 1 table. Susan Luchi and her family at 1 table and Howard costell. Would always come up and pay his check by himself. Wiggle wiggle, pop pop.

So, I've got 2 celebrity encounters. I'll try to make this quick since I only have a minute. The first 1 was in New York City. I was 16 years old and 40. Now this was in 2002, 8 Mile had just came out. I saw a young lady that looked like, Brittany Murphy. I told my mom, I said that looks like Brittany Murphy. My mom goes, hey, Brittany and sure enough. It was her, she came over, she talked to us, she got a picture with us. She was very nice. Um very kind woman, very short. She was very petite. I was like 5 feet at the time. I'm fully grown now at 5 foot 2 and she was as tall as I was in that picture. Um, and then my second celebrity encounter. I went to the Citrus Bowl. Um, there was a festival going on. And Snoop Dogg was there. I ended up getting backstage passes from a guy who was leaving the concert and randomly gave him to me. Um, Some radio station was interviewing him. They gave him a water bong. I said, hey Calvin. Taking a cue from my mom. From Brittany Murphy, and he came over and took a picture with me.

So about 01 or 02. Um, I was on vacation and near St. Augustine a buddy of mine wanted to meet up for a drink, so we go to matanzas Inlet in which is right at the mouth of the matanzas inlet below St. Augustine. And he said somebody else was, uh, joining us soon but we were, the only 2 people in the bar. um, probably there about an hour and in walks, Jimmy Buffett who was a friend of my friend and I could not speak for about 5 minutes and just kind of sit there with all the flappers being gassed and, um, yeah, literally drank beers and had conk fritters with Jimmy Buffett for like 2 hours there and they hopped in his Mercedes and took off. So weird. But, yeah, I got like, 2 more of these. But anyway, see you

Good day, news, junkies my actual celebrity encounter is a 1984. Um we had backstage passes and meet and greet with Elton John um at the Hollywood sportatorium. It was a cool event. He was a lot shorter than I expected him to be. Um, but he was still a really nice guy to talk to and got to know us, you know through conversation is And such. Have a great day later, guys.