so, my celebrity story is uh, getting to try Uh, very rare whiskey with reeba McIntyre. Uh, I was 1 of the photographers for her son's wedding and we were at the rehearsal dinner and they're big whiskey and bourbon people. So they had to try it, her son, and her future daughter-in-law were trying it first, they asked reeba to come in and try it as well. Reeba heard us, the photographer is talking about it and she just turned looked at us. So y'all want to try some and she got a glass for us to try as well. Um, it was amazing. Absolutely. Amazing. Everything you see on TV about reeba her accent, the way she talks. The way she acts, it is 100% genuine. Definitely 1 of the coolest moments of my photography career, I'll upload a couple of photos in the dispatches

So in the early 2000s, things were wild here in the Daytona area. I don't think I actually hooked up with any legitimate celebrities. However, I did hook up with spring break, Nationals models, right? And what that is is you have these big, huge car shows, come to town with big, massive audio companies, liquor and alcohol companies, all that kind of stuff, and they employed models to represent their brands and those models would be a different events, signing autographs, taking pictures with everybody. So they're basically celebrities so at Days Inn when I hooked up with some of them, I damn sure felt like I was getting some celebrity booty at the time, so you

So I have 2 family related. Um, both kind of unfortunate. Uh, celebrity interactions, first 1 was in the late 80s, walking down uh Church Street. Um, my family and I we passed this couple that had like an Entourage following them. My brother was the only 1 who recognized who it was and uh, he's like, oh, hey juice. What's going on, man? And he was, he was cool, he's like nothing much how you doing. And, uh, kept on walking, it was OJ and Nicole Brown Simpson and then about 10 years after that, my cousin was on a business trip, flying across country and sat down on a bench and in the middle of an airport, uh, right next to Bill Cosby, and I have a picture of that 1, but I can't find it to send in a visual dispatch. I'm still looking.

So my celebrity encounter was indirect, but my uncle actually encountered Rev Run of Run DMC at a casino in Southern Indiana, um, which is so random, but so, fabulous. I think the show had ended by that point, but it's um, it was around the time when runs house had done, its thing on MTV so I was so pumped. I'll cherish this thing forever. Still have it random piece of paper, maybe even a napkin it just says to my name and then his signature. But yeah, I love that show so much. He had been be in the bubble bath at the end of each episode type in on his BlackBerry type in his little mantras and he would say God is love Rev Run the best.

Yoki Chads, just checking in on that. That story about the the duck and the dog. And oh my God, it's so cute. But it was so sad. When the family said that the drugs had made the dog lose its spunk AKA ski, which as we all know, means poop. What the hell was that woman talking about anyway, tip your ducts.

I was working in the Middle East on the boarder between the UAE and Saudi. The crown prince of Saudi Arabia along with some Formula 1 drivers showed up at the hotel bar to drive. By the end of the night I was drinking with them and the prince paid the bill. [Crowd Cheering]

I have met Shaq a handful of times. I actually cooked for him and some guests for a charity event at his home about 7 years ago. While we were prepping food we suddenly noticed what we thought was smoke in the kitchen. As 3 of us casually scrambled around the kitchen to see what we were burning. I looked up, Shaq had a huge grin and blew out the biggest hit from a hookah and started giggling knowing we thought we were burning the house down. He is the funniest, coolest celeb Ive ever met.

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but when I was 6 years old, I was called up on stage with my little sister at a mill Tillis show in Fort Myers. So I'm not sure if that counts, Owen, by the way, He died as you might, well know. And uh, he was my brother. Yep. Bye.