re: Do you have any real life connections with famous people?

This is a stretch but I used to bartend with a few actors that went out to California. We bartended in Chicago one summer.

One has been on a few shows including Prison Break/an HBo show that got cancelled. Recently he was in this VW commercial.

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I used to watch Patriot football games with TJ from the Sonic commercials. He would come in and watch with his brother. He is the one in the passenger seat LINK Cool dude overall.

Another just gets commercial work. He shows up in one ever few years. He looks like the dude from the Notebook which is great for him and girls but it's hard for him to get work. Last I heard he was trying to start a band. He's dreaming IMO.