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Scott Sigler Slices

DEEP CUTS Episode 72: How We Melted Down Meeting Famous People

Scott Sigler Slices

Empty Set Entertainment

Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You think of meeting your heroes or someone whose work you enjoy, and you figure you might be a little starstruck, but you know you’ll be mostly cool. That’s not what happened to us. Here are four times we met famous people, and our reactions were as far from “cool” as you can get.  Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2025 by Empty Set Entertainment  You want famous? How about the GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG, which shines you up by saving 99% off the first year of a new domain registration? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, okay, okay.

0:02.1

My job as a writer means sometimes, especially at conventions or at signings, I do run into some famous people.

0:12.3

It does happen, and I got to tell you what, guys, I'm always as cool as the other side of the pillow.

0:17.9

It's no big deal, right?

0:20.3

Well, okay, to be fair, but you absolutely have no

0:25.3

room to judge, my darling. You have met some pretty amazing people yourself. And in my experience,

0:30.0

you are not as cool as the other side of the pillow. 100% facts. I am terrible at meeting

0:37.4

somebody I admire.

0:39.2

We'll recount our most embarrassing meeting famous people stories right after this quick break.

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1:25.3

Welcome to Deepcuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler's Slices Fiction podcast feed,

1:30.0

where a sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff in the world of fiction

1:34.2

and pop culture and meeting famous people.

1:36.3

I am Scott Sigler, sci-fi horror author known far and wide as the future dark overlord.

1:41.5

And I am A.B. Sigler, audiobook narrator and publisher at Empty Set Entertainment.

1:46.7

Tonight, we are recounting our most embarrassing meeting famous people's stories.

1:52.1

A reminder, this is a bonus episode in the Scott Sigler Slices podcast feed, not part of any particular story.

1:58.2

You don't need to listen to this to keep up on my current tale, but we hope you'll dig this peek behind the storyteller curtain. And I would urge you to listen to all of this because the story at the end is quite fantastic. It is quite fantastic. So let's get into it. But first I want to say my brother just joined the chat room, Jude Stenson, if you're on Facebook, you can see him there. And I love you very much, Jude. Jude says, just quote, I'm A from New York. Yeah, I'm A from New York. Hey, I'm A from New York. You ready to go? Let's get into it. Okay. First up. Now, those of you listening at home, right now, we're switching into some visuals because we do this live stream every Wednesday at 6 p.m. Pacific, 9 p.m. Eastern.

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