7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Tonight on my favorite show The Apprentice, they are going to be competing in an AE challenge. For those of you out of touch with things, AE stands for American Eagle which is a casual clothing store targeting 15-30 year-olds much like Abercrombie & Fitch. My sister worked for AE for a couple years (in their corporate office, not the store) and I have done some modeling for them before so it will be cool to see if I know any of the people on tonight's The Apprentice episode. Now what does this have to do with Kevin Bacon and the seven degrees thing? Well I'm getting to it...

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I'm sure most of you know what the 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon is about. If you don't, it just means that anyone can think of Kevin Bacon and count back to 7 people or less that are connected to Kevin Bacon and yourself. Sounds weird, but true. Try it. It doesn't have to be Kevin Bacon, it can be any person - famous people of course being more fun/entertaining to do. So this popped into my mind when I heard about tonight's show. How could I be connected to "The Donald"? Then my mind started wondering about other famous people and how I could possibly be connected to them thru the 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon theory. I'm not into the Hollywood celeb crap, but I thought this is kind of fun. So here is a handful (wide variety) of people that I came up with. Surprisingly I am connected in just 2-3 degrees to these people!

• Donald Trump - 3 degrees...me, know AE executives, execs worked with Trump ( I could have another connection to Trump's wife, but I have yet to think that thru.)
• Bill Gates - 3 degrees...me, worked with a guy who has a brother at Microsoft, brother "works" for Bill Gates
• Jennifer Lopez - 3 degrees...me, know a girl, girl has as a friend who is J Lo's trainer
• Michael Jordan - 3 degrees...me, UNC former coach Dean Smith came with recruits and talked with me when I played basketball, Dean Smith coached Jordan in college
• President Bush - 2 degrees...me, know Senator Rick Santorum, Santorum knows President George Bush
• Howard Stern - 3 degrees...me, know Beth Ostrosky, Beth is Stern's girlfriend

If you have any good connection thru the 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon theory, post about it in the comment section. People like Michael Jackson, The Pope or other obscure famous person might be interesting to try. It's alot like "name dropping" in a way (which I hate), but in a more humorous fashion.