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Volume 14Gary, you are probably the most interesting person at any dinner table, but if you could host a dinner party, who would you host, living or dead?
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David Javid writes, Gary, you are probably the most interesting person at any dinner table, but if you could host a dinner party, who would you host, living or dead? Second, if you could live in any time in history or civilization, with, of course, with the help of modern medicine, which time or place would it be? Third, I love your podcast and am an avid listener.
Well, I’m not really sure who I’d want to have at a dinner party. The obvious answer is usually famous and accomplished people. However, some people I’d love to meet from history would probably not make for great dinner guests.
Benjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman, and Peggy Guggenheim, I think, would make for great dinner guests. I’m not sure that Ted Williams or Emperor Augustus would be very entertaining.
Second, I wouldn’t want to live at any point in the past. By almost every metric, things are better today than they have ever been. I wouldn’t mind visiting the past, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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