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and I'm like, oh, I'm a logbot. That's just how I am the mail bag pod. I think we should get right into it is a heavy show today. Lots of great questions this month. If I didn't get to your question, ask it again. Maybe I'll think about it differently when I read it a second time. Maybe I'll answer it just on Twitter at David P. Samson.

Maybe I won't, but it'll be fun to read because I do read every one of them. So I'm getting right into it. It's a question that has been asked at dinner parties and when you go out and you're with friends and you sort of dream about something. I want to start the show with this because I took some time.

David, comma.

So you're three people you'd like to enjoy a beer or cocktail with historical film family, et cetera. Curious what direction you'll go with this appreciate your time.

So you always get these questions right. Who are the three people you'd like to have dinner with? Who are the three people you'd like to meet that are alive? Who would you kill as a baby if you could and not let them grow up?

These crazy sort of other world questions reminds me of the man in the high castle this sort of outside reality that doesn't happen. So when I was thinking about a dinner, it wasn't really about a beer or a cocktail because I'm not sure that any of these people would have a beer or cocktail with me.

But this was about getting three people in a room and then how I would lead a conversation with these three people and exactly what I would ask.

And you're going to see a common theme. I want to sit with Gandhi. I want to sit with Muhammad Ali and I want to sit with Bill Gates.

I'm lucky enough that I had the chance to meet Muhammad Ali, but it was well past his promise was suffering greatly from Parkinson's and it was very difficult. He wasn't talking so having a conversation obviously wasn't going to happen. He would talk with his actions with his eyes with his hands. He'd give you a fist.

But back especially now with all of the systemic racism and social unrest and all of the protesting and boycott and striking and everything that's going on.

Sort of Uber awareness that we all hopefully now have people may tend to forget the Muhammad Ali back in 1967 in the 60s. He was one of the most controversial athletes maybe of all time and he took a stand.

He took a stand against Vietnam got stripped of his championship belt and just had a fascinating view. He started it. He was born caches clay and changed his name to Muhammad Ali when he became Muslim and it was he lived a life that in his mind.

And I've had the opportunity to speak to his agent. A man named Bernie who really is a tremendous tremendous man, but I got a chance to really understand Muhammad Ali from someone who had spent hours hours hours days weeks months years with him.

He was more interested in his life outside the ring. So I'm talking about sitting with Muhammad Ali about his life outside the ring. Gandhi.

Gandhi someone who I was introduced to when I was in high school. I wrote a paper about Gandhi back then the way you came up with subjects. No one will appreciate this unless you're in my demographic.

The way you came up with subjects for research papers and term papers is you went through if you were lucky enough to have an encyclopedia Britannica in your house or you'd have to go to the library.

But it was very strange. There'd be volume one which was a a through BC and then volume two is B D through F G and it would go like that.

And you would leave through the encyclopedia Britannica until you found a subject that interested you and then you do the research and then you'd go to the library and get books and learn about it.

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