Campfire and a discussion

If you could just sit around a campfire with a cold beer and talk to anybody for 2-3 hours who would you choose. Lets not consider relatives who have passed away. We all would like another chance to talk to them folks.

1) Famous inventor / businessman. Somebody like Gates, Henry Ford, Edison ect.

2) Famous politician. President, Lincoln, Washington ect.

3) World famous person. Elvis, Mandela, famous actor, Winston Churchill.

For myself I would love to talk to somebody who started a world famous company and built it from the ground up. Where they got their money, how they hired, how they expanded ect.

Oh well, just a way to pass a rainy day.

playboy bunnies?????????????

seriously………………JFK!!!!!!!!!

Nikola Tesla – one of the smartest most under appreciated inventors of all time and ignored because he was a terrible businessman. Edison wouldn’t be the household name it is without Tesla.

Cleopatra. Would have to do a little more reading to get the context of her conversation but her story is nuts. Antiquity is cool stuff.

Chief Little Crow and Jay Hormel.

PS Theodore Hamm’s.

Jesus, I have a few questions for him.
Frank Lloyd Wright

John Colter. That guy has got a few stories…

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison to get their first hand take on the constitution and their thoughts about it as a “living document”, with examples from today.

Muddy Waters

glenn57 wrote:

playboy bunnies?????????????

The question was have a conversation with, is that what you really had in mind

Mind out of the gutter, buddy had a chance to sit around a campfire with Hunter S Thompson once. Kind of jealous on that.

Politician – ex-presidents. Not for politics just to find out the behind the scenes of what they get to know that we don’t. spy secret kind of stuff

I like to sit quietly at the campfire and stare aimlessly at the flames while sipping a cocktail, but I would like to pick Bill Winke’s brain.

I know this is the fishing side, but he’s a pretty good fisherman too

1) Werner Von Braun
2) JFK
3) Ernest Hemingway

JESUS is who I desire to speak with.

J.C.

A lot scenarios I think of aren’t necessarily specific to the person but more the era, where lots of people from that timeframe would be great to listen to for their perspective.

George Washington and other revolutionists, because I can’t imagine what it would be like sitting around and finally crossing that line into a situation where the group declares “we’re going to have to go to war to do it, but let’s give this revolution a shot because if we win, we secure our own free country.”

Jesus would be great but also his apostles to hear their reactions.

Kind of hurts to say this because it’s still very fresh, but it’d be nice to speak with some of the brave men and women we’ve lost in the current overseas wars to just find out what was going through their minds when they were engaged in combat and ultimately gave their lives.

John M. Browning
John Wayne

B.K.
DT

bigpike wrote:

J.C.

Is that code for Vince Lombardi?

Karry Kyllo wrote:

1) Werner Von Braun
2) JFK
3) Ernest Hemingway

Count me in if the Ernest Hemingway camp fire is at his estate in Cuba.
I’d also like to know if he really was the “Big Fat Slob” of Bimini that the Caribbean fold singer Nathaniel Saunders sang about being “punched in the knob” over a girl.

Johnny Appleseed

deertracker wrote:

B.K.
DT

Just to be clear, DT was talking about the Burger King.

patk wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
playboy bunnies?????????????

The question was have a conversation with, is that what you really had in mind

Mind out of the gutter, buddy had a chance to sit around a campfire with Hunter S Thompson once. Kind of jealous on that.

Politician – ex-presidents. Not for politics just to find out the behind the scenes of what they get to know that we don’t. spy secret kind of stuff

well yes of course!!
Just thought of someone, Ron Schara.

#1 Jesus Christ
#2 Jesus Christ
#3 Jesus Christ

you get the idea…

Lots of good ones! I’ve always thought Eisenhower pre-Operation Overlord would be an interesting conversation.

I can’t fathom taking responsibility for an operation of that magnitude with such high stakes.

Aldo leopold for sure.

Reading this thread, with a few exceptions one might think the only interesting people in history were white dudes. Only women on this list so far are cleopatra and playboy bunnies?

I’ll go Harriet Tubman.

HANDS DOWN MY FATHER AND MOTHER!!
Sorry, that was my first and fore most response, I did not read the exclusion, I just acted upon impulse.

But with that said I still stand by my post!

JH, Mozart of the prairie.

DTW wrote:

#1 Jesus Christ
#2 Jesus Christ
#3 Jesus Christ

you get the idea…

Wouldn’t have guessed fictional characters were allowed. In that case, I’ll take Bugs Bunny.. or maybe the local guy, Charlie Brown

Kit Carson
Marilyn Monroe (why wouldn’t ya?)