I'd like to sit down with Richard Feynman and talk about rhythm. He was a brilliant Nobel-prize winning physicist and scientist, but he was also an avid bongo player. Because of the way he viewed the patterns of the universe, I would love to sit down and play some percussion instruments with him for a while, and talk about patterns, rhythm, polyrhythms, tone, and music.

I expect he would have funny, insightful, and interesting things to say on the topic, and hearing his mind work on an explanation would be almost as fascinating as the scientific findings he made!

I would also like to have a long and rambling discussion over wine with Angela Merkel. Germany is the engine that makes the EU work, especially now that Britain is going down the tubes. She is arguably the world's most powerful woman. Her country has a very dark - and still very recent - history, that they are measured against every single day. She's got a doctorate in Chemistry. Her country is constantly under serious threats from all kinds of terrorists. She was born in West Germany, then she and her family moved to East Germany, then she was elected to public office the year after the Berlin Wall came down. She speaks Russian fluently. She's been running Germany for more than a decade, and is on track to eliminate fossil fuels, while also driving heavy adoption of alternative power, all in a country that heavily based on manufacturing.

I simply cannot think of someone more fascinating that I want to get slightly drunk and rambling with. What an incredible woman.