You get one 10 minute phone call with any person alive or dead – from the past, present or future, who are you picking ?

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You get one 10 minute phone call with any person alive or dead – from the past, present or future, who are you picking ?

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  1. Charliewhite21 Avatar

    Imma talk to Hitler

  2. Massive-Caregiver-42 Avatar

    i would call einstein and explain him about his stuff before him.

  3. Dangerous-Pause-2166 Avatar

    The President of the United States in 2100 and just ask him a shit ton of political and economic questions, should fill you in on what to invest in.

  4. Life-Bedroom-8886 Avatar

    Definitely someone alive.

    Dead folk aren’t very attentive or talkative.

  5. freeadvicegiven Avatar

    I’d say my grandpa but he’d try to hang up after 2 minutes because he doesn’t want to pay long distance rates, so I guess my great great great great great great grandkids to see if Trump is still president.

  6. Free-Attention-9055 Avatar

    My Dda. Maybe one of three late mentors.

  7. ThrowRA_Lion959 Avatar

    My dad,

    My last words to him weren’t ideal, I was a kid but still

  8. ExtraRiaa Avatar

    Definitely Nikola Tesla. I’d just ask how pissed he is about Elon Musk stealing his name

  9. dirt_shitters Avatar

    Can I call myself in the past to try to get them to make changes that would make my present less of a shitshow?

  10. SparkShotRebel Avatar

    Jonbenet to ask her who did it

  11. astrannova Avatar

    My future self—10 minutes to get it right before I mess everything up

  12. Any_Assumption_2023 Avatar

    I’d love to talk to my late husband again. I miss him so much. 

  13. darwinDMG08 Avatar

    Al Gore in 2000.

    “Do not. Accept. The results.”

  14. devllen05 Avatar

    My dad. Never really got to say goodbye.

  15. Classic_Job3173 Avatar

    my grandma from 20 years ago before her mind started slipping and before she died. i would tell her how much i love her and how much i truly appreciated my childhood for all she did for me so i can make sure she really knew i enjoyed every second.

  16. captncrunchhoe Avatar

    My mom! It’s been 16 years and I miss her everyday

  17. skinnyl0vexx Avatar

    My nana. I’d do just about anything to hear her laugh about the silly stuff my kid is doing, some cutting remark about what a shithead my mom is and have her end the call with ‘well alright kiddo, I gotta go – love you ok’ just like everytime before.

  18. RevolutionaryBee5207 Avatar

    John F. Kennedy. I’d like to know if he knows who ordered his execution, and also if he would have expanded the Vietnam War if he had lived.

  19. GiveUp-WatchItBurn Avatar

    My local Chinese food restaurant. I can’t keep them on the phone long enough to finish ordering. The extra time on the call would relieve the stress of trying to order an egg role in the same breath as the meal.

  20. blissfulheadgames Avatar

    I’d say my mom. She passed in 2018. That being said, part of me knows it would always be my dad that I would want to talk to the most. Luckily, he’s still around. I know future me is going to miss him terribly. He’s my rock and best friend and the person I love the most on this planet.

  21. HurricaneStorm Avatar

    My daughter. I would want to call her when she’s old on her death bed to tell her not to be afraid and everything will be okay, so she gets to be with her mom one last time.

  22. Risheil Avatar

    I don’t want to talk to anybody. They can text me.

  23. Bubblegumprincexx Avatar

    leonardo da vinci

  24. CommercialTap8457 Avatar

    My dad and Jesus. People living? Trump and Elon musk

  25. audronomyte Avatar

    My husband who is having a mental health crisis in jail rn

  26. Fuzzy-Kale-6452 Avatar

    I’d choose my mom. I’d use those 10 minutes to tell her it’s okay to let go, that we understand she’s in pain, and that we’ll be alright. I just want her to have peace

  27. sausageslinger11 Avatar

    My dad. He passed away two years ago, and I’d give anything to hear his voice again.

  28. Cipher0218 Avatar
  29. permanently_bored Avatar

    My grandma. I want to tell her I grew up to be the person she taught me to be.

  30. whiskeyriver0987 Avatar

    That one guys dead wife.

  31. sun_light_samurai Avatar

    I’d call my future self 10 years from now to ask for advice or tips

  32. mirana20 Avatar

    Jesus probably, I’d just listen

  33. epicredditdude1 Avatar

    DB Cooper.

    I wanna find out wtf happened after he jumped out of that plane.

  34. boostabubba Avatar

    If it was only the past it would be to call my dad. If the future of course I’m calling myself to get stock advice.

  35. curlyquinn02 Avatar

    David Lynch. I need insight into season three of Twin Peaks. The ending felt like a drug induced fever dream. Probably won’t get it, but I’d still love to hear him share any of his thoughts on anything.

  36. SaintSean128 Avatar

    Alexander Graham Bell. I’d greet him with a cheerful, “Ahoy!”

  37. Training-Designer-67 Avatar

    Calling myself in 1976 to change some things

  38. CrazyDaimondDaze Avatar

    Dad. I still remember his voice a whole decade later, even if I feel it’s just my imagination filling the void.

  39. APrettyBadDM Avatar

    i’m calling my dad and letting him know i’m okay.

  40. eirpguy Avatar

    Grandfather, died battle of Normandy WWII

  41. Cesa-BUTTERFLY12 Avatar

    My dad’s biological father. No one can confirm who he is and I want to know the basics of our family tree

  42. Sufficient_Video97 Avatar

    My grandma. She passed while I was pregnant with my daughter. The only child I could have due to ovarian cancer. Her death/stress from it sent me into premature labor, and my daughter was born at 34 1/2 weeks.
    I would have given anything for her to have met her. 14 years later, and it still brings me to tears instantly thinking about it.

  43. witch51 Avatar

    I would love to talk to my husband again. Just so he knows I’m okay. I can live without his opinion of my upcoming move though as he would not be a fan lol!

  44. Downtown_Wrap_3564 Avatar

    My papa who passed away earlier this year

  45. FlatCommunication236 Avatar

    Jesus .I want the real story

  46. ConflatedPortmanteau Avatar

    Alexander Graham Bell, an hour before he invents the telephone.

    I’m going to blow his fucking mind.

  47. NeededMonster Avatar

    I call a friend a week from now and ask them to give me lottery numbers.

  48. Electronic_Outside25 Avatar

    My dad. He died from Covid. He has his first grandson on the way and I know he’d be stoked

  49. ALighterShadeOfPale Avatar

    My Nona. There is so much I wish I said to her, or learned from her. I miss her so much

    Her cooking was magical and there is a soup in particular that I would love to know how she made. But whenever she was making it, I’d sit at the kitchen counter and talk to her, not paying attention to what she was doing. I was too into chatting with her.

    I regret not just walking over and making it with her.

  50. kurganator3000 Avatar

    I’d talk to Nicole Simpson. I’d ask her if he really did it.

  51. HawkeyeJosh2 Avatar

    Alexander Graham Bell, just to freak him the fuck out.

  52. SpaceCadet6666 Avatar

    My cousin who committed suicide

  53. NorthwestSmith Avatar

    My dad’s father. He passed when I was very young. I have a few memories of him however I did not know him. It would be nice to speak with him if only briefly.

  54. InkedLeo Avatar

    My grandma. She’s missed so much.

  55. Objective-Formal-853 Avatar

    My dad. He passed away in 2015.

  56. Button1891 Avatar

    My mum passed when I was 10 maybe one of my parents could tell me they’re proud of me

  57. Laelawright Avatar

    My mom. She passed 3 months ago. I have intense dreams of her and I would love to know what she wants to tell me. I would also like to tell her that she was my North Star. I miss you, mama.

  58. U_canonlywish117 Avatar

    My mom!!! I miss her so much. Just to hear her voice again 💕

  59. Blitz215 Avatar

    My grandmom before she had her stroke. I never got the chance to speak to her. Just smiles and hugs.

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  61. Yo_Alejo Avatar

    My dad. He always knew what to say.

  62. Rebelzx Avatar

    I’d pass, because if I got 10 mins to talk to her again, I’d be gone by morning because I can’t grieve her again

  63. sakura_gasaii Avatar

    My sister. She died in december, i was asshole to her and i just want to apologise and know that shes ok

  64. fabulousfrugalfemm Avatar

    Definitely my dad and i would record his voice. I have voicemails from him but I’d love to have a video of us chatting back and forth. He died suddenly and as the old saying goes – I thought I had more time 💙

  65. Face_with_a_View Avatar

    My dad (he died in 2017 and I didn’t get the chance to say all the things I wanted to say)

  66. zuklei Avatar

    I’m picking my mom because only in the last couple of years did I understand it was not her fault.

  67. rook330 Avatar

    Myself. In the past. Gonna drop some knowledge on younger me.

  68. reellifesmartass Avatar

    My papaw. He’s been dead since I was 8, and I know he’d be so proud of what myself and my cousins have grown up to be. I’d give anything for him to have a conversation with my kiddo. He’d be smitten.

    Who the hell cut the onions?

  69. out_day475 Avatar

    My mom. It’s been 26 years.

  70. HeightLatter6800 Avatar

    My mom…it’s been 10 months since she passed and I just want to say goodbye properly and tell her I love her one last time.

  71. Drewhues Avatar

    My mom. Miss you momma bear.

  72. DuckFlat Avatar

    Definitely my dad, just to bring him up to speed on how my siblings and I are doing in life, tell him about his grandkids that he never met, crack some jokes.

  73. kcpirana Avatar

    I was going to answer, but I started reading the comments instead. I think I would donate my call to everyone here missing their dad or another relative. I envy you your loving families. ❤️

  74. Sufficient_West_4947 Avatar

    Dad for sure. He’s been gone since mid 90s when I was in my 20s. He was amazing and my hero from my earliest memories. Kind, quirky, fun and funny with a huge laugh and smile. I can honestly say I miss him every single day.

  75. walkingthecows Avatar

    My best friend. He was killed in a car accident at 24. I’m glad he got to meet my wife who was my girlfriend at the time. I talk to him sometimes and wonder if he’d be proud of me.

  76. RoninIX Avatar

    Safe answer would be my brother, who was killed in a car accident at 10 years old.

    Risky answer is my biological father, who I know nothing about. It’s wild how many different directions that call could go.

  77. genxindifferance Avatar

    My mother. She died in 1978 at the ripe old age of 33 from cancer. I was 10. Watching her die in pain traumatized me on a level that I’m still not really over it.

  78. JestasPriestiii Avatar

    Myself, I would give myself info on Lottery numbers; and invest in bitcoin.

  79. harleyqueenzel Avatar

    My dad.

    When he passed in February, it was so bitter and so hurtful to have something so tragic happen and I couldn’t call or run to him to get through it.

    My dad. Fuck, I’d take a 2 second phone call just to say a proper good bye.

  80. HoweHaTrick Avatar

    Mom.

    She was taken from us when I was late 20’s living abroad. Cancer. She was sick and I showed her the engagement ring I bought for my now wife. I now have a house, 2 beautiful boys and I became a manager. I feel like she labored so much of her life for her kids and then just passed before she could see the fruits of her labor as a really good Mom.

  81. DLimber Avatar

    Well.. my wife of 16 years died on mother’s day so I’ll start there.

  82. teamregime Avatar

    My mom who died when I was 5

  83. -physco219 Avatar

    I feel like I would like to pick my dad. I would have loved for him to know his grandkids and to know what I have become. I also don’t pick my dad because 10 minutes wouldn’t be enough it would be so hard to say goodbye again. I think maybe I’ll just give someone else my 10 minutes. Who wants them. Just don’t even tell me I had 10 minutes take them and never tell me.

  84. DeadlyUnicorn1992 Avatar

    My dad lost him 3 weeks before the world went in to lock down.

  85. chuckverde Avatar

    My childhood friend. He was murdered just before we finished undergrad. He was funny, creative, loyal, and so smart. I’m giving my son his name.