Late Night Radio: The Dinner Party

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! If a genie popped out of his ole' lamp, and offered you a dinner party with five famous people in history, who would you pick?

I asked some friends yesterday as we sat around at their retirement home. “Don't worry, the meal would be catered. Jesus wouldn't judge your cooking.” Three of the ladies looked relieved.

My current guest list is Jesus, Johnny Cash, Mark Twain, Ben Franklin, and...Ozzy Osbourne. (I imagine him accidentally invoking the Lord's name, Jesus answering, and everyone getting confused. You know, good dinner party stuff.)

It's been a conversation starter in my family for years. It's been imaginary, something to picture.

Until now.

The talk at the retirement home yesterday was about Artificial Intelligence (AI). We pulled up the Elon Musk-owned Grok, and asked it to draw us pictures of these dinner parties (and other stuff).

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