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and he had a bunch of computer stuff, and, you know, I bought it all. It was two hundred bucks for everything he had. You got a buy. Well, some of it wasn't worth anything, you know. Sure. You know, a lot of the, uh, diskettes were just totally unusable. Melted, or Just wet or, Well, yeah , or wet Okay. But I did get o...
Uh, and I had help with them. Uh, and part of them I did were like a buffet Uh-huh. and, uh, it, I had, uh, just different, uh, side dishes and appetizers and one of them that, that I'd remembered was, uh, some, uh, sausage hors d'oeuvres and, uh, anyhow, uh, you take, uh, a couple of, uh, cups of Bisquick and, uh, sau...
Yeah. It's making me hungry for them right now. Yeah. You know, I've made like little Swedish meatballs, but they're just made out of the beef, you know. And, uh, with spices and things in them. But never anything mixed with Bisquick. Have you? Yeah. Uh-huh. I, I've used that quite a bit and it, and it seems to work re...
and then I just sliced them. You know, and had macaroni salad with, uh, shrimp in it. Uh-huh. Have you ever had that? No. What, Put some fresh, little fresh shrimp and it's, in your macaroni salad that you make. Uh-huh. The shrimp just gives it a really good flavor. Oh, I'll bet. Yeah, I don't like the can, but the fre...
right. But, uh, at, uh, Christmas time we just have a regular sit down dinner, you know. Which is kind of hard because you got so many people Uh-huh. and then by time you pass everything around, it seems like everything on your plate's cold. I know. I know So, Well, But anyhow, I, Thank God for microwaves, you know. Ye...
and I have my family. Right, well I don't anymore. it's been a few years and, and, uh, I don't have, you know, over a couple either and and, uh, I try to, uh, have everything all ready Uh-huh. and, and it, it just makes it a lot nicer where a don't spend all my time in the kitchen. Yeah, right. And, uh, Spaghetti Right...
I don't think I've ever met anyone that didn't. No, everybody likes that. Yeah. And, then, uh, if you have a nice big roast that you can throw in the oven, then you can put your potatoes and carrots or whatever else all in there, you know. Especially if a pork roast. Oh, yeah. That's what I love, with my I like it, too...
I want something that I can just take them and serve them while they're sitting in front of the T V. Yeah. You know, so, I'll think of something, just that we can munch on over there, you know. Yeah. And they can just fill their plate up at intermission and then go back over there and sit down. And that's the way to do...
Hey, listen, if I had my way, I wouldn't pay my taxes. Not with the, not with some of the things that I hear that our tax money is going for some ludicrous things. Yeah, did you see SIXTY MINUTES last night? No, I did not. I, Well, they did a thing on the thirty-five billion dollars we waste every year just on storing ...
and and I don't think generally, I think what's interesting is that we probably represent the majority of people in this country in terms of their feelings about the government Absolutely. and how it serves us given the extraordinarily large sum of money the government has to operate with. I believe that's true, yes. A...
Absolutely. Eighty percent of the public, according to Bill Moyers', uh, recent, uh, piece for, uh, Public Broadcasting, which, by the way is a very good use of government money. I think P B S is wonderful. But this special focused on the fact that eighty percent of the people in this country are, are seeing their real...
yeah You know, and it's really interesting to see how that affects people because essentially more and more people in this country are not likely to revolt in the way that people used to think of, of the voter revolting. But people are pretty much getting the picture that some people get taken care of and others don't ...
Yes, I understand that, but hopefully that the people that are listening to what our comments are take some action on it. Well, that's the good thing about what is happening because I think more and more the news media, which takes a heck of a beating and, and deserves some of it, is telling us, you know, about the pro...
Oh. Right. You know, that's what I really. Yeah, I think that's, that's the only thing I wrote down also, because that's just a, it's terrible today, I mean, my wife and I, seems like we get home at five thirty and the damn phone starts ringing and rings up until ten, eleven o'clock sometimes. Never stops ringing, righ...
But, you know, people, it's like your name must be on a list or something, because I know at my office, I get calls, I mean, I must get at least, I probably average at least a call a day, and a lot of days I'll get two and three calls, from from people selling insurance you know, to the small business man Um, even in a...
I know. Yes. you know, I, that's also an invasion of privacy. I think it the whole thing is, uh, American Express does that, by the way. Oh, they do? Yeah, I understand they sell it, you know, they sell names because it's quite profitable to them. Well, sure it is. And that is an invasion of privacy, you're right. Tha...
That's right. But, it's, uh, you know, I guess, it, uh, you have to be a certain income holder to, uh, have an American Express card, so your name is valuable to, I guess, X amount of solicitors calling. Yeah, that's right. So, I don't know. What, what do you, where are you from? Oh, I'm from Texas. Oh, okay, well so, ...
and, um, Yeah, I got, I've talked to people in Utah, people in New York Oh, really. and a lot of times I'll call eight or nine o'clock in the morning and I'll get people you know, from out of the, uh, out of the state. Oh. Yeah, see, well that's, uh, the, there was another call on Saturday, Saturday that was also from,...
My wife's from New Jersey. Oh, really, what part? Yeah, from, uh, Saddle River. Oh, that's nice over there. She, Yeah, we're from more, uh, from sort of towards the shore, central New Jersey, you know, Okay. we're like, uh, Well, that's nice, too. Yeah, oh yeah, it was beautiful, that's why I, I really miss it. I, I d...
so she's been away for quite a while. Uh-huh. Her dad was from Little Rock, Arkansas, and her mother was from New York, so they just they over there in New Jersey. Yeah, so they, Yeah Uh, and anyway, this topic is, is a good topic, as far as invasion of your privacy, but that's the, the biggest one I can think of is ju...
I might start using the answering machine more, because it's so hard to not pick up that phone when it rings. Oh, it's great, I mean. Well, you know, in fact, I've been missing calls from the T I switchboard, because I, I always have it on you know, Right. and I'll get that, that message that says, uh, to, uh, um, you ...
and, and, you know, the policeman's associations. I know, they call you one time to send three kids to the carnival or circus Oh, I used to do that. and, Yeah, I used to do that, I'd send, or three kids to the movies or something Right. There's always a and I, my, my pat answer now is, well, you just called me the othe...
One I guess I'd say is with my wife where we enjoy, uh oh, I guess we usually enjoy a good seafood restaurant. Oh. Uh, you know, something nice. Yeah. And the other is with my whole family whom we, uh, go somewhere that the kids will enjoy Uh, recently we have been hitting Pancho's up. It's a local Mexican restaurant. ...
but it's just, it closed recently. But Chi Chi's is a national restaurant, I think. Isn't it Mexican? I think, think it might be. Do you have it there? I've I think I've seen it around. Yes, sir. Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, I love Mexican food myself. Oh, do you? Yeah. But you go ahead now Oh, we, we do too. We, uh, we enjoy ...
Uh, and, uh, let's see. We've, uh, just recently discovered a super restaurant down here but it's, uh, not part of a chain it's just an individually owned seafood restaurant. But the first one we've been to that, uh, I don't think there was anything on the menu, that, that any of us had that was, uh, not just really su...
Uh-huh. Where did you go to college? Uh, I went to the Naval Academy. Oh, the U S , Naval Academy? And we used to, we use to go up there on, uh, for football games sometimes. And have some liberty. Uh-huh. And, yeah, we would go over there to, uh, pretty sure it was original, Original Book Binders I think it was, yes...
Is that right? Did you have any dealings with the, uh, underwater sound reference laboratory in Orlando, Florida? I have dealt with nearly all of the, all of the research laboratories that the country has. Yes, sir. My dad worked there for years, and years. Uh-huh. That's that's, uh, that's where I grew up was down in ...
Yeah. So, I hate to, uh, I wish I could talk to you about that, uh, but, uh, I guess we should continue on, uh, Okay. Okay. Right. Where's, How do you like Chinese food? Oh, we, we do enjoy that. Yes, sir. Uh, I don't know if we are particularly adventurous, we find something we like, uh, like cashew shrimp or somethin...
Yep, uh, it's, uh, I, I do a lot of Chinese cooking myself. I have in the past. I haven't done recently, but, uh, it's in the sweet and sour porks and things like are just really delicious meals. Um. Where did you learn how to do Chinese cooking? Uh, just at home. Uh-huh. I, I enjoyed the food and I bought a lot of, uh...
Yeah, right. But we enjoy trying, uh, different kinds of chicken or, uh, you know, even, uh, shrimp, uh, dishes that are fixed in a Chinese restaurant. One of this book I have is called CHINESE COOKING MADE EASY. Uh, it's a paperback and I think it's by someone named Chang. Yeah, Isabelle Chang. Okay, thanks for that, ...
What do you think are possible changes in the, uh, way trials are conducted these days? Do you like the way some people in there for instance, really take over and, uh, we have no way, uh, of knowing whether they are legitimately right or wrong and so forth. Yeah. What do you think about these things? Well, as I look a...
That's okay too. As long as it's not used to delay the trial so much. They need to have a fair jury but they only you know, would cover forty-nine percent of the decision or fifty percent and then the two judges would go ahead and make the final decision. Well, I hadn't, uh, thought of it from that point of view before...
I just had a thought come as you were talking. What if they used law students and had that be credit hours to sit in trials? That would be certainly nice let's say we, we would have fifty percent of them law students, anyway . Yeah. Yeah, at least. At least, on the jury. Yeah. And that would give them, experience ...
Huh. and what happened was her husband was, uh, involved in a motorcycle accident where a drunk driver ran the stoplight and he ran into the motorcycle. Huh. But the reason, the actual reason that the motorcycle person, her husband, was killed was because his brakes went out on his motorcycle. He was just taking it hom...
They would find something wrong with it. Until finally they won and, said that it was the drunk driver's fault Did they really? Uh-huh. but I just felt like justice wasn't served because they had the money, the big lawyers, and she didn't, That is a shame. You'd think there would be enough, uh, people who saw the acci...
well, we call it the S P C A. It's the, uh, from an animal shelter. Uh-huh. Uh, he'd come in there as a stray. All right. Uh, he's a Pomeranian and Sheltie cross. Yeah. Uh, well, he was very well trained when we got him. Uh, he's, Oh, that's good. You don't often find that, I don't think. No, uh, we suspect that he was...
that's interesting. Yeah, the only pet that I've had, uh, I'm a, I'm a doctoral student right now Uh-huh. and in my, in my earlier days as a student I kind of time shared on a dog with a, a good friend of mine and, uh, it was an amazing dog, it really was. They had, he had gotten it from the pound and, uh, it, it's a S...
Yeah, it's, uh, she's been a real good, a real good dog and, uh, just, it's kind of a shame that I'm, I'm I'm away from it now. I, I I actually live in Florida Uh-huh but I'm on an internship up here for a year and then I go back down, but, uh, yeah, Domino's a real good dog. Yeah. Uh, what, uh, possessed you to get th...
Uh, Sure learn a bit, learn a little bit of discipline and how to care for it and things like that. Yeah, right. That's good. That kind of builds some character a little bit. So , Well, that's the idea. I think the reality of it is, that they perhaps, uh, it depends on the, on everyone's discipline. Uh-huh. And, uh, fr...
Uh, or, Actually no, we live in a, in an area that's, oh, probably about two and a half miles from the university. Oh, I see. Uh, we live right, might say we live right in, uh, in the middle of a residential area. Um. And, uh, so that is not as good, uh, you know, this dog, being a small dog it's, uh, more you, more ac...
so that was the biggest problem I saw, and I think that's one of the, uh, the issues people need to think about before they get a dog is, you know, do you have the room for this dog to run around, or, you know, I guess you can't really say for cats. Me and cats don't get along too well, uh but, you know, that whole spa...
Uh-huh. and, you know, we we had a neighbor in Nebraska when we lived there that had, uh, Brittany Spaniels and they're very high strung animals to begin with, but, uh, Okay. How do you get your news mostly? Generally, I get most of my news from, uh, the radio. And then sometimes, uh, if I've got time, I'll be reading ...
Uh-huh. But, uh, and then when five o'clock comes around I just want to get in the house and turn the T V on to watch the news. Um. It's really weird. Uh, I don't stay up late to watch late news because my eyes won't stay up that long. But, uh, I love to watch the five o'clock news and I, makes me angry when my paper b...
Sure. Just a minute. answers the other Hello sir comes back to speaker Yes. Yes, I'm sorry to keep you waiting Okay Uh, I was calling from work so and that was a call waiting. Right. it sounds like you, uh, like the news a lot more than I do. Me, I figure if it's something really important, somebody will tell me about ...
Uh-huh, uh-huh. I, uh, but, you know, I, I wish I had, uh, more news on things like, that I consider long range. Things like science and medicine Uh-huh. uh, I'm more, I guess I'm more into science and science fiction and, uh, there's, you know, not that the news is science fiction, but, uh, uh, I'm more interested in ...
Although they're usually wrong Yeah, Georgia here, they're usually wrong too. We have weird weather systems. Uh-huh. But, uh, like I say, as far as, as actually listening to the news, it's mostly T V, five o'clock to six thirty. Uh, that seems like a long time for news but that's how long it is. Yeah. And, uh, seems li...
Yeah, right. Once you get to work, I wouldn't either, huh-uh. No But I've always been a morning person to get up, you know. Uh-huh. but I can't stay up late at night to watch the late news so I guess that's why I watch it at five o'clock Yeah. But anyhow. Well, listen, I guess that's about it then. Okay. It's been nice...
So, you never know, it might this time. That's right. Okay, Tony. Take it easy. Uh-huh. Bye-bye. Bye-bye All rightie. Okay. Do you have a budget that you go on? Yeah. I sure do. Uh, I have, it's pretty much a ledger sheet and I just write down all my bills, how much I'm going to have to pay and I do it per paycheck for...
And it tends to work out pretty well that way. I can anticipate, you know, a little better. I usually try to guesstimate and then when the bill actually comes in, I go ahead and fill in the actual amount. Uh-huh, uh-huh. That way I know how much pocket change I'm going to have left at the end of the month or at the en...
and then that's what we use to buy the groceries with. Oh, okay. And then we put our receipts in there, you know, and usually that's enough. Uh-huh. And, uh, but I don't have any, you know, small children to have anything extra come up, you know, like, uh, running to the doctor or something like that with them. Right. ...
Yeah. Sometimes it can be. I guess the worst thing I've ever had come out is like car maintenance kinds of things. Uh-huh. But I do try to build in a little extra money each month to, to be able to do that type of thing so. Yeah, uh, I'm not working right now. I worked for P I E and then, uh, they went bankrupt so I ju...
so. Yeah. So, you know, I really have to try to budget, that I don't go over that amount, you know, each month. Right. I, for, for years got paid once a month and, and in ways I liked it because I could go ahead and pay all my bills at once. Uh-huh. There's always one or two stragglers that usually they were, for me it...
and so, Oh, yeah. Right now it's terrible isn't it? It's, yeah, it's really bad. Yeah. But, uh, it's going pretty well and I've got a real good plan mapped out here, so. Uh-huh. I also like long-term Christmas club you know. I used to belong to a Christmas club, last year I didn't. Uh-huh. Then, so then, naturally, Chr...
That'll, yeah, Yeah, right, you know. That'll be good, yeah most people are spending three or four months you know, at least, digging out after Christmas so. Right, right. And I'm Yeah, I, I was pretty fortunate this Christmas I didn't get in debt, so. Oh, that's good. I'm taking like, uh, sewing lessons to try to lear...
It's so rare you hear anybody doing that any longer I know. I even bought myself a Surgery , you know, and I just love it. I haven't learned everything to do on it yet but I figure that will help me save you know. Yeah. My, uh, roommate does sew some and, and, uh, she hasn't sewed anything in a long time but I, I'm sur...
But that's a real good way to save money, though by doing that. Yeah, and then I can also, you know, do some crafts and sell those at garage sales. Uh-huh, uh-huh. So, which I've been doing. Well, that's a good way to, to make a little extra money. Uh-huh. Well, this is another way that I'm making a little extra money ...
you beat me to the punch, here Oh, well, that, that's nice you know. I, I was about to call to get, to see if I could get on with somebody, so Uh-huh. so that was great. Yeah. Well I guess that's about all I can talk to about budgets. When I was working, I, uh, bought a bond a month out of my, you know, they automatica...
And that's what would influence my decision to change because I like a really sporty car. And I'd love an expensive one but I probably, can never afford it so Uh, well I understand and can sympathize with that because I also enjoy driving performance automobiles. Uh, I currently have an eighty-seven, five liter Mustan...
Go out and lust after it. Really Exactly. But it sure is a pretty thing So have you had the opportunity to drive a Ferrari? No. I'm working on it No, I really haven't, no, huh-uh I did test drive a Corvette last year. Maybe the year before. It was brand new, white, it was like a big marshmallow. When you sat in the se...
and that was really fun. And I wanted it, but I had a choice of that or my house and I thought that I'd continue, to live in my house so. Yeah, there, there's something about having a place to live, I don't know. Yeah, you know, it's just necessary. And I did, I thought well a tent wouldn't be bad but probably not pra...
Really. It's not like driving a, a Winnebago or something. Oh, no No, no. See, I'm not into station wagons and vans and things that people are really buying now and they go isn't that a nice van and I go, um. Not really, you know. How about a Greyhound bus Nice. Yeah. Nice isn't the word I'd choose. Maybe practical. Y...
the new type is prettier than what their, they used to look like but I sure don't think it's attractive, you know. It's not like, like driving a little sports car. Yeah. It, it's very hard to find something practical that's also attractive. Yeah. I don't think that happens so, but I, I love mine, so, and I, I bought it...
Yeah. And I've had it, it's almost three years actually. And I've, I still love it. I put the top down everywhere I go. I timed it when I first got it and it took twenty I mean twenty seconds and so, I figured there was nowhere I was to late to go that I didn't have twenty more seconds. Right. So. And, and you couldn't...
So you won't get, Yeah and twenty seconds you probably won't get caught in anything too substantial. Well I did, actually. Last week going to the airport, I just hit a downpour and I was on a highway going like eighty. So I really did. I mean I was soaking wet. I thought I would drown in the seconds that it took me to ...
and wasn't it pretty last week with the Bluebonnets and everything, yeah, yeah. With the Bluebonnets out, yeah. It really was. Yeah I decided that Austin is certainly someplace that I could handle living. is Yeah. A lot of people say that and it's pretty far from where I live I'm ready if you are. Okay. Um, where do yo...
Uh, he's read books about guns since he was like probably eleven or twelve years old. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And I just think that, uh, as far as that's concerned, he should be able to have them to go hunting with, you know. As far as just having handguns around to, to have them, I don't believe that you should have handguns...
right, I mean, yeah, that, that's true. And I mean the, the technology's not that hard. I mean, you could make a gun, you know, from simple, you know, you know. Yeah, well I suppose you could. Uh, You know, if, if you really wanted a gun, you, you could make one. Uh, Uh-huh. And I think if they want one, they're going ...
it's, yeah, I mean, yeah there's, there's no way to stop, uh, stop anybody from getting a gun. Uh, I think there should be more control as, like, uh, like maybe waiting periods and things like that, you know, uh, Well I agree with you on that because I know, uh, in fact I had bought my son a rifle like for a Christmas ...
Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh, I, I know my friend is, uh, really into guns and, uh, uh, I went a couple of times with him to gun shows, you know, that come through town and everything Uh-huh. and, I mean, they just have, I mean they have anything you'd want, I mean Uh-huh. you know, you know, anywhere from rifles and semiautomati...
Well, except for the, the pistols and I'm not sure how they do that. I know they, Yeah, I was just curious, you know, because, uh Uh-huh. I know at, at the regular gun show, you know, gun shop that you, that you do have to wait for pistols, like a couple of weeks Uh-huh. Right. and then they check you out, then they c...
But, I'm not sure, I'm not really sure but, what uh, the gun laws in Pennsylvania are like. Uh-huh. Now we don't have guns because we don't go hunting or anything like that. No. Uh-huh. But like I say, my son, he's, he's always had a, like, I think his first little rifle that we got him was like he twelve or thirteen y...
But, uh I don't know. Yeah. I think they should try to control it and everything, you know. But as far as just banning it completely, there, that's not going to happen. I don't, yeah, I, I don't think it can happen either. Uh-huh. I just don't, I don't see, and, then, I, I think, uh, hadn't thought about this before b...
Yeah. or, you know. Yeah, yeah, you know, that's, that's true. Uh, you know, I, I had a friend who was a, uh, a policeman in a, in a local borough just a small, uh, one of the little neighborhoods, you know, one of the small towns, uh near Pittsburgh. Uh-huh. And, uh, she said that, that, uh, you know, he used to alway...
Uh, although lately I've been, uh, a friend of mine that I spend a lot of time with does recycle quite a bit and it's, it's, it's, uh, interesting to watch some of the things that she does and then she's almost had an impact on me, uh, where she doesn't say anything to me when she comes to my house but I can kind of te...
Oh. Right. Over here, they, uh, have several private companies that you can take, uh, recycled, materials to. But, uh, if you want to take them all to one place, they have, uh, the first Saturday of every month, they have certain places that you can drop them off. That's what I do. Uh, and I, I recycle aluminum, glass,...
I don't know, it just doesn't make sense to me. Right. I guess what they, what they were talking about here was, uh, was reducing the garbage collection in order to make that up or something, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so I guess that's one option. Yeah. That's good, that's good. I guess one thing they're working on now...
Yeah. So now they're like marking, uh, they're, I don't know, there's six, seven, eight different kind of plastics and they, they mark on the bottom what kind it is. Yeah. So I guess that makes it easy to recycle and then they're, they're, uh, trying to make plastic goods that don't have a bunch of different plastics i...
and I'm not sure where, what she does. But she's, uh, oh she's very heavy in that and she takes her own bags to the grocery store Uh-huh. Uh, she has, I, I really don't think she has any paper products in her house. Yeah. Uh, and just a lot of things I've learned off of her that, to start doing. And she does make a lot...
Uh-huh. They had one, uh, on that kind of, type of thing and how children can, can do that and how to save water when you brush your teeth in water and it's really caught on and he's only four and he's really caught on. Uh-huh. Wow, that's cute. That's neat, yeah. When you, And keep the refrigerator door closed and tha...
I couldn't hear you? I said, how are you doing? I'm doing fine. I'm, uh, just editing a spreadsheet right now. I'm trying to figure out how I can retire without having to work until I'm ninety-five. Yeah. We've been doing that too We're trying to retire in our fifties. Yeah. This is a very appropriate topic for our, uh...
Yeah. What? Yes, you do. Well, I work for D I S D and I don't know what your talking about when you say health insurance, but Dallas doesn't pay. It pays most of mine, you know, now, after you work I think five years, they begin to pay most of it. But then, for the, the family, you know, I put my kids on my policy. It'...
They could go visit them during the day. What? Yeah that's uh, something I hadn't really thought about because we don't have children. But, I can see how it would be a a real benefit. Yes I do. Well, we keep a shelter, also monies that we're going to pay in for child care too. You know, go on and pay a lump sum and as ...
I don't know what it's about . You can, uh, well you, let's see, it, it shelters you're money that you pay for, for insurance. It takes it out of your salary before taxes. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah we got that. Okay. Pretax insurance? Yeah. Yeah. But we call it the cafeteria plan, I wonder why. Um? I said, I wonder why. Oh,...
He was probably in the cafeteria when he thought of it Maybe so. Let's see what else can we do? Changes, I'll tell you what we could do. What? We could prohibit people from being hired that are historically going to cost the company money. You know, do a little bit better research on who gets hired Uh-huh. Because you ...
Oh. We're both school teachers. Oh, I'm, I'm, But it's hard to get rid of a teacher if they're not good. I know. It's almost impossible. Well, there's two schools of thought on that. You know, I, I'm looking at trying to get into a university job position as a a professor Huh-uh. I got about eight years of education ah...
Well, they did away with tenure in teaching along time ago, you know, in the public schools. But in addition. It makes you more at ease. You know, you knew you weren't going to lose your job unless you really did something horrendous. Well, they, they really can't fire you without cause, you know the governments taken ...
Yeah. You know, I went to college late on in life and I realize that hey, it's nothing but four years of endurance and you might be teachable, you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, my agree is absolutely worthless. *listen; agree is probably degree It's my experience and, and my knowledge that, that is beneficial, but th...
Well, see, we've got a little bit of it, but not much. It would be nice if you had full insurance coverage if you were doing job sharing. What else. I'd like to be able to, to evaluate your boss and it really carry some weight, and you get to choose your boss. Well, yeah. Supervisor evaluations have always been a tough...
You know, it's, it's hard for me to, you know, especially since I'm in marketing sales, you know, I make more than my boss. Because he's salary and I'm not. I make as much as I earn. You know, if I don't make a sale, I don't make anything Huh-uh. Yeah. Well it's tough, but, uh, you know, there are requirements, and quo...
and I usually, when I hear about a movie that's supposed to be very good even if it's in a genre I don't like, Uh-huh. I figure, well, I should go see it, because if this is, you know, the best of the genre and I should know about it, or something like that Yeah, right, uh-huh. and I usually come away thinking, no I re...
Yeah, uh-huh. it's a classic slapstick situation with these bungling burglars trying to get in Right. and, you know, he did some clever things, but given the size of the house and how clever the kid was, it seems to me they could have done a lot more, I mean, you know, basically stepping on things and yelling in pain Y...
it's very cheap to make a slapstick movie. Yeah, it is, it is, and I guess you don't have to, but, you know, if you look at oh, have you ever seen any of the movies? Excuse me? The French movies that . No, not really, the last movie I saw I guess, uh, was, uh, uh, the one about the French, the Frenchman that leaves and...
I'm not with you so far, Oh, shoot, I'm going to hit myself after I hang up. I'll remember the name. But, uh, anyway, that was a French movie Uh-huh. it was, um, that was the last one I saw downtown, but I live in D C well, actually Falls Church, Virginia, outside the city Uh-huh. Uh-huh. and, uh, so a lot of times the...
there's something about the human character in it Oh, uh-huh. and that's what I find lacking in a lot of, you know, like HOME ALONE. There was a lot of the human character when he was home alone and he was trying Right. and there was a lot of human character there, but when it was, the real slapstick moments, him versu...
Excuse me? Did you take kids along? No, we went, uh, without the kids, it's was a night out, away from the children. Oh, I would have liked to have a kid with me, I think, preferably someone seven or eight just, just to get a sense for, you know, how, how it affected them. especially to come home Oh. and, you know, I w...
And your cousin's a kid, and that is, yeah, he's a little Uh-huh. yeah, he's, anyway, and that was just excessively violent. I was worried Yeah, isn't it amazing. it's like golly, if kids start imitating that they'll knock each others blocks off, Yeah. Yeah, it was all bloodless Uh-huh. and the good guys can get hit al...
Yeah. they don't, they don't, you know, get, uh, epileptics, that sort of thing from getting hit on their head Right. you know, it's a little disturbing the violence in these films, partly it's supposed to be a little bit more okay because it's comic book on the other hand it makes it seem like, Uh-huh. I read an artic...
Uh, on the one hand I'd like it to be a warning, on the other hand I wouldn't want people who currently get sort of enjoy their violence fixes from these movies to start thinking gee, now we want to see the aftermath all the time either. You're right, uh-huh, yeah, it's true. But yeah, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES was ...
and they built up, I remember feeling annoyed, again, I didn't have a kid with me, and I remember feeling annoyed that they had this whole thing about the Master and the passing of wisdom, the, from older to younger generation, it was, it was a classic Greek, you know, you know, a sort of, European mess going back thre...
and is reborn to the younger generation, and on and on and on, and all this wonderful mess Uh-huh. and it still would have been every bit as accessible a movie for the kids if they had included all this stuff that, I, anyway as an intellectual adult would appreciate, it wouldn't have hurt the movie to do that, and it w...