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and you can't, the American government you can't trust them either, because you think, you don't know how corrupt they are. I mean they keep people in power like the Shah of Iran and, things like that,
Uh-huh.
I mean, it's the lesser of two evils,
they will probably say this is the lesser of two evils.
Yeah.
But I don'... |
And he is a former president of Guatemala.
He's an elder at virgo church
and, you know that, that God is doing something
and he is raising up some leaders
and the people want him back as president bad,
but they have a rule in Guatemala that he can't have another term
and so the, the people are trying to override that, ... |
It is having a good moral background.
And it's funny you mention Costa Rica, because they are just, they are one of the most successful and peaceful countries, in Central America.
Uh-huh,
yeah.
So, I was reading an article in the, uh, National Geographic
and, I don't know,
I don't think they have any more money than an... |
take the job.
No
they don't take any.
I mean I couldn't even go there.
My husband had to receive all this special permission to go,
so even with, uh, you know, in, uh, inner company, you know, transfer, or something,
and I have another friend in, uh, Costa Rica that,
she was born there.
She's Costa Rican.
I guess I do ... |
We need to, if we feel like we need to give them money then give it to them,
but quit loaning all the money out.
Which I don't think we are loaning anymore now,
but that's how we got into a problem.
If we got, the,
we have, we went in the hole by us loaning them all of these billions of dollars.
That's common sense,
yo... |
but you don't go making billions of dollars of loans in, to people that you can just look at the situation,
They know they're not going to pay it back.
Yeah,
and know that they are going to be capable of paying us back,
and that puts a bondage on them.
It makes, you know, pressure on the nation, and on the people, and ... |
God really protected them.
See that broke out a revival in Mexico City. That C B S news and A B C never told you about.
There's been a real revival in Mexico City since that earthquake, because there's a lot of, you know there's a lot of sin in those nations and a lot, lots of witchcraft, a lot of witchcraft. A whole l... |
I don't think so.
The little box is black on the top of the pyramid in the sun.
It's black,
so
yeah,
you can't really tell,
but it was kind of weird, you know,
you think, wow there is where they did sacrifices to false Gods.
Do you get spooked, you feel,
or do you get butterflies in your stomach when you go there?
Beca... |
Well do you have a family budget?
No,
we probably should,
but we haven't.
So why don't you explain to me some good tips about what you've done, which you've found useful and workable.
Okay.
We do a few things,
and I have to say we're, my husband and I are both from financial backgrounds.
I, I'm an accountant.
Uh-huh.
A... |
Uh-huh.
And, uh, excuse me, if, uh, it comes the end of the month and I don't have any money, uh, we don't buy any more milk
Uh-huh
But, uh, we've gotten pretty good at it,
we've been doing it a couple of years now.
Uh-huh.
So, we, our budgets are realistic
and they are not so stringent and, you know to make us feel un... |
In the past we didn't have that problem
but right now we don't.
For the other things, the things that crop up, that we aren't really expecting, we have different funds set aside for different things.
Like we have a car fund
and we put a certain amount of money into that every single month whether we need to or not.
Oh.... |
So, but, we have the money set aside,
so if it does it's not going to kill us.
Hm.
Uh, so we're, we're actually, we're pretty disciplined,
so it makes those surprises not so difficult to get through.
Okay,
then, so like your pay, what kind of a percentage do you basically keep out that you think that, you know, will co... |
Oh.
We're starting our kids a little bit early.
Okay.
Do you, uh, use a lot of credit cards or your checking account when you go out and buy things?
Checking account a lot, uh, not so much credit cards.
Sure.
and so pretty much now, uh, we don't use them too much.
If we travel or something, yeah. But, you know. Standar... |
Yeah,
well, I've never been in the situation of itemizing anyhow.
But, uh, pretty much when I always, I go to the grocery store or something I just always write checks.
Yeah.
We did, we did that for a long time
and it got to the point where we had no idea how much we were spending on things.
Hm.
And it seemed like we d... |
Uh-huh.
It's not as though we feel like we have to keep ourselves, you know, down to the dollar or the penny in certain categories kind of thing,
but the way we set up, you know the amount that we want to save and the amounts that we have to spend for, you know, uh, utilities and, uh, the house payment and all that.
Ye... |
and then, uh, after we sold the first house, we were left with enough cash that there was enough to make the down payment on this house.
Oh, okay.
So, we, we got out of that one pretty easily
Okay, uh,
yeah,
I just keep thinking all the time
I mean, it, it's really rough to keep yourself on a strict budget for a long l... |
I mean you look around
and you go, where is it,
What do you do with it,
I know.
you, you haven't made, uh, big purchases
and that's the easier thing to see,
if you can see a big purchase and you go okay, well this is the year that we bought the couch or the T V, or something like that.
Uh-huh,
But, all those, just mon... |
The other times, he'll, uh, I don't know go out somewhere, eat in a cafeteria or whatever.
Uh-huh.
But, but he keeps himself on that,
I mean, he found it's, it's so easy to spend five dollars a day on lunch.
Uh-huh.
That's a hundred dollars a month on lunch.
Uh-huh.
That's, that's twelve hundred dollars a year just on ... |
It was so funny the other day,
I took some guys to, to lunch
and when we came back they said "Oh, there's a parking space real close," and I parked way out in the boonies,
Way. *what is this?
and I said "you can walk off your lunch."
That's the way to do it.
Yeah.
I'm kind of like you,
I've never really gotten into it,... |
Oh.
And if you walk it in this many minutes, you get an A,
this many minutes you get a B,
Uh-huh.
and, I thought, oh, this will be an easy class.
and, you know, and I did it, and I did it for a long time
like about the middle of the semester I ended up having to have surgery on my foot,
Oh, no.
and this has been a coup... |
But, other than that I just, you know, I kind of get in the mood every once in awhile, say, okay, I'm going to start going to aerobics now, you know,
Uh-huh.
There you go.
and, I'll go for like two weeks and go, this is for the birds, this is too much work.
Well, you know, I have noticed too that, uh, when I started th... |
I'm always explaining to people, I do little things like that, like, you know, take the stairs instead of the, um, the elevator,
Yeah.
and, I do silly things like that versus a, a regular program that you would have.
But that's,
you're amazed at how much that adds up.
It sure does.
I was on, uh, Nutri Systems for a whi... |
No,
I used to,
I really did, uh, years ago
and, uh, I was thinking about that not too long ago that I used to walk
and not only did I walk
but, I used to watch all those exercise programs on T V,
and I would tape them,
Yeah.
and then I would do them like two times a day,
but I don't do any of that kind of stuff anymore... |
Uh-huh.
and I have found really though, I'm kind of the opposite, I'm more active now with him, than I was before, because now, you know, he'll "I want to go outside" and I'll go outside with him
Yeah.
and we'll walk up and down the street,
and we'll go to the park
and I'll run around with him and stuff like that,
that... |
Oh, yes.
Yes,
I have a thirteen year old and an eleven year old,
so.
Oh, lucky you,
Yes.
you're getting into even more interesting stages.
Yeah,
yeah.
We're actually going through the same stages the two year old and the teenager
Uh-huh,
yeah,
yeah
Yeah,
you watch it'll be exactly the same
Same thing, huh, it repeats, ... |
Yeah,
I, I, I know, I just know you can't.
But, no,
I don't get as much exercise as I used to
but, I at least, since T I has implemented that program, I do,
I'm more aware of it,
Yeah.
and, you know, that I'm need to do this, that and the other
and, uh, so, I try to do combinations of things but not, like go down to th... |
Um, um.
and like two nights a week I was going to school
and then the other two nights a week my husband worked,
so I had to pick Ryan up, you know,
Oh, yeah.
there's always an excuse, you know, to not do it
Oh, yeah.
so,
And, it gets worse,
it doesn't get any better.
Yeah,
oh, I'm sure,
I'm sure.
Yeah,
because I'm con... |
yeah,
to the mall, to the movies, to the friends, to the,
There you go,
that's it,
that's it.
Sounds like fun.
Well, it was nice talking to you.
Well, it was really good to talk to you.
Yeah,
well okay,
we'll talk to you later.
Take care,
talk to you later.
Um, um.
Bye-bye.
So, do you fish?
Oh, yeah.
My dad has a lake ... |
And we go, and we fish,
and we catch a bunch of junk Nothing, nothing to talk about for the most part,
but it's fun.
Uh, from a boat or from shore?
From the dock, from shore.
Oh, that's nice.
Uh, mostly catfish
or,
Oh, mostly we catch carp.
If we're doing good, we catch a catfish or two once in a while.
And, you know, ... |
Yeah.
A real light line, real light rig?
Yeah.
Well, that sounds like fun.
They fight hard.
Fish in Colorado different than that.
Yeah?
Mostly trout in the mountains.
Yeah,
and in the rivers and stuff?
Yeah,
yeah,
mountain streams and rivers.
Are they good to eat?
Uh, yeah,
very. Yeah, very much there, you know.
Oh, yo... |
Well, I've been,
is that mostly, uh, fly fishing when you're doing that
or,
What?
Are you fly fishing
or are you using a bobber?
I, I, I'm a fly fisherman.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I, I cast a ways.
I'm not highly proficient,
but it's fun.
I've never even tried that.
My,
if I don't have a reel with a button on it, I tend to get so ... |
Yeah,
well, the fly on the end weighs nothing.
Yeah,
I thought it had a weight.
It weighs less than the line.
Oh.
So what you do is, you strip off, oh, four, five, six little rolls, coils, of line into your hand.
Uh-huh.
And you whip the line.
Um.
As you whip it, over your head, or side to side, you slowly feed out m... |
And then you reel it in,
and you do it again.
You hope that they think it's a bug and, and eat it.
Yeah,
exactly.
Yeah,
exactly.
Yeah.
Jump at it.
Uh, from what I'm seeing and hearing and all, the, the big pattern that's really looking forward for spring is the grub pattern.
That's a fish?
No,
no.
It, it looks like a ... |
Whenever you have a, something that looks like something else
Uh-huh.
and it's a fly, you call it a pattern.
Oh.
All right, uh, you know, there's bumble bee patterns there's excuse me. Uh, there's bumble patterns, there's mosquito patterns, there's wasp patterns, there's grub patterns.
Uh-huh.
Um.
Uh,
Did someone just ... |
Um.
You know how that changes, the phase of the moon
and,
I guess so.
We tend to use just bait. And, a few lures,
Yeah.
Yeah,
I, I, You see, I'm from west Texas.
but bait tends to work the best, just some blood bait.
Oh, are you?
Yeah.
Where are you from?
Lubbock.
Oh, I'm from Midland.
Oh, another west Texan.
I went to... |
I've been up there.
It, It, it's kind of nice way to get away from everything for the day.
I didn't catch anything,
but I've been up there
Yeah,
it's fun.
It's lazy.
Take a picnic lunch.
I used to do that with my dad.
Every once in a while we'd go out on a Saturday and just spend the day. Before it got too hot.
Yeah.
W... |
I've only been up there once.
In the summer. Well,
no,
I've been up there twice in the summer.
But both times it was really pleasant.
In fact, it snowed on us in, in, gosh, when was that?
June?
We were in Mesa Verde Park,
and it was like the end of It was just before July fourth.
Oh.
And it was twenty-eight, twenty-nin... |
Do,
Yeah.
and,
Do you have to,
do you wear waders when you fish?
Uh, I probably ought to.
I just freeze.
Oh.
Goodness, it must be a little bit cold.
Yeah,
yeah,
well, you know, ankle deep or standing on the bank, and slipping it out there.
That's cold water around there.
Um. Do you have any,
You know, I always intend ... |
and you move a little closer.
And then you're in to it just a little bit,
and then you splash in
and, the next thing you know, your knees are wet.
Yeah.
Do you have any kids that you take fishing?
Uh, got a stepdaughter.
Uh-huh.
She's real sweet.
And, uh, at times she enjoys it, at times not.
Yeah.
A fuzzy little dog.... |
This year, he's gotten to where he can.
We, we were at a friend's, uh, stock pond, we were out at their farm,
and, and they had been fishing and let him use the pole while we we all walked off a healthy hundred yards or so and let him fish.
Yeah.
And he started trying to cast it.
So, he, he was kind of getting there
bu... |
My husband would like to live there,
but I don't know. All of our family is here
so,
Well, and you've got to have,
you've got to work for a living.
Well, yeah,
but T I is up there,
so that part of it would probably work out
What division you all in?
I'm sorry, what?
What division are you all in?
We're both, uh,
I was, ... |
Well, the only thing up here, is division one.
And he's in school, and everything else.
I have some friends who work up there.
Oh, yeah?
Kathy and Kevin Guy.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they like to fish.
They've been inviting us to come up there in the summer.
Her dad has a cabin,
and they go fishing, up there.
Oh, fishin... |
so,
Uh-huh.
You know, it seems more relaxing, there's more to look at.
Definitely more to look at.
And, and there's something about listening to water run that's relaxing to the soul You know, if you're, if you're just sitting on a nice hot lake,
Yeah.
Yeah.
The only thing you've got to watch is when that creek comes u... |
I could almost just watch the
we, in fact, we have gotten out on, on trips before and just stopped and watched it because there was so much,
and if you were there. I mean,
it was,
one time we were there,
and I guess it was late May,
so it was really your spring almost, you know, at, even though it was, it was really s... |
and they're older now,
but, um, I found it very difficult to find good child care when I was looking for a place to for stay while I thought school,
Uh-huh.
and, um, I wanted when they were very young when they were babies say till they were about two years old I preferred that they had an individual take care of them ... |
I, um,
that, that's,
oh, oh, you mean you switched schools for the kids.
Yeah,
for the for the kids.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
well, I'm just recently married.
Uh-huh.
So I don't have any children. Though we plan on having them soon
Okay.
but I think, um, that I, that that's probably one of the biggest difficulties, uh,
I think, um... |
and that's also,
and it's nice for me because, um, most of the time you have so, so much flexible hours so that I could probably work two or three days a week, and then one or two evenings, so that if my wife does, um, does go back to work part time, um, there probably will be a possibility that I could stay home two... |
So, they, um, um,
my sister-in-law is a, uh, um, a clinical speech pathologist,
Uh-huh.
so, she is
I guess her most recent position after she returned back to work, she applied for a director's position and got it.
So, I guess she's very well qualified for her field I guess
and even though she took off two years for, ... |
but I think they've lost this woman she she will not continue.
Oh, dear.
And, and she won't do it in the summer because her kids are home from school.
Sure,
yeah.
So I don't know what they are going to do.
Oh, you know that's an ideal situation,
Uh-huh.
but not many people can afford, something like,
Yeah,
I think, I... |
Sure.
but, uh, I think the longer you wait the easier, the easier it is, if you have that, that professional occupation where you can change.
Oh, I do to.
Oh, yeah,
Yeah.
but they're they're are just so many people out there that aren't that, uh, lucky, uh,
Yeah.
That's right,
that's true, yeah.
uh, because I'm a sin... |
Yeah,
and, uh, plus I, I, uh, wanted them to get something out of it, I just didn't want it to be a day where they went and slept and ate cookies and, that's it .
Uh-huh.
Yeah
that,
yeah,
that's, you know, that's so important I, um, I, I guess it's so funny now with schools, you know, they don't take kid into kinderg... |
Well, the thing is, I teach this grade and I, I can see very readily the kids that didn't never learn socially how to get along with other, children
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
and they're the ones that are having problems not only getting along with the other kids but academically, because they were not, they're should be, there... |
before I was married I went out with a girl,
and you know, um, boy, after, you know, after about two months I realize this girl really has some deep set emotional problems.
Uh-huh.
And I bet,
and they could be traced back to just not being, uh, you know, being moved between day care centers when she was one and two and... |
Yep,
that's true.
Yeah,
that's really true.
So you need,
cause you need that consistency when they're young like that,
and it would be ideal like you, you hope when you have children, your wife gets to stay home,
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
I would have, have given anything if I would have been able, to stay home with my children.... |
they have vocational type courses on weekends, almost everywhere,
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
and, you know, you can take you can teach two three hours classes on a Saturday, which means, that, you know, whole week's worth of courses
Oh, that's, wonderful.
so that lets you be available three days during the week, you know,
Oh... |
It's probably costing you a fortune.
Oh it is,
they really are expensive,
yeah.
My goodness, if, if you want them to be able to drive the car, the insurance bill.
Exactly.
um,
Well, and they
most of the area where we live in most of the kids have cars.
Oh.
So, you know, right now I'm looking for a little truck for my f... |
That's right.
Yep.
And just to save you trips to and from, you know, uh, ball games and athletic events, and activities at the school.
Right,
exactly.
Right.
That's right.
Yeah,
isn't that something how, you know, you think about child care
and it lasts along time. *along a long
It, does for ever.
It, it lasts a long... |
Uh-huh.
um, you go the length
and sometimes if it's a very busy time period you'll go about seven minutes.
Oh.
Depends on how old the tapes are at that time.
I see.
Uh-huh.
I see.
Yeah.
Are you from the,
where are you from?
This is Baltimore, Maryland.
Oh, my gosh, I'm from, uh, Plano, Texas which is, which is outside ... |
That makes sense.
Okay.
Guess we can go ahead.
Uh, well, I guess you know it's, you know,
since living in Dallas it's always so hot, so in the summertime, I just, I wear lots of shorts, so because I don't work during the day.
Uh-huh.
So, do you work?
Yes,
uh-huh,
yeah,
I do work.
Oh.
Uh, and,
but I work at a manufactur... |
and, in the plant so, uh, it's, it's a problem for me.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
But, normally I just wear blue jeans and a T-shirt.
Uh-huh.
Very, very, comfortable.
I like that so much better than having to wear dress clothes.
Yeah,
yeah,
and buying suits and stuff, yeah, because just being at home
and, I work at home,
so, I ju... |
Right
Worry about all that kind of stuff
Well, I have plenty of suits and dress clothes because I'm like you, when I first started working, uh, I have all these suits and blouses and skirts and mix and match, and that kind of stuff
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
but now that I, you know, work in the manufacturing plant, then it's ju... |
That's really,
that's been a problem for me.
Yeah,
because I came from Wyoming
and I had wool suits and wool skirts
and, You know, I've got all these clothes that I never wear, because you can't wear them here.
Right.
Right.
And, uh, the seasons are just so much different.
You have so much summer.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, so ... |
and there's just not that many opportunities to wear it.
Yeah.
And I have five or six wool skirts,
Uh-huh.
so I was thinking well, maybe, you know, I need to think about getting rid of them,
but no, I folded it up neatly and put it away maybe next year
Yeah.
You hate to get rid of it, because you know how much you spen... |
Yeah,
yeah,
and I, I just don't spend, you know,
right now my clothes come from Target, you know
Yes,
yes,
yes,
and they're all one hundred percent cotton
and
Yes,
and they,
you take them out of the drier
and they're wadded up in a ball.
Yes,
yes,
I know.
Oh
I'm so glad to meet somebody that, that their iron board is t... |
but my ironing board is part of my decor
so,
That's true,
and, and I've been looking at these, uh, uh, like in Home Depot where you can go and they've got, that ironing boards that will just flip right down off of the uh, uh, what, the, the, the door.
Uh-huh.
And, uh,
and then you can actually have one where you can pu... |
and I wouldn't have to have that eyesore
Yeah
that's an idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I have a big closet.
Yeah,
I, you know,
if I have,
if I know I'm having somebody come over to the house and there's a possibility they might be going back into my room, I will put it away,
Uh-huh.
Yeah
but I iron our clothes as we go along,
... |
and that's it.
Uh-huh.
Because it's too many,
hundred percent cotton.
Uh-huh.
You can't iron it all
and,
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
And then with my kids, they're always getting into, you know,
they can't decide what they want to wear so they, change their minds, you know, I know, I mean my oldest is only four,
Uh-huh.
but she's s... |
of course not.
No,
that, uh, that would be too simple.
Uh-huh.
Yeah,
Absolutely not
That's right.
Our lot in life is to make her life miserable
so,
Uh-huh,
absolutely, absolutely.
Uh.
Oh.
Yeah,
well that's,
it's been good talking to you, to see somebody, hear somebody that does the same thing I do because I tell people... |
So, uh,
but, yeah,
I, uh, I know several of my girlfriends, though, we, uh, we all keep our ironing boards out and just, uh, an ever present thing in our household
so,
Yeah,
yeah.
I don't think I'd know what to do if it wasn't there, you know.
My husband wouldn't know where to hang his dirty clothes.
There you go.
You ... |
Oh, well, it was nice talking with you.
Oh, it was nice talking with you, too.
Okay,
take care.
Take care.
Bye-bye.
Uh-huh,
bye-bye.
So eating out.
What are you interested in in restaurants?
Right, uh.
So.
Uh, once a week, twice a week?
Oh, at least once a week.
We're, we're retired now.
When we working out we ate out ... |
and we normally manage to eat out once a week anyway.
Well, what type of restaurant do you like, Richard?
Uh, really, I'm kind of open on food.
I'm what you might call a culinary adventurer.
I'll, uh, try anything once.
Right.
Been on a real barbecue kick lately.
Oh have you?
Yeah.
We like Chinese.
We eat, a lot of Chi... |
Right.
I know what you mean.
I like some ambiance,
and I like good food.
I don't like fast food hamburgers and all of that.
I don't,
but I don't like something fake or put on either.
Uh-huh.
You know, if I could have a good small restaurant or a good large restaurant I'd go to the good small restaurant.
Uh-huh.
And I d... |
It is what you look for?
Oh, isn't, isn't.
Uh, I try to get my money's worth.
Right
And not just that, I try to, well, that's a big part of it. I try to get my money's worth. You know, and not just in quantity, you know, but quality, and, and flavor and texture and care.
Uh-huh.
Presentation
and,
Well, presentation's n... |
that's what I mean by,
and just for color if nothing else.
Right,
uh-huh.
It would mean a lot to the looks of the plate.
Yeah,
yeah.
What I miss up here is, I'm originally a Texan, and I miss home cooked Mexican.
Tex-Mex, Tex-Mex.
Yeah,
home cooked Tex-Mex.
Uh, Mexican restaurants where it's not owned by an Anglo or a ... |
Right.
It's all pretty good, isn't it?
Oh, yes,
and, and there's big differences, of course,
and, of course, when you talk about Mexican cuisine you, that's kind of like talking about American food or Chinese food, in because its regional, too.
Right,
uh-huh,
that's true.
So.
I'm originally from Maine,
so we like seafo... |
Uh-huh,
that's true.
Lots of shrimp.
And, yeah,
here a couple years ago my wife and I went to Seattle on vacation.
And I think everything except breakfast was seafood for almost a week.
I know it
And it was,
I was like a man starving at every meal.
I know the feeling.
We do the same thing.
My son-in-law is a Texan,
and... |
Yeah.
That's as cheap as steaks some places I mean in a grocery store.
Oh yeah,
cheaper,
right.
Right,
yeah.
A lot of the restaurants you can get two two one pound lobsters for like ten ninety-nine.
Oh, my gosh.
I've got to go to Maine then rattling in
You may have sold a trip for some time.
Yeah,
it's a good place to ... |
And, uh, it's just so much different than to eat something that's been frozen. You know
Uh-huh.
We went to
shrimp straight out of the bay.
We were in Galveston last year right well, the first of this year, actually.
Hm.
And, ate in a restaurant,
and they claimed to have the best shrimp on the Gulf coast.
Was it true?
N... |
the cajuns.
Uh-huh,
right.
It was wonderful.
They can, they can do things to shrimp that, that no one else can.
Uh-huh.
So, have you eaten crawfish yet?
Uh, I tried it,
but I didn't care for it.
Not there, but at my brothers I tried it.
Oh, as with anything, it's preparation.
That's probably true.
It,
We just,
he went ... |
and
So you do eat out a lot.
Quite a bit.
One of our other real problems with going out to eat, Sunday morning brunches.
Oh.
You know, Sunday brunch, all, all you can eat brunches.
Right.
We used to do that, once in a while,
but we don't anymore.
Uh, we still find it fun.
Uh-huh.
It's fun,
but it's just so much food
Ha... |
Yeah,
uh, actually one of our, one of our favorites is a chain. Shoney's.
Oh, yeah,
uh-huh.
We eat at Shoney's.
Yeah,
in spite of the fact I've spoken so badly about chains, chain restaurants, uh, we, uh, do like Shoney's pretty well,
but then there's a place up the pass, up in the mountains that we pretty reliably lik... |
West
Uh-huh.
west out of Colorado Springs.
What are your favorite programs?
Uh, it's kind of hard to put my finger on a, on a favorite T V program,
however, uh, one that I've been watching for a number of years is DALLAS.
And, uh, And, uh, it's going to be going off the air, uh, let's see, a week from a week from tonig... |
And, and, uh, I know when we went to London, it was really funny.
Uh, people recognized Dallas, Texas, by the, the Texas, uh, the, the cowboys and by that program.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
And that's, that's the two things they associate with Dallas, Texas.
So,
I,
and I,
they asked me, uh,
several times, several times they ask me,... |
Well, it's, it's, uh,
when you look at the, uh, you know, route seventy-five, coming down there. I mean, it's actually a bridge,
but it's a bridge over top of roadway.
There's no water there. I mean, uh,
Well, there's water in the Trinity.
I thought it was to, going to Oak Cliff over the Trinity.
Yeah.
Well there's, th... |
And then there's other ones that, uh, deal with, uh, in a funny manner, uh, socially relevant things.
And, uh, one show that comes to mind is like DESIGNING WOMEN. Uh,
I think that is just a hoot.
That's one of those few that I do watch when the television is on.
My husband likes to watch T V.
It's on.
I usually read a... |
But, uh,
and then, uh, I've kind of gotten hooked on P B S stuff, uh, public, uh, T V.
Uh, I like things like NOVA and, uh, some of the, the special programs they come up with on nature and stuff.
I just enjoy watching that stuff.
Now, we watch a lot of those.
Uh, and the ones that sometimes will hook me, to put down m... |
Well I'm one of those rare guys, who, I, I rarely ever sit down and watch a whole sporting event, um, if ever watch one.
Uh, there's just not that much I'm, I'm interested in.
Um, for a while, I, I, I watched some football,
but I've just got too many more important things in my life now than to sit around and, and watc... |
personally, I, I came from the Washington area.
And so I was a big Washington Redskins fan.
Uh.
Oh, those people.
Yeah
And, uh, when I came down to Dallas, it was, uh, you know, I found myself rooting for the home team.
I, uh,
in fact I have a, uh, a baseball hat that was signed by Tony Dorsett and Hershel Walker the o... |
I haven't seen that.
It, it doesn't,
it has a lot of different rules.
Uh-huh.
The field is half the size
Uh-huh.
and there's no,
they can't call time and things like that.
It moves a lot faster.
uh. Gee, I'll have to try to catch that sometime.
It's,
Uh, again I think it may be on cable more than anything else.
Yeah,
W... |
And well, I really don't need C N N, I see enough bad news all the time.
I don't need to see more of it.
So I, I've kind of, uh, rationalized that it's, it's probably a lot more economical for us to just go rent the movies we want to see.
Well,
And of course when we were living in Texas, it was real convenient with Tom... |
Yeah.
And I, uh, I've been trying to get my wife to go with me to go see it.
She, she doesn't like going to movie theaters because usually they're dirty,
and, uh, you know, she just doesn't like them.
And, um, she doesn't think that she could sit still for three hours and watch the movie.
And I've told her, you know, e... |
So,
That's great.
Yeah,
finally.
Yeah.
But as, as far as, uh, regular T V shows, I mean, I've got some, some shows that, that, that I would be afraid to admit to you that I've actually sat down and watched
And then there's, there's others that, uh, uh, I wish I had time to see.
It's like I enjoy watching CHEERS.
It's v... |
I'm actually at work.
Oh,
I'm in facilities and happen to have, uh, weekend duty here.
Oh, okay.
What building do you work in?
I'm in the South Building.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
We, we pull mostly evenings.
We are having,
there's three of us, uh, facilities' managers are covering the off shifts. Just to have somebody here, uh,... |
yeah, hopefully you have a lot to talk about in this one,
but I don't really have a lot in this one.
Usually I can talk for hours on most of the subjects they pick .
Go ahead, you first
Okay,
our topic for today is invasion of privacy.
So, I got a good one.
Okay,
good.
When the phone rings and you've got a recording, a... |
the worst one, I guess, is like you, when it's a recording. I I don't mind so much someone calls
and it's a, and it's a salesperson, at least you can chat or whatever and say, okay, now, we want to go
and then when, when they actually start off with a, a computer, and expect you to talk to a computer, uh, that's where... |
Huh.
Yeah
I,
But your right. *your you're
That was a good one.
yeah,
that's, that's a high irritant for me.
Drives me crazy.
And it doesn't matter if you have an unlisted number or not because a lot of times these computer things will just make up numbers at random and just call them.
Uh-huh.
And so it really, really d... |
and it carries over
and so not only would you hear,
it seems to me that you talk longer from you kind of yell into it.
Right.
Right.
Uh, and so he yells into it,
and you hear the other person too,
so it's kind of a double annoyance.
He actually, uh, ruins my privacy you might say because the, the T I offices are so ope... |
Oh, have you heard that, that, I'm trying to think of what company it was, there was a company that was going to, uh, be giving out information about your financial status.
Oh, yeah,
I heard something about, not that exactly,
but go ahead.
Well, um, I work in the computer science center
and so we hear a lot about thing... |
I'm a radio person I guess is what I mean.
Uh-huh.
And so I listened to, was it five seventy, which has continuous talk on the weekends, and Neil Sperry and everybody, I mean, the lawyers and veterinarians and all that.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, I don't know if it was a lawyer or whatever it was talking about when you make out... |
But if you don't feel like putting it down, just put N A, you know.
Uh-huh.
Well, that's real interesting.
I know that a lot of times they ask for information that they don't really need, on several things and, you know, your credit ap and all, all they ever need you to do is give them permission to, to pull a credit ... |
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