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no pulling hair or anything like that,
and, uh, the school that she's in is a, um, it's basically for minorities,
um, there's a large minority population.
And, um, she's really noticed that even some of the teachers that work there
I think they don't value that type of student as much as you get, in some.
Yeah
that's, ... |
But do you have any ideal what you're going into when you graduate.
Um, graduate school
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Do you know where you're going?
I think I'm going to Chappel Hill.
Where's that?
That's in Chappel Hill
the
Oh is that North Carolina?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Never heard of the, uh, Tarheels?
No,
I don't know that area.
The ... |
Oh, really,
well the way I pick the final four was, um, by the state that had the warmest climate.
Uh-huh.
So that's how I chose all mine,
so you can tell that I really didn't have that much to do with any of it.
But,
so obviously you're into education.
Yeah.
If you can be going,
my husband went to, is in graduate scho... |
I know.
I've got all of this stuff due
oh wow.
Overloaded.
Yeah,
I kind of know what you mean.
Well, it was really nice talking to you.
All right.
Okay.
Good luck.
All right,
thank you.
All righty,
take care.
All right,
bye.
Bye-bye.
Clanking ishes oman and children
Well, as much as I'd, uh, I'd like to say that I'll b... |
What kind of a car do you have now?
Oh, we've got a, uh, an older Delta Eighty-Eight,
and then, uh, our, our newer car is a, uh, a Corsica.
Yeah.
And we'll probably be looking for something about that, uh, that same style.
Yeah.
That same kind of four door, hard top style.
You got kids?
Uh, no
but we're planning for it... |
Uh-huh.
Uh, mostly because my wife's stepfather works at a Ford dealership
That'll do it.
Yeah.
That'll do it.
Um, but, yeah, we're, we're in the same shape.
I think our next car will be a, you know, some big old four door, uh, something that can haul the kids to baseball practice and piano lessons,
Yeah.
and we've got... |
So I, I, I bought a used, uh, Dodge Aries, which has been okay.
Yeah.
Really?
I, I mean I've haven't had it that long.
Uh-huh.
But it, it it's an eighty-five Aries,
but it only had thirty-four thousand miles on it when I bought it.
Oh, geez.
And I just, you know, I just drive it to work.
So it's just a ten minute commu... |
Yeah.
so I, I,
Sounds like you, you need at least like a Taurus size, or something like that.
Yeah,
that's what, I was thinking of,
was a Taurus.
Uh,
Yeah.
I, I know a lot of guys at work,
they, uh, the ones that have, uh, families, uh,
and they still want kind of a sports car.
They've been, uh, a lot of them have been... |
Yeah.
and usually they're in like black, and gun metal grey and those kind of colors.
You're not going to see too many, uh, you know, green ones or blue ones or anything like that.
Yeah.
They, they put them in sporty colors I guess.
But, uh,
Yeah.
Well, my wife wants a Miyata.
Oh, well sure
That's what, you know,
until... |
I, I went, I went through that when I first got out of, uh, college.
I had an old car that I bought just to get to, to my my first job.
Yeah.
And when I got there, the first thing I did was trade it in on a Spitfire.
Oh.
And I, I knew that was going to be the only time I could afford a two seater, uh, sports car.
Yeah.... |
And you kind of outgrow that real quick when it's your only car.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I,
you know, it's funny.
Most people that I've talked to did stuff like that when they were in college, or, you know, or when they were single anyway.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
They'd, they'd buy themselves a sporty car because it was their last.
I ... |
And, uh, in fact I married one of those people
Ah, okay.
Well, I'll have to remember that if I ever get in that situation again
And it worked.
Yeah,
it worked all right, real good.
Huh.
Because I, I know we've, uh,
that's, that's something that, that we definitely have to go with is an automatic transmission.
My, uh, m... |
Yeah
and the, uh, dealer kind of gave her standard shift parking,
because that was all it was.
It was, it was the funniest thing,
it was like, uh, a big Le Baron,
it was a Le Baron with everything on it,
Wow!
but it had a standard shift.
It was the craziest thing I ever saw.
That's weird!
Yeah.
And, and, and that's pro... |
And, uh, and,
in fact all our earlier cars were a standard transmission.
In fact, the minivan's a, has a stick shift.
Um, okay.
And in,
this Dodge Aries is the first car we've ever gotten that had anything.
You know, it's got automatic transmission, cruise control, you know, electric locks.
Oh, geez.
You know, it's lik... |
I would think so,
yeah,
It, it,
because it's so big.
Yeah.
And, and it was quiet,
it had a stereo system.
Oh, yeah.
We never had it, you know,
we always had the A M radio.
Sure,
sure.
And, uh, of course this has, this that had speakers that you can control from the back seat.
Uh-huh.
And you can change the channels on ... |
Right.
You've got to have that now.
That's right.
That's right.
You're used to it
and you got to have it.
And you've got to pay for it too.
Yeah.
That's true too.
And I bet, and I bet it costs twice as much as, as when I bought mine
It, It probably does,
it probably does.
But, uh,
We,
Oh, well.
Well, Bill it's been nic... |
Um.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye
What kind,
What kind of cars do you, do you usually drive?
Right now we, I've got a, uh, four year old Subaru and a two year old Honda.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, we're, we're, we're sort of, sort of a General Motors family,
I guess that's the way we were raised.
And, uh, uh, we were overseas with T I ... |
Uh-huh.
Turns out that's a pretty good place to buy cars because they maintain them
and they can show you the records they've gotten all their maintenance on schedule and everything like that.
Uh, then we've got an eighty-six Chevy Spectrum that we bought new.
My daughter was a freshman in college when we bought it for... |
and it was almost like the minute we got old and bought anything like a, but a Chevrolet it would be like going and spitting on his grave
But, uh,
Yep.
as we got older and got away,
and then we thought, well, you know, you still could buy General Motors products
and it was probably not that bad.
But, uh, we lived in Ma... |
Uh-huh.
But we really liked that.
And have you had experience with cars other than the ones you have?
Well, yeah
we had, uh, we had,
these are the first cars that my husband and I have ever purchased ourselves.
Um.
The others were hand me downs through the families.
Yeah.
And those were always G M cars.
Yeah.
Uh, Buick... |
and we both drive, well, forty-five miles round trip every day.
Sure,
sure.
And so we wanted a smaller car,
Yeah.
when we got ready to buy, we needed a smaller car to get better gas mileage
and quite frankly, we were afraid of the, of the G M small cars.
Uh-huh,
uh-huh.
You know, as far as durability.
Right.
So we kind... |
it seems that something goes every month.
Yeah
it,
And I'm afraid we're going to be in that in another year with all of ours,
you know,
we got three eighty-sixes and an eighty-four
Uh-huh.
And we'll probably be there with all of them.
You know, it's the same thing, you know,
I don't know whether, uh, you classify the S... |
And it made all the,
I, I had forgotten what driving a big car was like.
It's like a yacht.
It was just nice.
It floated.
Yeah.
What,
we, we sold or we, we traded in our Le Sabre for our Subaru.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
it was a great car.
Yeah.
It just,
we ran the wheels right off of it.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
And, uh, you know I'v... |
and we're, we're uh, we deal,
we sell,
I'm in the semiconductor group
and we sell to, uh, Ford, Chrysler and G M, uh, G M Delco.
Uh-huh.
And there is a, amazing,
I am just, uh, really impressed with the, with the quality consciousness that the, these companies have put into their procurement
and it's, I, it's come out ... |
Their automobiles are getting a very good quality reputation right now.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, uh, we went to, uh, Austin a while back to a basketball tournament
and we were going to be meeting some of my wife's relatives down there,
so we decided rather than drive one of our cars down, we'd rent one,
Uh-huh.
and we went up ... |
And, you know, it wasn't that I'd,
driving around down there we might have got sixteen to eighteen miles per gallon,
but on the trip down and back I filled up both coming and going
so I knew what I actually got on the trip
and it was about twenty-four miles a gallon.
Uh-huh.
Uh, and, you know, we just got it out on the... |
Yeah.
You got another, another thirty or forty thousand if you maintain them.
Uh-huh.
Uh, we've got,
probably we'll get something in the next couple years.
My son will graduate from high school this year,
and, and he's going to go to Richland College one year behind us,
Uh-huh.
it's right,
in fact, uh, our house is adj... |
and, uh, we'll probably do something like that,
uh, uh, incidentally,
uh, uh, I don't know,
uh, the, uh, the Credit Union has got a deal now where you decide what you want
and you call this number
and, uh, they go negotiate the price for you.
And, and, or, or send you to a guy with whom they've already got a deal
Uh-hu... |
I've, we've, we've, we've kind of been the types that will say, this is what we intend to spend,
Yeah.
this is the car we want,
will you sell me this car for that price.
And for that price.
And, and we've had
we, with our,
when we bought our Subaru, the guy was like, you can't do this to me,
and we're were just, like, ... |
Uh-huh.
and this guy gave me this deal, you know,
I told him how much I wanted to pay,
and for every fifty dollars he'd have to go in and check with the boss
and then I'd have to sign something saying that if he could get this rate, uh, we would go ahead and buy.
Uh, uh, if he could get this rate I promised to buy
and ... |
and, I mean it was a difference of four hundred dollars,
but this was four hundred dollars on only twenty-five hundred,
Goodness.
is all we paid for cars in those days.
And, uh, uh, so I called back the guy in Dallas
and I told him that,
I'd left him a check for tax, title and license and everything,
and I said I want ... |
and, since then I had ...
Okay,
well yes,
we do have pollution in Houston
and it,
How bad is it?
Do you have smog like they do in California?
Well it, it
some,
I think it depends on, uh, you know, what the, the cloud cover
and like right now, it's, uh, it's kind of overcast, you know,
just, it's hot,
Uh-huh.
and the su... |
and we have, uh, Pasadena, Texas which is sort of between here an, you know, heading toward Galveston,
I mean it's still part of, it's part of the Houston metroplex.
Uh-huh,
uh-huh.
What do you think is your primary cause of it.
Well, I think it's industry
and I think it's cars.
You do?
You really think cars contribute... |
my goodness.
I don't know if it's, uh, if it's partly from what's blooming, you know, right now, pollen and stuff like that,
that's part of it,
but, um.
Uh-huh.
I think a lot of it's industrial.
I also think, uh, that, uh, there is a certain amount that comes from automobiles
but it's mostly from older automobiles.
I d... |
Oh, uh-huh.
So, that I think would be tremendous help.
But I happen to drive an old model car because it's very economical
and it just keeps getting, uh, gives me good service
and I don't have an incentive to get rid of it as long as it keeps running good and not costing me any money.
Uh-huh.
On the other hand I know i... |
I, I we, we seem to have a high, uh, cancer rate up here in Maryland.
Really,
Yeah,
and, uh,
like what
any particular kind or just all kinds?
Well, for instance breast cancer seems to be pretty rampant
and, uh, I think,
of course prostrate cancer's sort of bad for everybody,
but, uh, this state was like the second,
my ... |
and that's also what's causing our atmosphere to lose it's ozone layer.
Uh-huh.
And I can't help believe if it's sufficient enough to make the atmosphere lose it's ozone layer, that it's not acting as a pollutant in our lungs also,
and having all kinds of effects,
and.
Well what can we do about the, the, the, the air c... |
well that's good.
and that was a move in the right direction.
We are doing some things to try to correct the problem.
But there are more things we could do
and getting rid of old cars, like I said is one way to help correct the problem.
Uh, uh, just trying to I think be careful, uh, with the way you handle garbage,
I n... |
They have a lady that goes around like a meter maid
and she spot checks people's trash.
No kidding,
really,
oh.
And if they find a bottle or a can or anything like that in your trash, they'll fine you fifty bucks I think the first time and two fifty the second time.
Is that right.
Well, we need to do something,
we need... |
But on, on the other hand, I don't guess they're polluting.
But plastic containers and the like, uh, they may be,
I'm not sure of that.
How much does, uh, planting more trees and things like that help?
Oh I think that's very important to do.
too.
I, I really think that, uh, trying to get along with your environment and... |
and the primary reason I think it may go on a lot is just as you said, somebody happened to stay up late at night or something.
I don't think we have a adequate policing, uh, particularly on industry.
Uh, we have good policing, at least in this state and, and several of the surrounding states and probably yours too, of... |
they don't check how good,
if your tires are good enough or your brakes are good enough.
No,
no,
we don't have inspections like that.
Now, I'm in Maryland,
in Virginia they check that every two years, I think.
We do that every year.
And I think that's a good idea too,
not, not that it necessarily has anything to do wit... |
and if they don't then that's something I would certainly, uh, uh, suggest you be willing to uh, uh, be for in terms of, uh,
Oh, I would
Yeah,
yeah.
I'm for anything that cleans up the air or the water or, or, or anything.
Oh yeah,
I, I agree.
Now that's another area we haven't even discussed
and that is water pollutio... |
tap,
yeah
So,
but a lot of these, uh,
some of this
well, you know, a lot of people have well water,
in fact in this area too
and, an, you know,
and, uh,
Uh-huh.
if you don't get it tested you don't necessarily know what you're, what you're drinking
and I, I know a lot of people, you know, have that
and, you know, you h... |
I forget what you call those things,
Uh-huh.
and, and that was some of the best tasting water,
I mean, I can still to this day taste that water.
When we were,
when I was growing up I lived in Huntsville, Alabama,
Yeah.
and their water supply came from, uh, spring.
Uh-huh.
And it was like ice cold, spring water
and I gu... |
Uh-huh.
And I support that fully.
I'm not sure we have the right solution to it,
but at least we're, we're going to the source of the problem.
And, the source of supply.
Uh-huh.
Uh, the problem is here,
but the source of supply is there.
That's true.
Very definitely so.
In fact I think a lot of the,
I've been to, uh, ... |
Yes,
right.
And I, I think that, uh, they need guidance and assistance,
but they need to learn how to stand on their own, own two feet also.
I agree.
I think that for so long power financially, uh, governmentally, every which way was in the hands of such a few that there's not the middle class that we, we perceive.
Uh-... |
And this is very much his, you know, reaction that the rich are so rich and the poor are so poor.
Oh, the, there's a joke,
the, the graft and the, uh, payoffs down there are are an accepted way
and, in a way,
Uh-huh,
uh-huh.
And there's, there's a sad joke.
I guess all jokes are really sad,
but there's a joke about the... |
And the Ambassador said, yes,
and he pot, patted his pocket and said fifteen percent,
so,
Oh, gosh.
so the next year the Senator went to Latin America to visit the Ambassador and was treated to dinner in his home
and it was twice as large and four times as many servants.
He said, well I know how poor your country is,
h... |
but,
Intentions, intentions
Yes,
yes,
but it, uh, it is a problem.
I know.
Uh, I have a sister-in-law who is from Nicaragua
and her family,
her father was a fairly, uh, high ranking official under Somoza.
And when that went down the tubes they had to get out.
Uh-huh.
And seventeen children, filtered through into, into... |
Yes.
And it shows the, the unpreparedness for such, such a problem.
Yes.
And yet they're so,
Oh, the stories she tells, you know, are just unnerving just unnerving.
Yeah.
And they're, they're so rich in resources there.
They're very rich in oil and gas.
And they're very rich in gold and silver, and very rich in, in, uh... |
And they, they're very,
Well,
and, you know, they're very willing to be taught in many cases now, too,
but, you know, there's just always this kind of resentment underlying
I think that when they receive help from us, they want it,
but, they don't want it, I mean
You're you're exactly right.
It's kind of a catch twenty... |
somewhat a sarcastic view,
but some of those drugs czars, you know,
they, they know that by pumping that poison into our system that that's the way to bring us to our knees, more on their level.
Uh-huh.
You know,
You know, that's really, uh, kind of a far fetched idea,
I know,
and I don't think people probably think th... |
No,
no.
You know.
And, I, I think finding an alternate to that would be very good.
I mean even their, even their legal crops are things that we don't perceive as being healthy now from a medical standpoint of view, coffee tobacco you know
Right.
Uh-huh.
Argentine beef,
yeah,
yeah.
They're certainly legal,
but they're c... |
Well, one of these days, uh, I hope we'll find some, some way to substitute the good crops for illegal ones.
Well, let's just hope that the powers that be, uh, have time to, a little bit once in a while to, to think in some farther reaching avenues than you and I do here tonight
but,
I agree.
Well, it's been nice chatt... |
I, I don't mind regulating all of the, the guns
and I would certainly call for a ban on certain types.
Now the, the wisdom as to which types, that's going to be a debate forever, I would assume.
Uh, the method of, of controlling it, well that's all into how much money you want to put into the, the controls.
Uh, one poi... |
Yes
Right.
Uh, I have shot a variety of guns for a number of years,
but it's just not like golf or whatever.
I mean there are other things that you could go do.
So, uh, I, I don't see the, the joy of shooting as, as that much of a driving factor.
I think that society could easily swing the scales the other direction ju... |
onto no control,
I'm sorry, excuse me, that,
uh, two or three.
Uh-huh.
I was going the wrong direction.
Uh, because of, we had a neighbor child that was killed by another child because they had a gun in the house
and the father kept the bullets in a separate place,
but the little boy was five years old and was intellig... |
are you,
Dallas?
Uh-huh.
That's a big city
Yeah.
Uh, then you know that, uh, uh,
if you live anywhere real close that, uh,
the safety is, uh,
some people argue that they need a gun to make sure that they aren't going to get shot because of the incidences of break ins and, you know.
But, uh, uh, we have never had a gun ... |
Right.
he said that it, it was better not to have,
especially myself, now I'm a widow,
and, uh,
I, so I'm, when my handicapped son is, is not at home, I'm by myself,
but, uh, there's,
I still won't have a gun in the house because he said it's really uh, playing Russian Roulette if you do
Uh,
Yeah.
About the only circum... |
In the, uh, N R As, uh, claim that the, uh, the constitutional, the right to bear arms and that whole statement, uh,
it's hard to know the original intent,
but I, I don't see it as that, that difficult of a story to believe when the opposition says that, uh, yeah, it's the right to, to arm a militia and, as opposed to ... |
and they can be taken away by a man,
so,
Right.
uh, the people that hide behind that, I don't worry about.
They can go live in another country if they want.
Well, yeah,
that's how I feel, too.
I know, well,
even here where I work, uh, we have a, a gun club.
And, of course, those people are very avid.
They, you know, th... |
So, uh, I, I think they should have at least some control over, over those things.
Uh, and when you were speaking about how they can check up, you know, on credit cards,
well, I, I understand about the privacy act and everything,
but why can't they check to see if the person who is applying for this gun has had a recor... |
so it's,
well, this may be a never ending topic.
I got a couple of calls waiting on me,
so I'd better let you go.
Okay,
well thanks for talking.
Okay, bye.
Bye-bye now.
Uh, our children are both, uh, basically adults.
They, we've, we've got two.
Uh, one is twenty-one,
and one is twenty-five.
Uh-huh.
And they, they stil... |
Uh-huh
Well, we have a, uh, three year old and a one year old.
And, uh, so you know it keeps us pretty busy as you know.
Sure it does.
And, uh, most of the time with a three year old we're trying to, to get him, uh,
well, we play usually in the evening when, when I get home, you know, about five o'clock or so until abo... |
No,
it's a girl.
A girl?
Yeah.
ours, uh, the older one is a girl,
so.
And the, and the younger one is a boy,
so.
Yeah.
Uh, I guess, uh, what I see is so far as, uh, the trends, uh, uh, for children, uh,
I don't know what kind of a area Virginia Beach is,
but, of course, uh, Richardson is in the Dallas area.
Uh-huh.
And... |
I, I'm from a smaller town in east Texas.
And I could, you know, go and do whatever, pretty much whatever I wanted to do, uh, my whole life.
Uh-huh.
Uh, you know, I never, never had to worry about the bad guys being out there.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, you know, I find it's, it's quite a bit different now
that, uh, you know, yo... |
Uh-huh.
For, for a three year old it's that, uh,
there's a lot of emphasis on, on, on, on education and what these children should know before they reach kindergarten.
Right.
And, and it seems like it's a lot more than they need to know and be able to do than when we are the, when I had to go in kindergarten.
Yeah.
And... |
Uh-huh.
Uh, you know, just,
or at least it would be a lot harder than it was when I went to school.
Uh-huh.
One thing is I got a home computer too
and, uh, I play, uh, with the three year old
I play some computer games and stuff with him.
Uh-huh.
Educational games like, you know, concentration type games, the matching,... |
And, uh, of course, the one year old hasn't, hasn't gotten there yet
but, uh,
and the other thing we try to do is, uh, since the here is, uh, sign him up for, and her, for, uh, different activities at like the rec center or something like swimming,
Right.
you know, uh,
or,
there's a little soccer thing that he's going ... |
Right,
yeah
The, the disorganized play really what it was,
but, but, uh,
Yeah.
yeah,
when ours was a,
he,
I guess he was probably five or six, you know, when he first started playing soccer.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, and that was, that was more fun to watch those boys trying to, trying to kick the ball up and down the field.
Uh... |
Excuse me.
Um, and the, and that's kind of contradictory to what I said
but, you know, you,
the,
you have to be under control so much when they're out
but when they're in school they, they don't have quite, quite as much control, over them as, uh, as what I would liked to have seen.
Right,
right.
Right.
Uh-huh.
Uh, uh,... |
a lot of the problem is to, you know,
you always have the lack of funds
but it seems to be getting worse and worse
and so they don't settle the resources to draw on to give as much supervision as, as, as, kids need.
Right.
And, uh, you know, that's just a problem that who knows how that's going to, that's going to come... |
and when I would, uh, put it in the bright light position the lights would go out completely,
which is even worse than them just not getting bright
Exactly.
And I had presumed that it was the switch,
and, uh, this is, uh, an older car,
it's a seventy-two M G,
so I had to mail order the part, uh,
which I had done,
and t... |
It, it, the other switch could be the main switch itself, uh, that turns the lights on or off, which is on the dashboard
Uh-huh.
uh, it might be tied into the equation somehow,
but,
Yeah, I know,
uh, when working with the, uh, flashers, there is, uh, usually a, a special fuse that operates the flashers.
Do you have a s... |
So, that's a possibility.
What I've typically found when that, uh,
companies are pretty good about accepting returns on products like that when they're not needed after all,
and I hope that that's the case this time.
Is this a, a mail order parts house that specializes in, in parts for parts for, uh, old imports?
Right... |
Well, I had one person that I used for years and years on this car,
because I've owned this car since it was new,
and, uh,
but it's over like in the Brook Hollow industrial district down on Stemmons and Inwood area
Oh, yeah.
Uh-huh.
and I hadn't used him for some years,
and the last time I called him back it turned out... |
and I had assumed that it had a ninety day warranty,
and I should have checked more carefully and done a better job of saving the receipt,
because I didn't take it in right away, and let a whole year go by.
Uh, some of the buttons didn't work right, where you had to actually physically hold them down to get it to recor... |
and, it, when you first dropped it into geared it would immediately want to back up into the alley,
and knowing that, you always had to keep your foot on the brake hard,
otherwise it would just wrench control away from you.
Good grief.
And the other problem Judy would have is occasionally she would, uh, be driving alon... |
and now it seems to be,
we we're not experiencing the stalling,
but we're still experiencing a very uneven,
Okay.
What do you think about it?
Uh, well, immigration,
I know they're really strict right now because my husband is from out of the country
and, uh, we had to go through a whole, very long process to, uh, to, a... |
You have to have a, have to have a darn good reason of, political or whatever.
Right,
exactly.
Not a good, not a good easy way to get in.
Yeah,
I think, you know, I think in a lot of ways the law is good because it tries to, to protect, you know, the people who are in the states.
Exactly.
My mother, uh, actually knew a... |
Yeah,
it's kind of frustrating, too, for those who are legitimate now.
Exactly.
You know, I think,
Well, and, you know, uh, my grandparents came to this country just wanting a better life, you know
Uh-huh.
and they got here,
but now it's a, you know, it's so strict that you can't just do that.
Right,
exactly.
And I thi... |
And, you know, I, I believe that if someone goes on welfare that's when, you, you know, send them back to their country.
Yeah.
And, I think a lot of times we're so busy trying to keep them out that we're spending twice as much money as we would just allowing them in
and,
Well, think of how many illegal aliens have, hav... |
Well good
Anyway, do you have anything else in the, the subject, uh that you might want to talk about?
Uh, I, uh,
boy
this is spur of the moment, uh,
but, I, I don't really see any, any changes that I think of really blatant right now
other than I think they ought to take, you know, on a case by case basis and not nece... |
And it should be based on those kinds of things so the good people, like probably your husband, can get in
Yeah
Well, we got him past that,
but, uh,
Well, great.
I know there's a lot of other people out there, would probably do a good job here.
Yep.
Well, let's see,
is there anything I believe in
I think that's it.
Is ... |
Well, thanks,
I'm glad you're home.
You have a good evening, all right?
You, too.
Thanks,
bye-bye.
Bye.
Well, seems to me the, one of the reasons that people don't go out to vote is maybe they're bored with the whole election process.
Well, I agree with the boredom of the election process,
but I also, uh, think that pe... |
Exactly,
and, I, I even have a tendency to do that myself.
And I have to really make a concerted effort to, to get involved.
I live, I live in a suburb in Mesquite
and, uh, so I really have to make an effort to read the local paper and to see what's going to because that directly affects me.
But I, I think on the whole... |
Uh, I think voter awareness,
I, I did some work for the, uh, Women's League of, uh, Voters, uh, several years ago
and, I think there are some organizations that used to, uh, do some voter awareness, uh, things.
They don't get a lot of participation.
They don't get a lot of, uh, activity.
Most of the League of Women Vot... |
Exactly,
exactly
and it, it,
I, I can't I just can't believe,
I've, I've worked in a couple of local campaigns.
I just cannot believe the dollars that are spent just even locally.
Well, it's a matter of name recognition.
People aren't going to vote for someone they've never heard of.
Oh, well, I agree with that,
but al... |
Exactly.
And it's a, it's a lot,
I've worked in public relations a lot
and, uh, that kind of thing can make and break, make or break you
Well, that was certainly a media event.
and it's just, uh, uh,
he possibly could have, uh, won that election had it not been for some of the the, uh, the way he presented himself.
Wel... |
Well, he tends to go into a lot of detail sometimes.
Well,
and I don't think he was truthful in a lot of what he did in TEXAS
so I wasn't sure how credible he was.
Oh, is that right?
But anyway, what do you think we've gained from the spaceflights?
Well uh, I'm not sure to be honest with you,
so, uh, this going to the ... |
sure it was, you know, very unfortunate thing that occurred there
and it's,
Where do you live?
Uh, we live in, uh, Utah.
You live in
am I talking to Utah right now?
Uh-huh.
Oh, oh, great.
Yeah.
Because I'm in Dallas.
Uh,
Oh.
I have a sister that lives in Dallas,
that's how we got hooked up to the program was her her hu... |
No, her name is, uh, my last name is Skidmore.
I see.
And her, her husband's name is, his last name is Weight.
I see.
And, uh,
Well, you probably know a lot about it.
I wasn't sure that they were blaming that space disaster on one company.
I hadn't heard that.
Well, they were.
There was, uh,
apparently the specificatio... |
I, uh,
talked about how a lot of the problems they have to come, overcome to, uh,
it's a very complex, uh, situation to go into space.
Oh, yeah,
I would think so, too
They would,
the thing that he went into quite a bit of detail about how, how much of a problem it is to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
You never think ... |
but you could see the scorch on them, you know,
Uh-huh.
they had though piles
Yeah.
but you could see where they would come off in the, how hot it got because it was still the scorch on them which was quite interesting.
Yeah,
I've, I've, I would say I've never, I've never seen an actual capsule.
Well, I,
excuse me, go ... |
they just, uh,
Looked pretty confining, huh.
Oh, yeah,
and, uh, the whole thing was small
and, yeah, you, I mean, you actually put it on you know.
Is that right?
You put it around you pretty much,
it was so small.
Huh.
Well, I thought there was some medical benefits that we have learned from space,
but did he go into t... |
But I'm not sure you have to go to outer space to achieve that zero gravity.
Well, that's true
and,
Yeah.
That's right
Well, do you think we should continue to support it at the level,
well, I thought probably one of the things they were doing that they didn't tell us was spying.
Because I think those satellites, you k... |
I don't either.
but I I know that's certainly helped a lot in that regard. Uh,
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, go ahead.
What are we supposed to discuss again?
AIDS research is something that, that, I think whether our country is putting enough money into it
More money )),
and actually I'm concerned that they're not.
I have a friend w... |
Which is scary, you know, pretty scary when so many people get it.
So, I guess I'm, I'm, I'd like to see us spend more.
I don't know that spending more always gets it.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm ambivalent about it because, um, uh, well it is very frightening and scary.
I have no perspective on how it relates to other diseases,
an... |
I, I agree with you there
because I know every time that something comes into vogue all the money goes to that one
and you don't know whether it's still also going to the other or if it's a limited pie.
Uh-huh.
Money from, money for taking care of the infants takes money away from taking care of the elderly,
or do they... |
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