[speaker001:] so how do you keep abreast of the world's happenings
[speaker002:] when I'm driving to work I listen to a radio station which is twenty four hour news and that's how I get most of my stuff that gives me about uh thirty minutes thirty five minutes each way each day so that's about an hour and hour and ten minutes worth of
[speaker001:] what station's that
[speaker002:] uh KRLD
[speaker001:] KRLD I listen to uh ninety point one which is KERA
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so uh that's the same way I do it I drive about thirty minutes to work twenty minutes actually so listen to that going and coming
[speaker002:] yeah uh I don't usually watch the news at night time because uh I'm you know just got home ready for dinner and and all that and by the time I get done with dinner it's already over and
[speaker001:] uh-huh what a deal
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well do you feel like you're kept abreast
[speaker002:] pretty much yeah because they have the uh CBS uh world news on on the hour on the radio so I get all of that stuff then plus I get all the local news
[speaker001:] uh-huh well what do you think about the US telling the Iraqis to get out of their camp areas
[speaker002:] uh what do you think I don't know that's pretty strange
[speaker001:] it's a it's a different bold move I mean uh with still regardless if we won the war or not it's still uh the country is Iraq
[speaker002:] yeah you know I mean uh with with like with regard to the Soviet Union we're telling the uh Soviets you know hey the Baltic States wanna separate go ahead and let us separate that'll be good you know what what if the American south wanted to separate like they tried to do in eighteen sixties would we be so forgiving and say ah sure go ahead form your own country
[speaker001:] uh-huh exactly
[speaker002:] you know I mean seems kind of hypocritical hypocritical of us to to be telling other countries to like go ahead and let part of their country separate off you know and Gorbachev he's the one who wants to keep his country together which I can understand you know
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] and the other countries that wanna separate they wanna get away from all that garbage the Soviet Union I don't blame them either
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah it's it's an interesting uh kind of a catch twenty two
[speaker002:] it's not something that's something that they got to work out for themselves we shouldn't be involved in that we shouldn't even be talking about it you know the government should just stay away from them people and just let them figure out for themselves what they need to do
[speaker001:] that that is uh that is a bit difficult
[speaker002:] yeah Bush should not do anything but as as as for the rest of but though I don't you know we get the paper on the weekend
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I'll I'll flip through that you know once or twice but not won't won't read it cover to cover
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] do you read T News at work
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah that's uh I used to read that all the time
[speaker002:] I do that all everyday so that's another way but that's mainly you know that doesn't have like a whole lot just a few things on there which is
[speaker001:] uh-huh did you notice what TI stock closed at today I didn't either
[speaker002:] huh I didn't see it
[speaker001:] I hear it's forty two though yeah no it well a couple of weeks probably about a week ago it was at forty seven
[speaker002:] is that right is that up wow
[speaker001:] but that was uh I believe because of the stockholders' meeting
[speaker002:] should've sold
[speaker001:] yeah exactly exactly
[speaker002:] the building I was in well it guess you work for TI too
[speaker001:] pardon me
[speaker002:] I guess you work for TI too
[speaker001:] I did until December
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and uh that's how come I don't read T News anymore
[speaker002:] yeah you got surplused I got I got surplused last year myself yeah
[speaker001:] did you that's that's great did you just find a a place in another
[speaker002:] yeah another organization yeah they
[speaker001:] another TI organization
[speaker002:] they needed somebody just like me whereas before I was not even doing what I was supposed been doing but uh that's not that's not the topic I guess but uh
[speaker001:] that's kind of interesting that they can you know say get out of here in one second and then the other side say come on over here
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so that worked out pretty well for you I was talking talking to a guy from Colorado Springs yesterday who is
[speaker002:] it did quite a bit better
[speaker001:] implied or inferred definitely that he has been surplused from up there and he didn't know what he wanted to do he's been with TI for fifteen years
[speaker002:] yeah oh gosh
[speaker001:] so it's uh and he's a nonexempt uh he doesn't know what he's gonna do they're just shutting down the whole plant up there
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it's gonna be a tough time for all around the country I mean you look at the look in the paper and you see all the stuff about you know layoffs here layoffs there and you think oh man what's gonna happen
[speaker001:] exactly uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know thank goodness General Dynamics got that big contract because that'll least bring some money to the area
[speaker001:] right who who got the contract
[speaker002:] General Dynamics and Lockheed and Boeing
[speaker001:] oh well yeah I always get mixed up who's their partners with that late latest deal
[speaker002:] Lockheed and Boeing on this
[speaker001:] is it Lockheed and Boeing
[speaker002:] yeah but Lockheed I used to work for Lockheed and at the time I was there they were developing the prototype for the uh that fighter
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and so it was pretty big stuff there then now they got the contract for it so
[speaker001:] so GD didn't get it or is not associated
[speaker002:] well they're they're in in partnership with uh Lockheed and and Boeing yeah it's a it's a threesome
[speaker001:] oh they are okay so it's I thought it was Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas or was that uh Northrop
[speaker002:] no McDonnell Douglas lost out they lost the contract they were in partnership with Northrop and they lost the contract and so
[speaker001:] okay yeah that'll be a biggie I wonder what they do with those planes now that they've made as uh test
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] test plane
[speaker002:] probably sell to somebody who wants to pay for I don't know
[speaker001:] yeah becomes a new corporate jet
[speaker002:] yeah there you go old Jerry can use that
[speaker001:] there you go yeah exactly alrighty well it's been good talking to you
[speaker002:] yes have a good day bye
[speaker001:] okay you too bye