[speaker001:] so how do you keep up on current events
[speaker002:] well I take the a daily paper I take the Houston Chronicle and uh when I my ritual in the morning is get my cup of coffee and the paper and sit down and check the headlines and at the same time I've got uh CNN on TV so uh that's sort of how I start the day is uh finding out what's going on and then uh in my business I'm in the oil business and we keep a a television tuned to CNN all day long and uh at a very at a real low volume uh that started back whenever we had the the war and uh the oil market was very volatile
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and it's something that we just you know we've we've stayed with and we've all kind of got accustomed to it and whenever there's anything exciting happening well we're we've got the access to it right away
[speaker001:] that's right your usually probably probably more adept at more adept adept at the news uh than most people I would assume I uh I don't quite have as the as regimented of a ritual as you do I get up in the morning if I don't have to go to work and I'll grab the paper I'll usually pull out the sports section and the business section and try to read those two first and then after I get through those I'll turn to the front front page news and and uh if an article catches my my my eye I'll I'll read it otherwise I'll just flip through the paper and you know like I said if if nothing really sounds interesting I'll just skip over it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well I I'm I'll have to admit now Monday through Friday my newspaper reading is pretty much uh hit the high points and let it go but on Sundays I really I really dig into it I'm I'm a pretty voracious uh Sunday paper reader that's a a big part of my uh Sundays relax with the Sunday paper and coffee and breakfast and just go completely through it but um
[speaker001:] do you do you guys have a pretty uh pretty thick paper there in in Houston on Sundays
[speaker002:] yeah the uh the Chronicle is it's you know it's similar to uh I guess the Dallas Morning News
[speaker001:] okay that's that's a good that's a good sized paper
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] there's there's a couple hours project right there
[speaker002:] yeah but it it's always kind of I mean and it is something I take a lot of pleasure in I I thoroughly enjoy it but it's always amazed me uh I don't know I've got a my brother in in Austin for instance that I mean he never looks at the paper he's not interested you know and it's just it's kind of astounding to me I'm I subscribed to Time magazine
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh I guess for five or six years nonstop you know and and it was a good source for a lot of information but
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] then I moved and didn't renew my subscription and now I don't I kind of got out of the habit of that but um I'm I'm interested in what's going on in the world and like to stay as you know as as as current as I as one can um
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] I know uh oh I generally work pretty late and consequently I'm not able to uh catch the the evening news but if I on on on the occasions that I do get in early enough I like to watch the ABC evening news I like uh uh
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] uh Peter Jennings yeah a lot better than any of the other uh announcers
[speaker001:] was that Peter Jennings yeah okay I uh admittedly don't really tune myself into the into either the five thirty the local news or the six o'clock news I uh it usually ends up being a repeat of what was in the morning paper or else if it's early enough it'll be in the next day's paper and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the local news is is to me it isn't that interesting because it's generally not too much human interest stuff it's more the you know somebody died here or we had a fire here
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] and uh I don't know I I when I was growing up I used to watch it all the time and maybe that was because I I grew up in a small town where the local news meant something to me because I could relate to the area or to the town or to the people but you know in in when you have a a Dallas Fort Worth market I really don't care what happened in Fort Worth or Arlington for that matter
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah well it interesting that it that you know you mention a small town I have a friend of mine who um she's a school teacher and this year um moved into a to a pretty small town I mean we're talking about maybe sixteen thousand people or so and is teaching school there she really does she loves her
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] her work and she likes living there she said the part of it that drives her crazy is is she's accustomed to living in a city and having a big newspaper and she said you know it's the little things