[speaker001:] well what magazines do you subscribe to Lori
[speaker002:] well we have probably too many we've got not enough to keep up I mean too many to keep up with we get uh Forbes Fortune Newsweek
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] Southern Living Texas Highways and National Geographic I think I think I've got them all
[speaker001:] oh gosh yeah uh-huh well I I take um right now I've kind of a whittled mine down I just take Vanity Fair and uh Harper's and uh Houston City magazine
[speaker002:] uh-huh  uh-huh
[speaker001:] but you know how I used to subscribe to Texas Highways that's one of the best magazines for the money going
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I mean it's such a bargain what what I mean what is it like twelve dollars a year
[speaker002:] it is something like that yeah
[speaker001:] and then the photography's beautiful
[speaker002:] it is
[speaker001:] yeah it's matter that's I thought about it not too long ago that uh I had seen an issue and I thought gosh I ought to give my parents that for Christmas but I of course now it's Christmas I haven't done it so maybe next year
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but I know I had I had uh found myself about I don't know two years ago in the in a situation where I I literally had more magazines coming in than I could read and I thought this is crazy so I
[speaker002:] right you know it's not so bad if they're monthly publications but like Newsweek which I really enjoy um comes out every week and so it's really hard to keep up with
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah well I I took Time for I guess ten years
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I enjoyed it and it and I it you know it has just you know a wealth of information I mean it's therefore similar to Newsweek but whenever I got to the point that I just I just finally said this is just insane because I had so many magazines I let them all lapse
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and then once they were all gone and of course that took a while I didn't realize how much I had paid up on some of them
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh then I decided well I you know Vanity Fair offered me a special thing to come back at a reduced rate you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then Harper's did and so I you know little by little I've I've you know subscribed to a few more again but uh I take the newspaper everyday
[speaker002:] right uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I've got plenty of reading material
[speaker002:] yeah well we get the newspaper on the weekends and that seems to be enough
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker002:] because we'll just turn on the news otherwise and see see what the latest is
[speaker001:] well you sound though kind of like me though but I mean it's I'm I have always plenty of reading material around my house
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and when I go to visit my brother and sister-in-law in Austin it drives me crazy because I I always have to be sure and put something in my suitcase to read because honestly I wonder these people don't ever read
[speaker002:] oh is that right
[speaker001:] yeah I mean their house just a you know it's just it's it's appalling to me they have nothing to read
[speaker002:] well maybe that's what you ought to get them for Christmas
[speaker001:] yeah really well uh well actually I think one year uh several years ago I did give them a a subscription to Time and they never said a word about it you know and so I thought well maybe they weren't
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh really I'd they're not into that
[speaker001:] maybe they weren't into it you know that's fine but it's just it's so different than
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you know I just I require reading material that's all that is to it
[speaker002:] right right yeah um you know one thing I hate I don't know if this is really on the subject but when they call you the different places call you to sign up
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] at this you know and they try to give you this big bargain and and you're like no we already subscribe to enough magazines at the time and
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] yeah well I um you know I had as a matter of fact the the Vanity Fair whenever I let it lapse
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] they had sent me all these you know final notice things and I just you know didn't send them back in
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so finally once I did decide to subscribe again I sent in a a thing that said hey you know I mean it was whatever the the uh subscription rate was I think like fifteen dollars
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and about a month later I got a thing in the mail saying well hey as a former subscriber you can now get it for twelve and they had a one eight hundred number I called up and I said hey I want three bucks back
[speaker002:] oh right
[speaker001:] so they extended they said they were gonna extend my subscription for three months but they're pretty competitive
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah yeah but um I find at times I have numerous magazines piled up and I'll just sit down you know one weekend or something and try to catch up on them
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but I mean I you know I enjoy it I guess you know um as far as comparing that to other media it's so much easier to listen to either the radio or to watch TV to listen I mean to know what's going on rather than to read an article
[speaker001:] oh it is it is and it just but at the same time you can you can get information I mean there there
[speaker002:] in a magazine
[speaker001:] the variety and you can get different types of information and and you know television is is geared so much to
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] the average Joe Blow and quite frankly I mean there there are items of interest to me that you'll never find on television
[speaker002:] exactly yeah that's true the other thing is um some magazines