[speaker001:] what are your favorite programs
[speaker002:] uh it's kind of hard to put my finger on a on a favorite TV program however uh one that I've been watching for a number of years is Dallas and uh
[speaker001:] oh how funny
[speaker002:] and uh it's going to be going off the air uh let's see a week from Friday a week from tonight it's going to be its last show so I've I've kind of enjoyed watching over the years I've been disappointed in it and also pleased in it and uh I was uh greatly disappointed uh when I did move down to Plano to uh find out that the uh the uh great South Fork Ranch was really only a one bedroom house
[speaker001:] I've seen the sign that goes to there I've well I think I've seen it in the distance
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but I have not even seen it and I have not seen the program
[speaker002:] oh well that's a shame
[speaker001:] so 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
[speaker002:] um-hum yes
[speaker001:] and that's that's the two things they associate with Dallas Texas so I and I they asked me several several times they ask me why are there two bridges and I didn't know what they were talking about it took me a long time they're talking about the viaducts
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] is that that is right isn't it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] because they ask me why are there two bridges going into Dallas darned if I know I was blank looking you know I felt really dumb
[speaker002:] well it it's uh when you look at the uh you know route seventy five coming down there I I mean it's actually a bridge but it's a bridge over top of roadway there's no water there I mean uh
[speaker001:] well there's water in the Trinity I thought it was to going to Oak Cliff over the Trinity
[speaker002:] yeah well there's there um well they I think when they open the show up they give you two different views of Dallas one from the east and one from the west
[speaker001:] oh do they oh
[speaker002:] and that's why
[speaker001:] oh I see
[speaker002:] uh it kind of confuses people but uh uh I enjoy a a a lot of different comedies um I think it's mainly for an escape um you know you uh my job is not the most thrilling in the world and uh I enjoy laughing and uh some of the shows that uh are on the air some are just purely you know brain drainers
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] I think that is just a hoot that's one of those few that I do watch and the television is on my husband likes to watch TV it's on
[speaker002:] um yeah
[speaker001:] I usually read and watch TV
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and usually I can handle both at the same time you know because I am pretty sure where the TV plot's going
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] but that's one of the few that I just actually watch because it's funny
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] I really enjoy that one
[speaker002:] yes it uh it has been very entertaining and and also uh the the issues they deal with uh really tends to open open your eyes as well as your mind to some of the problems and uh I've I've really enjoyed that one since it came on um don't like the politics surrounding the program though but I mean other than that you know there seems to be a little fighting in fighting going on between the producers and one of the actresses but uh and then uh I've kind of gotten hooked on PBS stuff uh public uh TV 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
[speaker001:] now we watch a lot of those uh and the ones that sometimes will hook me to put down my book will be the one there was one uh recently about the Gettysburg Address
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and they wrapped a fictional story around it
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I thought that was well done
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and and it it caught my attention I wound up watching the whole thing um I guess the awards ceremonies and there seems to be dozens of them per year maybe I've spent two minutes watching to see what they have on and if they make a fool of themselves or not but uh they could take that whole collection and it would disappear and I'd never miss it for a minute
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] particularly the beauty pageants I I particularly take issue with those I I really dislike those
[speaker002:] 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 watch a baseball game
[speaker001:] you know my husband used to just be riveted to the Dallas Cowboys and now we're out running around and if they're if they're playing he'll turn it on while we're in the car to see what the score is and he'll listen but even I've said hey look you're fascinated with this you sit and listen to the Cowboys let me run in here and I'll do some things and I'll come back and you don't have to miss he'll say nah nah nah and he doesn't he doesn't watch it he listen like I say if it's convenient he'll listen to it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but he just doesn't watch them on TV like he used to
[speaker002:] well I think it was great when they were you know like world champs and they were doing real well I uh I personally I I came from the Washington area and so I was a big Washington Redskins fan
[speaker001:] oh oh those people yeah
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh how neat
[speaker002:] the only year they played together on the Dallas Cowboys
[speaker001:] well I actually got to go see them win in the Super Bowl when they went down to New Orleans
[speaker002:] yeah oh wow
[speaker001:] and I I I made the trip and did the whole New Orleans before the game and the game and everything and uh that was
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] that was a lot of fun but
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I don't know I haven't been as I'll tell you what I love to watch and this is not this is rarely on television but what is a lot of fun to go attend is this arena football yeah I like it's so much better than straight football
[speaker002:] hm no I haven't seen that
[speaker001:] it it doesn't it has a lot of different rules the field is half the size
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and there's no they can't call time and things like that it moves a lot faster
[speaker002:] uh gee I'll have to try to catch that sometime if
[speaker001:] uh again I think it may be on cable more than anything else we don't have cable
[speaker002:] yeah that's proba bly true yeah we don't either I uh I couldn't rationalize paying you know it's like if I pay for a movie channel then I have to watch what movies they want me to watch when they want me to watch them and if I you know if I didn't use cable for anything else other than the basic well I can get that for free and well I don't really don't need CNN 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
[speaker001:] well
[speaker002:] and of course when we were living in Texas it was real convenient with Tom Thumb you know having movies uh back then it was ninety nine cents I mean go
[speaker001:] oh they're everywhere they're on every corner everything you've ever wanted to see
[speaker002:] yeah and you can see them a lot sooner than you can see them on any of the stations like HBO or Cinemax
[speaker001:] well and I like to rent tapes because you can put the thing on hold if you get a telephone call or something like that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] or it becomes snack time for various reasons you can put you know the only thing this Dance with Wolves I want to see it in a theater
[speaker002:] yeah oh yes I do too
[speaker001:] because I understand that that your you'll lose fifty percent of it if you don't
[speaker002:] yeah and I 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 everybody I know that has seen it has said that the three hours go really quick
[speaker001:] that's what I hear too
[speaker002:] and uh so I'm I'm hoping I can get her talked into it soon
[speaker001:] well my husband smokes he's one of the dinosaurs that still smokes and you can't smoke in movie theaters
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and that has really slowed down the forward progress of going to movies but I haven't really cared up until this point but I we are this weekend going to go see Dance with Wolves it's that's it we will do it
[speaker002:] um that's great
[speaker001:] so yeah finally
[speaker002:] yeah but as as far as uh regular TV shows I mean I've got some some shows that I 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 I wish I had time to see it's like I enjoy watching Cheers it's very funny some of the things in it are mindless but I I just don't have time to watch it um I think about the only night that I really sit in front of the TV set all night long probably is on Monday nights and because um I work so hard over the weekend doing other things with the kids and stuff and going to work on Monday Monday night I'm just worn out so I kind of use it as the time to catch up on correspondence and and look over things and I can sit in front of the TV set and look at you know do go through my mail and and watch TV at the same time
[speaker001:] well I tend my job tends to be very demanding
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and to sit down and to mindlessly either read or just mindlessly stare in absolute comfort isn't as bad as it used to