okay uh my favorite show is Masterpiece Theater and it has been for a long time but
i feel almost ashamed to say that to anybody now because i've never met anybody who likes it do you by any chance you do
oh yes yes very much
well wouldn't you know
as a matter of fact i prefer public television
uh-huh
and uh i have particularly enjoy the
English comedies
yeah
and the
English mysteries
yeah i watch Mystery too um is is that what you're referring to okay yeah that is good i like uh do you read
yes
vociferously
okay well that's the reason why i like both of those programs is because they're kind of based on books and the plots are more
yes
uh challenging you know than the sitcoms
of regular TV
well unfortunately for us at least here in the United States we the only access we have to that of course is public television
yeah
and i i'm not a great television watcher in in any respect uh but uh
the
watching what i do watch is uh
usually news and whatever is on public television uh any kind of i also uh
am very fond of great performances in in that regard
uh-huh yeah me too
but uh
did you stay up late and catch this Red Dwarf oh that was a scream
no uh no uh no as a matter of fact
uh Turner Broadcasting
uh-huh
has been uh broadcasting
all of the James Bond movies
really uh-huh
every night this week so i have concentrated on watching James Bond movies this week
huh
i used to like him too he was my hero in fact i like Sean Connery to this day
well they're showing uh Live and Let Die at this moment and it is the first appearance of Roger Moore as 007
uh-huh yeah
yeah
so it it
oh he could never cut it
no no that's true i was just thinking that today he well in some of the later movies he looks very effeminate in the early movies whereas uh Sean Connery has maintained the
yeah yeah he does
i how would you ruddy uh look uh but uh
uh-huh
yeah
i liked his accent too
oh yes yes
and he can even be in movies that are not uh uh sexually oriented and he still comes off great
well you know he was uh
when was it last year or year before last
he was voted
the
sexiest actor in movies or something
yes
yeah he had my vote double
i mean the man is sixty two years old if
i don't care
but uh otherwise you know we uh with you know PBS and so forth and i i particularly enjoy i don't know whether you've whether you had a chance to watch it on PBS but uh
uh-huh
the series uh Yes Minister
uh what's that about
that was about a the interior minister it was a comedy the interior minister of uh in England with the permanent secretary and bureaucracy and all that
oh yes yes
uh-huh
right
i like i've seen it several times it's a scream but i had to go to bed i have to get up and and work the next morning i wish they'd put those
that's why i say did you stay up late to watch this Red Dwarf it came on after Doctor Who on Saturday nights here at least
um-hum
um-hum
and it's just of course i don't you know you really it was
i don't think they should show it on during prime time but still
yeah
it was funny
yeah i know well i i'd
i as i said i'm not much of a television watcher i read as i said and uh quite a bit i i read about
uh-huh
two or three novels a week
yeah
in addition to all the technical stuff what do what what do you do what kind of work do you do
i'm a payroll clerk just an accounting clerk
at TI
no uh i have a friend who works for TI and uh i work for a a tire service here in i'm from Dallas
oh i see
um-hum well the last two people who have called both worked for TI and i just wondered huh
yeah yeah it could be TIers uh i think probably are participating more than anybody else but
um-hum
i needed the money this is five bucks here yeah really do you work for TI
i guess yeah i i guess we all can
no no i work for GTE
really how'd you hear oh we're not even supposed to be talking about this though are we
in Maryland yes
well that i guess it it doesn't
yeah
how did i hear about it well i work you know they're gathering a database for voice processing and that's my field of of work also
uh-huh
so i i know the people at TI who are doing this and i heard about it so i called them and ask if i could could participate and uh
huh
yeah
you know sent in the forms etcetera and uh so forth
huh
right
we could go back to television shows if you
well you know speaking of public TV have you caught any of this series on the Bible
yes i have
i've heard that it's really against the well i mean that it's coming out with the idea that the Bible's not true
well no that's it you could interpret it that way
uh
uh-huh
i think
what they're trying to say is that there is a great deal of
historical truth
but the interpretation that
actually got into the um
the writing of the Bible itself is probably
uh after the what uh was it the King James Version when the committee
uh-huh
uh
did it wrote wrote the uh the or translation that so much was lost in the translation uh particularly since most of the translations most of the translations were from Greek
yeah
uh well for example uh in Greek there are seven different words for love
right
okay so you can have there's one word for love of your brother one word for love of your wife one ler word for you know love uh love of uh your father and that sort of thing
so in those translations those types of interpretations uh
really made a difference in how one might interpret the Bible now and what it says so that you know it's it you know you can look at it as though they are saying it's not true but there's too much historical
uh-huh
fact involved just from the
uh the histories that are that were developed around that time that are available
huh
to deny that at least you know the majority of it is true so you know you know it depends on how you look at it
yeah
you can look at it if you know if if you want to say that it's proving that
it isn't true then you can you very much look at it that way
i guess if you're looking for that you're
yeah hey you could well you can interpret that the what the TV show in the same way you can interpret the Bible well uh so
but uh
uh-huh
really
but uh i as as far as that goes i at we at we at least agree on you know on what we enjoy in that regard but uh
yeah that's right
i don't know if there's a there is a time limit on this so uh
yeah surely we've made it well it was nice talking to you okay you too bye-bye
i think so too all right well it's been very pleasant talking to you
and have a good evening
good night
