so what kind of music do you like
i like all kinds of music actually
yeah that's same here
i'm kind of partial to country western i like that
do you
and i like mood music like you know when i'm in the mood for that i like semi-classical
yeah
the real classics i'm not as familiar with as you know the ordinary sounds that you hear every day type of thing
uh-huh yeah that's about that's about all i listen to is the classical stuff we have a we have a really good classical radio station here
uh-huh
it's uh gets no money from the state or the feds or anybody it's uh one hundred percent listener supported
oh huh
and it's a twenty four hour station
oh that's fantastic
yeah they they get a lot of support here
well we have a similar um radio station here
and because of the uh people i guess being pressured to have advertisers
you know a lot of the stations have to have advertisers they kind of like
uh-huh
compromised
and they do some of it at like certain hours but it's not always at a time when you can you know sit down and listen to it so
uh-huh
you you kind of get trapped into listening to whatever there is available type of thing you know
yeah yeah that's the good thing about them they do no advertising that's it's really nice just music
uh-huh
we have that on TV we have two public uh broadcasting systems uh channel two and thirty six
also that are publicly supported and they have excellent programming
yeah i like i like PBS
yeah yep same thing
uh PBS here you can't get it unless you have cable
uh-huh
and that really upsets me because i won't pay cable prices because there's it's it's useless having cable i think
it is it's expensive
it's uh it's far too expensive and they don't have anything on there
no and the the problem is that they can do it at will you know like up the prices
and you're if you have it you just have to pay it
yeah exactly
you know that's the hard part
i've almost given in a couple of times and gotten it every time i get one of those special offers in the mail but
yeah
uh-huh
i've avoided the temptation so far but i sure do miss PBS
yeah
because they they have lots of good stuff Masterpiece Theatre and mystery and nature
yep
see we have cable here
yeah
and almost everyone here has cable
and it it's uh it's good because you don't need the outside antennas with your TV and stuff and it gives you a lot more um
yeah
of the other you know of the widest uh uh television that's available to you
um-hum
yeah i i had cable before i uh came up here
and i miss some of it i mean we had pretty good cable where i was but i miss Discovery Channel and A&E and CNN
uh-huh
yeah that's what i like
yep right and i love that
you know i'm having CNN withdrawal pains
uh-huh
do you go to the theatre for for music uh
every once in a while um
have you been to the opera ever
uh occasionally down in Charlotte
yeah
oh that's nice
yeah it it's it's pretty good
i've seen Man of La Mancha and uh a few of those you know that in Boston and uh i enjoyed it thoroughly i really did
um yeah
i've seen a few musicals and i uh go to Atlantic City once in a while and i always like to catch some shows when i'm there
um-hum
especially like when they have special singers and things and La Cage au Faux that was excellent
yeah
yeah i been into Boston a few times uh i was there last year during the Fourth of July thing and went out to the um
uh-huh
Esplanade and listened to the Boston Pops and
oh wow
well we're only about two hours from there yeah
they're good they're really
oh really
yeah i Boston's okay i mean i wouldn't want to live there but it's a nice place to visit
no
right in fact i
yeah it's crowded i know that
sure is
it's murder driving in that place
isn't it awful
yeah and i always get stuck in the in the afternoon traffic
oh yeah i i think that the commute to to and from work has to be the worst horror show
because even the breakdown lane is used for a passing you know a travel lane in the morning
um-hum
and that's really i think that's a very serious thing you know i'm surprised they haven't had more you know really fatal accidents out there doing that
well i tell you the way people are driving nowadays i'm surprised we're not killing more people than we are
oh i know it's true it's true
seems like drivers are getting worse and worse every year
so what are you majoring in
um human factors
oh and and what is that
that's um well it's sort of difficult to explain it's
it's industrial engineering and you look at applications and things from the human from the human factor standpoint how does it interface with the person using it
oh
oh i see
and and
yeah we had someone from uh do some ergonomics in our area do you do
yeah it that's very similar
cover some of that yeah
yeah very similar um
uh specializing in the computer and you know uh interfacing with computers and software and all that kind of good stuff
oh oh oh
oh well then this is right up your alley what they're trying
yeah this is uh sort of the same sort of thing that's why it's it was the uh professor who brought this thing in he'd gone to a conference
yeah yeah
uh-huh
down there and brought this thing up i yeah sure i'll do it
yeah
why not
really
hey if TI wants to give me five bucks a phone call that's okay
sure sure
you have to talk to all kinds of neat people all over the place
yeah it's true it is in in fact i have a friend of mine that moved to North Carolina
she's um an emergency room nurse she does the operating room
um-hum
and uh she's been down there a couple years and she really loves it
where's she at
i don't know the city
yeah there's
all i know is it's down in in North Carolina in fact the last time she was up i meant to ask her
you know what city she was in i didn't but she said it's really nice
yeah there's not too many not too many big ones around here
no
uh matter fact we don't have any big ones
after you know after being used to places like Boston and Atlanta you come here and you know they people think Charlotte is the big town you know
yeah
oh wow
and it's small
really
yeah
what's the population
uh Charlotte oh what about
quarter of a million
oh that's that's pretty good size though
oh it's fairly good size i mean it's it's not it's not small but it's certainly small by Atlanta standards
yeah
yeah
yeah
course everything's small consider compared to Atlanta
i i liked Atlanta too i have a sister-in-law that lives in Atlanta
yeah my my brother and uh sister-in-law live there i like
they she uh she in fact went from Massachusetts to uh Florida then to Atlanta and she really really likes it
yeah Atlanta's Atlanta's a good city it really is uh you have to get used to that cotton picking traffic on two eighty five
yeah
but uh if you if you miss it at the right time of the day then you're okay
yeah yeah
but it always seemed like when i was there i was always finishing i lived in Duluth which is uh north of Atlanta well not north it's more east
uh-huh
uh along I eighty five
um-hum
and i would always be on the other end of two eighty five having to go all the way around two eighty five and then onto eighty five to go home and it was always at the end of the day
oh yeah
i never managed to plan my departure right
the airport's something down there
oh yeah
oh my God i i swear those planes going or coming going or coming
yeah yeah it's scary
it is it's um
it's scary they they rival even uh Chicago on uh departure and arrival uh number of arrivals every day
yes
unbelievable
in fact when we went down to visit one time we just sat there and we watched i couldn't believe
yeah oh it's a busy it's a busy place and they have amazingly few accidents there
the traffic
it is
i know isn't it
amazingly few
unreal
because uh i mean if you're flying anywhere down here you always go through Atlanta you can't avoid it
uh-huh
it's the hub city
yep yep
and uh God
i went there to to visit the Underground when that was you know the Underground City
um-hum yeah
and i thought that was really neat
yeah that's super it's getting even better too
that amazing
oh really
yeah they they just they never stop doing things to it
is that right
all kinds of good stuff go
course i haven't been there in about uh eight years
yeah last well see i left there in uh eighty
so
what was it
eighty six
yeah
so it's been it's been five years for me
five years
the the growth in that place is phenomenal
yeah it just doesn't stop
they don't stand still that's for sure
i mean it
we're having our problems out this way with the banking crisis and
yeah
credit unions and all that kind of good stuff
yeah
yeah
and it's starting to effect you know the economy
sure
because of uh the uh businesses that have their money tied up
yeah exactly
every place you go you know the
couple of years ago i was thinking about moving to Massachusetts but uh boy i'm glad i didn't
uh-huh
yeah yeah
because it's really going downhill up there
it has i don't know what they're going to have to do to boost it but they need to do something quick
well you know i i was when when the big boom was going on i was thinking well Dukakis must be an absolute genius
yeah
and then i i i really think that all of that was just you know temporary growth and everything to make him look good for the Presidential election
yeah
because it certainly wasn't sustained
sometimes i wonder though if the presidential election isn't what really did everything in
because he wasn't really paying attention to business you know
you can't do both things well
well
yeah but on the other hand if it if it needed his personal intervention all the time then it wasn't a good system anyway
no true but uh
you know it should it should have been rolling right along without him
yeah
you know good a good chief executive would be able to sit back and not do anything
that's true
yep that's true
hopefully
yeah somebody has to watch the store though you can't really you know without overseeing
no that's true and and and Lord knows with that legislature up there they probably did all kinds of things while he wasn't looking
sure sure
so
look at what happened just in Washington alone God
yeah well you can 't
it's mind boggling
you can't trust legislators anyway
no
well it's been interesting talking to you
yeah we need we didn't talk too much about music but we had a good conversation
but oh yeah right i hope to hear
