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[ { "content": " well i don't kn[ow]- i mean i don't know what you think about this subject i the i had never really thought of what they said before about allowing the the sentencing to uh to go to the judge instead of the jury and allowing him to do that i've been kind of sitting here thinking about that a litt...
[ { "content": " last the last time i had one of these conversations i you know discovered that i my tastes and and and the other persons were very different uh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh well that's good", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh i my my own uh", "role": "a...
[ { "content": " -[o]kay well do you have any pets", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes i do uh uh in fact i'm living with three cats at the moment uh one of them is mine one of them is my daughter's and one of them is um partially mine and partially hers i guess", "role": "assistant" }, { ...
[ { "content": " you've done", "role": "user" }, { "content": "our most recent uh in series of projects i guess was inside was uh we remodeled the bathroom recently", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "and how did it go", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well it went pretty we...
[ { "content": "uh uh do you have any uh particular books that you've read lately that are are good books that you've enjoyed", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i haven't read much lately i've al[ways]- reading is one of my favorite things but somehow the last few months i just haven't read i've read m...
[ { "content": "well let's see if i can recall all those questions um well first off i have one daughter who's two", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and the question i think focused primarily on how people spend time with their children and is ...
[ { "content": " okay well the topic is selecting care for the elderly and i don't have elderly parents yet but not that far in the distant future what about yourself", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um-hum well my parents are both in their seventies my my mother and stepfather and my father and...
[ { "content": "well uh see what type of car do i want well i'd like to have a Corvette", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh wow", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter] but my uh weekly wages don't [laughter] apply for me to have that kind of car so", "role": "user" }, { ...
[ { "content": "so how do you feel about capital punishment", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well it's i am pretty much against it [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "really", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah how about you", "role": "user" }, { ...
[ { "content": "all right uh you have uh pets i understand a couple of them_1 what are they", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i- i well i have uh these well i don't know if they consider themselves animals anymore they actually you know sort of take over the place and and we're kind of their pets", ...
[ { "content": " -[he]llo Lynn", "role": "user" }, { "content": " yes", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay do you have any pets", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes i have a dog and cat now", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh what are their names", ...
[ { "content": "okay Maureen uh could you tell me what type of uh dining out that you like to do", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well we're probably different from you folks down here we're into uh Mexican or Tex-Mex or something like that that tends to be one of my favorites is to go out to uh have...
[ { "content": " real excited when i heard this that's why i've been trying to call all day [laughter-because] i keep getting these subjects like capital punishment so football i love this this is great well we're from Colorado so we're Bronco fans", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh yes", "role"...
[ { "content": "so where have you been where have you been camping before", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well i've been camping a number of uh of state parks as it were and one of the the first ones that i ever went out with was with another group of people there were some uh college students uh uh...
[ { "content": " i like everything but jazz", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you like everything but jazz what don't you like about jazz", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i just don't the the beat the tempo the whatever it is that makes it jazz just grates on my nerves i just", "...
[ { "content": "the uh public school sys[tem]- system seems to be getting a lot of uh criticism lately i guess over the years it's always seemed worse uh to the parents that have kids in there than it was when they were there so uh i don't know how much of it is well a lot of it is deserved but then a lot of it's...
[ { "content": " well let's go ahead and start with you what kind of kind of pets did you have", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay_1 well yeah when i was growing up uh we had dogs all the time so i always had at least two dogs i think at the most we had three and uh then when i met my my wife she w...
[ { "content": "uh i have uh i guess a lot of thoughts about the Vietnam War um i i guess i feel like i was pretty young while it was going on and so there's probably a lot of things i remember and a lot of things that i really didn't have a clue as to what was happening", "role": "assistant" }, { "co...
[ { "content": " well Dave what's your favorite magazine", "role": "user" }, { "content": "right now i think my favorite ones are Parenting and Car and Driver", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter-Parenting] and Car and Driver i see", "role": "user" }, { "content": ...
[ { "content": "what do you think about the uh Peace Corps or public service commitment", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh that's the first i've ever heard of it i haven't heard of it anything too much about it um", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i think it was uh thought up w...
[ { "content": "um you know one thing that i miss being in a small company is the opportunity for um job growth just different job opportunity i was talking with somebody from Bausch and Lomb today and she was telling me how she started as a clerk typist and then found another opening in another department and mo...
[ { "content": "okay what uh TV shows do you like and what do you watch", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i- i tend to be a a uh sports news and uh not very many of the modern sitcoms", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "what...
[ { "content": "well Robin um i do have a PC in my home", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh um-hum i don't have at home but i used one at work and i play on [laughter-there] but i do i do some of my own stuff on there too so", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "use one at work [laug...
[ { "content": " hi", "role": "user" }, { "content": " so w[hat]- well what do you think", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well providing universal health care insurance for the whole country is a pretty big task and i uh personally i don't approve of it for two reasons number one is...
[ { "content": " golfer", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well yes i am as matter of fact not a good one but i am a golfer ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well well that's about the way i am i don't consider myself a good one but i do enjoy it", "role": "user" }, { "con...
[ { "content": "okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "all right well i am uh the product of uh i think as much the changing roles of women as anyone my mother uh we come from a my mother and i were uh really prac[tice]- first generation divorce in our family", "role": "assistant" }, { "co...
[ { "content": "okay uh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you know you know what the topic is", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "music", "role": "user" }, { "content": "right", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "what type do you like", "role": "user" ...
[ { "content": "so child care your views", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh well we only have one child right now and another one on the way and right now i'm i'm home with her during the day i if i was looking for outside care i probably would stay away from professional child care centers and try ...
[ { "content": " -[o]kay do you work", "role": "user" }, { "content": " yes i do", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i think that's the main change what do you think", "role": "user" }, { "content": " well i think that's a big part of it and i- i think it maybe started becau...
[ { "content": " the best to do for voting", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well i think that uh i guess i ju[st]- everybody knows that education is is important but i guess the main thing is there's some things you just don't care about", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter]",...
[ { "content": "okay now you can tell me what you do", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh well i work with computers just like your [laughter-son]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and i actually do research in speech recognition", ...
[ { "content": " -[o]kay uh do you have any strong feelings one way or the other about our subject", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh i've i've gone back and forth on this subject uh many years my husband used to be uh when we were dating he used to really enjoy going out and hunting you know he he ...
[ { "content": " okay you wanna go ahead and tell me your favorite team or who you think will be doing well this year", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh well where i'm from the Atlantic coast conference is a very big conference and course we have Duke University that was the national champions last ...
[ { "content": "um i guess my feelings are that uh we almost have a universal health care system uh to a great degree except that now i read where we've left out about thirty four million people", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "and um i don't know...
[ { "content": "some of the political trends that have started up uh i guess in the other side of the ocean as it were some of the uh ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "revolutions and desires for change that's going on over there when that first...
[ { "content": "um", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you want to start [laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yes on uh taking care of the elderly do you have an older relative that you are concerned with right now", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i just have one...
[ { "content": "why don't you start because_1 i'm sure you've seen more movies than i [laughter-have]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i don't know um let's see have you seen John F Kennedy", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "no have you", "role": "user" }, { "content": "no...
[ { "content": "okay um", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "where do you live", "role": "user" }, { "content": "in Plano", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "in Plano", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes where do you live", "role": "assistant" }, { ...
[ { "content": " so i guess most of what happens happens in Salt Lake which is just about twenty miles south of us and that's quite a bit bigger and", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um-hum", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "they were just talking about how they had all these drive by ...
[ { "content": "okay i was trying to get my children quiet for a minute [laughter] well credit cards boy that's an easy topic isn't it [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay okay is it yes it is [laughter] it's one we all hold dear and near i'm sure", "role": "assistant" }, { "c...
[ { "content": "okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay um well actually i don't really cook [laughter] um i'm i'm still a student in college and um", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "you [laughter-don't] okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i'm fortunate to have my m...
[ { "content": " okay what is your uh community uh currently doing with regard to recycling", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh basically they're just uh having various recycling uh bins uh located for uh trash pickup", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh-huh well that's more than we ...
[ { "content": " did you hear the topic", "role": "user" }, { "content": "something about a food wasn't it uh-huh what wa[s]- what was it exactly", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah well okay i heard it a lot of times i should know it by now um um talk about food and cooking and th...
[ { "content": " okay what type of things do you feel would invade your privacy everyday", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um hm well i don't like it when um people listen to my phone conversations like if they're outside my door while i'm talking in my room", "role": "assistant" }, { "con...
[ { "content": " opinion on uh domestic or our policy towards uh Latin America is that especially during the Reagan now Bush administrations we seem to have a double standard in place over um how we treat them countries down there for example a left wing regime or communist regime is God awful and uh basically uh...
[ { "content": "uh well i i kind of feel like we pay um um maybe uh li[ttle]- uh too much actually i mean like twenty five thirty percent of our income the average family you know [vocalized-noise]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh yes absolutely", "role": "assistant" }, { "content"...
[ { "content": "[vocalized-noise] [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "[laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": " never did worked for a lot of computer companies in my life but not that not TI", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um okay", "role": "assistant" ...
[ { "content": " uh we have a Sheltie Collie a miniature Sheltie ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah it's about oh about_1 six months old and we're try[ing]- we're w[e]- we live in an apartment so we don't have a yard so it has to s[tay]- ...
[ { "content": "okay [vocalized-noise]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "o[kay]- o[kay]- okay i'm uh well i do work for a large company uh large meaning about tw[elve]- uh twelve thousand people ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "that's big", "role": "assistant" }, { "cont...
[ { "content": " now we're ready [laughter] yeah i had a", "role": "user" }, { "content": " there we go okay [laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "a family reunion this past year first time in many many years and", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role...
[ { "content": " okay um do you have children of your own", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah got uh four", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh you do what ages are they", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah uh let's see uh fourteen twelve five and one and a half i was ...
[ { "content": "hi Ed", "role": "user" }, { "content": "hi", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "hi", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh books uh i've actually i am reading a couple of different books uh uh one wa[s]- uh is uh a story well it is not a story it is a collection ...
[ { "content": " do you are you on a regul[ar]- regular exercise program right now", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes and i hate it [laughter] how about_1 you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter] oh well i'm kind of off and on", "role": "user" }, { "content": "o...
[ { "content": "well good afternoon to you Mary first let me ask you what's what's the weather like up there to begin with", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and good well well today uh when i got up it was twenty nine degrees", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter]", "role": ...
[ { "content": "[laughter] uh th[e]- the only work i do outside the home is i am an Avon representative", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "and i sell Stanley products", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "assistant...
[ { "content": "w[ell]- [vocalized-noise] this is going to be very bo[ring]- boring because i don't ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "hi", "role": "user" }, { "content": "[laughter] ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "you don't at all", "role": "user" }, { ...
[ { "content": "this is Archie", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "hi Archie i'm Sharon", "role": "user" }, { "content": "have you seen Dancing with Wolf", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah i've seen that that's uh that was a really good movie probably one of the bes...
[ { "content": "okay um i- ha[ve]- i have i purchased a gun um recently and um i w[ouldn't]- i- i feel like that the way i feel about it that uh you know it would be nice if you get could get rid of guns completely although i do like to shoot them for sport but i don't think you're going to be able to do that and...
[ { "content": " okay uh could you give me your thoughts on uh on any trends", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well uh longer term trends i think that uh like past oh ten or fifteen years uh the[re]- there there seems to be a a trend and maybe it's longer than that of of politics is is strictly a what...
[ { "content": "so how do you like the benefits of TI", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um well actually to tell you the truth uh not very well i resigned from Texas Instruments not shortly", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh that's right yeah", "role": "user" }, { "conte...
[ { "content": " kind of options do you have in your work", "role": "user" }, { "content": " uh as far as other than salary like the fringe benefits um we get of course insurance paid we get our sick leave and and holidays paid", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um-hum that's nice", ...
[ { "content": " okay_1 so what are what are your views o[n]- on capital punishment", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i have ambivalent feelings because i don't think it serves as a kind of deterrent we would like to think it is but on the other hand it is very very expensive to maintain you know Texa...
[ { "content": " i kind of think the probably the biggest political topic that i can think of at this point is probably the Ross Perot uh candidacy uh i think that that has some interesting uh effects to it at this point with the uh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um-hum", "role": "assistant" ...
[ { "content": "okay do you have any um ideas on universal health insurance do you have any strong opinions you do", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah i think it's probably a good idea um i think given that um well given that there're so many people who don't have health insurance it's probably a r...
[ { "content": " i think that uh one uh advantage of having uh the unanimous verdict is that in a criminal case you want to make sure that you don't uh convict someone who uh really shouldn't be convicted um", "role": "user" }, { "content": "definitely", "role": "assistant" }, { "content...
[ { "content": "well we haven't really heard that much in the news lately about uh US involvement in Latin America since uh all this Middle East crisis began so i haven't really paid that much attention like since ", "role": "user" }, { "content": " ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "...
[ { "content": "well i've been sort of out of it for a little while so i don't know really what's going on", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well there there's been some interesting stuff going on locally but i suppose nationally the big thing is probably uh the reaction to the war in the Gulf", "...
[ { "content": "hi uh how do you feel about gun control", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh i don't like a total ban on it but on the other hand i don't like total idiots pulling what they did down in uh my home state of Texas down in uh near Fort Hood", "role": "assistant" }, { "content"...
[ { "content": "okay so what do you think", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well i believe in capital punishment um and i i think the way that i understand the laws right now they are only for certain crimes um i'm not sure exactly what they are i think rape and uh", "role": "assistant" }, { ...
[ { "content": " what kind of crimes you have in Hattiesburg ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh actually about anything you can imagine uh from y[ou]- you know this petty theft kind of crud going around vandalism up to uh certain amount of organized crime where uh [vocalized-noise] gangs are...
[ { "content": "okay Jim um can you tell me a little bit about your opinions on capital punishment", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh the bottom line that i after four years of working with the state prison system i've come to the conclusion if you're going to give the man the death sentence go ahea...
[ { "content": "well i suppose we both have credit cards", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um-hum yeah they seem to be a part of life [laughter] ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": " yeah how do you use them", "role": "user" ...
[ { "content": "okay well let's see well we keep our paper paper bags lined up in the garage for glass and glass and uh plastics and uh we make the dump over to the Wal-Mart bins there as soon as they're full i guess we collect m[ilk]- milk cartons and whatever p[lastics]- other plastics are acceptable", "rol...
[ { "content": "so how many um credit cards do you have", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um i think i'm down to one", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh my gosh i wish i was that way is that why you said i had more experience than you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content":...
[ { "content": " okay_1 i guess we start talking about the budget", "role": "user" }, { "content": "very good sir", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay you you live near the nation's capital what can we do about this mess", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well uh living ...
[ { "content": " well what's your favorite dish ", "role": "user" }, { "content": " oh for your question probably it's uh tough to decide between like some sort of a Chinese dish or something like pizza ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah yeah i understand that i like oriental co...
[ { "content": "okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay Bob um our project's painting um do you have any uh any thoughts on whether painting's a good idea or a bad idea", "role": "user" }, { "content": "w[ell]- well of course uh it depends i guess on what you're uh oh oh what you'...
[ { "content": "so do you have any credit cards", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes i do i keep uh i have an American Express and a Visa card that i keep you know kind of for emergency purposes and i have you know i use a gasoline credit card which i you know pay off every every month", "role": ...
[ { "content": "some of the TV shows that uh i- i like are usually something that shows me something about a profession that i don't necessarily know how it operates and one of the earliest shows that uh taught me something was the old Bewitched shows when i was growing up i remember thinking so that's how the ad...
[ { "content": "okay how's the weather been out there", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well the last three days it's been pretty rainy we went to the beach and uh it started uh let's see around four o'clock", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um-hum", "role": "assistant" }, { ...
[ { "content": "okay Carolyn what kind of dress do you have to wear when you go to work", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh i can actually wear anything i want to however i generally wear uh suits or dresses", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah", "role": "user" }, { "co...
[ { "content": "there you go okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "now i'm sorry excuse me and uh i do that we recycle uh newspapers we take you know the Dallas Morning News daily and the Plano paper daily and you know after a month of that you got a ton of newspapers", "role": "user" }, ...
[ { "content": " [vocalized-noise]", "role": "user" }, { "content": " yes", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay_1", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay um uh what's your house like", "role": "user" }, { ...
[ { "content": "oh go ahead i- i am glad to talk to an expert i always wanted to know who an expert was", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh well i'm not an expert i just had a little i've i've seen a little pollution in my time it's uh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh", "role...
[ { "content": "huh okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i don't know how much i know about this [laughter-subject]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i don't know if i know anything or not but i've i've got some opinions on it see those type of people that that have the most op...
[ { "content": "so what do you think", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well shoot i think they ought to have it i think they ought to have uh uh you know health care for everybody my my only problem is uh uh i don't wanna pay for [laughter-it]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[vocali...
[ { "content": "okay i'm a meat and potato man [laughter] yeah", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you are huh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i love to cook outdoors", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you barbecue steaks", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "b...
[ { "content": "hi i'm Susan Linnstaedter", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "where you calling from", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh i'm in Dallas", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay all right so am i [laughter] okay you understand the topic", "role": "user"...
[ { "content": "okay what did you buy", "role": "user" }, { "content": "ok[ay]- a Ford Explorer a a Ford Explorer", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i'm sorry what oh really", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah one of the new ones", "role": "assistant" }, { "c...
[ { "content": " oh now we can talk about that great team", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah i think we know where we're heading well uh well i just heard i guess uh big problem right now on the other side Duke's trying to sign Sierra you know but apparently he's gonna sign for twenty five at fiv...
[ { "content": "perhaps this connection no it still echoes okay um", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you like to cook", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i love it", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i do too it it's kind of hard to find time sometimes but", "role": "as...
[ { "content": " well um as far as the as far as spending goes the way um the way i see it in the in the last article i read was that i think US ought to spend the same amount of money that we're spending but i think the states need to take advantage of it more than they are because_1 i know the article i read st...
[ { "content": "okay uh let me see we were supposed to talk about are consumer goods better or worse and have you had to take anything back recently have you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "let's see yeah i'm always returning things but i have three kids and um a lot of times it's just because ...
[ { "content": " okay what do you think of the public school system first off do you have children that are in it ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i have children that are in the Plano Public School systems and i am a substitute teacher at this point looking for a full-time job in the public school...
[ { "content": " ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay_1", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay well our involve[ment]- in our involvement in the Middle East well i don't know how you feel about uh Iraq but i think we did the right thing there i think they stopped too soon though", ...
[ { "content": "okay is uh that a sport you like to participate in [laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "no actually i'm a spectator and i'm a second hand spectator as a result of my first husband's or my la[te]- late husband's interest in golf", "role": "user" }, { "content": ...
[ { "content": "so do you do any of your own repairs or maintenance work", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i do a little bit i just do mainly you know change the oil and uh i'll do an occasional tune-up things like that change set of disc brakes but most of the stuff i have done i just don't...
[ { "content": " let's see mine's pretty easy actually uh i just got done reading a a magazine or a couple magazine articles about the uh new Saturns", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um and although i can't afford it right now i would just lik...
[ { "content": " uh what topic would you like to discuss political topic [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": " oh i don't know i guess the thing that's on my mind lately is these hostages that have been released so i can't imagine how it would've been to been in[carcerated]- incarcerated for ...
[ { "content": " ah so Beverly what do you think about drug testing", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i think in some professions it's uh essential things like pilots and things that involve the safety of other people particularly", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah we've we got a ...

[ { "content": " well i don't kn[ow]- i mean i don't know what you think about this subject i the i had never really thought of what they said before about allowing the the sentencing to uh to go to the judge instead of the jury and allowing him to do that i've been kind of sitting here thinking about that a litt...

[ { "content": " last the last time i had one of these conversations i you know discovered that i my tastes and and and the other persons were very different uh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh well that's good", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh i my my own uh", "role": "a...

[ { "content": " -[o]kay well do you have any pets", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes i do uh uh in fact i'm living with three cats at the moment uh one of them is mine one of them is my daughter's and one of them is um partially mine and partially hers i guess", "role": "assistant" }, { ...

[ { "content": " you've done", "role": "user" }, { "content": "our most recent uh in series of projects i guess was inside was uh we remodeled the bathroom recently", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "and how did it go", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well it went pretty we...

[ { "content": "uh uh do you have any uh particular books that you've read lately that are are good books that you've enjoyed", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i haven't read much lately i've al[ways]- reading is one of my favorite things but somehow the last few months i just haven't read i've read m...

[ { "content": "well let's see if i can recall all those questions um well first off i have one daughter who's two", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and the question i think focused primarily on how people spend time with their children and is ...

[ { "content": " okay well the topic is selecting care for the elderly and i don't have elderly parents yet but not that far in the distant future what about yourself", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um-hum well my parents are both in their seventies my my mother and stepfather and my father and...

[ { "content": "well uh see what type of car do i want well i'd like to have a Corvette", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh wow", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter] but my uh weekly wages don't [laughter] apply for me to have that kind of car so", "role": "user" }, { ...

[ { "content": "so how do you feel about capital punishment", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well it's i am pretty much against it [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "really", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah how about you", "role": "user" }, { ...

[ { "content": "all right uh you have uh pets i understand a couple of them_1 what are they", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i- i well i have uh these well i don't know if they consider themselves animals anymore they actually you know sort of take over the place and and we're kind of their pets", ...

[ { "content": " -[he]llo Lynn", "role": "user" }, { "content": " yes", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay do you have any pets", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes i have a dog and cat now", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh what are their names", ...

[ { "content": "okay Maureen uh could you tell me what type of uh dining out that you like to do", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well we're probably different from you folks down here we're into uh Mexican or Tex-Mex or something like that that tends to be one of my favorites is to go out to uh have...

[ { "content": " real excited when i heard this that's why i've been trying to call all day [laughter-because] i keep getting these subjects like capital punishment so football i love this this is great well we're from Colorado so we're Bronco fans", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh yes", "role"...

[ { "content": "so where have you been where have you been camping before", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well i've been camping a number of uh of state parks as it were and one of the the first ones that i ever went out with was with another group of people there were some uh college students uh uh...

[ { "content": " i like everything but jazz", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you like everything but jazz what don't you like about jazz", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i just don't the the beat the tempo the whatever it is that makes it jazz just grates on my nerves i just", "...

[ { "content": "the uh public school sys[tem]- system seems to be getting a lot of uh criticism lately i guess over the years it's always seemed worse uh to the parents that have kids in there than it was when they were there so uh i don't know how much of it is well a lot of it is deserved but then a lot of it's...

[ { "content": " well let's go ahead and start with you what kind of kind of pets did you have", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay_1 well yeah when i was growing up uh we had dogs all the time so i always had at least two dogs i think at the most we had three and uh then when i met my my wife she w...

[ { "content": "uh i have uh i guess a lot of thoughts about the Vietnam War um i i guess i feel like i was pretty young while it was going on and so there's probably a lot of things i remember and a lot of things that i really didn't have a clue as to what was happening", "role": "assistant" }, { "co...

[ { "content": " well Dave what's your favorite magazine", "role": "user" }, { "content": "right now i think my favorite ones are Parenting and Car and Driver", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter-Parenting] and Car and Driver i see", "role": "user" }, { "content": ...

[ { "content": "what do you think about the uh Peace Corps or public service commitment", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh that's the first i've ever heard of it i haven't heard of it anything too much about it um", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i think it was uh thought up w...

[ { "content": "um you know one thing that i miss being in a small company is the opportunity for um job growth just different job opportunity i was talking with somebody from Bausch and Lomb today and she was telling me how she started as a clerk typist and then found another opening in another department and mo...

[ { "content": "okay what uh TV shows do you like and what do you watch", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i- i tend to be a a uh sports news and uh not very many of the modern sitcoms", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "what...

[ { "content": "well Robin um i do have a PC in my home", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh um-hum i don't have at home but i used one at work and i play on [laughter-there] but i do i do some of my own stuff on there too so", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "use one at work [laug...

[ { "content": " hi", "role": "user" }, { "content": " so w[hat]- well what do you think", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well providing universal health care insurance for the whole country is a pretty big task and i uh personally i don't approve of it for two reasons number one is...

[ { "content": " golfer", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well yes i am as matter of fact not a good one but i am a golfer ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well well that's about the way i am i don't consider myself a good one but i do enjoy it", "role": "user" }, { "con...

[ { "content": "okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "all right well i am uh the product of uh i think as much the changing roles of women as anyone my mother uh we come from a my mother and i were uh really prac[tice]- first generation divorce in our family", "role": "assistant" }, { "co...

[ { "content": "okay uh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you know you know what the topic is", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "music", "role": "user" }, { "content": "right", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "what type do you like", "role": "user" ...

[ { "content": "so child care your views", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh well we only have one child right now and another one on the way and right now i'm i'm home with her during the day i if i was looking for outside care i probably would stay away from professional child care centers and try ...

[ { "content": " -[o]kay do you work", "role": "user" }, { "content": " yes i do", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i think that's the main change what do you think", "role": "user" }, { "content": " well i think that's a big part of it and i- i think it maybe started becau...

[ { "content": " the best to do for voting", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well i think that uh i guess i ju[st]- everybody knows that education is is important but i guess the main thing is there's some things you just don't care about", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter]",...

[ { "content": "okay now you can tell me what you do", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh well i work with computers just like your [laughter-son]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and i actually do research in speech recognition", ...

[ { "content": " -[o]kay uh do you have any strong feelings one way or the other about our subject", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh i've i've gone back and forth on this subject uh many years my husband used to be uh when we were dating he used to really enjoy going out and hunting you know he he ...

[ { "content": " okay you wanna go ahead and tell me your favorite team or who you think will be doing well this year", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh well where i'm from the Atlantic coast conference is a very big conference and course we have Duke University that was the national champions last ...

[ { "content": "um i guess my feelings are that uh we almost have a universal health care system uh to a great degree except that now i read where we've left out about thirty four million people", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "and um i don't know...

[ { "content": "some of the political trends that have started up uh i guess in the other side of the ocean as it were some of the uh ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "revolutions and desires for change that's going on over there when that first...

[ { "content": "um", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you want to start [laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yes on uh taking care of the elderly do you have an older relative that you are concerned with right now", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i just have one...

[ { "content": "why don't you start because_1 i'm sure you've seen more movies than i [laughter-have]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i don't know um let's see have you seen John F Kennedy", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "no have you", "role": "user" }, { "content": "no...

[ { "content": "okay um", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "where do you live", "role": "user" }, { "content": "in Plano", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "in Plano", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes where do you live", "role": "assistant" }, { ...

[ { "content": " so i guess most of what happens happens in Salt Lake which is just about twenty miles south of us and that's quite a bit bigger and", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um-hum", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "they were just talking about how they had all these drive by ...

[ { "content": "okay i was trying to get my children quiet for a minute [laughter] well credit cards boy that's an easy topic isn't it [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay okay is it yes it is [laughter] it's one we all hold dear and near i'm sure", "role": "assistant" }, { "c...

[ { "content": "okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay um well actually i don't really cook [laughter] um i'm i'm still a student in college and um", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "you [laughter-don't] okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i'm fortunate to have my m...

[ { "content": " okay what is your uh community uh currently doing with regard to recycling", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh basically they're just uh having various recycling uh bins uh located for uh trash pickup", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh-huh well that's more than we ...

[ { "content": " did you hear the topic", "role": "user" }, { "content": "something about a food wasn't it uh-huh what wa[s]- what was it exactly", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah well okay i heard it a lot of times i should know it by now um um talk about food and cooking and th...

[ { "content": " okay what type of things do you feel would invade your privacy everyday", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um hm well i don't like it when um people listen to my phone conversations like if they're outside my door while i'm talking in my room", "role": "assistant" }, { "con...

[ { "content": " opinion on uh domestic or our policy towards uh Latin America is that especially during the Reagan now Bush administrations we seem to have a double standard in place over um how we treat them countries down there for example a left wing regime or communist regime is God awful and uh basically uh...

[ { "content": "uh well i i kind of feel like we pay um um maybe uh li[ttle]- uh too much actually i mean like twenty five thirty percent of our income the average family you know [vocalized-noise]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh yes absolutely", "role": "assistant" }, { "content"...

[ { "content": "[vocalized-noise] [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": "[laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": " never did worked for a lot of computer companies in my life but not that not TI", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um okay", "role": "assistant" ...

[ { "content": " uh we have a Sheltie Collie a miniature Sheltie ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah it's about oh about_1 six months old and we're try[ing]- we're w[e]- we live in an apartment so we don't have a yard so it has to s[tay]- ...

[ { "content": "okay [vocalized-noise]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "o[kay]- o[kay]- okay i'm uh well i do work for a large company uh large meaning about tw[elve]- uh twelve thousand people ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "that's big", "role": "assistant" }, { "cont...

[ { "content": " now we're ready [laughter] yeah i had a", "role": "user" }, { "content": " there we go okay [laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "a family reunion this past year first time in many many years and", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role...

[ { "content": " okay um do you have children of your own", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah got uh four", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh you do what ages are they", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah uh let's see uh fourteen twelve five and one and a half i was ...

[ { "content": "hi Ed", "role": "user" }, { "content": "hi", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "hi", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh books uh i've actually i am reading a couple of different books uh uh one wa[s]- uh is uh a story well it is not a story it is a collection ...

[ { "content": " do you are you on a regul[ar]- regular exercise program right now", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes and i hate it [laughter] how about_1 you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter] oh well i'm kind of off and on", "role": "user" }, { "content": "o...

[ { "content": "well good afternoon to you Mary first let me ask you what's what's the weather like up there to begin with", "role": "user" }, { "content": "and good well well today uh when i got up it was twenty nine degrees", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[laughter]", "role": ...

[ { "content": "[laughter] uh th[e]- the only work i do outside the home is i am an Avon representative", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "and i sell Stanley products", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "assistant...

[ { "content": "w[ell]- [vocalized-noise] this is going to be very bo[ring]- boring because i don't ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "hi", "role": "user" }, { "content": "[laughter] ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "you don't at all", "role": "user" }, { ...

[ { "content": "this is Archie", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "hi Archie i'm Sharon", "role": "user" }, { "content": "have you seen Dancing with Wolf", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah i've seen that that's uh that was a really good movie probably one of the bes...

[ { "content": "okay um i- ha[ve]- i have i purchased a gun um recently and um i w[ouldn't]- i- i feel like that the way i feel about it that uh you know it would be nice if you get could get rid of guns completely although i do like to shoot them for sport but i don't think you're going to be able to do that and...

[ { "content": " okay uh could you give me your thoughts on uh on any trends", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well uh longer term trends i think that uh like past oh ten or fifteen years uh the[re]- there there seems to be a a trend and maybe it's longer than that of of politics is is strictly a what...

[ { "content": "so how do you like the benefits of TI", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um well actually to tell you the truth uh not very well i resigned from Texas Instruments not shortly", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "oh that's right yeah", "role": "user" }, { "conte...

[ { "content": " kind of options do you have in your work", "role": "user" }, { "content": " uh as far as other than salary like the fringe benefits um we get of course insurance paid we get our sick leave and and holidays paid", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um-hum that's nice", ...

[ { "content": " okay_1 so what are what are your views o[n]- on capital punishment", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i have ambivalent feelings because i don't think it serves as a kind of deterrent we would like to think it is but on the other hand it is very very expensive to maintain you know Texa...

[ { "content": " i kind of think the probably the biggest political topic that i can think of at this point is probably the Ross Perot uh candidacy uh i think that that has some interesting uh effects to it at this point with the uh", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um-hum", "role": "assistant" ...

[ { "content": "okay do you have any um ideas on universal health insurance do you have any strong opinions you do", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah i think it's probably a good idea um i think given that um well given that there're so many people who don't have health insurance it's probably a r...

[ { "content": " i think that uh one uh advantage of having uh the unanimous verdict is that in a criminal case you want to make sure that you don't uh convict someone who uh really shouldn't be convicted um", "role": "user" }, { "content": "definitely", "role": "assistant" }, { "content...

[ { "content": "well we haven't really heard that much in the news lately about uh US involvement in Latin America since uh all this Middle East crisis began so i haven't really paid that much attention like since ", "role": "user" }, { "content": " ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "...

[ { "content": "well i've been sort of out of it for a little while so i don't know really what's going on", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well there there's been some interesting stuff going on locally but i suppose nationally the big thing is probably uh the reaction to the war in the Gulf", "...

[ { "content": "hi uh how do you feel about gun control", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh i don't like a total ban on it but on the other hand i don't like total idiots pulling what they did down in uh my home state of Texas down in uh near Fort Hood", "role": "assistant" }, { "content"...

[ { "content": "okay so what do you think", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well i believe in capital punishment um and i i think the way that i understand the laws right now they are only for certain crimes um i'm not sure exactly what they are i think rape and uh", "role": "assistant" }, { ...

[ { "content": " what kind of crimes you have in Hattiesburg ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh actually about anything you can imagine uh from y[ou]- you know this petty theft kind of crud going around vandalism up to uh certain amount of organized crime where uh [vocalized-noise] gangs are...

[ { "content": "okay Jim um can you tell me a little bit about your opinions on capital punishment", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh the bottom line that i after four years of working with the state prison system i've come to the conclusion if you're going to give the man the death sentence go ahea...

[ { "content": "well i suppose we both have credit cards", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um-hum yeah they seem to be a part of life [laughter] ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": " yeah how do you use them", "role": "user" ...

[ { "content": "okay well let's see well we keep our paper paper bags lined up in the garage for glass and glass and uh plastics and uh we make the dump over to the Wal-Mart bins there as soon as they're full i guess we collect m[ilk]- milk cartons and whatever p[lastics]- other plastics are acceptable", "rol...

[ { "content": "so how many um credit cards do you have", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um i think i'm down to one", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh my gosh i wish i was that way is that why you said i had more experience than you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content":...

[ { "content": " okay_1 i guess we start talking about the budget", "role": "user" }, { "content": "very good sir", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay you you live near the nation's capital what can we do about this mess", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well uh living ...

[ { "content": " well what's your favorite dish ", "role": "user" }, { "content": " oh for your question probably it's uh tough to decide between like some sort of a Chinese dish or something like pizza ", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah yeah i understand that i like oriental co...

[ { "content": "okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay Bob um our project's painting um do you have any uh any thoughts on whether painting's a good idea or a bad idea", "role": "user" }, { "content": "w[ell]- well of course uh it depends i guess on what you're uh oh oh what you'...

[ { "content": "so do you have any credit cards", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yes i do i keep uh i have an American Express and a Visa card that i keep you know kind of for emergency purposes and i have you know i use a gasoline credit card which i you know pay off every every month", "role": ...

[ { "content": "some of the TV shows that uh i- i like are usually something that shows me something about a profession that i don't necessarily know how it operates and one of the earliest shows that uh taught me something was the old Bewitched shows when i was growing up i remember thinking so that's how the ad...

[ { "content": "okay how's the weather been out there", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well the last three days it's been pretty rainy we went to the beach and uh it started uh let's see around four o'clock", "role": "user" }, { "content": "um-hum", "role": "assistant" }, { ...

[ { "content": "okay Carolyn what kind of dress do you have to wear when you go to work", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh i can actually wear anything i want to however i generally wear uh suits or dresses", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah", "role": "user" }, { "co...

[ { "content": "there you go okay", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "now i'm sorry excuse me and uh i do that we recycle uh newspapers we take you know the Dallas Morning News daily and the Plano paper daily and you know after a month of that you got a ton of newspapers", "role": "user" }, ...

[ { "content": " [vocalized-noise]", "role": "user" }, { "content": " yes", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay_1", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay um uh what's your house like", "role": "user" }, { ...

[ { "content": "oh go ahead i- i am glad to talk to an expert i always wanted to know who an expert was", "role": "user" }, { "content": "oh well i'm not an expert i just had a little i've i've seen a little pollution in my time it's uh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "uh", "role...

[ { "content": "huh okay", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i don't know how much i know about this [laughter-subject]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i don't know if i know anything or not but i've i've got some opinions on it see those type of people that that have the most op...

[ { "content": "so what do you think", "role": "user" }, { "content": "well shoot i think they ought to have it i think they ought to have uh uh you know health care for everybody my my only problem is uh uh i don't wanna pay for [laughter-it]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "[vocali...

[ { "content": "okay i'm a meat and potato man [laughter] yeah", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you are huh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i love to cook outdoors", "role": "user" }, { "content": "you barbecue steaks", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "b...

[ { "content": "hi i'm Susan Linnstaedter", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "where you calling from", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh i'm in Dallas", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay all right so am i [laughter] okay you understand the topic", "role": "user"...

[ { "content": "okay what did you buy", "role": "user" }, { "content": "ok[ay]- a Ford Explorer a a Ford Explorer", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i'm sorry what oh really", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah one of the new ones", "role": "assistant" }, { "c...

[ { "content": " oh now we can talk about that great team", "role": "user" }, { "content": "yeah i think we know where we're heading well uh well i just heard i guess uh big problem right now on the other side Duke's trying to sign Sierra you know but apparently he's gonna sign for twenty five at fiv...

[ { "content": "perhaps this connection no it still echoes okay um", "role": "user" }, { "content": "do you like to cook", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "i love it", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i do too it it's kind of hard to find time sometimes but", "role": "as...

[ { "content": " well um as far as the as far as spending goes the way um the way i see it in the in the last article i read was that i think US ought to spend the same amount of money that we're spending but i think the states need to take advantage of it more than they are because_1 i know the article i read st...

[ { "content": "okay uh let me see we were supposed to talk about are consumer goods better or worse and have you had to take anything back recently have you", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "let's see yeah i'm always returning things but i have three kids and um a lot of times it's just because ...

[ { "content": " okay what do you think of the public school system first off do you have children that are in it ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i have children that are in the Plano Public School systems and i am a substitute teacher at this point looking for a full-time job in the public school...

[ { "content": " ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "okay_1", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "okay well our involve[ment]- in our involvement in the Middle East well i don't know how you feel about uh Iraq but i think we did the right thing there i think they stopped too soon though", ...

[ { "content": "okay is uh that a sport you like to participate in [laughter]", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "no actually i'm a spectator and i'm a second hand spectator as a result of my first husband's or my la[te]- late husband's interest in golf", "role": "user" }, { "content": ...

[ { "content": "so do you do any of your own repairs or maintenance work", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "well i do a little bit i just do mainly you know change the oil and uh i'll do an occasional tune-up things like that change set of disc brakes but most of the stuff i have done i just don't...

[ { "content": " let's see mine's pretty easy actually uh i just got done reading a a magazine or a couple magazine articles about the uh new Saturns", "role": "user" }, { "content": "uh-huh", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "um and although i can't afford it right now i would just lik...

[ { "content": " uh what topic would you like to discuss political topic [laughter]", "role": "user" }, { "content": " oh i don't know i guess the thing that's on my mind lately is these hostages that have been released so i can't imagine how it would've been to been in[carcerated]- incarcerated for ...

[ { "content": " ah so Beverly what do you think about drug testing", "role": "user" }, { "content": "i think in some professions it's uh essential things like pilots and things that involve the safety of other people particularly", "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "yeah we've we got a ...