Dave: So, okay, of all the presents you got, was there one particular present-it doesn't have to be the most expensive one or the one given by someone you care about-but was there one particular present that really will find utility in your life? Something that is a terrific, terrific gift.
Chris: Well, I think that's an easy question. I would find my laptop, the new laptop that got for Christmas, the most useful gift that I would get for-that I got for Christmas. It's good for work, it's just good for all-around purposes. Since we are in the information technology era, it's something that I will need for my future. I think it's something very useful that everybody can use. Yourself, David? You said you got a Civil War movie, I believe it was?
Dave: It's the documentary that was shown on PBS, and I have a feeling that this documentary's been shown probably everywhere in the world. It's probably considered one of the best documentaries ever made. It took about five years to make, it came on PBS, shown all over North America several times in ten or eleven episodes. It's Ken Burns, The Civil War, and it's absolutely magnificent. It uses no videotape, of course, because they didn't have video back then, but they do have pictures, so it's music and pictures, and it tells the story from the beginning to the end of the Civil War. It talks about how the slaves were treated before the war, and then how they gained their freedom in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, and it talks about all the individual people who fought, especially the young boys who fought. It was just an amazing slaughter, that in one day, in one single-in seven hours, as many people were killed as all the people who died in the Vietnam War. In seven hours. The Vietnam War conflict was over fifteen years. You have one single battle-I'm not sure which battle, it might been the Battle of Shilo-where you had casualties up to over fifty thousand. Just absolutely amazing, and it was a civil war because it was between brother against brother, people against people, fighting on their own territory. Just absolutely staggered me. Yeah, that's an amazing gift. It's one of the few things that you watch that really impacts you deeply, and I'm very happy I got it. Christopher, thank you for talking with me.
Chris: Thank you very much.
Dave: All right, let's talk again soon. Chris: We will talk soon.
Dave: Adios.
Chris: Adios.
