Dave: So you got a laptop computer, so that's awesome. So, did you get any DVDs to watch on your laptop? You didn't? Chris: No.
Dave: You didn't. Okay, what else did you get for Christmas that you quite enjoyed?
Chris: Well, I got a pair of shoes from my sister. The only problem with the shoes is that they don't fit, so I'm going to have to take these shoes back to the store and get them resized, because they don't fit me. Yet again, in a way, it was a useless present. But I guess no present is useless, it's the thought that counts. Yourself, Dave? What did you get for Christmas? Maybe you'd like to elaborate on the socks? Dave: They're nice socks, by the way. I mean, you know, it's not those socks that come in a bag, like tube socks in a bag. It wasn't those. Some very nice dress socks, some boxer shorts, which go well with the socks, a couple nice dress shirts, a Jump drive. It's a wonderful little device about the size of your thumb. You stick it into your hard drive, and you can upload and download information from it and into it very quickly, and stores up-the one I have stores up to 520 megabytes of information. Very tiny, it's very convenient, exceptionally convenient. It's just another stage going from the, you know, large floppy disks to the 3.5" floppy disks, to the Zip disks. This is even better. Yeah, Zip disks hold 100 megabytes, this one-it's five times as small and holds five times as much. It's just an amazing gift. Chris: And that connects to any computer, or does it connect through the USB port, or-how does it work?
Dave: Through the USB port. Any computer at all, and the software for it is actually within it, so you don't need any extra software. You pop it in there and it recognizes it, and your computer says, "Ah," and it starts it up and says, "What would you like to do, download or upload?" It's awesome, a great device. I also got a bunch of great DVDs, some good books as well; one on the history of England and America as partners-and sometimes allies and sometimes not allies, but most of the time allies-written by Christopher Hitchens, one of the best minds in the world today. If there's one single intellectual who uses English in a brilliant way, it's Christopher Hitchens. Anyway, that, and I got some awesome DVDs. I got the Civil War series by Ken Burns, 11 hours long, absolutely brilliant, and I got GoodFellas, the two-disc set. Just brilliant. I don't know, are you familiar with that movie? Chris: I am very familiar with that movie. One of my favorites.
Dave: Awesome, so what do you-of course, this is a Martin Scorsese film, and everybody-a lot of people really do appreciate this film. What do you like about this film in particular?
Chris: Just the harsh reality of things, and how life can take twists and turns unpredictably. For instance, in GoodFellas, throughout the movie, everything seems good, everything's working well for Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta and Robert DeNiro. But then toward the end, everything starts to fall apart, and I find relevance in that because it's so true, because as all empires must come to an end, as did their empire. Yeah, I just think that it really shows human nature and what human nature is capable of. As you said, them being greedy, and that was the downfall of their empire, which is often the case in many stories. So I thought it was a very good video.
