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double, I don't spend much time with television any more. I haven't for the last couple of years. I have--late at night when I'm home alone--taken to listening to talk stations on radio, and I don't think those programs would be enhanced one bit by having to sit in front of a television screen. But at any rate, that's one man's opinion.

Q:

But it's still live conversation. It's not something you get on Internet. That's what I'm really talking about: it's a live exchange.

Stanton:

Although on some of the bulletin boards, you get some pretty lively-- [Q. laughs]

Q:

Well, I should ask you--do you play with the computer a lot?

Stanton:

Sure. [Q. laughs] In fact, I'm just going down after lunch and buy one for a brother-in-law that's retired and says there's nothing to do. I'm going to send him a computer, with a modem, and let him start getting his fingers wet. He'll have something to do.

Q:

He'll have plenty to do.

Stanton:

Absolutely. His wife will probably not thank me for it.

Q:

No, she'll never see him again.

Stanton:

But it's like eating peanuts, you know. [Laughs]





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