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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. While I record this, there's a few snowflakes and a few raindrops coming down. So put your sweater on, get your cup of coffee, glass iced, steer bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $6.03 a bushel, 550lb steer calf, not selling much, but I'm gonna quote them right where they are, $5.05 a pound. Butcher hog in Iowa 68ยข a pound, and $3.08 is the price for a 100lb fat lamb in Billings. But, guys, there's more much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. Okay. Think now. What comes to your mind if I say the name Artemis? Artemis. You know what? Up until yesterday, if you would have said that name to me, well, I would have flashed back instantly to the years of the 1960's, and I would have said, oh, yes.
OK Solberg:I know Artemis, the Wild Wild West with Robert Conrad as James West and Ross Martin as his partner Artemis Gordon. You know, guys, me and my little brother Marv loved the Wild Wild West. It aired on CBS from 1965 through the year 1969.
OK Solberg:But now when you say Artemis, well, I have to admit I think a NASA and their launch that just happened yesterday of a spacecraft to go around the moon and back. Listen. Highlights from the launch of NASA's Artemis II moon mission.
OK Solberg:A giant rocket's tower of flame lifted 3 Americans and 1 Canadian at 06:35PM eastern time yesterday on the 1st journey with a crew that will go around the moon, since 1972, a towering orange and white NASA rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday evening, lifting 4 astronauts towards space and transporting spectators imaginations to a future in which Americans may again set foot on the moon.
OK Solberg:As they did during the heyday of the Apollo program, which 1st put man on the lunar surface, spectators squeezed onto the beaches along Central Florida's Space Coast. The crowds cheered when the powerful rocket launched into the sky at 06:35PM eastern time. It traveled eastward over the Atlantic Ocean on a journey that will take astronauts around the moon but not land on the moon. End of quote for now.
OK Solberg:Well, my dear wife Thea texted me yesterday and I quote, she said, not sure if you have an idea for The 405 for tomorrow, but they blasted off the Artemis II with a 4 man crew. And I thought it was interesting because it was one of the 1st ones in years that anyone went up on to circle the moon and come back. She continues, it would fit with the timeline of your Vietnam thing you did today. Okay.
OK Solberg:Well, thank you, Thea. You know, guys, my dear wife pulls my head out of the clouds of the past and brings me home to reality. So now don't ever forget, Orvin doesn't just talk about things in the past sometimes, maybe not very often, I do talk about current events. Now back to the quote about Artemis II. If you watch NASA's ongoing video stream from inside the Artemis II Orion capsule, you'll notice something unfamiliar in space, smartphones with cameras.
OK Solberg:The crew were allowed to carry those devices during the mission, and they're using them to take pictures and presumably do other things with. The phones can be seen floating around the capsule, unbound by gravity. No case needed. End of quote. It is an interesting current event story, and I'm safe in saying it flashes us back to 07/20/1969 when Neil Armstrong said one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
OK Solberg:It flashes us back. But remember, this crew will not walk on the surface of the moon. The astronauts are scheduled to return to Earth on Friday, a week from tomorrow, 04/10/2026, concluding a roughly 10 day mission around the moon and back. What about that then? See, a current event can flash me back in time.
OK Solberg:Let's hear an appropriate bible verse from the book of Psalms 8:3-4 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you're mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him? Again, Psalm 8 verses 3 and 4.
OK Solberg:Well, the astronauts on Artemis II are gonna get to see a close-up view of that same moon that's mentioned in our bible. Oh, PS. NASA named its moon program Artemis because she is the Greek goddess of the moon and the twin sister of Apollo. Just thought you'd like to know.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.