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Greetings 405 listener!
The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
Your neighbor and website maintainer,
D.J. Rasmussen
I wanna again welcome you to the four zero five Coffee Break. Guys, get your cup of coffee, glass of iced tea, bottled water, beverage of your choice. Let's see what's happening out there. Spring wheat, $6.17 a bushel. It went above the $6 benchmark, 550 pound steer calf, I hope to shout $3.97 a pound.
OK Solberg:Butcher Hog in Omaha, Sixty Two Cents a pound, and a hundred pound fat lamb in Billings at $2.51. But guys, there's more, much more. So so let me ask you a question. Do you find yourself thinking the days gone by and wishing we had this or wishing that we had that again? Of course, you know that I think often of the past, oh, it's refreshing.
OK Solberg:But for some reason we remember the good and dismiss the bad. Think about it. We remember the songs, the cars, the music from the sixties and seventies, and we wish we had them back. But think, if we go back, we can't take our computer or our cell phone or our GPS. Now to some, that sounds good.
OK Solberg:They say I don't need all this fancy technology. But remember the day when you were planning an out of state trip? You're going on vacation, and all we could do is look at a road map and ask someone for directions. Yeah. Yeah.
OK Solberg:Yeah. Write it down. Turn off at Exit 346 and go four blocks till you get to the Shell service station, and then turn left and go six blocks to Streeter Street, and turn right and seven blocks straight down, you'll come to the greenhouse on the left with a lilac bush in the front. You gotta admit, GPS is certainly stress relieving. We forget the bad and remember the good.
OK Solberg:It isn't a new thing. Think of the children of Israel wandering in the desert. They'd been slaves, and this guys was my wife's idea when I shared this with her. Wonderful Thea brought it up. Oh, I said that's a great comparison.
OK Solberg:Think of the children of Israel wandering in the desert, they'd been slaves, they'd been whipped and made to make bricks, they were held hostage, but after God delivers them through the hand of Moses, well, they start grumbling. It was hot, they were tired, they were free, but they only remembered the food they had in Egypt. Listen from the book of Numbers chapter 11. Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving, and the people of Israel also wept again and said, oh, oh, that we had meat to eat. We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the onions, the garlic, end of quote.
OK Solberg:They remembered the good food, but they forgot they were slaves, and they forgot they were held hostage. All they could say was, oh, like remember that good cucumber salad we used to eat? Man, was that good. So there's a lesson to learn. Thinking back is fun, but remember, it wasn't as great as our feelings remind us.
OK Solberg:Sure the music was great and the cars were fast in the seventies, but the only safeguard we could make for driving 30 miles home on a gravel road at night in the middle of the winter when it's 30 below was to stop at someone's house with a landline, no cell phone, a landline or a pay phone, and call the folks and tell them, well, we're leaving town now if we aren't home in an hour, come looking. That tendency to remember the good and forget the bad was highlighted in the Saturday night live scene from 1989. It was titled the grumpy old man. Do you remember it? Dana Carvey was a grumpy old man.
OK Solberg:Here. I won't do the whole thing, but I'll give you a taste. I'm not happy. I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress, flippledy flu.
OK Solberg:In my day, we didn't have bottled water. Who needs it? So clean and pure. In my day, we pumped raw sewage directly into the water supply. And when you wanted to drink, it came out all brown and gooey, and sometimes it had chunks of hairy crud in it.
OK Solberg:And that's the way it was, and we liked it. We loved it. Flebbl des bation. In my day, we didn't have all this athletic footwear, so you could walk in comfort. In my day, we only had one kind of shoes in it shoe, and it was a size seven.
OK Solberg:And if it didn't fit, you just jammed your foot into it. There I end the quote. There I end the quote. A hilarious skit from grumpy old man, but it makes a good point in a sarcastic and humorous way. We forget the bad and just remember the good.
OK Solberg:I like today. I like today. It reminds me of another bible verse, Ecclesiastes 7-10, do not say why were the old days better than these, for it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. That's good advice, it's fun to remember when I do it again, but remember we often think only of the things that are good, and we don't remember the hardships. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.