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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.
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D.J. Rasmussen
Wanna again welcome you to the 405 coffee break, guys. Get you a cup of coffee, glass of iced tea, bottle of water. Sit up straight, clean up your plate, and don't talk back. Let's see what's happening. Spring Wheat, $5.64 a bushel.
OK Solberg:550 pound steer calf, $4.01 On the top end, butcher hog in Iowa, 54ยข a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings, $2.17. But guys, there's more, much more. Now, I don't want you to panic. I want you to remain calm.
OK Solberg:I do not want you to become disturbed. I don't want you to think that KMMR is playing yesterday's episode, okay? But I want to use some from yesterday's program to set the stage. Are you ready? Don't panic, promise?
OK Solberg:On the corner of Central Avenue and 9th Street, right here in Malta, Montana, is a place called Highline Market. You know the place, a meat market and soup and sandwiches, open eight till six. And that used to be Mick's Texaco, and after that, it used to be Mick's Honda. Remember what I said yesterday? Now you're probably scratching your head.
OK Solberg:You're thinking, wait, Orvin, I thought that used to be Packies. And you too are correct. From Mick's Texaco to Mick's Honda to Packies, and now it's Highline Market. And yesterday I said, so all that to say this, on the south side of that building where Micks used to be in the 1960's, there was a sign. It said, if you lived here, you'd be home now.
OK Solberg:I know I talked about it before on the 405 even before yesterday, but I'm using that as my starting point again today because like Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, there's no place like home. Have you ever heard someone say every road leads home? The point of this exercise, just like yesterday, is to realize that many of us live here in Malta, Montana, and we are home. There's another saying, you don't know what you got till it's gone. But see, to us that live here and to us that call it home, it isn't gone.
OK Solberg:We have it. And I want you to understand that one of the things that can so easily be taken for granted is this. We don't notice when we have it. So I want you to notice it. I want you to pay attention today, tomorrow, next week, right now.
OK Solberg:If you lived here, you'd be home now. I do live here, and I'm happy I know it. And I'm happy to live in Malta, Montana. Listen to this bible verse same as yesterday, Genesis thirty one three. Then the Lord said to Jacob, return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
OK Solberg:Yep. The Lord told him to go back home. There's no place like home. Again, I used that all yesterday, but today I have another song to share with you that also has a similar theme. It was written and sung by Merle Haggard himself.
OK Solberg:Now guys, Merle has an interesting life story. I wanna share that with you someday. But today, simply one of his songs. Listen. The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom.
OK Solberg:I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest. And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell, let my guitar playing friend do my request. Let him sing me back home with a song I used to hear. Make my old memories come alive. Take me away and turn back the years.
OK Solberg:Sing me back home before I die. I recall last Sunday morning, a choir from across the street came to sing a few old gospel songs, and I heard him tell the singers, there's a song my mama sang. Can I hear once before we move along? Sing me back home the song my mama sang. Make my old memories come alive.
OK Solberg:Take me away and turn back the years. Sing me back home before I die. Great song by a great singer, and that song came out in 1968. But don't wait till you end up in prison to appreciate home. Remember, if you lived here, you'd be home now.
OK Solberg:Guys, we do live here, and I want you to say thank you for noticing that and paying attention because I too am thankful for that fact. The weekend's near, go out and enjoy. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.