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I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break, guys you like winter? Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.49 a bushel, a 550lb pound steer calf $4.17, four one seven on the top end. Butcher hog in Iowa 65ยข a pound, and a lamb that's fat weighing a 100lbs in Billings will fetch you $2.20 a pound. But guys there's more much more.
OK Solberg:So little to do and so much time to do it. Tell me where that quote is from. Can you think? Anyone? Anyone? So little to do and so much time to do it? No. Wait. Reverse that.
OK Solberg:You know that line comes from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory staring Gene Wilder. You know, sometimes I just wake up in a good mood and that's the way I feel. So much to tell, we won't have enough time. Do you ever wake up and drink a bit of coffee and just have a desire? You have a desire at the bottom of your heart to holler out, I hope to shout and call the doctor.
OK Solberg:I do. But I'm gonna reserve that saying for occasional use so I don't wear it out. You know, I can wear out things sometime. Remember now don't be bitter. Okay.
OK Solberg:So anyway, I have a friend in the state of Illinois that listens to this podcast broadcast and he used to live in Malta. Guys, anyone who has lived in Malta loves to hear about what's happening back here at home. So he listens. The other day while texting with him, it was my turn to answer and I responded, well, it's snowing again in Malta. Hannon's shoe shop is closed and another person just walked into my office.
OK Solberg:I mean, that's just what I did. He text back sounds like the beginning of a murder mystery. Guys, I like that. I like that a lot. Now, he set the stage for this episode.
OK Solberg:Alright? Okay, kitties. Sit up and listen. Listen carefully. I'm going to write fiction.
OK Solberg:Fiction. That means it's not the truth. When I say I'm gonna write fiction that means it isn't true. Right? But I'm gonna write fiction as if it happened in Malta Montana in the year 1965.
OK Solberg:Got it? Some of you folks don't listen carefully. You hear me talking on this episode and later I might hear you say to me, I heard you said you rode a riverboat. No. No.
OK Solberg:No. No. I never rode a riverboat. I was reading someone else's account. So remember, what you are about to hear is fiction, but all the locations that will be mentioned were really in Malta, Montana in the year 1965.
OK Solberg:Got it? It's fiction. So let's use the opening I used with my friend and I began. Well, it's snowing again in Malta. Hannon shoe shop is closed and another person just walked into my office.
OK Solberg:Oh, by the way, I'm Marv Smith, the competitor to Hannon. I too have a shoe shop, you know, right next to doctor Carl A Totman. You gotta know just the other side of Elsie's Sugar Shack. Anyway, just the other day 3 young boys come running into my office and I believe their names were Orvin Solberg, Mike Lowney, Dan Perry but don't quote me on that. Anyway, they were all in a hustle and one said to the other, yesterday I come out of Ben Franklin and I see the cops heading out.
OK Solberg:I bet there was a murder. Lowney said, Solberg you get so dramatic about everything. I too saw the cops heading out and I was on my bicycle near Dobson Motors across from Byers Husky and I saw them head west but it doesn't have to be a murder. It could be anything. That Solberg kid kinda held his head when Lowney said that and he hung it low and he said, well, it could be a murder just saying.
OK Solberg:Perry piped in about that time and said, well, I didn't see nothing. I did hear the siren wail but I was over at the Montana hotel tormenting that baboon, know. And I got on my bike and I rode past the city hall and at the intersection I see there was a fender bender over there at Ray's Central Standard. Lowney said, I thought you told me the fender bender was at Weirs Texaco. You know that Perry kid shook his head and said, Lowney you get things so mixed up, you'll probably tell the story that the fender bender was out at Stein's Nightclub or over at Dahlenbeck's nursery.
OK Solberg:Oh, no. Wait. You'll probably say it happened in front of Kamla's jewelry store or Zane's radio and TV shop. You're like everyone else. You don't listen.
OK Solberg:It's about that time that I piped in. Remember me? I'm Marv from the shoe shop. I said, boys, let me clear things up for you a little bit. Sig & Dora Flum from over at Gambles told me the cops headed out to Kay's Cafe.
OK Solberg:I guess there was some sort of shenanigans going on out there, but there was no murder. I can verify that because that young girl that works for Willis McKeon, I think her name is Sherry. She said she went out with Willis and she got the eyewitness report. That put the boys at ease and Solberg said, well, let's go over to Price Rite and get some candy. Lowney said, sure.
OK Solberg:But then let's go over to Traffen Door. I saw Leroy Cron, the carpenter, and he said they're closing the store after eighty years. After eighty years of business, everything is half price. And that's the end of my story. Just wanted you to know I do more than fix shoes in this shop.
OK Solberg:The end. I'll close with a bible verse. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations, ask your father and he will show you, your elders and they will tell you. Deuteronomy 32:7 So until next time as you go out there, remember now don't be bitter.