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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 04:05 coffee break. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottle of water, guys. Let's see what's happening. Spring week, nothing to brag home about. $5.67 a bushel.
O.K. Solberg:550 pounds steer cap. Sit down. I've never said this before. Sit down. Sit down.
O.K. Solberg:Buckle up. $4 and a penny a pound. I'm not kidding you guys. They are putting contracts out for $4 and above for fall delivery. I hope to shout and call the doctor.
O.K. Solberg:Never been this high in the history of mankind. In Omaha, Seventy Eight Cents a pound, and a hundred pound fella in Billings at 02:15, but guys, there's more, much more. Today, it won't be music. It won't be baseball. It won't be poker.
O.K. Solberg:Today, it'll be our fascination with words. Words are great. You know? Don't you agree? If it weren't for words, I wouldn't be able to say, I love you.
O.K. Solberg:If it wasn't for words, I wouldn't be able to say, I hate you. I enjoy words just as much as I enjoy music, baseball, and poker. The two words today will be and the password is oh, wait. Our bible verse first. From the fruit of his mouth, a man is satisfied with good and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
O.K. Solberg:Proverbs twelve fourteen. Oh, yes. From the fruit of his mouth, a man is satisfied with good. Well, what are the fruit of the mouth? It can only mean words.
O.K. Solberg:Words are so very important. We can build someone up or we can tear someone down. What's it gonna be, boy? Up or down? I'm gonna say up.
O.K. Solberg:I hate feeling down. So the two words for today are ironic and paradox. We hear the word ironic often, but paradox isn't in our normal Phillips County vernacular. So we often hear the word ironic and sadly, we hear it often used incorrectly. Enter word number three.
O.K. Solberg:The third word is coincidence. Ironic gets inserted into coincidence's arena often. Here, I'll give you an example. You might hear someone say, my girlfriend's favorite color is red, and I wanted to surprise her for Valentine's Day and take her out for a night on the town. But she had an appendicitis attack.
O.K. Solberg:We rushed her to the hospital. They did an emergency appendectomy, but it burst, and she was hospitalized for six weeks. Lucky she is alive. But anyway, since we missed our Valentine night on the town, I took her out two months later, and ironically, the restaurant used red nap kins that night on our table. It was ironic that they had red napkins.
O.K. Solberg:Sorry, guys. We hear it used that way, but sadly, that is incorrect. It was a coincidence that they used red napkins. It was coincidental. See, ironic has to do with an opposite.
O.K. Solberg:The true and pure usage of the word iconic could be David went down to the drugstore to get his insulin, and he was killed by a delivery truck hauling insulin. Now that is sadly ironic, and that is ironic in its true nature. Or try this one on for size. A fire station burns down while the firefighters are out responding to a call about fire safety at a local school. Now that's ironic.
O.K. Solberg:See the opposite there? Now with the clock ticking in the sands of time screaming your time is about up, Orban, let's quickly look at the word paradox. I wanna say this, paradox and ironic are twins, but but they are not identical twins. The definition takes some thinking to wrap your head around it. Listen, I'll share it.
O.K. Solberg:A seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. That is better understood by giving you a couple of examples. Listen now. Oh, I'm here to tell you the only constant is change. See the paradox?
O.K. Solberg:Here's another. I know one thing, guys, I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Oh shoot, another example of a paradox. If you'll win by cheating, then did you really win? So see, paradox and ironic are twins, but they are not identical twins.
O.K. Solberg:Now why did Orvin get this subject in his mind in the first place? Oh, I'll tell you, for it isn't only words I love. I love baseball too, and you know it, and you're sick of it. And if you heard earlier this week, I was talking about Nolan Ryan, one of the greatest pitchers to play the game. Nolan Ryan, alive, 78 years old.
O.K. Solberg:Nolan Ryan threw 5,714 strikeouts, far exceeding the second place person by over 800. He also pitched seven no hitters, so it's safe to say he is the king of the pitching hill. But listen to this, Will Clark hit six home runs off of Nolan Ryan. In fact, Will Clark's first at bat in the Major League, his first time to the plate, he is facing none other than Nolan Ryan. And the first pitch from Nolan, the first pitch, Will Clark hit for a home run.
O.K. Solberg:I hope to shout and call the doctor. That isn't ironic. It isn't coincidental. It's a paradox. It's fun to have fun with the things we find fun.
O.K. Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.