The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg

Thank God it's Friday.

What is The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg?

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.

OK Solberg:

I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, maybe a tall cool glass of lemonade. Let's see what's happening.

OK Solberg:

Spring wheat $6.10 a pound. $6 and a dime. 550lb steer calf rate $5.02 a pound, a 100lb fat lamb in Billings at $2.97 a pound, but guys, there's more, much more.

OK Solberg:

So did anyone realize it's Friday? By the time this program ends, we are within viewing distance of the weekend. Enjoy with me this story. By Thursday evening, America begins to lean. Not enough to spill coffee, mind you.

OK Solberg:

Though Earl down at the feed store came close last year after hearing someone say, looks like we might quit early tomorrow, nearly tipped clean into a rack of motor oil.

OK Solberg:

No. The whole country simply shifts a little towards Friday, towards supper with nowhere urgent to be, towards pickup trucks pointed home instead of towards town, towards the sacred and beautiful possibility of leaving your boots by the door and pretending not to hear anything that sounds like work.

OK Solberg:

Friday has a sound to it. You can hear it in the slower hum of the cafe, in the hardware store where men wander the aisles studying tools they absolutely do not need. A fellow walks in for furnace filters and leaves with vice grips, a flashlight, and somehow a 50 pound bag of grass seed.

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Fridays affect judgment, and every working man becomes a philosopher on Friday afternoon. Somewhere around 03:30 leaning against a pickup tailgate, someone says, you know, life's too short. Nobody knows exactly why this thought arrives only on Fridays, but there it is.

OK Solberg:

Deep wisdom delivered beside a thermos bottle that hasn't been washed since the Ronald Reagan administration. Now Fridays also create ambition, dangerous ambition. A man driving home Friday night believes he can rebuild civilization by Monday morning.

OK Solberg:

He plans to fix the gate, organize the garage, sharpen the mower blades, patch the roof, rotate the tires, and maybe smoke a brisket just for fun. But Saturday afternoon finds him asleep in a lawn chair with one sock missing and a cold lemonade balancing on his stomach while a baseball game murmurs somewhere in the background.

OK Solberg:

And honestly, maybe that's the point because Friday is more than a day on a calendar. Friday is relief. It's the finish line after 5 days of clocks and deadlines and phone calls and machinery that makes noise nobody can identify but everyone pretends to understand.

OK Solberg:

Friday reminds us that work matters, but rest matters also. It reminds us that there's dignity in labor, but also joy joy in slowing down long enough to hear the screen door slam, smell hamburgers on the grill, and watch the evening sun slide behind the trees without needing to hurry anywhere at all.

OK Solberg:

And tonight, all across this country, tired people will sit down a little deeper in their chairs. The waitress, well, will finally rest her feet. The mechanic, well, he'll wipe his hands clean. The farmer will look across the field and say, you know what? I think that can wait till Monday.

OK Solberg:

And millions of Americans will whisper the same hopeful prayer with a smile. Thank God it's Friday. And perhaps without realizing it, they will be living out the wisdom of scripture.

OK Solberg:

It says, better is a handful with quietness than both hands full with travail and vexation of the spirit. Ecclesiastes 4:6 The end. You know, guys, Ecclesiastes is an interesting book. You need to read it start to finish, but I shared from Ecclesiastes chapter 4 verse 6.

OK Solberg:

So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.