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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
P.S. Oct 8th, 2025 Update. Finally back and published the Oct 3, 6th & 7th episodes, today on the 8th. We've had a recording equipment failure, hopefully fixed by tomorrow or very soon. Until then, I'm picking up the KMMR master recording copy and publishing that the day after The 405 airs or as soon as possible. Thanks for stopping by and listening.
I wanna again welcome you to the 4:05 Coffee Break. Guys, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat $5.21 a bushel. 550lb steer calf, dollars 4.14 a pound. Butcher hog in Iowa, 61 cents a pound. And a lamb that's fat, in Billings, weighing 100lbs will bring you $2 and a nickel. But Guy's theres more, much more.
OK Solberg:I wish I could, but I know I can't. Yeah, I just made that up. I wish I could, but I know I can't. Nothing profound, but it is true and it has a nice ring to it. I wish that I could read you the entire chapter from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie.
OK Solberg:Yes, do. But alas, time will not allow. But it's probably just as well. If I read you this one chapter, I'd just wanna read you all the chapters. Now guys, you know I have extra copies of this wonderful book and I'm giving them away free of charge to the first people who ask.
OK Solberg:Guess what's happened thus far? No one has asked. It would seem that all of us are worried about something, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Maybe I'm wrong. Please correct me if I am.
OK Solberg:The chapter in the book that I'm talking about is chapter seven titled Don't Let the Beatles Get You Down. It starts out with this line. Here's a dramatic story that I'll probably remember as long as I live. He goes on to tell about a man, Robert Moore, of 14 Highland Avenue, Maplewood, New Jersey. I learned the biggest lesson of my life in March 1945, he said.
OK Solberg:I learned it under 276 feet of water off the coast of Indo, China. This man was in World War II, and he was in a submarine, A Japanese convoy was coming our way, and suddenly they were dropping depth charges at our submarine. For fifteen hours, they sat motionless in this shallow water that should have made their position a certain death sentence. Yet for fifteen hours of ramped up tension, they sat and waited, worrying the whole time. Worrying that this is it, this is the end, there is no going on further.
OK Solberg:The man writes, all my life passed before me in review. I remembered all the bad things I had done, all the little absurd things I worried about. I had worried about the long hours I had to work. I worried about my old boss nagging and scolding. I remember how my wife and I would argue over trifles.
OK Solberg:After I made it safely home, I promised myself that I would never worry again. I learned more about the art of living in those fifteen hours in that submarine than I had learned by studying books for four years. It is indeed a great chapter. It even goes on to tell how Rudyard Kipling, the man who wrote in his poem IF, the poem's titled IF. It's a great poem.
OK Solberg:I've shared it before on The 405. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you, this same man, Dale Carnegie writes, who wrote that great poem got in a feud with his brother-in-law over a load of hay. A load of hay. The little things in life. Oh, it's a great chapter.
OK Solberg:Its point is don't let the little things eat you up with frustration and worry. He tells of this giant tree that survived on the slope of Long's Peak in Colorado. It had lived for four hundred years. Four hundred years. And it survived 14 lightning strikes, innumerable avalanches, and yet its demise was from a beetle.
OK Solberg:A little colony of beetles that were so small you could crush one between your thumb and forefinger. He goes on to write, don't let the little beetles of worry be your demise. The chapter ends with a great story that I have remembered for decades. Remember, guys, I read this book about forty years ago, and I'm still reading it. But I remembered for decades when it comes to the little inconveniences of life, the author tells of Charles Seafred, highway superintendent for the state of Wyoming.
OK Solberg:They were to meet somewhere in the Teton National Park. But the author was driving in a car that took a wrong turn, and Mr. Seafred had to wait over an hour in a mosquito infested area that would have drove a saint insane. But now mister Seafred, he patiently waited, and while he waited for us to show up, he made a little whistle from a limb of an aspen tree nearby. When they arrived, was he cussing the mosquitoes?
OK Solberg:No, sir. He was playing with his whistle. The author writes, I have kept that whistle as a memento of a man who knew how to put trifles in their place. Okay. End of quotes from the book.
OK Solberg:Remember, I have extra books given them away to the first people who ask. Let me close with a bible verse. Listen. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
OK Solberg:Matthew six thirty four. Ah, yes. Don't worry. Let's see if we can make that happen. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.