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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.
New episodes appear here usually within a few hours after that KMMR air time and been striving to post new releases here by 4:30PM.
I want again welcome you to The 04:05 Coffee Break. Guys, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottled water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $6.41 a bushel, 550lb steer calf top end right now, $4.45 a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings $3.10 to $3.15 a pound depending on their condition. But, guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:I'll start right off with a bible verse for today from Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law. Again, Galatians 5:22 and 23 Yes, the fruit of the spirit.
OK Solberg:But today, well, I'll speak of another fruit. And if you listened yesterday, you know that fruit will be the banana. Yesterday, I told you about my uncle Carl. In 1966, he was serving our country, and he was over in Vietnam.
OK Solberg:I told you he wanted to do something special on Christmas Day that he could not do back in Phillips County, Montana. So what'd he do? He picked the banana on Christmas Day.
OK Solberg:Well, when Carl told me this story along with his story of brushing his teeth in Vietnam using Schlitz beer, I found both of those stories so favorable and memorable that I went on eBay and ordered an old Schlitz beer can and also found on eBay a Christmas ornament that was in the shape and color of a banana.
OK Solberg:Why? Because in Vietnam, my uncle brushed his teeth with Schlitz beer because you couldn't trust the water, and I bought the banana ornament to commemorate him picking a banana on Christmas day. I did it. It was fun. My uncle appreciated it. And, well, life goes on. Right?
OK Solberg:That happened about two years ago. Well, anyway, on Friday morning, just last Friday, I pull up a YouTube, which is one of my favorite pastimes, and I enjoy watching old clips from the Ed Sullivan Show. And I pull up the Mamas and the Papas live on the Ed Sullivan Show from 1967.
OK Solberg:Well, as I'm listening, and more importantly watching, I see one of the band members, Michelle Phillips, singing up there on stage on TV, and as she sings, she has a microphone in one hand and a banana in the other. Really?
OK Solberg:Yeah. Pull it up yourself, guys. She takes a bite of the banana right during the song on live TV. Well, my mind instantly goes to a movie that I liked, and it's called the producers by Mel Brooks.
OK Solberg:And a stoned out hippie dude wanders onto the stage in the movie, and he says his name is Lorenzo Saint Dubois. But my friends call me LSD. It's a classic Mel Brooks humor.
OK Solberg:Well, LSD sings a flower power song, and at the end of the song, he too has a banana, and he peels it, throws the meat of the banana aside, and clutches the banana peel in his hand as he sucks his thumb.
OK Solberg:Now remember, I saw a member of the mamas and the papas eating a banana, and here's LSD clutching a banana peel, and that's a curiosity to me. So I go to my friend called the Internet, and I type in, was there a banana something back in the 1960's.
OK Solberg:Guys, I found out that in 1967, remember, that's the summer of love, that in 1967, March, the underground countercultural newspaper Berkeley Barb published a famous prank article claiming that smoking dried banana peels could get you high.
OK Solberg:It really did happen, but it was a hoax. It was made up because the man was coming down on them for everything, and they thought they'd give the man something else to chase. I found it just like I told you. Oh, it blew up.
OK Solberg:The Smothers Brothers, you can pull that up too. They sang a song about the banana. Mad magazine had their January 1968 magazine with what? A bright yellow banana peel on the front cover. In fact, the FDA even spent money to test it out.
OK Solberg:Of course, they found that it did absolutely nothing to you, but maybe give you a headache. Now when I find these kind of things from the past, it fascinates me greatly. I think Mama's and the Pappas. That takes me to the movie, the producer.
OK Solberg:That leads me to find out about the great banana hoax of 1967. So I get to my office last Friday morning, and I love these kind of rabbit trails, especially because I have someone to share them with, you on the radio. So I get to my office, and I'm thinking the banana.
OK Solberg:And I'm not always real bright when it comes to thinking. And suddenly, I think, didn't I send something to my uncle Carl? What was it that I sent my uncle Carl? Hey. Wait a minute. I sent a banana Christmas tree ornament. Are you kidding? So think about it.
OK Solberg:Orvin always likes to know sequence of events. What came first? What came second? Now realize a sequence of historical events. My uncle picked a banana on Christmas Day in 1966 in Vietnam. In 1967, then there's the great banana smoking hoax.
OK Solberg:You gotta be kidding me. Of course, I had to call my uncle Carl on Friday, and, of course, he didn't know anything about the great Montana smoking great banana smoking hoax of 1967, but it is a fun sequence of events from my perspective.
OK Solberg:It's just great and a grand coincidence. And that banana story, again, tied me to my uncle. And that isn't all bad. What about that then?
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.