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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. It's nice and cool out there, guys. I like it. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, beverage of your choice. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat, $5.59 a bushel going down some. Must mean harvest is here. 550 pound steer calf, $3.95 on the top end. Butcher hog in Iowa, 53¢ a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings at $2.17. But guys theres more, much more.
OK Solberg:I read an ad online, and I was taken with the phrase, don't ignore the urge. Listen as you get ready for the national finals rodeo in Las Vegas. The ad reads, the dust, the lights, the roar of the crowd, it's calling this December. The national finals rodeo takes over Las Vegas, and there's nothing like it. The toughest cowboys, the fastest barrel racers, eight seconds that can make or break a legend.
OK Solberg:If you got the itch for adrenaline, boots on the ground in the night that doesn't end when the chute gate opens, this is your moment. Tickets are moving fast. Vegas is waiting. The arena is already on fire. Don't ignore the urge.
OK Solberg:Ride it all the way to Vegas. Yeah. I like it. I got to thinking. There are other places you could use that phrase.
OK Solberg:Don't ignore the urge to finally buy the boots that turn every sidewalk into a runway, or don't ignore the urge to upgrade. Your old phone's battery knows it's time. Or how about this, don't ignore the urge to treat yourself. That dessert wasn't made to be admired. That's a neat little phrase.
OK Solberg:Can you think of any other places you can use it? Maybe it'll happen today. And don't ignore the urge to call someone right after this program ends. Well, I just needed to share that, but now back to if you were old enough to remember these things, you might be older than you think. The next item is watching the moon landing in real time.
OK Solberg:Do you remember it? Were you watching? It happened on 07/20/1969, and it was when Neil Armstrong said, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Oh, guys, I remember it well. It was happening live, and you have to understand that I was 12 years old.
OK Solberg:My sister Evie was 11, and little Marvin was nine years old. Mom has our television set on, and we're all gathered around it in the living room. But if you remember, they don't just flash to mister Armstrong walking out on that ladder to the surface of the moon. It's, well, a still picture of Apollo eleven sitting on the moon, nothing moving. You wait, and it was in black and white, and you wait.
OK Solberg:Well, us kids got restless after five minutes turned to ten and then finally turned to twenty minutes of waiting, and we started horsing around. You know how kids are. Kinda like you have ants in your pants. And I'll always remember our mother saying, pay attention now. Pay attention.
OK Solberg:History is being made before your own eyes. We did settle down, and Neil finally walked out on that ladder, and he backed his way down, and it was a very cool event. It really was. I saw it. The article continues, you might be older than you think if you remember when gasoline costs less than a dollar a gallon.
OK Solberg:Oh boy, I remember it well. I even remember when the pumps over at Equity Co op when the pumps over at Equity Co op had a big old number one written in with a black Sharpie in front of the cost per gallon because the pumps didn't go that high. I also remember driving my Chevy Monza. I went from a 1970 Buick GS with a four fifty five to a Chevy Monza. Yeah.
OK Solberg:The gas crunch was on. So I drove the Monza into Malta for a Saturday night on the town, and the road had some mud puddles in it, and I had mud splashed all over my windshield. Well, I had the car filled with gas when I left Harb, but I wanted my windows washed. And it was, of course, full service back then. I didn't wanna just ask them to wash my windshield, so I thought I'd say what you often said when the attendant came out.
OK Solberg:Fill her up. Fill her up with the regular. I had driven 30 miles. I thought I could hold a gallon or two. And the attendant had the pump quick off twice, and he looked at me with not a real kind look on his face and said, what'd you do?
OK Solberg:Drive around the block? It took 15¢. 15¢ to fill my tank. I was embarrassed and reached in my pocket and pulled out 2 dimes. I wanted to get out of there fast.
OK Solberg:I handed it to him and said, keep the change. He frowned and said, no. No. No. We don't take tips here.
OK Solberg:He reached into his pocket and pulled out a nickel. Guys, I never did get my windows washed. But, oh, yes, I remember when gas was less than a dollar. I remember it very well. Time enough for our theme bible verse, Deuteronomy thirty two seven.
OK Solberg: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. And when we do, remember the days of old. We know things have changed a lot.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.