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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.
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.
I want to again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, you know the routine. Get a cup of coffee. I'll see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $6.23 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.80, all the way up to $5.05 a pound, for fall delivery, and a 100lb lamb that is fat in Billings $3.18 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. Okay. It's Wednesday. Time for Dave and Orv's Motor Wednesday. See, my friend Dave sent me a clip about a car. Well, actually, two cars, and they showed up on a TV program for back in our day.
OK Solberg:The show was called The Dukes of Hazzard, and this program ran ran on CBS for 7 seasons beginning in 1979 and ending in 1985 with a total of a 147 episodes. Now it isn't Monday, but I just couldn't let this sit.
OK Solberg:It's about cars, and it's wonderful. Now question. Can you possibly tell the difference between a 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner and a 1971 Plymouth Satellite? Now it's a safe question. And if you remember cruising the drag back in our day, even at night, we could identify many cars just by their grill and lights, both headlights and park lights.
OK Solberg:So it shouldn't be hard to distinguish a '74 Roadrunner from a 1971 Satellite in a broad daylight. Right? Now granted, it isn't as easy as telling a 1966 Chevy pickup from a 1967, but we should be able to tell the difference. Listen to my story. Listen to Dave's story.
OK Solberg:Listen to a real good story. There are television cars, and then there are television's cars that become characters. The General Lee, of course, was one of them. But before Daisy Duke climbed into her famous white Jeep, she had another ride, a yellow Plymouth.
OK Solberg:And here's where the story gets interesting. When the Dukes of Hazzard 1st appeared in 1979, Daisy Duke's car was a yellow 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner with a black stripe. It wasn't a General Lee. It wasn't a Jeep. It was a Plymouth Roadrunner. And for the 1st few episodes, that's exactly what Daisy drove.
OK Solberg:But television production has a funny way of turning one car into several cars without telling the audience. As filming continued, another yellow Plymouth began appearing as Daisy's car. This one was a 1971 Plymouth Satellite.
OK Solberg:It was painted and striped to look like the roadrunner that the audience had already come to recognize. And if you weren't looking closely, you'd never know the difference.
OK Solberg:Then came season 2. I think it was episode 14 titled the Runaway. In the story, Bo and Luke are driving Daisy's yellow Plymouth when the throttle jams. They can't stop. The car races towards Kissing Cliff. Bo and Luke get out, and Daisy's car goes over the cliff.
OK Solberg:Down below, it explodes. Television history says Daisy Duke's yellow Plymouth has just met its end, except it hadn't because the car that went over the cliff wasn't actually the same Plymouth Daisy had started the series with.
OK Solberg:As I said, the original Daisy car was a 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner. The car used in the cliff sequence was a 1971 Plymouth satellite dressed to resemble the Roadrunner.
OK Solberg:So avid car fans did recognize it like, well, Joe and Jay and Tim probably. And how about Dale Casa? But the rest of us, well, we thought it the 1974 Roadrunner bit the dust. That's really the magic of old television. They weren't always trying to fool the fellow who knew automobiles. They were trying to tell a story.
OK Solberg:The yellow Plymouth satellite's final exit from Daisy's life did have a purpose. At the end of the runaway scene episode, Daisy receives a new vehicle as a gift from CJ Holmes, a white 1980 Jeep CJ seven.
OK Solberg:She names it Dixie. And Dixie would become the vehicle most people remember Daisy Duke driving for the rest of the series. Thy end. Thanks for tuning in to Dave and Orv's Motor Wednesday, a one time only edition.
OK Solberg:Now listen to my King James version bible verse. 1st Samuel 16:7 For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. 1st Samuel 16:7 Oh, yeah. Man looks on the outward appearance, and even that can fool us sometime.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.