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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 wanta again welcome you to The 04:05 Coffee Break. Guys, get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water. Let's see what's happening. Tall, cool glass of lemonade, beverage of your choice. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $6.20 a bushel, 550lb steer calf dropping off a bit, $5.10 a pound, on the top end, for fall delivery, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings $3.28 a pound. But guys there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Well, here we are, a new week. Yes. After yesterday's motor Monday, what's it gonna be? Now last week, I had 4 days in a row of B.D. Phillips, the man for whom this county was named. Good stuff. Great memories. But today, well, today, we'll shift gears and not only shift gears, we will travel in a different direction.
OK Solberg:Okay, class. Sit up and pay attention. Today, we will be studying involuntary autobiographical memory, sometimes simply referred to as IAM. I paused a long time there.
OK Solberg:I did it on purpose because I'm thinking involuntary autobiographical memory don't mean nothing to me, and I might just change the channel and see if someone else is talking somewhere else about something I'm interested in. Hold on.
OK Solberg:Don't touch that dial. Listen to my story that happened just Saturday morning at 08:25AM or thereabouts. I'm sitting with 2 friends of mine. We're drinking coffee and chatting. You know, the thing us old guys do, talk and relate memories and reflect on the past and enjoy each other's company.
OK Solberg:It happens all the time, and it is a great thing. Well, at this particular moment that I'm about to relay to you, I, Orvin Solberg, was in the middle of a short story. I wanna express that even though I can talk for a long long while, when in a conversation, I keep my stories very short short.
OK Solberg:And most of all, all of my stories have a solid ending, a punch line so to speak. So guys, I'm in the middle of a short story. I have not gotten to the punch line, but I'm within twenty seconds of it. I'm right in the middle of talking and my friend, Mike Clowney, interrupts with, that's the greatest sound in the world.
OK Solberg:And believe me, he wasn't talking about the sound of my voice. Six Harley Davidsons had just fired up less than a block away from us. See, when involuntary autobiographical memory kicks in, it supersedes everything else.
OK Solberg:When IAM hits your eardrums, it overshadows the entirety of anything else that is happening. The sound of those Harley's took Mike to a different place instantly. It was a great moment, guys. I wasn't insulted that he interrupted me.
OK Solberg:In fact, I was happy he did it. I or I wouldn't even know what involuntary autobiographical memory was. So in a way, Mike educated me. And believe me, I need more education. We are never too old to learn.
OK Solberg:If Mike hadn't done that, I wouldn't have known about it nor would I have known the power of it. When a sound can instantly, instantly take us back 30 or maybe 50 years in our mind, that's something needs to be appreciated. Know what? Mike wasn't responded to what a motorcycle literally is. He was responding to what those motorcycles mean to him.
OK Solberg:Sure, he had one in the early years, but simply that sound, simply that sound could have brought back thoughts of freedom, thoughts of being a young man, a thought of working on the rigs, a thought of going to see a girl, or maybe a thought of him and Flintstone fishing where they shouldn't be fishing.
OK Solberg:So you see involuntary autobiographical memory is a delightful subject. And when I started, you were about to turn me off. Think about it in your own circumstance. Think about those distinct sounds.
OK Solberg:Say for example, a train whistle. We hear them all the time in Malta, but sometimes you get removed from Malta. A wooden bat hitting a baseball. Think about that. The crack of the bat.
OK Solberg:How about the sound of a rotary telephone ringing? Listen. Can you hear the manual typewriter clacking away in the background? What about the crash of pins at the bowling alley, Dan Perry? That was a strike. I could hear it.
OK Solberg:How about a V8 engine with glass packs? The sound of a coffee percolator. Man, guys, I really miss that one. I think I'm gonna get a percolator just so I can hear that sound. See, it could be the sound of a pencil sharpener, like one that was mounted on the ledge in the study hall just outside Mrs. Bruckner's science class.
OK Solberg:Or how about a horse snorting or a cash register drawer opening up? And then there's one of my favorites, the sound of a jukebox when you push your quarter in, you hear it roll, there's a click, and the machine comes to life. Lights blink on, motors work, clicks and pops happen as the record is located, and the scratch of the needle on the 45.
OK Solberg:Why? It gives us an experience even before the music begins. So I wanna thank Mike Lowney. Less'an it was for you, I wouldn't even know what involuntary autobiographical memory was. You be patient with me, boy. And given time, you'll get me knowed up.
OK Solberg:Listen to Psalm 143:5 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all thy works. I muse on the works of thy hands. King James version, Psalm 143 verse 5.
OK Solberg:Thanks for tuning in. I hope you could follow my train of thought and the way I worded it. I pray I didn't get it all nutted up.
OK Solberg:So until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.