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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. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of sundan lotion. Let's see what's happening. Spring weight, $6 and a quarter. $6.25.
OK Solberg:$6 and 2 bits. 550 pound steer cap, 3.96 a pound on the top end, a butcher hog in Omaha will bring you just about 62¢ a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings is worth $2.53. But guys, there's more, much more. Hey hey, I learned a new song. I did.
OK Solberg:And I have to admit, it came out the year I graduated high school back in 1975 and I never heard it till now. Guys, I was down in Great Falls on Friday for a funeral and was with a friend from Minnesota. When we were driving the streets of Great Falls, Montana, my friend was driving, he said, there's a song that mentions Great Falls. I said, help me out. I'm not thinking of one.
OK Solberg:He said it was sung by John Denver and it's titled Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio. Well, guys, you know me, I pulled up my smartphone and found it. Sure enough. Sure as shooting he was right. Listen, Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio was like being nowhere and all.
OK Solberg:All through the day how the hours rush by, you sit in the park and you watch the grass die. But after sunset, the dusk and the twilight, when shadows of night start to fall, they roll back the sidewalk precisely at ten, and people who live there are not seen again, just two lonely truckers from Great Falls, Montana, and a salesman from places unknown all huddled together in Downtown Toledo to spend their big night all alone. You ask how I know of Toledo, Ohio. Well, I spent a week there one day. They've got entertainment to dazzle your eyes.
OK Solberg:Go visit the bakery and watch the buns rise. Ah, but let's not forget the folks, that the folks of Toledo unselfishly gave us the scale. No spring's honest weight, that's a promise they made. So smile and be thankful next time you get weighed. And with and with wet with, let this be our motto.
OK Solberg:Let's let the sleeping dogs lie, and here's to the dogs of Toledo, Ohio. Ladies, we bid you goodbye. I pulled it up, never heard it before. I listened. It didn't grab me, but it did put a smile on my face.
OK Solberg:There was Great Falls, Montana, sure as shooting, just two lonely truckers from Great Falls, Montana, and a salesman from places unknown all huddled together in Downtown Toledo to spend their big night all alone. So how many other songs do you know that mention Montana or towns in Montana? Are you thinking? Can you recall any? Shoot.
OK Solberg:Louisiana gets mentioned often. What about Montana? There's more than you might think. John Denver sang another one with Emma Lou Harris titled Wild Montana Skies, Dan Seals and Marie Osmond sang meet me in Montana. Chris Ladue, the cowboy himself, sang Montana rodeo.
OK Solberg:And we can't be talking about songs that include Montana and not include Hank Williams junior and his song titled Cutbank Montana. It was colder than a well digger's ankle in Cutbank Montana, but my heart was on fire as I saw her step down from the train. I'd been up there forever, but her arms were finally around me, all my icicles melted away at the sound of her name. I held her to me as tightly as I held her letter that said, I don't love him, I'm leaving this cold mean man. As the train pulled away from the platform and I put her in the wagon with her head on my shoulder, God knows I was one happy man.
OK Solberg:And I went to heaven that night in the arms in my cabin. In the winter of ninety four, there burned such a powerful flame. They still hear her voice in the cabin in Cutbank, Montana. I like to hear the word Montana. I think you like it too because we live in Montana.
OK Solberg:Oh, yes. Here's to the big sky country. And to think it all happened because my friend said there's a song that mentions Great Falls, Montana, and he was right. Guys, did you realize John Steinbeck said, I am in love with Montana. I'm in love with Montana.
OK Solberg:For other states, I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana, it is love. I agree. I say amen to that mister Steinbeck. From the book of Philippians chapter four and verse 23, the grace of our lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.