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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 again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get your cup of coffee. Beautiful day. Glass iced tea, a bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.48 a bushel, 550lb pounds steer calf. You're gonna think I'm pulling your leg, but it's true. $4.71 a pound. Butcher hog in Iowa 59¢ a pound, and a 100lb lamb that's fat weighing a 100lb in Billings will fetch you $2.42 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. I can name that tune in 6 notes. Anyone out there remember the show titled name that tune? Now if and you don't, it was a television show that had contestants competing to correctly identify song in as few notes as possible.
OK Solberg:Think you can do it? I'm betting you can. Ba ba ba ba ba ba. You got it? That wasn't even hard. Happy birthday to you. Here, try this one. Do do do do do do do. You got it? Sure. It was easy, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. One more. How you doing? You're doing great, 2 for 2. See if you can make 3 out of 3.
OK Solberg:It's Frosty the Snowman. Okay. With the stage set, still using your ears. It said that many people can be blindfolded and listen to a John Deere Model A tractor running in the background and they will tell you, hey.
OK Solberg:That's a popping Johnny. Yep. The 2 cylinder engine made a unique sound that was music to many people's ears, and it was easy to identify for the trained ear. Now another sound that's easy for all of us to recognize is a chainsaw. What about a motorcycle?
OK Solberg:Or in Malta, Montana in the summertime, even a string trimmer, aka weed whacker, weed eater. Yep. God gave us our ears to hear. Hey. That reminds me of a bible verse. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Matthew 11:15 Yes. Our senses are a real gift. Yet, we often take them for granted.
OK Solberg:Now from the ear to the nose. How come my nose runs but my feet smell? Our noses are something special as well. I probably told you this before, but my father was laying in bed late at night reading a book, and my mom was in the kitchen cooking bread. All of a sudden from the bedroom, my mom heard, Eva, you forgot to put salt in the bread.
OK Solberg:I kid you not. Just from the smell, my father could identify that my mom mom left the salt out of the bread. My father loved to tell that story, and he quoted my mom as saying, oh, keep still. And my dad would smile that big broad smile and say, and the next day we ate bread with no salt in it. Now that may sound made up, but it truly is a true story.
OK Solberg:My father born in 1930, ever hear of the depression years, hard times? My father, born in the 1930's knew it during those tough times, lived with a mother who made bread on a nearly daily basis. Oh, he knew the smell of fresh bread. It was hardwired in. And when he smelled my mom's bread baking, he knew there was something different.
OK Solberg:It screamed, this isn't right. No salt. Now I do not know if I have that ability, but I can tell you this. Just like we can identify songs from a few notes and how we can tell a John Deere Model A from a weed eater, I have also known that some of the most distinctive smells in farming and ranching sectors are these. Guys, you could blindfold me and dozens other people in Phillips County.
OK Solberg:You could try this. You could blindfold us and bring a cup of eighty ninety gear lube to our noses and we'll shout out 80-90 weight oil. It has the smell. Now keep that blindfold on and now bring us a cup of antifreeze. Yep.
OK Solberg:Every mechanic and every farmer out there will shout out, don't make it so easy. If that ain't ant freeze, you can dip me in tar and throw me in a barrel of feathers. You as a cup holder, you desire to make them fail so you keep telling them to keep the blindfold on and then you bring them a cup of gasoline. Even you can do that. Gasoline has such a distinct smell that almost anyone can identify it by its smell.
OK Solberg:But wait. After I've been working in the field back in the day, when I was out on the farm, I'd come home and my dear wife, Thea, would be cooking supper and she would take one quick smell. And I mean, I haven't even got my coat removed and she said, you smell like gasoline. I just shake my head in disbelief and say, no. I don't.
OK Solberg:You're wrong. I smell like diesel fuel. This program was brought to you by I Can't Do A Lot Of Things, but I Can Do That.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.