The 405 Aired April 14th, 2026

The games people play. Dan Snyder had an infected tooth, today hear the best of the story.

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OK Solberg: 00:00

I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottle of water. Let's see what's happening out there.

OK Solberg: 00:09

Spring wheat $5.68 a bushel, 550lb steer calf not moving now. So I'll tell you this, 13 head of cows sold in Billings for a $1.85 per pound, and they average 1,470lbs per head equates to $2,719.50 for a cull cow. 100lb fat lamb in Billings at $3.07 and a Butcher hog in Iowa right square at 70¢ a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.

OK Solberg: 00:54

Now thanks to Alan Snyder, I have another song, and I can put an old rumor to rest. Guys, you know how stories go around a small town. Sometimes the story gets bigger than the actual situation played out.

OK Solberg: 01:13

Well, years ago, I heard the story of Alan's dad, Dan Snyder, pulling his own tooth with a pair of vice grips in his easy chair right within his living room, and then the tooth got infected. Woah, Bessie. Slow down there. That is inaccurate. Alan helped clear this story up, and he gave me permission.

OK Solberg: 01:37

Dan Snyder had an infected tooth, swelled his face up like he had a half a bass baseball inside his mouth, hurt like a bugger. So Dan had had about enough of this, and he took a vice grip, got a good hold on it. Patience now. He worked it back and forth and finally pulled it out, root & all.

OK Solberg: 02:03

Dan Snyder breathed a sigh of relief, but the swelling didn't go down. So finally, off to Great Falls they went. The dentist did his examination. And when he came back in after looking at the X-ray to give Dan the rundown, first off, the the dentist complimented him. He said very nice job on removing that tooth.

OK Solberg: 02:31

It was a clean pull, root & all. Unfortunately, you pulled the wrong tooth. Though Dan had the dentist pull the other one, and now you know the best of the story. Alan also told me about a song, great song, and guess what? I haven't covered it here on The 405 and it too came out in 1969.

OK Solberg: 02:57

So I guess the Archie's and Sugar Sugar wasn't the only song sung in 1969. This song was written and sung by Joe South. It too made its way up the charts for a period of time. Any guesses what the name of it is? Joe South singing games people play.

OK Solberg: 03:20

All the games people play now every night and every day now. Never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean. And they while away the hours in their ivory towers till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine. Oh, yeah. Good song.

OK Solberg: 03:38

Later in the song, he sings people walking up to you singing glory hallelujah, then they try to sock it to you in the name of the Lord. Yeah. We know what he's talking about there. Let's just be clear. That line carries a sharp almost prophetic tension.

OK Solberg: 03:59

It contrasts true worship with hypocrisy or manipulation done under a religious label. Yeah. That one reminds me of a bible verse too. Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravaging wolves. Matthew seven fifteen.

OK Solberg: 04:26

Yeah. I think that fits pretty well. Singing glory hallelujah, that would be the sheep's clothing appearance, outward appearance, a holiness, but then trying to socket to you just like a ravenous wolf, harmful intent behind it all. Joe South did a masterpiece there, and it's good to know that it came out in 1969.

OK Solberg: 04:51

I guess the Archie's Sugar Sugar wasn't the only sweetness in the air. But here's another song I found that Joe South wrote, and I didn't know it until I looked it up after Alan told me about it. He wrote another one. We all know it. Well, all of us from back then know it.

OK Solberg: 05:17

Can you figure it out? It was the theme song for the 3M company back in 1972, the mighty Malta Mustangs. Do you remember? Now before the high school burned down in 1995, in the trophy case, there was a 45 record enshrined behind glass, and it was labeled the theme song of the 3M company.

OK Solberg: 05:45

Lynn Anderson, Rose Garden. I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden along with the sunshine there. It's gotta be a little rain sometime. When you take, you gotta give. So live and let live or let go. Woah. Woah. Woah. I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.

OK Solberg: 06:07

Another good song. Yes, sir. It was written by Joe South, and I did the research, and Joe would have safely earned over 3,000,003 million dollars off the royalties of that one song. What about that then? So thanks, Alan.

OK Solberg: 06:30

Good stuff. Oh, and PS, I did confirm that the Volkswagen Beetle that was used in the 1977 attempted Hinsdale bank robbery did not have a functioning reverse. You couldn't back it up. Now it didn't really cause a huge problem. The the car was so light that if and you needed the backup, the guys would just jump out and push it by hand. Cracks me up.

OK Solberg: 07:01

So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.