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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. Hey, Jordan. You even cut off the Fox News because of the KMMR auction, but you didn't cut me off. Thank you very much. Wanna welcome everyone listening, even anybody down in Longmont, Colorado.
OK Solberg:Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottle of water. I hate to interrupt the auction. I know you were having so much fun. $30 bid and now one, 30 one and now two. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat, $6.22 a bushel. 550 pound stair calf, $3.93 a pound. A butcher hog in Omaha, 61ยข a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $2.35. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay.
OK Solberg:We talked about it being the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws. Have you seen it? That was a good movie. If you haven't seen it or even if it's been a while, you check it out. It's fantastic.
OK Solberg:And guys, realize and notice, no computer generated pictures. All the real thing, real ocean, real boat, not a real shark, but it was a real homemade shark, not computer graphics. It's a great movie. Now we know that movie came out in 1975.
OK Solberg:That's what I said.
OK Solberg:But did you realize that my dear wife Thea was just a girl in 1975? Now she saw the movie Jaws in the show house, but guess what? Her father Jack just took a new banking job and that job was on the island of Guam. So Thea and her family moved to Guam in 1975 and Guam is an island in the ocean and sharks swim in those waters. Think about it.
OK Solberg:Do you think little Thea had a hard time going swimming? Oh, yes, she did after seeing that scary movie Jaws. But Thea told me, she was reassured because there was a big coral reef around the island and that kind of worked like a fence from outside predators like sharks. So she did go swimming. Oh, and another interesting thing about the Kellys being in Guam, next spring, spring of nineteen seventy six.
OK Solberg:If you don't believe me, pull it up. Lo and behold, a typhoon come upon the island of Guam, and it wasn't just any typhoon, she was a super typhoon, and her name was Pamela. Check it out. Typhoon Pamela clocked wind speeds of up to 190 miles an hour. Thea never said it, but I think she was glad to get back to the Mainland, and so was I.
OK Solberg:Okay. What other movies came out in 1975? Jordan, can you think of any? I'm gonna name them, and I'll bet you've seen one at least one of them that I am gonna name. We have one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
OK Solberg:Oh, yeah. That was a dilly, You guys gotta know, we were assigned that book in English class in Malta High School. Can't remember if it was Mr Jensen's class. I don't think so. I was supposed to read it.
OK Solberg:Just to let you know, Orvin wasn't much of an academic student. I could listen in class and pick up the points. I needed to pass a test, so I didn't read the book, one flew over the cuckoo's nest. But I passed the test. Well, that fall, after we graduated, I was down in Billings.
OK Solberg:I went to Cuckoo's Nest with my friend, Alan Bud Whitey Crowder. What a great movie. Guys, I bet I leaned over to Alan at least six times during the movie and said, was that in the book? Every time Alan said, yes, it was. I guess I should have read it.
OK Solberg:Another movie that I saw in 1975 down in Billings was Charles Bronson in Hard Times. Oh, guys, for a kid that wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was at home, I ate those movies up. What a great movie. What a guy type movie. Charles Bronson as Cheney, a mysterious drifter freight hopping through Louisiana during the Great Depression who proves unbeatable in illegal bare knuckle boxing matches after forming a partnership with the big talking hustler named Speed played by James Coburn.
OK Solberg:Jordan, you gotta see it. If you don't have it, I'll lend it to you. Other movies from 1975, there was John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn, Paul Newman in the Drowning Pool. I saw that one down in Billings. I didn't score it too high.
OK Solberg:There was a movie called Secretariat. I bet it was about a horse. Robert Redford was in Three Days of the Condor. Even Don Knotts, old Barney from The Andy Griffith Show, he was in a movie called The Apple Dumpling Gang, Al Pacino and Dog Day Afternoon. There was a movie titled The Hiding Place based on the true story of Cory Ten Boom, and of course, there were many many more.
OK Solberg:But I'll close with one that many will have seen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Yep. 1975 was a good year. Why, it was the year I graduated high school, and it was fifty years back, but it certainly doesn't seem that long ago. Deuteronomy thirty two seven, you know by heart, remember the days of old.
OK Solberg:Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and he will show you your elders and they will tell you. That's right. Ask your elders, and I'm not everybody's elder, but I am an elder to many. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.