The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg

Today O.K. tells you about the good perfect storm that he lived through.

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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.

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OK Solberg:

I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Have you heard a Meadowlark yet? Get you cup of coffee, glass iced tea bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.

OK Solberg:

Spring wheat $5.70 a bushel. 550lb steer calf not moving, but a canner bull in Billings weighing 2,348lbs, that's a big bull, 2,348lbs brought $2.18, which equates to $5,130 for a canner bull. A 100lb fat lamb in Billings at $3.06 a pound and a Butcher hog in Iowa at 69ยข a pound. But, guys, there's more, much more.

OK Solberg:

So okay. Today, let me think now. Let's talk about a perfect storm. First off, you realize that's an oxymoron. Right? Two opposite words jammed together right next to each other? Yeah.

OK Solberg:

Perfect is good. Storm is bad. I like oxymorons. Parting is such sweet sorrow. He told the joke and there was a deafening silence.

OK Solberg:

I wish you could just act naturally. Woah there, Bessie. I was clearly misunderstood. What do you mean? I gave you an original copy.

OK Solberg:

Now don't get me started. I'll make the whole program on oxymorons. Have you ever heard someone say, don't encourage him. Don't encourage him. Now, did you realize the Bible even uses a few oxymorons?

OK Solberg:

It does, and here is one of them. Like it says in Romans 12:1, I appeal to you therefore brothers by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship. What was that Bible verse? Romans 12 verse one, a living sacrifice, two opposite words jammed together. But today, a perfect storm.

OK Solberg:

Now understand typically when, well, that term is used, it's talking about negative things all coming together at once like, you know, well, you know, you overslept and your car wouldn't start and you had to jump start it to get it going and the traffic was clogged because of a wreck and your cell phone died.

OK Solberg:

That's a perfect storm situation on the bad side of the line. But and this is true. The funny thing is on the perfect storm term, it also gets used when many good things all happen at once. That's the one I'm talking about.

OK Solberg:

Let me tell you about the good perfect storm that I lived through, and maybe you did too. There was a time not all that long ago, and we call it the 1960's and 1970's. We didn't have cell phones. We didn't have computers. We certainly did not have GPS.

OK Solberg:

But guys, we had something better. We had music. We had cars, and we had TV. Now I'm sure there's some young kids laughing and saying, this old man don't know what he's talking about. We still have TV, cars, and music.

OK Solberg:

Not the way we had them. So Sir, it was the perfect storm and one of the greatnesses is you can't ever bring it back. Now pause and ask yourself why it's a greatness if you can't ever bring them back. We can try, but it can't be done. Oh, sure.

OK Solberg:

We can buy a 1969 Pontiac GTO $100,000 and listen to Joe Joe South singing games people play and we can watch Andy Griffith reruns, but we can't bring it back and that's the greatness of anything that's great. You can't bring it back. You can try, but all the ingredients have to be together and you can't replicate it. That is a huge part of what makes it great. All we can do is remember and cherish and go back in the times of our lives when they were all happening at the same time and we didn't even realize we were witnessing one of the greatest eras of history. All we can do is remember. So let's remember.

OK Solberg:

There was a time in Malta, Montana that you could go to Dobson Motors at the north end of the underpass. You could drive in with your 1956 Chevy with an added on 8 track player that you installed yourself listening to Steppenwolf Born to Be Wild, and there on the showroom floor is a 1969 Dodge Charger RT with a 440.

OK Solberg:

You look it over and decide to save up for that exact car. And then you jump in your car, drive across Highway 2, and stop at the Tasty Freeze and get a red raspberry milkshake before you go downtown to the Villa Theater and watch a movie titled Easy Rider with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda.

OK Solberg:

And you could drive home, flick the TV on, and catch the tonight show with Johnny Carson. Johnny Carson, get a good night sleep. Do your Saturday work in that evening, watch the Jackie Gleason show. Then My 3 Sons followed by Green Acres is the place to be.

OK Solberg:

And Petticoat Junction, Come ride the little train that is rolling down the track. And all the while, wonder what big name will be on the Ed Sullivan show tomorrow night. Yep. This program program was brought to you by I know we can't bring it back, but that's not gonna stop me from remembering.

OK Solberg:

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