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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.
Wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottled water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.48 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.97 a pound. Butcher hog in Iowa 60ยข a pound, Six Zero. And a 100lb fat lamb in Billings at $2.72 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Now you probably heard that in high school, one of my favorite spots to read there in the Great Falls Tribune was L. M. Boyd. He had fun and interesting facts. Well, if I like it, maybe you too will like it.
OK Solberg:I'll give you some fun trivia right after our bible verse for today. And if you'd like to know some bible trivia, the shortest verse in the bible is what? John 11:35 Jesus wept. Two words. It really is. Check it out, buddy.
OK Solberg:Okay. Listen now. In 1964, the Beatles landed at JFK Airport. More than 3,000 screaming fans showed up to greet them. Their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show drew about 73,000,000 viewers, nearly 40% of The US population at the time.
OK Solberg:The 1960's gave us the Ford Mustang which sold over 400,000 units in its 1st year. It created the pony car class almost overnight. General Motors and Chevy went to work. Shortly, the Chevrolet Camaro debuted in 1967 as General Motors direct answer to the Mustang. And if you haven't noticed, Chevy likes names that start with the letter c.
OK Solberg:Chevelle, Corvette, Cheyenne, Chevette, Corvair. You get the picture. They came up with the name Camaro and someone told the world it was reportedly chosen because a Camaro was a small vicious animal that eats mustangs, which of course we know isn't true. But the definition caught on. It was fun.
OK Solberg:It got said, but the real bottom line is that Camaro just sounds cool. In baseball, the pitching mound is exactly 60 feet six inches from home plate. That distance was standardized in 1893 and guys it hasn't changed an inch. In 1961, Roger Maris hit 61 home runs for the New York Yankees breaking Babe Ruth's single season record at that time. Did you know a baseball has a 108 double stitches all sewn by hand?
OK Solberg:Each ball takes about ten to fifteen minutes to complete. Quilting bees were once major social events in rural America. Entire communities gathered to stitch quilt tops together often finishing a large quilt in a single day. Did you know cast iron skillets became kitchen staples in the eighteen hundreds because they distributed heat evenly and can last for generations? Properly seasoned, cast iron is naturally nonstick due to polymerized oil baked into the surface.
OK Solberg:In 1862, Julia Child, you remember her, don't you? She published the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, introducing many Americans to techniques like braising and deglazing. Braising works because tough cuts of meat contain collagen which breaks down into gelatin at low slow temperatures. That's why a chuck roast becomes fork tender after hours in a dutch oven. On cattle ranches, a mature cow can weigh between a 1,000 and 1,800 pounds depending on the breed.
OK Solberg:The Angus cattle is especially valued for its marbling. Branding livestock dates back thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians marked cattle to show ownership long before the American West made it iconic? Did you know the term deadline originally referred to a line inside civil war prisoner of war camps? Crossing it meant being shot.
OK Solberg:Over time, it came to mean a time limit that must not be crossed. Deadline. You probably knew this. Honey never spoils. Pots of edible honey have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs more than 3,000 years old.
OK Solberg:From Mr. Flatt's biology class, I knew that the human body has 206 bones, but I did not know this. Babies are born with 270. Some bones fuse together as they grow. A standard deck of plan cards has 52 cards. We all knew that.
OK Solberg:And if you shuffle it thoroughly, the exact order of cards has almost certainly never existed before in human history. Do the math. From rock and roll to ranch work, from quilt frames to ballparks, the details matter and the facts behind everyday things are often more interesting than the legends. Just saying.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.