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I wanna again welcome you to the 04:05 coffee break, guys. When I'm recording this earlier today, it's raining slightly. Hallelujah. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water, lets see what's happening out there. Spring wheat going up a little.

OK Solberg: 00:15

$6.15 a bushel. 550 pounds steer calf, $3.95 a pound to $4.03. Butcher hog in Omaha, 61 Cents a pound. And here's some good news for you sheep people out there. A fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $2.53 a pound, but guys, there's more, much more.

OK Solberg: 00:41

Okay. Okay. We returned from our vacation in the state of Washington, and while there, we visited the McCord Air Museum at the Joint Base Lewis McCord, 45 miles south of Seattle. While there, I definitely wanted to see a PBY. I got to see a PBY.

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Do you know about them? Have you ever heard about them? Well, guys, I like to say that most of my education came from watching movies and listening to music. Now it isn't totally true, but I have learned much from watching movies. Captain Quint in the movie Jaws told us all about the PBY.

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So realize how fitting this subject matter is since my sister Evie, told me that it's the 50th anniversary of the movie called Jaws, and I should do a 405 on it. Well here it is, thanks Evie. So Jaws came out in 1975, '50 years ago. But by 1987, there had been four separate movies. Jaws, Jaws two, Jaws three d, and finally, Jaws the Revenge.

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But today, we'll talk mostly about the original. It was and is a classic. When we talk about movies, we often remember lines that were used in that movie, such as the classic, you're gonna need a bigger boat. Or how about this one, farewell and ado to you fair Spanish ladies. I love that scene.

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Or how about this one, when they're in the boat and the shark appears again, Boys, oh boys, I think he's back for his noon feeding. Or do you remember the mayor? The mayor saying, you yell barracuda, everybody says, what? You yell shark, you've got a panic on your hands on the July 4. But the greatest of all is Captain Quint's speech about the USS Indianapolis.

OK Solberg: 03:01

You gotta remember it. And guys, Phillips County people, do you remember my uncle Frank Miller? Frank Miller was actually assigned to the USS Indianapolis, and there was a death in Phillips County that gave him leave and he missed out on the tragic event. Praise the lord. So do you remember captain Quint's speech?

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The three men are comparing their scars, remember? Chief Brody says, what's that one? Glenn says, what? Brody, that one there on your arm. Oh.

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Oh. That's a tattoo. I got that removed. Hooper says, don't tell me. Don't tell me.

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It said mother. What is it? Mister Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis. Hooper says, you were on the Indianapolis? Brody asked, what happened?

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Japanese submarine slammed two port torpedoes into our side. Chief, We were coming back from the island, the Tinney and Delaney just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima bomb. 1,100 men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half hour.

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Tiger, 13 footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent out. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.

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Very first light chief, sharks come cruising. So we formed ourselves into tight groups, know, kind of like old squares in a battle like you see in a calendar like the Battle of Waterloo. And the idea was shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he started pounding and hollering and screaming and sometimes the shark go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you, right into your eyes.

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You know a thing about a shark? He's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at you, doesn't seem to be living until he bites you. And those black eyes roll over white and then, oh, and then you hear that terrible high pitched screaming. The ocean turns red and despite all the pounding and the hollering, they all come in and they rip you to pieces.

OK Solberg: 05:52

You know, by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don't know how many men. They averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland, Baseball Player, bosoms mate.

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I thought he was asleep. Reached over to wake him, bobbed up and down in the water just like kinda like a top up ended. Well, he had been bitten in half below the waist. Noon that fifth day, mister Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us.

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Young pilot, lot younger than mister Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know? That was the time I was most frightened, waiting for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again.

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So 1,100 men went into the water. Three hundred & sixteen men come out and the sharks took the rest. June 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. Great movie.

OK Solberg: 07:18

Rent it soon. Watch it again. Celebration, fifty years. Did you hear about that big fat PBY? That's where I knew about a PBY from the movie Jaws.

OK Solberg: 07:29

I'll close with a bible verse and thanks Evie for the idea. Genesis one verses 20 and 21, and God said, let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens. So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves with which the waters swarm. Summer's here guys, let's go swimming. Until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.