Aired June 12th, 2025
I wanna again welcome you into the 04:05 coffee break. Guys, it's raining. Hallelujah. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water, and an umbrella, and let's see what's happening out there. Spring wheat, $6.06 a bushel.
OK Solberg:550 pounds steer calf, $3.94 a pound. A butcher hog in Omaha, 62ยข a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings is worth $2.24 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay. Okay.
OK Solberg:I've been telling you about our 50 class reunion. Are you getting tired yet? I've been telling how much fun it was this past weekend. Now, guys, you know, I remember many things from way back when. I do.
OK Solberg:But I don't remember everything. My dear friend and classmate, Mike Sims, was there, and he told me something that I did and said that I have no memory of. But believe me, I believe every word of it. And, you know, I think this would be a good time for our bible verse because even though I'm a pastor in the church I grew up in doesn't mean that I did everything perfect. No.
OK Solberg:In fact, the Bible verse that comes to my mind is forgive me for the sins of my youth. Psalm 25-7, that Bible verse I have had to claim many, many times. So, yeah, It reminds me of a line from a song. Being good isn't always easy.
OK Solberg:See? For a young boy who couldn't go to dances and couldn't go to movies and, well, wasn't supposed to play cards. The road got kinda bumpy when I was out of the house. Mike Sims is the one friend who was with me when we were driving in the '70 Buick Grand Sport with the 455 stage one, and the highway patrol clocked us at over a 100 miles an hour in the pitch darkness of night. Yeah.
OK Solberg:Mike was there. You remember that story. That story, I remember. But Mike told me Saturday of a story he will never forget. I have no memory of it.
OK Solberg:But when Mike told me, I knew it was true. So you have to understand that the drinking age was not always 21 years of age. In fact, it was lowered to 19 in 1971, which part of the reason was all those boys turning 18 and being shipped off to the war in Vietnam. So they were old enough to fight but not old enough to drink. Well, that didn't set with people too well.
OK Solberg:Then in 1973, they changed the legal drinking age to 18. And realize with me that I graduated in 1975, and with the drinking age at 18, some of my senior classmates were old enough to buy liquor even while attending high school. That's true. So don't scold me. I've already asked for forgiveness.
OK Solberg:But I had some cash, and I wanted Mike Sims to buy for me since he was 18. I drove him near the liquor store in Malta, Montana, not in front of it. I'd never do that. I have to keep a low profile, and I told him what I wanted, and Mike, being the good friend, ventured inside. Mike told me it was the time for him in a liquor store, so he's looking at all the bottles on the shelf, and he couldn't see my model number.
OK Solberg:And the clerk said, may I help you? Mike said, no. I'm just looking. Well, Mike couldn't find it, so he came back to the car and told me. I looked him square in the eye and said, you fool.
OK Solberg:You fool. You just got him suspicious, and now he knows you're buying for someone. Remember, I don't remember it, but I believe it. I guess I sent him back in, and he came out with the product. Now I was so happy that Mike told me that story, and I know it doesn't look too good on me, but think about it.
OK Solberg:Think about it carefully. You know I've changed, but you know a little about my personality from this program. I'm always a people person, yet I said, you fool. I want you to know Mike and I were just like brothers because I spoke to him just like I would my own brothers. No filters, pure emotion, and truly what I thought.
OK Solberg:Guys, it was an enjoyable weekend. And remember, I'm fessing up, not bragging, but I still pray, forgive me for the sins of my youth. And, Lord, thank you that I'm alive today. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.