OK Solberg: 00:00

I wanna again welcome you to the 04:05 coffee break, guys. It's a new week. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water, a tall, cool glass of lemonade. Let's see what's happening out there. Spring wheat, $6 and 9 pennies.

OK Solberg: 00:14

$6.09 per bushel. 550 pounds steer calf. They're not selling much right now. So I'll tell you, short term cows with a calf at side, $3,200. A young mother cow with a calf at her side, $4,100.

OK Solberg: 00:33

I hope to shout that's a lot of money. A butcher hog in Omaha. No. A butcher hog in Iowa. I called him myself.

OK Solberg: 00:43

Spencer livestock in Iowa, 55¢ a pound. And a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings, I'm gonna give you a range because all fat lambs are not created equal. $2.06 to $2.29 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. Hey, do you realize that on Labor Day, coming up in about seven weeks, that will mark seven full years of The 405.

OK Solberg: 01:10

Now, did you know that there are 260 work weekdays in a year? Not workdays, yeah, that'd be workdays too. Weekdays, 260 weekdays in a year. So that is 260 episodes per year. If you do that for seven years, that amounts to 1,820 episodes.

OK Solberg: 01:33

But here's what I wanna say. I know that sounds like a bunch, but see, I've had help. I don't want you to think I've done this all on my own. Oh, I have had help. Imagine with me, if you have to create five new episodes every week, and you talked about music one day and maybe cars the next, and well, you include a patchwork quilt in there, and then fun with words and a little trivia quiz.

OK Solberg: 02:05

But then you could come to the point in your journey where you say, what the heck am I gonna talk about now? That's why I'm saying this now, I want you to know I have help. Why just last Saturday, I'm sitting around with a couple of friends after the walk and we're drinking coffee and we can visit about, well, about nearly anything. So I have a good idea. While I'm drinking coffee and chewing the fat, I had me a good idea.

OK Solberg: 02:33

I asked each one of my friends for a topic for The 405. Yes. And again, that's why I'm coming clean. It may sound like a lot of work five days a week, but I have help. So I said, no getting out of this, guys.

OK Solberg: 02:50

Each of you has to give me a topic for The 405. Well, without hesitation, mr anonymous said, NO. Oh, and we laughed. We surely did. It was a good answer.

OK Solberg: 03:04

We cut up over it and I said, okay. So your theme is NO. What about you, Mike? And I wanna be totally honest and share the entire word for word theme that Mike gave me. I said, what about you, Mike?

OK Solberg: 03:19

And quickly, without a moment to lose, Mike said, what? So that's why I'm coming clean. I don't do this alone. I have help, great help from my good friends. So the theme for today is NO and What?

OK Solberg: 03:35

Let's see what kind of trouble we can get in here. First off, and with all honesty and no reflection on my two good friends, the words NO and What are some of the first words a baby learns to say. It's fun to see a young child and they're walking quite well at this point in time, and they maybe take off their sock and put it on the coffee table. Well, you as a parent say, Joshua, you can't put your sock on the table, take it off. And the little kid smiled and said, No.

OK Solberg: 04:09

Oh, they think they're so cool. They are like the big people now, independent. They can communicate through words, and they wander off, and you can't allow this sort of behavior. Yet yet they'll still think it's pretty cool that they're mastering their communication skills, but, you know, this sassy behavior can't go unchallenged. So you say, Joshua, don't walk away from me.

OK Solberg: 04:34

Take that sock off the table. And with that little impish grin, they look your way and say, What? See, the word No and What are great words. And again, not to make a reflection upon my two good friends, they are some of the first words a baby learns to say. No is a defiant word.

OK Solberg: 04:56

It makes you feel like you're the boss. What, what, is a slippery word and helps you escape responsibility. No is when you put your foot down. What? Is when you play the dumb farmer and slip out of obligation scot free.

OK Solberg: 05:14

I just wanna say I couldn't do it without you guys' help. My two coffee drinking friends are so helpful when it comes to assisting me with The 405. So never think that I do it all alone. I'll close with a bible verse, Romans 7-7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin by No means?

OK Solberg: 05:40

And guys, you made me work hard. That is the only verse, the only verse in the whole bible that I can find that has both the word No and the word What contained within. My hats off to my dear friends, Mike Lowney and Mr Anonymous. I couldn't do it without you.

OK Solberg: 05:58

With your help, it's like the episodes write themselves. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.