Aired Aug 21st, 2025
I want again welcome you to the 4:05 coffee break. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, beverage of your choice. Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, nothing to brag about. Harvest is upon us. $5.31 a bushel. 550 pound steer calf will put a smile on your face. $4.09 on the top end.
Speaker 1:Butcher hog in Iowa, 55ยข a pound. And a $1.83 is what you can get for a 100 pound lamb that's very fat in Billings. But guys, there's more, much more. Hey, was it nice and cool this morning or what? Man.
Speaker 1:Man, that felt good. It's a beautiful day. Now a few house cleaning chores before we get to the maiden subject at hand. First off, you may have heard me mention my dear wife, Thea. Well, she isn't very tall, and I kinda like to say she's not much bigger than a half a pound of soap after a hard day's washing, but man, that girl can work, and you should see her run.
Speaker 1:Second item in the house cleaning chores is to give you a correction from yesterday's episode. If you remember, it was the bees that were removed from the wall. It was the Kamla Jewelry Store, and they retrieved a 150 pounds of honey. But I said it was on Front Street, which I might add, it was later in the nineteen sixties. But when the honey was removed by Mr. Dahlenbach, it was between where Elsie's Sugar Shack was later located and the Stockman bar.
Speaker 1:So that street is now called 1st Ave East, but back in 1958, it was called 5th Avenue. So the honey was removed when the store was on 5th Avenue. Okay. Thanks for the update that no one asked for. Now on to our main subject.
Speaker 1:I have four books that I call my favorites. Of course, we have the bible. Next, how to win friends and influence people. Third, the richest man in Babylon. And finally, the one I'll be sharing from today, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie.
Speaker 1:Outstanding book, guys. Even if you aren't a habitual worrier, it's still a good read. Listen, from Chapter 1 titled, live in day tight compartments. In the spring of 1871, a young young man picked up a book and read 21 words that had a profound effect on his future. A medical student at Montreal General Hospital, he was worried about passing the final examination, worried about what to do, where to go, how to build up a practice, how to make a living.
Speaker 1:The 21 words that this young medical student read in 1871 helped him to become the most famous physician of his generation. His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the 21 words. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Forty two years later, on a soft spring morning when the tulips were blooming on campus, this man, sir William Osler, addressed the students of Yale University.
Speaker 1:He said that his friends knew that his brains were of the most mediocre character, yet he was famous and well known. What had made the difference? He stated that it was owing to what he called living in day tight compartments. What did he mean? A few months before he spoke at Yale, he had crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a great ocean liner where the captain standing on the bridge could press a button and presto, there was a clanging of machinery and various parts of the ship were immediately shut off from one another, shut off into watertight compartments.
Speaker 1:Now he said, each one of you is much more marvelous than the great liner and bound on a longer voyage. What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with day tight compartments as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Get on the bridge and see that at least the great bulkheads are in working order. Touch a button and hear at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the past, the dead yesterdays, touch another and shut off with a great metal curtain the future, the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe, safe for today.
Speaker 1:Shut off the past, let the dead pass, bury its dead, shut out the yesterdays, which have lighted fools the way to dusty death. The load of tomorrow added to that of yesterday carried today makes the strongest man falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. The future is today. End of quote.
Speaker 1:Great book. I have an extra copy if you want to borrow it. Reminds me of a plaque I have in my office. That's in the past now. Don't kick yourself for something that's done in the past.
Speaker 1:No use fretting and consuming over the past. I'll close with a bible verse, Isaiah 43-18 Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. Doesn't get much simpler than that. Easy to say. Now let's try to do it.
Speaker 1:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.