The 405 Coffee Break Aired Sept 4th, 2025
Hey. I wanna again welcome you to the 4:05 Coffee Break. Get your cup of coffee, glass of iced tea, bottle of water, let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, $5.21 a bushel. A 550 pound steer calf aren't selling much, but you can contract them and get over $4.03.
OK Solberg:$4.00 to $4.23 a pound, depending on the condition. And a butcher hog in Iowa, 64ยข a pound, and a lamb that's fat and weighs 100lbs will fetch you $1.99 in Billings. Dollars 0.99 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay.
OK Solberg:I found a story online. You know how I like stories. I didn't write it, but I found one online that I had to share with you. Sit back and listen. Remember, I didn't write it, but it's still great.
OK Solberg:It's titled That Friday Night Told by Beth. Not every memory has to be life changing to stick with you. Some of the best ones are the ordinary ones, the kind you don't even realize you're making while they're happening. Like that Friday night in the summer in 1971. Yeah.
OK Solberg:It was just me, Diane and Tracy. We'd finished our shifts at the sugar shack, got cleaned up and piled into my family's wood paneled Pontiac Savari station wagon. Now it wasn't exactly a muscle car, but it was roomy. And my dad didn't mind if I took it as long as I didn't come home with the gas tank empty. Oh, gas was cheap back then.
OK Solberg:Thank God for that. Or we never would have made it all the way to the drag in time to catch the Friday night cruise. Yeah. We parked right near the tasty freeze, rolled down all the windows, and just sat watching cars go by. That was half the fun.
OK Solberg:The Chevy Camaros and Mustangs would rev their engines like they were in some kind of peacock contest, windows down, music up. We'd pretend we weren't watching, you know, flip through a magazine or pretend to talk about something important. But of course, we were watching. I remember Marty and his black GTO did a burnout right in front of us. Diane just rolled her eyes and said someone's compensating, but she was blushing.
OK Solberg:We all were. Oh, and the radio was on a course. We never went anywhere without it. The dial didn't always land right, but when it did, oh, it was gold. That night, I can remember hearing joy to the world by three dog night.
OK Solberg:Yep. Followed shortly thereafter by brown sugar by the rolling stone, and then even Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It was that music, such a variety. We loved it all. Tracy leaned over and said, this'll be us when we're 40.
OK Solberg:We're still trying to dance in the front seat of a station wagon to gypsies, tramps, and thieves sung by Cher. Now why haven't they played that song tonight? They played it four times last weekend during one night's cruise. You know, we had a little paper bag of Jolly Ranchers and Sugar Babies that we'd picked up from the corner store. I had a pack of bazooka bubble gum, mostly for the dumb comic inside.
OK Solberg:Tracy got wax bottles, which she said were disgusting but still bought every time. I think she liked chewing the wax more than the syrup inside. When it got darker, we drove to the old theater downtown, the only one in town, the one screen movie house with the sticky floors and creaky seats where the boys always coughed when they cracked their beer that they snuck in in their sock with lots of room in those bell bottoms. Yeah. They were showing dirty Harry.
OK Solberg:Not exactly a girls night flick, but it was only movie playing. Diane said, if I have to watch Clint Eastwood squint through a gunfight for two hours, someone's buying me popcorn. That someone ended up being me. Yeah. We sat through the whole thing.
OK Solberg:Tracy jumped once during a shootout and we teased her about it the rest of the night, but I'll admit, it wasn't boring. After the movie, we sat on the hood of the wagon, eating the last of the Jolly Ranchers and listening to every guy that drove up to the turnaround say, you gotta ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk? You know, boys are kinda disgusting, but we were all talking about them, then we went home.
OK Solberg:No big deal. But I think about that night sometimes. Nothing special happened, but I guess that's what made it special. End of story. I loved it.
OK Solberg:I hope you liked it a little bit. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and he will show you your elders, and they will tell you. Deuteronomy 32:7 Shut out the past hardships.
OK Solberg:Remember and keep telling of the past joys. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.