The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg

There's no need to fear. Underdog is here. Today O.K. covers a man named Billy Powell, whom back in 1970 signed up as a roadie for the Leonard Skinner band...

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What a game. What a season. What a glorious victory. O.K. deem's it Taco Wednesday.

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Think of the things that used to be that are no longer.

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It's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday. Today's episode was based on the song titled Hot Rod Lincoln.

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So just goes without saying today it's gonna be 1967.

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Starting the new year out with a look back to what happened in 1966.

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Yesterday, we looked at 1964. Today, it's gonna be 1965.

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Today, O.K. takes us  back to the year 1964. A year very much worth remembering.

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Welcome again to Jay and Joe's Motor Monday! Today, it's the 455 Rocket!

Kathy Matteo's song titled 455 rocket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQZV6q00sUc

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What is the day after Christmas called? Boxing Day!

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O.K. starts out by saying: I'm not gonna tell you, what I'm gonna do.

Note from D.J. : As the person composing these show descriptions, ME. When O.K. said that, I had to pause. What do I write here about the show?

Merry Christmas!

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O.K. shares some of his best childhood Christmas memories.

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Enjoy listening to Christmas music? O.K. has you covered in this show.

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Today O.K. celebrates the Chevrolet 409 big block engine. It's  Jay and Joe's Motor Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHRJCcCYAF4

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A tribute to Doc.

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O.K. hasn't talked about baseball for weeks, here is another great edition on that topic.

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In this show O.K. cerebrates Christmas songs and music.

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Today, some oddities of the English language.

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Welcome to Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, today the honor goes to the Flathead Ford V8 engine.
Bad Audio Recording will need a retake.

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The story of a front end loader operator, how well do you deal with being under stress?

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Today, we're gonna talk about String Art.

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Today O.K. is gonna write fiction, as if it happened in Malta Montana in the year 1965.

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In this Thanksgiving Day replay O.K celebrates the 1965 song Alice's Restaurant.
NOTE: The Last few seconds of this episode are missing, until I can get a master recording to update it. 

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It's Motor Monday and today O.K. remembers the 1953 Buick Roadmaster, the last straight 8 engine car ever made.
(In memory of Marda Southwick)
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Today O.K. explores collective nouns. More precisely words describing a group of birds or animals.

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Today O.K. offers us a tribute to the song A Horse With No Name by the band America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na47wMFfQCo

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On today's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday O.K. tips to hat to the Ford Motor Company GT 40 and Henry Ford Jr for creating it.

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It's absolutely worthless when it don't work. Think about that then!

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It is Thanksgiving, so nobody's listening, we can say whatever we want. Pistol pot.

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O.K. takes the listener back to growing up as a kid in 1963, Trafton played a big part in making Malta what it is today, listen to find out how.

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Today O.K. offers us a tribute to Robin Williams. Sadly, he had depression and died in 2014.

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Today on Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, O.K. brings us the conclusion to the 1963 Chrysler turbine automobile story.

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Memories growing up in NE Montana, from the 1960's with Duck & Cover Drills to stories from the 1930's on with Aunt Jean and finally how O.K. got his name.
DJ NOTE: Apologies about the bad audio in this episode, will try to replace it with a better studio master asap.

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O.K. covers another history topic effecting us all here in Montana. The enlarged homestead act of 1909 and the new clause in 1912.

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Welcome to history class. Some Ancient & some Old West. The 44-40 ammo was both for rifle and revolver, it played a big part in How the west was won.

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Repeat Show. The Nov 11th, 2025 Veterans Day celebration episode. This show is actually a better recording, than the original program, back on the 11th.. For reference & transcription see: link below.
https://the405.transistor.fm/s8/315
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Sister Viv's birthday! Jay and Joe's Motor Monday! Learn about Chrysler Corporation's one and only jet engine car.

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who was the best baseball player to come out of Montana? O.K. covers that and more.

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O.K.s got another quilting story for you. Learn how Frank preserved in thread and cloth.

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A story that'll make you feel better, not worse. Titled where I learned to work and worship.

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Today O.K. pauses to honor the men and women who have served our nation, our veterans.

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Joe and Jay's Motor Monday. What does the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Andrea Doria shipwrecks have in common with a 1957 Chrysler model automobile, known only as the Norseman?  Find out today, in this episode.

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1st story up. O.K. shared an old 405 episode with his sister, find out what Community and Friends can mean. 2nd some newspaper story's, these from 1980 and profound personal memories we all shared from that time.

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Just hoping that maybe one day O.K. will talk about quilts? Well, today is the day.

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Today O.K. takes the listener into the world of automobiles. Even if you aren't a mechanic though, you'll still enjoy this.

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O.K. breaks out into baseball for this one.

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Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, the day we honor horsepower one Monday at a time.
Shaping automobiles safety and design since back in 1919, when Boston was shaken by one of the strangest disasters in American history. Learn about it in today's show.

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Today its all about O.K. eating Crow, over being wrong on cattle prices come Halloween.

NOTE: Show ended with A good bible passage from 1st Thessalonians chapter 4-5 that fits this topic.  Sadly there was a disruption for a few seconds during O.K reading it. See the Transcript for the correct text, or feel free to look it up in your bible.

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Randy could arm wrestle, but he hadn't worked too many cattle, and he wanted to learn how.

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Randy could arm wrestle, but he hadn't worked too many cattle, and he wanted to learn how.

PARTIAL recording only. See 10/30/2025 (next day) for full show. Here is the link:
https://the405.transistor.fm/s8/303

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Today O.K. has a baseball hangover, last nights world series game lasted 18 innings, hear all about it and 1 of several high class commercials too.

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Jay and Joe's Motor Monday.  Repeat of October 20th, 2nd edition about Bill France and Jr. Johnson.  Orignal show & transcription link:
https://the405.transistor.fm/s8/293

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Today O.K. gives us the story of Jimmy Piersall, an interesting baseball player from our past, the 1960-1957 era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Piersall

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Today O.K. gives up a fun Montana trivia quiz

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Whatever a person is fond of, whatever a person is enamored with, they're gonna talk about it. For O.K. that means Baseball & Cattle prices.

O.K.'s down to the wire on getting this episode written.  Although O.K. is in a jolly mood, some have negative feelings.  Are you gonna be one of those who let a bad mood tear another person down? 

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Jay and Joe's Motor Monday.  Bill France and Jr. Johnson how unlikely a team.  One a visionary the other a rebel. Together they convinced the world that NASCAR was more than just a southern novelty.

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O.K. shares a bit about a story, written by Robert Frost talking about home & the hired man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GixoG8QLVkY

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Today O.K. explores the topic of growing up and being forced to remember new words. Two that still stick for him, are inevitable and irrelevant.

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O.K. covers the bases today, tune in today for some pheasant.

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1st Episode of Jay and Joe's Motor Monday

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O.K announces, Monday, October 13, there's gonna be a new weekly program on The 405, Jay and Joe's Motor Monday.
The day we honor horsepower one Monday at a time, here about it in this Friday's episode.

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What's a cubit? Listen today and find out, plus it's pretty hard to build something if you don't know the measurements. Today O.K. covers some of them from a farmers prospective. 

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Listen to time marching on in this short little story by George Saunders

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Bowling, Bowling, Bowling. From Jimmy Taylor's birthday party where O.K. bowled the nights high score in 1966. To remembering the winter 1992-1993 Bowling league newspaper scores. Bowling for O.K. is about the people. 

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While catching us up on current events and the news, O.K. keeps getting reminded of a story, and flashes back to 1970

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Much like everyone else in America, Malta MT has seen its share of changes. O.K. also reminds us of some of the things here that haven't changed.

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O.K. gives us some obvious truths. A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

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While growing up & when in the library, O.K.'s favorite reading material was the Great Falls Tribune newspaper. Want to guess which sections he read, and in what order?

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O.K figures it isn't all that bad to be broke.

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Peigneux are bulletproof geniuses

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All sorts of interesting stuff out there, today O.K. covers just about everything.
Special tribute to KMMR radio station, 45 years today being on the air.

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Preston Tucker and his amazing 1948 Tucker Tornado automobile
Part II

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1st part of the Tucker torpedo automobile story.

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Today O.K. is gonna be talking about Forrest Tucker, a real life man best known as an escape artist.

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Today is about testing your musical knowledge.

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More How to Stop Worrying and Start living by Dale Carnegie

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O.K. would like you to picture yourself on a game show. Today it's a trivia quiz, mostly from the Andy Griffith, Green Acres & Beverly Hillbillies  shows.

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More thoughts from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie today.  Don't let the little things eat you up with frustration and worry.

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In June 1973, the 2nd set of astronauts to live in Skylab left earth, learn what the astronaut Owen Garriott did, in O.K.'s version of Rest of the Story.

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Everybody likes trivia.  Today O.K. gives up another wholesome show on that topic about animals.

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Today its all about past Malta Mustang football state championships. O.K. lists some of the great players from back in 2006 & attempts to inspire our 2025 season players to go on an win tomorrow's homecoming game against the Conrad Cowboys. 

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In a dream O.K. was working on the rigs, then suddenly we are a young boy growing up on the farm. It's a relatable story. A simple story.  One that feels just real and true.

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Today O.K. gives us the story and some of the history history of a local man. Napoleon Joseph LaFornay

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Today O.K. calls out: Would someone please put their cherry picker out on the street.

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O.K has another story today, The Long Cord

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O.K. has a story, That Friday Night, as told by Beth

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Today, for a short while, O.K. becomes your muse.

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We celebrate Cal Raleigh, the current Seattle Mariner Baseball catcher. Just broke 50 home runs so far this season, never before done by a catcher, and still 24 games left to play this year.

This show replaces the bad production episode from last Friday.   

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Repeat Program. 1st Aired Aug 25th, 2025.

https://the405.transistor.fm/s8/237

Regarding Baseball, O.K. shares the infield fly rule and more on music:

Peter built a truck for a man to drive. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COa3XvDV9yQ

No Transcript. See Original Episode for that.

The 1st minute or so of this program was damaged in the studio and so we pickup the story as soon as the audio could be understood.

Remembering Dave McNally, Montana's own.
Hats off to Seattle mariner Cal Raleigh for his historic 50 home run season, in addition to being the teams catcher.

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Inspiration for today's show comes from Merle Haggard's song Where No One Stands Alone
https://youtu.be/EKEtl_Zkf-c

The Little Girl, by John Michael Montgomery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1j669NVNzM

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Today O.K. teaches us something about hats & caps while zooming back to 03/16/1916 and sharing in the delights of reading from the newspaper published back in the day.

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Repeat of the Al Schulz story.  1st aired Aug 12th, 2025
https://the405.transistor.fm/s8/224

Peter built a truck for a man to drive. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COa3XvDV9yQ

Regards Baseball, O.K. shares the infield fly rule

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Baseball is our subject today, if you need a tutorial on how baseball leagues work in America, this episode is for you.

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Update to yesterday's story on the 1958 Kamla Jewelry Store Bee infestation.
The main story for today's show comes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie Chapter 1. Live in day tight compartments

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The word for today is A P I A R I S T, apiarist. Learn what it means, and what happened to Kamla's Jewelry store in 1958.

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Repeat of show from Aug 12th, the old timer Al Schultz, whom came to Malta back in 1868 by Steamboat. 

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 O.K. has gotta tell you a story.  Here's to all the lonely hearts out there.

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