The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg

Its time for another Jay and Joe's Motor Monday. Today O.K. covers the 7 top car's from the 1970's

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Today O.K. suggests you make your plans carefully, but leave room for life to surprise you.

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O.K. admits he gets on a roll and talks too long. This one is short but a good'en.

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The 2nd installment this week, and the last one O.K. will be able to read from the loaner book written by Walter Phillips, the son for whom this county was named, his father being B. D. Phillips.

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Today it's local history time. Another story of B.D. Phillips, the man for whom this county was named.

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It's the 50th episode of Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, so something real special, its the Mercury Pickup Truck story.

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Today O.K. figures he best cover the Top 10 Country Western songs too.

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Today O.K. lists & comments on 10 songs that were considered by some, the top 10 songs from 1955 through 1975.

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A strange little piece of music history, how an electronic mixer board failure changed music history forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZAoJQSNW4

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Today O.K. talks about what it was like before there was air conditioning. 

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It's once again Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, this week we learn O.K. had one of these cars, growing up as a kid. It was the 1970 Buick GS Stage I with a 455!

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Today O.K found us another great story, and its on the history of the Parking Meter.

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For everything there is a season, for Roberta Flack in 1971 that was a Clint Eastwood movie and her song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face that went to #1 on the Billboard Top 100 charts in 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-eO3jTVU

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O.K. talks us back to the time when Tommy James and the Shondells was hitting #1 on the music charts.

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O.K. tries to drum up support for a National Carpet Layers Pension Fund. Why?  The poem titled IF, written by Rudyard Kipling could help you answer that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E2%80%94

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Its Jay and Joe's Motor Monday and it's also the 8th anniversary of The 405, which started this day, back in 2018. Today O.K. is celebrating 8 years on the radio with 8 great cars.

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Today O.K. takes us on a journey into music land, back in 1974 Jesse Colter wrote & produced a song titled I'm not Lisa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVs-d4eBq9k

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Scheduling problems, we've all had them. Today O.K. ponders about one of those big ones, the Airliner company. 

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The Henry and Holly Stephenson story, the two people who told baseball where to go.

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O.K. suggests you put your thinking cap on, you'll need it for this story. The Incredibly Ugly Eric Edwards.

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It's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday. O.K. grew up learning to drive a Model A John Deere Tractor. Today's show is about that post horse & buggy era, when the drive for your dollars to buy horse power became so heated up, some called it a war.  

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The weekend's coming, and O.K. feels like charging into it like a Hurdling Gust of Woodpeckers.

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O.K. takes time to remember Dolly Parton, whom died this last Tuesday, at the age of 80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyP0Sy9KFf0

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We've a new listener from Casper, Wyoming, that being Hunter Halstead. Welcome aboard. To that city and area goes the North Platte River, a topic O.K. dives deep into on today's show.

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O.K. starts out looking over some clips in a Phillips County Newspaper dated 07/12/2023. Then suddenly we're pulled back 120 years to another happening of B.D. Phillips, who's name our Montana county uses still. Phillips County.

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Iit's time again for Jay and Joe's Motor Monday. This week its memory lane with the Ford Fairlane and its spawns, like the Torino & its versions like the Cobra, then by 1973 came  the Galaxy 500 and it's police car version with a 460 police interceptor under the hood. O.K. closes out the show remembering a bit of trouble involving 1 of those.

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Today O.K. ponders on the idea that as we live, things happen, we change. We can suffer from the loss, or cooperate with the inevitable. remember, whatever that was, it's in the past now.

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Remember the man with the red bandana? O.K. shares the heroic 9-11-2001 story of Wells Crother.

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It's Time for Dave and Orv's Motor Wednesday. A once ever 405 edition to cover The Dukes of Hazards TV program, a 1974 Plymouth Roadrunner. a 1971 Plymouth Satellite & a White 1980 Jeep CJ Seven whistling Dixie Daisy Do.

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Today O.K. gives us another installment from the book written by Walter Phillips, the son of B.D. Phillips. For which our county got it's name.

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New week, it's another Jay & Joe's Motor Monday. O.K. dives deep into the Dodge Dart.

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Today O.K. digs deep into the phrase "he made a knee jerk reaction"

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O.K. covers another important topic today. Listening to retain and understand is hard work.

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Hank Williams senior and Johnny Horton were musical legends in the 1950's & 60's.  Whatever happened to the wife Billie Jean Horton? They had both been married too her.

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Today O.K. leads us, by example, to the meaning of involuntary autobiographical memory.

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it's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday. Today O.K. takes us to grandma's house in the family car, the Ford Country Squire station wagon.

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The 4th installment. B.D. Phillips, the man for whom this county is named.

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The 3rd installment. B.D. Phillips, the man for whom this county is named.

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B.D. Phillips, the man for whom our county is named. Part II

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Today O.K. introduces us to the story of B.D. Phillips.  The man for whom our county is named.

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