Folks in big corporations need to get out more.

I have a headache that’s about to cause me to begin blurring my vision. Cause unknown. However a hot bath, Goody’s and some sleep should take the edge off.

That said, had a great time over the weekend at the Saint George Utah Airshow, but the flight home in my helo having to run the slot between the Mountains and over through Malta via Strevelle was a knuckle buster. Having to remain under angels 5 and above 800 .

Got home but I think it’s the adrenalin reduction causing head pain.

What I got from talking to so many at the show was, they have the opinion, that Idaho, or northern Utah are two of the worst places to do business. Or at least base anything serious.

The reasons ranged from a really restrictive religious demographic, to low population numbers.

Fact is; if a few would just get out of their ivory tower offices and cubical and come up here and look they might see more than the stereotypes that the image of Idaho would depict. Few know that Idaho leads the nation in cheese milk production, is a leader in fresh frozen trout production, a leader in peppermint oil production. More over and while high tech or even anything technology production or ability. Skills for the industries needing math and science education, are not here (yet) but when I run into a something that ain’t, I say, I cain’t be the only one. Surly there are other companies big and-small, that need this or that. To my way of thinking that, means another opportunity for the club to do something.

Be it a radio/TV media skills school, a place that hand paints signs, not just computer generated decals, or a real computer repair shop. Web design service that can handle the entire project, and so on.

But major companies in major cities overlook Idaho or at least the upper great basin of the Wasatch front due to a seemingly poor view of what is here, not just what ain’t.

I saw something the other night watching TV in Saint George, about some little pooch, who got a gene misconfigured to where it was half asleep all the time. The critter lived in Chubbuck, Idaho. Did I see something on this, on any TV channel here? No. What the segment did show was a concerned and dedicated Veterinarian , who worked hard to find a cure. Although the outcome was poor, it showed that there is something more in Idaho than tater farmers.

There are good parts of Idaho, and over and above all Idaho or even Utah based economic improvement groups, including many Chambers of Commerce’ I will give a shout howdy to the Hazzard County Chamber of Commerce. For no organization does more with so few dollars to extend the welcome mat or the hey come up here and see what we got, more than the HC, CofC does.

The HC C-of-C is an extension of the Knytes-of Anarchy, and works all so quietly behind the scenes telling the story and why major firms, from Hooter’s to The Ole Cracker Barrel , to at least come up and look see.

From major related industry events from the Mid America Trucking Show, to major Aviation shows, to major biker events, the HC C-of-C is out there handing out pamphlets and information inviting a few not in the know to at least to come look.

The HC C-of-C even goes as far as, if there is a crisis, in a persons day, like oh example;

Few months back, one of our corporate sponsors, carved out an $8,000.00 check, that they sent through by wire to Chase Bank in Twin Falls. This is a sizable amount to be kicking through from bank to bank or through some wire funds service.

I sat here in Heyburn, with $2.00 in my pocket. Although through a club member did give me the $20.00 to go fetch the money, still I went to our local Mini Cassia Chamber of Commerce, asked two of the gals that worked there if they’d bumb me even $10.00 so I could go fetch $8,000.00 . It was after all the HC C-of-C that gave me the money.  And yet Mini Cassia Chamber of Commerce couldn’t be bothered.

Bullsbreath. Oh the club is looking at joining the Mini Cassia, C-of-C . But I’m not yet too warmed up to the idea.

And this from a town that holds itself out as warm, and helping.

Some need to take a page out of the Hazzard County good book.

The Bible says, if your neighbor is cold, give him your coat, if he is hungry, feed him, if your neighbor needs a place to sleep, give him your bed.

While I’m not into giving up my bed, still , if I have it, and I see someone who needs it, be it food, a little money, or shelter , I’m the first extending my hand. These are the things the lord teaches. These are the things people from Hazzard County believes in, and these are the things people, especially the Knytes-of-Anarchy, practices every day, every hour.

That’s what makes the club what it is, and why all of you both members and none members alike, should be part of: the Hazzard County Chamber-of-Commerce.

That’s what makes us, us, and why folks in big corporations need to get out more and look, both at our club, and the area we serve.

>The Hazzard County Chamber of Commerce will have its by monthly meeting Thursday at 1:00PM(13:00 hours)<

L8R Ya’ll

 

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Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.
--Hans Christian Andersen

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Ever think you’re the only one?

Before I get rolling out here this afternoon, prepping for my Satellite radio show on XM, I want to get off the tarmac , by saying Happy Birthday to Colby’s lil bro Caleb , now if Colby will tell Brother Tommy to give his ole buddy Cooter in Idaho a call, at 208-647-0610 it’d be good as we need to chat with Tommy.

Okay then.

I often wonder at the wasted marketing promotional talent out there, who fill my in box on my emails with pure bullshit. Or products that have little to no value to me.

From those at FaceBook to Google, to Yahoo, why not use that profile mining your doing and think about posting stuff in my suggestion boxes with stuff I can use?

I’d bend over bassackwards if just once there was an ad up there in my side column for Miller Industries who makes, towing equipment. Names like Holmes, Century, Chevron, Vulcan and so on. How about ads up there for TowParts, Truck-n-Tow , or even Federal Signal.

If you watch the TV any amount you have picked up in this repo show of Lick Lizard Towing. On the back of the tow truck in BOLD letters it reads DYNAMIC , that’s who makes that quick pick pickle wheel lift. So there’s popularity here. Miami Tow , produced by female music mogul Jennifer Lopez , has the BIG words, CHEVRON on the back of their shown equipment. With these tow shows popular now, how come such web site ad gurus aren’t out there kicking the doors of these manufacturers offering to put up the banner ads? Its completely idiotic to think that I need to be inundated by ads for everything from how to make my cock bigger or last longer, to ads for shit that I’d never use, like Proactiv Skin care products. Shit I’m 53 years old, I don’t have zits any more. So why spend the time marketing to me? Hell if these companies are that hungry for new business, here at HazzardAyre Radio, I’ll give em one hell of a bargain, I’ll advertise their products for a $1,000.00 a year nearly unlimited placement.

Then there are those notable dealers of products that I do use, who need to spend more time with their web ad department.

Example, ad came up from Jegs, for an MSD Atomic Fuel Injection system. Wanting to know if the product would work in my particular application, mainly a 454 CID, 8.0 liter V8 77 Chevy C-30. I was able to get the 411 of Chevy and year but model? didn’t work. Tech goof? Possible but for damn sure if its screwed up fix it.

Sure I make typo errors as I type studder. In essence my brain runs a tad bit faster than my fingers can type, so I make blunders. But I try to correct them. But the context is usually figured out.

All day today, I spent with our Treasurer on the phone, our area accountant, and business manager going over income versus outgo. This if for taxes. Yes even the Knytes have to pay taxes. Because in case you were wondering an MC is not considered a none profit, or tax exempt, organization. As such the revenuers are there with hand out.

Over the last five years, even with the downturns and hiccups in the nations economy. The Knytes-of-Anarchy, its extensions and subsidiaries have remained strong, and in certain areas of the nation even increased membership and brought in new revenue.

I’m proud as can be to be one of the founding 9 of the Knytes, I am proud to be one that has stuck by the club, although many times I thought of leaving, due to internal matters of my own, including the ridicule from MHI, But we have none the less , stuck together.

We have done without, sacrificed, bought only what we needed, sought as free or as near free vendors, and bartered. But we have survived and prospered.

With that said, still, when I see excellence or see stupidity I need to extrapolate and report it.

Of course too, when I open my email, I see these dopey ads and wonder is it only us they target? Example, some guy out Midwest, tried to swindle the club, into buying into some energy research company. Poking holes in Nebraska or somewhere. The question I ask is, first why the MC? Second do we look stupid?

So I pitched the guy a deal, spend some money with the MC on your end, on buying ad time on HazzardAyre Radio at $1,000.00 a year. Then we might be in a better mood to look at what you got your hand out for.

Guy hasn’t contacted me since.

Course have had the cell off for a month.

The Craig’s List ads for HazzardAyre, and all was the main cause of that. I needed relief. Cable-One offers me phone service for half of what I was paying for my cell service, and third , too much month not enuff extra cash. The payment made for a local radio station buy at $450K, plus the studio/office sucked out the wind from under my wings.

But April looks better. The $450K has been returned , half of that will go into our FM, here in Mini Cassia, the other half goes into the Utah operations which is why I need Colby’s bro Tommy to give me a call.

But do you ever look at things and think am I the only One doing this right? Or, Am I the Only One? Does make ya’ll wonder don’t it?

 CMT has the Dukes back on, during midnight to 01:00 hours HST(Hazzard-Standard Time)

Next edition,

Dixie-Diesel/Hazzard Nationals(DukesFest West) 2012.

Coming to Mini Cassia this fall, after all.

L8R

Quote of the Day:
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
--Jean de La Bruyère

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Why hide behind a FalseFace?

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There are some that accuse ye ole Wolf here of starting fuss’ when there ain’t no need to. Fact is this ain’t one of those times.

I always have asked the big question , why hide behind a FalseFace? On the hit series and I believe one of the movie episodes of BatMan was a character named FalseFace. Half of what he was , the other not anything like he really was.

I saw on FaceBook someone that wanted to enter my Friends area that said she was the REAL , Selena Gomez. After some simple questions and detective work determined this young seat cover was in no way Selena. Question is why? Why be a celebrity when you aren’t? More over is or are some teens and tweens that in need of mentors and role models that they impersonate some super star online?

When I state that I’m I’m already a celebrity, that’s not howling at a false moon. The fact is on the basis of the Mountain West and Over The Air Radio, I am a celebrity. But nothing to the measure of Selena Gomez. However, by comparison, if I’d have wanted to start crap online I could go in and say I was Howard Stern. There’s way too many things Howard and I have in common, that I could make that work, but I don’t. Ye ole AyreWolf here is just me, good ole AyreWolf, on AyreWolf FM  KDXB FM 105.3.

But no more, no less.

Later this afternoon, I’ll read the best responses I get  on FaceBook concerning this question.

More L8R

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Overcast Sunday in Hazzard

Usual Sunday in March here in Hazzard. Get up late finding I did not reset clock for the changeover. Never could figure out who came up with that poem, or whatever, that tells you of the changeover.

So then start to watch NASCAR running in Vegas, thing is. Ever since NASCAR chickened out of remembering its heritage in view of being politically correct, I have no big reason to watch NASCAR. More over refusing the General Lee to run the opening lap. Bullshit. Hazzard County made NASCAR , if it had not been for the General Lee and the Dukes opening up the eyes of so many during prime time, NASCAR would have remained the obscure and yes southern based sport it started as. To change views in view of simply cash, rather than tradition and all, means NASCAR has become too much of what Mr. French dreaded it would become after his death.

Maybe NASCAR needs to look at itself. More over it proves that there is a serious need for groups like ours to be teaching Southern Heritage. So then tired of NASCAR, switched to the only channel on TV with any serious content, the Disney Channel.

Is it that the Disney Channel has more money than the rest of the Cable and other TV networks and channels, or did Disney figure out how to better deploy its resources to create programming that both adults as well as teens and preteens can watch and enjoy.

ABF Family was supposed to be the adult version of the Disney Channel and is owned by ABC/DISNEY but , that said, if Disney started putting TV shows for adults on the Disney Channel, the rest of both Cable and network TV might as well put up the FOR SALE in their windows.

Disney does one other thing I find refreshing.

Disney took the idea of the fact that your paying for cable, why insult you by airing commercials? So Disney outside of its own shows and movies airs no TV ads.

Wonder if the rest of cable/and network TV could get that Idaho.

I’ll be back on air Monday, but I needed to refresh myself and and after a few people hurt me as they did, I needed to refresh my mind of exactly where and what my place is in this media thing of the Knytes.

Some decisions were made.

The major one is selling the tower west of Hagerman and the FCC Allocation/License/CP as well as the one near Arco Idaho. Take the money, apply it to Nevada and Wyoming, After all when I leave here, ain’t no one really wanting to come back here at least not mean. I have not yet found out if you can legally change where your born, or whatever, but I’m going to attempt to remove all things that ever had anything to do with my family as far as Idaho. Or this part of it. That also means calling in a bunch of loans, favors , and repossession work on a bunch of property Mom & Dad loaned money on that ain’t ever been paid for. Including some, to Mr. Al Lee, of Lee Family Broadcasting. See if Kim, squeals now.

Then its unearth Mom & Dad’s graves and the headstone that has my name on it, from down Grace way, and move it all to Utah. If not Utah, down near Dad’s family in Conyers Georgia. To hell with these lying northern yankees.

More Monday.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
--W. C. Fields

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The end of another week

Once again the town is quiet , after being very busy with accidents and two fire calls.

Watched the beginnings of a marathon of Jessie on the Disney Channel, but eyes and body are exhausted.

More on the operation and its future here in the morning. Big news.

L8R

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I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
--Thomas Woodrow Wilson

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Its Tuff to be a celebrity even when you don’t want to be.

It’s truly tuff to be a celebrity, even when you don’t want to be. Just going to the store for snuff can be a real bummer. Thing is most people don’t know I am the one that’s inside your radio and in some places also on their TV’s, unless I open my mouth. That all said, and I started on this last night after my show, so I’m following the previous nights haul on the air here with this.

CMT, a subsidiary of Viacom , has put our beloved Dukes of ice. Guess the ratings boost for them following the movie ran out. Trouble is, and its already showing, CMT’s ratings already have began going under. Ratings means dollars, and TV network execs look at dollars more than they do anything else.

So the Knytes-of-Anarchy doing what we always do will take out ads on CMT for the club. Rub some green in front of their face and get the show back on, or just totally buy the show’s rights off of Viacom, and air the Dukes, on Confederate Star TV.

Saw what looks very much a poser on my Facebook page saying she was Selena. Now I could be wrong, but her agent needs to get in touch with me, but when I dropped that hint, to who ever it was , there on Facebook, I got a fuss brewing. Hey Facebook is a place for celebrities, myself, James Best(Roscoe-P-Coltrain) Ben and others are on Facebook all the time. I’m a bit more obvious, but still , I have been around the biz long enough to know if its real or a poser.

Disney ran Radio Rebel once again, and without all the interruptions it was good just to watch. I still think Disney would be smart to launch this as a series. Now that Disney is walking on thin ice with ratings, from putting a stop to Wizards of Waverly Place, and moving its very preteen programming to a thing called Disney Junior the Channel, Disney is going to have to beef up its inventory.

While I still watch from midnight on , Disney Channel, since CMT pulled the Dukes, and that the Disney Channel is the only thing on after midnight that is still good. Still some of the episodes of most of its shows are getting old quick.

Last, Saturday morning, set your clocks back an hour.  Daylight savings time. Must mean LDS Spring conference is approaching.

I had an idea. If SAMCRO MC held our Mountain West conference the same time at the same place as LDS Conference, might that be a hoot? A few of us two wheeled outlaws in the same Motel 6 in Woods Cross Utah, where most of those attending LDS conference stay.

Busy day today, start work on the new shop.

L8R, but hey start writing, emailing and all to CMT tell those jerky execs there at Viacom and CMT, that they’re screwing the pooch, scrubbing the Dukes.

L8R Ya’ll

 

Quote of the Day:
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
--Albert Szent–Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt

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Then there are those of us who do

There are so many who sit around the coffee table bitching about how damn bad their life is, how bad the economy is, even that Obama, who it looks like WILL get re-elected, is, and the list goes on.

When, I hear these things I’m reminded of the speech of JFK, in the mid 1960’s, who said, Don’t ask what you country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

Sure people bitch on how low their wages are. Fact is there are high paying jobs out there, if people , especially women will pull their protected head out of their ass and go do them. Even if it is a job, like having a big bawd trucker kiss her toe in nylon hose in a photo op, or sitting in a radio studio talking about relationships and the differences between what guys and gals think on a certain topic or issue.

While $40.00 an hour ain’t much, it beats the hell out of what first time entry level on air announcers make.

The only reason we in the club pay that, is our style of radio is not exactly that of what area residents are used to here.

That’s why even moderately tame shows like BoB & Tom are syndicated and not live in any area local station’s studio.

Which is something I need to do now.

Put together talent elsewhere, then have a club member sit in the studio pushing buttons, just because a few snot nosed rich chicks or one on SSI couldn’t get off their ass and venture into the Wolf’s Lair.

More over for the two or so that did, I should charge them for studio time since I had to schedule my world around theirs.

For no gain what so ever.

Yes we could give up and many would cheer if we did.

The fact is there are 5 none auction channels within 50 miles from where we are at right now . Two we already own, and are building on, the rest are there for our expansion.

There are many that get fixed income, sit at home, praying that their government payment gets them through the month. Hell I do that. But instead of bitching I’m out fixing. I bust my ass to make extra cash, and if that means shutting off the truck, sitting in a radio studio, to make extra money for the club of which I get 5% of, then so be it.

There are many that pitch a bitch, then there are those of us who do something about it.

L8R Ya’ll

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2 Corinthians 1:3-4“[Praise to the God of All Comfort] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.