I owe my life to go go boots nylons and legs

An old folk song said it best, there’s got to be a Morning After. Sure enough there is. After going all night through early morning untethered to the Internet, finally got online. Course missed being able to do HazzardAyre radio last night so will make up for it on this coming Saturday.

When it comes to coincidences I don’t think there really are coincidences.

After all who would have thought that two people from two different geographic parts of the Union would have become not only such good friends but resembled in so many ways each other?

In February of 1981 after missing the Salt Lake City AutoRama with the General Jackson, it was determined that by hell or high water that our shop would have ye ole General Jackson at the 1981 AutoRama. In that year a popular movie was playing called the HollyWood Knights, that starred Robert Wuhl, Fran Dressler , Tony Danza amongst others. In that movie it showed the car hops at Tubby’s Drive In , wearing white vinyl zipper up the side go-go boots rather than the roller skates that was on American Graffiti . So in our infinite wisdom, our crew set out to find white go-go boots. At that point in history , go-go boots of the style were out of fashion and the few being sold were sold to drill teams and cheerleading squads of high schools. Who wore these? Twin Falls High School was the first, nothing, Burley High School, nothing, until a gal at Burley High said East Minco Junior High wore them. Of course they didn’t have, but what I discovered on this trip, was an aging 1970 Dodge Charger. Now to the uninformed the 1970 Dodge Charger and the 1969 Dodge Charger had only two minor differences. One was a small partition in the grill of the 69, where as the 1970 Dodge Charger was retrofitted with the grill from the 1968 Dodge Charger which meant the small partition was not in the grill of the 1970 model. The second difference between the 1970 and 69 was the 69 had the ignition switch in the dashboard, where as the 1970 model had the ignition key in the steering column. Outside of that the two cars are identical. With the unloading of $1,500.00 a restyled poor attempt at a Gen Lee was on its way to Hagerman, a rebuild and into the Salt Lake City AutoRama we went, the rest as they say is history.

Now then on that trip to the SLC Autorama, it was about the second night awake in a hotel room, I finally came to the conclusion that neither I nor Bro looked anything like Bo or Luke Duke. But I did bear a striking resemblance to Ben Jones aka Cooter. Like Cooter, I drove a tow truck at a rural hot rod shop where the General Lee was always parked.

So I made a call to the producers of the Dukes asked if I could duplicate the image, and so on, and in mid 1982 the official off TV real-to-life Hazzard County Garage was opened. Shortly after that the club came to be and you know the club today as the Knytes-of-Anarchy.

Over the years I have came to know many of the cast and off screen people of that show. But what really stuck was when in March of 1983 I wrote Paul Picard and told him the news of the passing of my mom. Daisy Duke, gave me a call, and asked if there was anything they could do? I replied, it would be nice if the cast or some of the cast would at least be at Mom’s funeral. Not only did she show up but just about all the cast except for James Best and Tom Wopat showed up. The other two had previous engagements but sent flowers. But for a big time California TV show to attend a fan and followers Mom’s funeral, placed the true feelings that the Dukes were more than a TV show , but a way of life. Which is why I have always been so dedicated to all things Hazzard and Knytes.

As I leave you here are two pics , me and Cooter and Ben(Cooter ) and wife Alma and Daisy, and me and Ellie May our Nurse GoodBody, see the resemblance?

As I close , I want to say, no one on earth could have as good a friends as I have with the entire cast of the Dukes-of-Hazzard and why I will not rest until the day , I can produce a fitting movie of the Dukes of today.  Likewise , keeping the fire of Hazzard County burning. The Dukes Of Hazzard will live until Jesus comes. Maybe beyond.

Keep it tween the ditches.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

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Ever feel Underdemeciated?

If ever there was a case for an organization to feel underdemeciated it’s the Knytes-of-Anarchy. For all we do, getting any press ink, or TV media appreciation is near to impossible.

I was amazingly surprised that KTVB –7’ news department to actually respond to our posting on the subject of screwing the pooch of that Internet malware warning thing. But how come they will not respond to the things our club is doing championing the state of Idaho, from coast to coast? Or when we do a benefit for a fallen member? Do they realize that 70% of our membership are discharged as well as retired Marine and Navy Aviators? Do they not realize that our membership is much more than a bikers MC(Motorcycle-Club)? Does our states press even care?

Now in fairness I will say this and this directly impacts why our club is busting our humps to bring on board a TV station right here in Mini-Cassia.

When it comes to all Boise TV stations that run what I will call a sub-station booster sales office in Twin Falls, they just don’t cover the Mini Cassia area.

Likewise the only current station based in Twin Falls that does any real Magic Valley news coverage, over-looks the mini Cassia area. Now granted between both Minidoka and Cassia County the entire areas population is only at best 50,000 people. But we should count for something, don’t ya’ll think.

It takes a monumental occurrence to get any of the Boise , including KTVB to cover Burley or Rupert or anywhere in our areas news . Now its not just TV, the local press has their hand up as they feel they are too good, to cover anything that our organization is doing, not will do, not what we might do, but what we do every day, around the clock.

HazzardAyre came on board in 2009 , as the combination of all things Hazzard County and all things AyreWolf, aka Knytes-of-Anarchy / AyreWolvez. With nearly 1000 members just in Idaho, and increasing, our membership wanted to extend our abilities to serve the underserved . From helping the poor, to keeping those in rural Idaho informed through our radio station group, to our published printed version of HazzardAyre. And yet when we extend our Olive branch to local TV and print media, that branch is crushed under foot. Those 1000, members of ours, have business’ that would be more in tune with buying advertising etc, if just once the local media would just once get off their stuck up thrones and do a feature, even once of the club.

What kinds of news happens here that goes unreported?

A sweeping storm front came through Mini Cassia, causing both cable TV and Internet connections tied to Cable-One to go offline.

According to our sources that condition does not look to be repaired until Monday at the latest. Was this turn off the pre dawn of the Monday Malware scan by the Feds? If so did it is, why did it effect cable TV?

Be that as it may, and we’re not able to publish this at 02:44 Hours 07/08/12 , but why did the gurus at KTVB not inform us of what was going on.

Over the years I have maybe been to harsh on our local media press. But it’s the same game that was played even in our beginnings. Long b4 Hazzard got into the mix, when we started out as the only , and still only 4-H truck transportation club, in America, we couldn’t get any radio, TV, or print newspaper to give the club ink or air time. Not one. Yet in 1982 when our then parent organizations President, Mike Parkhurst , decided to call for a nationwide strike by all owner/operator independent OTR truckers, and the story got, hot I had phone calls coming to our home in Hazzard(Hagerman) 24/7 . When I gave two interviews the rest kept coming, but I gave them the ignore button.

The old notion of you scratch our backs we’ll scratch yours applies.

After the long term not being taken seriously, it was in 1976 through several acquisions that the original KDSL AM 1090/KTOW FM 89.1 went on the air licensed to the town of 125 called West-Point Idaho .

From then our broadcasting efforts grew and have been copied but never duplicated. It was the intelligence of two local broadcast owners that decided to give us the appreciation we deserved. Charley Tuma former owner/GM of KLIX 1310 b4 Clear Channel bought the station and KMTW FM again b4 Clear Channel’s purchase of the station, gave me an overnight gig, on both to put on a thing we called Maximum Overdrive. Maximum Overdrive was as they called it racy, so they killed the program, in 1980 , two years after both KDSL and KTOW became full power class A radio stations, Maximum Overdrive, became Dixie Diesel Radio and the rest as they say is history. We were and remain the voice on radio of the American trucker.

Confederate Star TV was created in 2005 in Bountiful Utah, by our Utah Charter. As a syndicated production company. The vehicle to deliver that content was a thing we called Southern Steele Media. Both survive today. However a TV station is harder to do than radio. With technology as it is today, a radio station can be put into a two room office facility , a TV station requires much more space, square footage wise. likewise TV station cp’ (Construction permits) and licenses are harder if at all attainable.  However we are not done, its just finding the right place and waiting until the FCC lifts the license freeze. That said we are working to establish a IPTV or Internet streaming TV station. Sip OTA (over the air) all together and go over the Internet, until the FCC lifts the new station license freeze.

But it would be nice if just once the local TV stations in our state decided to get off their stuck up thrones and take a look at the Knytes-of-Anarchy.

Finally, you might wonder where the word underdemeciated came from. The word came from a Disney production called BedTime Stories. Adam Sandler was telling a bed time story to two kids in his care. He started saying under appreciated, but the 6 year old boy, named Patrick(hey go figure) said what do you mean underdemeciated? Sounded good to me.

Now when I post this Monday, we’ll see if KTVB and KMVT responds in kind to this edition .

Again though Aren’t YOU glad YOU have HazzardAyre and KDXB FM?

L8R Aviators

No one else is the original Highway Hooker but me.

Highway Hooker Towing started life in 1976 when as a newbe towing owner operator I was looking for a name for my company that would be keen and not need a bunch of advertising.

On a mid day walk down the country road to my mail box just outside of Hazzard nearer to West-Point Idaho, I fished outta there my latest copy of the original Overdrive Magazine. Of course I’d love to find that pic today, but it don’t exist. Any mile there was a truck in there an 75 Peterbilt, conventional white in color tow truck that the editors of Overdrive title the pic with as the Happy Hooker.

Now b4 we get it on further here for you not in the know, Hooker in this context is the definition of a CB radio term meaning tow truck. Not a wife for rent.

Any mile so I started walking back to the house, the more I thought on it, the better I liked it. At the time commercial vans were the hot rod of choice, many called em Heavy Chevy’s , So I put those together as Heavy Hooker Wrecker Service. Over time the heavy part was swapped out for Highway with the urging of a ad friend of mine, and the Wrecker part was shelved due to the nationwide conversion and discontinued use of the word for our profession and it is a profession,. So then Highway Hooker Towing was born. This ran as us until 1985 when through the death of my Mom and subsequent sale of the old homestead I moved to Boise. At which time Dixie Toewing came into being . When I moved from Boise to Pocatello, I took Dixie with me, but a bike pal of mine took over Highway Hooker Towing of Boise which is what she runs as today. Likewise Highway Hooker Towing also operates out of Malad and Preston Idaho. But make no mistake, Highway Hooker and Dixie Toewing are essentially the same company. But here’s what peeves me.

When I first started using the Internet, with some reluctance, I registered with then MSN/Hotmail as Hwyhooker@hotmail.com , however for some odd reason the fudderbutts at FaceBook allowed someone by the personal name of Stevie to register using my email address at Hotmail. For the dangest I have no idea how to fix that but it’s a poor way to run an empire, but who do you call at FaceBook? Who do you write at FaceBook to tell them they fuggled up? More over to make that person fess up and change their email address?

So in closing on this early morning , anyone have an Idea how to fix this? More over know this, I and only me is the original Highway Hooker.

L8R Ya’ll

At home in Hazzard Idaho, the Story of Dixie Toewing

It never started out this way, but I’m glad it still is and will be.

That said, My towing company, Dixie Toewing(mis-spelled on purpose) is one of the oldest originally owned by the same person towing and emergency road service companies in all of Idaho. What started out as part of the original Hazzard County Garage of Hagerman(aka-Hazzard) Idaho is still snagging and dragging trucks of all sizes from Bliss to Pocatello to Rigby Idaho. In Utah Dixie Toewing rolls as BlackSheep Toewing, In Wyoming Dixie rolls as SpeedWrench Towing, and in the Treasure Valley of Idaho (Boise-Nampa) Dixie Toewing runs as the original, Highway Hooker Towing . But all are Dixie Toewing.

With 40 trucks total, that’s 5 trucks in 8 locations from heavies to light duty truck and truck only towing, Dixie does it Hazzard County style. And at Good ole boy old skool rates.

Nobody is going to say including me, that Dixie Toewing’ rigs are beauty queens, but all of em will still get the job done, and done right without damage of the vehicle to be towed or rescued.

In fact in the 34 years we have been in business in Idaho , Utah and Wyoming, not one of our trucks including LexiBelle, has ever caused damage or had a damage claim levied against us. None.

Last we are the last ones in Idaho that will still come out at night without an additional after hours charge, we still toew for $60.00 anywhere in our respective geographic areas, for me that means anywhere in the Mini Cassia area, Yes we are proud to be remotely associated with A1 out of Twin Falls, but make no mistake, we are absolutely DIXIE TOEWING of Idaho. Part of Hazzard County Choppers 1939 West Main Highway 30 Burley Idaho. Still doing it the way Cooter would do it.

Just thought ya’ll ought to know.

L8R Ya’ll

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Knytes to ride to help a teen with a bad heart

A recent discovery by the club, about a teen here in the Mini Cassia area who has a heart defect due to a sexual molestation charge has caused the club to post a call for action notice.

A hangaround prospective member is the teens current boyfriend. Although he didn’t cause the malady that is at the point of this.

So the Knytes of Anarchy will be doing a benefit dinner here in the area to raise funds for this teens medical expenses. I’ll pass more along as I get it.

Now to a bit of levity. Got a reply from one of KMVT’s bunch on the story on this computer Internet malware story. Amazingly they responded at all.

I dare, I mean dare, KMVT 11 to just once in their news department to do a story on our club. I know that will never happen as Chris the manager over there has a disdain for anything Knytes-of-Anarchy, and or anything me, but hey it’d be something if they took me up on the offer.

So what makes us so damn special?

From the very start of the club, at what was then the Polish Palace now Snake River Grill , the Knytes have written more books on public service and attracting new business’ and people to look at not only the Magic Valley of Idaho , but the entire state.

When myself and one of my best friends one of the founding 9 of the club discovered a aging 70 Dodge Charger here in Paul, and transformed it into the illustrious General Lee, we started something that has lasted nearly 30 years. What started out as a simple marketing tool for the real Hazzard County Garage of Hagerman aka Hazzard Idaho, went from 15 grass roots gearheads to nearly 150,000 members coast to coast as well as Canada and Australia. With Gy Waldron, the creator of the MoonRunners as well as the Dukes, of Hazzard to the entire cast the relationship has lasted nearly well, 30 years.

From up to 1990 , the Hazzard County Nationals aka DukesFest West, to all our runs the then Hazzard County Knytes, now Knytes-of-Anarchy, has been an unofficial Dukes of Hazzard fan club as well as ambassador for Idaho. But do we even get a thank you? No. When Chris took over the reins of KMVT, I went over to bury the axe and attempted to smooth over wounds. I suggested that year that the Knytes wanted to have a Daisy Duke look alike contest at the Magic Valley Mall, along with getting some eye candy for our clubs ads on KMVT as well as the CW that KMVT runs here. So I called Chris, he got a salesperson on the phone, but was told purtty quick, that KMVT didn’t want anything to do with exploiting women. Okay, and we were fine with that, but. What did KMVT do? A month or so later came out with a audition gig at the MVM for Americas Next Top Model, show. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

But I dare KMVT’ news department to once do a story on the club, bury the axe once again, and try to work together, but alas I know that ain’t going to happen. Its not our problem, hey if KMVT wants to keep loosing advertisers fine, as many members of the club have business’ that might sign on as advertisers with a TV station here or newspaper if just once one really pulled their head out of their britches .

Any way, will let all know on the benefit dinner. You wont hear it anywhere else cause KMVT and our area news media don’t care about the Knytes, or the public , just dollars and ratings.

Again aren’t ya’ll glad YOU have HazzardAyre and KDXB FM?

L8R Ya’ll

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Thank goodness you have HazzardAyre and the Knytes.

So on my dinner hour 23:45 hours to be exact, I looked up more info on this FBI Internet bot crackdown thing. Like many other things involving the Internet and technology I was a bit concerned as we here at AyreWolf Aviation depend on our computers. So at first, I went to the web addy that KMVT said to go, of course it was wrong. They said it was , www.dcwg.gov , not. The correct web addy is www.dcwg.org . The reason I got further into this was that KTVB did a diddy on it during their 17:00 hour newscast. Of course they said the link was on their website, www.ktvb.com , no link there. So I did a quick Google search, found the correct site, scanned my computer, all is well. But for some of ya’ll this could be a disaster. Monday is the deadline to see if your computer is infected with the killer dns changer. If it is, a red flashing page with a warning will appear. For those not infected , you’ll get a happy looking page all green.

Now aren’t you glad you have HazzardAyre and the staff here of the Knytes keeping track for you. When the bumbling idiots of Idaho’s news media can’t seem to get it straight?

Ever notice how cats and women are similar? Notice how the first two letters are the same, FEline and FEmale .

More on this Saturday.

Keep it tuned to KDXB FM 105.3 Strevelle Malta Idaho, and here on the web here on HazzardAyre.

We really keep you informed.

As I close, had a nice wake up call, by the club, a few of my neighbors were thinking that my claims of the club were bullshit.  About that time four of my two wheeled brothers one on a full dresser showed up. My neighbors got the wind sucked out of their lungs , bet they don’t say that now. To my bro’s Thank You.

L8R

Quote of the Day:
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion.
--G.K. Chesterton

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Back but not entirely happy, ready to go some more

So at 11:00 Hours I get dropped off here at the Powers. Getting ready for some slumber, when boom , boom, boom, Terry my neighbor racks on my door. Ain’t no one ever teld this guy that ya’ll don’t knock on a Wolfs door? Any mile seems he ain’t got none money to pay his rent. Seems as ole Terry is going to have to bunk at mom & Dads place. But he ain’t the only ones. At this hour the neighbors that shunned me, about being none good such a bad guy, is also out the door come 17:00 hours.

So with that in mind, want to apologize to a gal up in  Blackfoot Idaho that now takes care of my finances. Sure at first I was quite put off at her performance and the fact she wouldn’t bend a few rules and ease up on protocol. But as I have gotten used to her and understand she ain’t Cuzzin Bud, doin this, I’m quite content.

I even more content, knowing my shop rent is paid, my apartment rent is paid, I have food money, Skoal Money and so on, and yet there are those who ain’t got(I know bad grammar, but it fits here),. All those who pointed a finger at me and discounted me, are now thinking hey he ain’t such a bad guy, some are even rubbing my leg wanting to buddy up since they ain’t got money. Guess what? I ain’t giving. I can be as smug and stuck up as they were to me. When some of them say , we’re sorry and show it in real, sure I’ll help. It’s just like mid month April, when I was so hungry and out of it , that I could have ate a horse and chased the rider, so bad off Skoal wise , I was willing to commit serious crimes just to get some, and having to snitch toilet paper from the Laundry Mat, and not one person could see their way except for two that have been paid and has a couple of free toews, this winter, the rest that could not show some compassion, when the toew time is nigh , they’ll wait, plus when I do snag em and they always end up on back of old LexiBelle, they’ll pay dearly. When they want to negotiate, it’ll be , oops wait a minute weren’t you someone I asked for a $5.00 for Skoal last April, and you wouldn’t? Guess what you pay full price.

Same way with a few newspaper reporters and owners.

But getting back, again I want to say I’m deeply sorry to Becky up at our accounting office, and thank you for all you do, your kindness will not go un noticed.

Watch my neighbors squirm out of being given the boot, but I’m watching , cuzz I’ll be cheering it on.

Guess they ought to practice a bit of the lessons in that bible they read and keep thumping on, huh?

Speaking on Bibles, The weekly service of the Church of Dixie here in Burley will meet next weekend as many of our congregation are out of town, as well as at 14:00 Hours the monthly meeting of the AyreWolvez takes place.

So keep that in mind, but my lungs are filled with black gunk from the fires, I need a shower, food and sleep.

L8R Aviators and fellow Confederates,

 

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