Southern Steele Radio & TV remembering the roots

A long time forgotten with a few other dreams that fell by the way, The Rode Knytes as we were once known then in 2005 created an umbrella media werx called Southern Steele Media. Today if you look that up online there are many references but not to the original spelling, context or content.

Southern Steele Media was created from the idea of a TV show we had thought of producing, with some Hazzard roots. The idea was to elevate awareness of Hazzard County Choppers. After all American Choppers elevated Orange County Choppers, so we started bringing the ingredients together. Unfortunately the plans along with a impromptu audition for a pitch girl, was at a truck stop in Springville Utah. Some folks from the Discovery Channel also who did American Chopper, overheard what we were doing. By the time we got to the starting gate, a similar show started with a show with the name we gave it. So some respelling and we began constructing ours as Southern Steele, rather than Southern Steel. But the damage was pretty much done. Let’s face it individual creativity, and Hazzard enginuity is not shared or as abundant. Even if you come up with it, copyright it and register it before someone else does, or some data mining, idea snatching person will have it before you take your morning dump. Here’s an example. Few years before one of my migrations to the Beehive state, I had this idea of a custom shop for old vintage iron farm equipment, from Deere’s to Cat’s. Rather than just focus on just the tractors thought everything from plows to combines. Open that up next to the Original Dixie Diesel Shop, as The Farm Shop. So we did in Hazzard Idaho and Evanston Wyoming.

Now Utah has a lot of knowledge and appreciation for many things, and this may sound like I’m going in reverse but bare with me. Utah has not much of any appreciation at least on the west side of the Wasatch Mountains of anything to do with farming or production agriculture. Absolutely none. Long before RFDTV/Rural TV, and all we created under the Southern Steele Media umbrella, a thing we called Farm Kountry Radio/TV. Kind of AG/DAY with some Hazzard County spice. That ended about the time the floor of everything in CokeVille Wyoming fell out. But yet today you can’t find shyt online of any of that happening.

This goes back to some crap yesterday. And some plans we kicked around at the table at tonight's Christmas party. Sure there are people buying faux cuts and stuff from and of the TV show Son’s of Anarchy. Remember it was us that Kurt Sutter tried to duplicate and got the inspiration for SOA from to begin with. Outside of Son’s Kurt’s only claim to fame was a worn out police TV show, called the Shield, and married the old skank from Married with Children. But here’s a TV show of a biker club. Most of what’s there is more dramatic than what is. The fact the real club is called the KNYTES-OF-ANARCHY rather than the Son’s, is one thing, but I don’t think it completely the fault of the public. The public can’t know, what they don’t know. The only public awareness of the Knytes over the past 5 years since we changed the club’s name from the Hazzard Knytes to Knytes of Anarchy, the only awareness has been this blog-newspaper, a syndicated recorded mailed out radio show to everywhere and heard by people not even in Idaho. The few that do, hear about us, here on radio is when we get ballsy enough to fire up the 100 watt transmitter and let er rip with our radio shows. Usually weekends and usually nights. The scrutiny is worse because two TV station owners are listening and will blow the nasty whistle . As long as we are coming out of Buhl, fine. But we start making tunes in Twin, its FCC revenuer time.

But I’m off subject well sort of. We put on the shelf Southern Steele, when I left Utah for Wyoming chasing a split tail. Thinking we’d come back to it. Trouble is, even though I hold a Hotmail email addy for Southern Steele, fact is, most have forgotten it, or the name swallered up, by someone else. I’ll be damned if I’m going to let HazzardAyre/WyldAyre Radio and all get forgotten and swallered up.

Moving to Utah gives me not only the technical resources , but the human resources. Both on air as well as on the websites cover. Rather than having to pick pics from all over the cyber highway, with a TV gear retailer there in salt Lake City, modeling agencies with the eye candy so no more CraigsList floozies that never show up. We can bring to the web. We now have two maybe three people working on the back end. I’m confident that by April, HazzardAyre is going to be online as we have been trying to do from Pocatello to Gooding to Buhl, to here in Twin Falls. There’s a difference in mindsets here as well. Utah we had no problem auditioning talent of the she wolf kind. Even in rent controlled Bountiful. But too, we also were registered all over the place. However even from word of mouth we had good talent even a few that WOULD sleep with this old wolf. Not that is a primary goal , but if she moans I’ll make her howl. Any myle no problem. Here in Idaho, try to stage an audition in the Wolf’s Lair, might as post it on a pay phone in the middle of no where, no body shows, the few show but don’t do anything. Even the gals we lined up in Gooding. If it hadn’t been for Erin, none of the others would have showed up, see it don’t matter if you do, have a office. Even there few showed and the ones that did were not even able. Just like one named Caitlyn, that sent me an inquiry the other day on the club’s email addy. I replied, but she ain’t. I’d crap bricks if once just once, I posted an ad on CL, and one called, showed up walked in sat down in the studio here and could really speak and do radio. Even, just to watch one night, and show up the next and start speaking and being on air. Heck even Erin couldn’t do that until about a week or so before Strickland had to pull our plug. Utah, I’ll bet your next full service on your panhead, that we’ll have a bevy of beauties within one or two calls. Why is that important?

One , the last thing a true biker wants to see is a website that’s bland and generic. They more over we want to see hot legs, hot bikes, smooth trucks and snazzy dragin wagons. Mostly enhanced with lovely fleshy, human eye candy. Not nude, but form fitting leathers, and so on. I myself, beit on a news blip from an aviation site or one from a bike parts site. No babe , its in my trash box. In today’s email world you have one 1000th of a minute second to capture your intended buyer consumer. Bland don’t do it. Likewise the site better have some skin on it too or its going to be ignored faster than Boss Hogg going after raw liver. Now then number –2:

Since its inception, and perhaps it’s a perceived view, but Cable-One Advertising has refused to allow the club, or HCC to air on their channel of FX during Son’s. Well after 6 seasons, the final season of Son’s comes this fall on FX, an ad or two or three, on Comcast Advertising during Son’s is appropriate and will be honored. But it goes too, had Cable-One in its need to protect the religious majority here, that by the way has been running ads for Karnation Clothiers(lady’s underwear) said no, simply because we wanted a Daisy Duke, or a gal in tight leather with a bike to be our pitch girl. Here’s where their ignorance cost them. No Knytes ad, no Snake River Harley Ad, no Roughneck Customs(Jerome Idaho a bike shop) ad.

This final year I want us there. But this goes deeper. If we want to catch our Hazzard County fans, and potential listeners and maybe prospects, CMT is going to be running the Dukes again twice a day every weekday. Imagine the club, the shops, and for us ads for HazzardAyre running on the Dukes, every day.

The bottom line is, done smart, I need all that wish to be, can do and wants to be involved with the club and or HazzardAyre to get in gear. We have a chance to create a raging inferno, if we get busy.

Let’s not let HazzardAyre/WyldAyre go the way of Southern Steele/Farm Kountry. Forgotten and swallered up.

  

L8r Ya’ll It’s Christmas ,

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

Isaiah 9:6“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

At least its original its us and no one can take it away from us or me

Every nown again I get someone who will tell me the art work and graphics for the blogs and our TV show are good . Which gives me cause to say thank you. Mind you I’m not a web site artist, or graphics designer, the basic description of me is a UCSMC aircraft mechanic/aviator with a GED. Most of what I get, and I’m sorry to say is gained by outlaw. More over a bunch of things the club does is outlaw or at least fight the system. Even the radio station and our radio network started outlaw, that is no FCC license. Just because those revenue sucking Feds say you can’t, we said oh yes we can and did. When doing an outlaw radio station one has to make sure its way off in the sticks somewhere, where not too many legal stations and inspectors start sniffing around to give you a pain in the ass. While all the stations on the network totally owned by the club and as HazzardAyre Radio, are legal now, there are times they were as far from being so. The FCC would look at their contour maps, or distance to another station or frequency overlap and so on, the bastards are in Washington DC, and wouldn’t know Bell Rapids, or Malad Idaho from an ant hill. As far as Bell Rapids there ain’t squat for a station there, except for ours and we had to use Buhl as the home base as Hazzard itself albeit nothing there was too close to those damn analog TV translators over there. I thought when the FCC banned those channels for expansion or to set up nationwide low cost broadband Internet those translators would be history. That nationwide expansion never happened another Obama con job. Those channels and frequency spectrum, was sold to the likes of A.T.&.T and Verizon. Only to put up cell towers. No free broadband or low cost Internet, unless you count texting internet. We all got snowed. Only people that gained from that refarming of channels and all was the cell phone companies, as well as retailers like Radio Shack, and Best Buy . As they got to sell converters and new TV’s. The only other folks that gained there was the cable and satellite companies, since there was only one way that those old big TV’s would work, on cable or satellite. No CCTV? tough you had to buy a new TV or cable/TV. I know it wasn’t fair, but all the blame is not on Obama, the refarm of those TV channels started with G.W. Bush. See those two parties are in bed with each other. More on that in the PM.

All of my graphics though I build from hours of filling in, sampling pics from all over the net, adding my two trucks in, and so on. But I make each and every one, myself using Windows Bitmap. I mean every one of them. Its also like when we did the TV gig , that started with a half hour on warbirds but filled a whole week at one to two hours everyday, with not much more than all Hazzard County content. Now not bragging here, but what we did there was popular, had to be with not only content, but injections of things that were barely copyright legal, if even legal. For once there were people tuning into Pocatello’s Vision12 that had never watched it before, and did not much care. High School kids, College kids, even politicians tuned in and made special guest sit in’s. I always said if the city of Pocatello would have put me in charge of the whole damn place we could have took Vision12 to a whole new altitude. But then as now, I wrote the copy, did pre production, did post production, produced the music, and all of it myself with only two other club members. And only when they were not trailer truckin or toewin. The rest of the time I did the work. Had there been a ratings system for public access TV, I’ll bet money we would have been in the top two if not numero uno. We were airing stuff nobody else would dare. But it was timely information, and comedic entertainment done in Hazzard County style. And that was the end result.

Whether it’s TV, Radio, web blog, or our rides, at least its original, its us, and no one can take that away from us or me, and that’s what piss’s so many off that they can’t do it themselves.

Well much to do today, Christmas eve and all. Plus really need to see Charlie.

More in the PM, L8R Ya’ll,

 

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If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
--Steven Wright

Luke 2:16-20“So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

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Ignorance or Arrogance is no excuse, most should know better!

As the poster says,> there is a big difference in what’s merchandised for and of a TV show, and real life and the real thing. The reason I bring this up, is earlier this evening I was with a fellow Knyte at our local Krogers, grabbing brew and moo, and here’s this guy wearing a SAMCRO cut. Now my friend wanted to immediately run up, rip the thing off the guy, and slice him to pieces right there even in front of kids and his wife. I took the more diplomatic approach, I went up, told him if he’s going to wear that cut he best be earning it, and be of the local charter. That being ignorant of that and the honor and reverence we have for it, can get him killed or seriously hurt. Now I know he shrugged it off, but I went back up to this guy before I left and told him I was more understanding than some of the other club members. Others would not give it a second thought to slice and dice someone wearing OUR clubs cut, without earning the right.

This is not what I needed before I leave this state, but here’s the thing, two months ago, in Idaho Falls Idaho, someone did the same thing. Only this time , it wasn’t so diplomatic. The person falsely wearing the cut, got cut and is no more. While Son’s is the TV show, and Knytes is us and the real thing many of the public don’t know the difference. More over there are a bunch of outfits selling duplicates of these trinkets from the TV show. What’s going to happen is more deaths. More fights. Guys and fellow Knytes, I urge you, to ignore these idiots. As Jesus said it, Forgive them for they know not what they do. This is another reason for HazzardAyre Radio and a huge publicity education program, so the public and some of you who are members know the difference. Most Knytes members do know. Everyone wearing a club cut or patch, is known to all members. We personally have been there during the blood oaths, and voting that member in at the table.

I departed the Krogers, and I think the guy got the message, just hope he remembers the meeting and gives it attention. I may be forgiving other club members may not and ignorance can get you killed. That means terminated.

More overnight.

L8R Ya’ll

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Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die...
--Alfred, Lord TENNYSON

Luke 2:11-14“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

You can only do better if you know what your doing wrong

Under a winters moon I howl, at the sights and sounds. OOps getting poetic there.

I began reading one of a dozen Facebook postings, from Janne , who became a somewhat media person from being an underling to Opera Winfrey. Her syndicated show comes over the FamilyNet TV network, seen on low power and not too well programmed tv stations nationwide. Seems any more someone can put together a small TV show with just a couple of cameras and some none linear editing and mediocre sound gear. There are those that say that HazzardAyre is produced that way, but I digress, I’ll get into the inner workings of HazzardAyre another time.

Thing is Jannea’s posting had no way of commenting. In years gone by and I lock many down due to abuse, I stopped the ability to comment, due to a really juvenile turf war between the Knytes, myself and the Filthy Fifty of Mountain Home Idaho, including Glenn’s Ferry, which is number 6 on the list of places I’d never reside in again unless I had to by Gods divine intervention or war. Or both. The basic center of the turmoil here is teaching southern beliefs to Yankees. Many just do not want to realize or admit the truth. More over have no real interest to change their soiled ways. But God put me here to do just that.

The question by Jeanne or however her name is spelled was along the lines of what do we really want for Christmas?

As for me , I look at Christmas any more as just another day in Hell Idaho , with the horizon showing a departure to Utah to where greater progress by light speed velocity is possible, rather than a slugs pace that is Hell(Twin Falls) Idaho. As a youth I did all the Christmas thing, tree we had two, one upstairs, one down, the Santa lap sitting always wanted in the hottie that was one of Santa’s dainty helpers at the mall. We did the whole production. Our family had the means and so we did it. But then as now, I just wanted one thing, my Step Brother Steve back from Vietnam. That still wouldn’t be a bad thing , although a ton and a half of things would have to be explained. Steve went down in 1968 and has been listed as MIA ever since. With no Mom , no Dad at least on Earth, the house gone as far as me in it, something that although meant good, or in the right reason, just didn’t work and was wrong from the word go. There’s many who do not count the togetherness of family during this time of year or treasure it. Believe me it can be gone in a flash. Took a short run out to the mall yesterday with Ricky, it was kinda cool, two Knytes walking in, but we talked about things, see I can open up to Ricky, unlike I can anyone else here, mostly because Ricky knows me, knows where I’ve been in life and more over is a true Knyte fully patched. So Ricky and I talked. Seemed that Ricky, let his 20 year old squeeze in on the idea of one of his other concubines , and the 20 year old wasn’t into that. Ricky is very much against anything serious. That comes from a very serious heart sting years ago. He just does not want to get stung again. As for me that’s one of my main things I’d like for Christmas is a good lady and a family. Which is 60% of my relocation gig. Sure advanced human and technology resources is part of it, Utah, due to population numbers has greater resources than rural Idaho has or will have for another 40 years. Trouble is I don’t have 40 more years, I might have at best 35 more years and that’s pushing it, considering diabetes and all. I’d like to finish up and complete some of my life’s ambitions before I lay down one night and never wake up. Heck I’d love it to know that at least there’d be someone to find me the next morning. The idea of dying alone is the worst.

But back to the comments section here. I like the comments on my Facebook and other postings, simply because as with all things, although we personally might not like it, getting a comment is that somebody read a blog post or heard one of my radio shows. If you don’t tell me what I’m doing wrong, how can I get better?

Any mile its breaking daylight, see ya’ll mid day.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day- out of anarchy comes order, John Teller

Luke 1:46-47, 49“[Mary’s Song] And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Many people fear that which they don’t understand

There are many people who fear or complain about that which they don’t understand. trouble is the same people do not take the time to at least look at it or do a little research.

Case in point, there’s a Facebook page called The Official Hazzard County Fan Club, really? I have news for them. Back at the start of the transition from the MoonRunners to the Dukes, the Hazzard County Knytes , was the only and is credited as being the original, licensed and authorized anything Dukes of Hazzard or Hazzard itself. From the time my own shop opened with Paul Picard and Gy’s permission and blessing the not on TV Hazzard County Garage, to the millions of fans and still loyal fans that are still members of the club. The question this kid named Aneesh, asked is what is this that I keep posting, for heck sake boy, if you want to be an archeologist, dig a little deeper, read the damn blogs. I only post on that page when its needed, and most there are glad I do, since few of anybody else is. This Aneesh, has no idea that if there’s a Dukes sequel being made we’ll know about it, long before anyone else does, and thus we’ll post it. Likewise if it has anything to do with DOH we’ll be involved. The Hazzard County Knytes FYI transitioned to the Knytes-of-Anarchy in 2008, in reaction to a decreasing appreciation of the club in a rural environment. The Knytes-of-Anarchy is a handle or name that can be as urban or rural as needed or as we say it urban/rural. Of course if this Aneesh would just read the title header it says what it is; its where Hazzard County joins AyreWolf. That means where two concepts meet as one. Its called the modernization of Hazzard coupled to things Airwolf or as we call it AyreWolf, which is me. Oh and if you all wonder how many times aviation got in with DOH, remember , several episodes of the Dukes, that involved crop dusters.

Many as I said, fear what they don’t understand, and yet are too lazy to to dig into something to fully understand.

One last thing, the Knytes-of-Anarchy is the only bunch working to establish a XM/Sirius channel strictly for things Hazzard and Dukes, to be called the Hazzard County Channel, additionally a streaming radio show and all website for things that are Hazzard that doesn’t throw on administrative binders on everybody, like many of the others do.

More after Church.

L8R Ya’ll

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Opinions are like armpits: Everybody has two of them and they stink most of the time.
--Anonymous

Luke 1:30-33“But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.