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Thursday, January 23, 2014

What’s the use

There are some days that I get really resolved and consider a long drawn out departure date, and then there simple things that flat remind me, that this is just not worth the stress and frustration.

I’ll dispense with the the radio thing still on tap to move to Ogden. That is in fact rolling to a conclusion. A week from today it’ll be go down finish the lease signing and all and a week from Saturday up to the monthly High Council meeting of the Knytes here in Tweaker Flatts its load and go, until all is moved. Then over to where I’ll be snoozing and I’m then done with Idaho.

You all need to know especially Eli and Richie, I’ll be fully off line starting the 3rd until mid February, when we’ll be hooked to Comcast. So as of the 3rd, no internet access and thus I’ll only be available by phone.

The tip of this was a notice in my mail box from PHSYC Services here that I owed them $15.00 for a missed appointment. Really? No advance reminder notice, no thought that bein in toewing that appointments are not always able to be kept. When mother nature fusses it means I get busy. I might be a private contractor through Charlies outfit, but still when Charlie calls, I go.

So getting a no show billing? A Medicaid patient at that? Phooey. Later Friday words will be exchanged, and my file taken from the place they can grab their butts.

Which is another reason Utah makes sense, more shrinks to get my funds in my hands rather than an appointed bean counter.

I’m not a big fan of here and many are hearing that my departure is not only on the HUD, but imminent. Some have hinted they’ll miss the influence the Knytes make here, as well as myself, others will cheer, the biggest cheer? Me. Knowing that Idaho is going to be a midnight nytemare.

At least I’ll be able to wake up , take a piss go to bed and forget my body was ever in Tweaker Flatts. Or Southwestern Idaho for that matter.

HazzardAyre Radio will be off air for 2 days as time for silence for our departed warrior Tim Beeson. We’ll miss him. His burial went well, thanks to all who were there. The pouring out of members to 10k, and all was great. The family and brother Sam, will appreciate it.

Be grabbing your ear in the morning, here. But when I get simple reminders that too many just want to put out simple bullshit, like Psych Services, for $15.00 . I just ask, what’s the use?

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
--John Kenneth Galbraith

James 1:5“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

AyreWolf Howl,3 Radio has power.

I thought I’d do this now while I have a clear head and am not thinking of history of Tim and I.

At 19:00 Timmy’s Funeral will take place. He wanted the ritual of his right of departure to be in evening hours, theory is, is evening is the time Kahless is listening the most to hear the howl of a warrior on his way to Stovacore.

As I was into the last time.

it was 1976, I was now working on the KLIX AM 1310. Back then the news from ABC came in 1 minute after the top of the hour. So from 45, minutes to that top of the hour, we would do our show out of one bank of our headsets, and listen to the network on the other.

I can remember hearing a station, out of Alberquacky, 77 KOB, that also was on ABC network. They were doing this repeat show out of salt Lake City called JOC radio. the only west of Denver or the divide for truckers. I thought what a concept. For me it was the chance to take my aspirations of open road heavy haul trucking, although my operation was more short haul towing, and my love of radio and smoosh them together.

So that Monday in our staff meeting I brought up the idea, how about doing at first a weekend gig for OTR truckers, on KLIX? Our GM says, get me four committed sponsors for a year and you have your show. So Dad got with some of his vendors, and suppliers and we had 10 sponsors going in. So I took the idea I had already been brewing since my gig at KLHS, In Lewiston, and ramped it up. Long Haul Radio took off on February 14 Valentines day 1977. In November 1980, I was supposed to be going to Utah for the Salt Lake City AutoRama one of at the time biggest custom ride shows in the region. But mother nature, perhaps God, decided I wasn’t going. He poured out a snow storm like you all can’t believe. It was there at the Ramada Inn of Burley, now the Burley Best Western, that I met Tracy Tollman, who had started a fair restoration of ye old General from DOH. Of course still doing LHR on KLIX, but there were things I wanted to do on air on our show that I knew Tuma, wasn’t going to approve of, remember the LDS thing here. It’s a believed taboo thing that has little in reality but that area radio GM’s fear. It was time to make our club’s pirate station legal. More on that later.

In 1981, I got the opening from Utah AutoRama producer Mickey Ellis, to enter that years show, but we had only a minimal car and no thought of display. So I caught the movie the Hollywood Knights, (that’s where the Knights or as we spell it Knytes name came from) on there was car hops in Go-Go boots rather than the usual roller skates. So Bro and I for our display, went off in search of Go-Go boots. At the time boots were not in fashion so supply was none existent. So we found that East Minico Junior High still used them in Drill Team. I made a beeline and in the corner of my eye, saw ye old General was for sale. Really? I thought, $1,500.00 . discussions with the boots stopped, called Tracy he was off to an LDS mission, I though groovy. Talked to mom, in short we were in the 81 SLC AutoRama, then held at the Salt Palace rather than South Towne Center. Any mile we went, I had been bit by Hazzard.

For several months of being in jail from late May of 1982, to August for reckless driving, for some reason, it wasn’t excessive speed, the act of doing 185 from a standing start, to a dead stop in 1/8th of a mile wasn’t excessive speed, it was reckless driving. So in my solitude, I wondered how can I take Hazzard County, meld it together with the gig I was doing on air and be accepted by the RoadCommanders Club which was what we called ourselves, this is prior Hazzard Knytes, and it came to me. Daisy’s jeep is called Dixie, put that with the name of the station Diesel, and Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio was born as we said it, trucker radio done Hazzard Style. Nothing held out, just punch my way through it. But the station needed extra things going on except my overnight gig, so thought was, lets take what I do, in trucking and the industry in whole and put up a radio thing for us who tow. Of course the Hazzard Garage was now open, but legally still ran the tow service as Highway Hooker Radio. Hooker being trucker cb slang for tow truck. The rest as they say is history. After that I went full bull Marines, and got deployed. The show still ran but by what I could pre-record. I did a short version of both on Armed Forces Radio which thanks to many we still are there. Both Dixie Diesel and Highway Hooker were in both major and small markets, from KSOP 104.3 FM in SLC to KFI Los Angeles more stimulating radio. We hit the Native American market on KTNN Windowrock Arizona, as well as the little station here in West-Point Idaho. The power of anti-establishment , fight the system radio was everywhere. My cousin read for Elton on the Dukes-of-Hazzard’s WHOGG AM 1090 and ya’ll know the rest of the story. Always in part syndication, until the day the home studio got sold, and the homestead near Hazzard was someone else’s. So home base shut down. It wasn’t until 1989 that KTOW FM in Blackfoot Idaho reignited and we had home base. My cousin Bud, became bean counter. While the Dukes by this time had been off air since 85, the Hazzard Knytes kept that fire hot. In 1991 our ship came in again. I moved to Utah, still producing the shows via syndication, until I heard a small station in Price Utah called KOAL. They mine coal there in Price Utah. They ran a expiring network called the Interstate Trucker Radio Network. Come to find the network and its spot on the big byrd in the sky called Galaxy 5, was for sale. The club bought it, and the Dixie Diesel Trucker Network was born. We ran by network upload and syndication, until mid year 2000. I moved back to Jerome and found that at the Jerome County Airport sat 4 F4U Corsair WWII fighters. That rekindled my love of flying and the club gained its first subsidiary the BlackSheep Flyte Club, redone BlackSheep Aviation Association, then rebadged in 2004 as the AyreWolvez shortly after my 3rd Cousin Gordon and I opened AyreWolf Aviation.

All along its been this tiny little network this show I do overnight, for you every single night, that’s kept the club together, informed in ways this blog and all could never do, and I have had my butt in a chair behind the mic, playing tunez and delivering the trucing towing news, for 35 years.

HazzardAyre Radio is essentially Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio and AyreWolf Aviation Radio scrunched into one 12 hour show.

We still do Highway Hooker Radio on the weekends for a change of pace, as well as 6 half hour blocks during HazzardAyre.

In 2011 after a defeated attempt at buying a station out of Burley, the call letters KTOW was sold to a station in Colorado, and reignited as KDOH , or Dukes-of-Hazzard Radio. KDXB FM is the FM side of KDOH, and is short for Dixie Broadcasting, as we named our side media firm Dixie Broadcasting West LLC.

With the missed chance of refire at missing the LPFM filing in November 2013, we are looking to refyre anyway here once facilities and staff can be gathered together. However that said, we are also ramping up to go full power online.

Any mile gotta get off here, go wash my body put on my cuts and head to the Church for Tim’s final howl.

Delay’s upon delays, and Romance at the shop

It’s a great morning here at the Lair. I slept better last night.

Went to the Doctor yesterday, albeit 10 minutes late. I got my tire fixed , and

while Charlie said he’d have gave the tire free, I ended up paying $25.00 for it, maybe

I can see if Charlie will give back the $25.00 , let you know, but I’m not holding my breath, it had to be done.

Then got to the yard, nobody there to dismount and remount the tire. I know how to do it myself, but Doctor said I wasn’t to be doing that kind of thing for yet another week, plus I don’t know Charlies tire machine well enough to do that. So waited around for nearly 45 minutes, Anica or Danica, oh so sweet. The noise is, nobody hardly likes her. She says all the crew gives her a bad time, but they give me a bad time. She says not making enough money. I say be thankful for a job, I’d like to be put in a truck , and have waiting 3 years to get assigned a rollback. Told Danica, if she needs help , on a call, to call me. I like her, she looks hot, has drive and determination, and a good personality. But I have learned from prior environments to not be trying to dip the pen in company ink, so I’m just walking slow on this.

So got to the Doctor. He’s suggesting putting a stint in my legs to help my DVT, I asked wouldn’t asprin work better so he’s got me on 3 jiggers of Goody’s twice a day. Damn , thought I was doing that anyway,.

So got back finally grabbed food at Steve’s Burger Out. Found the gal working the counter was Charlies niece. Dang Charlie with all these available honeys you have running around, can’t you give me just one of em?

Didn’t get to have my sit down with Charlie yesterday, but there’s at least a week left on early departure of me. Office Studio for sure, to Utah, but me still might be a month.

Much to do today, so going in catching some more snooze time, until 09:30 then going out to the river and seeing if I can get one of the techs out there to wire this console.

L8R TTYL

Quote of the Day:
If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
--Mark Twain

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

There are some that never see the entire picture

My mom had the greatest sayings of all tymez. Many of which I still think of at certain moments. Like today, when our website associate asked who was paying for him to come here for a face to face pow wow. My mom’s saying here would be; you can’t see the forest for the trees. It comes to this as well . No matter what vendor gets on board here in and for the club, remember this IS and ORGANIZATION, of 50,000 members, that’s 1000 members in all 50 states. Many of whom have companies and business’s of their own. You do a low ball cost job for the club to aid in a project, there’s 50,000 others who WILL consult you in doing something for them on an individual basis. So let’s take some numbers and crunch them. let’s say, that Richie(not my cousin Richie from the Dukes) builds a good strong front end for the clubs website, at say $2,000.. or less,. Now then its up and going, on a banner on the site it says, the Knytes-of-Anarchy site proudly built by Richie, or something to the effect. Then at a full cost , say the $6,k he first bid to us is multiplied by $50k, that’s 300 million in Richie’s pocket. Now if I was looking to make a good living, I’d be finding my own way to Twin Falls, sit down with me and THE REST of THE CLUB, and have a pow wow. I’d sped the few hundred on a $300,mil pay back any day, wouldn’t you? Its just like talent agencies, and many others, They see me and think I’m it and all there is, fact is I’m only one foot soldier and a mouthpiece and wordsmith , of 49,000 others. Do right under my watch, build something or supply something to the club and watch how fast other members start spending money for their firms at your firm. Ignore me, you ignore the club, and say goodbye to 49,000 potential clients. Its that simple. That’s seeing the forest for the trees. Eli, understands it as he was once a member of an mc and is on prospect status with the Knytes, some though don’t understand that those same grizzly bears on two wheels on the weekends have very lucrative business’s of their own . Some bike or biker or aviation related some not, but even if that member is peddling, real estate or insurance he will need a website. They will need a service that we search for in the club. Do us a good turn, the members notice soon you have orders abounding in your business. Again ignore us, it’s adios. Want a local example? Gal in Blackfoot that did our accounting for a tyme that resulted in me even being here with Charlie, did a crappy job, ignored phone calls and emails. Guess what? She ain’t no longer in business.

This is why you never ignore or piss off the Wolfsince I get pee-owed, then I relate here as well as to the rest of the club, and well that vendor or associate’s future is none too purtty. Another example of a gal that was great in media. She worked as the morning anchor on News watch 6 in Pocatello. Ya’ll remember Brandi Erickson? Any mile we got to know each other as associates in broadcasting. Since she ignored us and got booted by 6 or maybe she quit, but I’ve seen from her Linked in updates that she's bounced around, like a bad $5.00 bill. If she hadn’t ignored me and the club in Pocatello a few years ago and help us build then, think of the TV thing we’d have today. The list goes on, but I think you get the idea. It’s sort of like Nurse GoodBody. She dumped us due disbelief of another conning her into disbanding. When clearly we already had enough other advertisers signed up that could have by now been putting money into us then as now. So what happens? Erin looses one job, scratches for work and only through MY recommendation gets on with a psych service here in Twin as a PSR.

So to Richie and so many others, the slight sacrifice you make, to make me happy, makes the club happy, and when you make the club happy, your wallet gets fuller.

L8R TTYL

Quote of the Day:
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
--Robert Green Ingersoll

Galatians 6:7-8“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

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AyreWolf’s Wolf Howl 1 Stardate 2014-21-1

I read at length over the last few hours an article that is in Billboard this month about one of my major influences in radio, Howard Stern.

While it can and I do often argue that I was doing edgy radio long before Stern found his way to WNBC , still I can say with pure honesty, that Stern showed you CAN be yourself on radio , you can stretch the boundaries, of what’s believed taboo, and what really is territory left alone. I as a youth always had a fascination with anything with buttons, switches, lights and gizmos of every kind. Beit in an aircraft or in a radio studio. That’s how I stepped into the business. I first was introduced up front and personal to a cat in Utah at the KCPX AM 1320 the biggest top pop 40 station in that market at age 7. I went there as a winner of some contest you won if you sent in enough box tops from some childrens cereal. You got a feature spot on a kids morning variety cartoon show called the Fireman Frank Show, that was on the TV side of KCPX. So this evenings taping of the Fireman Frank Show, I was there, and had to go pee really bad. So walked by this big glass studio, the door was open and that control console with all those switches, and lights, this was a toy and flavor I had never tasted before, I could not resist. So there I was standing in front of this old by today’s standards GATES console, wondering do I play with this or not when Wooly Waldron, walked in. He asked me a few questions and said you want on the air? Okay, so I started reading raw air copy of some idiotic store there, shit I didn’t know what I was reading or what half the words meant , but I could pronounce them really good. About this time Mom and Dad , but mostly Mom, got a bit nervous as to where I had went, and the director of the Fireman Frank Show was getting a bit anxious to boot. So mom found me chatting on the air on KCPX, I went in and did my bit on Frank’s show, came back, Mom And Dad and some big head cheese there and Wooly, did some talking, and as long as I kept my grades up, I could come in on Friday and Saturday nights for 3 hours as there was a gap there they needed to fill. Mom and Dad used the time to be Mom & Dad and I was on the air.

Now KCPX didn’t care if I was a bit crude on air infact they encouraged it. An southern hillbilly playing top 40 rock. It was a hoot. I started putting things in about this chick I had a serious crush on in Utah, named Peggy Follett, and all about 5th grade 6th grade and Junior High. This went on until one summer we moved to Idaho.

My slot was filled by Doug Wright , now a leading broadcaster on KSL AM 1160, and for me I ached for the time I could be on air.

Despite many attempts, a preteen was not high on the ladder of places of most PD’s here to prune new on air talent from. I had a helluva time getting on. Kim Lee’s Dad Al, put me on a few months doing this bit for the Hazzard High School’s FFA Class, then KFMA 92.7 which played mostly elevator style easy listening music, did this thing called Saturday Night Dance Party. We played rock. KFMA moved up the dial, and became Z103 a pop 40 station. But it was me giving the concept of a rock FM in the Magic Valley, thanks Kim and all for giving me credit, yea right. A kick in the groin is more like it, that in a few entries. With that resource missing, Dad was buying time on then KEEP AM 1450. The clincher on the ad contract for dads truck company, was that PD Bruce Glenny, and Dave Caps to give me some air time. So a deal was struck, but at that time, the FCC required anyone on air to be licensed. There was no conditional licensing done then you had to have this little green/bluish certificate. So at age 12, Mom and Dad, gathered me and Paul J Wilson who would meet up with his parents later in the day, and to Boise where they gave the exams for the licenses. After a full days studying and a half night reading at 09:00 hours, I went in sat my butt down in this squeaky chair and answered all the questions. All 100 of them, some even on radio wave theory, and algorithms , but at the end of that testing session, I past all 100 questions 100% and had a FCC Third Class Radiotelephone License with element 9 endorsement. Now I was official.

The years past by rather rapidly after that KEEP, became KEZJ AM, as well as FM the concept behind a hot country FM KEZJ 95, was mine. Again thanks Kelly for the credit.

I was always pushing the edge. Just what could be done, what was taboo? What was imaginary or publicly frond on taboo? What music un edited could be played? One night when I was doing up some liners and promos, a good friend in the business, Mike Arms gave me a tape, and I’ll be darned if I can remember his name but this guy was off the edge, great sound and not caring if the world liked it or not. Of course that night as I had done with Paul, on KEEP, when they were on Blue Lakes, I filled in doing news casts for Mike. At the end of the newscast in a 6 minute intro to Heaven on the 7th Floor, Mike and I did this spoof, of the new hot gal at KEZJ. Her name was Kathy Adams, the gist went something to the degree of Mike asked if I had seen the new front office gal, I said I had, he said what do you think? I sad we had just came down on the elevator , he responded, but doesn’t she have a nice pair of hands? She had big breasts. After that, Mike and I were politely asked to move on. Fortunately, Mike had another job at then hit pop KFXD which really started here in Twin Falls, any mile I got a night gig on KLIX AM 1310, with another rebel radical by the name of Pete Arbogaust. This was just before KMTW was bought by KLIX , I had a evening gig there. All for one month prior to the sale. So I was there one night, at KMTW, we played some music, but I had just got off work during the day at The Bliss Stinker Station , I was pooped. So I got lazy, and put on Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon, LP. Played it all the way through and only took a commercial break when I had to turn over the record. This opened the door for album rock long version, in this valley, again thank you friends.

Next time the Birth of Long Haul Radio that was the seed for Dixie Diesel Radio goes commercial.

Catch ya’ll L8R TTYL

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

To the Fans of The Dukes

I was headed to bed but a notice from President Jones on his site, gives me a reason to howl and bark some.

First I think that reality TV as a whole is wrong, I don’t watch any of it when I have cable, and now that I don’t I don’t miss it. Now is it good that CMT put the Dukes back on in HD? Sure it is, lets relive those days in Hazzard once again, and I agree that promoting a Party Down South show on CMT during the Dukes, with impressionable minds of young tweens is not a wise placement of ad time. Maybe some more ads from the club and all might help but I doubt it, since CMT and its now head minds at Viacom, have made up their minds. But here’s the slider to get folks in line with a southern culture train of thought they throw the Dukes on so that the follow up can be this new southern styled version of Jersey Shores can air. Now just like Boss Hogg, TV networks and cable systems only know what’s decent, for them decency is for those who pay the most. TV is cash, its all about money. Now if a few things would happen it’d make such media conglomerates grab their BVD’s. First help the Knytes to get Confederate Steele TV going likewise HazzardAyre Radio, so that we can buy the rights to the Dukes so that we can run the Dukes on our network, that would do more than just saying to CMT Viacom ,that ya’ll don’t cotton to them running that sleaze during the Dukes. Dip in or show serious effort to a group that will reach in their back pocket, and take a money maker for CMT out of CMT’s pocket, I’ll bet you a steak at the Boars Nest, that CMT would start a rethink, and cure the problem. However that said , what’d be wrong with a cable/satellite network channel created by Dukes fans and our club, for the preservation of the Dukes as well as southern culture.

Of course I know this will fall on some deaf ears and be read with blind eyes , But again a brew at the Boars Nest, if I ever went to the club’s mail box, and saw 10 checks in there for $100.00 each or even half that to help our club to thwart CMT and all, I’d fall over with a coronary. And if ya’ll think I’m out here in Idaho just barking, about nothing or this issue to make me money I have news for you. Our media efforts will go on, I’m dedicated to all things Hazzard County, more so than probably 70% of all Dukes fans. But the Knytes need your help. Why not sacrifice that new video game, or that one night out with the family, take that same amount and send it to: HazzardAyre Fund, care of the Knytes-of-Anarchy 120 Washington Twin Falls Idaho 83301.

If just 50% of all Duke fans backed us, we’d have the rights to the Dukes, we’d have our network back on, and the Dukes on that network , then ya’ll really will have gave the shaft to CMT and Viacom.

It’s 03:00 here I need sleep, but ya’ll think about this, if ya’ll love Cooter, Bo & Luke, Sweet Daisy and darling Alma and all the rest that is this glue we call the Hazzard Nation. Then pony up. Do more than lip service.

TTYL Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
--U.S. Andersen

To whom this howl tolls

Discussions with your superiors or those in command of your resources can be difficult, if not apprehensive. However I have to have a long talk with Charlie later today and I’m not feeling easy about it.

If I can I’m going to attempt to get Charlie more in tune with an earlier departure than a later one.

In any case the office/studio move is on the HUD for the first give or take a day or so.

Saturday had a bad tire on the WolfSub, aka General Jackson, and while on an emergency I can fly to Ogden, bumb Sam’s jeep and tool around a bit, I need mobility, and Sam needs his ride to get to his vocational duties. And being as today is going to be one of a fast touch and go, from here to Charlie’s for my check, fix tire, cash my check, go out to the airport hop one of our 406L’s and fly to Ogden for the burial of Tim, (Sam’s brother) then back its going to be a big day.

There is though a time when one really needs to stand up for yourself and who you are. While grabbling gears going toewing is a feeling like nothing else, more over leaving the ground at rising to through the clouds to 20,000 feet , then hurling through sky at 400mph, is one of a ultimate adrenalin rush, the fact is I’m both those things, but I also discovered something yesterday and I’m now even more stoked on radio.

One of those that I interned with at KEEP AM 1450(now KEZJ AM) is now President and station owner for one of Cox Media’s stations. Paul J Wilson, and I ran overnights at KEEP him weekends , me weeknights. Sometimes me doing news duty him playing tunes. Paul stuck in there when I retreated and went on different career paths. Paul went to Salt Lake City, worked on KCPX a station I did in its early days, but the wrap is, ever since I was about 8 years old I have loved radio, being on it, being in it, always looking for a way for both my radio aspirations and my OTR Trucker ambitions to come together. Which did eventually came together through the TeenAge Truckers Association and into the Knytes. Strangely , my cousin Richie Montgomery, played the DJ radio person on the Dukes of Hazzard on WHOGG AM 1090. Which by the highway is KDOH AM 1090 West Point Idaho. I love radio. I’ve seen what it can do if deployed wisely . Example at the formation of the TeenAge Truckers Association, it was a small 45 minute gig at 11:00AM on KLHS FM 89.1 called Long Haul Radio, the seed of Dixie Diesel Radio, that brought in the members for the TTA. I saw our small outlaw station garner in tons of members and sponsors through the late 70’s early 80’s into the 90’s. I was there when Dixie Diesel, pulled a Grammy for most innovative radio program for a vocational radio show. Of course the written press crawled over that like maggots over a fresh kill, but the fact is we got somewhere. Sure there are downsides. I was jailed over a weekend and a day, when I muttered a joke about running for Sheriff of Power County, and making one certain deputy main under Sheriff , during an election, but radio has power. Your going to get backlash and people who want to ridicule.

Of course there is now. Over the last year I have undergone not only ridicule , but hazing from a few of Charlie’s people , to being delayed, upon delay on launching HazzardAyre OTA, as well as refyring online. But here’s the thing there is a better way. Ogden is not the panacea that people think that I think it is. Utah has its draw backs, likewise its problems. But it does have several things two of which is good for the station, likewise the club, and a booster that I’ll get into in a few here.

Ogden has a office/studio for $175.00 that we have except for a few dotting of the I’s and crossing T’s, is ours. Two Ogden gives us and I can’t say enough of her, not that I have any fascination here, with her, but her professionality, as well as efficiency. Laura at Comcast is riding right along, with the club, to enable us to get the kind of web connection and all that HazzardAyre Radio/TV needs to be the rising phoenix she can be. It’s one thing to try and coax, a signal up at 1mbps or get music, news and such down at barely .09mbps , but I’d rather take my chances running over a stream of 100mbps, and a up of 50mbps. And third , being out the back door of a regional military aviation hub, like Hill Air Force Base, is a plus. Finally having a hangar over near Morgan that we can rent for six months to a year, and the AyreWolvez being able to buy, shortly after means a grand facility, that can be ours for the long flyte. So It all makes sense.

Then there is the simple things, like my Mexicali neighbor next door and his fancy white blazer. I have to do one helluva mule skinning job just to get in and out of the parking spot, because he can’t move that thing back two or three feet. What would happen if I backed into that Blazer? I’ve got Wolf-Pup, backed to the sidewalk, and I have to park LexiBelle two miles down the street. Bullstuff.

But I remember one night a year and a half ago, in September 2012. After the thugs had to steal from LexiBelle, poke a hole in the fuel tank and smash her NEW windshield in Burley, which is why I moved out there to sleep. There at the shop, amongst no cable, no internet and all woke up one night went to the potty with a newsrag that I snaked from radio former pal Kim Lee, he ain’t no pal any more. His Dad is kool, but Kim screwed the club over on a $400K buy of KBAR and well most of you know the rest. Any mile it was sitting on the potty, and knew that night, it was time to get serious about HazzardAyre, more than ever.

The political turmoil in this nation, the desecration of our rights, freedoms and liberties. The overwhelming need of the government into our daily lives, even such things as a FCC agency saying you can’t put a station there because it might step on someone’s signal, when there is no viable signal anywhere on a channel we picked. That’s a subject for another time, but the short fact is, for reasons beyond good reasons I am not a Twin Falls lover anymore. Not saying Idaho sucks, there are many pristine areas all over Idaho. The outdoors, the vast canyons, and all are breathtaking. But when I get some snot nosed girl just barely dry behind the ears calling Charlie’s better half bitching about me. When delays are created by Mandy’s, Joni’s, and others, and when idiots jack the price of a shop from $250.00 a month, to $750.00 a month, that last one forced the elections of a whole new bunch of people throughout the club. Hell I almost lost my slot in the chain of command. It was only when I volunteered to command the AyreWolvez that I got to retain my authority in both the Knytes as well as the sibling AyreWolvez.

Long story made short enough. But considering the time of 02:16 hours I need to hit the rack. But I am having the conversation with Charlie today, fixing tires , and then headed to Ogden for Tim's burial.

L8R Aviators, TTYL