Radio Diary

B4 I get into my usual rant here need to relate this to you.

While I like in part the design that our web engineer came up with for a logo, many of you told me it was not a welcoming greeting. Stemming to our older SOA days which slowly we are distancing away from, and easing back into more of our Hazzard County roots. This>scares people, while this>explains more of who we are and what the radio show and its network is all about.

Okay then, I awoke with a call from some bill collector in Salt Lake City trying to reach another person who once held our phone number. The old legacy phone number assignments no longer apply. I can remember all of the ones we ever had as a family, in both Utah and Hazzard Idaho. It used to be Utah like Idaho had one area code. While Idaho has still only one, Utah has three now. #801, 435, and now 385. Those are of the variety attained due to cell phones. With the proliferation of thousands of cell phones a new area code had to be created. No big deal, but it does become a problem for business and Comcast amongst others don’t seem to understand that, as once a customer gets YOUR phone, a change in a number or area code means a lost customer, that YOU have to now renegotiate with to win back, and that means big money.

I tried like heck to get Comcast to kick up at least the last 4 digits of the same number we had in Idaho 9653, which relate to the word WOLF, as in AyreWolf. But for some odd reason, maybe its from less population or something but it was funny, that I could get nearly the same number with Syringa as I had with CenturyLink, 9653. Yet Comcast said they could not accommodate that. Okay fine. But this also relates to terrestrial radio.

One of the big problems with terrestrial or over the air radio, is that once you gain a listener who most likely will buy a product and or service that one of your advertisers offers, if you move your spot on the dial, or change call letters or both you just lost that listener.

With online radio such as ours we have not forgotten the point on the OTA radio spot on the dial of conventional radio. Our places in Idaho have remained right where they are at for 31 years. You know if your truckin or flying through southwestern Idaho, you go to our station in Buhl(105.7 FM) or West-Point Idaho(1090 AM) or Strevelle Idaho at (105.3 FM) that you tune us in. And of course 93.5 FM being where our signal blankets metro Utah from Woodruff Utah. HazzardAyre is there along with the rest of our programming , Dixie Diesel Radio, Highway Hooker Radio, and the original, AyreWolf Radio. All of which we’re rebuilding into HazzardAyre Radio and the HazzardAyre Radio Network.

Legacy radio must then be anchored, and remain steadfast. Once your listener can’t find you, or you change formats, call letters you just lost that listener.

Now before I go. There’s been some confusion on my fusion of on air handles so I’ll try to explain.

When I collided nearly with all things Hazzard County, the natural course was for me to become the living embodiment to the on TV character Cooter, that Ben Jones portrayed, on the Dukes of Hazzard. It wasn’t that I felt insuperior to Bo Or Luke Duke, but I didn’t have the flowing locks of blonde as of Bo, and I wasn’t fit enough to be Luke, but I did, and do drive a tow truck, fixed cars and built hot rods in a tiny Kountry town and so the natural progression was I be Cooter, so it is, so it is. However from my days in the Marines and from a quick statement from one of my supervisor at Deseret Transportation here in Utah, that I was in fact the Wolf in amongst the sheep(Mormons) that instead of taking that in a bad way or insult, I capitalized on it. So I restarted my OTR(over the road Trucker) radio career as the Rode Wolf. However that would change in 2001. Once I regained my love of flight and putting together a radio show for those in love with vintage warbirds and all, and with me being one of the lost sheep of the VMA214 BlackSheep, one of my production crew assistants said why not just be the AirWolf. Not bad, but Bellisario, and Universal would have no part of that, so seeing the name Ayre on the side of a 55 Chevy, as in Belayre 2 door hardtop, I reworked it all and Bazzinga AyreWolf.

Which I have became and is now for most of the west has became a household or at least a incockpit name. But with that understand, I am still the AyreWolf, and will be, but when the need is there, at times, Crazy Cooter as in me and HazzardAyre will be also, both are me.

That’s the Wolf, on today’s Radio Diary.

TTYLY(talk to you later ya’ll)

Quote of the Day:
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
--George Carlin

Philippians 4:6-7“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

The Race Day after

In the world of a custom club or organization loyalty means everything, especially to those who support you or once did.

Back years ago, Warren’s Drive In, in Roy Utah was a strong backer of the Street Commanders Club, that evolved into the RoadMasters that is now the parent group of the Hazzard County Knytes .

As such I try very hard to patronize those firms.

For some odd reason, when the guy who started Warren’s bit the dust so did Warren’s Drive In, The change was not that sudden, but over the years I have seen the decline. Taste went down prices went up, to where I began to avoid the establishment, But you get to thinking ah, lets try it to see if the problems have been corrected. Unfortunately this is not the case at Warren’s. Now I can see once, maybe twice screwing the pooch. Bad ingredients from suppliers, a bad day for the cook, any number of things, but to keep messing up consistently naw this is just a case of poor quality supervision, and the fact the owners and managers not wanting to give the boot to the employees not making the grade. Now to make this fair, I’ll say this. Back when my Dad, Ed Thomas and Jay Call brought forth what you came to know as Flying J, quality and friendly service was foremost in everything they did.

I only went once to a Flying J Motel that was sub par, the maid , made the bed, without checking for insects in the bed, what I found was a covey of grasshoppers in the bed. Which after I fixed that problem, everything was great. The restaurants were always clean, well stocked and even to the point of the conversion to Denny’s , the food was always good, never did have a bad meal there. After Jay Call died however quality control slipped, poor investments by corporate and some minor management problems, but Flying J slipped to the point of near bankruptcy. In came Pilot, and bought the majority of Flying J, except for paying the Montgomery Foundation OUR money, still Flying j remains a leader.

On Warren’s, if your going somewhere to end up spending $10.00 on a burger and fries, it had better be as excellent as possible, Warren’s fails to deliver. So the Knytes just are not going to go there any more. Especially after myself and two others of us, were bent over our thrones until near 04:00(4:00AM) . With 3 of us visiting MacKay Dee’s er, over this and getting our guts pumped and gave meds to settle our insides down, I suspect that the health department is going to be looking at Warren’s really close.

So if I’m not on air LIVE today, you know why.

Now if the prices at warren’s was more in line with say McDonalds , I might not be so bitchy about this, but if I’m shelling out money to the tune of a $10.00 burger fries and soda, that food better be cooked, the pickles and condiments better be fresh, the fries COOKED. I will give the young gal tending to us, she was cool, but she’s only the server.

See ya’ll after the race and around 11:00PM

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

2 Chronicles 7:14“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

In the words of Jesus, you listen, but do you hear?

In the words of Jesus Christ, you listen , but do you hear? The long standing effort on behalf of HazzardAyre is to educate. At times my howling, is done to hold up a mirror to many to look back at themselves and do some inside thinking and self inventory.

That can be at times a real problem, since many don’t want to look inward.

Many try to poke holes in the steel, and laugh at it, to make themselves feel better about something I said that they know is true, yet don’t want to see.

Whether the topic is Utahrd stupid, Yankee ignorance, especially on southern history and culture, or just on life itself.

Our human existence is morphing at an alarming rate. Intelligence is being subdued to assimilation , creative ability is being set aside to , lets just do what we’re told. The list goes on but a one World population with one government for the entire planet is not such a far flung concept. Yet there are a few of us that are fighting for both freedom, as well as liberty. The two are not necessarily equal, or the same thing.

Our female population is scared to death about greeting a basic, trucker lunchbox turned radio executive/producer. What many think is that they’re going to some big high end office in some downtown business district, Heaven forbid if they have to go to a house where rent is less, but radio production is going on, but to see you have to visit, one can’t just think no it isn’t without visiting and finding out sure enough it is.

Now does this mean that a full stage facility isn’t on the boards? No, but done that, before and before I do that for sure I’m making damn sure that things will run smoother here. If so great we’ll go the expense of a formal facility, if not being the station is online, it can be moved, say to Boise.

Or for that matter Wyoming where the LDS influence that seems to be a fear of most.

The latter I don’t understand, as I still hold the place on that ladder as a High Priest, I’ve not been ex communicated and am welcome in some places of the Church that few go or are allowed. Yet I have my SKOAL, I love my brewski as well as JD, and that ain’t John Deere, most of those pulling loads for Deseret Transportation the churches humanitarian trucking company, those drivers are tuned in on their IPODS and such in those trucks, without any gripes whatsoever. And yet outsiders fear the situation that if they work with us, they’ll be shunned from working for Bonneville Media, the Church’s production company. In reality that’s not even reality.

So my thoughts as I get back on air, I ask again, you listen, but do you hear?

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
--Napoleon Hill

Romans 12:12“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

It’s the pickles, it’s the pickles

It’s a Saturday, I had every idea of being inside your radio last night , but got to talking to the neighbors and a few barley pops, at 3.2 octane level, which does nothing for me by the way, but enough of em I’ll catch a mediocre buzz. So with that and lots of back gate howling by 05:00 I was near dead, so came home showered and bed.

Got up, invited my neighbor to go eat at Karen’s Café here but he was too busy watching the Kentucky Derby, which is not in my interest at all, to me if it doesn’t have tires and burns gas, I don’t want to be around it, or even interested. So I ventured off . Got to Wal-Mart got the money order deposit from my new roomy Jeff, and decided to give Warren’s another try. So I duplicated the same order as from my birthday. When I got to the pickles, that were again terrible, I quit eating and left. It is thus I have determined 4 things, one the pickles are rotten. Not just sour as a pickle should be , but really rotten. Two the Warren’s that I grew up with and that the club grew up with is not the Warren’s of today, what really is? and three, the fries at Warren’s are undercooked, and 4 , you get the idea that most that work at Warren’s are there for a job, not a career and really do not care. The final here 3 times, is the number of visits the club makes as to give a thumbs up, and repeat or give a finger down and not go there anymore. In this case its finger down , no more going to Warren’s at least the Riverdale location. Will try the Roy location, see if its as bad , if so no go. If better, maybe, but don’t push the maybe baby.

So I got home, looked over the Facebook gossip, saw a few entries from Sammi and all couldn’t see details but will make a determination of it all Monday after I go to TMG to see the crew they have lined up.

The stuck up , ignorant and arrogant attitude I saw in Idaho is magnified in Utah as far as screen or feature photo talent. As long as the WHATEVER it is , is LDS and otherwise approved by LDS officials your in with a shoe horn. If not it’s a uphill battle and calls to Hollywood and Nashville.

Any mile we are growing, HazzardAyre Radio has seen a slight uptick in income, I’m doing much more off screen socialization here than I did in Idaho, and can say if its done slow, we’ll make it. And make it three times better than it currently is, that is if we can find the right in front of and behind the camera talent.

Any mile we’re gassing things up here getting ready for a 23:00 hour departure to HazzardAyre Radio, so stay tuned. www.livestream.com/hazzardayreradio

See ya’ll then.

 

Quote of the Day:
Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch.
--Peter McArthur

Romans 12:12“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Finally time for me to settle down

My have I had a day of it.

First I get up, and have to battle with the Department of Workforce Services here to get crap straightened around on my grub card. Then it began battling with some witch at Macey’s Food store over a bottle of milk. Then glancing over some dangling emails and Facebook postings from Models Utah, I get a nibble. She was fine said she’d be up, so thinking on a real maybe, settled in for the day.

Got most of my money from the Feds, and in the AM sending $100.00 up to Dan, on LexiBelle, then shortly after June 1st going to go fetch it. If this deal with a room mate and all pans out it’ll lower my output of funds all the time.

My power bill was only $40.00 a far cry from those of Idaho Power in Twin Falls, My gas bill about that so got off for $220.00 so I’m good. If the new roommate pays up his $250.00 plus $200.00 that’s $450.00 which means Monday I can pay off Comcast and some on DirecTV. We see.

June 1st too we can get this radio thing in a office studio and grow this.

Sammi showed up, she’s great but is stressing on the logistics problems. Of which I’m fine with, if we can just get some stuff put together to build the rest of the site with my webmaster in California, not only will the radio station be hot, but the site itself for the club will be top notch too.

Then having an issue with Google, tried to sign in for Google Earth, damn thing lost my password so been juggling that, but I think it’ll work out okay.

All I know is my mind and body hurts, I’m taking my meds, doing a shower and hitting the rack.

TTYL

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

1 John 5:14-15“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

The Beast is awake

I just love the 1st of the month. It’s supposed to mark the beginning of a new month full of promise. Yet here in Utah it’s a fight to the death for the last gall darn bone.

So thinking all with the Snap card was like Idaho’s go to check balance since did not want to get to the store and find it bare, that’s embareassing. So called, only 41.35? What? So called the infamous Utah dept, of workforce services, why is this even a thing of DWS, should be with the DH&W somewhere like Idaho. So got one guy at 08:01, what a shitty attitude he had. So called back, with their automated intro system this really sucked. In fact I told them so.

Finally connected with someone that although reluctant, put my SNAP card full, and off to the store I went. The food store was less than friendly, what everyone in Utah going through their mensi’s at the same time this month? Must be in the water , must need go buy some Midol and inject it into the water maybe calm people down, if I can be of good cheer starving certainly the rest of these over fed beef cows and sows can get into a better mood. So got my food, came home, injested and my did it taste good, cept it came out again as fast as it went out will go get better later.

So then saw some responses on Utah Model on Facebook, seems as though a few are more ambitious, thing is being curious is one thing. Going through, putting on their skirt, heels and stockings and driving up here to the studio is another. There is even one black chick that’s interested. Which I have no problem with infact that would be great as heck showing that a group of Confederates are not racist. I’d go for that, especially after that basketball owner got nailed over something to do with racism, showing that a rebel southern Confederate group isn’t that, that’d be big news. But I suspect that ain’t going to happen.

The our webmaster got a no go on the web cam, looks like that like many other things will be our doing, first. After all , have to hold ones hands, dang toddlers.

What I think all too many fail to realize the beast is well awake. The radio network formerly known as Dixie-Diesel. Has risen, to where we are howling like never before. The need to right the wrongs of all too many yankee’s gone astray in the administration of law and government is ruffling the leaves and trees. Those that can do should, those who society has pulled the rug from under them is saying enough and like always the Hazzard Knytes is coming to the rescue. But more over to make sure it what ever IT is, don’t reoccur, the Hazzard Knytes, will howl through the internet radio waves on HazzardAyre Radio about it. To make sure more tune to that we are unloading our ammo to getting just that done. So we are rousting out as much female eye candy, bikes, trucks, warbyrds and all with some of the best flesh on earth at least here to put in front of a video camera so that when you plunk your butt in front of a vintage TV show on METV or a NASCAR race, that every once in awhile, you’ll find out why you should log onto www.livestream.com/hazzardayre .  But this is not easy.

Any mile, been under the weather last few days, so will still be off for yet another day from being on air, but I should be on there overnight starting at 01:00 AM .

TTYL

  

Quote of the Day:
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

Hebrews 11:6“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Queen of Hazzard

On TV in the series it was all Jessie Duke the patriarch of Hazzard, in the real Hazzard, My mom was the Queen Mother of Hazzard.

There was NO charity or person in true need that My mom didn’t help, somehow. Beit money, food or deed , my mom was the one that those who were in bat situations with no other choice from traditional resources, Mom stepped in.

Next week its Mothers Day, and pardon me if I get a bit teary eyed here, but MY , MoM was the true Queen more like Guardian Angel of our community, both Hazzard, as well as much of Idaho and northern Utah.

Many of my kin folk are upset as MoM made it to where I got the Wolf’s share of the Montgomery Foundation at her passing,  but long before, none were too proud but to ask, makes me kinda mad now that I need their help I get a cold shoulder, while MoM was alive, she gave not in loans, but just gifts of heart some rather large sums of funds, sometimes with many zeros behind the numbers.

MoM was born in Confederate kountry, Gilmer Texas, on May 28th. She became one of a few lady Vice Admiral’s in the United States Navy, SIU. But Mom was the true kountry gal. She could make water run uphill. Which she did shovel and plastic dam irrigation of a 1000 acre ranch just outside of Hazzard Idaho, even being able to barn break a set of dairy cows. Unless there was a stranger in the barn at milking, those cows never pooped in that barn.

MoM taught a prize Herford bull weighing several tons, to be able to baby sit me in my buggy, as a mere toddler, in a big field, at times rocking my buggy with that heavy hoof.

With a swipe of a pen on the pages of a checkbook, a phone call, or a visit , my MoM could perform miracles for others as well as for me. Many that I feel have been forgotten by many ungrateful people in both Hazzard County Idaho, my kin folk, and many even here in northern Utah.

The song by CW McCall Roses for Mama says it best, I now honor my MoM every year twice in the same month, of May my MoM, by delivering flowers to her grave in the cemetery just south of Grace Idaho. That’s where my MoM sleeps, although I’m working to get her relocated from there to Utah.

In all true angelic definitions, my MoM was and is the Queen of Hazzard.

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
--Bertrand Russell

Ephesians 4:15“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.