Despite everything, I am not perfect I too make mistakes.

There are many who think, that I think I’m perfect and beyond making mistakes or malfunctions. Thing is, that ain’t so.

My biggest I think and am finding out more so every day that moving from Wyoming to Idaho as being the one I’d like to reverse. However finances and the conditions of being in Idaho way too long, makes a rapid relocation impossible, but I’m looking at it stronger every day.

There are minor mistakes along this path. Trying to do things in this restrictive religious state is probably another big one. After all and yes I think way too many thump both the bible and Book-of-Mormon way too much, but do little of what both teaches. Female models for TV ads, aircraft and motorcycle body art is not possible here. That’s why there are few if any agencies representing models in Idaho. Boise yes, well sort of agencies, but not true pick off one in a book and she show up agency. It ain’t here. Nor is finding on air radio or for that matter TV talent. That’s why you see many new comers to both , radio and TV train here, but move on to other larger markets.

Speaking of TV, while its in my mind.

A few nights ago, I hammered both KMVT and KTVB, for a report on the malware crackdown by the FBI. Which was something I should not have done. Out of those two I want to apologize to KTVB. KTVB’s news team is one of the best if not thee best in Idaho. As far as KMVT, well KMVT gets what they get. KTVB, has one of if not a bunch of my favorite on TV newscasters. I remember when out 4-H Trucker club toured KTVB, I think I was about 13 or 14 at the time. It was when Dee Sarton first started there. I thought she was a dream, both looks as well as delivery on the news. Andrea Lutz is one of my other favorites. Much too good I think for Idaho, but its good she’s here. Kim Fields, is also good. I enjoy her on the weekends , she’s on helluva anchor. Of course Rick Lantz has the best most accurate forecast in the state on TV, when it comes to a personal note, one year as we were ramping up for our radio station network, I bumped into Rick at one years Idaho State Fair there in Garden City an outset of Boise. Any mile, I asked Rick where he gets the forecast? He directed me to the NOAA official site, and the link. I still use that today. Not all in the business are anti Knytes of Anarchy or me.

Okay then. Some of my other personal mistakes, is I sometimes don’t spell too good, and at times I spell words the way they sound, not the way they are really spelled. Of course one can look at our language and discover words that sound alike or even spelled alike but have different meanings.

Examples, in America if you call someone a fag its an insult to the GAY community. However in Ireland or the UK, a fag is a cigarette . Of course the big word I use often is toew. Combining the word TOW as in what I do mostly to eat, and the word TOE which is the appendage on the end of your foot. Of course another word that I started using because it was quirky enough to work is the word Hooker. In most conversations the word Hooker means a prostitute. In CB trucker slang the word Hooker means a tow truck, or one who drives a tow truck.

I bring this all up as I saw this clip on my FaceBook page of not being too critical. Which just being on FaceBook is enough to make anyone critical. But this lady got a prompting she says from God, which does happen, its only if we don’t listen that we are fixin to mess up. But this lady got a prompting to go one day without being critical of others. She says she did this and floodgates were opened and she had accomplishments she had not had in years.

I know in fact that I am way too critical of others. Maybe because I was raised up with the best of everything. From the best parents any and I mean ANY body could have. In living conditions that were nearly as perfect if not royalty status. I have never ever wanted for much of anything, if I did, it ain’t for long. I have had a supporting family that kept me from making a complete jackass out of myself at times, or really stepping into serious manure. From my cousin Bud who kept track of the money from Mom & Dad’s estate to the fine lady who manages my Government money now, although I have disagreed with Both Bud and Becky allot, the fact is, if it were not for them my picture might have been or could be much worse than it is now.

We all goof up. Yes I feel correction of mistakes is good, if you can and someone will open the door for you to make those corrections, but you have to let the past, be the past. Some are not so forgiving, but hey, that’s their problem. Sure I could to a small extent make a retreat from Idaho back to Wyoming, cuss out the entire state of Idaho, and all of that. But, I came back to Idaho to do 3 things, in order, to re-energize the main heart of the Knytes-of-Anarchy in Hazzard(aka-Hagerman), Two to get this radio station operational, 3; get our video/TV thing going. I did not come back to get going towing here in Idaho again, nor open and operate a custom bike and rat-rod/truck shop. But while the club is seeing some growth the radio thing is starting to move albeit at a mules pace, the TV thing is going to take longer than expected, hey Murphy’s Law, and as such gotta eat and live somewhat, so I snag and drag, and build custom bikes.

What About AyreWolf Aviation and all that? That in my next report.

But we all are not perfect, so here’s the challenge I have for you today, try to go all day without being critical of anybody, or saying a damaging word.

Let ya’ll know how I make out tonight both on air and in After the Show.

L8R Ya’ll

 

Quote of the Day:
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
--Henry David Thoreau, 19th-century American essayist and nature writer

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Idaho’s technical infrastructure is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine

If you caught the show earlier this evening you caught a good one, considering the technical problems. 80% of those problems were based on Internet connectivity. Or lack there of. True having my own pipeline might improve things, but Cable-One in their greed decided to double bill me in late February, early March and thus I’m relying on wifi. Which works 60% of the time. The answer for us of course is two, snoop into something like HughesNet, or Wild Blue, wait till the bill at Cable-One is paid then resubscribe or move the heart of the network to Utah, where even with its hiccups with Comcast, kicks ass over Cable-One. You’d think that people here would be up in arms over the slowness, and constant dropped signals. You’d think that there would be a solution, and we’re looking into all of it, including laying out a ton of cash to get our own pipeline, not just a connection to a provider like Cable-One, but be our own Internet connection provider. All to bring you the very best over the road and gear head style radio.

However its not just us, consider that Tom Luna State of Idaho’s Schools got a bill passed that’s supposed to connect every kid in Idaho to the Internet to get an education. If a kid tries to download a lesson, it’ll be nearly when he or she graduates b4 he gets the lesson from first grade downloaded.

Many teachers, mostly in the more populace area will get new lap tops, to provide lesson materials. Guess what ? At Cable-One speed the teacher will be collecting a pension b4 they get the first lesson downloaded, much less try to upload, shit, most of Idaho’s kids could be graduated from college b4 they can upload their first test.

Idaho’s population is not enough for any serious provider or computer connection service to invest serious cash into improving home bound Internet that is better and a 4 second reaction time Internet . But hey Cable-One claims 50 meg speed, bullsbreath. Yet I paid for 50 meg speed. Maybe Cable One ought to refund my account the price of a 20 meg connection, since that’s purtty much what I got on good days. Or why does Cable One bark 50 meg speed , when even their techs here in Burley says that ain’t possible here? My Dad said don’t advertise something ya’ll ain’t got for sale.

If I held my breath for that refund, I’d turn blue b4 I ever got it. But hey I’ve been wrong b4, might be again, but I seriously doubt it. PMT here in Mini Cassia ain’t much better. Just to be fair, your lucky if you get a 10 meg connection with PMT.

Its not just computers, Idaho is still going backwards and technological advancements will not show up here . It’s a simple fact the old farts that live here don’t want to pay for it. And the youth, go to Boise or Salt Lake, and that’s why you see things a bit better there than in Mini Cassia.

But we here in the Knytes-of-Anarchy keep fighting to get ya’ll what others cain’t. Remember out of Anarchy, comes order.

More Monday.

L8R

Quote of the Day:
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
--Anonymous

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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

Psalm 138:2“I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

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

Psalm 18:30“As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.