Knyte Skool 101 part three

I caught the slight misgivings of one of our website construction crew about registering the site with the Knytes’ name as the main site. Thing is all too many none members do not understand is the Knytes have been together long before there was a TV show based on our club as well as two others.

For me to get in front of 50,000 members of the Knytes and say something like someone is skiddish about the clubs sacred name, the club would come back and say , are you fucking kidding, we are the Knytes-of-Anarchy and there is no reason to change us. Period. With a thought of giving the one skiddish the boot. However that said I understand about a bunch of things, but my loyalty to the club is and will be number 1 until I die.

Now then the reason for the site, and leading reason for the radio gig, and all is to educate those who do not know that the Knytes’ are much more than a MC. More over educate those who do not know that there is a real difference, between the TV show SOA, and us the KOA, By educating the none member and unknowing we can show who we are, why we are, and why those with real grit should belong to the club.

Just because some guy made a TV show, whose story line has really drifted away from what an MC really is, does not mean the Knytes are going to change names . We have came all too far to do that.

Now to another subject , that of elections. The Governors race for Idaho is coming up on us. One candidate has contacted me, and while Its all well and good, first the guy stands a small chance of winning. In the state of Idaho, its not what you know but who you blow. Or at least line pockets of. Second, by the time the elections rolls around, I’m going to be well away from Idaho. At least Southwestern Idaho. Now in my last entry I said I’d tell you what of Idaho’s sub-charter. Don’t know about Kevin, but killing all of Idaho’s sub charter would be suicide for the club. First Idaho was where we were founded. That said, while the SouthWestern half of the sub charter will be history, I still am in line with keeping us alive in Eastern Idaho, mainly Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, Southeastern Idaho namely Grace, Soda Springs Montpelier, as well as the Treasure Valley namely Boise, Nampa area. Likewise Sun Valley and Shoshone. But I don’t see us elsewhere and Shoshone is a big maybe. There are many reasons keeping us in Idaho, but not the greater Twin Falls area, including Burley or Rupert.

The politician that wrote me was chiming in on the reason he’s running for office, is he thinks my story is too common, moving away because of low wages. It’s not low wages we are leaving because of. It’s the fact that area media, including newspapers, TV stations and so on have gave us the big finger. It’s because of a very weak communication infrastructure, its because of a stubborn as a mule pig headed bigoted, racist attitude that is why we are leaving. I and 750 members of the club say we’re tired of fighting, for what we get in return. It’s like I told that politician, when someone , ANYONE comes to me with about $2,000.00 so we can regain the bandwidth for the radio station, build a talent agency for the eye candy department, and all of that I might be inclined to ROS. Since that is not going to happen, its pack up the pack and the trucks and go where those things are already in place.

So for the people that want to see us do something name etc wise of the club, not going to happen.

TTYL

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State of the Pack

It’s again that time for the review of the past year, and the goals for this year and the path to get there.

For the Knytes it’s a job for Kevin Pollock our newly elected President. He will be on elsewhere on the blog. For the AyreWolvez that also supervises the Knytes its my job.

Okay then, A year ago we had just about gotten out of one of many scrapes with eye candy. You’d think and it does play a hand in the relocation that hiring eye candy for breathtaking artful pics with aircraft and bikes wouldn’t be that difficult. But this is the 21st Century. Years ago the posting of an ad for such, was no big deal, today, its best not to do that. Here in Twin falls unless your well oiled money wise or of the established system, don’t even try. Of course there is the smooch on the toe that got a bunch of em pissed , but hey it’s a bit meant to be comedy, its called grown the hell up.

By March after a go round with CenturyLink again promising us what they could not deliver, we signed up with SpeedConnect. Which overall as far as service complaints, help with billing and all is better than most here. But technology wise, they just can’t deliver to us what we need to make this function. We muddled through 2013, first thinking the Reaper Club was a go, started to interview bar help. But when it came to putting ink on the paper to get something going the old heifer in Burley who owned the structure said no. Guess renting it to the doomfuss that ran the place in the ground was better. But too it left us with more than egg on our face.

Then came the shop, rent price goes from $350.00 a month to $750.00 a month, but we still paid the power bill. Still looking for a refund there. Again egg on face. July saw hundreds of thousands of acres burning up near Sun Valley and that immediate area, where BLM and Forest service choppers were not fighting the blaze , AyreWolf Aviation was. Taking crop dusting choppers refitting to spray retardant and deploying. We thought we had money so we signed up with great old Cable-One, but then Obama and Bohner started feuding and all government money froze. So by the time our money started flowing, Cable-One had turned us off, Internet wise and a day after SOA’s run clipped the TV. Thing is I never heard one person, at Cable-One in their business department call up and say, look you had a mess with the government money you got behind due to no fault on your own, lets work out a payment schedule, to resolve the matter. No they wanted it all upfront now. Which both as a company and the AyreWolvez we just couldn’t do. We had our payments on supplies and aircraft to pay first. We’re still paying that off which is why I’m short money wise.

The liftoff of the tarmac for us now is simple, move to Utah where through both Comcast, and our facilities there will be reduced, which means more in the cash stash. More over with HazzardAyre on air full time means much money flowing in from ad revenue and subscription revenue. As for AyreWolf Aviation, the reduction of hangar space rentals from just over $2,500.00 a month, to just at $600.00 a month, plus the reduced logistics challenges will increase our(MY) revenue.

Having human resources through 14 that I can count on one hand for our need for lady eye candy for the magazine, the video’s and TV show, with no more CraigsList people, but real gals with real brains that are trained , more over to where we pay the agency, sign the paperwork, and the gal shows up, boom its done, and out the door. This has been one of those things that has cost us over the last year. Gal gets on CraigsList, calls and emails, says she's interested, I take time out of my day to meet with her. Every hour I’m not towing or flying is $75.00 wasted. Except being on air on HazzardAyre, but even then we are billing $50.00 an hour there. Sometimes more but on average $50.00 an hour. If I’m not on air, in the air or on the road, I starve, and delays are created.

With a one call that’s all source for the talent from Urban Talent, and others its done and done. No more CraigsList searches.

Then it’s the same for on air personalities. Both genders. I have yet seen one gal, walk in the home bilt studio, slide in the rocking chair and go on air. Even with a bit of instruction. Sure years ago, our Robin in 1993 did it in 2 weeks working in a broom closet sized studio, but you need to know, Robin’s elevator really got off the ground. The right chemistry was there we melded. Have never found anyone like her since.

While Utah doesn’t have any radio schools persay,all 4 of Utah’s higher education institutions have communications and media degree programs, not to mention many college radio stations. Take them bring em in as interns, weed out the good from the bad in 6 months or less we’ll have on air honey. Add to that the plan of creating a radio/tv broadcast basics program/school, should make a difference.

In closing, for this year the entire organization moves to Utah in new HQ, reduce output, increase income and work with great people like Laura at Comcast and build a media empire.

What’s left for Idaho? That in my next entry.

TTYL

 

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No matter how sweet that pussy looks its still sour

Uncle Jessie Duke many times down at Hazzard pond fishing would say to me as a young wolf pup, that the field across the road is only greener until you have to mow it. By the same thing,

I decided to rework that in saying , that no matter how sweet and innocent that pussy at the bar or on TV looks, it still is and smells sour. I bring this up from words I had this morning at the daily coffee grind meeting of the Knytes High Council. There seems to be this great thinking that just because we’re moving this to Utah, that I think that the very move is going to open a Pandora's box full of undiscovered treasures. Which I say is poppycock. First I have lived from one end of Utah to the other. I know what’s there, and what ain’t. I understand and know there will be challenges, but considering where the radio werx is in our construction of HazzardAyre and all, and knowing there are 4 available licenses in Tooele as well as up near Randolph, Utah, that we have the best shot of becoming what we have always wanted to be, and then some.

Now if I could get the kind of broadband bandwidth and velocity from Cable-One, here in Twin Falls as I can from Comcast in Utah for a lesser price I’d jump on it faster than Boss Hogg slurping down ice tea. Or if I could get the lady eye candy for our TV and film projects that we can from the what 15 or so agencies in Utah , here in the Tragic Valley , I’d be down with that faster than Enos Straight swallering a glass of cold buttermilk. Fact is we can’t. The time is now, its either jump on this and build our super Hazzard network, or we dump it, lay down and sleep with the porch dogs.

True Utah’s pussy smells too, but at least , Utah took a douche to its pussy and thus not as rotten as the city of Twin Falls.

Okay, was thinking some more. And this truly needs to be said, and I hate to take anything away from the Dukes, but do you realize that over the weekend another TV show that we hold sacred here also had its 29th year birthday? This TV show came in with some serious thunder. The TV show I’m talking about has just if not a slightly larger fan base than the Dukes, and although only watchable through Hulu, still has people working to bringing it back to life. We are talking of course of the TV show Airwolf. Again the machine is the star, and no where else can you see an aircraft originally designed for air freight, and air ambulance, become so dang famous or treasured. The show was originally going to be called Air Shark, thus the paint scheme, but an audio engineer discovered when the turbines we ignited that the Bell 222A sounded like a wolf cry, and thus Airwolf.

It’s been researched and some say a mach speed helicopter is impossible , especially with weapons, and electronics, I say no way. Maybe in the mid 80’s but I think, and still working on the prototype, the Lady could be built. Not only built, but FAA certified and flown. I’ll bet the Lady would give those Homeland Security people the shits, don’t ya’ll think?

Sylvester Levay, just released a great long version of the music, done by synthesizer a method rather innovative and yet taboo at the time. But consider the fan base keeps growing , even though the only outlet to view it is Hulu. Too bad the Dukes ain’t on Hulu. Then us without cable and/or satellite could watch. Speaking of which and I’ll put this in to get you to thinking,

Imagine if Obama , with his barking of economic equality, opened the door on community TV? In that some air space no longer to be used by cell phone company’s and public safety was opened to where a small local broadcaster could put up an analog station to where everybody could watch. Patrick Gotsche over at RFDTV and Rural TV has the right idea. More over the guys out at the river. But what if they had both a digital channel, and mirrored it to a none digital channel, to where we without that unavailable converter could at least watch something good, like the Dukes and or Airwolf? As it is the well to do with money to spend on cable gets to watch good TV even his State of the Union address, while us in a state of flux of transition, holding it together with duct tape, money wise get two maybe channels. Talk about a economic gap.

Could it be fixed? Sure, how? I’ll let you stew on that . See you in the PM.

 

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--Al

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AIRWOLF Soundtrack Score Suite (Sylvester Levay)

Rough nyte

Last night slept good, but neighbors dog made too much noise, so just as I was going back to some degree of shut eye from going through a phlegm session, up started the damn dogs. Its not the dogs fault, those dogs are good puppies thing is the owners are assholes. Leave em cooped up all damn day, little time out even to shit, less time out somewhere to just run. Mexican sized dogs are great for the city, along with Poodles and such toy dogs, but real dogs, even protection dogs should not be in town, but out on the farm where they can run.

So was up dealing with phlegm can’t dissolve it. I have Mentholatum, I have used steam, I have taken Mucinex just about everything but still there’s that slimy snotty gunk in my larynx .

So am sitting out most of today, going to take a long hot bath see if I can loosen up this snot.,

more l8r

TTYL

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Can’t be simpler than this; Good nyte ya’ll see ya’ll Tuesday.

TTYL

Keep your friends close, your enemy's even closer.

So while back a former colleague of mine suggested listing with this outfit called access.com some sort of upscale news thing for and of broadcasting. All I can see is a bunch of pop music bullshit, and hardly if any response to a brief test ad that I posted thereupon. Not blowing trumpets for CraigsList or the response therefrom, but at least one got a phone call.

Course I can remember, putting things on for a few brief moments on KSL.com, guess what we got? Real working candidates, that knew their stuff and oh yes were not spooked about going to a persons house that was both a

studio as well as living quarters. Even when that housing was in a complex for, well, public housing. Hell

we even got Miss Rodeo Utah, there.

As far as my colleague from Lee family Broadcasting, her suggestion made no sense at all, her comments were ignored

and we keep on keeping on.

What I seem to run into and I’ve racked my cranium to find a solution, but that people in this valley despite noise that say otherwise do not want anything new here. Beit media, entertainment or even a heavy guy blowing over the big canyon over here that one years ago jumped.

I remember the big pitch session and that’s all it was, it was not no city council or other wise meeting as it was billed

it was in fact a pitch to the press as to here I am, and this is why ya’ll should let me jump the big ditch.

I remember running into one gal from Yahoo/ABC, more Yahoo, than ABC, there and I thought , “honey if you

want to know the truth about this area ask me, this is not going to happen as you see it.” This valley does not truly want a big media microscope looking it over. Nor does it want the massive crowds, or the increase in revenue, if it

means giving up the small town country image for a few weeks, nope don’t want it. It shows, slowconnect is good for internet, one TV station that swallows up any competition, and if they can’t buy you out, or step on you they behind the scenes trash you.

If your doing something out of the box the competition here will hammer you. Even if your buying em out. Example, two years ago, friend of mine Kim Lee, CEO Lee Family Broadcasting, and I get to talking about the Knytes buying up KBAR AM. Thought was KBAR, coupled to KDXB would be a good combination. About this time a club member

who used to work with Simmons broadcasting in Utah suggested we do Radio Disney here with KBAR.

No Kim converts the station to a Sports station carrying ESPN, rather than something even the conservative LDS

community would like a Radio Disney station. No we can’t do that people might like that, an increase in ratings and revenue. Kind of a can’t see the forest for the trees scenario. Then came the Reaper Club. Make contact with the Real Estate people, find place open, least for $3,000.00 start making plans, recruit help, but time to make the first payments and get serious, the owner decides no. We come away with egg on our face and an even worse reputation.

But if that wasn’t enough, finally think we are getting somewhere, gal says on a reply of our pin up girl ad she’s interested. Groovy. She comes over we have a pow-wow. Now here’s something to believe in, so I look at a place billed as $300.00 a month, pricey but in range.

When the owner comes back with a $450.00 per month price tag, Charlie says no. So did I. More bullshit.

The simple truth and its this way in every small town area in America , but the worst I have ever saw, here. If

your not kissing the six of one of the chosen klan, your orally doing another. I ain’t kissing the hiney or sucking the penus of anybody for any of this.

This is why Twin Falls will not gain any serious national credibility or fame.

Oh and news of residency, I get a washer and dryer in the new place.

In the next two weeks I’m in move mode, by March 1st Idaho will be a bitter memory, happy to forget.

L8R Ya’ll

 

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