Hellbilly Hellcats Road Kill Cafe

Wind beneath my wings Part 1

This is going to be fun watching the property manager tell the property owners that the reason I’m moving even with just 3 months into the lease, that the reason of departure is, a minor fix in parking and telling junior to shut up after 10:00PM. Although she might not tell the property owner that, but I will. Funny the same gal was all so nice and lovey dovey, but has started to be come a pain. Giving me a three day notice, for my parking error, yet she lets someone else park in a gall darned loading zone, my ass. This property like all too many is designed around one idea, none wed, pregnant or just been there. Or students aka Wal-Mart employees.

Had a talk with Keith earlier on the phone, damn it’s nice , to have a cell phone, but talked with Keith. Decision, give my 30 day notice to the owners of this property, set up the office, but as for myself and our Wolf-Pack, get the Pack outta here.

After the over view we could keep pouring money into the damn area, or do like every other smart business that ever came here, be smart and get out before Evanston bankrupts you. This time its for good. And to answer the question is simply answered had I had more available funds, and the WolfPup not been down, I’d have never moved into the Wentworth and just made a beeline to the beehive state and forgot I ever came here.

While I’d like to be able to repair this town, after wasting so much money on that Brittany and all, I don’t have the tools or inclination to doing much of anything beyond the radio gig here and me bowing out faster than I got trapped here in the first place.

I’m still waiting for the photographer and web builder person from Cokeville to show up or call. My thing to her is I want to get about 8 model talents up here, for an open audition. The time for waiting is over. Either do the job, or say your all booked up so we can find someone who can.

Burley in the Cross Hairs.

That in the next edition.

Just a quicky

This may look like a quarter slot> but it takes real dollars to attract it or keep

it going.

Don’t count out the ittty bitty

So good old INSP is off air doing fix it duty, bout time, too bad our own cable system here doesn’t do that.

There’s all kinds of things I hear like that. you bring up a subject say building the radio station, or some other community mutually beneficial thing like that and you’ll get noise, like great, we sure do need that, yet if you go to them in a fund drive and ask hey how about putting up some money, even $100.00 towards it it’s hey , but I can’t afford it. Really, you want something for nothing, is that what I’m hearing. The same thing I saw this evening on Tracey Dukes page, some diddy, an old friend put up about doing a renewing the series of the Dukes-of-Hazzard series, original cast and all. Besides the fact several of that original cast are long gone to that Boars Nest in Heaven, the rest are too busy with other projects as well are, just too old. As far as renewing a new series, the Knytes and the Wolf-Pack have been barking and howling on that for at least 10 years now. The thing gets down to one simple thing, green. We had in mind a series that was a whole combination, of Vantage Point, Dukes-of-Hazzard, MoonRunners, HollyWood Knights , all rolled into one, going beyond the Dukes into the rest of Hazzard County. Trouble is, you can pitch script all damn day at Studios, and networks all you want, looking for someone else to fund it and they’ll laugh. Go in with serious support money, all pre paid ad dollars and such and then pitch an idea, and watch Warner Brothers, FX , and CMT all roll out the easy chair give you a can of Skoal with a gold plated lid and really be sniffing all around you.

On that think of it as one of my good friends who owns and manages KBAR in Rupert Idaho. Instead of tying up his payroll department with pay checks, Kim did something smart. Let those who want to be on KBAR , go out gather their own advertisers, and pay him $150.00 an hour the syndicate overnight. That $150.00 per hour don’t sound like much, but hey do the math multiplied by just two shows Zeb Bell’s show in the morning and another in the afternoon, that’s $24,k a month. Income, without having to think about programming, selling time for it nothing, rent out the studio, have a jock sitter there in case the radio gear gets a case of diarrhea , but still pure income. Something I’m looking to do for 12 hours during the day, while I do my shows HazzardAyre and Dixie-Diesel-Maximum Overdrive overnight. That way I only need to get two seat cover for co host anchors rather than 4. Not a bad plan. Instant cash in the stash. But just about most small stations are doing this, and Hollywood is no exception. Want something on TV or movie screen, go in with your own merchandizing, and funding, the studios are more apt to match your funds, but these days, instant cash to make films or TV series pilots, are pretty much dead. No matter how much bull manure is spread. Sure there are film contests out there for Indy Films, but read the fine print, it say, many will enter few will win. Money talks, bull walks. Hollywood, radio stations anyone these days are looking for the $’s and don’t care about helping you to make your cause. If you want help in a cause, the first thing; be a minority, I don’t care what, best one is Mexican. Be a female, that’s so terribly poor that her stockings are anklets. Third have at least 7 kids, and be a recovering drug addict of some sort, or someone that went to prison, or at least jail. Then you get the attention of Facebook, FundMe, KickStarter, forget being a properly discharged Marine Combat aviator looking to build a radio network and station, for the benefit of all who flew and still fly for this nations defense, and FundMe, KickStarter, etc will ignore you like you have an untreatable STD.

Likewise try to start something in the west that has anything to do with educating northerners about the war of northern aggression(Civil-War) and you’ll get fought every way but loose. It’s like teaching the only true gospel, on this earth, about the teachings in the Book Of Mormon, in both cases, you know there are things that apply to both, but as hard as you try to teach the truth, you’ll get fought, blocked, shunned. Well you get the idea.

Try to put both those things together in one package, and well ya’ll just better be a Marine with cover overhead what with the fallout of the shelling you’ll receive.

But don’t count out the itty bitty, HazzardAyre Radio started out as a simple one pole, educational radio station just on the outskirts of West Point Idaho. (yes there is one) at 50 watts. After trying at all too many area then stations of getting one to allow us to do at least a weekend version of an all night trucker radio show. It wasn’t until a good old boy at a small fm there KMTW FM 96.1 , Kelly Carlson, let this old rebel canine on the air. I did 4 hours Friday, 4 hours Saturday, with the green from Dads trucking company, but hey I got on. Then Charlie Tuma then GM of KLIX 1310 put me on the air. There were others, most did not like push the edge radio. So after the well had ran dry, the then TeenAge Truckers Association the starting group, that is now the United American Independent Truckers Association the parent organization of the Knytes of Anarchy as well as the AyreWolvez, fired up a , at first a pirate station. The FCC revenuers showed up , said you need a license boy, and by 1982 we had one, and kicked the butt of every radio station in western Idaho, northern Utah, and Nevada. None of them could program, or dared program what we did. The year of 1988, I created the first OTR(Over the Road) truckers radio show west of the divide. That year I went to the National Association of Broadcasters(NAB) show in Lost Wages Nevada. A syndication company owned by Bill Mack of WBAP out of Dallas/Fort Worth, signed our little show up, and it wasn’t long before Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio, sponsored by the Dixie Diesel Shop of Idaho. went on the air on weekends and we brought home an Emmy the first year. A Grammy the second year, and this went on until 1993. I suffered a great personal loss, from a death in the squadron, and partly quit. The in 1995 , through a series of being in the right places at the right time, was able to buy the Interstate Radio Network, ITRN, became the Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio Network.

But it all started small. Just like both the TeenAge Truckers as well as the Hazzard County Knytes. In both cases, we met in a small pop stand, with about 10 to 15 people of like minds. We got it together and said just because someone says you can’t do it here, reply, why the Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot can’t we?

Then do it anyway.

No kind of business or enterprise starts out really big, and gives instant gratification. NOTHING, it takes at least 4 to 6 years, before a tree bares fruit, and at least that long for a new business to bare cash for the stash.

It just don’t happen kaboom. Even music stars, sure some get a big boost on American Idiot, and other shows, but those kids and performers have been at it for at least 4 to 5 years, sang in bars, clubs, and mini shows , long before they catch the eye of a agent, or producer. You have to have a track record, but look at our club today. Between the parent organization, the Knytes, the AyreWolvez, The Toew Bros, There is just over 500,000 members coast to coast and around the globe. But it all started over a pancake and coffee at the Polish Palace now the Snake River Grill in 1982. The TeenAge Truckers began over Shirley Temples, at the Ogden Holiday in , in 1973.

We have lasted this long simply because all 500,000 are dedicated to the core of what we started with, being the voice of the Interstate, as well as be that organization that doesn’t just sit around giving lip service, but does something.

So the next time and I do joke about it often, when some spoiled brat decides that just because we’re not the choir boys she expected, that the Reaper didn’t open as fast as she thought, when those who think I take up too much of their time, when the club is helping or about to help them, I laugh. Like I have said it before and I’ll say it again, its not the club that needs them, its them that needs the club.

TTYLY

 

And to think I could have stayed in TF all weekend

So got through the weekend. Still peeved about Britt quitting, but hey another prospect employee leaving isn’t that big a deal, except it makes me wonder, did or am I doing something wrong, and would someone tell me what it is?

Is it the fact that my rides are 15 years old? I love rat rods and old trucks. I like owning stuff I can fix, if need be.

Or at least Nate.

All weekend I rolled around in my head, should I just bag this? Go back to Ground Zero or at least TF (Twin Falls) or do as my insides say, stay long enough to prove some of the doubting Thomas’ and Fretting Betty’ wrong and build the mighty HazzardAyre’s new franchise outlet here.

Still trying to decide on doing the bar, but there’s a month there to decide.

The fact that I am even still here on a Monday, is I had a meet and greet at Jodies Diner, here with one of our photographers and our web designer. She’s cool, and her son seems okay. But yet I have sent three pages to her over in Cokeville , yet she hasn’t responded.

Maybe now that Britt is out perhaps the lady photographer is too. If so I wish she’d just tell me, then I could go find someone else. As we have a outfit in Provo ready to jump in, build the site for HazzardAyre, which , again is launching its sibling Maximum Overdrive Radio here in Evanston in June, and I’d like to have a lot of this outside stuff done. I’d like KDXC to have its companion website launch at the same time, in June.

But its like a friend told me the other day here, Evanston is not Atlanta, its not Nashville, will never be Hollywood, and is just barely able to compete if it can at all with Metro Utah. There’s just some things that are available in the big city even Twin Falls that just is not available in Evanston. I just hate when someone just keeps me dangling on the hook.

Going to be away from this area, beginning April 2nd. Going over to TF to start looking for a place to live and all, so On May 1st or so, fetch the rest of the gear from Woods Cross Utah and reinstall in Burley. Hey I can sleep at Motel 6 here while we get Maximum Overdrive going here, in Evanston, but I don’t have to live here.

I had grand hopes for Evanston and the immediate area this run at it. The town could be so much more than it is, but it just may be there are people here that want it to shrink to a tiny small town again and never gain or graduate to being another Park City.

TTYLY

 

Disappointment and relief in the same package

So it ran its course. Didn’t plan it this way, but at least that monkey is off my back. Britt leaving the Wolf-Pack was both a disappointment and relief at the same time. While Brittany was a good JAFO, still I don’t think she was either mature enough nor emotionally stable enough to handle the responsibilities of doing the level of work that we would have required. The fact that we took her on was a favor to her mother, but hey nothing gained nothing lost, Brittany was after all a prospect. Not a full hire in so that be that, on that.

At least I can now get into what needs to be done for myself as well as my company. The club is secondary right now, not out as I could never abandon my trucker brethren, but the club saw this train coming , and the light at the end of the tunnel was in fact another train. The best way to not get hit by the train, step off to the side. Which is what I’m doing.

As far as the Reaper(Lotty’s) That will stay for rent for at least a decade if not longer. The reconstruction costs along with the monthly rent rate and restocking costs, and the staffing costs if one can get them all before you can turn a dollar, naw there’s easier more direct ways of making a living.

I and the club can’t do business this way.

TTYLY

 

Better more qualified people out there

I’ve said before, I’ll say it again, they shun the club, but eventually they all come back after.

Thing is as it is there might not be anything to come back to. Oh yes the radio/tv station perhaps, but the Reaper, not hardly.

I’d rather put $4k a month into the radio station without the rest of the pain in my wallet , than put a mil plus into a bar, before we even can make a dollar. That’s not good business sense. But like I said, most of the time, its better if I do much of this myself.

As far as hiring someone to oversee the radio station, why? Nate and crew can do that, but my tiny butt don’t need to be here.

So Britt is out, but then what did I think would happen, with a 21 year old?

This effort on behalf of the Knytes to Evanston has been too much of a pain, and quite simply I’m done with it.

The lack of support, the lack of qualified people to run things outside of the club, and so on. Why? For an ungrateful community that can’t see the forest for the trees? I’ll just fade out as gingerly as I faded in and forget Evanston Wyoming exists.

I’m tired of going hungry, having to live in a tax deferred housing community, freezing, having a internet service that barely delivers the entire thing in a proper speed, the list goes on, so since we have reached a dead end, might as well put the kibosh to it, and me be looking to going home to Idaho, three strikes and we’re , rather me and I’m out.

Britt says she found something out, well don’t know what that is, in fact I’ll bet she ran across those assholes from Mountain Home, that we were having a turf war with, but nothing I have told her was bullshit, and if she’d have stayed in long enough she’d have found that all is as I have told her.

There’s a soap opera there, and its deeper than what I or the club wants to deal with.

Okay then.

Had I thought a productive meeting this morning, although I didn’t want to wake up.

Think we may have someone to build the clubs website, but who knows. Any more when it comes to anyone or anything Wyoming at least western Wyoming I need to be convinced by example, and deed, as so far, all I get is a bunch of people that say they can do this or that, but simply fall on their face with bald faced lies, and excuses.

So I’m tending to going towing and the radio station, get my junk put together so late May my Wolf-Pack is outta here including me.

TTYLY