Life in Hazzard is unlike anywhere else. Maybe a bit more high octane, but better organized I think.
You go to what food store we have in Hazzard , and things are in the right place, mayo is near ketchup and mustard, next to the pickles, next to the bread , cheese and salami. But not in nearby Twin Falls. Stopped in the Fred Myers there and came away without the cheese, pickles, and unless I got the help I got, might have dumped the concept of the salami. Freddies might be part of the Kroger family, but their kissing cousins Smith’s at least put things in a place you can find em. And oh yes, the Smiths in Burley is a better store as well.
So came home here to the house, and put in an old video of my old TV shows in Pocatello. The time frame may have changed but the content and the projects ain’t changed much. Looking back , when that peanut brained bikini bouncer and I got into a penus swinging contest fight, the smarter thing then would have been go back into Utah or Wyoming, not west to Glenn's Ferry.
Which brings me to the paranoia subject I mentioned yesterday on WyldAyre.
The synopsis here was , I was there in the new house, finally relaxing from the stress in Pocatello. This young gal who lived next door, was outside on this pogo stick. She was in the dumps, I simply asked what’s wrong? She responded that she needed money for school supplies. Now photographing a tween for anything is not the number one thing on our list, but we as a club thought hey when we have the air show there in GF, shoot some shots of her in a flight suit, give her some extra cash, and that be that.
Whoa , there was this stuck up city council dude that made that concept out to being everything it wasn’t, and ultimately we dumped not only the air show but the renovation of that communities airport that it truly needed. Now added to that, besides the damn airport, but the Knytes had eyes on what was the Trophy club, and putting the media HQ upstairs, the Boars Nest Bada Bing bar restaurant downstairs. In essence putting the flavors of the Soprano’s and Hazzard in one place. But piss us off in one place, don’t expect us to branch out and extend our kindness’s elsewhere. The Knytes have became very cynical and choosy any more.
Example, before 2007 , putting our Hazzard flavor radio on with hiring female co-hosts was a pay gig. We paid every week. Problem was after a few gals made $2,500.00 every week, many gals split. There went the money, the costs of training everything. So that’s why we said nope. If some skirt wants in , responds to a help wanted ad, have be here for a time usually 30 to 60 days, and if they stay, pay em for the past 60 days, and have em sign the contract. But at least you knew by then, you had someone you could count on. Those number 8 that live elsewhere, now, but fact is, a phone call or plane trip away they’re here.
It’s a shame our society has gotten this way, used to be you spit and shook someone's hand that deal whatever it was , was done. You kept your word. But today seems everything has to be on paper.
There are tons of things that I wish we as a club, or our population as a society could return to.
When I sit having coffee and Mary’s and Larry’s in Hazzard and look upon the hardly changed main street and see a vision of a Norman Rockwell painting, I think have we really progressed in our world? The thing is sadly I think we haven’t. We’re more bitter, untrusting and way too critical of our neighbors.
If you go investigating why someone is at your farm neighbors house that you figure ought not to be there, its you that will get cited for trespassing. There are exceptions, but it’s a shame.
The Knytes-of-Anarchy never pledges or thinks of ourselves as superior to anyone. Fact is its in our core to not make a member or anyone more important than another as everyone is equal. We are creations of God above and all have our frailties. We all make mistakes, and we all have our limitations. In the same lane and I wish my parents hadn’t instilled this in me, as a kid, my Dad always said, don’t bitch , fix. In essence don’t complain , do something about it. Example; when we used to gripe that the only TV in Hazzard was from the restrictive KMVT 11 then, it was the club, that got money together and erected that translator on Bell Rapids, to bring in the channels from Boise. When cable was merely a thing of our bigger cities like Twin falls and Jerome, it was the inventive bunch partly the Knytes, with some help from some undergraduates, Karl Upiono and a few others that built a small dish, with some rework on cable scramblers that created a thing called PrimeStar that became Dish Network. But we really never got credit for that, all too bad, but we made a difference. This is what the Knytes do. Find problems and put the bur under the saddle of community leaders to solve infrastructure problems.
The Knytes are not just a bunch of over sexed, radical rebels, on two, four and six wheels, or flying vintage warbirds. We use what simple means we have to help the communities we live in, and maybe yes in the eye of TV , we like good TV too, as long as it does not cost the price of a tank of fuel. If you’re a working person, you have a choice, buy gas to go to work, or pay for the cable bill. This is why Southern Steele Tech was created, that gave birth in 1998 to Confederate Star Media, that goes to Confederate Star TV, and is the parent of both HazzardAyre and WyldAyre Radio. We are constantly urging and prompting the people of RFDTV to join forces but those talks are mildly warm. I couldn’t even watch the Super Bowl , why? I can’t afford cable TV. Without cable, no other TV except KCTF 45. Too bad. But what about the rest of you? This opens a door. How about a OTA(Over The Air) TV channel, that can bring modern mixed urban and rural programming, of cable quality. That’s the goal of Confederate Star TV.
Yesterday, and I saw a few clips of it, of an ad on the Super Bowl, done by Ram(Dodge) Trucks, saluting the farmer. The Kountry way of life the way we lived and live is to be treasured, not dismissed. The roots of the Knytes is in rural America, and yes rural Magic Valley Idaho.
So to those many people that love to give the middle finger to the Knytes, and those that balk at the Dukes-of-Hazzard, Both were born on the thresholds of rural America, and its rural America that we work for.
Both the Knytes and The Dukes-of-Hazzard may not be on TV right now, but both of us are not going anywhere. And maybe somebody at Cable One will decide that having us as a partner is not as bad as having us as an advisory. More over maybe Cable-One could look past , past due bills, and put cable back into the studio of HazzardAyre, as a help, so we can help the valley.
Nope Monday in Hazzard County, but then I’d not want to be anywhere else than Hazzard. Although for my own company survival I may have to.
That in Tuesday’s edition.
L8R Ya’ll
Quote of the Day:
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
--George A. Knight
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