HazzardAyre

Monday, December 31, 2012

I am so glad I went to Hazzard County High School

I am so glad that I went to Hazzard County High school. Although circumstances did not allow me to graduate in the normal way, with my folks being ill, and me having to run the family business so we could eat, I remember all the good times. More over the best teaching and learning that any kid could have had.

I wasn’t keen on our Principal Fat Jack Black, still from Mrs. Cortibitarte to Mr. Martin, I had the best teachers. We learned , and if we missed something there wasn’t any hesitation by those teachers to go over it again.

Mrs. Hobson, well she was a special dear person to me. She had me in our one of experimental full computerized or at least as computerized as it could be in the mid 1970’s , but she had me in that media room, which is partly where I learned TV and broadcast skills.

Mrs. Snap, who was our music teacher and band instructor, was as forgiving and instructional as one could have been. Sure I couldn’t read a note of printed music on a page, but put me in back of those drums let me feel the rhythm of the music and I had it down pronto. Then there was Mr. Ills, who was both our ag, (Agriculture) class instructor that got me into FFA, (Future Farmers of America) skills I use still today, in the ag shop, where I began my love of bending and melting steel with a welder, but most important was both Mr. Lindsey who was our Math class teacher. he got me through basic algebra and calculus , with pointing me through it with electronic formulas. A kind of applied learning. And last Mrs. Brailsford, who I will admit I had a slight crush on, but she taught us how to string together words, and make sentence trees and so on. All this I still use today.

The teachers at Hazzard County High, made learning fun, enjoyable, and put things in such a way that was challenging so we could stay interested.

Many of my Hazzard High alumni became many , not all, but many of the members several years later , of the Hazzard County Knytes, that evolved into the Knytes-of-Anarchy. While many might not claim such, they are members none the less. One that is now a FBI agent, for this district. Not bad Lonnie.

The Knytes-of-Anarchy can thank the intellectual skills we have today to those teachers at Hazzard County High School.

Sadly many are not here today, some have passed on, but their impact goes much deeper than they could have ever imagined.

As the Knytes-of-Anarchy closes out another year of brotherhood, and the success we have despite a troubled and threatened economy, that goes much further back than is told. This piss ass’d economy goes back as far as Carter and up to Clinton. It was Clinton that fixed the economy, only to be trashed by the damn Republicans, but that’s a story for a different time. But I bring that up only to outline the fact that, the Knytes, used to sit at the Hazzard County Garage, burning mice with a lighter and WD-40(Children do not try that at home) and bitching about how Mr. Peanut was kicking our nation in the dirt. But the fact is during that same time The Hazzard County Garage of Hazzard (Hagerman) Idaho, prospered, we pushed $60k plus through the doors our first 3 months of being formally in business. The Hazzard County Knytes, brought in members from all ends of the Union and world, and of course both KDSL FM(now KDXB FM) and KTOW AM was billing the better part of $300k a month in advertising, and we only had at best a area signal of a 100 miles on both stations. That was before we went to syndication.

And How come we were so successful? Because we went and learned at Hazzard County High School, Go Hazzard Pirates(Funny the schools colors were and still are orange , huh?) In closing

in moving forward or in progression, its always good to look in reverse. To see where we have been and give thanks to those who made us what we are today and gave us the educational tools to be a success today. Those educational tools I got, by going to Hazzard County High School. Thanks to my teachers there if any of ya’ll read this.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
--David Oman McKay

Isaiah 43:16, 18-19“This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Have we really progressed any?

Have we really progressed due to paranoia?

Dig this the peanuts at Idaho’s Health and not so Welfare, decided to change a bunch of stuff with our EBT cards. They now call them SNAP cards.

Of course they deal with JP Morgan/Chase which should tell you something, but dig this, even after you have registered a hundred times the bastardly thing still don’t work. So one has to go off and use the fracking phone to check your balance, but wait it gets worse.

After you have checked that there’s supposed to be something new to tell you when money gets put into your account. But hold on tech friends the buttwipes really can’t get it straight once you enter your damn card number and even your fracking birthdate the stupid thing still is fracked up. Question is, if you’re an older and a not so together mentally person, and you have to wade through all of this your about ready to step into a mud pool.

ID.H&W ought to have thought this through a bit but, hey this is fracking Idaho.

I’ll tell you true, if it wasn’t for the fact that Charley manages my money and all, and if I had this SSI money to where I could manage it myself, my ass would be in Utah, or Western Wyoming as fast a Sylver Myst and LexiBelle could move me and I would not care one iota about this backwards idiotic frontier state. HazzardAyre could be based as easily in Salt Lake City or Evanston as it is in no go Idaho. In fact some things like this model and on air stuff could be obtained much easier. And if your asking why don’t I go? Trust me after today and the last 3 , I’m seriously looking at it.

Anybody else have this problem with their SNAP CARD?

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
--W. C. Fields

John 14:1-3“[Jesus Comforts His Disciples] “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”

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Friendship and love are great, but at the end of the day it’s a business that needs employees.

Its one thing to have friends and have those friends work for you. But at the end of the day, it’s a business that needs employees. If one can’t take the job then it be needed to find those that are ready and able to work.

In bikers worlds, a prospect is just that a prospect, which is short for prospective member of a club. In much the same way the Knytes-of-Anarchy does the same thing with new hires. People sign on, are given mundane as well as difficult tasks, if they complete them, show up at meetings or when called , they get to be full time employees.

If one is sitting with next to zero in money, a job that pays a fairly easy $6,k a month or better is better than that zero. Lets face it state welfare, EBT or SNAP funds and that measly $50.00 a month only go so far. If you add that together with a few hundred bucks say the $710 from Social Security and so on, after one pays rent , ain’t much if anything left.

I know , I am in that boat sort of. My relief comes from having three business’s that are managed through the club so I keep my benefits, but I get $50.00 out of every $100.00 the club makes. So I’m okay. That along with what extra Charley gives me, from doing odd calls and jobs with A1. That said.

The idea of HazzardAyre is not new, we have been on air and operational since 1975, I’ll be damn if I’m loosing that.

So I have to revert back to operations before placing ads on CraigsList, and do 80% of what it needs to be, by myself and with what foot work members of the club can do. That said at the end of the day, I’m not going to just sit and wait.

The employees will come .

I have my best 3, although two are shaky. One’s sister might be the best choice as she’s all business.

I once thought, if it’s a job, that requires OJT(On the job Training) shouldn’t the prospective employee pay the employer to train them. If one is putting up money, they’re much more ambitious in seeing it through.

As such , I’m doing the same thing.

The Knytes-of-Anarchy at our officers meeting this morning decided all new prospect employees will pay to the club $75.00 a month. If they complete the training and prove themselves to the club and HazzardAyre, they get that back in a monthly bonus in their paycheck. If not, the club keeps that money we shake hands and part ways. That way the time I spend training is not time and my money wasted.

Two of our people one being my best one has been put on suspension until she works out her personal problems, the other until she figures out she’s good with the program, and gets over being sick. The sister, well we see what shakes. I’m not holding my breath.

I put going over to Burley on hold all week last week, where I could have been working on my trucks and being better equipped for running in the snow. As it is I have started seeing my bills slightly inched over my income. This is not good. You hire people to do a job to make more money , not loose it.

All factors and experts will tell you, each person you hire for a job, will cost a company $5,k at least. If you loose any more than that and your prospective employee does not produce, is not on time not able to be at the office, its best to revert operations to what they were before you hired them, and bid that prospective employee adios .

With a serious maybe in the future rehire.

But at the end of the day it’s nice to have a friend that’s a employee, but again at the end of the day this is a business and I’m the boss and its just business.

In the words of Commander Spock, The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

The needs of the club outweigh the needs of a few girls and even me. My decisions are based on what the club and its enterprises needs , not just me, or Dixie Toewing.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
So long as you rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll have Paul's support.
--Anonymous

Anybody got a $20.00 for gas?

So I wake up to the sounds of a call from Jenna, and hear her guy pal, tickling her clitty under the phone, as she talked watching cartoons, bullstuff, he’s watch nipples bounce.

So then get off the phone and try to call Charley for fuel, still over in my old area. Funny, ain’t it. I move over here, Charley goes over there, so then Jared jumps my ass on the phone, and its like, I forgot this number was reassigned to you and I’ll try Charley on his number, which goes to voice mail.

I know I’ll get fuel eventually, and I know all is well, but a serious discussion of protocol, and procedure between big C , me, and Jared is indeed needed. But you’d think Jared would have said, tell ya what Pat, I’ll bum you a $20.00 , get some gas ya’ll pay back on Tuesday when you get your money from my Dad. If it was in the reverse or other way around that’s what I’d do.

So sit here waiting on a few of the gals for a conference , then try and get in touch with Charley after 3:00 or so.

If there ever was a time for re-examination of this Twin Falls from Burley move, and all. I can truly say, I’m doing it, and why I’ll be damned if I’m dumping the shop, in Burley. If nothing more than a place to retreat to if this Twin Falls gig and all that makes it up goes sour.

Talk at ya’ll later

Quote of the Day:
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
--Wilson Mizner

Sometimes its not personal, but its just business

Sometimes your stuck in the middle of trying really hard to be patient and understanding and being a boss and a company officer. In this case a club officer.

When these things you feel sad, but you know for the greater good, ya gotta say sorry call us maybe in the future but only if your serious.

As you know as reported earlier , I pulled the ads on model and talent searches from CraigsList. Out of a half dozen inquiries , we found three that have the dedication to stick out their necks to get involved. Two others are sitting on the fence , the last, that kept me waiting for an entire day without even as much as a phone call bowed out. Okay no problem. One gets put in the cross bar motel, but no further communication, still wondering, but I’m not in a big rush there. One did a quick stop and high earlier, bet is she wont come back.

These kinds of people in a different corral or industry , say as innovators that brought Facebook to light, wouldn’t have been appreciative or impressed either. Of course that’s California, but working from inside duplex, much of the time sleeping on the floor, and living as a frat house, a great creation came about.

Is HazzardAyre Radio the next big thing? Can it even be done in Twin Falls. While I can’t answer that as far as the next BIG thing, I can say that for 35 years HazzardAyre Radio, has been the only syndicated and small market low power radio station in the Mountain West that has championed radical, rebel , fight the system and snub the LDS church and all biases radio station.

With nearly radio stations across the nation one even in Alaska running our taped syndicated edition, HazzardAyre is thee radio station and radio program. To describe our programming in a nut shell is a bit of WolfMan Jack, Doctor Demento, Howard Stern done Hazzard style. That may be a bit too simplistic but that’s a good short description.

We keep all the truckers, toewers, and gearheads out there entertained and informed. We keep Dukes-of-Hazzard fans in gear and loving their rebel spirit, we preach the gospel of the Confederate States of America and today’s Southern Movement. And we have been doing that since 1976.

Every year we run countless ads in fan and gearhead style publications. This requires putting hot female bodies in in good taste in front of rods and rides, and a talent search is the task. In those tasks we hardly expect the kinds of turn outs today as we had when we started them back down in Hazzard in the mid 1970’s mid 1980’s.

Why a gal and guy on air? Simple it sounds good, proven more than once and the best example, Howard Stern and Robin Quivers. Howard may be good, but Robin makes that outfit pop. Added to that a dedicated production team, and that’s why Stern’s show commands the big bucks, yet Stern really ain’t no real good looker, he has had every hottie in and off Hollywood on his show.

That in Idaho? Maybe , but it still can work . Does work. My best trainee is a reporter now on CNN, but she came in, one hot afternoon into a studio in not much more than a broom closet , and see what happened.

Had another in Gooding before that collapse due to greed by a real estate dude, but still Erin walks in and we had our arms wrapped around something hot. Too bad enough did not stick around long enough to see the harvest, much less the cultivation. But hey their loss, many haven’t done well since.

But no matter how great someone looks in a mini portfolio, its not until I see and hear them in person, until I see if they have the moxy through simple tests like the toe/tow flirt kiss, its not until I have them act out a on air bit, do I know they have the IT factor I’m looking for. And while the network and all is on paper and employees paid by the club, still HazzardAyre and the mini station now carrying it and our super station going on air in October , HazzardAyre is my baby. This mini media empire I breathed life into, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to hold the damn door open forever, for women that their crap don’t stink and that their whatever is in danger.

Looking at our targeted audience, is 80% on the edge fringe people, they live life fast and hard. They love fast trucks, trick rat rods, hot bikes, warbirds, wyld toew trucks, fast women and southern food. They look for the same ingredients in their entertainment, and on their radio’s IPODS, and soon to air, satellite radio. That’s right a XM/Sirius channel has been offered for us and we are taking it. But not without the right staff with the right stuff/.

So for all those kicking the tires, time to get off the fence or forget it. One of my gals today put ads in local publications and will be conducting the talent search from here on out. I will only be there for the moxy test and final interview. The rest she will do. I’m greatly impressed by both Helen and her sister.

The courtship is over, its time for heavy breathing and breeding sort of, to give birth to an even more powerful HazzardAyre.

HazzardAyre is southern fried radio in the Mountain West.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
--Bertolt Brecht

Friday, December 28, 2012

The GM 2.8 190 cid V6 a forgotten champion

If your into bow tie rides, over the last 10 or so years the 2.8 V6 GM was a great champion. While out of the box, some slight mods get this little beast some serious movement.

I have had two of them, one in a 83 S-dime that was a 4X4 with a slushbox. Problem was the 400 r tranny kept the 2.8 from gaining enough rpm’s to get out of 3rd into a much more potent power band. However in the 4X4 mode, it had just the right torque curve to crawl over some serious terrain. I wouldn’t say the 2.8 is the best engine built at GM, for that the near bullet proof 454 big block is my prize. But In Sylver Myst, that 2.8 performs under some really hard conditions.

The real bummer of the 2.8 V6 is the difficulty of R & R’ing the rear main seal. While its best known that essentially the 2.8 is a GM small block cut off of two cylinders, a small block V-8 is easier to repair that seal. But even though leaking oil, the little 2.8, when needed has always got it done, and with plenty of might. And considering that condition, and the fact mine has nearly 300,000 miles on it, should be a good testimony of the 2.8’s durability, and longevity.

That all in mind, look at any performance catalog, Jegs, Summit any of them, you will not see any real great muscle parts for the 2.8 V6. Oh you’ll see plugs, thermostats etc, but no serious muscle parts.

Headman Hedders makes exhaust parts, but that’s about all.

I’m in search of a serviceable 2.8, V-6 to do some serious building on. Bored open 030 over, valves, roller chain etc, and watch some ass kicking done by an engine GM and most gearheads have discounted for years. Pioneering here? Nuts? Maybe, but then there were those who told me that performance diesel was a fantasy as well. Look whose laughing now?

Testing toes and feet in nylon hose for our models FYI, so be prepped.

Why that? , In my next entry.

As I close want to let you know, with weather and the season, the Knyte’s regular meeting will be next Saturday, at Ziggy’s in Bliss.

Making the deal on the bar and studio office, on Wednesday or so, will report on that next week.

Still need Helen’s sister to call, before meeting Saturday at 1:00PM.

L8R Ya’ll

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

Another day another FRriday

Here it is a freaky Friday in our Hazzard County. Charley is off doing a clean up, left town without giving somebody the key to the yard or gas can, so I sit dry on gas, and only by luck picked a ride with one of the club members to go snag the prescrips.

Jenn is off doing what she’s doing what ever that is, another is dealing with a domestic crisis and so I do as I always do prep AyreWolf FM/ HazzardAyre radio myself.

Yesterday was a real bitch, the Interstate from mile stick 190, to 208 I-84 eastbound was plugged tighter than the toilet after LuLu Hogg’s dinner party. I mean rigs and rides scattered ever which way.

Pulled most of our ads from CraigsList, seems as though hunting for onair talent does not meet with the TOS standards, so I said piss on em. Although could not find a clear path to remove my CraigsList account all together. Not saying I didn’t gather some good new hires, but does CraigsList need to be so damn picky? Especially when I can furnish a tax number that verifies us?

What do they think, this is recruitment to start a brothel in Idaho? Not that, I haven’t thought of it.

Jenn, one of my new hire interns who still needs to come over to do paper work, said yesterday in the car, what we need in the new Reaper Club is poles for strippers. I told her I have enough trouble finding models to dress properly and on air let alone strippers for an aviators/bikers bar/café.

Am waiting for one who was supposed to surface yesterday at 18:00 (6:00PM) but didn’t. We see.

As it sits, those who sit on the can only shyt , as like my mom used to say, the best way to get on your feet is to get off your butt.

I again fully understand, that there are the crazy guys out there doing serious atrocities to women under the disguise of a model job. I fully understand CraigsList is most likely does not have the best reputation, considering some not too distant things of prostitutes, and so on. I understand that, but I caught this line of an outfit in Idaho Falls about a place called BareNessessities okay great, does that mean if we set this up in Idaho Falls we’d have better luck? I mean the LDS thing exists up there as bad as here. I remember in Rigby, it was like pulling hens teeth, so that’s no excuse.

The quarters there in Rigby were not as good as they are here. The only difference was I resided in a shop there that served as a great front. Problem is the place was ridden with mice. Plus the landlord moved someone in that did the same thing we did and why try to compete with someone in the same complex? Then of course there was finding out the homestead just outside of Hazzard was again available, so moved over here. Got tired of trying to gain traction here then moved to Utah, and the rest most of ya’ll know.

The bottom line, the crew is coming together now, I have three that I most of the time can count on. Jenn, Helen and her sister. Any body else had better get in gear if they want to even be part of HazzardAyre.

Plus from those who put it off, I don’t want to hear four or five months from now, I wish I had came over and applied, and be pissed at me, because now thinking that their safety or virtue, which would be difficult to find still intact any way, was in danger, or threatened. My three gals now will tell anyone that asks, the only squirrely thing to an interview is looking at toes in hose, details are obvious for those who read the blogs here.

Oh sure I hug Helen as she’s my honey, and I’m proud of that, but she’s friend first employee second , honey when needed.

Wasn’t intended , just how it happened and , all her things on this domestic gig? No other boss or employer would engage that, but I do because I care.

Danger no.

Any way, taking it easy, could use a massage girls, body aches from yesterday, out on the big road.

For your entertainment>>>>>> and ya’ll thought you had a busy day yesterday.