After three downloads got it and damn telemarketers go away

TGIF I suppose, although it’s days like today, that it’s best to just stay at home if you can , relinquish none essential duties to underlings and attempt to unload the mind, basically turn off the brain. Which I intended to do until I turned on my computer. Where upon I found, my trusty ZoneAlarm was having a feud with another virus program so I quickly uninstalled both of the programs, reinstalled ZoneAlarm and now all is well. Norton programs have had some serious compatibility issues for many years. Of course you’ll have a bunch more no doubt. And the reason many do is after your tired of fussing with the FREE edition, you’ll sink money into the fully paid version. How about all getting along so we can avoid having to cinch down our computers like tying a horse’ leg up to the saddle horn, so if it bucks it falls to the ground. Sure after awhile it quits fussing, but it sure is a mellofahess in the process. So with the tortoise speed of SpeedConnect here, I finally downloaded after 3 attempts ZoneAlarm and all is well.

Then I get two calls first by some outfit wanting me to fork over money to Cable-One. Phooey, I paid once, if their idiotic accounting division can’t figure out I done paid em, let em suffer. Course I am not paying for the time in October when I was supposed to get a credit for the loss of all of Turner Broadcasting’ channels, nor for the not nearly living up to the speed I was paying for, or the fact I had to pay 2 months in advance. That’s ridiculous. I’m game for paying the bill of $212.00, but I’m not paying $632.00 . There’s some months we don’t get that much. Now don’t get me wrong, AyreWolf Aviation, makes good money, but after you take out wages, wear and tear on equipment, inspections, repairs, , insurance and oh yes that grand one fuel AVI fuel at just at $9.00 or better a gallon, it adds up fast leaving us just barely even many months. Same goes for Dixie Wolf Toewing. Winter , Dixie Wolf does well, but still my call volume here is at about 25 calls every two weeks on average. After taking out fuel, insurance and any extra expenses, if I clear $600.00 I’m blessed. So if I send Cable-One $632.00 I starve. While I need to loose weight, that ain’t the way I plan on doing it.

Thing is all these damn telemarketers, get off my phone. If I did not call you first leave me the hell alone.

Okay on a few unaddressed unfinished issues.

First our engineer Eli, is getting cold feet. I don’t blame him, but he does not understand that any money, or any project has to go through a chain of command. First there is the suggestion, then that’s voted on, then the powers that be has to investigate the whatever, then it comes down to a table vote, then it goes to the three bean counters, then the check gets cut. On the moving, I had this done in late December, but first the guy in Sunset Utah did not play honest. He first tells me place will be livable in mid January, I had everything aiming that way, but on the 6th he calls and tells me he rented it to someone else. I will not be homeless, so I had to contact Laura at Comcast and put the installation of our fiber cyber wire on hold till mid month, February, and pay sweet Charlie. The big thing here is this for near two weeks here, my butt was in a hospital, starring up at a ceiling looking at little dots, while I was connected to more machines than Data on the Enterprise. I had a medium duty heart attack, from all the stress. Doctor said you shut down or your going to be on a slab. Then there was the super honey’s that entered the picture, to do just that do pictures. One expressed a inkling to bein on air, so I tried to train her. The good of that a full blown console that as of yet I have no idea how to wire. When Eli said $600.00 to fly him out here, I though that’d be fine, but I don’t have an extra $600.00 .

I gave thought to just staying put, but there are resources in and near metro Utah including Comcast that rural Twin Falls Idaho doesn’t. Even if you want to get down to the stinky truth , simple things that should seem simple, like finding a few hotties that for a few hundred bucks wouldn’t mind standing in with and enhancing the eye pleasure of a few toew trucks or warbyrds. I’m tyred, of putting ads in CraigsList and getting people that are only marginally capable. I want seasoned eyed candy from an agency. Agencies are not in Idaho, but runninth over in metro Utah.

So the thing breaks down simply, move office to Utah as we are doing, in February, starting a week from Monday, then me move down residency wise in March. Unfortunately these delays have made both Eli and Laura a bit skiddish. The thing is and while it takes time to get things approved, but our system does work. It makes sure those that are supposed to be paid are, but keeps out the riff raff.

Now when the move is complete, we’ll be looking for an additional engineer to be on site so that IT and other electronic problems and all can be dealt with.

Any mile hitting the books and catching some TV.

Again need to tell those like Eli and Laura and all, don’t loose faith, we’ll be there, just a bit late. It’s winter, in towing, being out towing comes first, my health comes second. We as a club and myself as a command person here are running as fast as we can.

Until L8R TTYL

 

Quote of the Day:
The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.
--Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Galatians 6:1“[Doing Good to All] Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Dang have a cow. If every person who says their Dukes fans would live life Hazzard style

Any time anyone begins to attack my loyalty to things Hazzard, my teeth show. And I will never retreat or be afraid to bite.

Example, I posted this pic I got about Selena’s ex guy Justin Bieber, and you’d think I was insulting Hazzard or something. Dang recognize some humor for being what it is.

Now then I might have rubbed some on the Official Dukes page a bit of essentially saying crap or get off the can, in defense of a item of dissension, regarding some CMT promos, running during the new HD version of the Dukes on CMT.

My suggestion was that every Dukes fan that is loyal to the show and what it means donate to the Knytes so we as a group, in fact the Hazzard Nation could take the TV show, out of CMT’ hands and create a network for all Dukes fans. I thought a few there might consider putting money where their ratchet jaws are at.

It’s like a couple of years ago, when Alma , our club’ President’ wife brought to my attention of Warner Brothers and a model toy company to take our rebel flag off of the General. As many fans did, I wrote Warner Brothers and all, but unlike them I personally flew down there to Warner Brothers studios, and not only forced a few meetings with the powers that be to rethink that plan.

Few people fully understand what the Dukes means to me or how deep I feel about that TV show. For me its not only a TV drama, but all things Dukes are my way of life. There’s not a second of the day that goes by outside of being on the can, or in the shower, that I am not looking for ways to increase the strength, of the Hazzard Nation. The basic core of the Dukes for me started in 1979, increased 8 fold with establishing a custom ride club combined with the strongest DOH fan club in the nation. Few of anybody else buys air time, for the club, during the Dukes in as many regional markets, than I. Thing is when my mom died in 1983, it was the letters, calls, and the attending of my moms funeral by certain members of the cast of the Dukes, that endeared the Dukes and Hazzard County to me. I have been fighting for and of the Hazzard Nation ever since I reconstructed my own General Lee, and building my alternate ride the General Jackson. The fact that for 30 plus years my garage, has worn the label the Hazzard County Garage, and am honored that many in my area, call me Cooter. The fact that our club, has been working long and hard and will continue to do so to establish a Hazzard Nation XM/Sirius channel, or in building an online Hazzard style Internet radio station as well as one that all can hear on regular OTA radio, my soul belongs to Jesus, my heart belongs to Hazzard, and if ya’ll don’t know that by now then ya’ll have no idea about me. So the next time some body in the DOH Fan Club page wants to question my loyalty, to the Hazzard Nation, rethink, then ask yourself, have you done as much for the Hazzard Nation as I have?

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from their ideas.
--Deborah Neville

James 1:5“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

What’s the use

There are some days that I get really resolved and consider a long drawn out departure date, and then there simple things that flat remind me, that this is just not worth the stress and frustration.

I’ll dispense with the the radio thing still on tap to move to Ogden. That is in fact rolling to a conclusion. A week from today it’ll be go down finish the lease signing and all and a week from Saturday up to the monthly High Council meeting of the Knytes here in Tweaker Flatts its load and go, until all is moved. Then over to where I’ll be snoozing and I’m then done with Idaho.

You all need to know especially Eli and Richie, I’ll be fully off line starting the 3rd until mid February, when we’ll be hooked to Comcast. So as of the 3rd, no internet access and thus I’ll only be available by phone.

The tip of this was a notice in my mail box from PHSYC Services here that I owed them $15.00 for a missed appointment. Really? No advance reminder notice, no thought that bein in toewing that appointments are not always able to be kept. When mother nature fusses it means I get busy. I might be a private contractor through Charlies outfit, but still when Charlie calls, I go.

So getting a no show billing? A Medicaid patient at that? Phooey. Later Friday words will be exchanged, and my file taken from the place they can grab their butts.

Which is another reason Utah makes sense, more shrinks to get my funds in my hands rather than an appointed bean counter.

I’m not a big fan of here and many are hearing that my departure is not only on the HUD, but imminent. Some have hinted they’ll miss the influence the Knytes make here, as well as myself, others will cheer, the biggest cheer? Me. Knowing that Idaho is going to be a midnight nytemare.

At least I’ll be able to wake up , take a piss go to bed and forget my body was ever in Tweaker Flatts. Or Southwestern Idaho for that matter.

HazzardAyre Radio will be off air for 2 days as time for silence for our departed warrior Tim Beeson. We’ll miss him. His burial went well, thanks to all who were there. The pouring out of members to 10k, and all was great. The family and brother Sam, will appreciate it.

Be grabbing your ear in the morning, here. But when I get simple reminders that too many just want to put out simple bullshit, like Psych Services, for $15.00 . I just ask, what’s the use?

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
--John Kenneth Galbraith

James 1:5“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

AyreWolf Howl,3 Radio has power.

I thought I’d do this now while I have a clear head and am not thinking of history of Tim and I.

At 19:00 Timmy’s Funeral will take place. He wanted the ritual of his right of departure to be in evening hours, theory is, is evening is the time Kahless is listening the most to hear the howl of a warrior on his way to Stovacore.

As I was into the last time.

it was 1976, I was now working on the KLIX AM 1310. Back then the news from ABC came in 1 minute after the top of the hour. So from 45, minutes to that top of the hour, we would do our show out of one bank of our headsets, and listen to the network on the other.

I can remember hearing a station, out of Alberquacky, 77 KOB, that also was on ABC network. They were doing this repeat show out of salt Lake City called JOC radio. the only west of Denver or the divide for truckers. I thought what a concept. For me it was the chance to take my aspirations of open road heavy haul trucking, although my operation was more short haul towing, and my love of radio and smoosh them together.

So that Monday in our staff meeting I brought up the idea, how about doing at first a weekend gig for OTR truckers, on KLIX? Our GM says, get me four committed sponsors for a year and you have your show. So Dad got with some of his vendors, and suppliers and we had 10 sponsors going in. So I took the idea I had already been brewing since my gig at KLHS, In Lewiston, and ramped it up. Long Haul Radio took off on February 14 Valentines day 1977. In November 1980, I was supposed to be going to Utah for the Salt Lake City AutoRama one of at the time biggest custom ride shows in the region. But mother nature, perhaps God, decided I wasn’t going. He poured out a snow storm like you all can’t believe. It was there at the Ramada Inn of Burley, now the Burley Best Western, that I met Tracy Tollman, who had started a fair restoration of ye old General from DOH. Of course still doing LHR on KLIX, but there were things I wanted to do on air on our show that I knew Tuma, wasn’t going to approve of, remember the LDS thing here. It’s a believed taboo thing that has little in reality but that area radio GM’s fear. It was time to make our club’s pirate station legal. More on that later.

In 1981, I got the opening from Utah AutoRama producer Mickey Ellis, to enter that years show, but we had only a minimal car and no thought of display. So I caught the movie the Hollywood Knights, (that’s where the Knights or as we spell it Knytes name came from) on there was car hops in Go-Go boots rather than the usual roller skates. So Bro and I for our display, went off in search of Go-Go boots. At the time boots were not in fashion so supply was none existent. So we found that East Minico Junior High still used them in Drill Team. I made a beeline and in the corner of my eye, saw ye old General was for sale. Really? I thought, $1,500.00 . discussions with the boots stopped, called Tracy he was off to an LDS mission, I though groovy. Talked to mom, in short we were in the 81 SLC AutoRama, then held at the Salt Palace rather than South Towne Center. Any mile we went, I had been bit by Hazzard.

For several months of being in jail from late May of 1982, to August for reckless driving, for some reason, it wasn’t excessive speed, the act of doing 185 from a standing start, to a dead stop in 1/8th of a mile wasn’t excessive speed, it was reckless driving. So in my solitude, I wondered how can I take Hazzard County, meld it together with the gig I was doing on air and be accepted by the RoadCommanders Club which was what we called ourselves, this is prior Hazzard Knytes, and it came to me. Daisy’s jeep is called Dixie, put that with the name of the station Diesel, and Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio was born as we said it, trucker radio done Hazzard Style. Nothing held out, just punch my way through it. But the station needed extra things going on except my overnight gig, so thought was, lets take what I do, in trucking and the industry in whole and put up a radio thing for us who tow. Of course the Hazzard Garage was now open, but legally still ran the tow service as Highway Hooker Radio. Hooker being trucker cb slang for tow truck. The rest as they say is history. After that I went full bull Marines, and got deployed. The show still ran but by what I could pre-record. I did a short version of both on Armed Forces Radio which thanks to many we still are there. Both Dixie Diesel and Highway Hooker were in both major and small markets, from KSOP 104.3 FM in SLC to KFI Los Angeles more stimulating radio. We hit the Native American market on KTNN Windowrock Arizona, as well as the little station here in West-Point Idaho. The power of anti-establishment , fight the system radio was everywhere. My cousin read for Elton on the Dukes-of-Hazzard’s WHOGG AM 1090 and ya’ll know the rest of the story. Always in part syndication, until the day the home studio got sold, and the homestead near Hazzard was someone else’s. So home base shut down. It wasn’t until 1989 that KTOW FM in Blackfoot Idaho reignited and we had home base. My cousin Bud, became bean counter. While the Dukes by this time had been off air since 85, the Hazzard Knytes kept that fire hot. In 1991 our ship came in again. I moved to Utah, still producing the shows via syndication, until I heard a small station in Price Utah called KOAL. They mine coal there in Price Utah. They ran a expiring network called the Interstate Trucker Radio Network. Come to find the network and its spot on the big byrd in the sky called Galaxy 5, was for sale. The club bought it, and the Dixie Diesel Trucker Network was born. We ran by network upload and syndication, until mid year 2000. I moved back to Jerome and found that at the Jerome County Airport sat 4 F4U Corsair WWII fighters. That rekindled my love of flying and the club gained its first subsidiary the BlackSheep Flyte Club, redone BlackSheep Aviation Association, then rebadged in 2004 as the AyreWolvez shortly after my 3rd Cousin Gordon and I opened AyreWolf Aviation.

All along its been this tiny little network this show I do overnight, for you every single night, that’s kept the club together, informed in ways this blog and all could never do, and I have had my butt in a chair behind the mic, playing tunez and delivering the trucing towing news, for 35 years.

HazzardAyre Radio is essentially Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio and AyreWolf Aviation Radio scrunched into one 12 hour show.

We still do Highway Hooker Radio on the weekends for a change of pace, as well as 6 half hour blocks during HazzardAyre.

In 2011 after a defeated attempt at buying a station out of Burley, the call letters KTOW was sold to a station in Colorado, and reignited as KDOH , or Dukes-of-Hazzard Radio. KDXB FM is the FM side of KDOH, and is short for Dixie Broadcasting, as we named our side media firm Dixie Broadcasting West LLC.

With the missed chance of refire at missing the LPFM filing in November 2013, we are looking to refyre anyway here once facilities and staff can be gathered together. However that said, we are also ramping up to go full power online.

Any mile gotta get off here, go wash my body put on my cuts and head to the Church for Tim’s final howl.

More in the AM Thursday.

TTYL

Quote of the Day:
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
--George Bernard Shaw

Matthew 7:7-8“[Ask, Seek, Knock] “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Delay’s upon delays, and Romance at the shop

It’s a great morning here at the Lair. I slept better last night.

Went to the Doctor yesterday, albeit 10 minutes late. I got my tire fixed , and

while Charlie said he’d have gave the tire free, I ended up paying $25.00 for it, maybe

I can see if Charlie will give back the $25.00 , let you know, but I’m not holding my breath, it had to be done.

Then got to the yard, nobody there to dismount and remount the tire. I know how to do it myself, but Doctor said I wasn’t to be doing that kind of thing for yet another week, plus I don’t know Charlies tire machine well enough to do that. So waited around for nearly 45 minutes, Anica or Danica, oh so sweet. The noise is, nobody hardly likes her. She says all the crew gives her a bad time, but they give me a bad time. She says not making enough money. I say be thankful for a job, I’d like to be put in a truck , and have waiting 3 years to get assigned a rollback. Told Danica, if she needs help , on a call, to call me. I like her, she looks hot, has drive and determination, and a good personality. But I have learned from prior environments to not be trying to dip the pen in company ink, so I’m just walking slow on this.

So got to the Doctor. He’s suggesting putting a stint in my legs to help my DVT, I asked wouldn’t asprin work better so he’s got me on 3 jiggers of Goody’s twice a day. Damn , thought I was doing that anyway,.

So got back finally grabbed food at Steve’s Burger Out. Found the gal working the counter was Charlies niece. Dang Charlie with all these available honeys you have running around, can’t you give me just one of em?

Didn’t get to have my sit down with Charlie yesterday, but there’s at least a week left on early departure of me. Office Studio for sure, to Utah, but me still might be a month.

Much to do today, so going in catching some more snooze time, until 09:30 then going out to the river and seeing if I can get one of the techs out there to wire this console.

L8R TTYL

Quote of the Day:
If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
--Mark Twain

Matthew 7:7-8“[Ask, Seek, Knock] “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

There are some that never see the entire picture

My mom had the greatest sayings of all tymez. Many of which I still think of at certain moments. Like today, when our website associate asked who was paying for him to come here for a face to face pow wow. My mom’s saying here would be; you can’t see the forest for the trees. It comes to this as well . No matter what vendor gets on board here in and for the club, remember this IS and ORGANIZATION, of 50,000 members, that’s 1000 members in all 50 states. Many of whom have companies and business’s of their own. You do a low ball cost job for the club to aid in a project, there’s 50,000 others who WILL consult you in doing something for them on an individual basis. So let’s take some numbers and crunch them. let’s say, that Richie(not my cousin Richie from the Dukes) builds a good strong front end for the clubs website, at say $2,000.. or less,. Now then its up and going, on a banner on the site it says, the Knytes-of-Anarchy site proudly built by Richie, or something to the effect. Then at a full cost , say the $6,k he first bid to us is multiplied by $50k, that’s 300 million in Richie’s pocket. Now if I was looking to make a good living, I’d be finding my own way to Twin Falls, sit down with me and THE REST of THE CLUB, and have a pow wow. I’d sped the few hundred on a $300,mil pay back any day, wouldn’t you? Its just like talent agencies, and many others, They see me and think I’m it and all there is, fact is I’m only one foot soldier and a mouthpiece and wordsmith , of 49,000 others. Do right under my watch, build something or supply something to the club and watch how fast other members start spending money for their firms at your firm. Ignore me, you ignore the club, and say goodbye to 49,000 potential clients. Its that simple. That’s seeing the forest for the trees. Eli, understands it as he was once a member of an mc and is on prospect status with the Knytes, some though don’t understand that those same grizzly bears on two wheels on the weekends have very lucrative business’s of their own . Some bike or biker or aviation related some not, but even if that member is peddling, real estate or insurance he will need a website. They will need a service that we search for in the club. Do us a good turn, the members notice soon you have orders abounding in your business. Again ignore us, it’s adios. Want a local example? Gal in Blackfoot that did our accounting for a tyme that resulted in me even being here with Charlie, did a crappy job, ignored phone calls and emails. Guess what? She ain’t no longer in business.

This is why you never ignore or piss off the Wolfsince I get pee-owed, then I relate here as well as to the rest of the club, and well that vendor or associate’s future is none too purtty. Another example of a gal that was great in media. She worked as the morning anchor on News watch 6 in Pocatello. Ya’ll remember Brandi Erickson? Any mile we got to know each other as associates in broadcasting. Since she ignored us and got booted by 6 or maybe she quit, but I’ve seen from her Linked in updates that she's bounced around, like a bad $5.00 bill. If she hadn’t ignored me and the club in Pocatello a few years ago and help us build then, think of the TV thing we’d have today. The list goes on, but I think you get the idea. It’s sort of like Nurse GoodBody. She dumped us due disbelief of another conning her into disbanding. When clearly we already had enough other advertisers signed up that could have by now been putting money into us then as now. So what happens? Erin looses one job, scratches for work and only through MY recommendation gets on with a psych service here in Twin as a PSR.

So to Richie and so many others, the slight sacrifice you make, to make me happy, makes the club happy, and when you make the club happy, your wallet gets fuller.

L8R TTYL

 

Quote of the Day:
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
--Robert Green Ingersoll

Galatians 6:7-8“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

AyreWolf’s Wolf Howl 1 Stardate 2014-21-1

I read at length over the last few hours an article that is in Billboard this month about one of my major influences in radio, Howard Stern.

While it can and I do often argue that I was doing edgy radio long before Stern found his way to WNBC , still I can say with pure honesty, that Stern showed you CAN be yourself on radio , you can stretch the boundaries, of what’s believed taboo, and what really is territory left alone. I as a youth always had a fascination with anything with buttons, switches, lights and gizmos of every kind. Beit in an aircraft or in a radio studio. That’s how I stepped into the business. I first was introduced up front and personal to a cat in Utah at the KCPX AM 1320 the biggest top pop 40 station in that market at age 7. I went there as a winner of some contest you won if you sent in enough box tops from some childrens cereal. You got a feature spot on a kids morning variety cartoon show called the Fireman Frank Show, that was on the TV side of KCPX. So this evenings taping of the Fireman Frank Show, I was there, and had to go pee really bad. So walked by this big glass studio, the door was open and that control console with all those switches, and lights, this was a toy and flavor I had never tasted before, I could not resist. So there I was standing in front of this old by today’s standards GATES console, wondering do I play with this or not when Wooly Waldron, walked in. He asked me a few questions and said you want on the air? Okay, so I started reading raw air copy of some idiotic store there, shit I didn’t know what I was reading or what half the words meant , but I could pronounce them really good. About this time Mom and Dad , but mostly Mom, got a bit nervous as to where I had went, and the director of the Fireman Frank Show was getting a bit anxious to boot. So mom found me chatting on the air on KCPX, I went in and did my bit on Frank’s show, came back, Mom And Dad and some big head cheese there and Wooly, did some talking, and as long as I kept my grades up, I could come in on Friday and Saturday nights for 3 hours as there was a gap there they needed to fill. Mom and Dad used the time to be Mom & Dad and I was on the air.

Now KCPX didn’t care if I was a bit crude on air infact they encouraged it. An southern hillbilly playing top 40 rock. It was a hoot. I started putting things in about this chick I had a serious crush on in Utah, named Peggy Follett, and all about 5th grade 6th grade and Junior High. This went on until one summer we moved to Idaho.

My slot was filled by Doug Wright , now a leading broadcaster on KSL AM 1160, and for me I ached for the time I could be on air.

Despite many attempts, a preteen was not high on the ladder of places of most PD’s here to prune new on air talent from. I had a helluva time getting on. Kim Lee’s Dad Al, put me on a few months doing this bit for the Hazzard High School’s FFA Class, then KFMA 92.7 which played mostly elevator style easy listening music, did this thing called Saturday Night Dance Party. We played rock. KFMA moved up the dial, and became Z103 a pop 40 station. But it was me giving the concept of a rock FM in the Magic Valley, thanks Kim and all for giving me credit, yea right. A kick in the groin is more like it, that in a few entries. With that resource missing, Dad was buying time on then KEEP AM 1450. The clincher on the ad contract for dads truck company, was that PD Bruce Glenny, and Dave Caps to give me some air time. So a deal was struck, but at that time, the FCC required anyone on air to be licensed. There was no conditional licensing done then you had to have this little green/bluish certificate. So at age 12, Mom and Dad, gathered me and Paul J Wilson who would meet up with his parents later in the day, and to Boise where they gave the exams for the licenses. After a full days studying and a half night reading at 09:00 hours, I went in sat my butt down in this squeaky chair and answered all the questions. All 100 of them, some even on radio wave theory, and algorithms , but at the end of that testing session, I past all 100 questions 100% and had a FCC Third Class Radiotelephone License with element 9 endorsement. Now I was official.

The years past by rather rapidly after that KEEP, became KEZJ AM, as well as FM the concept behind a hot country FM KEZJ 95, was mine. Again thanks Kelly for the credit.

I was always pushing the edge. Just what could be done, what was taboo? What was imaginary or publicly frond on taboo? What music un edited could be played? One night when I was doing up some liners and promos, a good friend in the business, Mike Arms gave me a tape, and I’ll be darned if I can remember his name but this guy was off the edge, great sound and not caring if the world liked it or not. Of course that night as I had done with Paul, on KEEP, when they were on Blue Lakes, I filled in doing news casts for Mike. At the end of the newscast in a 6 minute intro to Heaven on the 7th Floor, Mike and I did this spoof, of the new hot gal at KEZJ. Her name was Kathy Adams, the gist went something to the degree of Mike asked if I had seen the new front office gal, I said I had, he said what do you think? I sad we had just came down on the elevator , he responded, but doesn’t she have a nice pair of hands? She had big breasts. After that, Mike and I were politely asked to move on. Fortunately, Mike had another job at then hit pop KFXD which really started here in Twin Falls, any mile I got a night gig on KLIX AM 1310, with another rebel radical by the name of Pete Arbogaust. This was just before KMTW was bought by KLIX , I had a evening gig there. All for one month prior to the sale. So I was there one night, at KMTW, we played some music, but I had just got off work during the day at The Bliss Stinker Station , I was pooped. So I got lazy, and put on Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon, LP. Played it all the way through and only took a commercial break when I had to turn over the record. This opened the door for album rock long version, in this valley, again thank you friends.

Next time the Birth of Long Haul Radio that was the seed for Dixie Diesel Radio goes commercial.

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