Back in the talent business, a full circle

I am beginning to think that while there are some talent outlets the fact is the ones here are way too expensive for the Mom & Pop business that’s looking for a person, to represent them on such a thing as TV.

The rate for airtime on METV, is outstanding in a good way. At only $250.00 a month, you can’t beat this network for a target for the 50 to 65 demo. All those shows we cuddled up in front of an old RCA black & White tv , to watch. So with that and production being nearly free why add a model to pitch a product or service? Because back in the day of METV shows, you had at least here in Utah, 5 TV stations. Two didn’t do ads, the others were ABC4 Utah, KSL5, and KUTV2. You bought ad time and even a simple pitch was fine since the same ad was on all 3 stations. There wasn’t Internet, On Demand TV, etc. Today that landscape has changed, you had better capture your potential viewing customer, in a fraction of a millisecond or say good by to good money. It doesn’t matter whether your spending $100.00 a month or $5,million a month. If you loose that instant retaining second you might as well take that money and flush it.

So you look for talent. But if just one gal from an agency is going to cost you $3,000.00 your spending more than two months income. Not a great way to get ahead in a business. So what do you do?

I’ve always said there is a need for an agency here in Utah that dealt with the slightly racy, talent for the advertiser looking for spice in their ad. And yet not break that advertisers budget. I’ll have more on this, on the show today at 17:00(5:00PM) but the fact is, looks like the arrangement we had with TMG went sour. Which is sad, in fact the day I went on the first interview, I had a freelance  photographer whose lady friend could have pulled this off but I discharged him and many a talent because I thought Vickie and crew at TMG would work with us. I feel like I got punched in the gut. Maybe its true that you have to go to Hollywood, but I’m not completely convinced.

So I’ve got ads out at all graduate schools, college job boards and drama departments.

Stay tuned.

TTYLY

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An argument is the longest distance between two points of view.
--Dan Bennett

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We hit a slight snag and this ain’t Hollywood

Well we hit a piece of metal on the racetrack again. While production of the ad for HazzardAyre is low enough in the near free department, after I got over the shock, of the rate Vickie at TMG wanted to have Michele involved, I thought is there a less expensive path here. Like the fact that College is starting very soon, and finding a gal or two looking to picking up extra cash to support school, there might just be someone who can do it. Even if we need to book through such an outfit as Barbizon. Fact is between moving into the new facility in Woods Cross, perfecting the site, and all there is less cash in the stash right now.

Added to that and I thought it was very clear at the first talent interview at TMG, that the first two weeks in August that this two wheeled high octane canine, Wolf is on my way to and being at Sturgis. The last week or so of the month of July I fly to Oshkosh Wisconsin. Plus the airshow in ST. GEORGE, This is who we are and who I am.

Now one would think that with a consistent job board such as ours, shooting features for HazzardAyre, the website, as well as casting for the movie The Hazzard Knytes, you’d think that Vickie could urge Michele, to take a near discount assignment, kind of the test drive before the big buy.

But near $3,000.00 , hey this ain’t Hollywood. From what I gathered at that first interview that many of TMG’s talent could use bookings. But one can’t scalp a client on the first run on that race track.

Found out that Dirk, whose building the bigger site for both HazzardAyre as well as AyreWolfFM, also does freelance video production, and so on. He says he knows some talent.

Much to do, see ya’ll on the radio at 10:00AM.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
--Albert Einstein

James 1:21“Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Ever get the feeling Facebook is frightened of your content?

Ever get the feeling that Facebook is spooked or extremely cautious of what you put on Facebook in Comments. What about the posters? If they’re going to censor you on a page, then don’t ask me to be a Friend of that page.

One of the things we have always done on the pages the Knytes and I put up on Facebook, is to let anyone, say anything in comments. Good or bad we enjoy truth, and honesty, likewise integrity.  That said sure, there are those that do get over the top, but a good thigh bite by the old Wolf, and the situation takes care of itself.

It’s like a few days ago, I get this thing from a posting on LinkedIn about what would I do, if someone trashed the company/club, or stole intellectual property? Simple, my resolve is medium sized bat, meet in person smack em up side the head. Amazing what attitude adjustments do. Oh sure one can be peaceful , best solution, do something physical. Gets people behaving instantly.

But getting back on target.

I leave comments on a page of Move it over for Tow truck Operators on this page called Proud to be part of the Towing Profession. Which I am, but I’ll guarantee you, that few if any of my comments stay up long enough for anyone to read. People want you to support, but not compete. The analogy is here, The Toew Bro’s is the only one of its kind organization wise that has our own media werx inside the group. Meaning we can produce Public Service Announcements(PSA’s) to go on TV , to emphasize the situation. But instead of the page, saying thank you and encouraging us, from those reading that page. All I see is Happy Wrecker Monday.

Sounds like maybe I might get off that page. If your not going to post my comments or a link to what we’re doing, you don’t need my or the 10,000 member strong, Toew Bro’s either.

The list goes on, but why does Facebook want you to have so many friends?

I only want the people I do business with or real friends I know as Facebook friends, not the fony ones that Facebook wants me to add all the time. Of course on that same lane Facebook, will penelize you for putting out too many friend requests.

What do you think?

TTYLY

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
--Will Durant

John 15:10“If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Why did they do that?

So the race was over and started surfing channels. Seems the more you pay any more the less quality entertainment you get. It’s not the cable/satellite companies, it’s the content providers. Of all of them there is but one network, that has the oomph to keep you coming back. REM TV is good with Starsky & Hutch, BBC AMERICA is good for Star Trek Next Generation, but no Voyager or DS-9, and then we have the one which we here at Confederate Star Media placed our ads for HazzardAyre Radio, and the club, that being METV. From sun up to just after sundown, METV delivers the shows many of us 50 something's grew up with. More over shows you can sit your family down in front of and not be concerned about being scared straight of over sex, or for that matter pools of blood, and body parts being thrown over the room. You get Adam12, Dragnet, Emergency, The Big Valley, on the Weekends you get Batman, Wonder Woman-(if that ain’t sexy, I’ll buy you a root beer at the Boars Nest)- you even get Star Trek TOS-{the Original Series}.

So I watched this remake that should not have been done. Yes the cast was okay, it did look better than the original, But making a remake of the movie Arthur is about as stupid as putting a screen door on a submarine. Which with all of this makes you wonder what happened to the screenwriters in Hollywood?

Detailing the history of the Hazzard Knytes to the Knytes-of-Anarchy, including all that made HazzardAyre and of course the printed word the Confederate Star Tymez, is worth the celluloid to make it.

If Stern’s story is worth telling, the Knytes’ story is even more so. Many of the ladies we are casting as pin ups and focus models will be in the cast of The Hazzard Knytes. The film will open on the background of Candy Campus, a pre school in Layton Utah that gave way to Government take over to build the Layton Parkway Exchange.

The film will be narrated by myself, with some fill in from Shooter Jennings(Waylon Jennings's son) the film will go to that first day, I found out other parts of the female anatomy can be just as sweet as the usual items on the he and she grocery list. Yes that first smooch of a foot. To my first French Kiss, to the beginnings of posing gals with bikes, albeit bicycles and mini motor bikes, for magazines. To Miss Jensen at Crestview Elementary that turned me into a worshiper of great legs. To that fateful day in that tiny hole under the parking lot of the Church next to Crestview, where the Baja Boys, that later would turn into the Street Commanders Club, that well, I’m giving too much away, but each step of me will illuminate the baby steps that built the momentum to the creation of the Hazzard Knytes. To the evolution to the Knytes-of-Anarchy to the bringing to life HazzardAyre and so on.

All told there will be 100 women cast for the film, with the male leads being done by club members.

But the question I have is and you are thinking, Why did they do that? HazzardAyre needs it.

Tech problems abound this evening with the network, but I’ll be on air, Monday night.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
--Lucius Annæus Seneca

Philippians 2:9-11“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

This is something that really is, not just a gimmick from a publicist

When I start barking to neighbors and potential associates of the club, many do not take it seriously. And justifiably so, shute there's not one of us completely by ourselves could do much but sit and dream. But just on intake of dues monies , that’s $150K a month. Add to that corporate sponsors and the club, brings in just under $20,million a year. Of course that’s spread out over 50 states and 2,000 members each, and that’s not including the AyreWolvez, the AyreWolvez bring that in at $300,000.00 a month, and just under $50million a year.

Now then somebody last night over Tequila and few beers asked why a movie? The easiest way to get at it, is, why not a movie chronicling the history of the Knytes, to put it even simpler, bring in Howard Stern. He did a movie on his career to boost his notoriety, and you see what happened there. While doing the same thing, and looking for slightly different results may seem ludicrous, still , what worked for Stern, will work for us.

So then, I see all too many celebrities on Facebook, with places to like their fan pages. But if you send them a comment, that’s all you see is that comment on the page but few times do you really talk or are posting it to them. I place many comment’s on the on TV Cooter’s wife, and yet get little if any response. If there is one, its again from some publicist. Next I got on board with Lisa Kelly from IRT fame who had up a page . But do you think she really read any of my comments? No. So what she’s a blonde hottie that can bring in viewers cause she can drive a truck over an Iced over river? Big deal, I want to see Lisa Kelly in a tow truck winching out a rig that sunk through the ice, or got stuck in a drift.

The same thing goes for Selena Gomez. I was a real fan of hers for quite a long time, but her flame has done blew out. After Wizards of Waverly Place, the deal with Bieber, and all, plus me finding out that just to get her to the Hazzard Nationals(DukesFestWest) it would cost $600k I thought naw, I ain’t into greed.

More on DukesFestWest next time.

But the fact is, if I post something in any page or to you direct on Facebook, its me or the Knytes posting, and oh yes we read each post.

I’ll be posting, the dates and how to throw your name in if you want to be in the new movie of all things Hazzard without any Dukes, next entry.

TTYLY

That’s(Talk-To-You-Later-Ya’ll)

 

Quote of the Day:
Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re stupid.
--Anonymous

Philippians 2:9-11“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Still love Hazzard, but getting Duked out.

Anyone who knows me at least well, knows I am an incurable DOH fan, I loved it I lived it, I darn near worshiped it. But I’m getting very Duked out. Not leaving Hazzard, as Hazzard is not a place on earth but a place in the heart, and a way of life. But I’m drifting away from so much Dukes, and focusing more on the Hazzard part of Hazzard County.

I think if anybody was honest with themselves they’d find that they feel that way too. It’s one thing to be a DOH(Dukes-of-Hazzard) fan, and a Hazzard County activist. It was to be honest it was the Dukes that got me to digging into my own southern heritage roots and heritage. I had always had a thought that we as a family were different than these Yankees, but the knowledge hadn’t reached me yet. Even so, I had no real knowledge. I knew that every other year Dad would fly to Warner Robbins Georgia, to do military service and I’d go to Uncle Bill’s place just outside of Conyers. Of course I saw similar places on TV, mom told me that was Uncle Bill’s town where I’d go, but I never put it all together.

It wasn’t until mid 1981 when we did up the gig with our Charger aka General Lee, that I began piecing together Hazzard, was in fact Conyers GA.

With that in mind, in 2011 I was introduced to a fellow in GA that had this streaming radio station located at : www.dixiebroadcasting.com , now the Knytes had been trying to do that for years but just did not know how to get there,. It was last year this time, some 2wheeled TV guy from California came on board, and told me how to get there. The rest is pretty much history, but we are now at www.livestream.com/hazzardayre But it might be a bit of an adventure to explore what brought us here.

The club, as it is was formed in 1981 after we had built our Charger. The club was initially constructed as a marketing project, bring em together sell hot rod parts and service. Soon however the club that began with 10 members 7 of which worked at the shop, grew into 50 throughout both Utah as well as home base in Hazzard(Hagerman) Idaho. Shortly after my Mom passed on and the love of the DOH cast through that period, separating me from Hazzard was like cutting of an arm. Powers that be, moved me out of Hazzard, first to Boise then to Pocatello, and it seemed every six months after. To put it honest, Boss Hogg had nothing on the Trustees of Mom & Dad’s estate, nor the way funds were dealt to me every month. In fact it wasn’t until just this month, I am now able to write checks, more on that another time.

The Hazzard County Knytes(Knights) was constructed from DOH and the HollyWood Knights> however even then many were getting Duked out. The story lines were getting stale , many being repeats with just slight reworks. They were using miniature cars and doing stupid unbelievable stunts. By 1985 the show sunk into Hazzard pond. But I had promised and so did the club to preserve the shows legacy. Long before there was a Cooter’s Place, or anything close , the Hazzard Knytes were securing property west of Hazzard to build a Hazzard/DOH theme park, called Hazzard County CSA. Then all too many things happened and while we never lost members we never gained any. Mostly and this is what pushed this even more, we could not get any local or national press ink, nor TV ink, nor radio noise. The club existed, just was not that active. Until, 2000, when in the blink of a thought of the discovery of 4 F4U Corsairs, that the AyreWolvez was founded as a subsidiary of the Knytes. Of course this reinvigorated the Knytes. In  2006 when I moved to Tweaker Flatts through a bunch of events, that the thought became, lets give DOH a hard push. With A ABC Family Channel movie and a big screen thing that DOH purists hated, the timing to capture the tailings of DOH Hazzard Fever, was required. So I started doing this gig in Pocatello on Vision 12 there, and shortly after moved to Goon’s Ferry, and eventually to Gooding Idaho. With the help of Erin, our Nurse GoodBody>  the basics of what formed as HazzardAyre became solid. But getting back to the club. In 2008 there was a mention to be able to take things Hazzard out of the rural south and more into Urban eyes, there needed to be a change in names. The idea was to go back to what the club began before we and Hazzard got together, that being an honest to goodness, big rig LH OTR organization. How to bring that and DOH mainly Hazzard County together? It was on a very cold, snow packed Tuesday night in Glenns Ferry, Idaho. No place to go, and the cliché let it snow let it snow. The only thing on TV was SOA. The wheels turned and after beer 20, it was decided to rework the clubs name of things as Hazzard, retaining the Knytes, and things over the road, in Anarchy, and in 2009 it was voted on and became secure as the Knytes-of-Anarchy. KOA is not a bikers club only related to as such as with the name, more of a big rig otr lh, truck/trucker group, coupled with a southern history/preservation group. But Hazzard would not be forgotten. In 2010 it was decided to bring Hazzard out of the closet, and recreate the name Hazzard Knytes as the regional charter of the Knytes-of-Anarchy. But how to make that public. With me being on air as the AyreWolf, barking about military aviation, the club and I got together and a choke and gag in  Burley, take our newsletter and make it a syndicated radio show. Nobody bought it. But with Hazzard County tenacity, we decided that it was time to have our own station, with the heart being HazzardAyre.

Even with the several attempts to putting the Dukes back on TV, few are doing anything new. Those same old episodes get boring. Once you can say every piece of dialog. You get to a point of saying, why isn’t anyone doing anything new?

It just so happens we are, but again its not coming from the usual DOH camp. Its coming from the HCK(Hazzard County Knytes) camp, in developing a TV show/pilot movie called The Hazzard County Knytes, with less Dukes, more Hazzard County.

We’ll be shooting the majority of the series in Morgan Utah, and our casting agent will be Vickie of TMG of Salt Lake City.

So in closing, we Still Love Hazzard, but we got Duked out.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
--U.S. Andersen

Philippians 2:9-11“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Can people learn how to spell, even texting?

Every day I see it more and more. People who decided to smoke in a bathroom or meth during creative writing class. Much worse how to construct sentences and so forth. Using past participles and so on.

I know fat fingers on a tiny key board such as that which is on a smartphone etc can create a difficult thought construction to post on a Facebook page.

But I see the same mis spelling and all on posts in major articles of Yahoo, news pages. The people just don’t know how to use our native language.

Question is why.

In my early days at least in school there was no such thing as a spell checker, or a sentence corrector, nope. You had to do it yourself.

But lazy is the way of things. Its goes from our industry right down the the conditions of why immigration is such in demand. Self load tow trucks. Near self load rollbacks, right down to farm workers picking cherries in many orchards. There’s not enough workers to harvest, or work in this day and age.

All too many keep pointing the finger at Obama, I agree he ain’t helping much, but there are too many people that are way too lazy. My mom taught me a saying, to get on your feet, you need to get off your butt. But I’m drifting off topic.

Why is it that all too many can’t spell or use our native language, both sentence construction, etc. Why?

Going to try and be on air over night Sunday into Monday.

TTYLY

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

Philippians 2:9-11“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.