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In the beginning, getting a wiff of some gals hooves was not something I treasured. After all few like to lap up sweat.
How I got started down that path was back in 1984, I was residing in the grand town, now a major city, called Eagle Idaho. I was kicking back watching TV and this ad came up for some plumbing outfit can’t remember its name , but the sales rep was Lane Betancourt of KPVI 6. On that ad this plumber responded to this rich snob hill gals house to unclog her commode. The end of the ad had this rich hussey that was of moderate looks, and this plumber kissed her hand while she sat upon this fancy black marbled vanity, gold fixtures and all, the exit tag went something to the effect,
“We treat ALL of our customers as Royalty.” About a year after I was watching this movie while tending a members kid, and it was Cinderella. You know that ends where the prince puts on the glass slipper on Cinderella's foot. So I conjured in my brain, a concept. Met with my towing crew and said I got this idea for a great TV ad, get a honey that looks like sweet Daisy, broke down in her jeep on the outskirts of Hazzard breaks down and calls good ole Cooter(ME) to the rescue, at the end of the ad have the model sitting on the Dolly wheels of LexiBelle>
That’s how it started, little did I know , something so innocent would be seen as so over the top sexually. Guess one has to be a woman to understand cause I don’t.
The simple shot , though I have used as a sort of test. If a new hire like one yesterday, that kept me in the office two hours later than I wanted, but if a new hire visual and especially on air intern or talent, who can just walk in, wearing hose, that can stick her peds in my face then that’s the kind of talent that no matter the gig, will at least try. Why is this important?
Let’s imagine a new hire especially a on air, goes to a major event for a live broadcast, beit, the Midwest Truckers Show, The CTTA show in Reno, or even Sturgis and some burly driver, or ryder comes up to our talent and asks to get a shot with her beside his ryde or truck, or aircraft, and he puts his arm around her, if she can’t do a toe kiss, she’s not going to be able to do the pic by the truck with the burly trucker, aviator or biker.
So why focus on this ? I wish I would have invented the idea, but here it is. Somebody once connected the two words TOE and TOW together with us in towing. That person decided to put together a newspaper style free paper called Phoote(foot)Notes. Later Truck Trader bought the publication , and renamed it TR FootNotes. Not to be outdone, we took the cb slang term for tow truck (Hooker) put it with Highway, and from my original handle to light the candle of me going towing, and in 1989, to go with our radio show by the same name, Highway Hooker PhooteNotes came out in print form. Of course our Nurse GoodBody, always was there to parade her toes under my nose and elsewhere in hose. Her only question at the first audition was, pantyhose or stockings? I asked is there a difference?
Why the nylons? When CBS was assembling the cast for the Dukes-of-Hazzard, Daisy surfaced with her jean shorts. CBS censors said too much bare leg. The workaround was she put on super thin, nylons. So in tradition we do it. Further, nylons on a gals legs looks much better than bare legs. Compare the idea with trucks. You can have a truck with painted steel wheels looks okay, you put chrome wheels on that same truck you just upped the looks of that truck, same goes with a gals legs in nylons, or not. Bare legs are out, leg coverings are in and its about time , as some legs are better covered than others.
Okay last night was the premier episode for season 7 of Sons of Anarchy. Now I don’t know what the problem is with Comcast’s satellite download of channel FX, here but Son’s kept getting stuck. It was as though the little eye ball of Comcast here on the ground, could not see that satellite delivering the show from FX. Its not just last night either, this has been going on for weeks. You’d think the techs at Comcast would do some fixin. But its frustrating to be into a scene and the content breaks down because the signal path gets broken. Thing was there was no clouds in the sky last night.
That said, Juice was found out and now hides in Jax’s ex’s house, I thought Jax was going to come unglued when she showed up with Gemma. Then Jax cutting the nuts off that Jap at the end this is going to be an even more aggressive and powerful last season.
Well need to get on air, and oh yes club members to answer that burning question, do I think the gal that was interviewed last night here to return? Not really, hope so, but I think I put her off with the toe thing. What gets me is, though its such a minor thing. Its not something we do every night on air, its not something that we make the main topic every show, its one of a million. We do much more, but it always becomes that one tiny comedy bit, that everyone centers on, its called , Grow up.
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Don’t always count out the independent because he(or She) might come back around and kick you in the behind.
I watched a show last night about the bio of the late great Robin Williams. Who took his life in August 2014. The bio went along many similar paths as I walked as a child. Like Robin, I too played in a obscure world, not with toy soldiers , but HotWheels and Matchbox cars, trucks. I would dig in Mom’s flower garden for days, use popsicle sticks for bridges, houses, garages. Like Robin I wanted to be a entertainer, I saw my first glimpse of my future at age 7 while being a feature guest on the then Fireman Frank Show on KCPX(now KTVX) Ch-4 . At the time hit 40 radio KCPX was in the same building. I caught light on radio in Idaho at a tiny station there called KART AM 1400. A radio personality,(we don’t say DJ anymore) by the name of Phil Grey took me under his wing, and I began, but being KART was more LDS owned my brand of radio was not allowed. Long before there was a Howard Stern, and Dr. Demento, there were edgy radio hosts like WolfMan Jack. I was more the WolfMan Jack. A kid at then KEEP AM 1450 , by the name of Paul J Wilson, used to hang tight on weekends, when he left , Mike Arms took me under his tutelage and I heard over the networks radio jocks that were not so scared of being tarred and feathered by religious groups predominate in the Magic Valley area of Idaho.
Later as I grew into more radio knowledge, I got taken on through my Marine/Navy Recruiter Neil Ceaderstrom, who became a sales rep for then better ran KLIX AM 1310. Bobby Dobbs and Charlie Tuma took a chance with me on weekends doing a weekend shift. Of course by this time the open road and going trailer trucking became my point of a career direction, I loved the smell of diesel in the air, open road and 18 wheels humming on asphalt, so out of a youth based CB club, a small junior 4-H trucker club was put together. Called the TeenAge Truckers Association. Modeled loosely after the nationwide truckers group the Independent Truckers Association, our organization grew into a reworked evolved ITA into the UAITA or United American Independent Truckers Association.
So there I was at KLIX AM 1310. One late night waiting on ABC News at the top of the hour which ABC news does not know how to count, or tell time, I was eavesdropping out of one side of my headphones and trying to make conversation to fill time to the news, and heard this thing out of New Mexico on KOB AM 770 . It was called JoC Radio. It was radio for over the road truckers what a gas, I thought, I could do this, so I approached Charlie Tuma GM of KLIX, he said bring in 5 sponsors and we’ll try it. I did, and gave birth to Long Haul Radio. However in came a dark cloud, Bobby Dobbs quit, Some prim and proper guy named Dennis Conrad came in as Program Director, he peed all over Long Haul Radio , but I was not done. Oh I shopped it around to every station in the Tragic Valley but no takers. So the club bought some radio gear, set up our own station in Hazzard(Hagerman) Idaho shot the signal this was microwave link in primitive form, to Buhl where the station was located and wallah, Long Haul Radio stayed as the voice real voice of America’s Truckers. In 1981 we met Hazzard County head on, and grew a sub group of the UAITA that was at first a marketing project for a hot rod shop . The ploy worked, my did it work, the Hazzard County Knytes(Knights) was born. And became a major club in 1982. In 1983 after I got somewhat over the anger of mine towards the LDS Church’s Ward in Hagerman after I had been so charitable only two years prior to providing 15 families mainly children, with new or near new toys with 12 kids a piece, for Christmas and yet when I could have used a crutch or shoulder to cry on there was none except for those members of the Knytes. Not that Ward.
In June 1983 The Hazzard Knytes got its own station license and KTOW FM went on the air at 105.7 FM.
KTOW by the way was sold 2011 to a station in Colorado to get money to buy outright KBAR out of Burley that project went sour, another story for another time.
We moved the studios of KTOW to Rupert in 1992 and reworked Long Haul Radio into what we felt would be a off the wall fully anti establishment , fight the system program, that came with the name we called the service shop, called the Dixie Diesel Shop, so Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio was born . We grew Dixie Diesel into an award winning operation that went syndicated in 1995, after The UAITA bought out the ITRN network.
This remained until 2000. In 2001 once again I moved to Utah, and the thought of running a separate show dedicated to enthusiasts of military aviation, came into view. So in 2001 we began looking for call letters. After doing some cyber searching, hit on this gig out of Nashville Tennessee called WolfFM.com , set up, ran, hosted, and programmed by a blind man in a third story apartment. This was streaming radio, but also very recorded and automated. The then newly formed BlackSheep Aviation Club that grew into the AyreWolvez, decided if this guy can do it so can we. So we bundled it together and in May 2004 AyreWolfFM was born, now located at www.livestream.com/ayrewolffm
In 2008 I moved from Pocatello Idaho after doing a short stint on Cable Access Channel Vision12 there in search of green, so there was to be this huge nuke power plant on the other side of Hammett Idaho . So I moved to Glenns Ferry Idaho. Was there about a year until some hecklers really struck my groin , and the guy who owned the place I was living there went bankrupt, so I moved to Gooding Idaho. The radio operation has stayed steady.
Like Robin Williams, I took the bazaar the goofy, the not so tame and the edgy, racy side of radio rather than Cookie cutter like many radio jocks do.
After tossing things around in 2009 that fall the as far as radio goes, and had I known more then, it could have been more I just did not pick up on the signals very well, but a love of my life called in from an ad for on air talent. Her name was Erin, and since she was a nurse and had a striking resemblance to HeeHaw’s Nurse GoodBody>
More Later
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So got to the office found a message from ye ole Bishop, basically going in the direction of what have you done for the Church lately? Rather than how can we help? Which is as it should be. To answer a few of the inquiring questions , I’d be happy to Pay Tithing to the Sullivan Ward, but guess what? I haven’t even had 10% to pay to anyone since I moved to the Sullivan Ward, in Ogden. Since I moved to Ogden under a promise from a Real Estate broker by the name of, Nate,of PPC Properties who promised the moon and could not deliver, I’ve had to pinch a nickel so tight that the buffalo urinates. So I got a roommate from CraigsList. Which I’m beginning to think is a unfruitful field to till, but here came Jeff. Made him feel at home, although had I been more knowledgeable as to his future shortcomings, I would have told him no , when he showed up without all the money needed. But as Jesus did, and Church should, show compassion, I let Jeff move in. Tried to be of help in his personal things as he requested, but when I first fell short on rent I go to the Bishop. A few hours at the Bishop’s storehouse in exchange for the $450.00 , okay I went down there for two full days, got the hours and turned them in just after Church. August was another thing, Jeff had left in July, but not before bleeding me half dry money wise. Couldn’t do this radio gig, as it disturbed his royalty Jeff, as well as the upstairs neighbors, apparently the Confederate Battleflag upsets them folks from south of the Arizona border.
So I moved the op from Ogden to this office in Woods Cross, ya’ll know the rest of the story.
But for my Bishop and the Church’s interest, I need the help to deny me that at this point, is one of the reasons people are leaving the church’s membership. The love you sought from the Church is not the love gave. Love does not know dark, it does not know light, it does not know pain, nor does it really know good from evil, but Love, true love to our Brethren and Sisters, is compassion and both physical and at times when a back is against the wall, really against the wall , financial assistance, not with a question of what have you done for the Church lately? Jesus himself never ever asked, if the person needing healed had done something for him, Jesus just placed on the hands and healed. Now I’m not meaning to sound ungrateful for the help the Sullivan 1st Ward has provided already, and I’m near to the point of begging now, that they’ll help this time, and making up the hours at the storehouse this month is no problem. But that said, there’s a reason, that people are leaving the Church, there’s a reason I brought in another roommate, quite frankly , Utah in itself is a very expensive neighborhood. More over, Ogden is getting to become somewhat snobbish.
More later.
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Before I get into my main rant here I want to get this out to all that need to know.
I’m not yet moved or is there any immediate plans on doing so. Having said that, the relocation depends on what happens Wednesday. As Wednesday I get together with Dave my landlord. If he is okay with the current arrangement and I can get one more help from my Bishop, in our Sullivan Hollow Ward, I’ll be staying put, as if my roomy and all contributes his financial assets then all will be as it is. If not then I’ll meet with Elissa and move here to the Bountiful area, but until that time, don’t push me out yet.
Although there are many reasons mostly drive time and money involved in the concept of moving I also have many reasons to stay, most of which is the love and kindness my Bishop, and the Sullivan Hollow 1st Ward have gave me. Just hoping that the same Bishop would get a check cut for about $400.00 so I can remain. That’d pay up my rent and get the gas turned back on so I can take a shower.
Okay then, and I’m not sure if it’s the stress or not but it seems as fast as I eat, the quicker I need to find a latrine somewhere. In essence Hershey squirt city, so been staying closer to the home commode. Makes one wonder if its worth it all. The stress over this mash up of circumstances has been interfering with my on air ability. Stress and worry makes for radio shows that are just pre recorded. In essence can’t gather my mind nor get the altitude mind wise to do an entertaining show. Once I know where I’m going to set up house, it’ll be better.
It’s a condition too many hours, no sleep and less than that.
So in conclusion, I’m not moved nor am I planning to just yet, just depends on what help I can get from my great Bishop, of the Sullivan Hollow 1st Ward, and my current landlord.
Keep it wings level
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