Looks like shit has hit the fan and you know who has to clean it up. Got a call this afternoon from Rocky Mountain Power , usually its not a big gig to fix the problem, but past power bill that has been past due is now very much due. Come Monday, lights off at the shop. But this is just the tip of the poop pile. Last May, this old fart named Delbert through an associate of mine, said he'd go into business on a tow basis and do half the rent on a shop if it were in town. So it just so happened I found one , a bit pricey but since my domicile rent went down to $200.00 a month figured I could handle it. Come June though this Delbert says he wasn't interested any more. Then this hippy named Joey said he'd go half on the shop. See I knew at $1,000.00 a month and me making at take home pay a mere $800.00 a month I couldn't do the shop myself, so needed a partner, although I felt skiddish I did it anyway. Thinking that one of these jokers would honor their agreement, one that I should have had in writing. But hey Hazzard County trust I went in on well trusting, but in today's world trust is only of the MC, the Wolf-Pack and God, past that trust is not only earned but demonstrated. By July, was in the thought bug out of this shop, tend to doing what it was I ventured here to Evansgone Wyoming to do, come after that move back into Idaho, and leave the radio gig, in the hands of two club members, one still here the other moved out long ago. But I was getting out of the shop. So I was in that mode, sold some old crap of Joey's but same guy who bought that crap of wood, said he wanted in the shop. Fine we try again. This went on for July and August, but besides the rent was the power bill Nathen's old lady said she'd take care of that, then the phone/internet bill, she says she'll take care of that since they were using that more than me, mostly as a hot spot, for their wifi toys. Add to that Rocky Mountain Power never did mail the bill to me at my residence like I asked them too but neither did CenturyLink. Thus if they had, could've paid the power and phone bills. But so came mid August, Rick steps in, we agree to push Nathen out, and we'd fire the shop ourselves. Thing was trying to catch up, became too much. And now here we sit on the verge of loosing it again, thing is just like Pappy Boyington, told me once, sometimes there are situations that you have your back against the wall, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Add to that, None of MY rigs have had a wrench turned on em, but fixing your own rides is not a course of action that generates income. For the shop, for the shop expenses, nor for me its just sucking the financial life out of both Rick and I, so how long this goes on is anyone's guess. The situation, is now there's 3 of mine in the shop, LexiBelle is still not functional, LiL Wolf still needs work, Subaru still needs fixed, and even the General JaXson, needs some wrenching. Which means outside of the Subaru, which I'm just going to put out in the impound yard strip it, sell the good parts off it, pull the plates and say good bye to it. LexiBelle, The General and LiL Wolf are going to have to go elsewhere to get repaired, so that come mid June as soon as the winter melts, and it warms up, I can gather myself up and get out of this place, before it sucks my completely dry. Got one guy living in the shop, can't pay a little rent, or something, but helps in the shop, why can't he help on LexiBelle, or LiL Wolf? Everything the lease says I'm violating but the landlord is being kind, but he ain't going to be kind much longer., Made arrangements with AllWest so radio station including but not limited to HazzardAyre Radio will still be running, but even that, why can't some of these people that Rick knows that visit the shop, and he pals around with work off Shop bills and what they owe us, by busting some shoe leather selling ad time for HazzardAyre? If they did we could be making enough out of HazzardAyre to finance the shop each month. Sure I'm still working with Dom, on getting some operating money but that's going to take time. Bottom line? This bullstuff needs to stop.
I can tell ya'll this too, come April, this old Wolf is heading to Lost Wages Nevada for the NAB(National Association of Broadcasters) Convention, since the only thing generating even a few dollars is HazzardAyre Radio. Any mile need to grab some sleep to be on air in the early morning.
TTYLY
If it has our battle flag on it, or anything counter culture like honoring those in our fight against Northern Aggression(Civil-War) watch it be screened and removed.
Case-n-point, just posted a entry here on CB Radio's, it posted but no emailed to those it needed to , in the Sharing department. It posted to FaceBook, but nothing else. Now I can also see and mind me if I ain't right, but you'll soon see anything of southern culture, especially if it has a rebel flag on it being banned and music being removed. Ain't happened yet, but I'll buy you a root beer , if the PC people and college kids that work at all areas of Google, Facebook, Pinterest and others pulling anything and everything that has a rebel flag or has to do with anything Hazzard County, off their services. As it is, I'm looking to move to Canada.
TTYLY
What's next? The Good old CB radio After all they have banned everything from the Dukes and of Hazzard County. Remember the General Lee and all of Hazzard County communicated via the Hazzard County Net, aka everybody that had their ears on as it was said. Although I did see once inawhile a Motorola hand held FM radio on there, most did what truckers did for years, use the old CB. Now that TVLand banned the Dukes off their network, the Confederate flag from being shown in public(try taking that off my shops facade and watch how fast your ass get filled with buckshot) of course there's the idea of getting rid of lead based fuels, for EPA sake, not the environment, hell those white gas motors smell like rotten eggs or a lady squeezing off a queef , so that makes no sense. Then the ATF and other revenuers banned shine(but we all still make it and drink it.) So what's left. Watch the FCC come back in saying we need to license them little black boxes from Japan, and ban the use of the Good old CB, worse yet regulate the FREE speech, that we use over it. You'll need a Radio License with broadcast endorsement to yap on your CB. Give it to Gloria Stienman and all those women's right fashists for starting this political correctness, in the first place. This illst must be dealt with and dealt swiftly. Sure you could go the impeachment of Obama, and that'd be a start. Oh sure he's not going to play the race card, he said so in the speeches he gave during his election and re-election bids, but that would only prolong the malady. What needs to happen, is for many states to just sucede from the union. Take away all but a few Senate and House seats, stop the bull, and then watch this political correctness stuff from going on. Now I'm not running for office, although I have been giving thought to running for Mayor of Evanston here, someone has to step up for small business's in this town. But as I see it our nation needs a overhaul, and a cleansing. Not racial or ethnic cleansing, but a cleansing of its moral compass'.
HazzardAyre Radio,(I promise) will return Sunday night. Still doing some program editing and engineering here.
TTYLY
So our dear Dukes are once again not on the TV. Due to yankee stupid, and political Correctness, more like the rest of the sheep following the rest of the flock over the next cliff. Okay, again, I'll say this, and the Knytes agree, the fact that all of those people were gunned down, by some youthful jerk, that most likely never watched the Dukes, who wore or showed off our battle flag. So in step, the African/American community get's all in a rush to get our battle flag removed from everything, including a icon, of American life the Dukes car the General Lee. So many who had the flag on their car are painting over it. Talk about deserters. There are 50,000 members of the Knytes-of Anarchy, all of which have that battle flag on their bikes, trucks, cars, and yes even aircraft. Agree or not, the sacrifices that our southern ancestors made in defending our nation from threats and corruption, and Northern oppression, was admiral. So why take away from us something that was good. I've always said Hazzard County is not just a place on earth but a place in the heart and soul. Once infected that loyal community, which are way over 30,million fans around the globe, who watched and still do, the Dukes, will triumph over those that threaten our love for a TV show , but more a really simple way of life, that calls on Biblical principals as in love your neighbor as thyself. If you hate yourself, you hate all that is around you. Many days something from the Dukes will get in my brain that is directly in front of me in dealing with a problem. Uncle Jessie was more than just a farmer and old man, he was a philosepher , and a statesman. Too bad he didn't live long enough to be President. Even he would put away common, bitterness to comfort a dear friend. Many episodes that were told like when Boss Hogg was thinking he was dying, had a shot with Uncle Jessie of a bottle of Shine. Even Boss Hogg as crooked as he was somehow did the right thing. Sure the old General was a car with personality, with a rebel flag, on its roof, but the Dukes was so much more.
I was so impressed with the show and 50,000 others who today have on their cuts that same rebel flag, that in 1979 what had been Pat & Jim's Speed Shop of then Hagerman Idaho, reopened with the studios approval, the original off TV real life Hazzard County Garage. It made sense, Cooter on TV drove a tow truck, I in real life drove(still do) a tow truck. Even my invoices for the business even today have the original signage or typeset showing off the rebel flag and name Hazzard County Garage. Oh yes, Hagerman still calls itself on the fly, Hazzard Idaho. I can even show you pics of the original Boars Nest in near by West-Point Idaho. Still in what is still called Hazzard County Idaho. With that said, and this will fall on the deaf as well as shallow pockets, but hear me. If all of our fans, from coast to coast, wanted to preserve the Dukes and get it back on TV, then lets pool our financial resources, establish a cable/satellite TV channel, and run reruns of the Dukes and era focused TV. This is something that we as the Knytes have been working on for nearly 3 decades since CBS took the Dukes off TV in 1985. The only thing running on national media Dukes based is still HazzardAyre Radio. www.livestream.com/hazzardayre overnight from 11:00PM to 04:30 AM Mountain Standard time, the cry of our southern ancestors and howls of our southern Wolf Pack, is heard. Yet I walk to my mail box here at 96 East Hayden #C202, Evanston Wyoming 82930, everyday and do not see a check or money order of any kind from anybody else except the Knytes in there. If all 30,million plus fans coughed up the price of having a gas hazzardly good time at the Boars Nest, of say $100.00 and sent it to us, we would have enough to buy the rights to the Dukes, put up the only Hazzard County cable/satellite channel-network and there'd be Dukes all the time with never again a threat of removal. Will we see that, probably not just yet, but the Knytes have Hazzard County tenacity and Hazzard County Enginuity and at least on radio there is Hazzard County, and the rebel flag she still do fly at least on our radio networks front page. Our group will always be all Hazzard County, and will continue to champion that cause.
L8R Ya'll
