Saturday, September 13, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Don’t seem to matter one bit
Don’t seem to matter one dang bit. The old yapping of how much more applicants and all we would get if we moved into an office and all is pure bunk.
The one I thought might be a good solid possible, decided that getting a promotion, from Manager of a tanning salon, was better than the $30.00 to $50.00 an hour she could have made here. Then there’s the gal from Farmington.
I tried as hard as heck to drift back in on Thursday to visit with her, but duty to towing called in Montana to drag back some heavy equipment and do 4 recovery jobs up there in the snow so I went, by today Friday at noon I was socked, so I slept, only to awaken to eat then head back to the rack. Just at 18:00 hours(6:00PM) I drove down, and only that because as okay as he is the new roomy and I are not a real match, I had to pay out my last $100.00 but so far ain’t seen nothing except payment on the power bill.
Bottom line looking at moving this gig back to the house, and bringing it up to boil a bit more , before transplanting it back into either Idaho or Wyoming.
I don’t think this gig is in the right neighborhoods. Seems as though we had the hecklers and hindrances in Idaho as well, but if I’m to run this by myself, it might as well be where I’m comfortable. Besides I have yet to find any gals that’ll take it seriously enough to put sufficient time into it. Which is a wonderment. Think of it this way, If your making maybe $40.00 an hour cutting hair, and all you might take away $25.00 an hour after taxes. When if you did modeling projects with us 3 times a week at $100.00 with most shoots lasting 8 hours that’s just over $9,000.00 a month. Yet nobody female at least in Utah, steps in. Amazing ain’t it? So why even try? But I have some other avenues to pursue, before I can the office. If they fail, then it’s time to lick the wounds and head back into Idaho.
Office or the RoadHouse, as far as gaining new on air talent, don’t seem to matter one bit.
TTYLY
Quote of the Day:
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
--Winston Churchill
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
There’s got to be some relief soon just pray I could find people.
Before I get into the rant here, let me resolve a audition/interview thing that came up.
See this dear gal from Farmington Utah, has been coming to the office/studio here off and on, and not being happy with me not being here.
With that in your talons let me explain this, this way. Of all the projects I do for the clubs both the Knytes as well as the AyreWolvez, the radio gig here and all, myself , I don’t get paid one single penny for. Nothing. Oh I suppose if I pushed the issue the club would start paying me a percentage of ad sales or something, but I never got into this gig to make money, I got into it for the causes for why it exists to begin with,.
So to put food on my mini table, and a roof over my head and not being one that relishes authority, I run my own business’. A vehicle recovery transport business some call a toewing service, and a agricultural aviation business. Both of those keep me jumping. I am constantly running , I have not slowed down ever since at age 19 through much effort Mom bought in part, me from wages, but once I got LexiBelle>
Then there’s AyreWolf Aviation. Started in 2003 under the eye of two kin folk, during the summer we are in 3 states constantly spraying fields. That keep our farmers productive. It’s called earning a living. While my weight and diabetes has grounded me for 6 months, I’m still turning a wrench on all the birds we own. Then there is the condition of age. Back when I was in my early 20’s to mid 40’s going what seemed like 30 hours or near 3 days straight was no biggy. I barely slept then, but didn’t want to. These days, I usually take Tuesdays and Thursdays off from what ever I’m doing including this radio gig, to just kick back rest and sleep. Sure there are those that say sleep is for dead people, but I’m not wanting to hurry the latter. I’d like to make at least 89 years old before I punch out and join Mom & Dad in the great hangar in the sky.
Which leads me to the rant.
A year ago this month, the club and I sat down and it was determined to save my health that , albeit reluctantly , but it was decided that I needed to take on a few employees outside the club. Sure the other club members help okay, but nearly 80% of them are deployed and not able to do much. The ones here, are busy doing their own day jobs as they call it, to feed their own families. So we search for people.
The other day I thought we had one who could be groomed for a stand in and associate producer at the end of her internship. But she failed the audition , and I guess I pushed a bit much on the kissing toe thing. For some odd reason that makes most women nervous. I don’t understand it, its not like I’m asking to do the animal thing, its just kissing a musk smelling toe. It’s a part of a gig, long ago that I use as a test. If an applicant has the vigor and not be uptight about that, then she’ll be more open to doing the rest of what we do on air, on camera etc, if she’s got too many inhibitions to even do the toe kiss, thing at a cold audition, then she’s not going to fit in with me nor any of the other club members, she’ll appear to preppy, and thus it’ll look bad on me and the radio gig.
Still to have two people walk in that could do all this prep work and fill in on air would be fantastic. The idea of HazzardAyre unlike other online offerings such as Pandora, or IHeart Music, is to have a Live, I mean LIVE person or two, preferably two , male female, in the studio on air. Taking a page out of Howard Stern’s book. His career was built on having a person that he could work off of. In my early days on radio I didn’t really want to have anyone in the studio, as I felt it took away some of the intimacy between me and my audience. But I saw Stern>
As far as needing models for video projects, the need is threefold, one we need some real hot as well as pin up style shots to build the website that’ll be the foundation for HazzardAyre. So I want visual there. So need models for that. Then there is the infamous AyreWolvez as well as the hot trucks calendars , the videos and of course the TV ads to get more folks to tune into HazzardAyre. Having someone that could step into the studio, that could be on air as well as model like Jessica yesterday would be keen. But it’ll most likely be one or the other. It’d be nice too, if I could find a model recruiter as well as an associate producer/on air person. The bottom line is I’m one person, the years are catching up , and I’m not able to do this solo as much as I used to, considering my other personal operations, Cooter’s A1 Toewing and of course AyreWolf Aviation .
I just pray we can find some people soon, because there really needs to be some relief or they’re going to be hauling me out of this studio one day in a body bag on a stretcher, burned out completely.
As I close this getting ready to go live on air, if a talent either on air or model wants to secure a spot in our crew, the tip is come here in nylons, skirt, heels.
See you on the Radio.
TTYLY
Quote of the Day:
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Never count out the Wolf
I caught an email from a fellow parishioner the other day that related something of , sorry your moving from Ogden, your presence will be missed. Most everybody in my neighborhood had me moved gone and put away until a mere meeting in a store somewhere. In reality , I was just shopping to see if I could bring my budget into a more realistic environment, and yes I got behind in a few bills, since my former roomy didn’t pay everything that he was going to. Hell, even when he moved in I was looking for a first, last months rent, and a processing fee, NOT a DEPOSIT. A total of $600.00 . What I got was a mere fraction of that, but being the understanding person I am, I allowed him in. It wasn’t more than a half a month before he was in my face one day, and I told him he’d have to move out, that in reality the foundation being the place is my home and as such me be the king of the roost, that and he was really delinquent on paying expenses. He started bitching about the deposit, what deposit? He only had paid $50.00 of the $150.00 processing fee, barely the first months rent, and hardly the last month he was there, and only after I had pressed him on it. Then there was the lack of my ability to do radio as I need to do to grow even further, what we call HazzardAyre. So I struggled through July, got this office by the skin of my teeth, and doing a bit better, but if I hadn’t had to move , hadn’t had to pay back bills, and starving in August for helping my former roomy, buy food. It was by mere luck that my current roomy came forward although still a bit off , there should be $75.00 bucks but since my roomy paid part of the back power bill I feel its even. But here is the real undercurrent. My former roomy, has some inlaws that want to move into the neighborhood, so he’s pushing the same landlord I have, to get me and my new roomy out.
On my new place, and I wished I’d have been as strict. But Elissa says all or nothing, meaning $700.00 plus $150.00 no working it out over time. So I passed on it, have another in the works but either way its at least a month or so before any relocation happens. The smart thing would have been putting my former roomy out on the street and saying all or nothing, but the day he arrived it was a day when I had meetings with two talent agencies, paying Comcast, and interviewing for other jobs at HazzardAyre. Had, I had time Mr. Painter would have never moved in.
But when the wind blows and it storms, never count out the old Wolf here as it’ll byte you by the gonads if you do.
TTYLY
Quote of the Day:
If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.
--Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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TTYLY
Quote of the Day:
The enraged colonists were mad.
--CJ's US History Work
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Where nose met toes in nylon hose, but that’s not the complete picture
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.
TTYLY
Quote of the Day:
The enraged colonists were mad.
--CJ's US History Work
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Out of Anarchy Comes Order
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
TTYLY
Quote of the Day:
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
--Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
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