Just a quicky

This may look like a quarter slot> but it takes real dollars to attract it or keep

it going.

Don’t count out the ittty bitty

So good old INSP is off air doing fix it duty, bout time, too bad our own cable system here doesn’t do that.

There’s all kinds of things I hear like that. you bring up a subject say building the radio station, or some other community mutually beneficial thing like that and you’ll get noise, like great, we sure do need that, yet if you go to them in a fund drive and ask hey how about putting up some money, even $100.00 towards it it’s hey , but I can’t afford it. Really, you want something for nothing, is that what I’m hearing. The same thing I saw this evening on Tracey Dukes page, some diddy, an old friend put up about doing a renewing the series of the Dukes-of-Hazzard series, original cast and all. Besides the fact several of that original cast are long gone to that Boars Nest in Heaven, the rest are too busy with other projects as well are, just too old. As far as renewing a new series, the Knytes and the Wolf-Pack have been barking and howling on that for at least 10 years now. The thing gets down to one simple thing, green. We had in mind a series that was a whole combination, of Vantage Point, Dukes-of-Hazzard, MoonRunners, HollyWood Knights , all rolled into one, going beyond the Dukes into the rest of Hazzard County. Trouble is, you can pitch script all damn day at Studios, and networks all you want, looking for someone else to fund it and they’ll laugh. Go in with serious support money, all pre paid ad dollars and such and then pitch an idea, and watch Warner Brothers, FX , and CMT all roll out the easy chair give you a can of Skoal with a gold plated lid and really be sniffing all around you.

On that think of it as one of my good friends who owns and manages KBAR in Rupert Idaho. Instead of tying up his payroll department with pay checks, Kim did something smart. Let those who want to be on KBAR , go out gather their own advertisers, and pay him $150.00 an hour the syndicate overnight. That $150.00 per hour don’t sound like much, but hey do the math multiplied by just two shows Zeb Bell’s show in the morning and another in the afternoon, that’s $24,k a month. Income, without having to think about programming, selling time for it nothing, rent out the studio, have a jock sitter there in case the radio gear gets a case of diarrhea , but still pure income. Something I’m looking to do for 12 hours during the day, while I do my shows HazzardAyre and Dixie-Diesel-Maximum Overdrive overnight. That way I only need to get two seat cover for co host anchors rather than 4. Not a bad plan. Instant cash in the stash. But just about most small stations are doing this, and Hollywood is no exception. Want something on TV or movie screen, go in with your own merchandizing, and funding, the studios are more apt to match your funds, but these days, instant cash to make films or TV series pilots, are pretty much dead. No matter how much bull manure is spread. Sure there are film contests out there for Indy Films, but read the fine print, it say, many will enter few will win. Money talks, bull walks. Hollywood, radio stations anyone these days are looking for the $’s and don’t care about helping you to make your cause. If you want help in a cause, the first thing; be a minority, I don’t care what, best one is Mexican. Be a female, that’s so terribly poor that her stockings are anklets. Third have at least 7 kids, and be a recovering drug addict of some sort, or someone that went to prison, or at least jail. Then you get the attention of Facebook, FundMe, KickStarter, forget being a properly discharged Marine Combat aviator looking to build a radio network and station, for the benefit of all who flew and still fly for this nations defense, and FundMe, KickStarter, etc will ignore you like you have an untreatable STD.

Likewise try to start something in the west that has anything to do with educating northerners about the war of northern aggression(Civil-War) and you’ll get fought every way but loose. It’s like teaching the only true gospel, on this earth, about the teachings in the Book Of Mormon, in both cases, you know there are things that apply to both, but as hard as you try to teach the truth, you’ll get fought, blocked, shunned. Well you get the idea.

Try to put both those things together in one package, and well ya’ll just better be a Marine with cover overhead what with the fallout of the shelling you’ll receive.

But don’t count out the itty bitty, HazzardAyre Radio started out as a simple one pole, educational radio station just on the outskirts of West Point Idaho. (yes there is one) at 50 watts. After trying at all too many area then stations of getting one to allow us to do at least a weekend version of an all night trucker radio show. It wasn’t until a good old boy at a small fm there KMTW FM 96.1 , Kelly Carlson, let this old rebel canine on the air. I did 4 hours Friday, 4 hours Saturday, with the green from Dads trucking company, but hey I got on. Then Charlie Tuma then GM of KLIX 1310 put me on the air. There were others, most did not like push the edge radio. So after the well had ran dry, the then TeenAge Truckers Association the starting group, that is now the United American Independent Truckers Association the parent organization of the Knytes of Anarchy as well as the AyreWolvez, fired up a , at first a pirate station. The FCC revenuers showed up , said you need a license boy, and by 1982 we had one, and kicked the butt of every radio station in western Idaho, northern Utah, and Nevada. None of them could program, or dared program what we did. The year of 1988, I created the first OTR(Over the Road) truckers radio show west of the divide. That year I went to the National Association of Broadcasters(NAB) show in Lost Wages Nevada. A syndication company owned by Bill Mack of WBAP out of Dallas/Fort Worth, signed our little show up, and it wasn’t long before Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio, sponsored by the Dixie Diesel Shop of Idaho. went on the air on weekends and we brought home an Emmy the first year. A Grammy the second year, and this went on until 1993. I suffered a great personal loss, from a death in the squadron, and partly quit. The in 1995 , through a series of being in the right places at the right time, was able to buy the Interstate Radio Network, ITRN, became the Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio Network.

But it all started small. Just like both the TeenAge Truckers as well as the Hazzard County Knytes. In both cases, we met in a small pop stand, with about 10 to 15 people of like minds. We got it together and said just because someone says you can’t do it here, reply, why the Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot can’t we?

Then do it anyway.

No kind of business or enterprise starts out really big, and gives instant gratification. NOTHING, it takes at least 4 to 6 years, before a tree bares fruit, and at least that long for a new business to bare cash for the stash.

It just don’t happen kaboom. Even music stars, sure some get a big boost on American Idiot, and other shows, but those kids and performers have been at it for at least 4 to 5 years, sang in bars, clubs, and mini shows , long before they catch the eye of a agent, or producer. You have to have a track record, but look at our club today. Between the parent organization, the Knytes, the AyreWolvez, The Toew Bros, There is just over 500,000 members coast to coast and around the globe. But it all started over a pancake and coffee at the Polish Palace now the Snake River Grill in 1982. The TeenAge Truckers began over Shirley Temples, at the Ogden Holiday in , in 1973.

We have lasted this long simply because all 500,000 are dedicated to the core of what we started with, being the voice of the Interstate, as well as be that organization that doesn’t just sit around giving lip service, but does something.

So the next time and I do joke about it often, when some spoiled brat decides that just because we’re not the choir boys she expected, that the Reaper didn’t open as fast as she thought, when those who think I take up too much of their time, when the club is helping or about to help them, I laugh. Like I have said it before and I’ll say it again, its not the club that needs them, its them that needs the club.

TTYLY

 

And to think I could have stayed in TF all weekend

So got through the weekend. Still peeved about Britt quitting, but hey another prospect employee leaving isn’t that big a deal, except it makes me wonder, did or am I doing something wrong, and would someone tell me what it is?

Is it the fact that my rides are 15 years old? I love rat rods and old trucks. I like owning stuff I can fix, if need be.

Or at least Nate.

All weekend I rolled around in my head, should I just bag this? Go back to Ground Zero or at least TF (Twin Falls) or do as my insides say, stay long enough to prove some of the doubting Thomas’ and Fretting Betty’ wrong and build the mighty HazzardAyre’s new franchise outlet here.

Still trying to decide on doing the bar, but there’s a month there to decide.

The fact that I am even still here on a Monday, is I had a meet and greet at Jodies Diner, here with one of our photographers and our web designer. She’s cool, and her son seems okay. But yet I have sent three pages to her over in Cokeville , yet she hasn’t responded.

Maybe now that Britt is out perhaps the lady photographer is too. If so I wish she’d just tell me, then I could go find someone else. As we have a outfit in Provo ready to jump in, build the site for HazzardAyre, which , again is launching its sibling Maximum Overdrive Radio here in Evanston in June, and I’d like to have a lot of this outside stuff done. I’d like KDXC to have its companion website launch at the same time, in June.

But its like a friend told me the other day here, Evanston is not Atlanta, its not Nashville, will never be Hollywood, and is just barely able to compete if it can at all with Metro Utah. There’s just some things that are available in the big city even Twin Falls that just is not available in Evanston. I just hate when someone just keeps me dangling on the hook.

Going to be away from this area, beginning April 2nd. Going over to TF to start looking for a place to live and all, so On May 1st or so, fetch the rest of the gear from Woods Cross Utah and reinstall in Burley. Hey I can sleep at Motel 6 here while we get Maximum Overdrive going here, in Evanston, but I don’t have to live here.

I had grand hopes for Evanston and the immediate area this run at it. The town could be so much more than it is, but it just may be there are people here that want it to shrink to a tiny small town again and never gain or graduate to being another Park City.

TTYLY

 

Disappointment and relief in the same package

So it ran its course. Didn’t plan it this way, but at least that monkey is off my back. Britt leaving the Wolf-Pack was both a disappointment and relief at the same time. While Brittany was a good JAFO, still I don’t think she was either mature enough nor emotionally stable enough to handle the responsibilities of doing the level of work that we would have required. The fact that we took her on was a favor to her mother, but hey nothing gained nothing lost, Brittany was after all a prospect. Not a full hire in so that be that, on that.

At least I can now get into what needs to be done for myself as well as my company. The club is secondary right now, not out as I could never abandon my trucker brethren, but the club saw this train coming , and the light at the end of the tunnel was in fact another train. The best way to not get hit by the train, step off to the side. Which is what I’m doing.

As far as the Reaper(Lotty’s) That will stay for rent for at least a decade if not longer. The reconstruction costs along with the monthly rent rate and restocking costs, and the staffing costs if one can get them all before you can turn a dollar, naw there’s easier more direct ways of making a living.

I and the club can’t do business this way.

TTYLY

 

Better more qualified people out there

I’ve said before, I’ll say it again, they shun the club, but eventually they all come back after.

Thing is as it is there might not be anything to come back to. Oh yes the radio/tv station perhaps, but the Reaper, not hardly.

I’d rather put $4k a month into the radio station without the rest of the pain in my wallet , than put a mil plus into a bar, before we even can make a dollar. That’s not good business sense. But like I said, most of the time, its better if I do much of this myself.

As far as hiring someone to oversee the radio station, why? Nate and crew can do that, but my tiny butt don’t need to be here.

So Britt is out, but then what did I think would happen, with a 21 year old?

This effort on behalf of the Knytes to Evanston has been too much of a pain, and quite simply I’m done with it.

The lack of support, the lack of qualified people to run things outside of the club, and so on. Why? For an ungrateful community that can’t see the forest for the trees? I’ll just fade out as gingerly as I faded in and forget Evanston Wyoming exists.

I’m tired of going hungry, having to live in a tax deferred housing community, freezing, having a internet service that barely delivers the entire thing in a proper speed, the list goes on, so since we have reached a dead end, might as well put the kibosh to it, and me be looking to going home to Idaho, three strikes and we’re , rather me and I’m out.

Britt says she found something out, well don’t know what that is, in fact I’ll bet she ran across those assholes from Mountain Home, that we were having a turf war with, but nothing I have told her was bullshit, and if she’d have stayed in long enough she’d have found that all is as I have told her.

There’s a soap opera there, and its deeper than what I or the club wants to deal with.

Okay then.

Had I thought a productive meeting this morning, although I didn’t want to wake up.

Think we may have someone to build the clubs website, but who knows. Any more when it comes to anyone or anything Wyoming at least western Wyoming I need to be convinced by example, and deed, as so far, all I get is a bunch of people that say they can do this or that, but simply fall on their face with bald faced lies, and excuses.

So I’m tending to going towing and the radio station, get my junk put together so late May my Wolf-Pack is outta here including me.

TTYLY

what you thought you saw but didn’t really see

Here I am nursing the remnants of the all day binge in Twin Falls. By now I can tell you every square spot in my ceiling  as well as every letter of my commode. Every time I do this, I say I’m not doing it again, but I’m sure I’ll do it again there’s just some occasions that demands bellying up to the bar and sopping up every drop of whatever I’m being served. For the damndest though I still don’t know how to make Vodka Jello, nor cider popsicles but they were yummy. We hired well in Twin Falls and place the right people where we needed them. Some were very trying and never cared. The others were way too trashy and were felons, they just didn’t tell us they were felons, and you can’t have felons working in a bar. Don’t know about Wyoming yet, but as far as Idaho and Utah, you can’t have anyone convicted of a felony pouring alcohol . Beer and wine yes, not hard booze. So I’ll have to check on that .

The entire trip that sadly I had to shorten due to some meetings here in Evanston, was enjoyable. Sure some of the same complaints I had for Evanston here was heard in Twin Falls. Mostly revolving around inefficient or at least slow meg Internet. Which was the reason for the unplug and relocation in 2013 from Twin Falls to Ogden and ultimately Woods Cross. Utah when it comes to Internet speed pulled its head out of its ass. Much of Utah is good for 100mbps down, and 60mbps up. With very few variations, in smaller towns along the Wasatch front. Out back of the Wasatch front it slows down considerably, and once you get in a fringe area unless there’s a burr under a saddle from a competitor the speed is going to remain ultra slow. Not that it couldn’t be faster, but few venture capitalists are going to invest money in systems in areas with limited growth.

Which is the difference between Twin Falls Idaho and Evanston Wyoming.

Both have the same problem. City councils and county commissioners that wish to have these areas remain rural, with little growth. Especially big city corporate company growth. They just don’t want it and thus the people suffer. Yet even towns like Morgan Utah, pulled its head out of its ass. Which is why there’s  a Tractor Supply Company store going in, in Morgan, Utah, not Evanston Wyoming. Watch the Harbor Freight store go that way as well. Big companies watch what happens or the struggles small to medium sized companies go through in getting established in certain places. If its easy in one place, and difficult in another, big companies will gravitate to where there is lower resistance. Evanston is not a place with little resistance, infact if anything its more stubborn than a mule and much more headstrong than Twin Falls is. Not that Evanston could not grow, because it can. In fact Evanston could be a crowning jewel with the growth of neighbor Park City Utah, but even Park City real estate is cheaper than Evanston.

The oasis that I thought I saw was not what I really found, more like a sandy rock, with no substance what so ever.

There is more stupidity, none educated, bassackwards ways of thinking that anything out of the ordinary out of the box, left field is said or told, to pretty much told to hit the road.

The club has gave the Evanston location a month. By protest they allowed me to stretch that in my sole discretion three months. But if by July, nothing is blooming, and I’m still up against the wall, even I’m pulling the plug and hitting the road and this time its for good.

Hours like this I remember the disaster that was Cokeville Wyoming as well. Conned into renting a house, along with a place to create films and docudramas from, I froze to death, at 50 below, because the boiler in the house was shot. Broken windows, and a police force, city council, although they gave me a business permit for it, but both could not separate the definitions of the word Hooker as in Highway Hooker Toewing from being that of cb trucker jargon for toew truck, rather than the usual connotation of a lot lizard. I still have vivid memories of walking out of that house over there during my move out, and two cops showing up with guns drawn. Looking back I should have sued their stinking butts, but I didn’t because I thought in my wyldest dreams I’d never move back here in my life. Thinking now I shouldn’t have, but I did for two reasons, refire the radio station here back up and make it better than it ever was, build a LPTV (Low-Power-TV ) station, and last, see if I could find our lost equipment or at least the little skank that stole it. The Reaper and all the rest of it was low on the agenda, in fact if I had known about Lotty’s being abandoned I might have increased the effort, months before. But the price of the facility, plus the money that’ll be required just to make it operational is going to be astronomical. The club does not want to loose big money in this effort. And if there’s not any more support for what we’re doing, maybe keeping it just the radio/TV station might be smarter.

As I close, my MamaWolf when I was a young WolfPup, said when I needed to cure a severe case of lackofnookie to just to go put it in a tub of lard, so since I’m needing at the very most a cure to that strange Polynesian disease , can I just go stick it in a bunch of Mayonnaise?

Meeting at 11:00 so gotta go try and sleep. Just hope the house quits twirling.

TTYLY

Don’t close the door, but the exit light is on

As I sit here devouring this Big Mac , and soda, here in Ogden, hey I needed nutrition and I couldn’t wait another hour to Evanston, I see one of our new hires Britt, is a bit put off to say the least. I guess what she and many others forgot is simply the Reaper is and was always a big maybe. That $4,k a month , plus expenses including food, booze and utilities is one helluva big investment. The thing is , if I can’t even hardly find someone to clean my apartment and make the damn bed, do the laundry etc, what makes me think I can find someone to wait tables, and tend bar? Much less fix up the damn bar ? If I can barely find one maybe 2 to work on the radio station, what makes me think, I can find models for promotion of the club, the bar and all that includes? If you can’t even get the damn Chamber of Commerce to call you , when the gay guy in the front office says they would, one needs to ask the simple question, whiskey, tango,foxtrot are we doing here? Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, have I went through so much suffering for? It’s days like today, of going to point zero of the formation of the club to begin with, that you hear the echo's of the voices that said don’t go there. I can remember everyone in the scrap yard telling me, that me going to Ogden was a mistake. From Linc to Rickey , from Charlie to Jared all said you’ll be sorry.

But by September 2014 we had it together. It was only a month later I find that by my kind heart of a lonely sailor that turned out to be a flush out, that was my roommate , didn’t pay the bills he said he paid things got to a point that I had to sleep, eat and live in a 10X10 office where HazzardAyre hummed in Woods Cross Utah. Owners of the building said gotta move, club said you made the bed don’t expect us to help fix it, its your turn. So by December 1st I thought lets move a spin off to Evanston, only because the ad in the Uinta County Herald said, one bedroom apt utilities paid, $475.00 sure it was. If I had not been under the gun, to get moved from the office in Woods Cross, I’d have never said yes.

I screwed the pooch bad, but rather than blame everyone else, I owed up to the screw up, and have been to repair it ever since.

The radio station is the reason I came here, not Highway Hooker Toewing, not Hazzard County Choppers, and certainly not the Reaper(Lotty’s). The last one is a big reach at best.

With that in mind and me needing to get going here. The Reaper is not a dead issue, nor anything else. The reason I hired Britt to begin with is to train her to run the radio station, and manage the Reaper if we get there.

There’s a month now that the dream team here has to prove to the club, and myself, that Evanston is the right place to plant these seeds. If the ground remains wrong to plant, much less cultivate those seeds then as much as I care for all here, Britt, Anita ,Beth, and anyone else so far involved, hey its not personal its business, I’ll still be your friend, but sometimes you have to recognize that some places are no longer able to accept new business’s so one needs to move on.

But since I have done this before, I should have known.

TTYLY