Thursday, July 14, 2016

Ah what the hell does Facebook know anyhow?

Are there times in your world , that you'd like to tell Facebook, or for that matter any of these mass social sites that they are absolutely stupid? 
Let me give you an example; went to my stats page to include on my prophile that I was one of the creators and still CEO of SouthernSteele Media, that is the parent firm over HazzardAyre Radio and so on. Comes back employer invalid. Bullshit Facebook, get a fucking clue. Look back to 2005 and take a gall damn look. Shit in its infancy SouthernSteele had more fans as a program of over the air radio, that equals if not slightly outpaces its sibling HazzardAyre. Okay Facebook we never ADVERTISED on Fb, but shit to say it ain't, isn't looking back far enough in history to know any better.
Southern Steele Media was created out of a hit radio show that I and 5 others in Utah produced in 2004 to mid 2005. Southern Steele Radio, was about just what could be done to a bike, truck or muscle car by those without too much money or facilities such as a shop, but had a welder, torch, and lots of junk metal. At the time, there was a bunch of TV shows, from American Hot Rod, to American Chopper. These shows had a bunch of drama, with little in the form of building a real ride that was road worthy, without a big TV budget. When I opened what was then Lone-Eagle Choppers in Tooele Utah A few of us crowded in at the Country Basket diner at then, a truck stop partly owned by Flying J, in Springville Utah, we hatched the idea of at first a radio show and then go TV . We pitched the idea to RTM Productions, but was over heard by an executive of the Discovery Channel that retitled the show as Southern Steel. This was far from the idea we had in mind at an ensuing law suit, killed the TV show on the Discovery Channel. Yet we produced for syndication the same show. In mid 2005, on a kick back cruise I rolled through a tiny town on the Idaho Wyoming border called Cokeville, where I observed a old barber shop/ saloon, where an indescrete TV studio could be built, but yet close enough to Utah to gain talent from. A sweet gal who was into independent video, by the name of Julie had called me, met me there and although she backed out in a few weeks after, still we trudged on through./
This is the same town and the bunch of simpl people whose brains could not seperate the idea of one word with varied meanings. Who said Hooker was a honey for rent and Hooker as in trucker CB talk for tow truck. One night one of my training interns came up to deliver some radio copy, and got detained by the one arm one idiot cop there. Okay so she dressed a bit hot, but damn it you'd think that maybe some modern mind concepts had found their way to CokeVille. In any case, SouthernSteele Media was created, and such TV shows as Farm Kountry TV, OTR TV, and eventually HazzardAyre Radio was created from and is still under the parental umbrella of SouthernSteele Media. Of course Facebooks people are not too brilliant. They seldom venture out of Silicon Valley, and since many of them are not quite dry behind the ears have no ability to absorb new or out of the box concepts, much less something that kicks ass in history or in today's era. However this is nothing new.
If one were to look up the Independent Truckers Association, RoadMasters and such you will not find much if anything except that which is in my postings. Yet the two organizations had from 1960 through 1987 had the largest membership body of independent owner operator long haul truckers in the United States as well as many chapters around the world. The popular then, not so much now, Overdrive Magazine was created by a great visionary and person named Mike Parkhurst. Who built Overdrive Magazine as primarily the newsletter publication to inform members of the ITA and the RoadMasters, of what was going on in the organization. But try to find anything online about that and you'll draw up a blank. Overdrive tried to do a thing about 6 years ago about, or to do with Overdrive Retro, kind of a flashback to the original publication , with Wrecker(tow-truck) of the Month, The DateMaster centerfold, and so on. For some reason, mostly due to the feminists that protested it, still Overdrive Retro flopped. Too bad, the old Overdrive was a great publication. 
While the Internet and all its components are great tools, still, there is much lacking. Anything that was before the dawning of today's search engines and mass outfits like Google or Facebook, are to be said did not exist. Yet for us older gearheads, they still are time honored classics. 
So even if Facebook says it ain't , I can tell you, yes it was.
TTYLY

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