{"id":5647,"date":"2015-02-23T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:02:46","slug":"not-keeping-up-with-kardashians-benefits-dog-sled-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/02\/not-keeping-up-with-kardashians-benefits-dog-sled-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Not keeping up with Kardashians benefits dog sled guide"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sleds\"<\/a>

Photo courtesy of Yellowstone Sled Dog Adventures<\/p>

Jason Matthews with some his sled dogs. And not a Kardashian in sight.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jason Matthews, the owner of Bozeman-based Yellowstone Dog Sled Adventures<\/a>, is starting to think that refusing to do business with the famous Kardashian family was a good business move.<\/p>\n

You have probably heard by now that two Kardashian sisters, Khloe and Kim, were involved in a car accident<\/a> near Bozeman last Saturday. News reports said the sisters were in Montana to do some skiing.<\/p>\n

Well, not quite. Matthews said they were here to film an episode of their reality TV show, \u201cKeeping Up with the Kardashians<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

He knows because around Valentine\u2019s Day, he received an email from Ashley Warner, the production release coordinator for the reality show\u2019s production company. She wanted Matthews to take 10 people from the cast on a sled-tour near Big Sky, and said a film crew of about twice that many people would be tagging along on snowmobiles and snowshoes.<\/p>\n

That sounded good to Matthews. He explained that his half-day rate for a private trip, which Warner insisted on, would be $390 per person, or $3,900. Mind you, the trip would have involved five sleds, five guides and 50 sled dogs.<\/p>\n

Matthews was a little surprised when Warner offered a \u201ctrade\u201d rather than actually paying him.\u00a0\u201cShe never really explained what \u2018trade\u2019 meant,\u201d Matthews said, though later emails used the term \u201cexposure trade out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CapreAir_Variable\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>Matthews said he kept insisting that he needed to be paid, in advance, and at one point told Warner, \u201cLook, my dogs don\u2019t eat trade.\u201d Every time they talked, he said, Warner seemed to be saying that he would be paid, but the next conversation would start with more talk about \u201ctrade\u201d and \u201cexposure.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point Warner even sent him a confidentiality agreement, and he put his foot down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m not going to sign this until you agree to pay my rate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In the face of his ultimatum, Warner simply stopped communicating. Warner had told Matthews the cast would be in the Big Sky area on Feb. 20 and 21, so as the 20th grew closer he just figured they weren\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

\"Kards\"<\/a>

If by some miracle you’ve never seen a picture of Kim, left, and Khloe Kardashian, this is them.<\/p><\/div>\n

That was the last he knew of the whole thing until Sunday, when he heard about the Kardashian car accident. So he hopped on his personal Facebook page and wrote a short post titled \u201cMontana Karmic Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained how plans to book his dog sled teams were \u201cabruptly cancelled\u201d when he refused to provide the service for free. He said he went online and read that the Kardashian family is being paid $60 million for this season, solidifying his conviction that there shouldn\u2019t have been a problem with his $3,900 fee.<\/p>\n

He ended his Facebook post by saying, \u201cGlad we didn\u2019t do it!\u201d<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t look at Facebook again all day because he was preoccupied by the death of one of his dogs, Faith, which he described as \u201cthe main leader in my program for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when he did get back to Facebook late Sunday, he was astounded to see that his post on the Kardashians was wildly popular. It had been shared more than 1,500 times (up to 1,640 Monday afternoon) and had drawn more than 80 comments, all of them supporting his decision.<\/p>\n

Matthews, who said he has never seen an episode of \u201cKeeping Up with the Kardashians,\u201d said he has appeared on other shows with his sled teams, including \u201cFinding Bigfoot,\u201d \u201cAmerica the Wild\u201d and \u201cGun It with Benny Spies.\u201d<\/p>\n

He put up Facebook posts about those shows, he said, and those posts were shared maybe a dozen times each. With the Kardashians, he\u2019s got the best of both worlds: he didn\u2019t have to go out sledding with the infamous family, but his Facebook post has, sure enough, gotten him great \u201cexposure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s been better for business that I\u2019m not associated with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Matthews, the owner of Bozeman-based Yellowstone Dog Sled Adventures, is starting to think that refusing to do business with the famous Kardashian family was a good business move. You have probably heard by now that two Kardashian sisters, Khloe and Kim, were involved in a car accident near Bozeman last Saturday. News reports said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2128,2131,2130,2129],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversions","tag-jason-matthews","tag-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians","tag-kim-and-khloe-kardashian","tag-yellowstone-dog-sled-adventures","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}