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By Wendy Collier<\/em><\/p>\n

How to Receive<\/strong>
\nWhen you need an oil change but don\u2019t have time to take the car in, what do you do? Well, you used to just let it ride, but now you have someone to call. Isaiah Frizzell\u2019s Oddest Jobs is a magical repository for help with so many daily tasks.
\nWith a focus on AI and computer-based tech help, automotive work (think mobile oil and transmission filter changes, private chefing, you name it) and they might have the right talent to do it quickly and efficiently. Frizzell\u2019s story is extraordinary. Having spoken with him for hours, there\u2019s too much to fit in this article, but it could easily be a thrilling book.<\/p>\n

The Call of the Valley<\/strong>
\nFrizzell has lived in Idaho for five years, spending the last two in the Valley. As a longtime writer for the Wood River Weekly, even while not living in the Valley, he got to know a wide range of people who create the community through interviews and writing.
\n\u201cIt was a foregone conclusion that I\u2019d move here. I wanted to for years! But, there was much difficulty finding a place, which is probably not that unique, from what I hear.\u201d
\nFrizzell has lived a wild, traveling life, working as a travelling chef, throwing private supper clubs in Dallas, Seattle and all over Los Angeles. He was on Chopped, many blogs and the National Culinary Institute\u2019s magazine. He spoke and entertained for two years at Disney\u2019s Imagineering Events and eventually found himself working in independent film.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t really want to go on Chopped. I made it to the final interview for Hell\u2019s Kitchen and turned it down. I\u2019m not gonna have some celebrity screaming at me! I\u2019d worked on those types of shows already and was disillusioned. It\u2019s wild where the mind goes when you see behind the scenes. Like the Wizard of Oz, maybe. When I moved to L.A. my first job was in the art department for an obstacle-course show. It was incredible to go to the mountains in Santa Clarita every day, get paid very well, and see literally everything being fabricated for this crazy show! There were seamstresses, welders, it was amazing. I did that for a season, which helped me found my supper club, Pheast.\u201d
\nFrizzell has worked at a high level in many industries. His cooking is probably the biggest but it\u2019s not his only passion.
\n\u201cIm entirely driven by passion. I fall in love with things, deeply, plus I like to solve puzzles. Creating new dishes is a multi-sensory puzzle\u2014smell, taste, color, plating\u2014it\u2019s really fun but then I also loved being on set. The militaristic style of crews is amazing when you\u2019re working with driven people, as well. Movie sets and kitchens are very similar. I spent four years of nighttime, making a movie with indie legend director Damon Packard. Just him and me sneaking into sets and filming everywhere with tons of gels. We got a house near Cameron Diaz in the Hollywood Hills. It was gorgeous. The movie is ridiculous, intentionally\u2014that\u2019s Damon\u2019s style. I have three roles, one of which shows more than I wanted to. It\u2019s called Fatal Pulse or the Untitled Yuppie Fear Thriller. Totally insane movie made 100% for free, and Damon was, well, Damon, and it was some of the funnest times of my life, unfettered and just pure filmmaking absurdity.\u201d
\nFrizzell did sound, camera and lighting for a slew of independent films.
\n\u201cI was kind of working my way up, I guess. Being first, a writer, I mean, above all else, I had serious dreams to make my stories into movies. My second film was a series, very stylized, like Frankenhooker meets Sleeping with the Enemy. We spent a lot of time and money. The harddrive it was stored on was lost in Mexico. Tons of music I made was lost on that one as well\u2014art, collages, stories, scripts\u2026 that kind of thing really digs into your psyche but what else do you do? You just keep going. I\u2019m writing more than ever. I write songs daily, it\u2019s automatic, the tap just flows. I have new passions and talents but that kind of came from getting to know the community here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Community, Above All<\/strong>
\nCommunity is Frizzell\u2019s focus at the Wood River Weekly and in his next venture Oddest Jobs, where he\u2019s collected many talented friends across the Valley to solve problems in the community.
\n\u201cI have a friend here, a much older woman who knows just about everything about everyone. I\u2019ve heard so much about \u201cthe community! the community!\u201d and I was skeptical at first but as I met, spoke with, hung out with people here it revealed itself. The community is absolutely real, beautiful, very thick and while it\u2019s pretty clear the growth has introduced new issues, there\u2019s still those who care and act to make this place a unique and friendly place to live. I\u2019ve not seen anything like it in my travels except maybe the very, very tightly-knit communities in tiny Mexican towns.\u201d
\n\u201cCommunity is absolutely everything. There are a lot of shenanigans taking place on the world stage right and keeping tight with our friends and neighbors is the answer. We have to listen and be willing to help, to act.\u201d
\nFrizzell moved to Idaho from Mexico where he had a place in Oaxaca he\u2019d moved to to start an intentional community, gardening, farming and building using permaculture ideas.
\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it. I\u2019ve lived in the South my entire life and snow was kind of nonexistent. My first week in Stanley, I\u2019d been used to 100+ degree days and now it was literally 51 degrees below zero. You walk outside and your eyes even hurt. It was an adjustment for sure.\u201d
\nIntensely individual, Frizzell has worked on his and friend\u2019s vehicles, changing harmonic oscillators, oil and transmission, you name it. And if that weren\u2019 t enough, he fell in love with electronics.
\n\u201cI got bit by the drone bug while making practical effects squibs and things like that. Most of those movies no one will ever see and no one cares but it led to me building my own drones from the ground up. That led to a brief job at a friend\u2019s LIDAR company, connecting DJI drones to our in-house software, making boutique cables, building chips. It was fun but I\u2019m not suited for that kind of stilted work environment.\u201d
\nAfter a stint working at the Liquor Store in Hailey, \u201cI needed to meet people, like.. engage with people outside of paper interviews and, you know, survive, of course.\u201d Frizzell is now going into business with Oddest Jobs serving the Valley.
\nThe website and details are forthcoming but, in the meantime, for any need you may have, he can be contacted at isaiah@woodriverweekly.com<\/p>\n

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