In I’m on the road in a 16 foot Penske truck I’m doing this show from a bar in Omaha Nebraska called the Fan Tan Club
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The Runaways
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Show Transcript
00:00:05
From somewhere in the middle of nowhere, this is the Rock and Roll Geek Show. This is the story of my rock and roll butler. Welcome to the Rock and Roll Geek Show.
00:00:22
My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it.
00:00:25
Today is Thursday, July 17th, 16th, July 26th, it is 9 or 4 p.m. when I’m recording this.
00:00:38
We’re at a dive bar in Omaha, Nebraska called the Fontan Club. Supposedly this is one of the oldest bars in Nebraska. I’m here with Raquel, the undisclosed girl, the beautiful, beautiful undisclosed girl. We’re in Omaha, Nebraska, this place is supposedly the oldest bar, it used to be one of the jockeys, there used to be a horse track, we’re in Oscarbon District, whatever, Nebraska spelled backwards,
00:01:12
that’s the name of this district we’re in. You can hear some noise going on at the dive bar. There used to be a horse track here, supposedly, and all the jockeys used to hang out here and drink, but it’s not, there’s no horse track here anymore.
00:01:31
It doesn’t get much diver than this place, but this is a good, we picked a good one here. And the owner seems like a nice guy, what’s his name? Jace.
00:01:39
Jace, J-A-C-E. His great grandma opened it in the 1970s. Yeah, he said his great grandma bought this place in the 70s. Named, it’s the Fan Tan Club, which is spelled F-A-N-T-A-N,
00:01:52
supposedly it’s a Chinese card game of some sort. If you’re Chinese, let me know what that is, rockandrollgeekatgmail.com.
00:02:01
We left Cheyenne, Wyoming this morning and drove seven, over seven and a half hours. That was one long drive. Last night we hung out with Dan Grossman, had a little too much to drink.
00:02:21
We went to a place called the Corner something, the Crown Bar. We had quite a few, the girl, the bartender there looked like she was about 18 years old. She had a nose ring and half her hair was white, half her hair was black, wearing shorts covered in tattoos, a little chubby, boobs hanging out, a little goth, kind of gothy looking.
00:02:44
It was a cool bar and we managed to pick some pretty good dive bars. We’ve been pretty good at it. We carry our own koozies with us.
00:02:54
It always impresses the people at these places when you bring your own koozie. Let me pro tip. We must have had about six or seven beers last night. I think Dan got a little bit, but while I got so drunk, not so drunk,
00:03:11
the room was spinning before I went to bed, but managed to make it through. Dan made it home. I think he had like a two hour drive.
00:03:20
They did a nice place, I’m sorry, Ken Grossman, what am I talking about? Ken Grossman, sorry Ken. You’re now called Dan.
00:03:31
You’re now Dan Grossman. Ken Grossman, the rock and roll Dan Grossman. We had a good time with him.
00:03:38
It was really nice seeing him. We’re going to be driving to Bowling Brook, Illinois tomorrow. We’re going to meet up with Jeffrey Zalapagalos. Jeffrey Zalapagalos, I don’t know how to pronounce his last name,
00:03:57
but he came and met with us in Milwaukee. Joe Pollack was there with his girlfriend, his fiancee Gina. Jeff Fee-la-la-licky was there.
00:04:09
So Jeff Zalapagalos is going to be meeting us tomorrow. We’re going to go watch a blues band if we make it. It’s a six hour and 40 minute drive.
00:04:19
It’s been fun. We’re over halfway. Have you been having fun, Raquel?
00:04:25
A blast. Yes, we’ve been having a blast. So we’re over halfway.
00:04:33
We’re expecting to get to the undisclosed location in New York on Monday. A little tired because we’ve been driving all day. We had ice cream for breakfast.
00:04:41
We stayed at a place called Little America. One dollar ice cream cones. Left about 930 in the morning and had some ice cream cones and hit the road.
00:04:54
And here we are in Omaha, Nebraska in the Ashkenazic District. Whatever Nebraska is backwards. We’re going to have a few beers here.
00:05:08
I’m going to say goodbye. That’s a little update from the road. We’re on I-80 the whole way.
00:05:12
We actually got off I-80. For some reason, it routed us around I-80. But we’re back on I-80.
00:05:17
So if anybody’s on I-80, on our route, send me an email.
00:05:22
Rockandrollgeek.gmail.com.
00:05:23
I would love to meet up with you. Oh, I also forgot to say that Joe Pawlak sent me a $250 Penske truck donation about four days ago. And I’m an asshole for not seeing it.
00:05:36
So my apologies, Joe Pawlak, my bodyguard. But thank you so much to Joe for topping everybody’s Penske truck donation. It really helps, and I appreciate it.
00:05:47
Joe Pawlak, one hell of a guy. And if you ever—he likes to travel the country and meet fellow Rock and Roll Geek friends. So look Joe Pawlak up.
00:06:00
He won’t disappoint. Trust me on that one, friends. Don’t let him sit in your Plexiglas chair, though, because he might break it.
00:06:08
Joe Pawlak, great guy, and his beautiful fiancee, Gina. All right, I’m going to wrap it up here. We’re not going to see Joe Pawlak because he’s going to Rush tonight.
00:06:20
Some other band that I don’t remember the name of tomorrow. He’s going to ACDC on Saturday. So we’re not going to meet him.
00:06:27
We’re not going to see him on this trip. But hopefully we’ll see. We might meet up with—who’s the guy in Detroit?
00:06:37
Jonathan Travers. We might meet up with Jonathan Travers. I’m not sure if we’re going to make it to Detroit or not.
00:06:43
But if we do, I’ll meet up with Jonathan Travers. Paul from The Strangers is playing in Toledo tomorrow. I don’t think we’re going to catch that.
00:06:52
We might head that way at some point. I’m not sure. I would love to hang out and have a beer with you tomorrow or along this trip, friends.
00:07:01
rockandrollgeek.gmail.com All right, that’s going to wrap it up.
00:07:04
Some people are coming here. It’s a little bit loud.
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rockandrollgeek.com is where you can find the show.
00:07:10
Email me, rockandrollgeek at gmail.com. Find me on the Facebook R&R Geek.
00:07:15
Find me on the Twitter R&R Geek. Find me on Instagram, rockandrollgeek, don’t ask. JB Skull sent me a nice audio comment, which I will probably play sometime on this trip with some good advice about being divorced.
00:07:32
I look forward to that. All right, friends, I’ll talk to you soon. Keep up with the road songs.
00:07:39
I’m going to play… Here’s The Runaways. I’ll talk to you tomorrow, friends.
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