In I’m on the road in a 16 foot Penske truck I’m doing this show from a hotel room in Cheyenne, Wyoming friend Of The Show Ken Grossman joins me and my undisclosed beautiful travel companion
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Show Transcript
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From San Francisco, California, 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.
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My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it.
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Today is Wednesday, July 13th, 2026. It’s 5-12 when I’m recording this episode. I am in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
00:00:37
We’re at a place called Little America. I’m with the beautiful, undisclosed person and friend of the show, Ken Grossman. Hey, Michael.
00:00:45
Hey, Ken. I saw Ken back in, when did we play Denver? June?
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June of last year. Sometime last year, we played the Grizzly Rose in Denver, Colorado and Ken showed up along with a couple other friends of the show came as well. JB Skulls showed up and somebody else showed up too.
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Nice to see you, Ken. You made a two-hour drive all the way to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hey, just to see you, man.
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I really appreciate it. It’s nice to see friends of the show. Long time.
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You’re looking good. Oh, thanks. Yeah.
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How old are you? What are you, 35? Something like that?
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We’re actually the same age, believe it or not. I told him, he got here about the same time we did and he recognized the Ryder truck. It’s not Ryder, the Penske truck.
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I’m in a Penske truck driving across the country all the way. We’re on I-80 the entire way. We left San Francisco, got on I-80. We have been on I-80 the entire time, so it’s going to go I-80 all the way to New York,
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an undisclosed location in New York. If you are in I-80 anywhere along that route, anywhere east of Cheyenne, Wyoming and would like to meet up, friends, rockandrollgeek at gmail.com or hit me up on the Facebook or Instagram.
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I would love to have a beer with you. We are having a fine … What are we drinking here?
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Modelo. Fine Modelo’s and the koozie. Kim’s got the Yeti knockoff koozie. I got the extra-tough soft koozie and beautiful undisclosed, Raquel has also a purple Yeti
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knockoff koozie as well from Walmart. Take a sip of this fine Modelo. Cheers.
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Cheers. Ah, so we were in … Where were we last night?
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Not Elko. We were in Evansville. Evanston.
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Evanston, Wyoming in the middle of nowhere. We were going to look for a dive bar and there was no Uber, but the guy at the front desk, we stayed at the … Something or other by Win Comfort Inn or something like that.
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Anyway, it was a very nice Indian gentleman. No offense to Indian gentlemen, but when I looked in, the lobby was a little bit dirty and the Indian gentleman was eating curry or something and I got a little bit scared. There was going to be a shitty hotel, but it was a nice … It wasn’t bad and he was
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a very nice man. He said, well, there’s a taxi service that’ll take you anywhere. Toss 10 bucks anywhere you want to go.
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I said, okay, that sounds good. We went up to the room, brought our stuff up and said, we want to go to Spanky’s Bar. Do you know where Spanky’s Bar is?
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Yeah, I know where it is. It’s the female taxi driver, but I got to tell you, we’re closing at nine and it was 8.15, so we said, all right, I guess we got to drive the Penske truck.
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I really don’t want to get pulled over for drunk driving in a Penske 16-foot truck. That would suck. As we’re pulling out of the hotel, or I should say motel, it’s more like a motel, whatever, we’re pulling out of the motel and about 100 feet past the driveway, we saw the Highway 30 or Highway 80 saloon.
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Tavern. Tavern, whatever. Oh, there it is. We drove the Penske truck back to the hotel, slash motel, parked and walked to the saloon
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or whatever it was called. We’re looking at places. Where are we going to stop?
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Where are we going to stop? We don’t know where we’re going to stop. We had no idea.
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I said, oh, I guess I’m going to have to blow Chris Grossman off. Not blow him, but blow him off. I didn’t want to do that. Why don’t we make it an easy drive and drive to Cheyenne and I’ll tell Ken, hey, maybe
00:04:54
we can meet halfway or somewhere. This bartender was there and she saw us looking for places and we were kind of getting cranky with each other and kind of arguing about where we were going to stay. If I piss her off, Raquel, I start getting really bummed out and I start crying in public.
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I didn’t want to piss her off. The bartender came up and she says, oh, were you guys … She knew we were traveling.
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She gave us some pointers. She told us to stay in Cheyenne. We booked a place called Little America in Cheyenne.
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You go down, you’re driving down the freeway and you see $1 ice cream cones. It’s kind of like a Buc-ee’s. All these Buc-ee’s ads.
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Have you ever been to Buc-ee’s? Have you ever been to Buc-ee’s, Ken? We have a Buc-ee’s.
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Oh, you have a Buc-ee’s up here? We have one. We haven’t seen it yet.
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It’s probably about 50 miles from here. If you’ve never been to Buc-ee’s, have you been to Buc-ee’s, Raquel? No.
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I don’t know it. Buc-ee’s is the … It’s like Disneyland of truck stops.
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It is amazing. It is so cool. It’s kind of like Buc-ee’s.
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I don’t know where I was going with this. Anyway, we said, oh, Little America. I guess we’re staying at a place called Buc-ee’s.
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We pull into this place. It’s a resort. I mean, it’s really nice.
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There’s a golf course here and it’s a really nice lobby. The girls were dressed in Western. They have the uniform.
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Wrangler. The uniforms are Wrangler denim outfits. They’re cute girls.
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They’re younger. Maybe they look like they were 18 years old, but, Ken, I don’t know what you’re into. We all wish.
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Cute girls. We all wish. So here we are in the room of the Little America Resort and met Ken Grossman.
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It’s nice to see Ken again and we’re going to have a couple of beers. So I just figured I would check in and say goodbye. And Ken, anything you’re not very talkative on this thing.
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Ken’s a little… Are you microphone shy? Yes.
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So should we put the word out for you on the dating apps? You know Chris Cappell. I don’t know if you know Chris Cappell.
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I know of him. He’s the king of the dating apps and he’s always getting all kinds of girls from the dating apps. So if any hot girls out there are looking for a good looking guy in the Denver area.
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Really handsome. Beautiful eyes. The seal of approval from Raquel.
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Hazel. They’re really beautiful hazel eyes. Long lashes.
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Really gorgeous. He’s got a brand new camper as well. You can go glamping with Ken Grossman.
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All right, friends. Thank you for this. Thank you for joining us.
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Thank you for listening to this update. Oh, I also want to thank Dan Garawan. Sent me a Penske truck donation.
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Thank you, Dan Garawan. $100 Penske truck donation. The Penske truck costs five grand, including the insurance.
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So I appreciate the help, Dan Garawan. I will talk to you tomorrow, friends. We’re not going to talk to him tomorrow?
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ll talk to you tomorrow, friends. In keeping with the road shows, you know, the songs with road in the title, I’m going
00:08:06
to play, how about The Road Below Me from D.A.D.?
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Thanks for listening, friends. Rockandrollgeek.com.
00:08:15
Ken Grossman, thanks for coming, friend. We’re going to go to a place called the Crown Bar and have some drinks and some food. It’s either that or the Rooster Saloon.
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What is it? Redwood. The Redwood Saloon.
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I don’t know what the fuck it’s called. The Redwood Saloon or the Rooster Saloon. I think we’re going to try the Crown Bar, and if that sucks, we’ll head to the Rooster Saloon.
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Ken’s going to drive us because we don’t want to drive the Penske truck. There’s not room for three in the truck. Well, you’d have to sit in the middle.
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I don’t want to sit in the back. All my shit in the back of a Penske truck, friends. Still made it without getting pulled over or knocked wood.
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Here’s D.A.D., rockandrollgeek.com, rockandrollgeek.gmail.com is how you can find me.
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How can we reach you, Ken? Are you on the Instagrams or anything? I am not.
00:09:02
I get booted off of Facebook. For doing what? Somebody hacked my account, so they booted me off.
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Huh. They boot you off for somebody hacking your account? Yup.
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How does that work? That’s okay. Do they put pictures?
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I have no idea what they did. Yeah. I didn’t want to be on there anyway.
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Ken Grossman can’t be found on social media. I’m not a social guy. I will connect you to Ken Grossman, ladies.
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rockandrollgeek.com, rockandrollgeek.gmail.com.
00:09:29
Find me on the Facebook, R&R Geek. Find me on the Twitter, R&R Geek. Find me on the Instagram, rockandrollgeek, don’t ask.
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Someday I will tell you Rock Al’s Instagram, but I’m not going to do it just yet. That’s about it, friends. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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Here’s D.A.D.
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