The Overnightscape 1298: Omaha (6/29/16)
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6:19:45 – Frank in Nebraska and Iowa, plus the Other Side. Topics include: In the air, arrival in Omaha, Olympic swimming trials, weird hotel, Brexit, preparing for the trip, seeing Dead &  Company at Citi Field, Shakedown Street, Pigpen shirt, lack of sleep, the next morning, Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, my fake childhood Omaha TV station, phone books, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, mini donuts, more swimming, Durham Museum, Chef Boyardee, zoo, restauarant in Dundee, dead mall, another mall, Orange Julius, furniture store, mirrors, baseball disappointment, arcade, convenience store, breakfast, semi-dead mall in Iowa, puppet TV show, rest stop, The Great Platte River Road Archway, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 5:38:41)… WGN Channel 9 – In Search Of (Promo, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Private Resort (1985) [YouTube], BIG APPLE JUICE by CÅ’DES Pierre-Marie [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Video Game History: 1982 30 Minutes segment Part 2 [YouTube], Eagle Mall Suite by Robert Hunter (Live at Boston University (9/24/80)) [Archive.org], 1-900-FUN-MATE (Commercial, 1991) [collection], Churchill – Riddle, Mystery, Enigma [collection], Mark Kermode and Katie Puckrik Glastonbury 1994 [YouTube], John Peel’s Final Perfumed Garden (8/14/67) (excerpt – phasing) [collection], February 25, 1983 HBO promos [YouTube].
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
Just started listening but: everyone knows that Grovelman, South Carolina is the Geographic Center of the United States. (http://vicandsade.blogspot.com/2011/12/42-09-15-silent-march.html).
Comment by Jimbo — July 1, 2016 @ 6:32 am
Yeah, Jimbo’s right about that.
Comment by Shambles — July 1, 2016 @ 6:47 pm
Cherry phosphate! This is turning into a VS episode. 🙂
Comment by Jimbo — July 3, 2016 @ 9:31 am
Queuing this up for work this week, can’t wait to listen. I reckon Frank’s Atlantic City episode last year was ones of my favourites. We should start a fund to get more travel related ONS episodes : )
Comment by Ruben — July 3, 2016 @ 10:52 pm