I’m on the road in a 16 foot Penske truck I’m doing this show from a hotel room in Bolingbrook, Illinois. friend Of The Show Jeff Zelepugas joins me and my undisclosed beautiful travel companion
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Somewhere in the middle of pouring down rain 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.
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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 Saturday, July 18, 2026, it’s 8.03pm and we are in Clarion, Pennsylvania and it is pouring down rain. The beautiful undisclosed woman, travel companion Raquel, drove most of the way.
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I drove the first three hours and then she took us in the last four. We had about a six hour and forty minute drive. Last night we stayed in Bolingbrook, Illinois and Jeffrey Zalapugas and his lovely wife Winnie met us at the hotel room.
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He brought me a twelve pack of Tecate. We got to the room and I said to Raquel, we’re going to have to get some more beer, we’re running out of beer here. We only had eight modellos left and in walks Jeffrey and Jeff knocks on the hotel room door with a twelve pack of Tecate in his hand. He heard my call, we put it out there to the universe and the universe brought Jeffrey
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Zalapugas, is that how you pronounce his last name, Zalapugas, I think it’s Zalapugas. He brought a twelve pack of Tecate and we went, if you heard yesterday’s show you heard us talking, we went to a bar, last night was a sports bar and Jeff would not let me pay for anything. We got tons of food, tons of beers, modello draft and saw a good blues band. Only problem with the blues band, his brother Mark was there and his wife, I didn’t get
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his wife’s name, but Mark is a harp player, he used to play with this guy, great guitar player, great band, supposedly the bass player played with Dave Mason, but he played a Marshall Stack and that thing was so fucking noisy, he had a ground problem or something with that thing, but he was a good guitar player, they were a great band and after they left there was a classic rock band that came on after them and the place kind of cleared out. We had a really good time, thank you Jeff Zalapugas for your hospitality. He was really, Raquel was very impressed.
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We’re a little cranky right now, I think we’ve made it this whole trip without any arguments and we’re both hungry, we’re both wet and thirsty and yeah, ready to get back. We’re going to be arriving in the undisclosed location tomorrow by three and we’re waiting for a Manhattan and somebody’s pissed off they’re not getting their fucking Manhattan, she’s ready to punch me in the nose. Oh boy, alright, okay. I think we should wrap this thing up, we’re hoping to get back to the undisclosed location
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tomorrow to make it back in time for the finals of the World Cup. Thank you for listening to this trip, I’ll try to do a wrap up show tomorrow, we’re in a place right now called, do you know what the name of this place is, RRR Roadhouse, Triple R Roadhouse. We were going to a dive bar and we couldn’t get a cab so we were driving the Penske truck and we’re driving to the place and there’s a car in the middle of the road and he rolls down his window and tells us to stop and he said, you guys can’t go any further it’s flooded
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down there, you’re not going to make it in that truck, so we had to turn around and drive up to this place, all the other places are fast food places except for this place, it’s a steakhouse, she’s waiting for her Manhattan and she’s ready to jump over the bar and wring this guy’s neck. I hope she doesn’t because he looks like he could kick my ass and I’d have to fight him and I’d rather not do that. We made it this whole trip, it’s been a joy on this trip so we’re going to make it the
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last day and a half a joy, once she gets that Manhattan down her gullet she’s going to be fine I think. We might have to do some mushrooms tonight, I don’t know, we’re going to have to do something to turn this moods around, we’re both cranky, we haven’t eaten all day, I had a 7-Eleven hot dog that was pretty bad and she hasn’t had anything so we’re ready to kill some, not kill, we’re not going to kill anybody, we’re ready to throw down and I don’t think I want to throw down in Clary, all the guys at the bar look like they could kill me. Alright, we’re going to wrap this thing up friends, thank you for listening to all these
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shows and thank you to Jeffrey Zalapugas, it was a joy to hang out with you Jeff, we’re hoping to hang out with Jonathan Travers today but that didn’t work out, his mom had an emergency at home so he had to run and do that, we had to keep driving and here we are in Clary, we have like a 5 hour drive tomorrow, Manhattan up, what’s up mean, not ice, no ice, oh boy, up is martini glass, she wants it up though, can you put it in martini glass, yeah, I mean
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is it hot if the ice is still in it though, I mean, I don’t think she wants it in the fight here and I’m going to have to get off the phone with Lieutenant Raquel, that’s alright, oh boy, I’m going to do some damage control, alright, we’re going to go fight some people and we’re going to have a, if you don’t hear from me tomorrow that means we went, we threw down in Clary in Pennsylvania with some locals, I think Raquel, I think Raquel could take
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them, could you take them, alright friends, thank you for listening, I’m going to get out of here, I’m thirsty, cheers, it’s a beautiful Manhattan, he did a good job, there’s no cherry in it, oh boy, she’s pissed, don’t make Raquel a Manhattan, right, thank God, alright friends, let’s close out with, we’re playing road songs, this is dirt roads, dead ends and dust from the
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super suckers, I’ll talk to you hopefully tomorrow, we will be in the undisclosed location if we make it back safely, we drove through storms almost this entire time today, so needless to say we’re a little bit tired, a little bit wet and a little bit thirsty and a lot hungry, we ordered a 20 ounce porterhouse steak and we’re going to eat and drink and maybe do other things, alright friends, I’ll talk to you later, rockandrollgeek.com, you know how to reach me, please keep your donations coming, thank you to everybody who supported the show so far, I’ve got to get out
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of here, I’m going to down this Corona, run out and get the koozies in the pouring down rain and down a few more Coronas before we get out of here, last night, we’re going to go down in style motherfuckers, alright, we’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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