On the road in a Penske truck day 6 - Clarion PA

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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The Kinks

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Show Transcript 

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00:00:05
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.

00:00:23
My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it.

00:00:26
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.

00:00:48
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.

00:01:10
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

00:01:35
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

00:02:12
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.

00:02:47
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 Manha