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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 Music by The Kinks Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Ralph Miller for the $125 Penske truck donation Thanks to Dan Gerawan for the $100 Penske Donation Donate on Venmo Dan Gerawan - $100 Concerned Donation John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Kirk Crawford - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Gregg Brofer - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen $5 Richard Fusey - $4.44 Richard Fusey - $6.66 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Bradley Lisko - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Peter Spark $5 Andrew Howe - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Show Transcript 0 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 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 00:03:26 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 00:04:03 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 00:04:37 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 00:05:16 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 00:05:50 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 00:06:23 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 00:06:58 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 00:07:38 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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On the road in a Penske truck day five -Bolingbrook, Illinois

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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 Music by The Kinks Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Ralph Miller for the $125 Penske truck donation Thanks to Dan Gerawan for the $100 Penske Donation Donate on Venmo Dan Gerawan - $100 Concerned Donation John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Kirk Crawford - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Gregg Brofer - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen $5 Richard Fusey - $4.44 Richard Fusey - $6.66 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Bradley Lisko - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Peter Spark $5 Andrew Howe - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Show Transcript 0 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. 00:00:21 My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it. 00:00:25 Today is Friday, July 17th, 2026. It's 540 when I'm doing this. We're going to do it shortly because we have people in the hotel room. 00:00:37 A friend of the show is here that I met. We're in, what town are we in? Bowling? 00:00:44 Bowling? Bowling Brook. Bowling Brook. 00:00:46 Bowling Brook, Illinois. Introduce yourself. It's Jeffrey. 00:00:50 Jeffrey Zalapugas. Zalapugas. I can't pronounce his last name. 00:00:54 I don't know why but Zalapugas. Zalapugas. Zalapugas. 00:01:03 It's not my pizza name. My pizza name is Paige. So is that an Italian? 00:01:07 Zalapugas. Lithuanian. Lithuanian, ooh. 00:01:10 I don't know what they say about Lithuanians. Yeah, for sure. If I order a pizza, it's never that. 00:01:18 What do you mean? It's never a Lithuanian pizza? No, it's never Zalapugas. 00:01:21 Oh, it's Zalapulagas. Zalapulagas. That's what you're going to hear going back. 00:01:24 I've heard it all. Talk into that microphone. You can't butcher the last name. 00:01:32 Jeffrey Zalapugas. We're going to meet up with Jeff Thielicke today. That's who you were with last time when I was in Milwaukee. 00:01:40 And Chicago. And Manitoba. Oh, you were in Chicago as well. 00:01:43 Yeah. Thielicke got pretty wasted, huh? Milwaukee as well. 00:01:48 Yeah. Hats off to Jeff. He's a fun guy. 00:01:51 Sure is. As you are as well. He's a good dude. 00:01:54 I was telling undisclosed, beautiful travel companion Raquel how hilarious you got. You crack me up all the time. Last time you were there, I was cracking up. 00:02:07 Well, we had the gentle giant with us, though. Stirring up the pot. Yeah, your bodyguard. 00:02:13 Yeah, we went to a Mexican place. Did you know he came to? Oh, his wife is here, Winnie. 00:02:18 His beautiful wife, Winnie. Say hi, Winnie. Winnie, did you know he came all the way to see... 00:02:26 Yes, yes, he told me about it. Yes, he told me, yes. You okay with that? 00:02:30 Yes, I was. Where are you from, Winnie? I'm from Africa. 00:02:36 You're from Africa? What part of Africa? East Africa. 00:02:38 East Africa. What country is in East Africa? Uganda. 00:02:41 What is it? Uganda. Uganda? 00:02:44 Wow. I went to Cape Town, and I went to... Oh, fuck. 00:02:51 Botswana? Botswana, oh, yeah. Is that near Uganda? 00:02:55 No, that's south, south, south, yes. They had no... In Cape Town, because I wanted to have wild game, I wanted to eat wild game. 00:03:02 Wow. Cape Town, they had all kinds of wild game you could eat. Yes, they do. 00:03:06 Botswana and up there, there was no wild game. Yeah, Botswana is a bit a desert of a desert. There were game reserves, but there was no wild game to eat. 00:03:16 No, no, they don't. What about Uganda? Oh, Uganda is beautiful. 00:03:19 You have... Is there wild... Can you eat wild game there? 00:03:22 Oh, yes. Springbok was delicious. Yes, you better come to Uganda. 00:03:27 I'll... Can you have... You have a place I can stay there? 00:03:30 No, I'm kidding. Oh, yes, I do. We had... 00:03:32 I had ostrich carpaccio in Cape Town. Okay. That was the best thing I've ever eaten in my life. 00:03:40 Wow. It was so good. You come in Uganda, you'll eat the luwombo. 00:03:45 Luwombo? Luwombo, yes. What is that? 00:03:49 It's beef or chicken stewed in banana leaves. Oh, that's great. Yes, real tender. 00:03:56 Oh, man, I'm hungry. We haven't eaten today. Zellopagus. 00:04:00 We'll feed you. Well, it's nice to meet you, Winnie. Nice to meet you. 00:04:04 So you go back and forth to Africa? Yes, yes, I do. I do. 00:04:08 I had... We had a woman who was a friend... We started off as cleaning our house, but then she became a really good friend and part of the family. 00:04:15 She's from Cape Town. She goes back. Her husband's still there. 00:04:19 Her husband stays in Cape Town. She goes back and forth. Now I have my husband here, so I better go see my other family. 00:04:26 You get away from your husband for a while. Does Jeffrey go with you? Yes, for a break. 00:04:30 He hasn't yet, but we hope to go. You've never been to Africa? Not yet. 00:04:34 It's a hell of a flight. Yes. We got married in Fiji. 00:04:39 I don't know where that is. Fiji. Is that near Australia? 00:04:43 Yeah, above Australia. Oh, right, yeah. You've got to lay flat. 00:04:46 You've got to get first class. It's a shit flight if you don't lay first class. When I sell the house, we're going to lay flat in Japan. 00:04:56 Nice. Wow. Yeah, I would love to go to Japan. 00:04:59 Yeah, we're going to do some drinking and eating in Japan. Come with us. We're going to go. 00:05:02 It's beautiful, yes. Tokyo, for sure. Yeah. 00:05:05 We're going to go to Alcatraz. We'll let you know where we're going. Kyoto. 00:05:08 Oh, yeah. We're going to go to Kyoto, Osaka, maybe even Okinawa. Because they have good beer in Okinawa. 00:05:14 Beautiful place. Yeah. You like sake, brother? 00:05:19 No, I don't drink sake too much. But I do like a Japanese beer. I'll take a Sapporo. 00:05:26 Oh, that's too generic? Well, it depends on which. Now we're going to geek out on beer. 00:05:30 Because I'll tell you, if you have a Sapporo 22-ounce can, they're brewed in Japan. But if you get a 12-ounce can or a bottle of Sapporo, it's brewed in Canada. It's by Molson. 00:05:43 Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Microphone up to your mouth. 00:05:45 Fun fact from Michael Butler. And if you go to a Japanese restaurant, if they have Asahi on draft, that is brewed in Japan. But if you get an Asahi bottle, it's another Americanized. 00:05:57 It's like made in America somewhere. What about sake in that goofy barrel? I don't know anything about sake. 00:06:02 You're not a sake drinker? My good friend Shaki, Metal Moment, he knows all about it. But I don't know anything about sake. 00:06:08 How's he doing? We had dinner. Undisclosed Raquel came. 00:06:13 We had dinner with them on Sunday before we left. Went to a Korean all-you-can-eat place. It was good. 00:06:18 Cool. Glad you reconnected. Yeah. 00:06:21 That was the first time Shaki's seen me since the shit went down. But yeah. Yeah. 00:06:28 He took it all in stride. Well, good to have friends. Yeah, because his wife was, well, I don't know if she was friends with the other one. 00:06:37 So she met Raquel, and they were very impressed by how great of a person Raquel was. Well, definitely. ...

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On the road in a Penske truck day 4 - Omaha Nebraska

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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 Music by The Runaways Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Joe Pawlak for the $250 Penske truck donation Thanks to Ralph Miller for the $125 Penske truck donation Thanks to Dan Gerawan for the $100 Penske Donation Donate on Venmo Dan Gerawan - $100 Concerned Donation John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Kirk Crawford - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Gregg Brofer - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen $5 Richard Fusey - $4.44 Richard Fusey - $6.66 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Bradley Lisko - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Peter Spark $5 Andrew Howe - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 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. 00:07:08 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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Road Trip in a Penske Truck day 3 - Cheyenne Wyoming

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I'm on the road in a 16 foot Penske truck I'm doing this show from a hotel room in Cheyenne, Wyoming Music by D.A.D Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Ralph Miller for the $125 Penske truck donation Thanks to Dan Gerawan for the $100 Penske Donation Donate on Venmo Dan Gerawan - $100 Concerned Donation John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Kirk Crawford - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Gregg Brofer - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen $5 Richard Fusey - $4.44 Richard Fusey - $6.66 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Bradley Lisko - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Peter Spark $5 Andrew Howe - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Show Transcript 00:00:06 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. 00:00:23 My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it. 00:00:26 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? 00:00:54 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. 00:01:12 Nice to see you, Ken. You made a two-hour drive all the way to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hey, just to see you, man. 00:01:18 I really appreciate it. It's nice to see friends of the show. Long time. 00:01:22 You're looking good. Oh, thanks. Yeah. 00:01:25 How old are you? What are you, 35? Something like that? 00:01:27 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. 00:01:36 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, 00:01:51 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. 00:02:11 I would love to have a beer with you. We are having a fine ... What are we drinking here? 00:02:15 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 00:02:30 knockoff koozie as well from Walmart. Take a sip of this fine Modelo. Cheers. 00:02:37 Cheers. Ah, so we were in ... Where were we last night? 00:02:44 Not Elko. We were in Evansville. Evanston. 00:02:47 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. 00:03:08 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 00:03:25 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. 00:03:34 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? 00:03:41 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. 00:03:55 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. 00:04:17 Tavern. Tavern, whatever. Oh, there it is. We drove the Penske truck back to the hotel, slash motel, parked and walked to the saloon 00:04:27 or whatever it was called. We're looking at places. Where are we going to stop? 00:04:32 Where are we going to stop? We don't know where we're going to stop. We had no idea. 00:04:35 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. 00:05:10 I didn't want to piss her off. The bartender came up and she says, oh, were you guys ... She knew we were traveling. 00:05:15 She gave us some pointers. She told us to stay in Cheyenne. We booked a place called Little America in Cheyenne. 00:05:23 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. 00:05:33 Have you ever been to Buc-ee's? Have you ever been to Buc-ee's, Ken? We have a Buc-ee's. 00:05:36 Oh, you have a Buc-ee's up here? We have one. We haven't seen it yet. 00:05:39 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. 00:05:44 I don't know it. Buc-ee's is the ... It's like Disneyland of truck stops. 00:05:48 It is amazing. It is so cool. It's kind of like Buc-ee's. 00:05:54 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. 00:06:00 We pull into this place. It's a resort. I mean, it's really nice. 00:06:03 There's a golf course here and it's a really nice lobby. The girls were dressed in Western. They have the uniform. 00:06:10 Wrangler. The uniforms are Wrangler denim outfits. They're cute girls. 00:06:14 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. 00:06:22 Cute girls. We all wish. So here we are in the room of the Little America Resort and met Ken Grossman. 00:06:34 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. 00:06:46 Ken's a little... Are you microphone shy? Yes. 00:06:50 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. 00:06:56 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. 00:07:09 Really handsome. Beautiful eyes. The seal of approval from Raquel. 00:07:15 Hazel. They're really beautiful hazel eyes. Long lashes. 00:07:20 Really gorgeous. He's got a brand new camper as well. You can go glamping with Ken Grossman. 00:07:31 All right, friends. Thank you for this. Thank you for joining us. 00:07:33 Thank you for liste...

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Road Trip in Penske Truck - Day 2

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00:00:06 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. 00:00:24 My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it. 00:00:27 Today is Tuesday, the 14th of July and it is 8.35, I'm doing this, 8.35 p.m. 00:00:36 We are in, where are we, Evans, Evans, Evans, Evans, Evans, uh, Evans, Evans, somewhere in Wyoming. We're in Wyoming at a place called, Evanson, somewhere, somewhere in Wyoming. At a place called Highway 30 Tavern. 00:01:03 There are the all-star games going on right now. I had no idea the all-star game was happening. There are, it's kind of a dive bar, yeah it's pretty much a dive bar but they do serve food so we ordered some wings. 00:01:17 We got a cup, we're drinking a fine Corona, an undisclosed person and cheers. Cheers. Beautiful undisclosed person, do you feel like introducing yourself or do you still want to stay undisclosed? 00:01:33 Introduce myself. Do you want to give your name or do you want to stay undisclosed? I like to stay undisclosed. 00:01:38 We'll call her, um, Legit. We're going to call you Legit. I prefer Raquel. 00:01:47 Alright, Raquel. Raquel is the undisclosed person. We just ordered two Coronas. I'm going to make this short because I'm not going to stay here all night and do a podcast 00:01:55 but we drove, what did we do? We stayed in Winnemucca last night and drove to Elko, Nevada, ate at a Basque restaurant, pretty good Basque lunch, apparently there's a big Basque population in Elko, Nevada. I think there is in Winnemucca as well. We looked for a dive bar last night and we walked around, we were a little bit afraid 00:02:23 walking in the dark but we managed to make it back alive. The first place we were going to go to was the Butch Cassidy Hole in the Wall, Butch Cassidy Waterhole in the Wall, something like that. It looked shitty, it had fluorescent lights, so we said, ah, we'll look for somewhere else, maybe we'll go to the casino and on the way to the casino we found the perfect dive bar. 00:02:45 I don't remember what it was called, do you remember what it was called? Something tap room, but they didn't have any tap, oh, the Cheers Tap Room, but there was no tap, it was just a dive bar. That was a really good dive bar, so we had a good time, we had a few drinks and then came back to the room, left this morning and stopped in Elko, Nevada, had lunch, where we parked there was a strip club, it said, I forget what the name of it was, but it said Dancing and Diddling, and we're like, what's diddling, I don't know what that means, I 00:03:25 know what diddling means, it means, isn't diddling when you put your finger down there on the girl and you mess around with her, and I said, oh, huh, okay, it's a joke, then I looked to the left and there's a legal brothel right across the street and then there's an Asian legal brothel right next to that, one was called Ann's, what was it called, Mona's what, Mona's Dollhouse or something like that, Mona's Ranch, and then there was Anna's Ranch, 00:03:59 one had Chinese lanterns hanging out of it, hanging outside, and the other one didn't. So there were two brothels, then we walked over to have a nice basket lunch and got back on the road and here we are in Evans something Wyoming, moving right along in the Penske truck, friends, I don't think I got any donations, I haven't looked at the Venmo, but if you care to contribute, it would be much appreciated, I'm hoping to meet with Ken Grossman tomorrow, I'm not positive where we're gonna be driving through, I thought I was gonna be driving 00:04:36 through Boulder, Colorado, and I have to check, if I am, I'm gonna meet up with Ken Grossman, I don't know if I've ever met in person, if not we're gonna head up towards Chicago that way, I don't know, but look at the map and if I'm on that way friends, hit me up, I would love to meet you for a beer or stay on your couch or just to have some food, whatever, or we just shake hands, you can call me an asshole to my face and you can take a look at beautiful Raquel, the undisclosed travel companion. All right friends, that's gonna do it, I'm gonna close out with a song sent to me, we're doing all road songs, we are doing all road songs on this trip, 00:05:19 Kirk Crawford sent me a song, he said Michael Attach is one of my favorite Alvin Lee songs, from a solo album he did in 1973 while still leading 10 years after, and he did it with a country rock singer named Mylon Lefevre, all kinds of British rockers guest appeared on this album, including George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Ron Wood, Mick Fleetwood, among others. Anyway, you may not want to play it on the show as the chorus refrain of the song is, I'm on the road to freedom, on the road to love, that kind of fits, regardless it's a great song written solely by Alvin and he sings lead and plays all the guitar parts, safe travels. All 00:05:59 right, for you Kirk Crawford, I'm gonna play some Alvin Lee, thank you for listening friends, rockandrollgeek.com is where you can find the show, send me an email rockandrollgeek at gmail.com, hit the donate button at rockandrollgeek.com, all the ways you can contribute to the show, if you get any value out of this, if you don't, don't contribute anything, and you can find me on the Facebook rnrgeek, happy birthday Adam Gerstein, friend of the show, he's what, is he 35 today, probably something like that, find me on the Instagram rockandrollgeek, 00:06:33 don't ask, find me on the Twitter rnrgeek, and say goodbye, goodbye, Rock Hill, goodbye, and she doesn't really quite talk, all right I'll talk to you later friends, here's Alvin Lee, I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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Road Trip in a Penske Truck- Day 1

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Butler's Cross-Country Adventure A journey unfolds as the Rock and Roll Geek Michael Butler embarks on a cross-country trip in a 16-foot Penske truck from San Francisco to upstate New York. The adventure kicks off with a lively road trip atmosphere, filled with memorable moments, including a birthday cake party with friends. Highlights from performances along the way showcase a good crowd and positive reception. As the trip progresses, there's a call for donations to support the journey. Chapters: 00:00:13 - Introduction to the journey 00:01:11 - The road trip begins 00:01:53 - Memorable moments 00:02:59 - Celebration with friends 00:03:32 - Performance highlights 00:05:07 - Funding the trip 00:05:41 - Planning the night 00:07:03 - Invitation to connect 00:11:00 - Optimism for the future Music by Foghat Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Ralph Miller for the $125 Penske truck donation Donate on Venmo Dan Gerawan - $100 Concerned Donation John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Kirk Crawford - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Gregg Brofer - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen $5 Richard Fusey - $4.44 Richard Fusey - $6.66 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Bradley Lisko - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Peter Spark $5 Andrew Howe - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Show Transcript Road1 00:00:06 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. 00:00:23 My name is Michael Butler. Thanks a lot for joining me. I really appreciate it. 00:00:27 Today is Monday, July 13, 2026. I am somewhere on the road, on the way, we're driving today to Winnemucca, Nevada. We left San Francisco this morning, rented a Penske truck. 00:00:48 I picked up the Penske truck at 9 o'clock a.m. I told you in the last episode it cost me $3,600. 00:00:56 That's actually not true. It actually cost me five big ones, because your credit card company and your auto insurance doesn't cover truck rental. We are in a 16-foot Penske truck driving it across the country, all the way from San Francisco to an undisclosed location in New York, upstate New York. 00:01:23 We're expecting it to take us 46 hours. It's going to go over eight days, that's the plan. We flew into San Francisco on Thursday, stayed at a hotel at JFK on Wednesday night, the TWA Hotel. 00:01:40 Compliments of the undisclosed person traveling with me. Thank you very much. Beautiful undisclosed person. 00:01:48 Had a good time. We drank a lot. Let's put it that way. 00:01:53 We had a fun time. TWA Hotel is an interesting hotel. It's set up like the old TWA Airlines. 00:02:04 They even have a cocktail lounge in an airplane. It's quite interesting. Pretty expensive, but it was fun. I wouldn't have been able to afford it, but the undisclosed person put in the bill, and 00:02:16 I very much appreciate it, I've got to tell you. So then we flew into San Francisco on Friday. We met up with Craig and his wife, Pam, and their friend Dianne. 00:02:34 Is it Dianne or Diana, or something like that? Super nice woman. We went to Oakland, met with them for drinks and dinner, and we stayed in an Airbnb in Oakland, which was left a little bit to be desired, the Airbnb, but it had a shower, let's put it that way. Then we drove all the way to Ukiah, met up with Casey, Casey Crenshaw, and the girls 00:02:59 in Featherwitch. It was Erica's husband's birthday, and they were having a cake party, so we stopped, a cake, not a keg, a cake party. We stopped in there for some cake, and it was nice to see the Featherwitch girls, haven't seen them in a long time. And of course, there was talk about getting the band back together and all that, and I'm 00:03:15 holding my breath for that one, girls. Then we drove to Ukiah and stayed at a hotel in Ukiah, and then on Saturday, I had a Chad gig up in Fortuna, which is near Eureka. We opened up for a band called Shenandoah. 00:03:33 That was a fun show, a lot of people there, a good crowd, and they liked us. As usual, people thought that I was not a country guy, more of a rock and roll guy, but they seemed to like it, at least the kids that were shouting my name, holding up the metal horns, liked me. There was a cute little punk rock couple dressed as cowboys, and they were line dancing while we were playing. 00:03:55 It was fun. So then after that, the next morning, Sunday morning, we got up and drove all the way to the Mountain House and picked up the rest of my shift from the Mountain House, and then drove all the way to San Francisco and stayed at Don's Basement on Sunday night. There was nobody else there because the kids are being withheld, the grandkids are being withheld from Michael Butler, from Papa, because Papa's an asshole, apparently. 00:04:24 I don't know. I'm not going to get into that, but yeah, we stayed there, went to the Pinsky Truck Company this morning, drove it back to the house in San Francisco, loaded that Pinsky Truck up with all my guitars, all my amps. Did I tell you how much the Pinsky Truck cost? 00:04:42 Well, see, the insurance, your insurance doesn't cover it. It doesn't cover the lost damage waiver. Your credit cards don't cover it. 00:04:50 You have to buy the lost damage waiver. They're walking around showing every scratch. So I had to get the lost damage waiver, which costs $1,000, actually $900 and change. 00:05:01 So this truck ended up costing me close to $5,000. Did I mention that I need some donations? By the way, thank you, Ralph Miller, for contributing to the Pinsky Truck Fund. 00:05:13 You donated $125. Thank you very much, Ralph. You're a great man, I'll tell you. 00:05:18 If you'd like to help contribute, it would be much appreciated. It's $5,000 for a truck, not counting gas. We just pulled over for gas right outside Lake Tahoe. 00:05:27 $6.99 a gallon. 00:05:30 I never paid $6.99 a gallon since Joe Biden was president. I think I paid close to that. 00:05:37 But yeah, $6.99 a gallon. So we're driving to Winnemucca, Nevada. 00:05:42 We're going to stay there tonight. We put into the AI route us to some places with some good dive bars. This place is telling us to go to Winnemucca. 00:05:53 Hold on, I'll take you to some of this water. I can't wait to have a beer. The undisclosed, beautiful undisclosed person is driving the Pinsky truck right now. 00:06:07 I drove the whole way, but I needed to get a podcast in. She's going to take us into Reno. Stopping at Winnemucca. 00:06:14 The chat GPT said there's a couple of great bars in Winnemucca. Walking distance from the hotel. Or it's actually a motel. 00:06:24 So we're pulling into the motel. We're going to park the Pinsky truck and walk to one of the two dive bars it suggested. Billy the Kid's Hole in the Wall. 00:06:34 No, is it? Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall. And there was another one. 00:06:37 I forget what it's called. So we're going to do that tonight. And then we're going to get up in the morning and drive somewhere on the route to Catskills of New York. 00:06:48 So if you're along that route, please hit me up friends. I would love to meet up with you. A few people have. 00:06:57 And we're hoping to meet up with some of them. Depends on where we are. But thank you everybody who's offered to meet up so far. 00:07:04 Please look at the route from Winnemucca, Nevada to Catskills of New York. And let's meet up friends. So that's the update for day one. 00:07:18 The dive bar road trip. The dive bar road trip with all Butler's shit in the back of the Pinsky truck. I got about 30 guitars. 00:07...

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Deep Purple Splat! Track by Track Review and More - Rock and Roll Geek Show 1455

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On this episode, I talk about my upcoming cross country road trip . I would love to meet up with you for a beer a meal or a floor to sleep on. Also, a track by track review of the new Deep Purple album, SPLAT! Music by Paul Westerberg Mickey Dolenz Deep Purple Airbourne Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Donate on Venmo Dan Gerawan - $100 Concerned Donation John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Kirk Crawford - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Gregg Brofer - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen $5 Richard Fusey - $4.44 Richard Fusey - $6.66 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Bradley Lisko - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Peter Spark $5 Andrew Howe - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2

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Big Life Update and Rachel Bolan Solo Album Track by Track Review

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On this episode, I give a major update on my life and do a track by track review of the new Rachel Bolan solo album, Gargoyle of the Garden State. And a special bonus date report from Chris Capelle, the Rock n Roll Copywriter. Purchase Gargoyle of The Garden State HERE Music by Speed Stroke Velveteen Queen Rachel Bolan Valley Lodge Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Donate on Venmo John Morgan - $50 Hang In There Bud Ralph Miller - $50 Travel Funds Dan Gerawan - $50 Tim Schall - $50 Kirk Crawford - $50 Rockbottom Rob Giglio - $25 Stephen Lumm - $20 Blake Johnston - $20 Gregg Brofer - $20 Richard Fusey - $15 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Jason Shepard - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Bradley Lisko - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 William Bealle - $10 Vincent Crimi - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Andrew Howe - $5 Peter Spark $5 Gregg Long - $5 Brian Grattidge - $2 William Moffett - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Adam Croft - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2

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RIP Jack Douglas and More - Rock and Roll Geek Show 1453

Jun 201:31:45Tap to summarize

On this episode, in tribute to Jack Douglas, I play all songs produced by him. Also a Triumph show review from Blake Johnston and Michael Street, Eric the RnRPleeb calls in with show reviews of the new Iron Maiden documentary and a David Lee Roth Show Review. I also review Ultimate Classic Rock's article on the number one albums of 1976. Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Joe Pawlak for the $200 cash Donation! Thanks to Dave Franco for the $100 cash Donation! Donate on Venmo Ralph Miller - $50 Travel Funds Dan Gerawan - $50 John Morgan - $25 Blake Johnston - $20 Gregg Brofer - $20 Stephen Lumm - $20 Richard Fusey - $11 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Steven Cohen - $5 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak - $16.66 Kirk Crawford - $12.77 Patrick Shanahan - $10 Brian Springer - $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street - $7.50 Dave Slusher - $5.55 Robert Harvey - $5 Chiaki Hinohara - $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford - $5 Erik Klein - $5 Paul Smith - $5 Justin Lefkowitz - $5 Steve Trice - $5 James Shapiro - $5 Martin Clawley - $5 Nadi Itani - $5 Eric Stowell - $4 Mike Hellyer - 4 pounds Mark Mazzel - $3 Adrian Boschan - $2 Amelia Bowen - $2 RnR Pleeb - $1.42 3Legs4wheels - $1 Arne Stach - $1 Paypal Donors Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Richard Strom - $20 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 William Bealle - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 School Of Podcasting - $10 Bradley Lisko - $10 Benjamin Mueller - $5 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Vincent Crimi - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Peter Spark $5 Gregg Long - $5 Andrew Howe - $5 Brian Grattidge - $2 Kai Matsuda - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Adam Croft - $2 William Moffett - $2

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Drinking on a Saturday Afternoon - Rock and Roll Geek Show 1452

May 901:30:00Tap to summarize

On this episode I talk about my trip to my hometown. I talk about seeing Steve Earle in a church. I listen to the first 2 new Rolling Stones songs. The Rock n Roll Copywriter calls in with a Cheap Trick Show Review. The Rock n Roll Hoosier calls in with a Foghat Show review. And more! Music by Steve Earle and The Supersuckers Rolling Stones Cheap Trick American Heartbreak Rod Stewart Donate to the show - Rock and Roll Geek Friends And Family Membership Thanks to Joe Pawlak for the $200 cash Donation! Thanks to Dave Franco for the $100 cash Donation! Donate on Venmo Tim Schall - $50 Kirk Crawford - $50 Dan Gerawan. -$50 John Morgan - $25 Blake Johnston - $20 Gregg Brofer - $20 B.J. Lisko - $20 Richard Fusey $11.95 Todd Cunningham - $10 Danny Borden - $5 Bruce McMillan - $3 (Venmo donation id is @Michael-Butler-11) PATREON DONORS Joe Pawlak – $16.66 Kirk Crawford – $12.77 Patrick Shanahan – $10 Brian Springer – $8 Jon Scott - $8 Michael Street – $7.50 Dave Slusher – $5.55 Robert Harvey – $5 Chiaki Hinohara – $5 MedakiMetal on Instagram Jamie Jefford – $5 Erik Klein – $5 Paul Smith – $5 Justin Lefkowitz – $5 Steve Trice – $5 James Shapiro – $5 Martin Clawley – $5 Nadi Itani – $5 Eric Stowell – $4 Mike Hellyer – 4 pounds Mark Mazzel – $3 Adrian Boschan – $2 Amelia Bowen – $2 RnR Pleeb – $1.42 3Legs4wheels – $1 Arne Stach – $1 Paypal Donors Richard Strom - $20 Dave Franco - $20 Steven Laperriere - $20 Jason Shepard - $10 Bradley Lisko - $10 Ralph Miller - $10 William Bealle - $10 School of Podcasting - $10 Jeff and Cheri Thieleke - $10 Christopher Del Grande - $5 Andrew Howe - $5 Jayce Lesniewski - $5 Benjamin Mueller - $5 John Ofenloch - $5 Vinent Crimi - $5 Jon Tennis - $5 Rachel Rosenberg - $5 Gregg Long - $5 Adam Croft - $2 Deborah Dreyfus - $2 Brian Grattidge - $2 Peter Spark - $5 Kai Matsuda - $2 William Moffett - $2 Lasse Satvedthagen - $2 Chad Kiffmeyer - $2 Dave Alexander - $2

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