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On The Roam Again

What the hell is this?

“What?”

I thought you were going on a journey to find David Lemieux and make him your sensei.

“I am, I am. But I got waylaid. And then I got way laid.”

You had that it your pocket.

“I did. I almost put it on Instagram, but thought better of it.”

Good decision-making, John. Is this a real human being or one of those Disney animatronics?

“She’s a wrestler. It’s stage makeup.”

You should tattoo your face.

“I’m not gonna do that.”

All the kids are doing it. You could have a guitar on your forehead. DOUCHE KING written under your eyes.

“Hey!”

Ah, I’m sorry. That was uncalled for.

“You’re aggressive and unpleasant. It’s not fun being with you sometimes.”

Sometimes?

“It’s never fun to be in your presence. Not ever at all.”

John, bubbe, you’re nothing without me. Take me out of the equation and it’s just guitar solos and disastrous interviews.

“I was doing fine before you. Banging famous chicks and making the Top Ten. Did not need your help for one second.”

But now you need my help to get to David Lemieux.

“No, I don’t. I’m just gonna get in the Earthroamer and point it north. No trick to it.”

There’s a little trick to it.

“John, thank you for joining me. It’s the Radio Randy Show and we’re here live with John Mayer, who has just pussed down super-hard with a gorgeous lady of wrestling. John, thoughts?”

“What now?”

“Oh, Goddammit.”

I put you on the Earthroamer, John. And I sent Radio Randy along.

“Why?”

He was in the picture.

“John, explain to the listeners what they can expect from grapple-coitus.”

“Grapple-coitus?”

“Wrestler sex.”

“Radio Randy, I don’t know if that’s really the area I want to get into. It never ends well.”

“Describe Jennifer Aniston’s sex musk.”

“Fruity with a strong whiff of vanilla. Like if a banana split just got fucked really hard.”

“Fascinating. We move on to the Avital Ronell controvery.”

“Why does everyone keep asking me about that person? Is it even a person? That sounds like a Star Wars name. I can’t even figure out how to spell it well enough for Google to know what I mean.”

“Where do you see Dead & Company next year?”

“Uh, we have the Mexico shows in January, and then we’ll figure it out from there but I’m pretty positive that another tour is in the cards. We’re learning how to play and there’s a wonderful magic to the band now. It would be stupid to stop. Nothing’s set in stone, but there’s gonna be a tour or two.”

“That’s good news for all the fans out there. Where do you see Dead & Company in 800 years?”

“Not touring as much.”

“You’re suggesting a residency?”

“No.”

“Let’s get back to the googoo.”

“The what?”

“The smush that ladies keep down there. You know. Down there.”

“Hey! You!”

Me?

“Yes. What’s wrong with Radio Randy?”

He’s randy.

“These are the cheapest fucking jokes I’ve ever heard, man.”

Just go talk to him.

“Or what?”

CLIP CLOP CLIP CLOP

“Is that a horse outside the Earthroamer?’

“THE FIRST AMENDMENT SAYS YOU NEED TO LET MY USE THE BATHROOM IN YOUR RECREATIONAL VEHICLE!”

“Goddammit.”

“I GOT A POWERFUL LOG WAITING TO BE SET FREE, MEYERS! LEMME TURN ‘ER LOOSE IN YOUR COMMODE!”

“Hard pass. Hundred percent no on this one.”

“THIS IS CENSORSHIP!”

“How is not letting you shit in my bathroom censorship? It’s an RV. No one’s supposed to shit in the toilet.”

“THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS REQUIRES THAT YOU LET ME SHIT IN YOUR VAN, JOSH MEYERS!”

“It does not. I’m gonna drive away now.”

“THIS IS HOW COMMUNISM STARTED! WHEN PROUD, SHIRTLESS MEN WERE FIRST DENIED ACCESS TO MOBILE POTTIES, THE GULAGS WERE SURE TO FOLLOW!”

“I wasn’t the best history student, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it happened.”

“YOU LOVE GULAGS!”

“What? No. No one loves gulags.”

“YOU’RE THE GULAG-MAN! LEMME DOOKY IN YOUR CAR!”

“Hey!”

Why do you keep bothering me? Just deal with the situation at hand.

“I don’t want to. Look at him.”

That’s peak male performance, John. You may not like what it looks like–

“Yeah, yeah. I’ve been on the internet. He looks like a bear fucked a moron. Get him out of here.”

Anything’s better than him, huh?

“YesNO, WAIT!”

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Goddammit, you tricked me.”

It’s easy. And these are old tricks. You should know them.

“David Lemieux is gonna  become my sensei, and then he’s gonna to teach me how to walk out of posts whenever I feel like it, and then I’m gonna never speak to you again.”

Gonna, gonna, gonna. Phones’ ringing now, pal. Answer it or deal with the Mounted Man-Wolf Of Liberty up there.

“Hate you.”

“Hel–”

“I KNOW IT WAS YEW, JEWBOY, AN’ AH’M FIXIN’ T’ SKIN YEW ALIVE.”

“Goddammit.”

“CONFESS! Damn yew, confess! Ah’m gonna get mah sling blade an’ re-circumcise yew if yew don’t admit t’ writin’ that filthy lie of a letter t’ th’ yellow dog Jew York Times.”

“Sarah, I’m not Jewish. Not that any of that would be okay if I was. And obviously–”

“JEW LIES!”

“–I didn’t write the op-ed in the Times.”

“We done used our computer machines, Jew Mayer! They-a” got t’ whirrin’ and fizzin’ an’ analyzin’ the words of th’ dickless ass-cheese what so horribly run down th’ fine reputation of Trumpident Trump.”

“Trumpident?”

“That’s the new word. No more Presidents. We gonn’ have Trumpidents from now on.”

“Um.”

“Yew know what that computer machine done tol’ us, Dreidel-Dick?”

“Not Jewish.”

“It done tol’ us that th’ language in that there op-ed was exactly th’ same as in your lyrics! Whatchoo say t’ that, yew treasonous cockslammer?”

“Then you’re using the computer wrong. I didn’t write the op-ed. It was from a senior staffer in your administration. I don’t work in the White House.”

“Due t’ shortages in the HR office, we don’ who does an’ who don’t work f’r the Trumpident, so we jus’ assume ev’ryone does.”

“That is sad and not shocking. It is sad that it’s not shocking, though.”

“How could yew do this t’ your country, moneylender!?”

“I’m hanging up.”

“FIRST TH’ ROSENBERGS, NOW YEW!”

“Not Jewish.”

DIAL TONE EVEN THOUGH PHONES NO LONGER DO THAT

“You’re a lousy wretch and once David Lemieux teaches me his secrets, I’m out of here.”

Anything can happen.

In Which Bobby And Sir Paul Set Forth To Find Their Futures, And The Earthroamer’s Bathroom Sings Its Siren Song

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“The Earthroamer looks different than last time, Bob.”

“Y’know, that’s the sort of detail we like to gloss over around here.”

“It’s very nice in here, actually.”

“Have you pooped yet?”

“The very second I got onboard. Couldn’t control me bowels, Bob.”

“Earthroamer does that to people. Drives Josh nuts.”

“Josh?”

“Josh Meyers. New kid in the band. Likes to buy shit, wear clothes. We keep stealing the ‘roamer for adventures, and pooping.”

“Are there many adventures, Bob?”

“There’s sure as shit a lotta pooping!”

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“Hey, Billy.”

“Just left a log in there. An actual log.”

“Because we’re lego.”

“There ya go, Weir. Where we going?”

“In search of the disgraced rogue chemist Doctor Gary, so we need to find Katy Perry.”

“Ooh, nice. Gonna make a run at her.”

“Okay.”

“Squeeze her melons like a Jewish lady in the produce section.”

“If you say so, Bill.”

“Don’t tell Cher.”

“Dammit, Kreutzmann, stop lying about that.”

“If you say so, Weir. Who’s the old lady in the wig?”

“Sir Patrick Stewart.”

“Never heard of him. Hey, how’d you steal this thing this time? Thought Josh was paying attention to it.”

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“He’s busy with his new friends, I guess.”

“Kids these days.”

In Which Bobby And Sir Paul, Who Continue To Be Lego, Realize Both The Nature Of Their Predicament, And, In Conversation With A Shark, A Solution Appears

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“How many days is this going to last, Bob?”

“You’re referring to the fact that while jamming with you and Gronk at Fenway Park last week, my compatriots dosed you and me with God-only-knows-what, causing us to translegofy and also meet many guest stars, including Elvis several times?”

“And also spout exposition, apparently.”

“I was just being polite. Sometimes this crap is tough to follow.”

“What?”

“Nothing. Ser Pico–

“Huh?”

“–I think I know a way out of this. But, first: how does my hair look?”

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“Your hair looks like plastic.”

“Sexy plastic?”

“Bob.”

“All right, all right. Keep your crown on, Your Rampantness. Closest I can figure is we found the LD of the emic.”

“What does that mean?”

“We gave reality an overdose. Might have to jam an adrenaline needle in God’s heart.”

“Metaphorically?”

“Hope so.”

“Bob, you’re making no sense.”

“Yes, but I know someone who does. We just gotta find him. Hey! Lefty!”

“You’re not gonna be mean to me, are you?”

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“Nah, I just got a question.”

“My wife left me.”

“Sorry to hear that. You seen Katy Perry? More specifically, you seen Doctor Gary?”

“Last I saw him, he was masterminding Katy’s kidnapping.”

“Didn’t that storyline wrap up?”

“Do storylines ever really wrap up?”

“Sure, sure.”

“Excuse me, Bob: what’s happening here?”

“Oh my God! Yoko Ono!”

“Do I have a trailer I can go to, Bob?”

“Better. Much better.”

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“Is that an Earthroamer, Bob?”

“Close enough.”

Autostopista Dulce

CELL PHONE NOISE

CELL PHONE NOISE

“You’re on with John.”

“That’s the best so far, but it’s still so awful.”

“Katy, how–

“Where the fuck are you, John? Things have gotten very weird and I need rescuing.”

“Where are you?”

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“Near boats.”

“Can you be more specific?”

“No, John. All the ninjas are dead and I am near boats.”

“That might be the first time that sentence has even been said.”

“John!”

“We’re loading up the Earthroamer. We’re on our way.”

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“I thought you were taking Bobby’s tour bus.”

“We only have one picture of it.”

“Oh.”

“Josh! Let’s get this show on the road. Burning daylight here.”

“Coming, Bob! We’re coming, Katyfingers.”

“Don’t call me that. The boats are talking about me, John.”

“Good things?”

“I don’t speak boat.”

“Sit tight.”

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“I’m driving, Bob.”

“Read your contract.”

“Dammit.”

“And I get control of the radio, too. Do you know there’s a show tune channel?”

“Bob.”

“Jim Fixx has a channel and it’s just black guys telling jokes.”

“Jamie Foxx. Bob.”

“Cousin Brucie, too.”

“Bobby, who is the man in the back of the Earthroamer?”

“Si me traicionas, a continuación, te mataré.”

“Oh, that’s El Guapo.”

“No.”

“From the movie.”

“No.”

“‘It’s a sweater!’ Remember that part?”

“Bob, that’s El Chapo. The Mexican crime lord who keeps escaping from prison.”

“Hola. Te mataré.”

“Yeah, Mexican crime lord, right. His hair isn’t curly anymore, and that’s a shame. Funny hair.”

“Can we just go get Katy and let the weirdness in the back of the Earthroamer take care of itself?”

VROOOOM

“Let’s motorvate.”

“All right.”

“Hey, Josh.”

“Please dont ask me–

“Do you know what a plethora is?”

“–if I know what…dammit, I’m calling Irving when we get home.”

“Te mataré, Yosh.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“See! Still funny.”

He’s The Kind Of Guy That Likes To Earthroam Around

You okay, slugger?

I did something dumb.

There’s still some quicklime left.

Quicklime? You don’t bury bodies here. You toss them into canals and the gators do the work for you.

Right. Did you actually kill someone?

No, worse.

Did you try downloading Snapchat again?

Yeah.

And you didn’t understand how it worked, or what it was?

These apps nowadays. They’re not like the apps we had growing up. There’s no soul to them.

Right. At least tell me you were going to use the Snapchat for pornographic purposes.

You were going to take screenshots of John Mayer’s Snapchat so you can make up your little stories?

He’s back in the Earthroamer, and I he posted about it but this is the biggest shot I can find:

jm earthroamer gear snapchat

That is inadequate.

That word never looks right.

Inadequate?

Yeah.

How should it be spelled?

I don’t know. Am I an pint-sized black orphan adopted by a linebacker who went on to write a dictionary?

You’ve got your Websters all mixed up.

The point being: I find it rude of Young John Mayer to not post many excellent shots of himself and his Dead & Company bandmates in his Earthroamer on a social media platform I am capable of accessing, or understanding. Not right. Sad!

Please don’t do that.

How dare he! After I allowed him to become a Grateful Dead!?

These kids today.

And their apps.

Sure, slugger.

Rejected Grateful Dead Hot Wheels Toys

  • Pig’s 1968 Ford Cortina.
  • The hearse the drummers stole after seeing Ghostbusters.
  • Creepy Ernie’s van.
  • Garcia’s 7-series land yacht.
  • Three semi-trucks with a build-a-figure Wall of Sound in the trailers.
  • Mickey’s sports racer Porsche 911* with authentic tour-cancellin’ crash damage.
  • Phil’s Lotus with lifelike electrical problems and sporadically functioning pop-up headlights.
  • The ice cream trucks that Wake of the Flood was supposed to be sold from.
  • The Bolo bus, which has a john and seats that face front. (With removable Pig in the back seat.)
  • The Bozo bus, which has a refrgierator and some of the seats installed facing back to accomodate four tables.
  • Parish’s Trans-Am.
  • One of those thunderously armored military mineclearing vehicles with the chain flails on the front.
  • This thing:
  • [PDF] Made in India military
  • But with Dead bullshit all over it.
  • Tom Constanten’s Geo Metro.
  • The Fast Motherfucker, an experimental rocket car that Alembic took to the Bonneville Salt Flats and then for some reason let Mickey drive.
  • The Earthroamer.
  • Pig’s Triumph motorcycle.
  • Big-Dicked Sheila’s Miata.
  • The Econoline van that took the band from the venue to the hotel, complete with individualized snacks and beverages.
  • A glazier’s truck, but the windowpanes are, like, windowpanes.
  • Maaaaan.
  • Whatever the fuck this thing is:
  • beetle camper
  • That sucker would drive itself to a Dead show.
  • You could just want to go to the store, but if there were a Dead show going on, then that was where you were going.
  • The doors would lock you in, gears would shift themselves.
  • Keith and Mrs. Donna Jean’s BMWs that you could crash into each other in the Front Street Parking Lot Playset. (Sold separately.)
  • Sewage truck hauling away doody from Watkins Glen.
  • Lillian Monster’s Tesla racecar.
  • Ned Lagin’s Saab.

*Lost Live Dead and Hooterollin’ Around‘s Corry provides this link with additional information and an utterly ridiculous quote from Mickey.

Road Trip Volume 7 (In Which There Is A Foreseeable Twist)

katy john mayer flag shirt“John! Oh, John! Thank you for coming!”

“Of course, Mrs. Katy Jean.”

“No, no: it’s just Katy again.”

“I’m so happy to hear that, Katydoodle.”

“Just Katy.”

“Your psychedelic journey over? You ready to come back home and be a giant pop star?”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“Play some stadiums? Wear some outfits?”

“I do like wearing outfits.”

“You’re good at it.”

“People pay me to wear specific outfits.”

“There ya go. So, what did you learn on your travels?”

“Sun rises every day, even Tuesday.”

“Okay. Anything else?”

“If you feel like puking, puke. You’ll be a new person afterwards. Listen to your stomach.”

“The second observation is of an earthier nature.”

“And also Gnostic wisdom.”

“What?”

“Nothing. Listen, John: can we go? Now-ish?”

“Is everything okay?”

“Sure, sure. Sure. But we should get home.”

“Did something happen–”

“Doctor Gary got a little murdered.”

“–to Doctor Gary? Goddammit.”

“Y’see, I don’t travel light. It was the whole entourage, John. And, you know: it started out with the LSD and the psilocybin and the other mind-expanding stuff, but people sort of lost their way. And there were needles. Then stuff started disappearing and there were fights and schemes and it all went to shit.”

“What an original story.”

“I know, right? Who could have seen it coming?”

“Certainly not Doctor Gary.”

“No. And we should be somewhere else.”

“Sure. Katy?”

“Uh-huh?”

“Did you murder Doctor Gary?”

“No.”

“Fine. Let’s go.”

“Where’s your car?”

“It’s right–”

“Goddammit.”

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“YEEEEEEE-HA!”

“Billy, slow down. Mickey’s in the shower.”

“Kiss my ass, Weir. I’m driving this apartment to Kauai!”

Road Trip Volume 5

113_inaction_std“No, Bob: this is not I-40.”

“Maybe it’s a ring road.”

“It’s not a ring roa–”

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH

“What the fuck, Weir?!”

“Did you see that thing?”

“A raccoon or something in the road.”

“I’ll shoot it!”

“Billy, don’t–”

SLAM

Kuh-CHICK

“OO-TEE-DEE!”

ZZZZZZZZZWHAMMO

“Bob?”

“Yeah, Josh?”

“Did we just get ambushed by Jawas?”

“Looks that way.”

“Should we help Billy?”

“Hell, no. He’s gonna come to in about ten seconds and be in a blind rage. He’ll tear us to shreds.”

“Sure. Hey, Bobby?”

“Yeah?”

“I think I don’t wanna be a Grateful Dead anymore. This is weird.”

“Shows are already booked. No way out.”

“Oh, Billy’s up. You should turn on the windshield wipers.”

“It’s not raining.”

“Blood.”

“Sure.”

Could Have Sworn I Was Forgetting Something

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“HEY! ASSHOLE!”

Excuse me?

“FORGET SOMETHING?”

Josh–

“John.”

–it’s been a rough day.

“Bowie.”

Bowie.

“Mourning over. You need to do something about this situation.”

Isn’t that thing self-sufficient?

“For several humans. Not for many Grateful Deads who–as far as I can understand–are now having a pooping contest.”

They get fixated on stuff.

“Please make the Grateful Dead stop pooping in my car. The exclusive Clean Cartridge™ is no longer clean.”

How many of them are there?

“A lot. All of the keyboardists are here.”

Oh. Don’t let them touch.

“Why?”

It would shred the fabric of reality.

“Oh.”

Like an enraged puma on silk sheets.

“Wow.”

Yeah.

“Lemme text you in a minute.”

Sure.

Roam If You Want To

TotD would be remiss, at this point, not to further illuminate the Secret Hero of this story, John Mayer’s Earthroamer. Not as fast or racist as the General Lee, at least when Billy’s not in it, the Earthroamer is five tons of American freedom. Brings a tear to my eye how much freedom one can buy with three hundred grand.

The ‘roamer is built on a Ford F-550 heavy-duty cab, which is capable of towing 12,500 pounds. That’s almost five football fields! On top of this chassis is a one-piece hand-molded monocoque body; this not only stops leaks, but also allows you to amuse yourself during dull moments by saying “monocoque.”

As the Earthroamer is not some dreary RV, but an Elite Adventuring Vehicle & Aesthetic Statement™, power comes not from a rattling and polluting diesel, but instead from nine or ten other power sources. Honestly, go look at our website: we jammed every variety of engine and motor known to man into this damn thing. Biodiesel, hydrogen, solar cells, batteries, wind turbines on the roof, orgone collector, warp nacelles, and there’s an optional waterwheel so you can park by a river and let the current power your pornographies.

There is also a ladder attached to the side, so you can pretend you are a fireman.

Other options include:

  • Zombie Package. (Bulletproof windows, two hundred-gallon self-sealing gas tank, run-forever tires, chainsaw slats, the whole thing’s wrapped in barbed wire.)
  • Racing stripes of any color.
  • There is literally not one part on this vehicle that cannot be chromed at your command.
  • Seriously: you want a chrome steering wheel, you can have a chrome steering wheel.
  • Earthroamer isn’t McDonald’s; you can have it your way.
  • Which makes them like Burger King, I suppose.
  • Motorcycle lift.
  • Scooter hoist.
  • Little hook for your unicycle.
  • Swing-out outdoor kitchen.
  • Swing-out outdoor toilet. (People will complain, but if you’re buying one of these trucks, then you’re far too rich to worry about complaints until they’re attached to lawsuits, so if you want to make doodies outside, you can.)
  • Built-in dog crate with Easy-Remove™ interior.
  • An angry, one-eyed cat that doesn’t like driving at all and hates you in particular. (No one’s ever ordered that, but Earthroamer’s president, Jim Earthroamer IV, thinks that having it as an option shows the customer the lengths that the company will go to satisfy them.)
  • The Tour Package is a new concept catering to the small but wealthy pocket of rich kids on tour. Built-in dabbing station, multiple hidden air-tight compartments, plus every flat surface turns into a bed so it sleeps 15.
  • Glove compartment smeared with virulent strain of trichinosis. (That’s another one of Jim Earthroamer IV’s ideas, and I’m just gonna level with you here: the Earthroamer family does a lot of inter-breeding. In the RV world, it’s all about blood, so you can’t taint the line. His father was all right–great salesman–but Jimmy was born without shoulders and he’s not that smart and scared of lunch.)
  • Cup holders.
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