Before Stan, there was Randy. And Randy’s coming out of the vault.

Randy! is a self-published memoir of a Maryland thirty-something jerk found by author Mike Sacks at a garage sale and re-published here for you. The audio was captured by the struggling poet and novelist Noah B., who is embedded in the mind and lifestyle of a perversely unexceptional American asshole named Randy.

Like Pale Fire if it were about a Danny McBride-style fuck-up, the story is both unmoored from time and eerily prescient of our own—one so stupid and unbelievable that it requires a writer like Mike Sacks to bring it to light.

Starting April 16 on the StanLand feed.

You can binge all 11 CD’s when you Enter StanLand on Apple Podcasts.

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“Randy is a hilariously, unexpectedly poignant and eminently worthy addition to Sacks’ sociological/anthropological exploration of the American Jackass and his curious ways. Audacious and inspired.”

Nathan Rabin, Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place

“The year’s best memoir is about a man who shot a porno in a Baskin-Robbins.”

Vice

“Randy does more to explain certain unexpected turns in this nation’s political fate over the last couple of years than a bazillion think-pieces in the Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, MSNBC.”

John Colapinto, The New Yorker