RANDY! Coming April 16, 2026 (Trailer)

RANDY! Coming April 16, 2026 (Trailer)

From StanLand & Other Tales From Poolesville by The Sonar Network

April 9, 2026 · 3 min · Season 2

About this episode

The episode is a trailer for the upcoming memoir 'Randy!', exploring the life of an unexceptional American jerk.

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. -- "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…

Topics covered

  • memoir
  • American culture
  • humor
  • podcast trailer
  • literature

Keywords

  • Randy
  • memoir
  • Mike Sacks
  • Noah B.
  • American culture
  • humor
  • podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vice, The New Yorker

Books & works: Randy!, Pale Fire

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