Stinker Lets Loose!

By: Mike Sacks, James Taylor Johnston

Narrated by: Jon Hamm, Eric Martin, Andy Richter, Rhea Seehorn, Andy Daly, Paul F. Tompkins, James Urbaniak, John DiMaggio, a full cast

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

[Contains explicit content] The outrageous, madcap, and oft-forgotten 1977 cult movie classic is now finally available as a multi-cast audio extravaganza. You ain't never heard anything like it! Oh, and it’s now a New York Times audio bestseller!

Bestselling author Mike Sacks (And Here's the Kicker, Poking a Dead Frog) has just discovered the original novelization of the long-lost classic movie, Stinker Lets Loose!

Mike has teamed up with director Eric Martin to adapt the novelization into a fully immersive cinematic audio experience, and an epic all-star cast has come together to introduce Stinker to a whole new generation of fans! It's Smokey and the Bandit meets Every Which Way But Loose meets Smokey and the Bandit Parts 2 and 3. Feel the thrill as Stinker teams up with old pals Boner and Jumbo, plus new friends Buck and Rascal the Chimp, for a crazy ride across the highways and byways of Bicentennial America and meets scores of beautiful Southern gals, reams of treacherous villains, and even the Big Man!

Will Stinker truly Let Loose? Or will Big Government and the Smokeys bring him down?

A loving send-up of a bygone era of trucker films and their beer-swillin', skirt-chasin', verb-shortenin' heroes, this audio adventure is a joyride in absurdity; with its rapid-fire jokes only matched by their total outrageousness. But enough of this jaw-jackin'. If you don't listen, then the joke's on you!

Now with a special bonus chapter! Enjoy a live performance of highlights from the audiobook, performed by a full cast of actors and musicians at SF Sketchfest. Tune into Chapter 50 for the full live show!

Narrated and Directed by Eric Martin

Starring Jon Hamm as Stinker

Rhea Seehorn as Gwyneth

Andy Daly as Boner

John DiMaggio as Jumbo and Sheriff Sledge

Paul F. Tompkins as Clarence Macleod and Mr. Walsh

Jessica McKenna as Buck

Kimmy Gatewood as Betty

Mark Gagliardi as Big Red

Justin Michael as Pip

With James Urbaniak as President Jimmy Carter and Jeremiah King

Guest Starring Andy Richter as Orville Max

And Phillip Baker Hall as the Big Man

Introduction by Mike Sacks

Full cast includes: Scott Brick, RC Bray, Rachel Butera, Emily Woo Zeller, PJ Ochlan, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Heather Forte, Robert Beitzel, and Seth Allen

Original songs by CJ McKnight as played by Mark Rozzo

"This movie made my eyes bleed, and the book made pus run out of them. The two things were made for each other. They're awful and awfuler. This novelization stinks." - David Sedaris

Rated R. Contains mature 1970's themes.

Presented by Audible Comedy / An Audible Original Production

©2017 Sunshine Beam Publishing (P)2018 Audible Comedy

Hilarious Southern-Fried Summer 1977

Unabashed, exciting, profane, and ultimately a truly hilarious wild ride through 1970s car culture action comedies. Jon Hamm brings all of his acting chops that impressed fans of 1950s-60s nostalgia on Mad Men and deftly translates it from Manhattan to the I-95 corridor, outperforming my memories of Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood in their own trucker and simian comedies. Mike Sacks weaves a seat of your pants story at the same time creating so many southern-fried twists of language that will have you laughing and repeating the few which are repeatable in polite company. I can’t recommend this enough to those of us who remember 1977 all too well.

Offensively Hilarious

Listen: this audiobook is terrible, but terrible in a good way. It's full of slurs, stereotypes, pubic hair, mustaches, f-bombs, Trans-Ams, CB lingo, monkeys, and sex, just like it really was in the 70s. If you are offended by children drinking beer while a chimp pees on people from a hot air balloon, then this is the wrong book for you. But if you understand parody and can control your emotions for 5 hours and 53 minutes, you should get this and prepare to LOL.

Laughed Out Loud from the Very First Line

Any additional comments?

This book is hilarious, from start to finish. I started listening to it on a train and had to stop because I didn't want to disrupt other passengers with how much I was laughing! I had the opportunity to see excerpts from the book performed live last week at SF Sketchfest - and it was amazing. The talent that came together to do the reading was just incredible! Some stories are over-the-top outrageous in a way that might not be accessible to a wider audience....not this one. The whole audience was practically in tears from laughing at the non-stop jokes and the performances of the narrators. I would definitely recommend this book, it's the funniest thing I've come across in a while!

I've got my fingers crossed for an updated version of the movie!! ;)

American trash media at it's finest.

It's about as trashy and vulgar as you expect, maybe even more so, which just makes it all the better. The last hour and a half is a live reading of select parts of the book. It's very well done and woth listening too even after you've finished the rest of it.

I actually worked on this movie.

In the mid 1970s I worked on 3 low budget drive in movies. The first (and easily most successful) was a hillbilly race car movie entitled Moonrunners that was the bases for The Dukes Of Hazard television program. The second was a screwball science fiction comedy so full of plot holes and continuity errors that it was deemed unreleasable. Eventually the distributor edited in a few hardcore sex scenes and it was released as Flesh Gordon during the porn chic era.

The last movie I worked on was a trucker buddy CB radio film entitled Stinker Let’s Loose. It stared a first time actor named James McCoolroy who seemed to have been hired on the basis of his ability to grow chest hair. The director was a Spanish alcoholic who insisted the script be rewritten to include his recently acquired pet chimpanzee. And the whole thing was sponsored by Schlitz beer. I swear the entire cast and crew spent the whole six weeks of filming absolutely shit face plastered on schlitz. I remember one night the piss drunk director offering $1000 to anyone who could out box his monkey. The film was an unmitigated disaster and to the best of my knowledge it never was released. Some of the footage was sold to other better trucking movies. A scene where several truckers smash up a town with their big rigs in an attempt to rescue Stinker from a corrupt sheriff ended up in the movie Convoy. Another scene where a truck was crashed through a billboard was used in White Line Fever. But as far as I know the film as a whole was never released.

So how did this book come into being? I have no idea. Maybe the author found a copy of the original script, maybe he found the a copy of the film in an archive somewhere, who the hell knows? The fact is I had almost forgotten about Stinker, Boner and the rest of this foul mouthed fun loving crew until Audible suggested this book to me and then god how the memories came pouring back. Honestly it might be the best $1.95 I have ever spent.

Grade-A Asinine Humor.

Pop in your earbuds, pluck out your buttplugs. It's a non-stop ride in the funny lane. Full of funny words, funny sentences, and funny noises! Hee-haw! It's just one big chimpanzee's ass and a truckload of funny. Perhaps the funniest hootin' audible you ever did enjoy. If you enjoy funny, it's a fine-behind choice! Woo-hoo! Let it loose and hear it one-time (or two) for the Stinker!

Hilarious!

Anyone who grew up in or lived through the 1970s will love this. John Hamm is spectacular as Stinker. So much fun!

One sitting

What made the experience of listening to Stinker Lets Loose! the most enjoyable?

I listened to this in one sitting. I skipped work. Probably worth it though because it was amazing. I hope it starts a whole new movement of books like this. It was really well done, well written, great narration. I have nothing bad to say.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes.

What the hell did I just listen to

Thank God this thing was only $2. A ridiculous story, but a good time killer

Monkeys, Muscle Cars, & Madcap Marathons!!

In the late 70's & early 80's (thanks primarily to Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham setting the tone of the genre) Southern-Fried Trucker movies & TV were all the craze. They were outrageous, fun loving, anti-establishment thrill rides that surprisingly managed to function as family entertainment because they had something for EVERYBODY. For us kids, there were the car chases, odd animal sidekicks, & tons of sophomoric jokes that we wouldn't *completely* get until we were older. Adults enjoyed the irreverent humour that thumbed it's nose at snooty "Northeastern" intellectualism & reveled in blue collar working men & women's pride.

"Stinker Lets Loose" is a rowdy celebration of this era of American film & TV that evokes all the nostalgia of that era without taking itself too seriously. Or even, AT ALL. But it's a GOOD thing, this satirical look back. It lovingly pokes fun both at itself & the entertainment genre it seeks to emulate. It brings back everything that we loved about this time, but through the filter of a modern day P.O.V. that allows us to laugh not just at the insanity of Stinker & company's adventures---but also to laugh WITH them as they move from one ridiculous setting to the next. It's just pure FUN. And man, is it FUNNY.

It's clear that everybody involved in creating this production was significantly invested in it & determined to make "Stinker Lets Loose" as much of a damn good time for the listener that they possibly could. And they pull it off AMAZINGLY well. You will lose yourself in the nostalgia for that bygone American era that the story recreates, and revel in the sheer ridiculousness of it all at once. It's fun, it's crazy, the performances are magnetic & AMAZING, it keeps the story moving at a great pace, and even though it's comedy satire, its written SMART. And not just "Country Smart"...as Stinker might be apt to say. It's SMART satire for everybody to enjoy. So pop yourself open a cold one, sit back, and have a damn great time with Stinker and the gang. You will NOT regret taking this big rig marathon muscle car ride.

Also? Don't ever get physically caught by a horned-up monkey about to travel by air. This should be common sense, but malt beverages can be historically known to impair sound judgement. Consider it a Pro Tip.