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Tales of the Old Detective and Other Big Fat Lies

by Philip Austin

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magnus_nord The writing is highly inventive, and wonderfully weird. And Austin's voice is so soft and inviting even when he's saying such surreal stuff. No one else write's like he does.
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lovesluv2 Just everything! Phil’s voice and delivery are exquisite but knowing I will be giggling and belly laughing all the way through is the best one could ask. Phil can communicate a scene and the spoken words, perfectly. Phil is a real and truly dear old friend, so this audio is a special treat for me. I will play it over and over and over, as I do all of he and The Firesign Theater albums and books💖 Heavenly, I thank you!! Favorite track: The House of Little Men or The Futile Attempts by Men to Control Women.
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Philip Austin, one of America's great comedy writer/performers and one quarter of the Firesign Theatre, was the editor and main contributor of an alternate-universe 1930s-era New Yorker that never was. Influenced in equal parts by the noir of Hammett, the deeply personal short stories of Saroyan, and the barn-burning surrealism of the Marx Brothers, he wrote stories of The Old Detective, a shamus who hung out in a tatty pink-plaster bungalow telling tales of exotic babes shooting craps in a barrel; mountaineers who work laterally across miles of urban city streets; mobsters who want to control the Earth by controlling the moon and therefore women; and an auto industry leader named C. William (Bob) Heeblehauser who's invented a car that runs on the smog of the car in front of it. Phil recorded this audiobook version of his stories in 1995. A must-have for anyone who's enjoyed his work in or out of the Firesign Theatre.

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released April 6, 2021

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The Firesign Theatre Los Angeles, California

The Firesign Theatre emerged from Radio Free Oz, a Los Angeles underground radio program, in 1966. Over five decades they released over two dozen comedy albums and ten books of plays. Their album "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" was inducted into the Library of Congress recording registry in 2005. ... more

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