Get access to the complete 280 Mysteries archive, including the episode we just recorded with Jeopardy host Ken Jennings, on the 372 Patreon: patreon.com/372pages Sally is once again pounding Bugs’ face into oblivion, Encyclopedia is still sucking in the gasoline fumes from his makeshift cash register, and people in Idaville are still doin’ some crimes! … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back Ep 10 – The Case of the Bird Watcher"...
Jun 12, 2025•15 min
Be the first to find out what our next book is going to be, join the 372 Patreon and get access to every episode a week early, and a ton of other exclusive stuff you’ll only find there! patreon.com/372pages All good things must come to an end. Also, Ugly Love must come to an end, … Continue reading "372 Pages #188 – Ugly Love Ep 5 – This is Brad’s World Now"
Jun 05, 2025•2 hr 33 min
Get access to the complete 280 Mysteries archive by supporting us on Patreon! patreon.com/372pages We’re back to Idaville, the boy detective, Leroy Brown, replete with gangs of roving toughs, girls breaking boys jaws: you know, the usual stuff. But can Mike crack this very, very tough case?
May 29, 2025•19 min
Support the podcast on Patreon, where you’ll be the first to learn what we’re reading next and get access to a whole archive of stuff we’ve never released on the free feed! patreon.com/372pages If you’ve stuck with us this far you must be a fan of the words “kiss” and “heart.” And of the phrase … Continue reading "372 Pages #187 – Ugly Love Ep 4 – No, Cap Does NOT Sport a Thong"
May 20, 2025•2 hr 19 min
Support the podcast on Patreon! Get every episode a week early, plus access to the 280 Mysteries archive, plus fun stuff like the Choose Your Own Adventure live stream we did last month! patreon.com/372pages To be clear, Dillon is terrible. BUT he’s the least like a cardboard cutout of all these dumbasses (which is not … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep #186 – Ugly Love Ep 3 – Dillon = HERO"
May 06, 2025•2 hr 25 min
Gain access to the entire 280 Mysteries archive, plus get every episode of 372 Pages a week early, when you sign up for our Patreon! http://patreon.com/372pages There’s no bunnies or smoking jackets, but there is a frightened playboy. Let’s see if Mike can solve the case!
May 01, 2025•13 min
Don’t be a Dylan, support the podcast on Patreon! https://patreon.com/372pages Follow us on TikTok! Look, Cap is a ghost. Or a specter. Or a haint, or something old-timey, and Tater is clearly either dead or in another realm (full disclosure: that is Mike’s guess. Conor has other theories) but no matter what realm we’re in, … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep #185 – Ugly Love Ep 2 – Kissing. SO Much Kissing…"...
Apr 21, 2025•2 hr 36 min
Support the podcast on Patreon, where you get access to the complete 280 archive, every episode a week early, and other fun stuff! https://patreon.com/372pages Join us once again in Batshitcrazytown, USA, aka Idaville, where Encyclopedia Brown is attempting to solve a case that initially appears to be an attempted murder, but fortunately only ends up … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back #7 – The Case of Cupid’s Arrow"...
Apr 14, 2025•18 min
Support the podcast on Patreon, where you get to hear everything before everybody else and get a bunch of stuff we only post there! https://patreon.com/372pages Get the book here (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4kKujs4 Ah, a fresh author, a fresh book, a new start; meeting new characters, exciting new locat– wait. What? Half the chapters are center … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 184 – Ugly Love Ep 1 – Cap’s “V” Points Right to His Bullseye"...
Apr 07, 2025•2 hr 38 min
Hear the full 280 Mysteries archive on our Patreon: patreon.com/372pages Craig Finn of The Hold Steady joins our little podcast and the results are nothing short of spectacular. His new book and his upcoming tour with Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü are of course discussed (and Mike somehow refrained from telling him the story of … Continue reading "280 Mysteries #35 – The Case of the Mysterious Thief – With Craig Finn"...
Apr 03, 2025•52 min
Support the podcast on Patreon, where they found out what the book was a week ago! https://patreon.com/372pages It’s been 32 books, but it’s finally time for us to learn what the most popular author on the planet, Colleen Hoover is all about. This book is “Ugly Love” which has about as many reviews on Goodreads … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 183 – Book 33: Ugly Love"
Mar 19, 2025•49 min
Here’s another diabolic mystery concerning Idaville’s very own cryptid, the legendary SKUNK APE! It also, for the third time since we started doing these, involves a pilfered string instrument.
Mar 13, 2025•24 min
Want to know what we’re reading next before anybody else? Support the podcast by subscribing on Patreon! https://patreon.com/372pages This is our last reading of The Legend of Rah & the Muggles, so obviously, the following things will be resolved, wrapped up, made clear, etc. -The golden key-The box in the cave-Rah and Zyn’s parents-Sir Geoffrey-The … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 182 – Muggles #3 – Zyn? You all right, man?"...
Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 40 min
In our latest foray into Idaville based petty crime, Mike will not be alone in his attempt to solve a mystery. He’ll also have to compete with legendary ne’er-do-well Bugs Meany, who has started his own detective agency to compete with Bad Bad Leroy. This episode features one of the more legendary solutions we’ve encountered … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back #5 – The Case of Bugs Meany, Detective"...
Feb 21, 2025•17 min
Let’s start by confessing that, yes; The Legend of Rah & the Muggles is obviously a children’s book. I mean, the nuclear holocaust on page one. The small, deformed, hairless creatures getting dragged away by terrifying rodents. Giant horse ants. Fruit worms. This is kid stuff. Still! That does not deter Mike nor Conor from … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 181 – Muggles #2 – Look, Dr. Dibbs is Obviously Not a Real Doctor…"...
Feb 14, 2025•2 hr 27 min
Witness Intimidation is all the rage in Idaville, as Mike tries to solve the most insanely diabolical “mystery” the boy detective and your hosts have encountered so far. Sobol, you monster! Support the podcast on Patreon and get access to over 30 more 280 Mysteries! Plus get access to all 372 Episodes a week early … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back #4 – The Case of the Frightened Witness"...
Feb 07, 2025•21 min
Support the podcast on Patreon where you get every episode a week early plus other assorted nonsense like Mike trying to recap Star Wars and our other podcast 280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back! https://patreon.com/372pages Get the book here: Strange, hairless beings. Weird animals. Aquatic creatures. Caretakers caked with their own filth. And these are … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 180 – The Legend of Rah and the Muggles #1 – Death. War. Destruc — oh, hello, Walter!!"...
Jan 30, 2025•2 hr 25 min
WOW! Mentions of Garrett P. Serviss, the phrase “a lick and a promise”, balloon clowns, kidnapping and Reverends. Also, find out if Mike improves on his .500 record of solving E. Brown mysteries. If you like 280 Mysteries, please support the 372 Pages Patreon, where you can get immediate access to the whole back catalogue … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back #3 – The Case of the Balloon Man"...
Jan 23, 2025•20 min
If you supported our Patreon you could’ve been listening to this a week ago! Join the fun here: patreon.com/372pages In this episode we’ll cover the wild backstory of our 32nd book “The Legend of Rah and the Muggles”. You may have heard about the 2001 lawsuit regarding this and the author’s other books about “Larry … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 179 – Book 32: The Legend of Rah and the Muggles"
Jan 16, 2025•48 min
Thanks to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon in 2024. Hear all 30+ 280 Mysteries, get every new 372 a week early, and other fun stuff if you join us there in 2025! patreon.com/372pages Mike did pretty well in his first attempt to solve an Encyclopedia Brown mystery. But will he be able to … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back Episode #2 – The Case of Merko’s Grandson"...
Jan 02, 2025•20 min
Thanks to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon this year. Don’t miss out on getting every new episode early plus all the other fun stuff we have planned for 2025! https://patreon.com/372pages Ahhh, coziness. Licorice. The sound of ice cream being slopped down while kidnap victims await their fate. Long arms being deftly handled by … Continue reading "372 Pages Ep 178 – The Quilting Cruise Ep 4 – A Cozy Gangland Murder"...
Dec 26, 2024•2 hr 19 min
Over on the 372 Patreon, which you should join now, we’ve been doing an entire second podcast for a year and a half now called 280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back where we explore the insane world of Idaville and it’s world famous boy detective Encyclopedia Brown. We challenge each other, as well as hilarious … Continue reading "280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back – Episode 1: The Case of the Glass of Ginger Ale"...
Dec 20, 2024•22 min
Support the podcast on Patreon where you get every episode a week early and lots of other fun stuff: https://patreon.com/372pages Get the book here https://amzn.to/41qteP7 Redwork is finally explained. As are blackwork, bluework and greenwork. Also (drool alert!) cruise ship food is repeatedly mentioned. I’ve also heard that The Captain’s Dinner happens. And for those … Continue reading "Ep 177 – The Quilting Cruise Ep 3 – Gabe’s Delicious Voice"...
Dec 12, 2024•2 hr 26 min
Support the podcast on Patreon and get to hear all the stuff we talk about on here that isn’t available anywhere else, plus get every episode a week early! patreon.com/372pages Get the book here (we may earn a commission from this link) Mike and Conor are back in the CozQuiltPlasVerse (still haven’t fully shaken the … Continue reading "Ep 176 – The Quilting Cruise Ep 2"
Nov 26, 2024•2 hr 15 min
It’s cozy season! It’s cruise season! Wait, can it be BOTH?? Get the book here https://amzn.to/4fzHWa1 (affiliate link) If you supported the podcast on Patreon you’d have already been cozy for a week because we post every episode there a week early! Plus we have another ENTIRE PODCAST on there where we try to solve … Continue reading "Ep 175 – Book 31: The Quilting Cruise"
Nov 14, 2024•42 min
Support the podcast on Patreon where you can hear our latest attempts to solve insane Encyclopedia Brown mysteries with special guests Alex Schmidt, John Hodgman, and David Roth! https://patreon.com/372pages Finally, the most pressing questions are answered: who is Mrs. Juneanne Stackpoole? Will Anselmo be as big a character as we always assumed? What’s the latest … Continue reading "Ep 174 – Tek Kill – Ep 4"
Oct 17, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Support the podcast on Patreon, where you get every episode early as well as all the other fun stuff we talk about on these eps! https://patreon.com/372pages We have what you all crave: tantalizing new facts about Sid. Also, without noting it we meet what we have to imagine is the 750th character in this relatively … Continue reading "Ep 173 – Tek Kill – Ep 3"
Oct 01, 2024•2 hr 9 min
Support the podcast on Patreon. Special guest have started joining us for 280 Mysteries! https://patreon.com/372pages We’ve kept you waiting long enough: time to find out the moisture level of Sid’s facial hair and to name the implement or implements he uses to groom it. Also, our experimental Real or FanFic continues to go swimmingly / … Continue reading "Ep 172 – Tek Kill – Ep 2"
Sep 17, 2024•2 hr 16 min
Support the podcast on Patreon so you can hear our recap of the previous 7 books in the series, Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, and all the other stuff we talk about in this episode! http://patreon.com/372pages So many characters! Why? Ok, we’ve calmed down now. We’re back in the Tek-verse. We’re happy, I wouldn’t hesitate to say, … Continue reading "Ep 171 – Tek Kill – Ep 1"
Jul 24, 2024•2 hr 26 min
If you were on Patreon this would be old news because we announced it there a week ago! Support the podcast here: patreon.com/372pages The new book is announced! Since it is one of a series, we bring everyone up to date with excerpts of previous books AND Mike tells another story about his dad (squeamish … Continue reading "Ep 170 – Book 30 Announcement: Tek Kill"
Jul 09, 2024•32 min
