Support the podcast on Patreon to get every episode a week early and hear extra stuff you can’t get anywhere else! https://patreon.com/372pages Get the book here It’s finally here: a book that’s not Mayor of Noobtown! This is the inaugural episode of our new book Empress Theresa by Norman Boutin, and as such, Mike is required to be tested by the crucible of Real or Fanfic. It’s… well… you’ll have to listen. If, for some insane reason, medical or otherwise, you weren’t able to read Super Constitu...
Apr 24, 2026•2 hr 34 min
Support the podcast on Patreon where you get every episode a week early and have access to a whole bunch of other stuff you can’t get anywhere else! patreon.com/372pages Before we get to the meat and potatoes of it, Conor is challenged with a quiz from Mike. It’s quite a turnaround and is utterly un-skippable! READING ASSIGNMENT: Read through chapter 5. Get the book here , but only click AFTER you’ve listened!!...
Apr 13, 2026•31 min
Be the first to find out what we’re reading next by supporting the podcast on Patreon ! patreon.com/372pages As any hero would say, without looking back at the smoking ruins / nearly dead enemy / exploding spaceship, “It’s over. It’s finally over.” It’s true: you can remove your hands from in front of your eyes and take out your earplugs: The Mayor of Noobtown is no more. It’s in distinguished publisher HarperCollins’ hands now.* BUT, before we leave, we spend an inordinate amount of time dissec...
Mar 26, 2026•2 hr 45 min
Support the podcast on Patreon , where you get every episode a week early and a ton of other stuff that’s only available for supporters! https://patreon.com/372pages Just one more reading of distinguished publisher Harper Collins’ soon-to-be runaway smash best seller The Mayor of Noobtown (featuring, so far, Jim, Shart, AltaVista, JoeBob, Ted Goblin and Jerry Wolf)! If you have been reading along (and if so, in the words of Jim Downey, “May God have mercy on your soul.”) then you’re already awar...
Mar 12, 2026•2 hr 24 min
There’s a whole bunch more of these only on our Patreon ! Go check it out: https://patreon.com/372pages Conor v. Donald J. Sobol. Two men enter. Only one will leave.
Feb 25, 2026•16 min
Level up in: Supporting the podcast on Patreon ! https://patreon.com/372pages If you are reading along – and we’re gonna go ahead and assume you’re reading along – you’ll know that Conor and Mike are going discuss character sheets at great length. You could listen to an entire series of podcasts about character sheets and still not hear as much discussion of character sheets as you’ll get in this episode. Also lots of talk about doo-doo and wee-wee. Plus an EXTREMELY controversial episode of Rea...
Feb 17, 2026•2 hr 21 min
Level up in: Supporting the podcast on Patreon ! https://patreon.com/372pages If you are reading along – and we’re gonna go ahead and assume you’re reading along – you’ll know that Conor and Mike are going discuss character sheets at great length. You could listen to an entire series of podcasts about character sheets and still not hear as much discussion of character sheets as you’ll get in this episode. Also lots of talk about doo-doo and wee-wee. Plus an EXTREMELY controversial episode of Rea...
Feb 17, 2026•2 hr 21 min
Listen to the entire 280 Mysteries archive and take part in fun exclusives like our Choose Your Own Adventure livestream with John Hodgman, only on the 372 Patreon ! https://patreon.com/372pages Can Conor crack the case of The Dwarf’s Beard? If you don’t say yes Sally is gonna sock you one real good!!
Feb 06, 2026•16 min
Don’t wanna be a NOOB? Then support the podcast on Patreon ! Get every episode a week early plus other stuff we don’t post anywhere else! https://patreon.com/372pages Ah, literature. Set your mind on higher things. Assuming that doo-doo and wee-wee are higher things. ‘Cause there’s a lot of it in a scant few chapters. And speaking of scant few chapters, Mike and Conor found enough in them to talk for nearly three hours! However, in that time they managed to cram in your Dumb Sentences and Mike h...
Jan 28, 2026•2 hr 38 min
Listen to the entire 280 Mysteries archive and get every episode of the podcast a week early, only on our Patreon ! https://patreon.com/372pages It’s like we’ve always said here at 372 Pages, it’s about time someone took a real hard look at Wagon Masters! I don’t trust them. Never have. And this Encyclopedia Brown mystery really puts a period on that sentence. Listen to see if Mike can crack the case and match the 10 year-old....
Jan 21, 2026•16 min
Is there a genre we at 372 Pages have not covered? Oh, yes. Yes there is. Join us as we dive into the wildly popular world of LitRPG and our latest book The Mayor of Noobtown Buy the book here Assignment: Read thru Chapter 7
Jan 16, 2026•36 min
Listen to the whole 280 Mysteries archive, that’s over 40 episodes, on our Patreon ! patreon.com/372pages Mike and Conor almost wanted to recuse themselves from this particular Encyclopedia Brown mystery because they both have stolen a LOT of Confederate stamps. Like, a lot. The Feds, Interpol, many organizations are seeking them out. Still, they came out of hiding to present you with this ep....
Jan 09, 2026•18 min
Support the podcast on Patreon and be the first to find out what we’re reading next! patreon.com/372pages How still we see thee DIE! Above thy CREEP ( ahem Sharnek) and dreamless sleep the silent Scrumptious Scotch BARS go by. Yet in thy dark streets DIE-eth the everlasting FIGHT (with the suspect); the hopes and fears of all the BEERS (which are presumably served at the shady bar next to where Holly the professional dogwalker lives) are met in thee tonight. You get the point. This Cozy Christma...
Dec 29, 2025•2 hr 18 min
Thanks to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon this year. Join the fun and get a whole bunch of stuff you can’t hear anywhere else: https://patreon.com/372pages Ok, let’s tally up the cozy: Christmas beanies. Hot chocolate. Candy canes. Matching sweaters with cute doggo. Sentient owl. Butts. Poop. Murdered senior — all right, look! Maybe it’s not all cozy! Still, this is Full Fork, so I expect they will back up the cozy truck before too long. As it is, the Real or Fanfic somehow doesn’t...
Dec 17, 2025•2 hr 37 min
Obviously you’re all thinking, “Donald Sobel wrote an Encyclopedia Brown Mystery about the 1993 Georgia Satellites song?! Weird. But very intriguing! ” Sadly, no. This was written eight years prior to its release. The solution is utter madness.
Dec 10, 2025•20 min
We went over some of the thousands and thousands of cozy mysteries out there before deciding on OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS as our 2025 cozy. Revisit the contenders! Assignment : Read thru Chapter 8
Dec 04, 2025•31 min
Support the podcast on Patreon , where you can hear our latest 280 Mysteries with special guest Dan Deacon, and be the first to learn what book is next! https://patreon.com/372pages This is it, the final episode of Dan Brown’s Deception Point, a book so dumb it raises (lowers?) the level at which a 372 book can be labelled as “dumb.” It’s entire galaxies of dumb-ness. The list of things dumber than it is very small. Dumb and Dumber contains less than a third of the dumbness as this book. There w...
Nov 25, 2025•2 hr 58 min
Pigs are stolen. Gooses killed, gutted, de-feathered, roasted over spits and eaten by drifters. And, evidently, dogs are wounded. Idaville’s an odd place. Can Mike crack the case?! Listen to the complete 280 Mysteries archive on our Patreon ! patreon.com/372pages
Oct 31, 2025•19 min
Support the podcast on Patreon where you get every episode a week early, plus access to every 280 Mysteries episode! https://patreon.com/372pages Find out how this book compares to the works of Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf and Rush. And while you’re at it, follow the exploits of Hot Sexton and her father Senator Sexton Sedgewick. Does triple PhD Dr. Marlinson get his tongue caught in an old timey clothes wringer?! You’ll have to listen to find out. Track Mike’s results on Real or Fanfic and get a loa...
Oct 24, 2025•2 hr 50 min
Listen to the complete 280 Mysteries archive, including our brand new episode with Joel McHale, only on the 372 Pages Patreon! https://patreon.com/372pages Watch goose* is a thing, everyone. Seriously. We don’t like it anymore than you do, but it’s a thing. Mike tries to crack the case. *”Guard goose” would also be an accepted term.
Oct 17, 2025•22 min
Support the podcast on Patreon where you can hear our latest 280 Mysteries episode with special guest JOEL MCHALE! patreon.com/372pages Courvoisier-sipping senator Sedgewick Sexton; the hideous, grotesque, smoke-spewing, long-limbed inhuman creature Marjorie Tench; and Deltas One, Two and Three are just a few of the characters discussed in this episode. So much happens. So many words are misused. So many editors went un-hired. It’s a wonder we could fit in Real or Fanfic as well as Dumb Sentence...
Oct 10, 2025•2 hr 46 min
Listen to the entire 280 Mysteries archive on our patreon! patreon.com/372pages For once, once , it’s a hitchhiker that’s hungry and not a damn hippo! Anyway, Conor throws Donald J. Sobel’s mystery at Mike and Mike attempts to hit it out of the park. Does he succeed? You’ll have to listen.
Oct 03, 2025•15 min
Support the podcast on Patreon and get every episode a week free plus all the other stuff we don’t post anywhere else! patreon.com/372pages Dan Brown is back! The author of Digital Fortress (and, okay, if I have to mention it, The Da Vinci Code ) is typing up words and phrases and clauses as fast as his fingers can go. Most are, well, not very good – but there are a lot of them! Yes, the episode is long. But think of it this way: if you are taking a dogsled trip somewhere above the Arctic circle...
Sep 24, 2025•2 hr 45 min
We announced this book a week ago on our Patreon ! Join in on the fun and support the podcast at patreon.com/372pages We kick off another voyage into the microchapter world of Dan Brown! Plus we’ll hear all about a recent humiliation Mike suffered on the tennis court and read some listener emails. Get Deception Point here (affiliate link) Assignment : Read thru Chapter 31...
Sep 11, 2025•40 min
Check out our Patreon to be the first to find out our next book and to hear the entire 280 Mysteries archives, including the episodes we just released with Bridget and Lauren! patreon.com/372pages In this ep, Conor attempts once again to unravel the many strange threads of Donald J. Sobel. This one involves Melvin Pugh, Idaville’s genius boy inventor, and his latest creation, which can only be described as a Hell of a Rig....
Aug 21, 2025•16 min
Join the Jackals and support the podcast on Patreon ! Find out the next book before everyone else and hear the 280 Mysteries we recorded with Bridget Nelson! patreon.com/372pages Yes, all the things we in America know so well and love so much come together (much like dodgems) in one final episode! This episode has it all: horrible, ghoulish holiday-makers, Farm Supply delivery men, cunning King Crabs, colonels who are probably earlier colonels but never mind, and of course train drivers just wee...
Aug 14, 2025•2 hr 19 min
It’s Conor’s turn to solve the mystery, and Mike has picked out a fiendish one. There are five clues this time, and in a series where even the sole clue a mystery hinges on likely doesn’t make a lot of sense, this means we’re in for a wild ride! Support the podcast on Patreon to gain access to the entire back catalog of 280 Mysteries including some with special guests that you can only find there. Plus be the first to find out what our next book is after Night of the Crabs! patreon.com/372pages...
Aug 08, 2025•17 min
Support the podcast on Patreon and hear stuff you can’t get anywhere else like Mike & Conor’s read thru of the CLASSIC 80s Choose Your Own Adventure book “You Are A Shark” patreon.com/372pages Read along with us, get the book here If you’re even vaguely considering listening to this particular episode, please consider this: a severely hung-over Colonel Goode eats Mrs. Jones’ porridge! Also, please know that Bartholomew suffered dearly; that his last moments on earth were filled with pain and...
Aug 01, 2025•2 hr 5 min
Get access to the complete 280 Mysteries archive on our Patreon : patreon.com/372pages Yes, the smartest man we’ve ever met – and we’ve met dozens of men – joins us in an attempt to outwit Idaville’s greatest boy detective. See if Jeopardy host Ken Jennings can assist Mike with The Case of the Carousel Horse! Pre-order Ken’s new book, The Complete Kennections, out on 7/29: https://amzn.to/4mTjVPN...
Jul 25, 2025•55 min
Support the podcast on Patreon and get every episode early, plus exclusive episodes like our 280 Mysteries episode with Jeopardy host Ken Jennings! https://patreon.com/372pages Get the book here Rejoice with Conor and Mike as they read through a new book that was not written by Colleen Hoover!! This one features a pipe-smoking botanist, bathing costumes, Torgo-esque beachcombers, nosy-parkers, guys in pumps, wide-faced handsome men with mahogany faces and, of course, Pat Benson. Assignment : Rea...
Jul 16, 2025•2 hr 54 min
