After yesterday's episode posted, I remembered that many years ago I had photoshopped the album of Boxcar Willie's greatest hits to make all the songs (but one!) about him being a lizard person. When I went looking for it, it turns out I had had a bit of a lizard person / Icke phase. so here's al...
2022-05-11 13:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostOh, come back lengthy, unending descriptions of New Coke! You are missed. We'll put down here what might be discussed during this episode and let you decide whether it's real or not:
As listeners know, Conor believes all good comedy began with Wayne's World and only improved with the advent of the Ace Ventura series.
We'll post here the one exception -- the single moment of comedy BWW (Before Wayne's World) that Conor m...
2022-05-09 18:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostOur 1st full ep of Gump and Co was chock full so here we read a few letters and recount the harrowing tale of Mike and Bridget attempting to secure a new phone! (It's full of more twists and turns than a chapter of Gump and Co.)
2022-05-04 19:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostOur first full episode of diving into the Winston Groom book Gump & Co.
So much is uncovered here, including Mike's grandmother's encounter with Houdini, Conor's visit with broadcasting legend Larry King, some Dumb Sentences and some Real or FanFic; during which Mike either doe...
2022-04-26 17:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhile we wait to see what misfortunate might befall Mike before our next recording (my money's on being crushed by the ISS), let's take a look at another one of the "books" Conor "wrote" in first grade, "Peanats". If you've been following along, you'll have noticed that this continues a trend wit...
2022-04-22 15:15:28 +0000 UTC View PostOn a very special episode Conor and Mike explore the reasons they are not doing a full episode of the regular podcast. It has many twists and turns and tragedies but ultimately, like most things, it's Mike's fault.
2022-04-19 15:10:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Loyal jackal Taylor, whose hyper-specific 372 themed Billy Joel parodies you may be familiar with, put together this amazing labor of love that truly captures what it felt like on that momentous day Mike went 14/15 in Real or Fanfic. This was a real blast to watch and must have taken a lot of eff...
2022-04-15 14:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We spend so much time having fun with other people's books that it's only right to mock our own. Here is the long awaited followup to "Alf Gets Gooped", "Super Jaws." At first I thought that Jaws was wearing glasses as a subtle internalization of my own first grade nearsightedness, but as I was u...
2022-04-08 17:01:54 +0000 UTC View Post
New llamacorn just dropped courtesy Matt Nelson!
2022-04-02 17:23:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time to announce our twentieth book, and there's one question on everyone's mind: will anyone be forced into a tree? Also, Mike & Conor do another round of Calibrate Your Tastes.
It's time to start another crazy journey. We're excited about this one!
(Conor would like to stat...
2022-04-01 14:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Justin's stunning email revelation that he did not remember slapping Conor, we had to get to the bottom of this before everyone muted the word "slap" from their timelines. Justin (who, plot twist, co-wrote the "girls are bad at nintendo" article featured in our 2019 2022-03-30 00:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
We should have more on this shocking twist in the slap story some time this evening
2022-03-29 16:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostHonestly, Conor was slapped years ago and it was considered by most of America to be the slap before the cheap imitation that occurred last night. Get the true story here at 372 Pages!
2022-03-28 21:42:51 +0000 UTC
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Hell yeah, my mom dropped a stack of garbage they didn't want in their house any longer, I mean priceless childhood treasures, off at my house. A bunch of "books" I wrote in first grade were included, so in the spirit of bad book fairness and transparency, let's roast the hell out of first grade ...
2022-03-24 19:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostListener Patrick sent in this email, which wouldn't have really worked to read on the last episode, but put forth an interesting theory. Larry could easily be a FF fan. This is Pat's email, copied and pasted:
Something kept nagging at me. The black panthers. I was discussing with Discord us...
2022-03-18 18:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostWeeks ago, when we wandered out of the trees and mountains of the plains of Antigua and hopped on that unicorn's back, we never could have imagined the places she'd take us. Or the sheer, unbelievable, immense number of characters we'd meet along the way.
So this, our last episode of An...
2022-03-16 17:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post[If you're reading along I don't think there are any spoilers in this.]
Here's what we know about Antigua: The Land of Fairies Wizards and Heroes' greatest character, Peter:
Conor here. I have a birdfeeder in my yard that throughout the winter, was a nice source of wildlife sightings. See the below cardinal and downy woodpecker!
2022-03-15 14:58:26 +0000 UTC
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We respond to letters from listeners we couldn't get to in our regular eps (because they're as numerous as Miniwads!)
Here's Craig's character spreadsheet...
2022-03-08 16:35:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Forgive the volley of posts but Conor and I were lamenting that our aged relatives seemed to collect Lladros and Copenhagen porcelain rather than these clearly superior Meissen-style monkey figurines!
If you have the means I highly recommend purchasing this entire collection:...
2022-03-04 15:32:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a question: can anyone listen to Schubert's "Trout" Quintet and not be happier by doing so? I suggest, no. And it makes me happy that evidently Schubert only wanted to create a little more joy for his friends and everyone who heard and / or played it.
2022-03-04 02:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Displace one note and there would be diminishment, displace one phrase and the structure would fall." Salieri on Mozart but it could easily have been spoken by Conor or me about the Ellis' classic book, Antigua: The Land of Fairies Wizard and Heroes.
We won't spoil anything ...
2022-03-01 18:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We have some winners! This was almost certainly our most entered Meme Contest yet, we had nearly as many entries as there are characters introduced in one page of Antigua. But here are your winners! Congrats to Edmund, Janelle, "Anonymous Person", and Jackal651. Email 372pages@gmail.com for your ...
2022-02-23 19:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe White Strips cribbed from Bruckner, Maroon 5 took on Pachelbel, Billy Joel, Beethoven, Barry Manilow, Chopin; but as you know the best take from the best which is why Rachmaninoff was covered by... Eric Carmen.
2022-02-21 17:16:12 +0000 UTC View PostMike here: You people are devious. Can I keep my streak up, or will I fly too close to the sun and melt the wax of my wings like that other guy who bragged about many he got right in Antigua Real or FanFic?
You'll have to listen!
2022-02-14 15:36:39 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, we've only got two more Antigua eps left, so it's time for our traditional Meme Contest! Post links to your best Antigua memes in the comments, then come back and vote for your favorite ones by Hearting them. We'll pick an audience winner and a judges' winner and reward them with a to be dete...
2022-02-09 15:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostJust a few of the animals mentioned in this episode's reading: dogs, cats, cows, roosters, chickens, pigs, goats, horses, cattle, foxes, squirrel monkeys who make all kinds of noises, a TALKING GORILLA, HIS HYSTERICAL WIFE AND THEIR BABY.
Guess, just guess which of these is <...
2022-02-04 19:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike & Conor are joined by Bob Fingerman to interview Charlton Jetson (Bill Corbett of RiffTrax, MST3K, & Ringheads).
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2022-02-02 22:57:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The story, almost undoubtedly apocryphal, is surely well-known to every listener of this podcast. A group of writers challenges each other to write a story using only six words, Hemmingway invokes a dead kid, and goes home with a fat wallet. But with all due respect to the grieving Mom & Dad ...
2022-01-31 18:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post