For the first time ever on the podcast a PHD joins Mike and Bob Fingerman! Professor Schittschau is a man of science, but he also likes cutting loose and cracking people up. And there's nothing he likes better than getting children interested in exciting fields like molecular biology and genetics through the magic of reading! Tune in to find out his exciting backstory, including his lost years in Bal...
2021-01-28 22:25:31 +0000 UTC
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Yes, the creators of the fanfic are growing very clever indeed; can Conor and Mike keep pace?!
2021-01-26 15:52:59 +0000 UTC
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This was far and away our most popular meme contest, and it was very hard to choose a winner. But congrats to these two! The tweet (by Trys) was the audience pick and Lionel Hutz (by Michael Mordenga) was the judges! Congratulations!
Here's a link to a gallery of all the great entries.
If you won please email 372pages@gmail.com or send us a Patreon message and we will get the prizes to you.
2021-01-25 14:19:20 +0000 UTC
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Ernest Cline's runaway best seller continues to disgust and annoy us, even as it approaches the home stretch. In this episode we wrap up the seemingly endless John Hughes quest by meeting an actual John Hughes NPC (not actually John Hughes). Then we're off to Halcydonia, where we all try to pretend that Zoobilee Zoo wasn't a terrifying TV show. Then it's off to the Prince Planet, where our characters alternate between weeping about their abusive childhoods and trying to go hump things at virt...
2021-01-20 22:19:34 +0000 UTC
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We've read enough of Cline's latest that it's time to see your finest RP2 memes. If you've participated before, you know the drill. If not, here's how it works:
1. Create a Ready Player Two meme
2. Post a link to it in the comments
3. Come back and vote on your favorites!
We'll pick two winners: a judges' favorite, and an audience favorite (whoever gets the most likes). In the past we've awarded a TOKEN CASH PRIZE, but lately people have been declining the prize, so th...
2021-01-16 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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For the first Meet The Authors segment of 2021, Conor, Mike, and Bob are joined by Milt Foggerdam, a prolific author with a unique housing ARRangement. He's written biographies, fiction, non-fiction, fan-fiction you name it! Plus, learn about his interesting DIY prosthetics, his future media ventures, and what he wishes his neighbors would stop yelling at him.
A special thanks to
2021-01-13 22:12:29 +0000 UTC
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We've been buried under a tidal wave of great fanfic for this book so now it's Mike's turn to grill Conor on five tricky entries. Can he top Mike's impressive and frankly unexpected 4/5 in this week's episode? Tune in and find out!
2021-01-09 15:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Conor states with confidence that this episode contains a chapter that is the dumbest and therefore the greatest of any that has been covered by 372 Pages!
The editor has taken her hand off the tiller and what we're getting now is pure, uncut Cline. That means level-by-level coverage of a video game, stupid-by-stupid vignettes of classic 80s movies like Heat and Curly Sue and, just for fun, a fuel bomb explosion that slaughters dozens of innocents in ...
2021-01-07 19:19:48 +0000 UTC
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Mike knows that Germany did not exist in Handel's lifetime, but if you have any questions or concerns please send them to Conor at his personal email.
2021-01-04 03:58:15 +0000 UTC
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It's a Christmas miracle! Way back when we hit 500 patreon supporters, we decided to write a collective book together. Now Mike and I have spent the past couple weeks recording chapters of it here and there when we had spare time. And now, seven months and over 200 more Patreon supporters later, we present this complete audiobook of Washington E.T.
Thanks again to all of you for sticking us and supporting the podcast during what was often a dull, depressing, and/or difficult ye...
2020-12-24 13:18:00 +0000 UTC
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In this segment, Conor & Bob speak to Beauregard Bonne Volonté, who as a child appeared in the notorious film Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. An experience that evidently shaped the rest of his life, as he now writes a series of novels where Santa Claus capers around the globe as an international raconteur and spy. Learn about his current side hustles as well as the shocking events that happened ...
2020-12-22 22:45:24 +0000 UTC
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As promised, here is Mike quizzing Conor on some BONUS Real or Fanfic. Includes the full read of the excerpt they duplicated in this week's episode.
2020-12-18 15:14:00 +0000 UTC
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After countless pages of Worldbuilding and freeing child slaves when our hero felt like it, Ernest Cline finally lets some things happen in this section. The action kicks off when a Gunter and a Sharter listen to a Morissey song in silence and it doesn't let up from there! By the time we're done, there's been a kidnapping, a shareholder's meeting, and the rollout of a new firmware update. Also, Cline introduces his most annoying tic yet: telling us information again that he just told us
2020-12-16 18:06:14 +0000 UTC
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Hacky's Back! Legendary Hollywood director Bud "Hacky" Hackman has had a storied career behind the camera directing legends such as Erik Estrada, the car from Knight Rider, and a series of films that sound like ones you've heard of. But he also gives back, penning an extensive series of books revealing his secrets for success. Tune in as Mike, Conor, and Bob interview a legend of screen an...
2020-12-07 16:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Had an issue with this the first time around, so let's try it again! We got so much fan fic for this episode of Ready Player Two, that Mike also ran a segment for Conor. Let's see how he did!
2020-12-05 22:19:24 +0000 UTC
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"Congrats" to this lucky listener. Email 372pages@gmail.com or send us a Patreon message with your address and Conor will send you his copy of Midnight Sun. Also shout out to Maxim in the targeted ad on the right!
Bonus "Fanfic or Real" coming later today!
2020-12-05 15:31:04 +0000 UTC
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So much to cover:
- Conor is shocked at Cline's revelation that there may be a downside to the internet
- Conor is shocked at Cline's revelation that gigantic media conglomerates may not have his best interest at heart
- Mike is delighted when Cline teaches him that social media allows people to share "memes, files, photos and songs"
- There's a gigantic space ark: but what are its data storage needs?
- FanFic or Real
- Mail
- The 372 Player...
2020-12-04 18:31:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody, Conor here. Realized there was one more thing we had to do regarding Midnight Sun. So listen and find out what!
2020-12-01 21:04:20 +0000 UTC
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Welcome and thank you to all of our new supporters! The unspeakable collection of phrases and things that is RP2 may have brought you here, but we hope you'll stick around and check out all the past Patreon stuff that we've done over the course of its run! There's bonus eps, interviews, rants from the darkest earliest days of the pandemic, Meet The Authors, and more!
One thing people were asking was how to join the real time chat on Discord. Amo was happy to provide these detailed instr...
2020-11-25 15:09:56 +0000 UTC
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Ready Player Two? Let me ask that again; Ready Player Two?! I don't think you are!!
But Conor and Mike are ready. Having only an evening to read the first few chapters, here are some questions addressed:
- Did you have "faint numbness" with your previous rig? Solved!
- Could you feel "tiny craters of pulp" beneath your fingers when you crushed an apple with previous rigs? Solved!
- Were all your previous efforts in the Oasis "senseless pantomimes"? Yes, of ...
2020-11-24 19:18:56 +0000 UTC
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On the eve of Ready Player Two, I thought it would be fun to revisit my notes from our very first episode. I created this on 9/1/17. Main observations:
1. Wow, I take a lot more notes now! A lot more specific quotes copied and pasted from the book.
2. No DSOTWs or emails! It's much more fun to collaborate on these.
3. I don't remember at all what that list of Tom Waits characters is at the bottom.
4. I can't believe we're about to read another book that constantly uses...
2020-11-23 23:17:30 +0000 UTC
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The big day is tomorrow! Ready Player Two comes out. Our plan is to quickly delve into the first chapter, maybe a bit longer, and do a "first look" ep tomorrow, since it's a holiday week. Then we'll be back with a longer one next week. But we decided to make a bingo card if you're unable to resist the allure of diving deeper into the OASIS!
This link will generate your own random one: https://mfbc.us/m/sncrfn
2020-11-23 18:34:39 +0000 UTC
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Yes, this may be the final episode of Midnight Sun but Alice has looked into the future and Mike and Conor are still reading it in every possibility but this one.
We won't spoil anything about the episode itself but stay tuned to the very end and help us (and 372 listener Josh who sent it in) solve the deep mystery of the shared / unshared lasagna in the greater Twilight universe...
2020-11-12 21:46:06 +0000 UTC
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This episode, the delightful <?> children's author / taxidermist Sally Chabner! A big thanks to Valerie Breiman for facilitating the introduction!
2020-11-10 15:20:48 +0000 UTC
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Phil hears from an assistant coach of the Sidewinders that there may be a backup shortstop position opening up! So Renee and he may drive back to Phoenix!!!!!!!!
Also, the tireless and cunning James the Tracker is making plans to watch his collection of VHS tapes in a room with a gold chair rail once he lands his Piper Cub at Chandler Municipal Airport.
So a lot going on, people. In addition to all of that Conor rediscovers the James Earl Jones speech fr...
2020-10-29 17:28:41 +0000 UTC
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The stars align and Mike, Conor, AND cartoonist Bob Fingerman are all here to interview an under the radar author! Today it's Gary Getterman, who has written the guidebook "Yoga For The Emotionally Fragile." We'll hear all about his extensive yoga training, former career as an Elmo impersonator, and his rivalry with a fellow instructor named Dharma.
Any resemblance that Gary may bear to noted <...
2020-10-22 21:25:45 +0000 UTC
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How em dash HOW em dash is this book not about Charlie hauling in a world record white perch, or at the very least the story of him getting a treble hook buried into his thigh? Why not page after page of Carlisle being tutored in Courtly Italian by some foppish vampire with a high starched collar?!
Nope. What we get is page after impossibly long page of Bella slurping down Toastee-Os while Edward tortures himself wondering whether her using the big spoon means that she...
2020-10-15 17:22:31 +0000 UTC
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Congrats to our winners! "The Cullens blend in" was the audience pick and Winnie the Pooh and "Midnight Beer Run" were judges' favorites. Please email 372pages@gmail.com or patreon message to claim your token prize!!
Here's a gallery of all the great submissions: https://imgur.com/a/8oaWjce
2020-10-13 15:21:21 +0000 UTC
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Comic book fans, meet Biff Powe! Over the years he's compiled a massive tome cataloging the myriad continuity errors that have been made by the boneheads at Marvel Comics. He's even expanded his love of saying "Urm, actually..." into his own comic book series: The Corrector! And he's joining Conor & Bob Fingerman today to discuss his projects, and evidently promote some of his several other podca...
2020-10-08 21:08:57 +0000 UTC
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It may be hard to believe when you look at the amount of pages remaining, but we are past the halfway mark of Midnight Sun! That means we've all had time to internalize the book's quirks and it's MEME TIME, BABY!
Here's how it works:
1. Post your image links as comments
2. Come back and vote for your favorites
3. We'll pick our favorite and give it, and whoever gets the most audience votes, a token cash prize!
2020-10-04 15:07:48 +0000 UTC
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