372 Pages We ll Never Get Back

Smile/No Smile?

Listener Nick sent this in, what do you think, does he get a Smile out of Alessia?

A dumbass explores a gas station snack aisle

Now that is romance, baby!

Hallmark Movie Channel CEO: Listen up, Hoover

It may not look or sound like it but The Hallmark Channel has standards and dammit, Ugly Love does not live up to them

Two Colleen Hoover characters buy candy cigarettes

Actually, hearing the dialogue out loud does make you understand how Tate is falling for this guy

372 Pages #185 - Ugly Love Ep 2 - Kissing. SO Much Kissing...

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...

280 Mysteries We'll Never Get Back #7 - The Case of Cupid's Arrow (Free Feed)

This episode is going live in the free feed on Monday but here it is a few days in advance here on the Patreon!

Join us once again in Batshitcrazytown, USA, aka Idaville, where Encyclopedia B...

Rondo & Hobo Soup

What do you do when you get one of your musical heroes on the podcast? Discuss defunct canned soups and regional sodas, of course!

280 Mysteries - Ep 36 - The Case of the Red Roses - Conor is On the Case!

Let's see if Conor can match wits with Donald J. Sobel circa 2012.

If Ugly Love was the slightest bit realistic

There would be a lot more Chipotle barf, is all we're saying

Y-You remember when you were with The Hold Steady?

Same energy

Conor broke bold new ground in Bad Fiction Gimmicks

We know what you're thinking, but the circular short story has sadly been lost to time, unlike Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Don't format your books like this...

If you are

considering formatting

your next book

like

this.

Don't.

Just don't.

372 Pages #184 - Ugly Love Ep 1 - Cap's "V" Points Right to His Bullseye

Ah, a fresh author, a fresh book, a new start; meeting new characters, exciting new locat-- wait. What? Half the chapters are center justified?! And half the words in those chapters are "R...

Ah, Cap...

Front runner for the best sentence & character in the first 8 chapters of Ugly Love?

280 Mysteries Ep 35 - The Case of the Mysterious Thief - With Craig Finn

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 co...

Weekend Thread: Any good books?

We had some technical issues today that mean we're gonna have to finish recording the podcast early next week, but we started the episode by discussing whether we've been reading any GOOD books lat...

Smize Cream Down Under

Lots of questions about this poster that listener Matthew's family member spotted in Australia.

1. Why the rebrand to "Smize Dream"? Had someone in Australia already trademarked Smize Cream?<...

The 372 Pages Oracle

Mike and Conor consult a low rent oracle who tells them they will spend the next two months of their lives immersed in Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Talking to Wynn Walent of Locally Haiti

Conor here, with a little something different for you all. This is a conversation with my friend Wynn Walent. Wynn and I went to college together, we'd listen to music, play Mario Kart, occasionall...

Mike ventured into Colleen Hoover BookTok

Mike watched some Colleen Hoover tiktoks and does his best to recap this one: 2025-03-19 15:06:08 +0000 UTC View Post

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Listener Brian spotted a 2-2-2 in the wild in Arizona last month. No word about tragic menu stories or thundersnow, however.

The people vs Rad Skeleton

The lawsuit about the book we just covered, The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, as not the only one filed against a popular 90s children's book series. The Goosebumps series also got sued for having...

372 Pages Ep 183: Book 33 Reveal (And YES you will be tested on this!!)

How do we say this without giving anything away...? "You won't be hard pressed to find this book," how about that? Or, perhaps, "The surge pricing will not push it up to $245 ala Super Constitu...