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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?

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If you’ve stuck with us this far you must be a fan of the words “kiss” and “heart.” And of the phrase “cut my eyes” and “gripped the doorframe.” In this episode, Conor and Mike speculate like mad about the fate of Rachel, Clayton, Dillon, Lisa, Paige Donahue, and of course, Gary.

Does Mike continue his insane, career-topping totals at Real or Fanfic? You’ll have to listen.

READING ASSIGNMENT: Finish the book!

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To be clear, Dillon is terrible. BUT he’s the least like a cardboard cutout of all these dumbasses (which is not high praise, but there it is.)

If you are craving plot, please look elsewhere. All we know is that Mike’s middle name is nearly revealed, but Conor’s love for all things Marx Brothers is shouted from the rooftops. Real or Fanfic is conquered, Dumb Sentences are reviewed, and after all is said and done, Miles gets no more interesting.

READING ASSIGNMENT: Read through Chapter 30

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There’s no bunnies or smoking jackets, but there is a frightened playboy. Let’s see if Mike can solve the case!

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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, this much does not change: Miles is a dumb ass. And he likes kissing. Tasting and kissing. But mostly kissing.

Does Mike do well at Real or Fanfic? Well, we wish we could center justify this text as a clue, but Patreon doesn’t allow it. I think the larger point is that he likes orange juice.

READING ASSIGNMENT: Please. Read. Through. Chapter 22.

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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 beating a savage beating during a home invasion. How many rich people live in Idaville and just how rich are they? Maybe we’ll find out more in this episode, which features one of Donald J Sobal’s most excrutiating ‘solutions’ thus far.

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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 “Rachel”?! And fully half of the characters have distinct odors and / or flavors? Ok… Let’s read through Ugly Love.

READING ASSIGNMENT: All the way through Chapter 15

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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 how Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart and he once emptied garbage cans together…) BUT more importantly, he is presented with an Encyclopedia Brown mystery and it’s everything you’d want it to be.

Even bigger news. I mean, huge, can’t-be-overstated news: he settles a very long time musical feud between Conor and Mike. It does not go how either one of them expected.

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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 as every book we’ve covered on the podcast combined. Despite the fact that it is, by all accounts, not very good. And yes, at least one of us is already familiar with that passage from it…

We’ll discuss CoHo and the CoHorts and then Conor challenges Mike to a Price Is Right style game based on our back catalog’s popularity on Goodreads.

Assignment: Read thru Chapter 8

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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.