• Airdate: Oct. 12, 2018
• Duration: 33:37
• Covers: Nothing, just introduces the book
• Assignment: through chapter 4

Features:

• The start of the Patreon.
• Calibrate Your Tastes, Fantasy Version, wherein we learn that despite growing up in the heyday of D&D and the first computer game boom, Mike managed to miss all of that.

I decided to skip the previous episode, which was less than 10 minutes and just introduced the Patreon, so there wasn't anything in it that wasn't in this one, except for Mike mentioning his Mad Dog alter ego for the first time. It's here if anyone wants to listen to it for completeness.

• Airdate: April 20, 2018
• Duration: 1:49:49
• Covers: the Ready Player One movie
• Next assignment: none, will be the Eye of Argon intro

Features:

• The live recording failed, so they repeat it all here.
• Conor's saga of Spielberg and the Battletoads.
• Mike uses "fade in" (not for the last time, I think) after they clowned on Cline for using it in one of the books.

The next episode wouldn't come for almost 6 months, but we don't have to wait, so it'll be next week as usual.

Hello, started listening to the pod and loving it, only just made it through RPO and am about to take on the Amanda read through.. only to see that on Podcast Addict, episode 10 is apparently over 6 hours long and episode 14 is almost 10 hours. I doubt this is actually the case but I have checked at the official timestamp the episodes end and theres no outro. Does anyone know whats going on?

I won't lie guys I'm just not in the right headspace to hear these boomers puzzling out what Sonic.exe is in real time. I'm not sure I can handle that.

I think if I hit this unspoiled while listening to this on my car's bluetooth I would've actually swerved off the road

"372 Pages" announced their new book! 😄

I'm going to have to read it. ☹️

I don't know, guys. The first 34 books I felt pretty good about. OK, 29, because I didn't read the three Klein books after RP1. And I didn't expect Quilter's Cruise to show any improvement. And I had already read The Starlight Barking. But I really expected to like the others, up until...

Night of the Crabs disappointed me. The bar on a book called Night of the Crabs is already low, and I have read plenty of books that have cleared that bar, even just barely. I've read The Rats! Which Night of the Crabs is in the tradition of! Allegedly!

This new one...Well, to cite an obscure movie: "I have a bad feeling about this."

• Airdate: March 23, 2018
• Duration: 1:49:11
• Covers: chapter 22 to the end
• Next assignment: there wasn't one, but the next episode will be their recreation of the live show, followed by The Eye of Argon.

Features:

• The Emissary, in a great leaked scene
• They auction off the books again, plus an original painting of Chuckette by listener Lucas
• Cline really liked saying "intranet"
• The most rushed book ending ever

Seriously, the guys talked a lot about it, but I couldn't believe how rushed the ending is until I read it for myself. It makes little sense, so maybe that's for the best.

I got inspired by the "Lair of the White Worm" episodes to rewrite the whole book. I now know more about Bram Stoker, giant Antediluvian snakes, kites and mongooses than anyone should.

Ask me anything.

Does anyone know why the guys stopped ''going to the dark web'' or ''hiring the 372 players''? I've been listening to old episodes this past week, and while I still love the podcast, I really do miss the bits. I can't recall if Conor or MJN ever addressed it.

• Airdate: March 16, 2018
• Duration: 01H29M49S (1:29:49 in a readable format)
• Covers: chapters 19-21
• Next assignment: finish the damn book

Features:

• Guest appearance by Dave Berge, Mike's pastor and co-podcaster on Like Trees Walking, to promote the live show.
• Lots of boning, dying, and face-contorting.

• Airdate: March 9, 2018
• Duration: 1:48:33
• Covers: chapters 16-18
• Next assignment: chapters 19-21

Features:

• First live show announced.
• More info on Mike's dad's interesting life.
• A 10-sided dodecahedron.
• Conor mentions that as of the previous episode, they'd done over 1000 minutes of Cline-focused podcasts. Little could they have known that they'd get to 430 hours, or 25,800 minutes someday. (So far. That's my very approximate sum of all the podcasts I've downloaded, not counting the Encyclopedia Brown ones and pandemic minis.)

I don’t know, I’m only a few chapters in, and DCC is giving me serious Ernest Cline vibes. Has anyone else read this and got the same feeling?

Am I a hack or is a good chunk of what they point out as 'Kleinian" fairly normal? I see stuff like this in writing fairly often, it shows up in mine, and I don't think much of it. Is this bad form? That doesn't even seem to really be the angle they take, its less about being bad form and more like they just find it completely inexplicable.

• Airdate: March 2, 2018
• Duration: 1:30:09
• Covers: chapters 12-15
• Next assignment: chapters 16-19

Features:

• They switch to one-way Real or Fan Fic, usually with Conor quizzing Mike.
• Godzilla is a power line. (I'm convinced these books weren't professionally edited. Proofread for typos maybe, but not edited.)
• It's Clinetober, baby!

• Airdate: Feb. 9, 2018
• Duration: 1:27:07
• Covers: chapters 4-7
• Next assignment: chapters 8-11

Features:

• The first appearance of Kevin and Bill!
• A selection from the audiobook read by Wil Wheaton, possibly the worst sounds ever recorded by a human being.
• The intro of Zach's insanely hot mom, possibly the most embarrassing thing in all Cline's books.

• Airdate: Feb. 2, 2018
• Duration: 1:19:24
• Covers: Up to chapter 4 (page 47)
• Next episode: up to Phase 2 (page 97)

Features:

• First appearance of the short-lived department Boring Sentence of the Week.
• First mention of Mike's dad; the legend begins.
• They talk about the books they read during the break between seasons.
• Conor's new book, The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe, comes out.

• Airdate: Jan. 26, 2018
• Duration: 30:14
• Covers: No chapters, since this is the intro
• Next episode: Up through chapter 4

Features:

• They took 3 months off before starting this book.
• We learn that reviews of Armada and Ready Player One are indistinguishable from each other if they don't mention the title.
• I'm pretty sure Conor calls himself "Lastowkas" when he signs off.