280 Mysteries Ep 15 – The Case of the Missing Watch Goose

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Listen to the complete 280 Mysteries archive, including our brand new episode with Joel McHale, only on the 372 Pages Patreon! https://patreon.com/372pages Watch goose* is a thing, everyone. Seriously. We don’t like it anymore than you do, but it’s a thing. Mike tries to crack the case. *”Guard goose” would also be an accepted term.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:07.0	Connor and Mike here again with another 280 mysteries we'll never get back, where we're going through the many, many cases solved, cracked by the boy detective of Idaho, Idaville, Encyclopedia Brown.
0:20.9	Learle-encyclopedia. Idaville, Encyclopedia Brown. Lee, Lee, Lee, Roy Encyclopedia Brown.
0:25.1	Yes.
0:25.8	Yes.
0:25.8	The criminals fear him.
0:27.6	The police respect him.
0:29.5	Everyone else in town has, you know, given him their quarter and had him solve their
0:33.6	mystery.
0:34.3	So gas can is his cash register.
0:36.7	Is that right?
0:37.5	Yes. He puts it down on top of the old gas can is his cash register. Is that right? Yes.
0:37.8	He puts it down on top of the...
0:39.1	Gas can.
0:41.3	Encyclopedia Brown in the case of the mysterious kicked over gas can fire.
0:45.2	Probably one day he had to solve.
0:47.4	But we've done, gone through, you know, various mysteries from the first probably
0:53.6	dozen books or so. He wrote, you know, 280, from the first probably dozen books or so. He wrote,
0:55.4	you know, 280, so there's probably close to 30 books. This one is an interesting outlier. This
1:00.7	was recommended by a listener. But at some point, Donald J. Sobel just, you know, he was like,
1:06.0	ah, you know, I'm a, I'm a scholastic book fair God. No one can stop me. And he got a little arrogant.
1:11.1	So he put out a cookbook.
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