Recorded live in front of a real audience in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Canterbury Fails had six brilliant guest stars: Brian O'Camb and Mary Kate Hurley on some marginal and doubly obscure Latin-Old English proverbs; Carissa Harris and Noëlle Phillips on a testy fifteenth-century beer ballad; Irina Dumitrescu and Denis Ferhatovic on a very twisted French fabliau. I know. Right? Unbelievable. Also weird drinks, hijinks, minor kinks, and deep thinks.
May 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 13
A bunch of yahoos battle it out over a reeve's daughter, while we drink an oily peach-potpourri disaster.
Apr 21, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 12
A degenerate and grotesque Old English psalm paired with a smoky golden delight.
Apr 07, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 11
A wild and all too detailed description of male members; actually, no, it's a political allegory in verse, and a sevenfold rich whisky marvel.
Mar 04, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 10
A stultifying set of rules for churchmen with a flaming rum-blast of venom, scorpion-style.
Feb 18, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this stunt episode, David and Matt adventure downtown to a super fancy cocktail lab and--switching it up--attempt to match a medieval text to the drink. Amazing cocktail and mainstream (non-Fail) text. An ambient noise odyssey in self-consciousness, grotesque wealth, and canonical literature. Special thanks to our very cool bartender and bonus thanks to our audio engineer splice-master.
Jan 29, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 8
A broken-down shattered poeticalish charm against vermin with a swingin' big city celebrity tipple.
Jan 14, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 7
A fiery blast of excommunication ritual with a literally on fire tequila citrus blowout.
Dec 10, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 6
An alchemical slog in Middle English prose matched by a neoplatonically perfect cure-all.
Nov 19, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 5
God and his army protects every last one of your weird little body parts, while you sip a herbal smoky kick to the the triform brain (and liver).
Oct 28, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 4
A late medieval music theory complaint and literally the best most bonkers depraved monk freak show mock-gothic novel paired with a gin-soaked tea (do re mi!) and repugnant Jolly Rancher retro-cocktail. With awesome special guest stars Kandice Sharren and Kate Moffatt.
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 3
An elegant and informed exposition of John the Baptist's birth paired with a cloudy red seafood drink.
Sep 30, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 2
A pedantic grind about table manners with a syrupy cocktail for babies.
Sep 16, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We interrupt summer hiatus to invite proposals for a live Canterbury Fails: do you want to be on the Fails? We want you to be on the Fails. We're hosting a live participatory episode at Kalamazoo in May 2023. Please listen and submit; website here: wmich.edu/medievalcongress. Plus two micro-fails: barbaric scrawl and Ovidian lament
Jul 30, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 13
A maligned Harley lyric about birds in a lady's underclothes paired with a whale-poop tinged concoction: a cetaeceous sazerac.
Jun 24, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 12
A homely homily that keeps things very rote, with the BEST cocktail.
Jun 10, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 11
A fifteenth-century fishing handbook by a very chill nun, accompanied by a Herculean face-punch.
May 27, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Wack-ass trivia in Q+A form, someone might call "Dylanesque" with the sublime nectar of the BVM's infinite glory.
May 06, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 9
A dumb-ass political dream vision and kooky conspiracy theory with a potent citrus and herb concoction.
Apr 15, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Homer and Virgil buddy-pic with a fizzy tree-licker.
Apr 01, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 7
A parade of penis jokes with a disgusting double cocktail.
Mar 12, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
A monotonous litany of fascinating miracles chased by a revivifying kick.
Feb 26, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5
A droning dove sermon paired with smoky and herbaceous medicine.
Feb 12, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 4
A stultifying blanditude of Kentish verse paired with a trinitarian face-melter.
Jan 29, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 3
A late Middle English not-fabliau with a whipped frothy refresher.
Jan 15, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 2
An Old English "scrap of monkish experimenting" and a cumin-forward cocktail.
Dec 22, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
