Episodes

  • Kalamazoo Fails 3
    May 27 2025

    Matt and David bring the Canterbury Fails roadshow to Kalamazoo with six amazing guests: Valerie Allen, Ruth Evans, Martin Foys, Jordan Zweck, and Jeff Stoyanoff and Kara McShane. They cover some kooky and intriguing Fails. Happy Summer!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Thre Prestis of Peblis: Threefold Bait and Switch with a Mid Whisky Sour
    May 2 2025

    The set up is so juicy: dissolution, gluttony, corruption--but no, it's a moral Scottish march through politics, ethics, and penance, with a 3x3 drink that does what it should but not what it could.

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    56 mins
  • Proverb from Winfrid's Time: A Macronic Prosimetric Shorty with a Burly and Surly Complexity of a Drink
    Apr 17 2025

    Buried in an eighth-century Latin letter from a monk who keeps his name a secret is a two-line maybe heroic nugget of juicy maybe heroic wisdom. We read it.

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    52 mins
  • Money, Money, Money: A Dour maybe-anti-Money poem and a gross drink you might have had stealing liquor from your parents
    Apr 5 2025

    Matt and David try to grapple with a late Middle English anti-money tract, but there isn't much to work with, and the cocktail is a citrusy paean to sadness.

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    40 mins
  • Ælfric's Mid-Lent Sunday: Stirring Metaphors and a Stirred Drink
    Mar 15 2025

    A reflective reading of Jesus and his loaves and fishes, chock full of allegorical goodness, and a world class Old Fashiouned (TM): thank you Canada!

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    51 mins
  • Insta-Fails: Four Middle English Lyrics and Four Breweries
    Mar 2 2025

    A very special stunt episode where Matt and David read unseen (by them, but no doubt Furnivall has read them all) and give their gut reactions / hot takes, as they peregrinate through breweries in Port Moody. Chaos, 80s music, and revelry ensue.

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    39 mins
  • The Rime of King William: Chonky Anglais Fizz and Angry Rhyming Couplets
    Feb 15 2025

    A poem in Old English that is wildly ambivalent but brutally clever coupled with a vegetation-rich perversion of an English classic.

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    51 mins
  • The Fraternity of Drinkers: Initiation Rites with Quarts of English Ale
    Jan 18 2025

    A gentle tail-rhymed parody about a brotherhood of drinkers that no one has every written about: a perfect Fail.

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    46 mins
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