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.

A bunch of yahoos battle it out over a reeve's daughter, while we drink an oily peach-potpourri disaster.

A degenerate and grotesque Old English psalm paired with a smoky golden delight.

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.

A stultifying set of rules for churchmen with a flaming rum-blast of venom, scorpion-style.

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.

A broken-down shattered poeticalish charm against vermin with a swingin' big city celebrity tipple.

A fiery blast of excommunication ritual with a literally on fire tequila citrus blowout.

An alchemical slog in Middle English prose matched by a neoplatonically perfect cure-all.

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).

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.

An elegant and informed exposition of John the Baptist's birth paired with a cloudy red seafood drink.

A pedantic grind about table manners with a syrupy cocktail for babies.