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Welcome back to the Manor!  We're extending our dedicated listening arc to episode 3!  Jody came up with an insane idea to put together play lists of rock and metal starting back in the 1960s and working his way though it in as the albums were released, listening to the entire album!  In this episode he lays out the idea and how he's going to do it and then we'll have sporadic updates as he gets t...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more Led Zep!  This year is the 50th anniversary of Houses of the Holy and we're ready to dig in!  This first episode is a bridge from Four Symbols/Zoso/Untitled/etc. and recording and UK and Europe touring.  Enjoy! Next week's episode is something Jody's been working on, in conjunction with our dedicated listening episodes.  Stay tuned!. Get in touch with...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're finishing our third Malort episode here, with Malort cocktails!  However, to keep the boys (especially James) from getting too drunk, too quickly, we've added in our favorite band biographies that we've read, as well as some Chicago trivia.  This is part 3 of 3, to keep the episode from getting too bogged down! Our Malort cocktails:  The Chicago Gloryholes and the...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Amongst our larger arcs, with longer episodes, we'll occasionally do a short episode for a bit of ease.  This helps, considering we've never taken a break in our 267 episodes.  In this one, James rants about how much he cannot stand spring (and also realized he missed a golden opportunity for a Mel Brooks inspired cross-over as he wrote the title). Of course, as he sche...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Sadly, we must bid a fond farewell to the Flying Circus in this episode.  We discuss the last few remaining episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, from their final series (4).  Don't stress, though!  We'll be back with more Python soonish with their movies and live shows! But for now, enjoy these last sketches and skits and jocularity with us. Next week's episode is...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're continuing our third Malort episode here, with Malort cocktails!  However, to keep the boys (especially James) from getting too drunk, too quickly, we've added in our favorite band biographies that we've read, as well as some Chicago trivia.  This is part 2of 3, to keep the episode from getting too bogged down! Our Malort cocktails:  Ma-gog (Malort nogs), Big Shou...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to do a pub crawl through Europe in a way that semi-matches Frodo and Samwise's journey with the One Ring?  If so, but you wanted some advice, you've come to the correct episode!  James leads us from the English Midlands (The Shire) down to the volcano named Stromboli, in Sicily (Tolkien's inspiration for Mount Doom). Pour a...

Welcome back to the Macabre Manor of Mead, Mayhem, and Ballooning!  We continue our Monty Python series 4 arc with the bridge between series 3 and series 4, their Canadian tour, and then the first couple episodes of series 4.   Pour a pint of Michael Ellis and enjoy! Next week's episode is how to do a Walk-to-Mordor challenge through Europe... for real! Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://ww...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're starting our third Malort episode here, with Malort cocktails!  However, to keep the boys (especially James) from getting too drunk, too quickly, we've added in our favorite band biographies that we've read, as well as some Chicago trivia.  This is part 1 of 3, to keep the episode from getting too bogged down! Our Malort cocktails:  Malort and Coke, Illinois Nazi,...

What do DLR, randy Middle Ages monks, and sex workers all have in common?  They're stars of this episode!  We share our favorite David Lee Roth quotes from various Van Halen books, along with historical things on where the term red light districts come from and how much monks drank back n the day.  All that and more! Next week's episode is about (stay tuned - we've recorded a lot lately and have t...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to more Python!  This is our first of three episodes for series 4 and we're starting with their childhoods!  "What?" we hear you shout.  "Why are you doing childhoods for their last television series?!"  Because we're working backwards in time for the background stuff!  Go back and listen to the other series' episodes for "formation," pre-Python," and "univers...

Welcome back to the Manor!  One of our first episodes was on that most magnificent of liquors Malort.  We're back with episode two, talking about their barrel aged version and adding some more slogans! Pour yourself a pint (or even better, a large dram of the Swedish Malort) and join us! Next week's episode is on some of James' favorite David Lee Roth quotes, amongst others. Get in touch with us a...

Welcome back to the Manor!  In both celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy television series and in preparation for our upcoming arc on Python's series 4 of their Flying Circus, here's where Adams intersects with Python.  Pour yourself a pint and enjoy! Next week's episode is Malort 2: regret and boogaloo. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.co...

Welcome back to the Manor!  And you may have noticed that each year our number of top things changes, and this year we only had 5 each (Jody with his albums and James with his books).  So if you want to see what are favorites were last year, listen on! Next week's episode is on Douglas Adams and Monty Python. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or...

Welcome back to the Manor!  And yes, you read that correctly, we're talking about rock and metal in Middle Earth!  Okay, not Tolkien's Middle Earth, but the musical venues/night clubs that were extant in the late '60s and early '70s, with one in London, England and one in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.   Pour yourself a pint and enjoy learning about the hippies/blues people/rockers/mods/proto-metal b...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our annual end of the year episode, which always features Iron Maiden!  This year, we're using this as a way to finish our Rime of the Ancient Mariner trilogy as we delve into Maiden's metal version!  Up the Irons and pour a pint! Next week's episode is about (we don't know yet mwahahahahaha). Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/media/...

Welcome to more Yuletide fun at the Manor!  Since last week we went into American Santa Claus, this week we thought we'd tackle (not literally -- we're not The Kinks playing at a Cheap Trick) England's Father Christmas!  Light your pipe and pour a pint and let's get at this wintery excitement! Next week's episode is our annual last-of-year-episode featuring Iron Maiden, this time concluding our tr...

Welcome back to the Manor!  This week, we get into the historical creation of American Santa Claus and how America turned away from its Puritanical antipathy towards Christmas, allowing it to blossom into the winter holiday it's become in the United States.  Pour yourself a wassail bowl of mead or a Smoking Druid or some eggnog and enjoy! Next week's episode is about Father Christmas. Get in touch...

Welcome back to Yuletide at the Manor!  This year we're starting the Yule season with a combination episode with some hygge comforting fun, followed by the (possible) history of where the hot toddy got its name as well as some recipes, and finishing up with the Christmas ghost stories we're reading this year (with some spooky excerpts).   Grab your pipe and a toddy or wassail bowl and enjoy!   Nex...

Welcome back to the Manor!  Jody insists that he hates humanity, but that doesn't stop him from going out to metal shows.  Here he reviews two of his latest shows, one with Raven and the other with Pentagram and The Obsessed.  Crank this episode up to 11 and enjoy Next week's episode is on Christmas Ghost Stories, Hygge, and Hot Toddies. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean.com/me...

Welcome back to the Manor and welcome to our (American) Thanksgiving episode!  It's another milestone, as this is also our 250th episode.  We're quite thankful to all of our listeners and their thousands of downloads, making something we wanted to do anyway even better! Pour a pint and listen to us reminisce a bit and pick our favorite episode from five genres (music, literature, drinking, holiday...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We continue our semi-themed arc that started with Halloween season's The Flying Dutchman with the second episode... Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."  That most spooky and creepy of epic poems from the very tail end of the 1700s.   Get ready for some epically creepy poetic goodness!  Pour yourself a pint and join us. Next week's episode is out 250...

Welcome back to the Manor!  This week, the Terrors look at a few websites that give the personality and beer type for astrological signs and we determine if they fit ours or not.  Hint:  It's not 100% either way.  Find your own sign's beer and pour a pint and enjoy with us! Next week's episode is about either Rime of the Ancient Mariner or a live show review by Jody. Get in touch with us at Podbea...

Welcome back to the Manor!  We're easing out of Halloween spooky season (before ramping up into Yule spooky season) with a short episode on harvest monsters!  Join us as we discuss German and Irish harvest monsters and one English harvest demi-semi-hemi-sort-of-deity that gives us beer and whisky!   Next week's episode is on astrological beers. Get in touch with us at Podbean:  https://www.podbean...

Welcome to a special All Hallows, Samhain, Day of the Dead, Halloween episode!  On the 10th anniversary of the passing of Ray Bradbury (2012) and the 50th anniversary of that most excellent of books "The Halloween Tree," here's a short sequel that James wrote, because he's always wanted to know what happened when D for Doom and B for Bones came to collect the year the boys gave Pipkin.  He hopes y...