Gift Horse

Mike and Tracy are on a thrilling, temporally disorienting mission to Epping, Australia. But maybe not the Epping, Australia that you're thinking of. This one has booze.

Mike and Tracy are on a thrilling, temporally disorienting mission to Epping, Australia. But maybe not the Epping, Australia that you're thinking of. This one has booze.

Mike and Tracy exchange obsolete items. The first order of business? Trashing several hats. And the second? Troubling violations of trust. Music from Durward Center's Welte Style 5 playing Art Reblitz's arrangement of the Shostakovich Festival Overture,  https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=Zw3YmFRMphw

Mike and Tracy kick the new year off the only way they know: competitively giving gifts to two clay dudes, Gumby and Pokey. After a discussion of the best cartoons for teaching children Christian values, they proceed to a discussion of imaginative play, grandpa costumery, Crimes of the Future (Gumby Edition), and the horrifying origins of Gumby's parents. Remember, kids: Gumby isn't Gumbo. He neve...

It hasn't been two years of Gift Horse—not quite—but it has been two calendar years. Join Mike and Tracy for a review of 2022's most important Gift Horse–related events, including ghost visitations, poetry chapbooks, blockbuster movies, gigantic Snorlaxes, and historical pirate kings. Who is this year's leading gift horse? And who, consequently, is winning the marriage?

Who is fit to rule, and why? Mike and Tracy mutually justify their reigns with the gift of personal seals. Bonus Segment: Canva Chat.   You can see the seals here: https://mastodon.social/@mikemeginnis/109564910305985004  

After nearly two years of filth, Mike and Tracy are determined to finally get clean.

If you're wondering whether this heavily turkey-themed episode was originally recorded before Thanksgiving, in anticipation of a Thanksgiving upload, we'll admit that's entirely possible. The thing is, if that happened, then we delayed it because we belatedly realized the audio was messed up. But now it's fixed! It's 99% fixed. Anyway, we would argue the word "turkey" is funny year 'round. Love yo...

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who pick the bumble, and those who choose Yukon Cornelius. If you're over seven feet tall, we'd love your feedback.

Mike and Tracy exchange babies.

Calm down, everyone. Mike and Tracy are exchanging personal, seasonal ghosts. Sex, death, loss, spectral cuckoldry, Whoopi: this one has everything.

Mike and Tracy competitively gift each other lucky items. But first we have to ask ourselves, what is luck anyway? And for that matter, how much noise can a cat make? What about a teacup? How did Sonic get fast in the first place? Aristotle is a man; Gift Horse is forever.

Mike and Tracy exchange restaurant concepts. Who has the wettest idea, and whose is the hottest? Join us in the Gift Horse kitchen for a meal without guard rails.

First, we check in on Tracy's escalating Godzilla fandom and what it--and Tracy--may become. Then it's time to exchange oversized items. Is that goose sound a new portal to the winner's circle? Or is there something sinister afoot?

Mike has a question for you, but he's afraid to ask. Molly has a T-shirt she's wearing, but she's afraid of falling. And Tracy has T-shirts for everyone actually.

After taking a week off from the pod because Mike was "dead tired," your favorite casters return to exchange gifts of urban planning. Now more than ever, it's Gift Horse.

We begin the episode with yet another incredibly disorienting challenge to the spatial status quo by Tracy, and things only get more gerblin from there. How much pizza does Mike eat when he's home alone? What would Tracy do in a shame tent? There are two or three ways to find out--but the simplest is to listen.

Tracy seizes control of the right side of the couch and promptly goes insane with power. Also, Amelia Bedelia learns kanban and earns the right to write terrible personal essays. She'll see you at Dave's Fox Head Tavern.

Mike and Tracy exchange challenging concepts and challenging art.

Mike and Tracy exchange lunch buddies. The only problem? Lunch is bullshit, and so is every object that conveys it.

Mike and Tracy exchange lunch buddies. The only problem? Lunch is bullshit, and so is every object that conveys it.

Mike and Tracy exchange lunch buddies. The only problem? Lunch is bullshit, and so is every object that conveys it.

Mike and Tracy exchange lunch buddies. The only problem? Lunch is bullshit, and so is every object that conveys it.

It's time to learn about farm stuff: production, yield, topsoil, water tables, windmills, raspberries, alternative suns, turkeys, crawfish, mules, farmfluencers, outbuildings, ghosts, farm streaks, clicks, bots, algorithms, the Snyder Cut, Dark Brandon, and forbidden Googles. You know: farm stuff.

What is the simplest machine? And what is the best? Which conveys the most mechanical advantage? And what does this week's episode demand of the wiki? Mike and Tracy learn to appreciate the beauty of simplicity.