Gift Horse artwork

Gift Horse

148 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings

The competitive marital gift-giving podcast that you never knew how to want.

Comedy Society & Culture Relationships comedy competition couples gift gifts giving horse horses marriage
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Episodes

Gift Horse 139: Naturally Converging on Van Art / More About That in Book Two

March 15, 2024 09:30 - 57 minutes - 70.3 MB

This week's gift-giving theme is dragons. As he writes this caption, Mike is sick, so he can't think of anything funny to say. The episode's good, though; you get a really fun glimpse of Young Tracy. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

Gift Horse 138: Couch-side Hot Sauce Caddy / Impeccably Poppins

March 08, 2024 10:30 - 53 minutes - 49.7 MB

Mike and Tracy competitively gift stuff to Mary Poppins. Their approaches are extremely different, so which one has engaged in the most brutal gamesmanship? Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

Gift Horse 137: Body! Stand Near While Face Love! / Phantom of the Opera Jr.

February 23, 2024 10:30 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB

Tracy has starred in a play. Mike has seen Tracy star in the play. What now? An exchange of theatre props, of course. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

Gift Horse 136: Show Me a Yam / The Little Grouchy Truth

February 16, 2024 10:30 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MB

Mike and Tracy exchange false foods, which are apparently the one thing Mike loves unreservedly and uncritically. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

Gift Horse 135: King of the Weens / Advice for Moms or Uncles

January 26, 2024 10:30 - 55 minutes - 62.8 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy exchange baseball-themed gifts. But first: mutual efforts at conversational curtailment. And then: the episode gets shaggy anyway. Shaggy like a certain NHL mascot. But at least we all know we can count on our uncles. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

Gift Horse 134: Another Hot Addition to This Extremely Sexy Podcast / Striking While the Duck Is Weak

January 12, 2024 10:30 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy review their performance in the year of 2023 and the marriage as a whole. Who is currently winning the marriage? Who is making a several-years-long comeback? And what will they promise to do in order to maintain the long-term health and data integrity of the pod? Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

Gift Horse 133: A Caked-Up Frog / Glamping for Bats

December 29, 2023 10:30 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

This week, settle in for a perhaps unnecessarily long story about the time that Mike encountered a certain animal in his shoe. Then, eventually—arguably far too late—a competitive gifting event with the creature.

Gift Horse 132: Why an 8 Ball / 360 Stunt Machine

December 22, 2023 10:30 - 55 minutes - 51.9 MB

It's that time of year again: Mike and Tracy compete to give the best gift to Jesus in a particular life stage.

Gift Horse 131: Ham Lifers / A Penguin Who Is Going to Be Your Dad

December 15, 2023 10:30 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy exchange fraudulent snow. But Mike is feeling froggy, so first we'll need to talk about death, ham, and math.

Gift Horse 130: Riding High on Tracy Fumes / Wonka Is the Prime Mover

December 08, 2023 10:30 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy exchange historically important innovations. Sort of. After a fashion. Then there is a discussion of Pleasure in all its various Irreducible Forms.

Gift Horse 129: Mike Meginnis Lives Safely in Iowa City / All-Purpose Autumn Bowl

December 01, 2023 10:30 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

In an episode recorded several days before Thanksgiving and edited one full week after, Mike and Tracy compete for the love and esteem of 2023's pardoned United States turkeys, Liberty and Bell.

Gift Horse 128: Advanced Jumble / Grimly Bopping It

November 17, 2023 07:17 - 49 minutes - 55.2 MB

Mike and Tracy exchange fun car activities.

Gift Horse 128: Advanced Jumble / Grimly Bopping It

November 17, 2023 07:17

Mike and Tracy exchange fun car activities.

Gift Horse 127: One of the Lesser Blobs / Very Strong Yet Doomed

November 03, 2023 09:30 - 46 minutes - 52.6 MB

Mike and Tracy exchange pumpkin-themed items. But first: what is Spider-Man's web made of? And come to think of it, does anybody feel cucked by fudge that they themselves made?

Gift Horse 126: Borne Aloft by Beans / Fragments of a Man and a Man's Life

October 27, 2023 09:30 - 41 minutes - 46.3 MB

This week on Gift Horse, Mike and Tracy exchange items created with bean bag technology. A lot of things have changed since the days of your father's bean bags; the substance has evolved. Pizza cornhole is only the beginning.

Gift Horse 125: There's Municipal Codes to Consider / One of Four Exotic Birds

October 20, 2023 09:30 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB

This week on Gift Horse, Mike and Tracy learn more about Lorenzo the Pirate King (and his unique relationship to Tracy). This is followed by a thrilling competitive mailbox exchange.

Gift Horse 124: A Gun with Present Bullets / Grogu, the Event Horizon

October 13, 2023 09:30 - 49 minutes - 57.8 MB

Christmas time is here! Christmas time is here! Christmas time is here. Christmas time is here. Christmas time: it's here. 

Gift Horse 123: The Urban Snacker / Permission to Try Manchego

September 29, 2023 09:30 - 56 minutes - 64.2 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy gift each other hypothetical snacks. But of course they must begin with the most difficult, elusive question of them all: what makes a snack in the first place?

Gift Horse 122: The Standard QWERTY Layout / Infinite Hamlet Fanfictions

September 15, 2023 09:30 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy compete to see who can give the best gift to the infinite monkeys who are currently and eternally using their infinite typewriters to attempt to write Hamlet. At least that's how we understand the concept.

Gift Horse 121: I'll Cop to Light Punching / Chocolate's a Trap

September 09, 2023 00:25 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

This week, on Gift Horse, Mike and Tracy exchange cakes, cake facts, cake opinions, cake trauma, and highly allergenic cakes.

Gift Horse 120: Touch Is How You Know You're Being Pressed / Gross Beyond the Normal Remit

September 01, 2023 09:30 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy first explore the sensual world, and then expand it.

Gift Horse 119: A Coterie of Favorite Items / My Eternal Battle Against Your Anhedonia

August 25, 2023 09:30 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MB

This episode begins with a heated Target-related callout, then progresses to a consideration of the various ways our fridges, closets, and other household items could improve our lives if they were only a little bit enchanted.

Gift Horse 118: Unfit to Plant Pumpkins / Por Qué No Los Tres

August 18, 2023 09:30 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MB

It's time that all of us covered our heads—with gifted hats and headwear, that is! But first, it's time to learn more about pirate education and vocations. Why don't they just farm? https://etsy.com/shop/HappyHoppyStuffs

Gift Horse 117: Kiryu's Coveted Retirement / I'd Kill to Be in Glimmer Train

August 11, 2023 09:30 - 49 minutes - 54.9 MB

Who's the bravest, strongest, upstandingest, possibly boringest man in the world? Possibly the answer is Kiryu. Can our gifts enrich his life?

Gift Horse 116: Snuggling the Anemone / Up There, Crimewise

August 04, 2023 09:30 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MB

We begin the program with some casual opening patter. Then it's time to be briefly airdropped on the Faroe islands. Will Tracy buy some wool? Will Mike buy some wool? Did everybody buy wool? There's only one way to find out.

Gift Horse 115: A Rooter Through and Through / The Progenitor Sock

July 28, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour - 56 MB

If you can put your foot inside it, and if it will then fit inside a shoe, that's nothing but sock, bay-bee.

Gift Horse 114: One of Your Toilet Ideas / Bumpy Chicken Valuation

July 21, 2023 09:30 - 55 minutes - 61.2 MB

This week, Mike and Tracy exchange gifts of currency, or at any rate they claim to. One alternative title for this episode is "Buff Orpington." Another is "Existential Give Up." To learn more about the frog that Tracy discusses, do a google image search for "sad avocado frog." 

Gift Horse 113: Fourteen Years Down, Forever to Go / A Very Small Stake in the Elephant

July 14, 2023 09:30 - 51 minutes - 57.9 MB

Last week was our decennial cowboy special; this week Mike and Tracy celebrate their fourteenth anniversary. Traditionally, this would involve the exchange of ivory, but they almost certainly won't do that. It's time for ethical, elephantine alternatives.

Gift Horse 112: Undress the McNuggets / Lotta Dreams Wrapped Up in a Poncho

July 07, 2023 09:30 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MB

Giddy up, slowpokes. It's time for the decennial Gift Horse cowboy special. Acknowledgement: The following music was used for this media project: Music: No Frills Comparsa by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3535-no-frills-comparsa License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Gift Horse 111: I Havb No Condsenandts / A Lean, Twelve-Minute Dolphin Show

June 30, 2023 09:30 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

Mike and Tracy have been to Indianapolis, where Mike was raised (with Tracy in proximity). How can it be fixed? With gifts, of course. Gifts, and gibbon songs. (They did enjoy the zoo.)

Gift Horse 110: Leave the Frog Alone / Protein-Rich Super Soup

June 16, 2023 23:13 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB

Mike and Tracy compete to see who can give the best gift to Miss Piggy. But mostly they discuss their feelings about Miss Piggy. (They love her.)

Gift Horse 109: Full of Potatoes, Drizzled with Chutneys / The Final Reuben

June 02, 2023 09:30 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MB

It's time for Mike and Tracy to do what they do best: christen and exchange signature sandwiches.

Gift Horse 108: Hotdogged Your Heels Again / I'm Claiming Poncho

May 26, 2023 09:30 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB

Mike and Tracy exchange summer accessories. Who wears the heels, and who wears the poncho? Who is "Party Michael"? And how quickly can one of these dudes lose the episode? You know what to do to find out.

Gift Horse 107: The Vitamin We Call C / I'm the Tubi Button

May 19, 2023 09:30 - 49 minutes - 54.6 MB

Lorenzo the Pirate King is here! And he wants to talk, as soon as possible, about universal remotes. Mike and Tracy are your TV guides to the magical, criminal world of infrared, RFID, and Bluetooth signals.

Gift Horse 106: Dads Need DVDs / The Aimless Trampolining of My Youth

May 12, 2023 21:49 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MB

It's the end of the semester, so we had time to record and edit an episode, but we don't have time to write a good description. Just listen to it, okay?

Gift Horse 105: The Quintessence of Toadness / Silently the Mayor

May 05, 2023 09:30 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

What do you get for the shroom who has everything? And does "everything" include "legs"? Mike and Tracy ponder several heavy Toad questions before finally determining who will win this fungal vassal's heart.

Gift Horse 104: Romantic Bloodsport / Probably Runes

April 28, 2023 12:44 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB

It's all come to this: in the second year of our podcast, the third annual Swordstravaganza.

Gift Horse 103: That's My Apple Style / Mailman's Gonna Get His

April 21, 2023 09:30 - 51 minutes - 46.5 MB

This episode could have been all about soup, but Tracy forbade it. So if you enjoy this fruit-themed episode (and we think that you will), imagine how much better it would have been if it were about soup.

Gift Horse 102: My Mosas / Who Doesn't Love a Sailor?

April 14, 2023 09:30 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB

Mike and Tracy plumb the depths in this bottomless Gift Horse episode. Bears! Whales! Ducks! Flintstones! Boats! Crucifers! Breadsticks! Chaps! This episode has them all. When you're here, you have no choice but to be family.

Gift Horse 101: My Biome Is a Prison / Six Cats and Three Black Ties

March 31, 2023 09:30 - 52 minutes - 58.9 MB

After a very scarf interlude, Mike and Tracy competitively exchange fish or fish-themed items. The possibilities are endless, but the comedic potential can be quantified; indeed, it must.

Gift Horse 100: Become the Minotaur / True, Accurate, Incisive, Hurtful, Damning

March 24, 2023 09:30 - 56 minutes - 51 MB

It's time for Mike and Tracy to exchange boring gifts—or rather, gifts that excite the recipient while sounding extremely boring to everyone else. Don't worry though; the episode itself is an absolute thrill ride. They even talk about gables.

Mini Horse 002: Doctors Said It Was Impossible

March 17, 2023 22:13 - 21 minutes - 26 MB

This Gift Horse isn't a Gift Horse.

Gift Horse 099: Microsoft Edge (Where the Filth Lives) / Extra Large Horse Slicker

March 10, 2023 10:30 - 48 minutes - 54.9 MB

When it comes to rain, we basically have three choices: mitigate, measure, or celebrate. Will Mike choose correctly? Will Tracy? What's a jpeg anyway? And why would anybody do that to a horse?

Gift Horse 098: Sophisticated, Masculine, Yet Artsy Suburban Loft / 26+ Medical Doctors

March 03, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 58 MB

After a visitation from Lorenzo the Pirate King, Mike and Tracy exchange seats. Which will win the coveted Gift Horse throne? There's only one podcast with the courage to tell you.

Gift Horse 097: We Know You're Clean / I Can't Gift Them God

February 24, 2023 14:32 - 44 minutes - 42.1 MB

Mike and Tracy gift new lives to the nasty Charmin bear family. Normally they can at least halfway sublimate the hostility represented by our gifts, but this week it's just too hard; these two homies hate these bears.

Gift Horse 096: And Now, Over to Shaq / Toxic Day-Glo Camouflage TallBoys

February 17, 2023 10:30 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MB

Mike and Tracy risk incarceration by gifting each other illegal items.

Gift Horse 095: Geonnifer / Oviraptor's Rejoinder

February 10, 2023 10:30 - 53 minutes - 61.5 MB

Mike and Tracy exchange personalized items. Would a rose by any name be just as sweet? What if the rose was called Josh?

Gift Horse 094: Herbie Is in Peril / Don't Eat Me; I'm Not Nerds

February 03, 2023 21:40 - 51 minutes - 59.2 MB

Mike and Tracy exchange talking objects, but first they have to figure out what constitutes a talking object. Take Lightning McQueen, for example. He's just a guy.

Gift Horse 093: Nothing But Corpse Flowers / Mark Twain Life Preserver

January 27, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

In an episode where both homies are required to spend one billion dollars, who allocates their fortune the best? Mike attempts to force the issue, while Tray makes perhaps our most questionable purchases yet. At least we've priced Statler and Waldorf.

Gift Horse 092: The Right Epping / The Beauty of a Student Wine

January 20, 2023 10:30

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.

Twitter Mentions

@ianfayart 1 Episode