Gift Horse
148 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe competitive marital gift-giving podcast that you never knew how to want.
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Gift Horse 139: Naturally Converging on Van Art / More About That in Book Two
March 15, 2024 09:30 - 57 minutes - 70.3 MBThis 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 MBMike 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 MBTracy 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 MBMike 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBIt'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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBIn 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 MBMike and Tracy exchange fun car activities.
Gift Horse 128: Advanced Jumble / Grimly Bopping It
November 17, 2023 07:17Mike 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 MBMike 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBChristmas 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBThis 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 MBIt'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 MBWho'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 MBWe 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 MBIf 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 MBThis 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 MBLast 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 MBGiddy 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 MBMike 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 MBMike 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 MBIt'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 MBMike 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 MBLorenzo 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 MBIt'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 MBWhat 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 MBIt'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 MBThis 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 MBMike 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 MBAfter 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 MBIt'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 MBThis 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 MBWhen 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 MBAfter 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 MBMike 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 MBMike 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 MBMike 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 MBMike 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 MBIn 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 10:30Mike 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.