Gift Horse

Mike and Tracy finally give each other a little privacy. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mike and Tracy exchange fun car activities.

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?

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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." 

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.

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

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.)

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.)

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This Gift Horse isn't a Gift Horse.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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