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 never has been.

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 you babies.

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.