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

Mike and Tracy competitively gift stuff to Mary Poppins. Their approaches are extremely different, so which one has engaged in the most brutal gamesmanship?

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Tracy has starred in a play. Mike has seen Tracy star in the play. What now?

An exchange of theatre props, of course.

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Mike and Tracy exchange false foods, which are apparently the one thing Mike loves unreservedly and uncritically.

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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.

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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?

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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.