Best Tracy Rae Bowling Podcasts (2026)

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Personal Pan Holiday Special: Christmas in Korea 31:40

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This is the eleventh episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. For this week's Personal Pan Holiday Special, I decided to do something a little bit different, sharing with you an essay that I wrote about my time as a writer in residence in South Korea, plus a guide that I wrote for others who p…

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The Ministry of Culture with Buzz Poole 1:44:43

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This is the tenth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Buzz Poole, cofounder of Sandorf Passage. Texts discussed include but are not limited to: Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost by Donald Niedekker, translated by J…

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The Used Book Store, Kansas City, and Thanksgiving Special with Tracy Rae Bowling 1:14:39

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This is the ninth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. Last week, Tracy and I took a vacation to Kansas City, where we enjoyed the art museum, two jazz clubs, several eateries, one bar, and one used book store. We discuss our experience and used book stores generally, as well as our respec…

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You Can Really Feel the Spreadsheet with Tracy Rae Bowling 1:43:52

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This is the eighth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week, Tracy and I get together for a conversation on visual novels, especially The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Other visual novels you might want to check out: the Danganronpa series, the Zero Escape series, 13 Sentinels:…

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Personal Pan Pizza: Three Readings by Mike 52:27

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This is the seventh episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest unfortunately fell through, so it's going up slightly late, and the format is a bit different. This time I read excerpts from three pieces: 03:05 - "The Guy with the Eyes," a short story by Spider Robinson 13:38 - A…

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Criminogenic, Prosthetic Eyebrows with Ed, a Normal Man 1:32:17

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This is the sixth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Ed "from Bluesky" Roppel, one of the four cohosts of "Normal Men", the only podcast on Bluesky. He blogs at ed3d.net. Texts and writers discussed include but are not limited to the Foundation series, Robert Heinlei…

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Parallel Mpreg with Rachel Jane Andelman and Tracy Rae Bowling 1:24:30

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This is the fifth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is Rachel Jane Andelman, a writer, performer, and improv coach in the Boston area. She has taught at ImprovBoston and Union Comedy. She currently performs improv with independent casts Tales of Enstonishment and Magic…

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The Three Acceptable Hats with Ned Resnikoff 1:27:55

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This is the fourth episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my friend Ned Resnikoff, an analyst, researcher, journalist, and consultant with a particular focus on housing and urban policy. Follow me on Bluesky here, and Ned here. You'll learn about his forthcoming book Cit…

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Power: Who Has It, Who Wants it, with Allie, Anne, and Lea 1:23:52

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This is the third episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guests are my friends Lea, Anne, and Allie, the cohosts of my favorite wrestling podcast, Tunnel Talk. After an initial tooth and claw struggle for power, we settled in to discuss what we had been reading, dying from gender…

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Maybe the Men in My Life are Blessed with Blorb, a Cartoon Pug 1:32:25

3M ago1:32:25

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This is the second episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my friend Blorb, who is a cartoon pug. I met Blorb on a discord about professional wrestling, they did the art for this pod, and they are a delight. We talked about a bunch of books, furnipure, Culver's, and every…

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Longing for the Clarity of Disaster with Tracy Rae Bowling 1:18:40

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This is the first episode of Library Pizza, a podcast about reading hosted by the guy writing this: Mike Meginnis. This week's guest is my partner, Tracy Rae Bowling. We discuss Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland, Yukio Mishima's Beautiful Star, and G-Fest 2025. You can and should join Disc Horse, the Library Pizza discord, at https://discord.gg/UAs…

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Gift Horse 140: Believable Car Situations / Here's Why You're Not Ready for the Duck Sound 54:41

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

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Gift Horse 139: Naturally Converging on Van Art / More About That in Book Two 57:01

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 138: Couch-side Hot Sauce Caddy / Impeccably Poppins 53:41

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 137: Body! Stand Near While Face Love! / Phantom of the Opera Jr. 56:41

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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. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 136: Show Me a Yam / The Little Grouchy Truth 53:39

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 135: King of the Weens / Advice for Moms or Uncles 55:05

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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. Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse Data: View it here.…

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Gift Horse 134: Another Hot Addition to This Extremely Sexy Podcast / Striking While the Duck Is Weak 47:38

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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? Commitments to the Bit: View them here. Current Gift Horse D…

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Gift Horse 133: A Caked-Up Frog / Glamping for Bats 56:25

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 132: Why an 8 Ball / 360 Stunt Machine 55:37

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

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Gift Horse 131: Ham Lifers / A Penguin Who Is Going to Be Your Dad 49:29

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 130: Riding High on Tracy Fumes / Wonka Is the Prime Mover 49:11

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 129: Mike Meginnis Lives Safely in Iowa City / All-Purpose Autumn Bowl 50:01

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 128: Advanced Jumble / Grimly Bopping It 49:44

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Mike and Tracy exchange fun car activities.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 127: One of the Lesser Blobs / Very Strong Yet Doomed 46:11

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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?By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 126: Borne Aloft by Beans / Fragments of a Man and a Man's Life 41:27

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 125: There's Municipal Codes to Consider / One of Four Exotic Birds 54:47

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 124: A Gun with Present Bullets / Grogu, the Event Horizon 49:57

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Christmas time is here! Christmas time is here! Christmas time is here. Christmas time is here. Christmas time: it's here.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 123: The Urban Snacker / Permission to Try Manchego 56:50

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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?By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 122: The Standard QWERTY Layout / Infinite Hamlet Fanfictions 52:04

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 121: I'll Cop to Light Punching / Chocolate's a Trap 1:05:32

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

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Gift Horse 120: Touch Is How You Know You're Being Pressed / Gross Beyond the Normal Remit 53:06

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This week, Mike and Tracy first explore the sensual world, and then expand it.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 119: A Coterie of Favorite Items / My Eternal Battle Against Your Anhedonia 53:11

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 118: Unfit to Plant Pumpkins / Por Qué No Los Tres 47:40

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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/HappyHoppyStuffsBy Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 117: Kiryu's Coveted Retirement / I'd Kill to Be in Glimmer Train 49:03

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Who's the bravest, strongest, upstandingest, possibly boringest man in the world? Possibly the answer is Kiryu. Can our gifts enrich his life?By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 116: Snuggling the Anemone / Up There, Crimewise 48:23

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 115: A Rooter Through and Through / The Progenitor Sock 1:01:45

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

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Gift Horse 114: One of Your Toilet Ideas / Bumpy Chicken Valuation 55:19

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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."By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 113: Fourteen Years Down, Forever to Go / A Very Small Stake in the Elephant 51:02

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 112: Undress the McNuggets / Lotta Dreams Wrapped Up in a Poncho 48:03

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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…

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Gift Horse 111: I Havb No Condsenandts / A Lean, Twelve-Minute Dolphin Show 49:28

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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.)By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 110: Leave the Frog Alone / Protein-Rich Super Soup 1:00:01

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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.)By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 109: Full of Potatoes, Drizzled with Chutneys / The Final Reuben 49:57

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

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Gift Horse 108: Hotdogged Your Heels Again / I'm Claiming Poncho 46:47

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 107: The Vitamin We Call C / I'm the Tubi Button 49:06

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 106: Dads Need DVDs / The Aimless Trampolining of My Youth 51:42

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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?By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 105: The Quintessence of Toadness / Silently the Mayor 39:35

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 104: Romantic Bloodsport / Probably Runes 55:44

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It's all come to this: in the second year of our podcast, the third annual Swordstravaganza.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling

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Gift Horse 103: That's My Apple Style / Mailman's Gonna Get His 51:02

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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.By Mike Meginnis and Tracy Rae Bowling