With the holidays on the horizon, many of us are thinking of those we love, and the perfect

gift to bring a smile to their faces.

You've tried socks for your dad, novelty mugs for your co-worker, that protein powder that

makes you explosively shit yourself

for your gym bro. Buying the right gift for the people you care about can be a minefield,

and we here at the Lines Led by Donkeys podcast are here to help. Remember when you moved into

your new apartment and your friend Amet gave you that tasteful

ottom in the shape of a moon three years ago?

Sure, that was a nice gesture, but the threatening aura it emanates when an Armenian

is in the room doesn't really work with the feng shui of your life.

Look, I get that it was a gift, I really do, but whenever I walk into the room, I feel it looking

at me, and I swear to God, it has a face when I put my feet on it.

Or what about that pristine or you see uniform that you gave your Uncle Patty because

he's so into Irish history?

Yeah, okay, I get it.

With the context of how he spent the 1980s, maybe a little misjudged.

But the sizing was perfect and that's hard to do when you're buying something on eBay.

Right, Mary, how yeah, how yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, it's about that suit that your John bought me.

Look, I don't really know how that eBay will work, but I didn't really spend six months in the long cash to be looking at that thing in my wardrobe. Can you return it for store credit or something? I don't know. All right, just look, look, look, just say to him. Let me not. Great. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Bye.

There was that time your mother tried to very subtly tell you that maybe you should spend

less time trying to fix vintage, modular, synths and spend more time focusing on your career,

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