Horses in the Morning

Horses in the Morning is horse-world breakfast radio with mud on its boots and a clock somewhere in the background. The show moves quickly, but it does not pretend life in the barn arrives in tidy blocks. Glenn DeGeek and Jamie Jennings are the recurring on-air pairing in these excerpts, with Lisa Wysocki stepping in when Jamie is away horse shopping. Their conversations keep mixing the practical, the ridiculous, and the genuinely useful. A segment can start with illness, taxes, travel logistics, or April Fool's annoyance, then swing into eventing history, feed-through fly control, helmets, aftercare, tack, goats, or weird news without losing its place. That is the shape of the show. It sounds like people who know the barn day is already complicated, so the podcast may as well bring the whole mess along. Recent episodes reach across a wide patch of equestrian life: World Cup travel in Texas, Jamie's first ride on Amigo, Kim Walnes and memories around Kentucky eventing, Natalie Keller Reinert and The Jump, Katie Van Slyke answering horse questions, Elisa Wallace discussing Road to the Horse, and Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare Program work. The horse talk is specific without becoming sealed off. Halters, dressage, custom boots, AQHA classes, cross-country, fly control, helmets, and aftercare sit beside auditor post-shows, sponsor reads, odd ads, and the occasional non-horse detour that still feels at home. The show is especially good at letting a guest's practical choices breathe. Elisa Wallace's discussion of adjusting tack for a sensitive horse, for example, lands because the conversation has room for the small decisions that horse people actually argue about. Katie Van Slyke's appearance brings out another side of the show: curiosity about how people outside the usual horse bubble find their way in. There is comedy, but it is not a comedy show first. There is news, but it is not a clean bulletin. There are interviews, but the room is already warmed up before the guest arrives. The recurring auditor community gives it an inside-baseball feel, with post-shows, survey talk, listener references, and running familiarity around the edges. It suits a listener who wants the horse world as a lively daily conversation, with competition, care, equipment, personalities, weather, travel, and barn-life inconvenience all treated as part of the same ride.