Episode 28: The Jesus Heist

This week the boys investigate the origins of taxidermy and why people play around. Also, I'm not sure if this is the best place to talk about this, but I'm in the market for a domesticated steer so I can get it stuff and mounted and all that. Not like that, you pervert. I'm talking about skin art. No not like that either. Listen, do you have a domesticated steer or not? Because I'm willing to drop twelve g's to have this thing immortalized as a skin puppet in my foyer. 

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Music: "These Boys are on the Case" by Jeremy K.

Sources:

Taxidermy: https://www.britannica.com/science/taxidermy

Taxidermy (definition): https://www.etymonline.com/word/taxidermy

History of Taxidermy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxidermy

Practical Taxidermy by John W. Moyer (book): https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Taxidermy-John-W-Moyer/dp/1575241455

Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit by Albert B. Farnham (book): https://www.amazon.com/Taxidermy-Pleasure-Profit-Albert-Farnham/dp/B014Q5MDTU

Ojai Valley Taxidermy (Chuck Testa’s Taxidermy): https://www.ojaitaxidermy.com/

Taxidermy: Is it Creepy or Cool?: https://www.sutori.com/story/taxidermy-is-it-creepy-or-cool--hRRt8Fa5ARA2ufDoVpAfQvA2

Taxidermy is Creepy: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TaxidermyIsCreepy

What It Takes To Be A Taxidermist (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozl1PJAsUIc

Why Don't We Taxidermy Humans? (video) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6S5amkCoyc&t=418s

Toy (definition): https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Toy

Game (definition): https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Game

Chris Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game#Chris_Crawford

The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and innovation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5838546/

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Watch Elon Musk's Neuralink monkey play video games with his brain (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXrGH52aoM

Why Do We Play Games? (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jDspIC4hY&t=558s