00:00 The podcast episode is about taxidermy and the hosts discuss a listener request about their favorite use of taxidermy in a movie.

03:47 Taxidermy originated in England out of the need for usable leather and to preserve specimens, and it has remained relatively unchanged until the 1970s when molds started being used instead of stuffing.

07:13 Taxidermy has evolved from traditional stuffing to using polyurethane or foam molds, and taxidermists are skilled artists and craftsmen who work with a range of animals, including roadkill and non-hunted animals, and the process can take a long time due to the scarcity of skilled taxidermists and the need to send skins off for commercial tanning.

10:31 Taxidermy prices can range from $1,000 for a bear skin rug to $2,000 for a full bear standing, and fish are particularly difficult and time-consuming to mount due to the need to paint each individual scale.

14:04 Cold water fish cannot be stuffed like warm water fish, and instead, a polyurethane mold is used to create a realistic shape, while deer taxidermy involves intricately carving muscles, bone mass, and veins.

17:30 The taxidermist must take precise measurements and create a mold before slipping the dried skin over the mold, sewing it up, and mounting it on a plaque.

20:58 The process of taxidermy for fowl involves skinning the bird, washing the feathers, drying them with a hair dryer, salting the remaining moisture, stuffing the head with clay, creating the neck and body with urethane foam, putting wires under the wings, sewing it up, removing the eyes and putting in fake ones, shaping it, and then paying around 250 to 400 dollars for the finished product.

24:33 A jackalope is a shoulder-mounted rabbit with antlers that was created by amateur taxidermists in the 1930s and gave birth to a type of taxidermy called rogue taxidermy or carcass art, which can be seen on the website crappytaxidermy.com.

28:03 The hosts receive a listener mail from a sorority member who used their podcast to educate her sorority sisters about the correct use of the term "klepto" and bring some comic relief to the drama caused by a thief in their sorority house.