Today’s episode of The Steve Harvey Show featured the visibly uncomfortable host interviewing 11-year-old Mackenzie McCarty, a budding taxidermist who poses adorable little dead mice in fanciful costumes. It was even better than you’re already imagining.
McCarty is from Philadelphia; she was the subject yesterday of a delightfully nonsensically-titled article about how she likes “stuffing instead of potatoes.” (Never change, local news!) Today she fully messed up Steve Harvey’s lunch hour, explaining in lavish detail and with evident joy that she deguts the mice, scoops their brains out with a “scooper,” pops their eyes out with a “popper” and then dresses them up like leprechauns and characters from Grease. She said she got into taxidermy when she was nine and of her mom’s five (!) pet squirrels died.