kelly clancy joins me this morning. kelly, you know, games are integral to what it means to be human. in fact, you write, they are older than written language itself. that's right. yeah. games, in fact, play is even more ancient than that, play is has been around since some of the earliest animals and most mammals play even lizards and, birds play. so it's a really important behavior. and it's been hard to study previously because it's so integral that it's hard to kind of stop animals from doing it. so you can take the entire cortex off a rat. the part of the brain we think of as being responsible for intelligence. and they they still play. so it's a really deep behavior in us. and for animals, we think of it as being a behavior for exploring, exploring and learning about the world. and for humans, it's about exploring and learning about the world and each other. right. because games, you know, i mean, either mimic our social structure or sometimes set it on its ear, but we learn more about how we interact with each ot

quiet leaf blower invented by college kids, and we take a look at the history of games with author kelly clancy