Mary Roach

Yeah.

Yeah, so let's make sure she's enjoying this.

And that was, you know, hundreds of years.

That was a belief.

Wow.

How wonderful.

Yeah.

How wonderful.

Exactly.

Oh, I'm always very excited when somebody agrees because, you know, I send these emails like, oh, hello, you don't know me, and you guys inseminate sows, and I've heard that you sexually stimulate the sow before you deliver the semen and that that boosts the odds of conception, and can I come watch you do that?

And they're like, sure, come on down.

And I'm always very excited when somebody says, yeah, you can come watch us stimulate the sows in the barn.

So, yeah, this was the National Committee for – Danish National Committee for Pork Production was, I believe, the name of the group.

And, yeah, there's this – I think it's a 6% –

increase in the farrowing rates, which is the, you know, how many piglets does it produce?

Oh, Wendy, I'm glad you asked me that.

I actually, they gave me a poster of the different steps.

I mean, what you do is not, with the exception of one step, it is not like anything you do with a human partner.

Okay.

I feel like I should be taking notes.