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Defining Diego

BioHacked | 3. The Birth of The Sperm Bank

Defining Diego

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Documentary

4.6550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Frozen semen, a media circus, and the father of sperm banking. The man and the moment that gave life to millions — and catapulted the fertility industry into a global business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So, Amber, can you describe, like, where we are and what you're seeing?

0:07.0

We're in a barn and there are maybe a dozen cows, a little bit more.

0:13.0

We got some sheep. We got some really cute dogs.

0:17.0

After I learned about Amber's story, I wanted to understand more about the baby business.

0:21.6

So, a few months ago, I called up Amber and told her I wanted to take her on a little field trip.

0:27.6

That one looked a little scared. They're really cute. They're really, really cute.

0:31.6

And on a cold winter morning, she met me at Glenwood, a picturesque farm in New York's Hudson Valley.

0:38.9

Imagine a large red barn, rolling green hills, critters frolicking everywhere.

0:46.1

It felt quaint.

0:48.6

This little calf is black and adorable.

0:53.2

Yeah, so his name's Noah. His mom's name is Knight. Yeah,

0:58.7

he's a bull calf. Nicole Scott is the farm's livestock manager, and she knows a lot about cows.

1:05.6

She's so big. She's a monster, yeah, she's quite large. We weren't there to just look at cute cows.

1:11.9

We were there to talk about sperm. In addition to managing the livestock here, Nicole's in charge

1:17.1

of artificial insemination, or AI. We actually, we buy the semen. It comes in like frozen semen

1:24.4

straws. Glenwood uses AI to breed about half its cows.

1:28.3

That's a common practice all across the livestock industry.

1:32.3

You can just sort of like flip through a catalog almost

1:36.3

and search for the bull that would best match your cows.

1:40.3

When breeding season comes, Nicole picks some bull semen and pays for it.

1:45.7

It costs about 20 bucks per straw.

1:48.4

It's mailed to us in a tank like this that's filled with liquid nitrogen.

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