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This is top flag time machine. I am Andy hot body dorsan

Oink I am Sam piggy Delaney I coink I am Sam piggy Delaney.

O'coink.

O'coink. That's amusing me more than it should.

Uh, well, go along.

It's the third part of the pig odyssey it's been confirmed to me over the last couple of days that this is the world's largest independently commissioned cultural pig assessment.

Um, peer reviewed as well. I mean it hasn't been peer reviewed yet but it will be.

Doesn't been yet.

No, but we're reaching out to some of our peers to have it reviewed.

And that...

What, Lewis Claire?

I think it's going to be written up in the Lancet who don't often well they usually write about humans in the Lancet

But I think they might because this is seems such a seismic and comprehensive study of pigs.

The editor there said yeah I've a... Oh Sam yeah I've heard about this study you're

doing. Well yeah run it by us if you can get it peer reviewed we're

happy to print it I mean we're not usually in the business of doing stuff

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