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Ready to be amazed by the wizard of weird. This is Strange with Joshua.

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I am Joshua B. One and each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises, and weird experiments you can do at home, and a lot more. On this edition of the show, great news on testing my alien DNA sword. Oh what a what a story? And I guess I should recap for you what has been happening since last year because last year in twenty twenty four, I published an episode of this podcast called Strange Things Episode one eighty three, and it

was titled Dead Aliens. You won't believe what Joshua received. That was posted April nineteenth of twenty twenty four, and I told the story one of the most bizarre I've

ever heard of. A man named John Edmonds who he worked for a long time as a counselor and a therapist, and in his late thirties, he decided he wanted a more natural life out in the country, and so he and his wife decided to buy this ranch about an hour's drive outside of Phoenix, Arizona, called Stardust Ranch, and this is a very remote area, and so it was

a big property, ten acres. The house was like three and a half thousand square feet, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, large storage area, swimming pool, all that kind of stuff. The idea was that they were going to open up some stables there and they would make money by selling horse riding trips and that kind of stuff. You know. He had ideas for how he could profit from living there. And when he and his wife bought the house, they were told they found out that it did have a

spooky history. The house had been built in the nineteen seventies, and so he bought this house around nineteen ninety six. So the house had been around for a while, and apparently at some point, I think in the seventies, there was a suicide in the house. A young man killed himself, and so the house already had a spooky reputation. But nonetheless,

you know, this was his dream come true. But they started to regret it very quickly because when they really got settled in was sure enough they started having all kinds of bizarre, creepy things happening. At first, it was you know, more moderate stuff, ghostly stuff like shadows weaving around, objects being displaced, all that, and then things just continued to escalate. At one point, there was this weird man

who just showed up wandering around his property. The man was he looked all disheveled, and he looked he had a distant look in his eye, and he was carrying a machetty. And John said, what are you doing? And the guy says, oh, I'm the one who kills the monsters. Okay. So all this kind of bizarre stuff continued, continued to intensify until finally he and his wife started being abducted

by aliens at night in their bedroom. And I'm talking about you know, it may have first been dreamlike experiences, but very quickly they realized, oh no, no, there are real physical aliens coming into the house at night. And that's when the aliens began to show themselves frequently, and he said that they were just as physical as you and I are, and he was doing his best to kill them. He shot numerous aliens on numerous occasions. He said that did not seem to phase them, and so he was

trying to figure out how to handle the situation. You can't just usually call the cops and say, hey, I have these aliens showing up and harassing me on my farm every night. Well, long story short, he ended up obtaining a sword. It was a sword that just kind

of the way. He described that he was driving down a road one day and there was a truck in front of him that had big bundles of stuff, and he knew something was going to fall off, and sure enough, an object fell off, and it was this Samurai sword. Samurai STI elseword, and he felt like this was a gift from God. And so after that, the next time he saw an alien in his house or on his property, in both cases he found that he could he could kill them with this sword. Okay, he could cut their

head off. And so the weirdest thing, however, is that after the alien, After an alien would die shortly thereafter, he said that its physical remains would vanish, almost like it just wasn't actually going to be rooted in this domain,

but they would leave fluids and tissues behind. And so he actually got in touch with a doctor, doctor W. C. Levinood, who analyzed some of the fluid and said that this was the weirdest thing he'd ever seen, that this DNA seemed to be a combination of what we would consider plant and animal. And then right after that, doctor Levin Goood died and then his wife died. Now Ghost Adventures,

Zach Began's show did an episode about the story. It was season fifteen, episode three, at least that's on That's how it's listed on a Roku Disney Plus. That episode is called Stardust Ranch and I think it originally aired July thirtieth of twenty sixteen. And edmund was talking about using this sort to kill the aliens and telling the story right, John Edmunds. It's easy to say John edmund It's John Edmunds. So they tried to sell the place

and nobody wanted it. I can see why. And then when he was I think in his early sixties, he died. John Edmunds died February of twenty twenty two. I'm not sure how he died, but as soon as he was dead, his wife just got up and left everything. And it was the price dropped it dramatically, and nobody wanted this. And you know, this is what you would maybe call a stigmatized property. But anyway, all this stuff was sitting inside the place was left vacant, nobody knew what to

do with it. And then I got contacted by some paranormal investigators last year named Nathan and Aine, and they said they had something amazing to tell me about. And I should also mention I don't want to forget this. If you really want the details on this story, there's a book you can get on Amazon. It's called Stardust Ranch The Incredible True Story, and it is an incredible story.

So that's a book written by John Edmonds with Bruce McDonald. So, Nathan and Angel they said that they worked for this company that would go to places that had sort of been abandoned and then they would I guess their job was to go in and clean them out and see how much could be liquidated and sort of repossess everything on behalf of the bank. And Nathan said that when he went in there, he was just amazed at how intact everything was, how literally it looked like John Edmond's

wife had just gotten up and walked out. And there was still like, you know, food in the fridge, and there were there were all kinds of you know, expensive electronics around vic there were cameras, but the cameras, I think he said, didn't have any footage in them, so that's kind of weird. So anyway, as they were going through the house, well guess what they find. Nathan and Angel found what appears to be a samurai sword. Okay, a samurai sword. And this thing looks like it's been

through some rough times. It's got some scratches on it, and it's got all kinds of weird stains that look a lot like blood. And fortunately Nathan and Angel are big fans of the show and support my work, and they said, you know, we don't know the proper way to test this thing, so we'd like to give you this sword, Joshua, and and see if you can find out you know, more about it and what's what this material is that's on it. So he was very very kind ship this sword to me. You can imagine how

excited I was to open that package. And I told him, you know, even though it was a gift, I felt I needed to pay him something for it. And so then I began the process of getting this thing DNA analyzed, and I thought this is going to be a breeze. Who wouldn't want to analyze this thing?

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Well?

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Boy was I wrong. When we come back, though, I'm going to tell you about the great news that I have and it leads to a bigger conversation actually about DNA testing in general. Hey, you know what, if you like this show, here's ahead up. I'm about to do some house cleaning in my Curiosity Shop on my website, and I have to make space and there are certain products that I'm just not going to make again. I

have small numbers of this and that. So if you're interested in anything in my Curiosity Shop, well, now's your chance to go and see if it's still in stock. Go to Joshua pe Warren dot com. Click the link to the Curiosity Shop right there at the top. Additionally, while you're there, go to the homepage and sign up for my free in Spam Free E newsletter. It takes you two seconds, and when you do that, you'll instantly receive some free online goodies from me, Joshua P. Warren

dot com. That's me. And you're listening to Strange Things all the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast a M Paranormal podcast Network. I have your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua with P Warren beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where every

day is golden and every night is silver. Getato zume, And think of how excited I was this guy John Edmonds, who for years owned this infamous ranch. He was all over the place. He wrote this book called Stardust Ranch, The Incredible True Story. He was on TV shows like Ghost Adventures, a major show. He was interviewed by the great Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM and told his story. And he always talked about how he would use this sword or a sword to kill these aliens.

And I've got this sword, I say, well, I've got a famous sword here, so that means that I should easily be able to get this thing properly tested. Because who out there in the DNA world would not want the opportunity to test a sword, a famous sword with some kind of tissue or fluid on it, given this this story that's been around forever. I mean, who wouldn't want to do that? And it turns out that I have a couple of contacts in the scientific field. And

here's the thing. I know that there are people out there who call themselves DNA analyst or DNA specialist, but a lot of them are not actually that accredited, all right. So in other words, they may just they may be either amateurs or they just kind of they work very very independently without a lot of peer review, or they are just strictly into the paranormal and say a lot of fanciful things. So I was like, no, no, no, I don't want to waste this opportunity on somebody like that.

I want to go to, you know, a real doctor at a real university, you know, mainstream university, and have this done the kind of thing that you might see done if you were making a documentary for the National Geographic Channel or something like that. I think it rises to that level of interest and significance. So I have a couple of contacts in the the mainstream university world, the collegiate world, and I thought, okay, well that's that. I'll contact them and we'll get the ball rolling and

figure out what we need to do. So I contacted them and said, he guess watch, you know, I've got this marvelous thing, this great opportunity. What do we need to do to get it tested here? And I was saying, you know, I'm willing to pay whatever and it is necessary. And I was shocked when both of them were like, no, sorry, can't do that. Why why why not? Like, well, because it's like we know what you do, Joshua, and we

appreciate what you do. But if we start associating ourselves with this kind of thing, then it's jeopardizing our credibility and so we just can't do it. You know, this is a livelihood, that kind of thing. And I understand that. I mean because look, to me, the paranormal is normal

at this point. Everybody is not like that, okay, And you have these people who are highly qualified, who spent years in school, and they're trying to get ten year at a university or something, and they don't want to jeopardize it over something that might make them look silly. I've encountered this kind of thing over the years, and that's one of the things that holds back paranormal research. But I was like, okay, that's fine, that's okay. It

should be easy to find somebody out there. So I started contacting other places, other credible organizations, let's just put it that way. And I just kept hitting roadblock after roadblock, and it was the same old thing. Now, sure, like you can go and you have like DNA tested for paternity or something like that to see who the father of a kid is or something. But you see, here's the problem that people don't A lot of people don't realize that this is the problem when it comes to

DNA testing weird things. DNA, the process of DNA science is great at matching up to things. So let's say you have you have well, like on a crime scene. Okay, you have a fluid or something or a hair on a crime scene, and you can take that and then take a piece of DNA from this individual and see if they match up. That is very effective. And you can also match DNA to a known animal. So let's say, you know, if you go out there and you get a frog and we all agree this is a frog.

It's a real frog, and you get that frog's DNA and you say, here's what that That frog's DNA looks like this. You put that into the DNA catalog and from there on, if you have a mysterious DNA, you can say, well this we look at look at this. It matched up with the frog. But if there is no accepted specimen of something that exists out there, then a scientist doesn't have anything to match the DNA with. And so it's like, how do how do we know

if this is an alien's DNA? If you don't have a dead alien specimen out there and you can that you could compare this with. And this goes for bigfoot, and it's like you here are these people say, look, we have bigfoot DNA. Well maybe you believe that because maybe you've got some weird DNA, but if you can't compare it to a bigfoot specimen, you can't say this

is bigfoot DNA, and that goes for all cryptids. And this is the challenge when it comes to getting people who are credible to want to test these bizarre, unknown varieties of DNA. And so I get that, I understand it. And the limitations of DNA technology are they're they're much much more, they're much broader than you might think. And I've learned a lot, as you can tell by by trying to do this, because I'd never tried to pursue

having something like this DNA tested before. I thought it would be relatively easy, because hey, you know, I have this show here, I work with Coast to Coast AM and people know who I am and what I do and my stories out there, and you know it's it's it's something of public interest, and you know what. I started trying and trying and trying to get somebody credible to take a look at this, and it just wasn't happening. And I finally got a referral to a professor at

a mainstream university. And this is this is after months of trying, because I was not going to just hand the sword off to somebody or even take an unnecessary swab unless it was somebody who was really credible and somebody who would at least be willing to say, hey, I'm willing to put my reputation on the line to say that what we have here is DNA that seems unusual. And scientists don't like to admit when they don't know things, but they do exist. There are scientists out there who

are real explorers, real investigators, real researchers. They're willing to take some risks with their reputation perhaps, and they're willing to say I don't know what this is. And so I contacted this professor. Let's see, I got in touch with him November of last year, twenty twenty four, and he works with the forensic doctors at this major mainstream university here in the United States. And I said, hey, I have this famous sword blah blah blah, here's the

whole story. Listen to the podcast I did. I have not allowed anyone to do a DNA test on these stains yet, Are you interested? Do you know someone who is? And he at first he said yes, but you know, I need to have some meetings with this this committee where we go over what we agree to test. And he's like I said, all right, fine, So, like you know, a couple of weeks go by and I haven't heard anything, and he's and then he says like, well, look, real

science takes time. And I was like, okay with this guy is just another guy who's just given me the run around here, and uh, I just figured it, well, I will just hang on to this sword until the day comes when you know, somebody will who's who's in the right position, will contact me about it, about testing it. And then, much to my surprise, much to my surprise, just days ago, I got an email from this professor at this university and he's he I've got his email

in front of me. He says, thank you so much for your stream patience. I was hoping to have things together to send to you to swab the sword in January, but for a number of reasons, including my building being unexpectedly shut down for urgent repairs, I only now have this ready to send to you. He says, Please send me your best address. I am sending you two sterile collection tubes with swabs built in, he said, you only need one, but this way you'll have an extra iNeST

in case. I'm going to send you one small vial of DNA free water. I'll send you directions for collecting and submitting the sample. It's like it's happening. It's happening. We're up on a break. When we come back, i'll tell you what the next step is going to be here, and then I want to tell you something that I've learned about these companies that you may have come across that promise you that if you can you give them their DNA, they can give you a complete rundown of

like your health. Sounds a little fishy, doesn't it. I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM para normal podcast network, and I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things. I'm the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast AM para normal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren, and this is the show where the on

becomes usual. What a year I have had. I mean, if you have listened to this show regularly, I mean it's just been one breakthrough after another, or at least you know. Here, here's the thing I have to follow very strict instructions, which I'm very happy to do in order to properly test to to like, you know, swab this sword. And I am going to videotape myself doing it so that there's no question that the samples have been collected properly. So I'm keeping the sword. I'm not

sending the sword in. You know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't chance that. And then so I'm sending these samples and then I don't know how long I'll have to wait, but I know they are going to a a real forensics department with real doctors at a real university who are saying they're going to examine this, and they haven't asked for any money. I should be receiving their kit any day now. And you know the question is, well, what are they going to find? And here's here's here. Honestly,

here's my thinking on this. I do people are probably shocked to hear this, but I do understand and believe deeply in the scientific method. And a part of thinking that way is considering what's known as Ockham's razor, and that is that the likeliest explanation is usually the correct one. That if you have something sounds like it's wrapping on your wall at night. Maybe it's a ghost, but maybe it's more likely that you have a pipe or something

like that that is creaking under certain circumstances. So you have to see what the likeliest thing is. So look, I would not be a bit surprised if they come back and say, well, you know, this guy lived on a ranch. I mean, I don't know if he was out there killing chickens or something. It's like, I wouldn't be surprised if they say this is chicken blood or

or either human blood or who knows. I mean, this guy could have been making everything up and he could have just smeared some blood from the butcher shop on this thing. So I mean, and that's fine because I feel like that one way or another, this mystery is going to be solved because they're either going to come back and they're going to say basically one of three things.

They're gonna say, uh, yeah, this is blood from a from a hog or whatever, or they're gonna say this is uh the sample is not even DNA, and it wasn't good enough shape to test. We couldn't tell anything about it, so we can't conclude anything, or they're going to say, this appears to be DNA, but we can't match it to anything in the catalog, and that would be the coolest outcome, because I think that would be

about the best that we could get from this. But you know what, if you had a credible university that collected something like that, then at least it would allow them to go forth and maybe start comparing other supposed alien blood or whatever that's found in other sites where people have had these encounters, and that would be very interesting. So I'm fortunate that you know, the scientists are telling me right now that they are open minded to tackle this and do it properly, and so yes, you will

be the first to know the results. So be sure to sign up for my free and spam free e news that are right there on the homepage at Joshua pe Warren, because that'll be the fastest way for me to get the word to you. But here's what I wanted to bring up to you now that I've been sort of studying and I'm by no means a DNA expert, but you know, I've been looking into this a lot more than the average person, as you can tell, and

my wife Lauren. She contacted me a while back, and she was telling me about some of these kits that she'd seen out there on the marketplace. There are companies that say that you can get a kit and send them some of your DNA and they can turn around and give you an analysis of all of your sort of health issues that you may or may not be prone to have. And that's because I have a lot of quirky health issues. I don't want to get into all that right now, but you know, I was I

almost died when I was born. Every time the doctor was trying to deliver me, the biblical cord was pulling me back in and choking me to death. It was around my neck several times. My dad said that when I finally was released, that I had purple splotches all over my head and they had to put me in some kind of chamber and so that I came into the world with difficulty, you know. So it's it's always

been a little weird for me. So Lauren was saying, you know, have you seen these kits that these companies are providing where it would be interesting to see if they could tell you, you know, if you have some kind of you know, genetic quirks. I'm a weirdo anyway. So and so I said, well, let me look into this. And here's what I have found. There is such a thing as d n a H testing for for health purposes. There are certain particular genes that you can look through

that can be matched up with certain particular conditions. But from all the research that I've done, most of these doctors who are experts of this say this is we don't have the ability right now to honestly to take these companies seriously. For one thing, these companies they charge a lot of money, like for example, there's one on Amazon, and I think the cheapest you can get one of their kids for is six hundred dollars. And then once they send you the results, well now you also have

to subscribe and continue paying them. And so and I was looking at this kit all these kinds of kids that I found that they claim that they can do that give you a health profile like that. They don't have many reviews, and most of the reviews are bad. As a matter of fact, that particular one that she sent me and I'm not going to use any names.

I was just looking at it before the show it says right there on Amazon on frequently returned item, it only has thirteen reviews to and then it says frequently returned item. Well, I wonder why that is. And if you just start looking at the reviews of these things, then you'll you'll realize that there are a lot of

problems there. Furthermore, there are experts at doctors who say, you can go to two of these different companies that are claiming to offer the same kind of service and then they will both send you back results that are different. So how should that happen? Who's you know, where's the credibility there? So from what I understand from talking you know, or and doing just doing research, is that look that Like I say, some of these health tests can provide

insights into certain genetic predispositions and carrier status. But there are these commercial companies that are not intended to diagnose diseases. There are a lot of factors that may affect how the results are interpreted. And there are a lot of doctors who say that this can cause big problems because if they send you some kind of information and say, oh, you're inclined to have some kind of a health problem, now you start freaking out and it becomes a self

fulfilling prophecy. And so most doctors out there, I mean, I guess you could say there are some mixed results, but for the most part, the technology just isn't there yet. But you know, now that I have a legitimate DNA expert that I'm going to be able to correspond with, at some point I will ask the real experts to give an opinion on that. And you know, and I don't talk about health stuff, so I'm not going to give you kind of any health advice. I'm just telling

you what I found that I don't I don't. I mean, if you could do it, you know, for a hundred bucks or whatever, and it might be an interesting novelty, and especially if you don't have to like sign up and subscribe to some service. But right now, everybody's just like, look that we don't have the credible commercial companies out there that can fulfill what they're offering, especially for the

prices they're charging. And again it kind of goes back to like DNA people they hear about it all the time. They're like, oh, crime's got solved. So they think if DNA is brought up something is automatically credible. But that's what they actually understand very little about what the strengths

and weaknesses of DNA are. And like I say, it's mainly for matching up things, matching up known variables, matching up certain types of people with other types of people, or matching up a certain person with his or her own DNA. Or it can be used by medical professionals to go in and look at for very particular types of genes and anomalies and such that may apply to a very particular condition for a particular person. But I'm not ready to go spend money on that yet, and

so that's just my opinion. But I'll let you know, like I say, if that changes is you know, the technology is changing at light speed. Okay, it's time for a break. When we come back, I think I'm going to end the show by catching up on some stuff that I call mental manner. These are things that I just like to talk about because well, the show is it's called strange things, and sometimes I just come across things that I think are odd. And I just discovered

something odd the other day, something strange about Marguerita pizza. Yeah, Margarita Pizza and it's that kind of a program. We can go anywhere we want. I wonder if you know this bit of trivia, and I've got some other mental manna for you as well. To end the show on a quirky note, why not. I'm Joshua Pee Warren, and you are listening to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast A and Paranormal Podcast Network, and I

will be right back. Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, And here's something that's just been on my mind for a while. I was, you know, thinking about the idea of testing like DNA testing paranormal things. And I just want you to know that sometimes I hear people talk about, well, is is this is this

a bigfoot? Or is this a paranormal thing? Or is this an alien or is this a paranormal thing or and you know what, in my mind, like paranormal means beyond normal. That kind of covers it all. So saying ghosts, UFOs and bigfoot and the paranormal is I guess it's kind of like saying Big Max whoppers and burgers. It's redundant. To me, it's all paranormal. It's either normal or it's not normal. And we can argue about what normal is and how to draw the line there. But to me,

ghosts are paranormal. UFOs are paranormal. Bigfoot's paranormal, All cryptids are paranormal. If it's not if it falls outside of the average person's daily experience, we can call that paranormal. It's all paranormal, folks. And maybe you know, maybe this is just semantics and I'm splitting hairs here, but here's another tip that I will give those of you out

there who fancy yourselves UFO and you a researchers. A lot of people say there was a craft over here flying through the air, and then they'll say, then they saw two crafts over there flying through the air. Well, as far as I understand, the plural of the word craft is craft, so you can say there's one craft over here or there are five craft over there, but I don't think you're supposed to say crafts. And also people mix up the word phenomenon, which is singular with

phenomena and that's the plural. So it's like, we have a strange phenomenon happening on this mountain, and we have three strange phenomena happening over on that mountain. You know, I'm a writer. I'm sorry, but I once in a while I think about how we we define these things. A lot of it begins, you know. We think about things often beginning with the how we the language and how we phrase it. There's a relationship between how we

envisioned concepts and how we talk about these things. And so, you know, I think that's interesting and I think it's important. All right, now, time for some mental manna. And again, this is just stuff that it's not necessarily paranormal, but it's strange to me and stuff that I just kind of come across in my life. Who does it like pizza?

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Right?

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And as a matter of fact, do you know where the word pizza comes from? I wasn't sure, and then recently I was looking it up, says The oldest recorded usage of the word is thought to be from May nine ninety seven of CE. That's a long time ago, the year nine ninety seven. It appeared in a Latin document from part of the Byzantine Empire, but they think that the entomology it goes back to the Byzantine Greek and Late Latin, which basically they had a word piita

for piita bread. We all have heard of pia bread around flat bread baked in the oven at high temperatures, and then occasionally I guess they would add toppings. And so I think piza is where the word pizza came from. Now you could say, well, where did peta come from? We could keep going down that rabbit hole. But that's all you need to know for now. But you know, I've always been, you know, being a typical American pig. You know, I like, I love those supreme pizzas that

have all that all, like the meat lover stuff. I can't eat that as often as I want anymore. Now that I'm middle aged trying to take better care of myself, I don't know how well that's going. I'll have to go one of those DNA tasks. But I used to never order a margarita pizza and uh and I'm not talking about like a margarita drink. That's a different story. I believe that would drink was named after Oh, a

prominent lady in Mexico. Another story for another day. But pizza Margarita known as Margarita pizza, that's spelled m A r g h E r I t A. It's it's a roundish pizza and it's considered a Neapolitan pizza and it's seasoned with hand crushed peeled tomatoes, mozzarella usually buffalo mozzarella, fresh basil leaves, and extra virgin olive oil. And apparently if you go you go back to the history of this. The story is that there was a Queen Margherita and

back in eighteen eighty nine, who is visiting this town. Sorry, I should have brushed up on this a little bit better. She was visiting a town they were celebrating her, and so they asked one of the chefs to make a special pizza to honor her, which had the colors of the Italian flag, red for tomato, white from montzauela, and green for basil. And so they named it after the queen, the Margarita Pizza. Well, I tell you all this because

I never again, I'd never really ordered margarita pizzas. But I was watching this YouTube video about restaurants in Las Vegas and there was this one food reviewer who is like, oh my gosh, you have to go to this restaurant here on the strip where they make this margharita pizza and all the ingredients have to be exact to the standards of the margarita pizza in Italy from this little region, and that they have to import their their flour to

make their dough, they have to import the cheese that like, you have to import everything. You have to put it in a certain type of oven for a certain period of times, like super strict standards, the kind of stuff you hear people apply to like maybe different types of waggu steaks, and she was just talking about how heavenly it is. Well, I figure, you know, I've not been to Italy, and I don't know if I'm going to make it to Italy. So one day Lauren and I

were in the area. We go, let's go there and see what this super authentic pizzas is as supposed to be like. So we go in there and they bring out this rather ordinary looking margherita pizza because they had so few toppings on him, and it was absolutely delicious, one of the best pizzas I've ever had. And I was, you know, really surprised by it was very light. It was not thick with all these toppings like we Americans are.

So I started looking into this and I found one other restaurant where I went to where they have these same strict standards, and I found out that what you have possibly eaten or probably eaten your entire life, that you call a margarita pizza is not an authentic margarita because when you go to one of these places that has all the stuff imported, they have permission to call there as a margharita DOC. The DOC stands for the and I don't speak Italian, the nominacion the originic controller,

which I means like domain of original control. That is an Italian designation of controlled origin, meaning the ingredients are from specific high quality regions and made to certain standards. And I mean it's like, this is a big deal. If you if you have this designation at your straw and you screw up, you know, you're blackballed basically. And so I was like, well this is and so I got one of these docs again and I was like, man, yeah, this is like if this is one of the best

pizzas I've ever had that margarita doc. So I started looking into the ingredients and I was like, okay, so it takes buffalo mozzarella. So I was talking to one of the servers and I was like, so, what's the story behind buffalo mozzarella And the server said, oh, it comes from buffaloes in Italy, and I was like what. Lauren and I both are like what. Sure enough, buffalo mozzarella is a mozzarella made from the milk of the

Italian Mediterranean buffalo. It's a very particular thing from that region. They say that the history of why that there are water buffalo at Italy is not clear. One theory is that Asian water buffalo were brought to Ita by Goths during the migrations of the early medieval period. You can look into this yourself, but did you realize that when you if you order a margarita and it's got buffalo mozzarella, it's mozzarella that came from a water buffalo in Italy.

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