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Stand and Deliver.

Welcome to the final episode of our season about highway robbery and the outlaws who preyed upon road travelers.

Now we say it all the time, you've heard this, that we look at the lives and motivations of the accused, and we consider whether or not any of the historical offenders and offenses might look a little different today or not.

Sometimes guilty is just guilty.

This season, everyone was guilty, and the punishment for highway robbery was a death sentence.

Welcome to Criminalia.

I'm Maria Tremarky and.

I'm Holly Frye.

Highwaymen were quote as common as crows in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which coincides with the time in England and Europe when travel was already hazardous due to the lack of decent roads, and many of these places were still pre industrial countries without a professional police force.

Populations were still relatively small, at least compared to today, and there were still large undeveloped swaths of forest and countryside where highwaymen could lie in wait for their next target.

Although there were well born and well mannered highway robbers, those who practiced the criminal trade with brutality far outnumbered those who didn't.

But people wanted their highway robbers to be heroes and a champion of the people, like Robin Hood, and many highwaymen were portrayed like an outlaw hero deserved or not, and you can chalk those stories up to legend.

None of them gave their loot to those less fortunate, but the idea still made for a good underdog story, especially if you were among the economically disadvantaged hoping to financially gain at the expense of those economically advantaged.

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Tales of their cunning and generosity were in the mouths of everybody, and a noted thief was a kind of hero.

There was also plenty of talk about the revolutionary flintlock pistol, plenty of trials ending in execution by hanging, and plenty of confusion over who exactly pulled off wit crime.

It's true most of these crimes were not committed by the infamous brigand Dick Turpin, although he gets credit for many things he didn't actually do.

Let's talk about some of the highway robbers of the season.

We talked about how, though the designation of highwayman would suggest otherwise, there were some women who were in the game as well.

English gentlewoman and heiress Lady Catherine Ferrers, who as a highwaywoman known as the Wicked Lady, terrorized England in the mid sixteen hundreds.

Her legend persists centuries after her death, even if those stories have become a bit embellished over the years.

Now the majority of highway robbers were straight up thugs, but one or two, like Claude Duval, were said to have been polite and chivalrous robbers, known as the gentleman robber.

It said women wanted to be robbed by.

Claude, And we also talked about the thief takers.

People thought Jonathan Wilde was an upstanding, law abiding kind of guy.

He was a thief taker who was very good at catching criminals.

Highway robbers feared him because for every brigand he caught, he got paid.

But what most people did not know was that Jonathan himself was actually one of the baddest outlaws among them.

So, just like our previous seasons, there's no weight, We're rolling straight from our season of highway robbery into one where we'll explore a motley assemblage of heists everything but the kitchen sink and maybe that too.

And as always, we'll also be serving up the cocktails and mocktails inspired by them.

If you haven't been with us during previous seasons, we have a tradition here so with every season finale, Maria and I share our favorite shows and our favorite cocktails and mocktails, and we will do that today.

But before we talk about those favorites, we're going to take a quick break for a word from our sponsors, and we will meet you right back here.

Welcome back to Criminalia.

Let's get started with our personal picks.

First up, our top three shows of the season.

Okay, so first picks, which you got?

I love William Davis?

Did you I love a double life.

I love the idea of a farmer that's just tilling his fields and handling his livestock by day, and then at night he's like time to go rob people.

Did that matter happen?

Was he the man who had like eighteen children?

He had kids?

I don't remember the number.

Yeah, no, wonder she had to rob to feed all those mouths.

I remember thinking he needs the gold.

Right, it's fine.

Yeah, there's something alluring about that.

I think all of us have had those fantasies about like what if I had a whole other life.

Listen, I couldn't hate it.

I couldn't manage it, right, I would need help, And so.

I know I'm good with the one, thank you very much.

Plus it sounds tiring.

I'm so tiring.

I can barely manage my regular life.

I mean, I don't have time to do crops and crime.

I just can't.

I gotta just the crime is fine.

No, I mean, I mean many of his maybe his children were very helpful farm I don't.

I don't know that part of his life.

But he was our duplicitous at this season.

I don't.

I don't know why.

There's something oddly charming about it to me.

I also kind of understand that the idea of wanting something more for yourself, Ideally it doesn't manifest in a life of crime.

That's a secret.

But like you know, I could see where if you are a creative person or a free spirit, or even just someone who doesn't feel quite like fulfilled by the standard life that's expected of you, or maybe farming just boredom to tears.

I don't know, but I kind of understand the impetus.

Even though I don't support having a secret life of crime.

It was a good story.

Yeah.

My first pick is Lady Catherine Ferrers.

Oh yeah, and I picked her from my list because that was a season of men who robbed people on the road and it was refreshing actually to say there's also a woman who robbed people on the road.

Oh yeah.

And I don't even care how much her story may have changed it for the last four hundred years.

The thing that I liked the most about that woman was when she was forced to marry young, her husband spent her money, her inheritance that she had.

She didn't remarry after that, she chose a life of crime instead, and I thought that was a really interesting choice for the time period she was in.

Yeah, I agree.

It It goes back to the exact same thing I was saying about William, right, Yeah, you want something for yourself, and in her case it's because she is, you know, the not that I believe this, but as it would have been called at the time, the weaker sex, right that she didn't have the same opportunities of you know, like I'll just go and get a career, so I.

Have to go out and remarry.

And that was it.

That's her choice, you got to get She didn't want that.

She didn't want that, she had already had that.

She didn't go.

Well, she didn't like it.

Yeah, but I guess we did.

We did have a second woman.

I misspoke, but she was a partner with Ed Edward.

Yeah, Bracy, listen, it's predictable.

Are you ready?

I am ready?

Who you got?

So I have a clauwe Duval as well.

All right, let's talk about Claude.

He ticks all the boxes.

Yeah, I mean does he takes He takes the flute box, the dance box, the French, right, He's French, the dance cultured.

Apparently quite handsome and charming.

He carries a flute in his jacket, like I don't know.

I liked his dance off with the carriage, and I'm certain that husband was like, what in the hell is going on outside that door.

I really thought that his story was just so much more lighthearted than so many of the other highway robbers that we talked about.

And I'm not saying that he was a good man because he was a criminal, right, but his story was quite different than a lot of the criminals that we told.

Yes, the romantic darling of the ladies.

I mean, isn't it an interesting concept to think that like there was it's it's not on you.

I will draw parallels to the present in a moment.

But like it seems initially at its surface such a wild concept of like this man is so charming that women ache to be victimized by him.

But then I think about how many people today like actively search prison lists for pen pals because there is some weird draw to the danger of it.

I'm guessing I don't have this gene, so I don't understand it.

I don't either, but I would guess the danger, the sense of danger about it as well, is probably at least part of it.

Yeah, it's exciting.

That's a little wet dopamine hit.

Yeah, I think too in the fantasy of it for some people, Right, there's that idea of but if I were the one that could capture this dangerous person's heart, right, Like there's a second dopamine thing of like feeling like you could be the special one.

I do know, I mean We talked about a few highwaymen who were consistently described as being handsome highway robbers, but they were like thug highways.

Yeah, you went out romantic in any way at all.

We had some who dressed very well.

There was one that I read about.

I don't think we included him in this season, but he used to rob with a Venetian mask on.

But Claude stands out above them all, and actually the tech technically the name of the season is the Gentleman Robber, and that is.

Claude, and he's the one.

Yeah, it was your second.

My second was Claude.

So we're twinsicle exactly.

We were absolutely twins on that one.

And my third pick was probably obvious for me, but it was Jonathan Wilde, who was our episode twelve.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I liked switching it up, and I'm also really kind of liked Jonathan wild not as a criminal, but as a guy who self styles himself as a thief catcher general.

That's such a bold statement, especially when you're like the one running the underworld, Like, yeah, he pops up in other people's stories here and there too, you know, as we saw kind of along the way, And yeah, he wasn't originally a person that was on our calendar to talk about, but because he kept popping over in everybody's stories, I felt he really need to have a story.

Told him, Wow, that was a story.

I have two left.

One is really an honorable mention and one is my favorite favorite favorite of the season.

Okay, do your favorite and then we'll do our honorables.

My favorite favorite favorite is Nicola Jacques Pelletier.

I'll talk about guillotines all day, every day.

Well, I love guillotine history.

I don't know why.

I'm really quite squeamish about such things, but.

I didn't know that.

I just I am fascinated.

And I was really glad that in your research and in putting together the flow of the episode, you dropped into kind of like the reasons the guillotine was developed and how it was initially supposed to be an incredibly humane main way too approach executions.

It's also just like it's one of those things for me, the concept of public executions being a form of entertainment makes my stomach turn, but in that way where I'm like, I gotta figure out what this is, like, what is this?

What is this mechanism, this social mechanism where like people will bring their kids to watch someone be beheaded.

Right.

I don't recall if it was this season or an earlier season, but I remember people had set up like picnics and it was like a big family event out in.

It must have been early on in our seasons because it hadn't come up yet, And I remember thinking, what nowting with sandwiches, like, you.

Know, yeah, and it gave me an excuse to you know, reference Christopher Lee.

So I'm always happy about that.

So when it came to that episode, the thing that stood out to me about him, and it's the weirdest, smallest, little maybe not weird, but it's a very small detail out of everything in that story, was the look on his face when he came out and he saw the guillotine for the first time.

And that is the number one thing that stands out to me about him.

And I have to imagine that if you've never seen it before, and you're a highway robber who is not expecting it, or any criminal who's not expecting it, that had to be a surprise.

Yeah, you know.

I also love that that's a story that ties into the French Revolution and Louis the sixteenth and Marie Antoinette, who I am very fond of their history.

I love all the Louis.

I mean, I don't love them, but I love the stories of.

All the Louise the history of THO.

Yeah, fourteen to sixteen are a fascinating herd for me.

I love So that's that was my very favorite one.

I was glad it came at the end of the season.

Yeah.

Nicola and Jonathan Wilder were two who I added pretty late in the season, and they were both great stories to tell.

My honorable mention, yeah, is a purely grizzly weirdness and it's Tom Dick and Harry.

Oh my god, My honorable mention is the Burford Highwaymen, who are a literal Tom Dick and Harry.

Yeah.

That's a rough story, but the story was bonkers.

Yeah, I mean, as stories go, it's so like it's loaded with surprises.

It's the kind of thing if someone wrote it as a fiction, you'd be like, this was a little heavy handed.

Right, and yet everything was true.

And I can't I can't not think about that story without the moment where Dick is yelling cut gun and they cut his arm instead of the rope.

Like, I just so glad we told that story.

But wow, like.

That was my one honorable mention.

Okay, I was very excited about the guillotine.

So so it is on to the next segment.

But before we dive into our top three cocktails and mocktails of the season, we're going to take another quick break for a word from our sponsor, and we will be right back with drinks.

Welcome back to Criminalia.

Let's talk about all the cocktails and mocktails that appeared in our hip flask segment at the bottom of each episode this season.

So my picks are in no particular order, and I don't have any honorable mentions like I did for shows.

I was trying to stay on tasks.

See, I'm trying to see if I have honorable mentions.

I might not.

I might not this time.

My first one though, that I will say mm hmm is another one from the end towards the end of the season and one that you already mentioned as a favorite episode.

It's the up to No Good that went with the Jonathan Wild story.

Yeah, listen, it's just because I love Sambuca, That's all I'm saying I love sambuca.

I love a summertime cocktail that is a little lemonady but not lemonady, right, And I just love the way this one turned out.

So for those that do not have it handy, that is an ounce and a half of sambuca, a half ounce of vanilla li kuurr.

That's actually optional.

If you want to make a stronger, less sweet drink, you can use vodka, but I do remember I do recommend the vanilla because it gives it a nice round body.

Three quarters of an ounce of lemon juice and three quarters of an ounce of simple syrup, and then you shake that with ice, strain it over fresh ice, and just add two ounces of club soda.

Delicious.

It's a lovely drink.

And the mocktail you basically make a soda a basically a soda drink.

So you want to do an a syrup, a little vanilla syrup, your lemon juice, and club soda.

So I would do like three quarters of an ounce of Annas syrup, a half ounce of vanilla syrup, three quarters of an ounce of lemon syrup, and then probably no more syrup you don't need simple and then just top it up with club soda and it's a nice, light, refresher, devicious.

So the first one that I picked was also kind of from later in the season, and it's the Devil's Reform.

I love that drink.

It was one of my honorable mentions.

I love this drink.

It is Tom Cox, the gentleman turned robber who robbed Thomas Killigrew and anyone and everyone, and the cocktail inspired by him is now correct me if I have these.

We have four ingredients here, three quarters of an ounce of lime juice, three quarters of an ounce of marisquino, three quarters of an ounce of gin, and three quarters of an ounce of benedictine.

Yeah, I have no method written down.

Do you have any particular.

Yeah, you just put those in a shaker with ice, strain them into a pre chilled glass, and then the mocktail is three quarters of an ounce of lime juice, three quarters of an ounce of cherry syrup, three quarters of an ounce of flat tonic, and then three quarters of an ounce of white grape juice that has been cold steeped with chai.

Which is delicious.

I had never had that before this drink.

And when you have to make that of course you try every ingredient and your drink, and that is lovely.

I realized while we were preparing for this season finale that I made a very similar drink to this at the beginning of the season.

The Claude duval is very similar to this, but it features It has the gin, lime, benedictine and simple, but then it has ale floated on top of.

It, which is but it goes in a different direction.

It does, it does, But I had that moment when I was reviewing the recipes and I was like, that's a really similar bas recipe.

This one doesn't mess with the ale and it has the maraschino that would be normally in a last word, So it's a little different.

I prefer but I listen, I love a last word.

We had my long chartreuse soapbox, for which I apologize if nobody was into that.

The Ted talk was great.

I feel strongly about these issues.

If you feel strongly, you can talk about it.

But yeah, I really I also like the Devil's Reform.

That's a good one that has already been made several times at my house.

That's like become my happy hour drink lately, because on skin Benedictine much easier to get.

My second drink, uh huh is another.

I'm clearly in a particular flavor space right now.

Okay, I feel the same way as I was putting my list together, so you continue.

My second drink was the pennforte du that we did for William's Biggott, which is kind of like a French seventy five, but it's a harder drink, so that one has an ounce of accavit, two ounces of champagne, one half half ounce of lemon cello, and two dashes to three quarters of an ounce of simple syrup that's to taste, so it's it's sort of like a French seventy five.

To make it, you would actually do your simple syrup and your lemon juice in the glass first.

Then you're acavite, and then you're champagne on top.

I love this drink.

I love a French seventy five anyway.

I love champagne cocktails anyway.

But I also love accavite a lot.

Give me all of it.

Give me your Brennevans, give me your accavits from Norway.

I want them all.

It comes up here from time to time, does it's.

One of my very favorite things, which also has a little bit it's it's very care away, which we'll talk about for the mocktail, but it also often has a little licorice note, but it's a little more subtle in occavit or aquavite, you could say it either.

So for the mocktail version of this, you would use your simple syrup instead of lemon cello, So you would put in your glass two dashes to three quarters of an ounce of simple syrup.

Again that's to taste on this, I would lean towards the lighter side with it, a half ounce of lemon syrup, an ounce of Carraway tea in lieu of accavit, and then two ounces of a light ginger ale, and that's gonna get you also a similarly relaxed and light sip, perfect for brunch times.

I was when I was reviewing our documented drinks for this season.

This is a really tasty drink season.

It was hard to narrow them down, which and I think is one of the reasons why I kept myself to three.

My care of the three and then twelve honorable mess.

I'm very honored.

That's a terribly kind thing to say it.

I thought it was a great drink season.

So my next drink move us along was inspired by Joscelyn Harwood, who I will midasol was a disrespectful and rude highway robber, yeah, whose biggest crime was a robbery where he horrifically and gruesomely murdered for people.

Yeah, his own gang gave him up because of that.

I yeah.

So this violent man's drink was the Tyburn Tree.

And I have the ingredients for the cocktail, but not the mocktails.

So maybe you could walk us through that.

I will do you want to do the cocktail.

First, sure, I will.

So the cocktail when you're making it, I was, It was easy for me.

It has pear juice in it.

I mean, I just okay, so it is.

It is for simple ingredients.

An ounce of pear juice, an ounce of lime juice, half an ounce of simple syrup, and two ounces of green tea infused gin.

That's it to get this drink.

It's still yeah, it's super yummy.

Green tea infused gin is one of my favorite things.

I also do a lot of green tea infused vodka at the house.

One of our drinks that we make for all the time.

Here is a green tea infused one.

It's just it's it's like the easiest.

People think you're fancy and you're not.

Just tossed that.

Toss that tea bag in your your spirit, let it soak for thirty minutes, give it a few shakes.

Amazing.

It tastes really a new thing.

You don't have to you don't have to do anything.

And that means that the sub out to make the mocktail is super easy too, because you just use green tea instead of infusing it into something else.

So it's yours.

I wonder if I wouldn't write it down because it's that easy.

Well, I also sent you a document that usually I notate the mocktails like as we get, and I didn't this time because I'm.

I didn't have it in my in mine either, so I just skipped it.

Same measures an ounce of pear juice, and I took mine from like literally a cup of diced pears, like one of those little plastic prepack oh yeah, snack packs of pears.

It makes it provides about an ounce of juice when you use that, so and then an ounce of lime juice a half ounds simple and two ounces of green tea instead.

That's an the one that's great for and you just shake that with ice, get it nice and cold, and strain it into a pre chilled glass.

That's another one that's great for hot days or any day.

Really.

My third one is another one that clearly I just picked my favorite stuff, but it is and it's this one is my favorite because I love the drink, but I frankly also love what inspired the drink.

So it's from the John Nevison episode.

It is swift Nicks, which is the drink that was inspired by his poor horse who allegedly got ridden ann unrealistic amount of yes, speed and distance.

So the swift.

Also another legend that is attributed to Dictory Yes.

So the swift Nicks included a couple of ingredients that I I thought a horse might enjoy.

Sometimes we run very ridiculous over here, but it is.

It's an ounce of carrot juice, an ounce of apple juice, three quarters of an ounce of simple syrup, three quarters of an ounce of elderflower liqueur, and an ounce and a half of vodka.

And I just want to extol the virtues of carrot juice and drinks in general, because one of the things that I really like about carrot juice to put in a cocktail is that it has a natural sweetness without being cloyingly sweet, like the natural sweetness of carrots registers to your mind and your palate without you having to dump a bunch of sugar into the situation.

So I'm always gonna be a fan.

It also is just interesting.

It's unexpected.

People don't use carrot juice a lot in drinks, and so it is often like, oh, what is this?

Just drink it.

Yeah, I'm actually not sure.

I thought about it when when I had it.

I don't think I've ever had carrot juice and a drink before.

I love it.

I keep it in keep it in my bar all the time because you never know when you might want a carrot juice cocktail.

It's great for the mocktail on this one also very very easy.

You'll keep your ounce of carrot juice and ounce of apple juice three quarters of an ounce of simple syrup.

I should note if your apple juice is sweetened, you can dial back that simple syrup, but if you like me, always get the like no sugar added.

That's when you would add it three quarters of an ounce of elder flowers syrup instead of liqueur, and then an ounce and a half of camomeal tea to make the mocktail the horse safe version.

Right.

I remember for that episode, I actually did go and look to see if you could, like, if people still gave sugar cubes to horse over that was a bad thing these days, and is that?

Honestly, I was on.

A touch they do, I think, right.

They did.

What I learned was yes in moderation.

I mean I think about it in terms of proportion, Right, A couple of ugger cubes in your hand for a horse is like you accidentally swallowing a wisp of like confection or sugar if as it floats through the air in the kitchen while someone was dusting something.

Yes, I always look things up for the cats.

Can the cats have this?

And the answers are ways When it comes to yes, it always is yes in moderation, And I'm like, well, I'm not gonna let to meet the entire bag.

I mean, they might want to.

But my final drink is inspired by Tom Dick and Harry and it is called Dick's Arm because apparently, yeah, I don't want to say that I was obsessed with that episode, but it wasn't my favorite episode, but I enjoyed the story and I really enjoy the cocktail.

The cocktail.

I know you have told us this cocktail is brandy or cognac, but I've only done it with brandy, so I'm going to read the ingredients that way.

Yeah.

Also, just for clarity, cognac is a type of brandy.

Oh well mine?

Yeah, mine is not the way.

That champagne is a type of sparkling wine.

Right, like like the different persecos.

Yes, okay, so the cocktail version of this again, I'm sorry.

I only have the ingredients and it will help all the method.

Two ounces of brandy, one ounce orange liquor, half ounce lemon juice, and one ounce of simple syrup, which I actually scaled back to a half because I'm like that.

Yeah, shake strain pour over ice top with about two ounces of club soda, and then I believe another half an ounce of port.

Yeah, you're gonna fill your glass after you've done that, Like you want to make sure your glass is very close to full with ice, Like you add in ice till it gets almost to the top and then you pour over your half ounce of port kind of to represent the blood of a severed arm.

Look, I know it's a little grizzly, but it makes a yummy drink.

Yeah.

So for the mocktail version of this, yes to sub out for Kooniak.

What I like to do this instance is you're gonna kind of make a fake brandy by taking white grape juice four ounces and then dropping a tea bag in there, like your earl, gray or black tea.

You can even mess around and try different kinds of tea.

A chie might be really fun here too.

Let that cold steep for a while, give it a shake in like a mason jar, and then you need two ounces of that resulting thing without the tea bag.

Two ounces of your white grape juice that's been tea infused, an ounce of orange syrup, a half ounce of lemon juice, an ounce of simple syrup.

Same deal, shake it, strain it, pour it over ice, top it with club soda.

You'll do the same thing where you fill up your glass as tall as it will go with ice, and then in this case, you will pour over a half ounce of pomegranate juice.

I use an earl gray when I steep.

Often, unless you.

Specify listen, the answer is whichever one you like the most is the correct tea to use.

Also, which tea do you have in the house.

That's also a good answer for me too.

Yes.

So we thank you so much for joining us for the finale of our season about highway robbery.

We hope you join us next week for the very first episode of a brand new season, where we'll be talking about a motley assortment of heists.

In a bit of a twist, we won't be focusing on one type of heist.

For instance, we didn't go looking for undercover art thefts or daring bank robberies.

Each heist we've chosen to highlight this season is unconnected from the others in manner and method, and most significantly mark You might say we went looking for the strays.

Heists are basically robberies, but they're hardly basic at all.

They're usually large scale operations that involve very detailed planning and significant risk.

Some are carried out without attracting any attention.

Others involve varying degrees of violence and bomb bast you'll.

Hear stories like these.

We have to talk about cheese heists.

Whether it's Italy, England, Wisconsin, there have been a string of cheese thefts lately and historically.

Time magazine calls cheese the most frequently stolen food item in the world.

And it's not only the wheels that are rolling out the door.

Even accessories such as a cheese slicer worth about twenty five thousand euros have been pinched, and that's a whole lot of cheddar.

Watch out pancakes.

Over the span of roughly a decade, thieves stole millions of dollars worth of maple syrup from barrels stored in Quebec strategic syrup reserves.

You'll never guess what they replaced it with, or maybe just don't think about that.

And while most wine heists involve finished bottles of wine, usually rare high end wines, one group of thieves decided to go straight to the source and walked away with at least seven metric tons of grapes from vineyards around Bordeaux.

Were they fencible, we'll find.

Out, And just like other seasons, there is no weight.

We are rolling straight from our season of highway robbers into one with heists of everything, but the kitchen sink and you know, maybe that too.

We will see you there with more very real stories, including the time when two monks smuggled silkworms out of China.

That's the world's first case of industrial espionage.

And of course we will also be serving up cocktails and mocktails inspired by them, all from Stolen Bees Too, Stolen Cheese.

Join us on Criminalia for a new motley season of heists.

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