Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Hello, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: third season of Criminalia. This season, we're exploring the lives
Speaker 1: and motivations of some of the most notorious impostors throughout history.
Speaker 1: I'm Maria tram Marquis and I'm Hony Fry. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Stephen Jacob Weinberg. Stephen was born into a working
Speaker 1: class family in Brooklyn, New York, on November and growing
Speaker 1: up he wanted nothing more than to become a doctor.
Speaker 1: When his parents could not afford the tuition for that
Speaker 1: career path, he began his path to becoming instead one
Speaker 1: of the greatest pretenders, and as far as we can tell,
Speaker 1: he never used his given name again. That might be
Speaker 1: something of an exaggeration, but let's be clear, only a
Speaker 1: slight exaggeration. Instead of fulfilling his dream of becoming a doctor,
Speaker 1: although he'd actually get around him pretending to be one. Eventually, Weinberg,
Speaker 1: about the time he was twenty, was stuck working a
Speaker 1: series of dead end jobs. It's also when he often
Speaker 1: referred to as a quote talented and highly intelligent individual,
Speaker 1: began to imagine and live other lives. In those lives,
Speaker 1: he went by many different names, although he never impersonated
Speaker 1: a real person, these were all fictitious identities that he created.
Speaker 1: This is by far not a complete list that we're
Speaker 1: giving you, but it's a really good one in terms
Speaker 1: of getting a sense of his scope. He posed as
Speaker 1: Ethan Allen Weinberg. He pretended to be Royal st Cyr.
Speaker 1: He used the names Sterling see Wyman and Rodney s Wyman.
Speaker 1: He used the aliases s Clifford Weinberg and see Sterling Weinberg.
Speaker 1: He also used the names Alan, Stanley Weyman and Stanley
Speaker 1: Clifford Wayman. His go to name eventually became stan Lee
Speaker 1: Clifford Wayman, and once he reached middle age, he just
Speaker 1: started using that as though it were his actual name,
Speaker 1: and he used that permanently from that point on, and
Speaker 1: the way he used aliases. And you might get a
Speaker 1: sense of it because this seems a little MIXI matchy
Speaker 1: in terms of which names he used in which position.
Speaker 1: It wasn't so much as an effort to hide something
Speaker 1: about himself or something he did. It seems almost more
Speaker 1: like he viewed his monikers as like picking out what
Speaker 1: suit he was going to wear on any given day.
Speaker 1: In addition to his amazing number of names, there are
Speaker 1: an amazing number of stories about Stephen Weinberg. Some are
Speaker 1: not so true and some are absolute lies. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about his big moments so over his lifetime.
Speaker 1: In addition to pretending to be many people, he pretended
Speaker 1: to be many things. And that list is also very long,
Speaker 1: and certainly we're not going to give you the complete one.
Speaker 1: He pretended to be a lawyer, also an aviator as
Speaker 1: well as a sanitation expert. He posed as several different
Speaker 1: physicians and to psychiatrists. He impersonated a number of officers
Speaker 1: in the United States Navy, ranging in rank from lieutenant
Speaker 1: to admiral. He also impersonated five or six different United
Speaker 1: States Army officers, the State Department, Naval liaison officer, many
Speaker 1: consuls general, and a United Nations expert on Balcan and
Speaker 1: Asian affairs. And again, when we say impersonated, he's not
Speaker 1: taking someone else's identity, he's just making them up whole cloth,
Speaker 1: impersonating the title, and people would just assume, sure, that's
Speaker 1: the title, Yes, that of course I know who the
Speaker 1: UN expert on Balcan and Asian affairs. It was often
Speaker 1: observed that Weinberg was fond of purchasing clothing, and most
Speaker 1: especially uniforms, even if they were somehow flawed, he wanted
Speaker 1: and saved them. When he was growing up, neighbors said
Speaker 1: he would often wear costumes. He was a bit of
Speaker 1: a pack rat, and he had a fully stopped closet
Speaker 1: that allowed him to pull off nearly any dapper look
Speaker 1: and any look that was appropriate for that occasion. Listen
Speaker 1: this whole pack rack closet thing. I'm feeling a little attacked.
Speaker 1: But in addition to having a selection of uniforms to
Speaker 1: wear on his escapades, Winberg was really quite a snappy
Speaker 1: or at least interesting dresser. There's one picture that Maria
Speaker 1: pulled up. He's actually in a uniform, but he knows
Speaker 1: how to wear a suit like. He's very dashing. He
Speaker 1: would scandalously pair striped trousers with a morning coach. He
Speaker 1: was known to occasionally wear a white tie with dinner
Speaker 1: clothes or a black tie with tails, the very idea,
Speaker 1: and it was not unusual for him. And this is
Speaker 1: where he loses me a little. To wear tan shoes.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite part of him. I'm like, what's the
Speaker 1: Here's one thing that we should point out in the
Speaker 1: midst of all of this. When he was masquerading as
Speaker 1: various different people, he never changed his physical appearance, only
Speaker 1: his attire. He had his air of distinction about him.
Speaker 1: His physical appearance had been described as a tall, trimmed
Speaker 1: man with bright brown eyes, a thin mustache, an aquilin knows,
Speaker 1: and a solemn mount not to overlook this one. And
Speaker 1: they also said he had a shapely head. I don't
Speaker 1: know what shape. Get a look at that skull, I know.
Speaker 1: When he was twenty one, he pulled his first real scam,
Speaker 1: using the name Stephen Weinberg. He pretended to be the
Speaker 1: United States Console delegate to a place called portub which
Speaker 1: is a totally fake place that he alleged was near Morocco.
Speaker 1: For this spectacular or a purple uniform, and he ended
Speaker 1: up dining with the political elite in some of the
Speaker 1: finest restaurants in New York. But ultimately he brought a
Speaker 1: little too much attention to himself when he started racking
Speaker 1: up some pretty sizeable and outstanding hills. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: those paid bills or the impersonation that caught up with him,
Speaker 1: although they did not help the situation. When things came
Speaker 1: to light, he actually was added by the press. They
Speaker 1: printed a photo that had him in it, and Winberg
Speaker 1: was arrested for fraud and sentenced time in the Elmira Reformatory.
Speaker 1: But while he was in prison, he concocted a new plan,
Speaker 1: and once he was paroled in nineteen fifteen that puts
Speaker 1: him at age. Weinberg kicked off his newfound freedom by
Speaker 1: inspecting the U. S. S. Wyoming. That was obviously not
Speaker 1: because anyone asked him to or paid him to do it.
Speaker 1: He didn't have any real right to do it, but
Speaker 1: he sure did want to. His new plan was to
Speaker 1: turn himself into a lieutenant commander in the Romanian Army
Speaker 1: and the Romanian Consul General of New York, and in
Speaker 1: these new roles as was in his right. If those
Speaker 1: roles were real, he actually did managed to inspect a battleship.
Speaker 1: He's amazing. Uh. So we're going to take a quick
Speaker 1: break or award from our sponsor and coming up, Weinberg
Speaker 1: turned himself into a lieutenant commander. Welcome back to Criminalia.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the story of when Weinberg inspected the
Speaker 1: USS Wyoming. The only thing that stood between Weinberg and
Speaker 1: getting on a battleship was basically just a phone call.
Speaker 1: So for this scam, he introduced himself with the alias
Speaker 1: Ethan Allen Weinberg, which personally I thought was fantastic. I'm
Speaker 1: from New England. His alias was Ethan Allen Weinberg, and
Speaker 1: he was the Romanian consul general of New York. He
Speaker 1: stated to the US Department of the Navy who he
Speaker 1: connected with his unclear, but his business was that the
Speaker 1: Queen Maria Romania herself had instructed him to informally pay
Speaker 1: respect to the U. S. Navy. So Ethan Allen Winberg
Speaker 1: was cleared to board. I don't believe what people get
Speaker 1: away with sometimes. On the day of the inspection, Lieutenant
Speaker 1: Commander Weinberg boarded the USS Wyoming wearing a quote stunning
Speaker 1: light blue uniform dripping with gold braid and wearing an
Speaker 1: admiral's hat. That's according to the Montreal Gazette. They gave
Speaker 1: him a twenty one gun salute when he got to
Speaker 1: New York Harbor, where the Wyoming was anchored. You know,
Speaker 1: he loved that. Every second he conducted an inspection, reportedly
Speaker 1: on behalf of the Queen of Romania, during which he
Speaker 1: insisted the ship's sailor's lineup information, and then, in a
Speaker 1: truly brazen move, he reprimanded any individual sailor that he
Speaker 1: thought had any real or imagined flaws in their dress
Speaker 1: or their military bearing. It was also reported that he
Speaker 1: very much enjoyed saluting and returning salutes. Following this inspection,
Speaker 1: the Fox Lieutenant commander through a banquet for the officers
Speaker 1: of the U s s to Wyoming, because why not.
Speaker 1: It was held at the Hotel Astor in Manhattan, and
Speaker 1: it was expensive. No worries though, right because the bill,
Speaker 1: of course, would be taken care of by the Romanian
Speaker 1: consulate in Washington, d C. Except it would not be
Speaker 1: because no one in either the US or Romania knew
Speaker 1: anyone named Lieutenant Commander Ethan Allen Weinberg, and the bill
Speaker 1: was really the least of his concern. Though tipped off
Speaker 1: about his whereabouts, two FBI agents crashed that party. They
Speaker 1: arrested him immediately, and on the way out he was
Speaker 1: overheard complaining that the agents should have at least waited
Speaker 1: until after dessert. Clearly he took this whole thing very seriously.
Speaker 1: He was sentenced as a consequence to one year in
Speaker 1: prison for the U. S. S. Wyoming stunt. One of
Speaker 1: the officers later stated that Weinberg pulled off quote quite
Speaker 1: an inspection. In an additional account, the captain of the U. S. S.
Speaker 1: Wyoming said to a report her quote, all I can
Speaker 1: say is the little guy put on one hell of
Speaker 1: a tour of inspection. His punishments didn't actually deter him
Speaker 1: from indulging his love of impersonation. In one as State
Speaker 1: Department Naval Liaison officer Rodney Sterling Winman, Weinberg pulled off
Speaker 1: one of his most impressive capers. It took him about
Speaker 1: a month of preparation to pull this one off, and
Speaker 1: it was one of his most high profile scams. Princess Fatima,
Speaker 1: who The New York Times described as quote the Sultana
Speaker 1: of Afghanistan, was visiting New York City and during her
Speaker 1: time in the United States, she wanted to meet President
Speaker 1: Moren G. Harding, but for political reasons, President Harding never
Speaker 1: actually replied to her requests. Afghanistan had just become an
Speaker 1: independent country. British counterparts to the US, though, had requested
Speaker 1: that the us not meet with any Afghan representatives, stating
Speaker 1: and we quote, we consider Afghanistan, though ostensive the independent,
Speaker 1: as still within our sphere of political influence, and are
Speaker 1: anxious to discourage any proceedings which imply that we are
Speaker 1: not concerned in the foreign relations of that country. Basically,
Speaker 1: don't cut us out of your of the picture. We
Speaker 1: still want to be all up in that business except
Speaker 1: the mouth all the time. Right. However, State Department Naval
Speaker 1: Liaison Officer Rodney Sterling Wyman, fictitious did reply to her request,
Speaker 1: and Wyman did arrange an introduction between the President and
Speaker 1: the princess. On July, the princess and her son's visited
Speaker 1: the White House and met the President and the First Lady.
Speaker 1: They took photos of this whole group, including President Harding
Speaker 1: and his wife Florence, on the White House lawn. Wyman's
Speaker 1: uniform for this occasion was not at all at regulation,
Speaker 1: and that stood out in these pictures. The New Yorker
Speaker 1: reported the uniform was actually that of an officer in
Speaker 1: the United States Junior Naval Reserves, a non governmental organization
Speaker 1: that was considered a I'm gonna quote this kind of
Speaker 1: seagoing boy scout affair. No one at the introduction seemed
Speaker 1: to know that, though Washington Post account of the meeting
Speaker 1: between the President and the princess described the scene on
Speaker 1: the lawn as gaudy and included details about Fatima's clothing.
Speaker 1: Her skirt was narrow and ankle length, and one of
Speaker 1: the most reported things about her appearance was the large
Speaker 1: sapphire nose ring that she apparently wore in her left nostril.
Speaker 1: They also reported on the gifts that she brought for
Speaker 1: her meeting with the President, including kashmere shawls, veils, rugs,
Speaker 1: table cloths, and turbans. Those rugs are hard ship like.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that's on the last. It was the Washington
Speaker 1: Evening Star that published a photograph of Princess Fatimah, her
Speaker 1: three sons, the President the firstly, and Rodney Sterling Wman,
Speaker 1: the State Department naval liaison officer. After a brief investigation,
Speaker 1: Wyman was arrested. The photos were his downfall, this time,
Speaker 1: when they went public, it tipped off the State Department
Speaker 1: that he did not work for them. When addressing the
Speaker 1: court during his trial, he stated, quote, I do not
Speaker 1: wish to discuss the insanity theory on which you seem
Speaker 1: to have made up your mind. In none of my
Speaker 1: acts has there ever been intentional turpitude. All were committed
Speaker 1: in a phase or cycle or period of recurrent manic
Speaker 1: depression to which the doctors found I was subject. He
Speaker 1: was convicted for faking a naval officer, and Judge Chackfield
Speaker 1: stated that although the maximum sentence for the offense was
Speaker 1: three years in the penitentiary and a fine of one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, he was sentencing him to serve two years
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Wyman was also fined, but
Speaker 1: just one dollar. The judge also remarked that he believed
Speaker 1: woman had fooled the mental health examiners into thinking he
Speaker 1: was saying. Princess Fatima told the newspapers that she intended,
Speaker 1: after meeting the president in Washington to go on to
Speaker 1: England next and to send her sons to Eton and Oxford.
Speaker 1: She disappears into obscurity sometime after. You know how some
Speaker 1: people get their best ideas in the shower. So Weinberg
Speaker 1: it seems to be that he got his best ideas
Speaker 1: while incarcerated. So after another release, Weinberg popped up as
Speaker 1: the personal physician to Silent screen star Poland Agri. Polo
Speaker 1: was friends with actor Rudolf Valentino, and when Valentino died
Speaker 1: in Weinberg, as Stanley Clifford Wayman, was on the scene.
Speaker 1: Valentino's manager actually exposed him as a fraud. But when
Speaker 1: the actress found out her physician was not a real
Speaker 1: m d she replied, and I love this, even if
Speaker 1: it's foolish quote. I don't care. He's the best doctor
Speaker 1: I've ever had. She refused to press charges, and in
Speaker 1: fact informed of the American Medical Association more than once
Speaker 1: that Wyman was the best doctor she had ever had
Speaker 1: or ever expected to have. There's always a catch, though,
Speaker 1: so when Paula tried to pay him for his services,
Speaker 1: he declined the payment. That made it difficult for the
Speaker 1: District Attorney's office to make a case against him. There
Speaker 1: was no way to prove anything the way that this
Speaker 1: had rolled out, and this would have technically made his
Speaker 1: actions outside of fraud from a legal perspective, because Winberg
Speaker 1: wasn't really benefiting from the charade in any measurable way.
Speaker 1: And this was not the only time that Weinberg faked
Speaker 1: being a doctor, posing as doctor Clifford Wyman. He was
Speaker 1: for a time and assistant to the famous Viennese surgeon
Speaker 1: at Alf Laurence, who was known as the Bloodless Surgeon
Speaker 1: of Vienna because his techniques were known as bloodless surgery.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break now from bloodless surgery and have
Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor, and when we're back, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the time when Weinberg held an actual, real job.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. All right, let's talk about professor Weyman.
Speaker 1: We're moving along to World War Two now, specifically the
Speaker 1: Selective Training and Service Act, which was signed into law
Speaker 1: by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in September. It required all
Speaker 1: men between the ages of twenty one and forty five
Speaker 1: to register for the draft. That's actually before the US
Speaker 1: entered the war. And here Weinberg made a slight career change,
Speaker 1: I guess you could call it. He opened a school
Speaker 1: for draft dodgers where he taught men how to avoid serving,
Speaker 1: and that was, of course shut down. The FBI reported
Speaker 1: that Weinberg, as Professor Stanley Weyman, counseled the men on
Speaker 1: ways of getting out of service, including how to act
Speaker 1: as though they were deaf or as though they had
Speaker 1: a mental illness. He taught these courses, and we're going
Speaker 1: to quote their names. Please know this is not the
Speaker 1: kind of language one should be using or would use today.
Speaker 1: But his courses were things like how to act like
Speaker 1: a mental incompetent and how to simulate hearing disorders. As
Speaker 1: an added bonus to that class, if you couldn't just
Speaker 1: fake it, Wyman offered to puncture your ear drums so
Speaker 1: that you would become hearing impaired. Yes, that was literally
Speaker 1: something he offered people. He was arrested in nine when
Speaker 1: his school was discovered and when the ear drum part
Speaker 1: was also discovered, Weinberg was again incarcerated, and during his
Speaker 1: sentencing he told the judge, and will quote this, the
Speaker 1: pattern of my life is not symmetrical. He was convicted
Speaker 1: and given five to seven years in the Advanta Penitentiary,
Speaker 1: and that is the longest sentence he ever received while incarcerated.
Speaker 1: Remember this is when he gets very busy. Weinberg studied
Speaker 1: law and he actually passed the Georgia bar. When he
Speaker 1: was released, he actually got a real job. He was
Speaker 1: hired as an accredited correspondent attached to a legitimate news agency.
Speaker 1: He worked that job for about two years around Also
Speaker 1: at this same time, he hosted a radio broadcast series
Speaker 1: on a local FM station, and it featured interviews with diplomats.
Speaker 1: Many people who worked with him later said that he
Speaker 1: had a noticeable talent as a journalist, but he lost
Speaker 1: his un accredited asian in one when his identity was
Speaker 1: exposed allegedly by a rival news agency. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: my probation officer has told me that I mustn't talk
Speaker 1: to any newspapers or magazines. This is a blow to
Speaker 1: my civil liberties. Winberg was arrested again in a Brooklyn apartment,
Speaker 1: where they found him hiding in his closet behind thirty
Speaker 1: five expensive suits. He pleaded guilty to making false statements
Speaker 1: to cheat the Franklin National Bank of Franklin Square out
Speaker 1: of a five thousand dollar f h A loan for
Speaker 1: repairs on a house that he did not own. He
Speaker 1: was also indicted for defrauding the Nassau County National Bank
Speaker 1: of Rockville Center of two thousand, one hundred dollars. At
Speaker 1: this point, he was in his sixties. These particular crimes
Speaker 1: Aboard convened before the trial began to determine if Weinberg
Speaker 1: was mentally fit to face the jury, as well as
Speaker 1: whether or not there was any role that mental health
Speaker 1: issues may have played in his actions. Weinberg was sentenced
Speaker 1: in May of nineteen fifty four before Judge Leo Raphael
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn Federal Court, and he was convicted. He was
Speaker 1: sentenced to eighteen months in jail, and his lawyer reportedly
Speaker 1: said that he had seen his client recently and quote,
Speaker 1: he was a very hard worker. When I saw him,
Speaker 1: he looked really well. As we know, this is not
Speaker 1: the first time that Weinberg did time, and over of
Speaker 1: years his criminal record grew. He pleaded guilty too or
Speaker 1: was convicted of the following grand larceny once, forgery, once,
Speaker 1: impersonating an attorney, once impersonating a naval officer twice, disorderly
Speaker 1: conduct once, running a school for draft dodgers, just the
Speaker 1: ones that's the hand embezzlement once. Can you imagine if
Speaker 1: it was like running a school for draft rodgers a
Speaker 1: dozen times or sometimes though he just wasn't arrested. So
Speaker 1: there's no real full list of everything that he has done.
Speaker 1: But if you remember how he posed as silent screen
Speaker 1: actress Poland and Agree's personal physician back in nineteen He
Speaker 1: also once spoke to an audience of psychiatrists, physicians, surgeons,
Speaker 1: you name it. It was just outside of Boston, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: and he used the alias Dr Alan Stanley Weyman. His
Speaker 1: topic was the reformation of psychiatric services in American penitentiaries.
Speaker 1: He received you, It was reported vigorous applause for his speech,
Speaker 1: and many in attendance didn't learn Dr Weyman was a
Speaker 1: fraud until many years later. He wasn't arrested for this event,
Speaker 1: he wasn't convicted, and he wasn't sentenced. Actually nothing came
Speaker 1: of it. Trying to think of the charge of making
Speaker 1: a speech under false prasion at a conference, so it's
Speaker 1: a whole weird thing. It is reported that he did
Speaker 1: spend time in state and federal penitentiaries on thirteen occasions
Speaker 1: after he turned twenty one, and on six of those
Speaker 1: thirteen occasions he was back behind bars just for parole violation,
Speaker 1: usually because he had missed a visit with his parole officer.
Speaker 1: For the most part, though he played all or most
Speaker 1: of his roles perfectly, Weinberg actually always seemed to have
Speaker 1: deftly avoided situations that could have exposed him as a
Speaker 1: faith For instance, as an army officer, he never made
Speaker 1: the mistake of mingling with the troops as a fake aviator.
Speaker 1: The street crowds of New York cheered him for his
Speaker 1: feats that he'd never actually performed. He'd never even flown
Speaker 1: a plane. He always fit in the moment and was
Speaker 1: most frequently exposed as a fraud by newspaper reporters, photographers,
Speaker 1: or officers of the law, people who could recognize his face.
Speaker 1: Weinberg always claimed that he did what he did just
Speaker 1: for the thrill of living as another person, as wayman
Speaker 1: and other aliases. He impersonated all of those people we've mentioned,
Speaker 1: military officials, political figures, and doctors just because he wanted
Speaker 1: to and he enjoyed it. He once told a judge
Speaker 1: that we quote one man's life is a boring thing.
Speaker 1: I live many lives. I'm never bored. In nineteen fifty three,
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Daily Eagle called Weinberg Brooklyn's Mr Chameleon, America's
Speaker 1: Baron Munchhausen, and the world's champion impostor. Weinberg was killed
Speaker 1: shortly after in May of nineteen fifty four at about
Speaker 1: one am, two robbers held up that Wittie Motel in Yonkers,
Speaker 1: New York, where Winberg was the night manager. They got
Speaker 1: away with two hundred dollars, but left five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: in Winberg's pocket. Shot twice in the abdomen and once
Speaker 1: in the back of the head, Winberg died from his injuries,
Speaker 1: ending what the Brooklyn Daily Eagle called and will quote
Speaker 1: them again, the truly incredible career of one of the
Speaker 1: most notorious humbugs this country has ever produced. And the
Speaker 1: detective that was in charge of this case reportedly remarked, quote,
Speaker 1: I've known about his record for years. He did a
Speaker 1: lot of things in the course of his life, but
Speaker 1: what he did this time was brave. So what kind
Speaker 1: of a mock tail can you make to relate to
Speaker 1: Stephen Weinberg and his life? Holly, So, of course I
Speaker 1: had to make a choose your own adventure mocktail for
Speaker 1: this one. And it is called many Lives because there's
Speaker 1: one element that you get to pick it you use
Speaker 1: and it will change the profile of the mocktail or
Speaker 1: cocktail if you do it that way. It's also of
Speaker 1: a variation on a non alcoholic lemon drop. But the
Speaker 1: thing that I like to add to it that makes
Speaker 1: it a little different is you're gonna start with six
Speaker 1: to ten basil leaves and you'll muddle those up a bit,
Speaker 1: along with the juice of about three lemons, then an
Speaker 1: ounce of simple or vanilla syrup, and then three quarters
Speaker 1: of an ounce of any other syrup, which will, of
Speaker 1: course change at all depending on what you do. I
Speaker 1: did a violet syrup and it was lovely, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna shake a shake of shake it and then strain
Speaker 1: it over ice. Or if you really want to go
Speaker 1: for the idea of a mock lemon drop, you can
Speaker 1: put it into a chilled martini glass with a sugar
Speaker 1: rim and then just a little club soda on top.
Speaker 1: It's so yummy and refreshing and delightful. If you want
Speaker 1: to make it as a cocktail, you can bring it
Speaker 1: more into lemon drop territory by just adding an ounce
Speaker 1: of vodka and a half ounce of triple sec. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it that way, think about those things
Speaker 1: that are coming in to make additional citrus before you
Speaker 1: pick your other syrup that gives you the many lives.
Speaker 1: I also did one of these with that hob Niro
Speaker 1: lime syrup that I just used on occasion that was
Speaker 1: quite fun and made it definitely a little bitier. In
Speaker 1: its mocktail form. You can do anything there. A little raspberry.
Speaker 1: If you want to get more dessert e you can
Speaker 1: do I'm trying to think of yummy syrups I have
Speaker 1: on it. Grenadine would just make this an interesting, pinkish,
Speaker 1: lovely citrus thing. But it's a very very yummy mocktail.
Speaker 1: Great for sipping if you wanna a work day drink
Speaker 1: that feels like you're maybe being a little naughty, but
Speaker 1: you're not actually, because it's just a mocktail. It's fine.
Speaker 1: It's a lovely sipper. It's just fine, just fine. And
Speaker 1: then at fo move to the cocktail hour. If you
Speaker 1: want judging, you're suggesting, just saying they are options. This
Speaker 1: is a good one if you want that sensation of
Speaker 1: having a very grown up drink during the day that
Speaker 1: is completely harmless and delicious and full of fresh lemon juice.
Speaker 1: So what that's good? Like antioxidants right exactly? That that
Speaker 1: draws me to the drink right there, I'm like, all right, yes,
Speaker 1: I have orange blossom syrup, now that would be perfect
Speaker 1: in this okay, I mean I need to figure out
Speaker 1: what to do with it. It sounds like it when
Speaker 1: I could tell you what I would do with it
Speaker 1: right now, I don't even have to think very hard
Speaker 1: on this one. Here is what I would do with
Speaker 1: orange blossom syrup. The most basic, easy way to incorporate it.
Speaker 1: I would do a vodka collins with it. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna do an ounce and a half of your vodka,
Speaker 1: three quarters of announce of your lemon juice, three quarters
Speaker 1: of announce of your orange blossom syrup, shaky, shaky shaky,
Speaker 1: pour it over ice, and top it with club soda,
Speaker 1: and you're good. It'll be so bright and refreshing. That
Speaker 1: is very simple and not challenging at all. I'll have
Speaker 1: to report back when I make it. Now, you've made
Speaker 1: two DUTs today, but one special to me. That's the
Speaker 1: Maria Special. We'll call that Maria's spitball. I don't know
Speaker 1: why that's the name that came to me for spitballing
Speaker 1: or just coming up on the fly. In any case,
Speaker 1: so proud. Whether you are doing the mocktail version of
Speaker 1: this or a more grown up, an adult version, we
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy it, and we thank you once again
Speaker 1: for spending this time with us and hopefully giggling a
Speaker 1: little bit at all of the fabulous outfits that you
Speaker 1: can imagine this man wearing. We will see you right
Speaker 1: back here next week with another impostor. Criminalia is a
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