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. Our first season was all about
Speaker 1: women poisoners, and our second season was all about stalkers.
Speaker 1: But this season we're exploring the lives and motivations of
Speaker 1: some of the most notorious impostors throughout history. I'm Maria
Speaker 1: T Marqi and I'm Holly Fry. Marian, I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to be here with you for season three. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be great. As we did in our first two seasons,
Speaker 1: we planned to look at some of history's transgressions and
Speaker 1: get a better understanding of what really went down. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a look at how these crimes might
Speaker 1: be seen through today's eyes. As we always say, a
Speaker 1: little distance goes a long way. We do always say that.
Speaker 1: So today we're going to talk about a woman who
Speaker 1: pretended to be royalty from a far away island. But
Speaker 1: first we have to talk about what makes an impostor.
Speaker 1: Just to set this whole season up, impostors are people
Speaker 1: who pretend to be someone else for their own game.
Speaker 1: Often that's financial gain, but it's not unheard of for
Speaker 1: an impostor to be dishonest to improve their social status
Speaker 1: or social gain. Some make up a new identity, or
Speaker 1: they steal your identity. Some impostors do it in order
Speaker 1: to circumvent on just rules we're going to talk this
Speaker 1: season about, you know, women who dressed like men in
Speaker 1: order to fight in wars or to go to school.
Speaker 1: And some are simply criminals looking for an easy way
Speaker 1: to evade capture. So in today's world, impostors might impersonate
Speaker 1: people in organizations that you would ordinarily trust. When someone
Speaker 1: feigning to be the I r S Calls about an
Speaker 1: unpaid bill, you would be inclined to assume that's the
Speaker 1: real deal. They might also pretend to be someone that
Speaker 1: you know, and they may pretend to work for play
Speaker 1: pass such as the Social Security Administration or even your
Speaker 1: local electric company. No matter who they pretend to work for, though,
Speaker 1: their main goal is usually to get you to pay
Speaker 1: them or to get enough of your personal information so
Speaker 1: that they can pay themselves at your expense, and they
Speaker 1: will try anyway they can to get that info. Modern
Speaker 1: imposter scams often begin with an unsolicited phone call, email, text,
Speaker 1: or even social media message, and our technology allows people
Speaker 1: to use techniques like social engineering, which would be fishing
Speaker 1: for confidential or personal information that they might use for
Speaker 1: fraudulent purposes against you. You can also meet many of
Speaker 1: today's impostors on dating sites or like we said, social media,
Speaker 1: where they can have easily created fake profiles. We even
Speaker 1: have the term cat fishing for this behavior. So it's
Speaker 1: super common even with our technology, though it's the same
Speaker 1: destination at always has been no matter what the story.
Speaker 1: Many impostors are in it for money, and they will
Speaker 1: eventually ask you to transfer funds to them, usually for
Speaker 1: a reason that sounds pretty plausible and in jail. Right.
Speaker 1: So all of that explained, let's finally set our scenes.
Speaker 1: So our first impostor is a woman who was born
Speaker 1: Mary Wilcox in sevente or two. Anyway, she was born
Speaker 1: to a poor family living in Devon, England, and as
Speaker 1: she became an adult, she adopted a disguise that she
Speaker 1: hoped would make her more interesting to those she considered commoners.
Speaker 1: So she became Princess Caribou, a fictional royal who pretended
Speaker 1: to come from the far far away island of Java Suit.
Speaker 1: Java Suit she claimed was located in the Indian Ocean. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit early, but we're going to take
Speaker 1: a break here for a word from our sponsors so
Speaker 1: that we can keep the narrative of this impostors got
Speaker 1: eyes altogether, and we're going to talk about the woman
Speaker 1: who fooled a whole village into thinking she was royalty.
Speaker 1: After this, welcome back to Criminalia. Let's meet the woman
Speaker 1: who called herself Princess Caribou. One day in the spring
Speaker 1: of eighteen seventeen, a woman in her mid twenties appeared
Speaker 1: in the town of Almondsbury, near Bristol, speaking a never
Speaker 1: heard before language, not a word of English. She wore
Speaker 1: unusual clothing and a black turban on her head, and
Speaker 1: she carried a small bundle with her that contained a
Speaker 1: few necessities, so a few halfpennies and a counterfeit sixpence.
Speaker 1: When she first encountered a resident of the village, it
Speaker 1: was the cobbler, and he initially assumed she must be
Speaker 1: a foreign peasant or some sort of beggar. The cobbler
Speaker 1: and his wife took her to a man named Mr Overton,
Speaker 1: who was the overseer of the local poorhouse. And if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with a poorhouse. It was a government
Speaker 1: run facility that was used to house poor people in
Speaker 1: a time before social services existed, But it wasn't as
Speaker 1: benevolent as it may sound. The reality was that poor
Speaker 1: houses were places of involuntary servitude. Upon seeing the person
Speaker 1: that they would come to know as Princess Cariboo, Overton was,
Speaker 1: as others in the town, mystified by her language and
Speaker 1: how she dressed, and so he decided to take her
Speaker 1: to the home of a man named Samuel Warrell, who
Speaker 1: was the town clerk of Bristol and a magistrate. Samuel
Speaker 1: Warrell and his wife Elizabeth, actually took this woman into
Speaker 1: their home in Noll Park, and there the person we
Speaker 1: know is Mary convinced Elizabeth that she was a lost
Speaker 1: princess from the East Indies, which was what they would
Speaker 1: have called it at the time. How she did this
Speaker 1: we don't know. We're presuming a lot of hand gestures
Speaker 1: and pointing at maps as sumed that she was homeless
Speaker 1: and with a counterfeit coin in her pocket. A family
Speaker 1: such as the Worlds, they were high standing family in
Speaker 1: the town. It really couldn't provide accommodations to a woman
Speaker 1: who actually might be a criminal. They didn't know it
Speaker 1: would look poorly among their peers, though she had made
Speaker 1: quite an impression on them. Elizabeth arranged for a room
Speaker 1: for the woman she believed to be a foreign visitor
Speaker 1: at a local inn called as far as we can figure,
Speaker 1: I love this the Bowl. My new retirement goal is
Speaker 1: to start an in and call it the Bowl, and
Speaker 1: it'll just be our little in. Joe can let me
Speaker 1: feel this. Although the worlds were still pretty unsure one
Speaker 1: way or the other about Mary or Princess Cariboo and
Speaker 1: who exactly this was, it was decided that she was
Speaker 1: a beggar and should be taken to Bristol and tried
Speaker 1: for vagrancy. And as an asside, we are not actually
Speaker 1: sure who made this decision. It could have been the authorities,
Speaker 1: or it could have been the very busy and involved
Speaker 1: villagers of all Insburg. This decision was made to take
Speaker 1: her to Bristol to be examined both by John Haythorne,
Speaker 1: who was the mayor of Bristol, and then at St.
Speaker 1: Peter's Hospital, which was a facility that cared for the
Speaker 1: poor and her vagrance. But after causing many problems, and
Speaker 1: we can only speculate on thoset problems because there doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be a record of her time spent at
Speaker 1: the facility record in detail, she was actually returned to
Speaker 1: the world's home. So, as you can imagine, by this
Speaker 1: point everyone knew about this eccentric foreign stranger, and despite
Speaker 1: any of those earlier suspicions, the villagers treated her as
Speaker 1: though she were a visiting head of state. Right, So
Speaker 1: this is amazing, and not only because she was deceiving
Speaker 1: them all. What's amazing really is that they let her
Speaker 1: stay in their village at all. The years following the
Speaker 1: Napoleonic Wars were volatile and any mysterious strangers were looked
Speaker 1: upon suspiciously as probable spies or maybe polite agitators, or
Speaker 1: just unwanted people in the village. That's not only the
Speaker 1: authorities who thought that. Everyday people thought that as well.
Speaker 1: So in a small town like Almondsbury, foreign beggars were
Speaker 1: most likely to be transported to Australia, and Australia was
Speaker 1: where England sent their criminals. The counterfeit sixpence that she
Speaker 1: carried with her was a serious offense and it could
Speaker 1: in some cases, I mean a death sentence. Don't miss
Speaker 1: around a fake currency is the rule here, kidding, watch
Speaker 1: out for your sixpence. Like everyone at this point was
Speaker 1: desperate to find out where Princess Cariboo was from, and
Speaker 1: at first, despite her very European appearance, she kind of
Speaker 1: implied that she had actually come from China, and it
Speaker 1: really wasn't until a Portuguese sailor or a pirate depending
Speaker 1: on your source, who may or may not have been
Speaker 1: her accomplice in this whole ruse arrived about ten days
Speaker 1: after her, and that's where her narrative actually starts to
Speaker 1: be told. There are actually two versions of the story.
Speaker 1: In the first, the sailor slash pirates claimed to understand
Speaker 1: her dialect, and he told a story of how she'd
Speaker 1: ended up near Bristol. In the second version, the sailor
Speaker 1: pirates said he was able to communicate with her through
Speaker 1: gestures and signs. The foreign woman, he said, was born
Speaker 1: in China, which was actually she called it Kanji. She
Speaker 1: had been kidnapped by pirates, jumped overboard to escape them,
Speaker 1: and swam through the English Channel to shore. She also
Speaker 1: told of her home on the far away island of
Speaker 1: jabaf Su and that she came from royalty. What we
Speaker 1: don't know, though, like Holly mentioned earlier, is if Mary
Speaker 1: and the sailor pirate were somehow in cahoots. I don't
Speaker 1: know how this works. If they're not, I know, right,
Speaker 1: if she were just to go along with it and
Speaker 1: be like, well, you are also a con person, all right,
Speaker 1: let's play. Oh you understand I made up blank? Which
Speaker 1: let's talk like So, this entire yarn was utterly enthralling
Speaker 1: to the townspeople, and they actually had come to kind
Speaker 1: of love their new eccentric guest, and she, for her part,
Speaker 1: put on quite a show for them. She entertained audiences
Speaker 1: that included not only people from Almondsbury. She fascinated a
Speaker 1: lot of people, including linguists, artists, physiognomists. Those were people
Speaker 1: that practiced the rather dubious science of judging a person's
Speaker 1: mental character from their facial appearance. She also fascinated craniologists,
Speaker 1: people that claimed to be able to read your character
Speaker 1: from the size and shape of your skull. Whether entertaining
Speaker 1: a vagrant or a dignitary, the princess's strange behavior did
Speaker 1: not disappoint any of her audiences. Her portrait was painted
Speaker 1: and reproduced in a local newspaper, while her authenticity was
Speaker 1: attested to by a doctor Wilkinson, who was a polymath
Speaker 1: and scientific lecturer. Wilkinson claimed he identified her language by
Speaker 1: using Edmund fry S Pantagraphia, a book that was said
Speaker 1: to contain accurate copies of all the known alphabets in
Speaker 1: the world. Can you imagine how big that would be now?
Speaker 1: He stated that marks on her skin had been done
Speaker 1: by and we're quoting a very outdated term here, oriental surgeons.
Speaker 1: Other newspapers began publishing stories about the princess, and she
Speaker 1: began to develop national acclaim. What none of them knew
Speaker 1: was that Mary had made up her language and she
Speaker 1: was really a native English speaker. She would listen to
Speaker 1: what everyone was saying while they thought she could not understand,
Speaker 1: and that must have been heaven for her as an
Speaker 1: impost right, and it was a big part in how
Speaker 1: long she was able to pull off this hoax. It's
Speaker 1: just so funny. I'm sure she sat in her head thinking, gosh,
Speaker 1: these people are fool right, all bought in completely exactly.
Speaker 1: She always seemed completely credible to the villagers, but it
Speaker 1: was because they didn't know she was reading them to
Speaker 1: manipulate the That's a common way that people scam others.
Speaker 1: And so just for clarity, when we say she was
Speaker 1: reading them, we mean she was able to interpret things
Speaker 1: like people's body language and tone of voice and then
Speaker 1: use that to her advantage. Perfect for someone who was
Speaker 1: Princess Caribou. Uh So, the princess was eccentric and she
Speaker 1: was scandalous. She wore flowers in her hair, and she
Speaker 1: swam naked in the lake. How dare she? She knew
Speaker 1: how to use a bow and arrow, and she gave
Speaker 1: fencing demonstrations and it said with a blade that had
Speaker 1: been dipped in poison. I don't know if it's arsenic,
Speaker 1: but I got to bring it up every season before
Speaker 1: eating or sleeping. She prayed to a god she called
Speaker 1: Allah Tala. She was, it would seem, from all accounts,
Speaker 1: having a fine time in Almondsbury. And for Elizabeth Worrel's part,
Speaker 1: she was living out her own wish fulfillment because she
Speaker 1: thought she was hosting a princess. But this ruse only
Speaker 1: lasted for about three months, and the media was her
Speaker 1: undue ing. The paper seized upon Baker's story during and
Speaker 1: after her exposure, and even ran poetry and ballads, both
Speaker 1: flattering and not so flattering, composed in her honor. But
Speaker 1: it was when the Bristol Journal, which was a local newspaper,
Speaker 1: ran a story about her with an accompanying photo she
Speaker 1: was recognized as a woman named Mary Baker. Mrs Neil,
Speaker 1: who owned a lodging house in Bristol, recognized Mary because
Speaker 1: Mary had stayed there about six months prior, and according
Speaker 1: to Mrs Neil, as a tenant, Mary would often Donna
Speaker 1: Black Turban while she danced around the house, speaking in
Speaker 1: her own invented languages. It was like she did her
Speaker 1: practice run and Mrs Neil's boarding the jig is up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So the worlds confronted the so called princess, who did not,
Speaker 1: of course want to tell the truth, at least at first,
Speaker 1: but she did eventually admit that her name was Mary
Speaker 1: Baker and that she was from Witheredge. So the way
Speaker 1: this story played out made the papers across the United
Speaker 1: States pick it up as well. The Carolina Federal Republican,
Speaker 1: for example, round a story first describing a strange woman
Speaker 1: who seemed initially to have no command of the English language,
Speaker 1: and then went on to explain what finally led to
Speaker 1: her confession. It was Dr Wilkinson's efforts to help her
Speaker 1: and get the East India directors involved, And we have
Speaker 1: a quote here from that specific news story. Dr Wilkinson
Speaker 1: proceeded to London on a charitable mission on Tuesday and
Speaker 1: was to be followed the next day by Cariboo herself.
Speaker 1: But affairs were becoming too formidable. The idea of appearing
Speaker 1: before the metropolitan scrutinizers was too terrible for the tender
Speaker 1: nerves of the Princess of Java suit. She therefore thought
Speaker 1: it was prudent to throw off the mask, and after
Speaker 1: inviting her humane patroness to a private audience, surprised her
Speaker 1: by speaking in her native tongue, plain downright English, declaring
Speaker 1: herself an impostor. So we're going to take a break
Speaker 1: here and have a word from a sponsor, and when
Speaker 1: we're back we will talk about exactly how a town
Speaker 1: was hoodwinked and what happened thereafter. Welcome back to Criminalia.
Speaker 1: Let's meet Mary Baker. So Mary Baker did not, of course,
Speaker 1: come from the far flung imaginary island of Java su.
Speaker 1: She was exposed as a cobbler's daughter who came from
Speaker 1: a village near Bristol. She had worked as domestic help,
Speaker 1: but her employers had always thought she seemed rather odd.
Speaker 1: And do you remember those marks that we discussed earlier,
Speaker 1: and the marks on the back of her head, Yes,
Speaker 1: the one that came with a racist diagnosis of what
Speaker 1: it was exactly so actually it's not that at all.
Speaker 1: They were scars from a poorly done wet cupping procedure
Speaker 1: that was used to relieve pressure on we quote, an
Speaker 1: overheated brain. It was performed in a poorhouse hospital when
Speaker 1: she was a child and clearly had gone a little wrong.
Speaker 1: Upon her exposure, the press went into an absolute frenzy,
Speaker 1: but it didn't go exactly as you may expect. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, they absolutely ignored their own part in creating
Speaker 1: the sensation around Princess Cariboo. But instead of vilifying Mary Baker,
Speaker 1: which would seem like a reasonable response, they ended up
Speaker 1: lampooning and condemning not only Wilkinson, but in some cases
Speaker 1: also the worlds as well as the people of Almondsbury
Speaker 1: and any and all of the intellectuals, doctors and other
Speaker 1: professionals who had been hoodwinked essentially blaming them all for
Speaker 1: being so easily fooled. Various newspapers published several satirical pieces
Speaker 1: about Princess Cariboo's origin based on what the experts who
Speaker 1: had met her had theorized. So it's the alternate universe
Speaker 1: Princess therapy, right right. So, as we mentioned earlier, we're
Speaker 1: going to do a little bit more on press coverage
Speaker 1: of Mary's ruse because it's really quite interesting to get into.
Speaker 1: If you start looking at the stories from that time,
Speaker 1: you start to see why the newspapers wouldn't really want
Speaker 1: to turn against Cariboo or Mary Baker. I guess we
Speaker 1: should call her now. She was selling newspapers and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, to them, that's all that mattered. That, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did not want to get rid of that cash cow.
Speaker 1: One example we have is the Morning Chronicle of London.
Speaker 1: That was a paper that started running ads in the
Speaker 1: late summer of eighteen seventeen about the story that they
Speaker 1: were getting ready to run about her whole nuttiness a
Speaker 1: foreigner near Bristol in an effort to get their readers
Speaker 1: really hyped up. Those ads read quote in the course
Speaker 1: of next week will be published a narrative of a
Speaker 1: singular imposition practiced upon the benevolence of a lady residing
Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the city of Bristol by a
Speaker 1: young woman of the name of Mary Wilcox alias Baker,
Speaker 1: alias Cariboo, Princess of Java. Su I would love to
Speaker 1: see these illustrations, really and and also I particularly like
Speaker 1: this story because they're not afraid of using caps. No,
Speaker 1: they'll throw it all caps for the longest period of time.
Speaker 1: Like newspapers were not shy about throwing some caps into
Speaker 1: their ads of their stories. And man, I always appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Moving on more than anyone. Though, it was Dr Wilkinson
Speaker 1: who were skewered by the press for being taken in
Speaker 1: by Mary's fictional tale. The Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle
Speaker 1: of Portsmouth ran a piece about how naive Wilkinson had been,
Speaker 1: and we have a quote from that too. So it
Speaker 1: says the young woman who has appeared at Bristol as
Speaker 1: an unknown female designated by the name of Caribou, and
Speaker 1: concerning whom Dr Wilkinson of Bath excited great curiosity last
Speaker 1: week by the interest which his pen imparted to her
Speaker 1: tail is found to be an impostor. Her real name
Speaker 1: said to be Mary Baker of with Rage Devon. The
Speaker 1: Doctor was so far carried away by his feelings in
Speaker 1: this interesting creature's case that he determined to make an
Speaker 1: appeal to the East India Directors directly on her behalf,
Speaker 1: as he had no doubt of her being a native
Speaker 1: of Java. Yet, just to avoid confusion, that is Maria
Speaker 1: reading the quote as it was written in the paper.
Speaker 1: We're not sure why they shortened it to Java versus
Speaker 1: Java Sue. My guess is that they recognized Java Sue
Speaker 1: was not a real place and thought there had been
Speaker 1: some sort of accident or confusion in the conveyance of
Speaker 1: the information, so they looked up a real place. But
Speaker 1: that same month, the Exeter Flying Post ran a similar story,
Speaker 1: this time detailing previous criminal activity on Mary's part, and
Speaker 1: that was a completely new angle in the press. This
Speaker 1: piece started out Caribou with an exclamation point. It will
Speaker 1: be seen in a preceding page of our paper that
Speaker 1: the wonderful female who has outwitted the doctor, puzzle the
Speaker 1: learned and astonished the multitude, turns out to be a
Speaker 1: vile impostor, a vagrant wanderer and daughter of a poor
Speaker 1: cottager in the village of Witherage in this county. We
Speaker 1: have made some inquiries respecting this extraordinary young lady, and
Speaker 1: there is great reason to believe that she was for
Speaker 1: some time an inmate in the Devon County Bridewell. As
Speaker 1: it appears that in the summer sessions of eighteen fourteen,
Speaker 1: at the Castle of Exeter, a Mary Anne Baker, then
Speaker 1: aged twenty one, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to six
Speaker 1: months imprisonment for stealing a piece of cloth a young man.
Speaker 1: Her sweetheart, the receiver of the stolen goods, was tried
Speaker 1: at the same time and transported for fourteen years. Big
Speaker 1: was that piece of cloth? Right? There's just a long
Speaker 1: time for a piece of fabric. It made out of gold,
Speaker 1: magic and gold threads. Ultimately, by June of eight seventeen,
Speaker 1: the town of Almondsbury gave her boat fair to the
Speaker 1: United States, specifically to travel to Philadelphia. She was accompanied by,
Speaker 1: it said to or maybe three eight strict chaperones who
Speaker 1: were chosen by Elizabeth Worrell. Because the story of Princess
Speaker 1: Cariboo was already known in America, Mary was greeted like Royalty.
Speaker 1: When she arrived, she stayed in the US and gave
Speaker 1: performances as Princess Cariboo in theaters. And several years later
Speaker 1: she did return to England. And when we say that
Speaker 1: she was greeted as royalty, that includes the press using
Speaker 1: her false name, even though they already knew that that
Speaker 1: was a ruse and she was not actually a princess
Speaker 1: of any kind. Noticed in this quote that we're about
Speaker 1: to read that nowhere does the name Mary Baker appear. Uh.
Speaker 1: And this ran in a paper in the US. Quote.
Speaker 1: The extraordinary young woman who about two years ago excited
Speaker 1: considerable attention at Bristol by representing herself as the Princess Cariboo,
Speaker 1: daughter of a great Eastern prince, has lately returned to
Speaker 1: with rich, her native place, on a visit to her mother.
Speaker 1: It is understood that once she left Bristol, she went
Speaker 1: to America with two ladies of the country. When she
Speaker 1: left home about seven years ago, she was a servant
Speaker 1: in a farmer's house. She now appears as a well
Speaker 1: educated woman, perfectly genteel in her manners and dress, and
Speaker 1: extremely fond of books, but very reserved in her communications,
Speaker 1: respecting herself, not as an interesting description about Mary Baker,
Speaker 1: so her hoax was really well known at this time.
Speaker 1: But she continued to give performances as the character of
Speaker 1: Princess Cariboo in and around London's New Bond Street, as
Speaker 1: well as in Bath and Bristol. Mary Baker as Princess
Speaker 1: Cariboo had her final appearance in a London gallery where
Speaker 1: visitors were charged a shilling apiece to see her. It
Speaker 1: was in Bristol in eight where Mary married. It was
Speaker 1: probably her second marriage, because we know that while she
Speaker 1: was pretending to be a princess, she had confessed her
Speaker 1: real name was Mary Baker, but we're not presuming. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of mysteries there about how her name
Speaker 1: changed over the years. However, things get really quite fuzzy
Speaker 1: after this point in her story. We also know that
Speaker 1: she gave birth to a daughter in we know that
Speaker 1: she no longer performed as Princess Cariboo or impersonated Royalty,
Speaker 1: and by eighteen thirty nine she was making ends meet
Speaker 1: by importing and selling leeches, mainly to the medical community,
Speaker 1: which included the local Bristol Infirmary hospital. However, and here
Speaker 1: is that really fuzzy part. There's a question about a
Speaker 1: woman named Mary Burgess. This was our Mary. But is
Speaker 1: the surname changed from marriage or the change that was
Speaker 1: meant to hide a grift. Some reports suggest this name
Speaker 1: change was due to her second marriage, after her husband
Speaker 1: Richard Baker, left her and traveled abroad. Alternatively, their source
Speaker 1: is that suggests she was living under her cousin's name,
Speaker 1: Burgess Mary Wilcox Baker, a k a. Princess Caribou. Maybe
Speaker 1: Burgess died on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty four and
Speaker 1: she is buried in an unmarked grave in Heaven Road
Speaker 1: Burial Ground in Bedminster. We do have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a side note that doesn't play well with someone's death. Here, Holly,
Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. This story is actually made
Speaker 1: into a movie, if you'd like to see it. That
Speaker 1: movie was made and starts the absolutely spectacular Phoebe Kates right.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it personally. I didn't know it existed.
Speaker 1: So here we are with our very first drink for
Speaker 1: season three. Ali Well, I thought for season three we
Speaker 1: would flip our segment on its head a little a
Speaker 1: bit because we're talking about imposters. Since they're masquerading his
Speaker 1: cocktails in this segment will be mocktails. There will though
Speaker 1: be for my drinkers in the crowd. Don't panic. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be also a way you can modify any of
Speaker 1: these to have a little oochin them if that's your jam.
Speaker 1: But they're perfectly delightful on their own without any alcohol
Speaker 1: in them. So the first one is called Princess Cariboos
Speaker 1: Tender Nerves because when I was reading about that version
Speaker 1: where they paint her as this really like delicate, I'm
Speaker 1: so scared to go in front of the public. I'll
Speaker 1: tell them all I'm lying. I'm like she's telling you,
Speaker 1: she's lying. I'm telling like you, sweet baby girl. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I wanted to think about something that always makes me
Speaker 1: feel soothed when I am maybe a little nervous myself.
Speaker 1: But also I'm one of those people that I don't
Speaker 1: want anything that will overcome me, because usually if I'm nervous,
Speaker 1: it's because I gotta get something done. I knew I
Speaker 1: wanted to do a T, but I wanted to do
Speaker 1: a T that is not like a cam of meal
Speaker 1: or like an herbal I wanted something that still has caffeine.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna brew a cup of chi and you're
Speaker 1: gonna let it cool down a bit into that cup
Speaker 1: of chi, and I would put this in a cocktail
Speaker 1: shaker if you have one. You're gonna put a half
Speaker 1: ounce of spicy mango syrup, pour that chi in with it,
Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit because the chi, if
Speaker 1: it's room temperature, it's gonna mix a little more easily
Speaker 1: with the sugar. It will dissolve rather than if it's cold.
Speaker 1: And then once it's mixed a little you're gonna pour
Speaker 1: in two ounces of milk and some ice and you're
Speaker 1: gonna shake a shake, a shake a shake it because
Speaker 1: you really want everything incorporated. And it makes this nice,
Speaker 1: very frothy if you've got a really good shaker action
Speaker 1: going on. Beverage that is yummy and it's like a
Speaker 1: a latte, but it's also not And the mango syrup
Speaker 1: is a weird thing. About to ask you about that,
Speaker 1: I'm like spicy mangoes, Like I don't even think I've
Speaker 1: seen that, Like it sounds delicious, but you can buy.
Speaker 1: But also if you can't find it somewhere, but you
Speaker 1: can't find like mango syrup. You could also add in
Speaker 1: something to give it a little bit of check, whether
Speaker 1: that's like a little dash of cayenne pepper or just
Speaker 1: anything that has a little bite to it, Like I
Speaker 1: have a little Garama sala I put in everything. That's
Speaker 1: another good one to mix in. If you've had a
Speaker 1: chi latte, they're just beautiful on their own and you
Speaker 1: get that yummy, soothing thing, but then there's this like
Speaker 1: extra flavor where you're like, that seems a little different.
Speaker 1: It's yummy, but you you clock it, you're aware that
Speaker 1: there's something strange in the mix. And I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a good representation of Princess Carricin right. People liked
Speaker 1: her a lot, but they also were like, something's up
Speaker 1: with this one and um, And then for my drinkers
Speaker 1: in the crowd, if you do not want to have
Speaker 1: Princess Cariboos tender nerves in its non alcoholic state, I
Speaker 1: threw an announce of vanilla vodka and it became like
Speaker 1: the perfect summer refresher. This is also a good time
Speaker 1: for us to be doing mock tails because I feel
Speaker 1: like we're at least in the Northern Hemisphere heading into
Speaker 1: summer and most mock tails are very fruity and refreshing,
Speaker 1: so that's another reason why we're going that route this time.
Speaker 1: But you can always add a little something if you
Speaker 1: want to make an adults. You could make this as
Speaker 1: a warm drink if you want to. I thought about
Speaker 1: that as soon as you were talking about it being chai. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I like a little cold chai. I think it's fun,
Speaker 1: so yeah. Options, options, options. Also, if you're like a girl,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that spicy mango thing, you
Speaker 1: can add any other flavored syrup. This would also be
Speaker 1: it's beautiful With a raspberry syrup. It's a little less
Speaker 1: surprising to your palate, but it's super duper yummy and
Speaker 1: it gives it a broader body like you just you
Speaker 1: feel like you're drinking something that's like a sweet, almost
Speaker 1: dessert beverage. Then play around with syrups, see what's going
Speaker 1: on there. Um, You could just use simple syrup if
Speaker 1: you don't want to infuse it with any kind of flavor,
Speaker 1: or you could also just do a drop or two
Speaker 1: of any baking flavors. That works too. I actually think
Speaker 1: a pumpkin version of this would be perfect for fall.
Speaker 1: As you're heading into late summer and early fall. I
Speaker 1: think that might be something that you need to test now.
Speaker 1: Just I'll go do it so you're prepared. We thank
Speaker 1: everybody for listening and spending this time with us, particularly
Speaker 1: now that we are in a whole new season. If
Speaker 1: you've been hanging in for the first two, we hope
Speaker 1: you enjoyed this one. Also, if you're new to the show,
Speaker 1: there's plenty for you to go back and listen to.
Speaker 1: But otherwise we will see you back here next week
Speaker 1: with another story of an imposter, another mock tail that
Speaker 1: can also be made into a fabulous adult beverage, and
Speaker 1: hopefully a lot more laughters. Thanks everybody. Criminalia is a
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