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Ridiculous Crime

Let's Get Medieval: Holy Relics Theft

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Whether we're talking the hand of Mary Magdalene, the Skull of St. Foy, the Bones of St. Mark, in the Dark Ages holy relics were ripe for the taking. Thieving monks, conspiring bishops and rebel princesses all went to outrageous lengths to secure the blessings of the bones and body parts of the saints. Sometimes crime requires a little faith. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:24.5

Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Elizabeth Dut. Zarin Burnett. How you doing? Good. How are you? I'm feeling good. Feeling good in the neighborhood? Totally. I mean, look at me over here, Applebee and up. Just Apple being. How you Applebee? What about you? I'm good. Good? Yeah. Nice. I'm good. I got a question for you while you're just, you know, in the playful mood. Sure. Do you know what's ridiculous? Honey, I do. Honey, hush. You and I have talked a lot about how much we like pickles. Yes. Embarrassingly amounts probably. Particularly grillos pickles.

0:41.7

Yes. Those are the ones. The preferred, ridiculous crimes preferred pickle. Yes, they are in-house favor. Do you ever drink pickle juice? I had a friend who used to, and he turned me on to it. And it's definitely actually, I got to say, it does something.

0:55.6

It gives you a boost.

0:56.6

It does it.

1:09.9

It does something. I'll just put it that way. I wouldn't recommend doing it for long periods of time. But, like, say you're injured and you're like a kid and you drink some pickle juice, made me feel better. I don't want to tell you. Do you drink your own pee, too? No, it's just like, it's like a brine.

1:10.6

So it's like ferment. Yeah, I know it's a brine.

1:11.5

Now people are all into fermented stuff.

1:13.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:13.6

This is like fermented juice. drink your own pee too? No, it's just like, it's like a brine. So it's like ferment. Yeah, I know it's a brine.

1:11.5

Now people are all into fermented stuff.

1:13.2

Yeah, yeah.

1:13.6

This is like fermented juice.

1:25.1

Do you get drunk? No, no, you just get like, it's like a wheatgrass, but saltier, you know, it's like you get this pump. It's like, woo wee. Ooh, hi. Yeah, like Nature Boy.

1:31.6

The only time I use pickle juice is when you get to the end of a grillo's tub,

1:38.4

then you put chicken thighs in there to brine them, and then you put them in batter and deep fry them,

1:40.4

and that's how you make a good chicken sandwich.

1:42.1

See, you chef stuff up.

2:02.6

I'm over here just, like, remembering being 10, so. But every,, like I'll finish a thing of pickles and I'm like, I don't really need to be eating a fried chicken. Like, what? Get out of here. And then I dump it down the drain. Anyway, that's not the ridiculous part. I've dragged this on for far too long. And I'm going to drag it further. So another thing that you and I like,

2:08.4

puff jackets. This is true. You know, like North Face. I got, I'm about that coto-paxy light. Yes, exactly. So anyway, what if, what if you could, I don't know, what's the word,

2:14.9

what's the phrase like mash up those two things? Breathe deep. I can't. I can't know. What's the word? What's the phrase? Like mash up those two things?

2:19.7

Breathe deep.

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