03 Tiberius

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

History, Comedy

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Tiberius is considered to be the 5th or 6th or 7th or 8th worst emperor of all time. Is this justified? Or was he just a lonely man with the weight of the world on his shoulders and an excel spread sheet? Also find out: Who was given a pet rock! Who Fought all the battles now Agrippa is dead! Who holds the Roman land speed record! Who keeps killing everyone! & Much much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.0	This week, Tiberius.
0:14.0	Hello, welcome to Totalis Rankium, episode three.
0:27.6	Episode three.
0:28.6	Still here.
0:30.6	Yes.
0:31.6	I counted up.
0:32.6	Yeah.
0:33.6	84 emperors.
0:35.6	Wow.
0:36.6	That's how long we're going to go for.
0:38.3	That's 84 weeks, probably more or less.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.3	This week is Tiberius.
0:42.3	Do you know anything about Tiberius?
0:45.3	No, the only thing I know, and my goal is to put some sort of Star Trek reference into every single episode
0:51.3	is that it's James T-Kirk, middle name, what the T stands for, James
0:55.8	Tiberius Kirk. Is it? Yes. Okay, I'm learning now. Yeah, there you go. Um, right, okay. So,
1:01.8	Tiberius, let's begin. He's considered by many to be a tyrant. A tyrant. So that's not a good
1:08.2	thing. That's not a good thing. I'm not getting good vibes. I did some scientific research. I typed in top 10 worst emperors into Google. Oh, brilliant. And then I looked at the first five lists. Yeah. And Tiberius was on every single one of those lists. Wow. So he's generally considered a bad egg. He was, this is how scientific I got, he was sixth on the first list, eighth on the second list, seventh on the third list, eighth again on the fourth list, and then fifth.
1:36.7	Got up to fifth on the fifth list.
1:39.9	Actually, I'm really intrigued now what he did that was so bad, so tyrannical.
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