08 Otho

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

History, Comedy

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Otho! He was a man with a dream, a simple dream... a dream to become the most powerful man in the world! Did he succeed? Or did a combination of sailors, traffic jams, moody guards and incompetent generals let him down? find out in this week's episode of Roman Emperors: Totals Rankium!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium Podcast. This is Jamie.
0:28.6	And Rob, and this is episode 8, Otho. Right, just before we get started.
0:33.6	Yeah, I want to say thank you to LJ Trafford, a fantastic author. Congratulations on your new
0:39.4	book being published, Galba's Men. And speaking of men. Yeah. Sorry, we called you a man like six or
0:47.2	seven times that episode. We're sorry. Yeah, it just goes to show our research maybe could be better.
0:53.9	Yeah. It's dangers of initials. Dains
0:55.8	of initials. Yeah. Yeah. We'll say that. Anyway. Thank you and well done. Thank you for not hating us.
1:03.0	Right. Okay. Let's start then. I forgot to do my Augustus to Augustulus thing. You did. Oh well. That's
1:10.3	what we're doing. They probably know that by now. Yeah. Right, okay. Second of the four of the year of the four emperors. Two of four. This will be halfway through then when we finish. Yes. So, it's been week, so I'm just going to spring this on you now. Let's do a recap. Brilliant. Off you go. Okay, so Galba was emperor. Wasn't very good. He's very strict. We may have mentioned that. We did. And his men hated him and he was killed by his own. Oh no, he declared someone else the emperor. No looking at your notes. Oh. he declared somebody else the emperor. Pizzo?
1:46.2	The air, yes.
1:47.2	Yes.
1:47.8	You're going to be air, and they didn't really like that.
1:51.0	But Pizzo could sweet talk the guard around a little bit.
1:55.0	He showed some promise, didn't they?
1:56.2	Yeah, but they didn't want that.
1:57.9	So they basically slaughtered Pizzo. they tried to see refuge somewhere in a temple
2:04.7	they was just butchered alive or butchered until dead butchered dead i guess butchered till death
2:10.4	yes and then um they they went out and killed uh galba and he said something like, go on, do you worse then.
2:18.6	And they did.
2:19.5	They cut his head off. So last week, Otho kind of just appeared at the end, didn't they? Yes, from nowhere. So let's go back and figure out what was going on with him. So this is the way that timeline is run parallel, don't they? Yes. We'll go right back to the start of both those life,
2:15.5	and we will soon catch back up.
2:18.2	But before then...
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