09 Vitellius

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

History, Comedy

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Roman world is in crisis. It needs a strong leader, someone to steady the ship, to allow people to retain their hope for the future... That man is on his way! Until he gets here however, we have this week's Emperor to get through. It's Vitellius. Liked by his troops if no one else, he was a man who knew how to party. He was a good friend of both Caligula and Nero... this is possibly all you need to know to guess how well his reign went.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rangium. This week, Vitalius.
0:13.0	This week, Vitalius. Hello and welcome to Roman Emperor's Totalis Rankium podcast.
0:27.6	This is Jamie and Rob, and we are here to talk about the Romans and rankium them.
0:32.6	Yes, Episode 9, Vitaleus.
0:35.2	Oh, Vitalis. And he's nine out of how many?
1:11.1	Well, he's 8, because we have the introduction. Of course. Yes. Yeah, Emperor 8, episode 9, 80 odd. Haven't worked that out yet. Okay, so... Before we start, I've got to say, I did a bit of maths. Oh yeah. Or a bit of math, if you're American. Like Galba, he lasted for seven months. Yeah. Okay. Otho, no, you lasted for seven, did he? Yeah, yeah, he did. Yeah. Otho, lasted for three months. That's ten months out of twelve. Yeah. I'm not feeling good things with Italian. Well, you may have done to that.
1:18.7	But don't forget, Galba died at the start on the 15th of January, if I remember correctly.
1:20.5	So he was actually Emperor-joint 68.
1:21.6	Ah, okay.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:23.2	Ah, okay.
1:24.9	I should listen more to this podcast.
1:25.7	Yes, you should.
1:27.5	But you do make a good point. We've not got much of the year left, and we need to squeeze one more emperor in the form. The next one comes along. So let's see what happens to him. Oh dear. Well, actually, let's start with your recap. Ah, this is the new feature that you keep surprised me with. Yes. And we're going to keep doing that. So Otho died. Yeah, he did. But he's quite heroic, wasn't it?
1:45.5	He said, This is the new feature that you keep surprised me with. Yes. And we're going to keep doing that. So, Otho died.
1:46.7	Yeah, he did.
1:48.0	But he's quite heroic, wasn't it?
1:43.7	He stabbed himself. Yes, there's a kind of a, I can't do this. I'm ruining the empire. It'd be better without me. Let me just, guards, I'm just taking this knife to bed with me. Sir, why? what are you doing? No reason. It's fine. It's fine. Next morning, he's dead.
2:00.8	Yeah. And then Vitellius, who'd been made emperor from... He was in Spain at the time, wasn't he? Up near the Rhine. But we're getting into this week's episode now. Spain, Germany, same thing. Yeah, it's in barbarian land. Yeah. If you are from Spain or Germany, we, we apologize. It's okay. Britain was even more barbarian lands than they were. Yeah. Just people living in huts eating poo. Yeah. But you're absolutely right. Otho killed himself. It brought the end to the Civil War. Very suddenly, no one's expecting it. And in came Vitellius. We're going to talk about his life.
2:35.7	Yay.
2:36.5	So we started this episode.
2:38.2	I want you to picture that tent again.
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