1.2 George Washington

American Presidents: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

We finish off Washington’s busy life by looking into how he went from winning the war, to being president. It was not an easy journey - there was political infighting, rebellions, the French, the British and so many distracting ladies. How is one supposed to set up a brand new republic in such conditions?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:27.2	I am Jamie.
0:28.0	And I'm Rob ranking all of the presidents from Washington to Trump.
0:31.3	And this is episode 1.2.
0:34.7	Ooh.
0:35.7	George Washington, part two. I'm quite excited about this because my opinion of him changed. Ooh. George Washington, part two.
0:38.2	I'm quite excited about this because my opinion of him changed.
0:41.5	I don't much from an opinion to start with, I'll be honest.
0:43.7	No.
0:44.3	But.
0:44.8	Blank slate.
0:45.6	Start a bit of a kind of a idiot.
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:48.3	To sort of, oh, actually, he's got some smarts.
0:51.9	So you're thinking, is that going to continue or was that the peak?
0:56.1	I hope he doesn't start to crest.
0:58.1	Yeah, when the wave hits his peak and then starts to fold under itself and then crash down into a seal.
1:04.0	Well, let's see if that happens, literally or metaphorically.
1:08.0	As you have hinted at, of course, we covered his early life last episode.
1:11.9	His rise as a gentleman after marrying Martha.
1:16.3	Then the start of the war, we briefly covered how he won by refusing to give up
1:21.0	until the French turned up and helped him out.
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