11.1 James Polk

American Presidents: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Polk was born a sickly child (perhaps with a massive head) His parent feared the worst, he couldn’t even hold down his job in the local shop. So how did he go from this to president? Did it involve hard work? Yes. Did it involve luck? Yes. Did it involve someone sticking a sharp implement somewhere near where the sun is known not to shine? Most definitely.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.0	This week, James Polk Part 1. Hello, ho-ho, and welcome to American presidents Totalis Rankium.
0:29.1	I am Jamie.
0:29.9	And I'm Rob ranking all of the presidents from Washington to Trump.
0:33.6	And it's our Christmas special episode, an American one this year.
0:36.8	Yay!
0:38.4	It's exciting. If you don't listen to our Romans here, isn't you? And it's our Christmas special episode An American one this year. Yay! Christmas!
0:38.8	If you don't listen to our Romans series
0:41.4	and you only listen to this,
0:42.5	you won't understand we have a tradition.
0:44.7	We make our Christmas episodes extra Christmassy.
0:47.2	All you need to do is imagine James Polk
0:50.0	with a Christmas hat on throughout the whole episode.
0:53.5	Sorted.
0:54.1	Including the birth scene.
0:55.4	It's an awkward birth.
0:56.4	Yes.
0:56.9	Quite few questions, but it is fine.
0:58.6	Yeah.
0:59.0	If you're listening to this in the future and it's not Christmas, take the hat off.
1:02.5	It's that simple.
1:03.9	And it's James Spock today.
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