121 Basil

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

There were many prophecies that foretold of Basil's rise, unfortunately no one believed them. But then he managed to make friends with a drunk emperor and the world suddenly seemed so much full of opportunity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Basel! Hello and welcome to Roman Emperor, so Talus Rankingum, I am Jamie.
0:27.8	And I'm Rob ranking all of the emperors from Augustus to Constantine 11.
0:32.8	It's episode one to one, Basil.
0:35.5	Yay!
0:36.8	That makes me really happy.
0:38.2	Why?
0:38.9	My dog's called Basil.
0:40.1	Yes, he is.
0:41.3	So in my head, this is an episode about my dog.
0:43.5	Good, good.
0:44.4	Which either be brilliant or very sad at the end.
0:46.7	Well, well, we'll see.
0:48.3	We'll see.
0:49.0	Okay, quick recap, because there's a lot of moving parts at the moment.
0:52.7	Yeah?
0:53.0	Yep. So let's just go over what's going on.
0:56.0	Theophilus and Theodora had a song called Michael 3. Yes. Good. After the death of Theophilus,
1:02.2	Theodora takes charge. But her brother Bardus convinces her nephew Michael 3 to take power
1:08.4	away from Theodora and she is put under palace arrest, and then nunned.
1:13.2	Bardas gets rid of the patriarch Ignatius, you remember him?
1:17.5	Who spends an uncomfortable few years being tortured and then being invaded by Vikings.
1:22.8	Oh.
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