18.1 Ulysses S Grant

American Presidents: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

During the Civil war, Lincoln needed someone, anyone, who would fight. Enter a general with a Greek name, a taste for drink and a 'bigger picture' attitude. Known as Hiram, Ulysses, Sam, 'Unconditional Surrender' and 'The Butcher', Grant went by many names, but who was he? Find out!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.0	This week, Unicies and Scrant.
0:14.0	Part 1. Hello and welcome to American presidents, Totalis Rankium.
0:28.4	I am Jamie.
0:29.1	And I'm Rob, ranking all of the presidents from Washington to Trump.
0:32.4	And here we are.
0:33.3	It's episode 18.1, Ulysses S. Grant.
0:37.8	Name I've heard of.
0:38.9	Yes.
0:39.4	I know he's beardy.
0:40.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:41.1	I'm quite broad looking.
0:42.4	Yeah, good.
0:43.1	That's about it.
0:43.7	That's all you need to know, really, to be honest.
0:46.0	I hope he lives up to that visual.
0:47.4	Oh, well, see, we'll see.
0:49.0	Ah, right.
0:50.7	And it's quite warm in here. It's hot, isn't it? I don't, I'm not great with temperature, and I don't think I'm exaggerating, but it's about a billion degrees outside.
0:57.2	It's about that, isn't it?
0:58.7	It might even be the hottest ever day in English recorded history.
1:03.1	39 degrees.
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