18 Marcus Aurelius

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Aurelius. He had a tough life what with everyone in the world dying around him. All he wanted to do was curl up with a good book, but fate had other things in store for him. Those things included him freezing in a tent surrounded by angry barbarians. Poor Marcus. But if there is one thing that Marcus knows how to do well, it’s DEALING WITH IT.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week Marcus Aurelius.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to Roman Empress with Halas Rancium podcast.
0:27.0	I am Jamie.
0:28.0	I'm Rob and we are rating all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.
0:32.3	Episode 18, Marcus Aurelius, the fifth of the five good emperors.
0:37.1	As is the last one. Last one. It's all downhill from here. Yes. There's a shame. There's a couple of bumps that kind of knock you up a little bit. But it is pretty much all downhill. So if we had like a chart, it would be like up, up, up, peak, peak then. Yeah. Peak?
0:55.6	Yes.
0:56.2	Yeah.
0:56.6	Yeah, that was good.
0:57.8	If you could see what just happened.
0:59.7	Yeah.
0:59.8	It would have made a lot more sense.
1:01.7	Yeah.
1:02.3	Yeah, right.
1:03.1	I'm going to jump straight into it.
1:04.4	We're going to start with a dying woman.
1:07.3	Yeah?
1:07.6	That's not a happy way to start a podcast.
1:09.3	It's not.
1:09.7	Imagine her lying in a room with her daughter surrounded by bricks.
1:16.6	And the old woman says, I leave these to you.
1:21.6	And the daughter goes, thanks.
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