27 Alexander

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when your pushy mother and 40,000 armed men say you should be emperor? Well, you do what Alexander did. he was only 13, and faced with an empire on the brink of disaster. Can he righten the sinking ship? Can he pull the Empire from the edge of a crisis?... no. But he can certainly die trying!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Alexander.
0:13.0	Hello and welcome to Roman emperors to Talus Rankium.
0:26.8	I am Jamie.
0:27.5	I'm Rob.
0:28.6	Ranking all the Roman emperors from Augustus to Augustulus.
0:31.8	This is episode 27, Alexander.
0:36.4	And Jamie is mouthing along with me. Sorry. Not off-putting at all. Right, right, yeah. Yeah, we're just saying for the lesson. The lesson, oh God. You're still at work. I know. Before the episode started, it's a very regular, bog-standard boring name. Yeah, it is. Alexander. He's known as Alexander Severus,
0:56.0	but we're just going to call him Alexander. Yeah, or Xander. We're cool. Yeah, because
0:59.9	Alexander Severus is quite hard to fit on a card. We're getting to his name, but let me just
1:04.3	point out, this is the last of the Severans. Oh. Yeah, and here we are sitting in the dark.
1:11.0	We are. It's, the clocks have sitting in the dark. We are.
1:11.7	It's, the clocks have changed here.
1:14.3	Yes.
1:14.7	Int UK and it's all dark now.
1:18.2	It is.
1:18.6	It's only, what, it's half past five?
1:21.0	I know, it's pretty sad.
1:22.2	But I do like the symmetry that in the height of summer,
1:25.1	I was researching about the golden ages of Rome
1:28.2	and as soon as the crisis hits
1:31.0	it's now dark
1:32.2	poetic it's good isn't it that's nice
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