Welcome to Totalis Rankium. I'm Jamie.

And I'm Rob, ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustulus episode 33.

Gordian 3.

Oh, I like that 33-3.

Yeah, that's good, isn't it? It's nice.

It is. This is the final one of the year of the six emperors. Oh, I've actually had six, so that's good. An actual six emperors. That's good. I would go to say congratulations for us as well, seven months. Yes, today. first when we're recording and we recorded the first one on the first of May didn't we?

We did? Yes. seven months today. Yes, today. It's the first one in recording and we recorded the first one on

the first of May, didn't we? We did? Yeah, seven months. That's almost a baby. Almost, most of a baby.

If we were a baby and we were born right now, there'd be complications. Oh.

Rough.

But in too much time, it will be fine.

Yeah.

So, there's a third Gordian.

This is a young Gordian, 13 years old, as I recall.

I'm listening to a well-known podcast. Go.

You know your stuff.

Yeah.

Mike Duncan's history of Rome. Yes. It's very informative, isn't it? Yeah. Right, before we start, let's have a bit of a sauce update. I like sauce. Don't mean ketchup. Yay. Yeah. Dio's left us a while ago, a few episodes back. Yep. And now Herodian has gone as well. Oh. Yes. Um. So who have we hired for this episode? We've got no one. Oh. We really just have the Historia Augusta and a few fragments of bits that have been picked up here and there. Yeah. Brilliant. Just a little bit of pottery with G&R. It's got a G&R on it. That'll do. Yeah. Gordian was here. Didn't like him much. Oh. Someone didn't like him. Yeah, that's pretty much all we've got. He was hated by all. Most of the books I've got seem to mention this.

This point on, we have no reliable sources,

and then it has a huge paragraph about how rubbish the Historia Augusta is,

and then just says, so we're discounted,

but then tends to go on using the Historia Augusta,

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