41 Claudius II

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Claudius II: This time it's hyped up! Find out wht the Historia Augusta claims that this man was the best emperor in the history of Rome bar Constantine himself. Find out how he fought barbarians and... other stuff. That he must have done. I mean, he is obviously great, the Historia Augusta told us so... so he must be. Yep.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, glorious two. Hello and welcome to Roman emperors at Has Rankeum.
0:26.1	I am Jamie.
0:26.8	And I'm Rob ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.
0:29.7	Episode 41, Claudius 2.
0:32.5	Oh, I'm dead excited.
0:34.1	The second Claudius, why are you excited?
0:36.9	Because Claudius I was crazy
0:38.1	and this is his son clearly because of Clawist 2. Yes, it is. You'll be just as crazy. Yes. Well, okay. Let's just dive into it then, shall we? And we'll see if Claudius 2 lives up to his namesake. Remember Claudius 1, we had rocks, we had killer whales, we had.
0:34.3	Kim, not being very nice to people.
0:36.0	Yeah, not being hugely nice.
0:37.3	Writing books.
0:38.1	He went for a week's holiday in Britain, remember? Oh, yeah. Oh, he conquered Britain. He was the first one to... Yeah. He dipped his foot into Britain. Yes, he did. He was on that boat with Galba with the elephants, wasn't I?
1:11.0	Oh yes, and his trained elephants, yeah.
1:12.7	Standing a beautiful pyramid formation.
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:14.9	And his wife got married without him.
1:17.1	Yep.
1:17.6	Oh yeah, he married his niece.
1:18.9	That was it, yeah, and they legalized it.
1:21.2	Yes, yes, that was it.
1:23.0	And he did not get Genie Caesar.
1:25.6	He did.
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