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Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

77 Petronius Maximus

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9742 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Petronius had big dreams, by day he was a loyal senator, helping Valentinian keep the empire ticking over, but by night: by night he was scheming and plotting and planning and cackling. He was going to rule the empire, and when he did, he would show them all! Nothing would stop him! He was not scared of anyone or anything! Sorry? Who are coming? The Vandals... oh. oh dear.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Totalis Rankium.

0:10.0

This week, Petronius Maximus.

0:14.0

Hello. Hello and welcome to Roman Emperor's Totalis Rankium.

0:28.1

I'm Jamie.

0:28.7

And I'm well ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.

0:31.6

And this is episode 77.

0:33.6

Oh!

0:34.2

But who is it?

0:35.5

It's...

0:36.3

No, it's a trick question, that isn't it?

0:38.5

Because you made me record the introduction twice. Oh, sorry, no, the guy. He made the guy. Yeah, the handsome guy. Yeah, I don't know. It's an odd one. But we'll talk about that in the moment. It's Petronius Maximus, but we'll decide whether we should keep calling him that. He sounds big or great, I guess. Maximus is great, isn't it?

0:54.4

No, you see, it links to that.

0:56.1

See, I've learned something. Yes. And also, surprise. Not for you, for our listeners. Oh. Yeah, I said last week, no episode next week. You're a liar. But here we are. I'm a liar. With an episode. Just think of all those people that listen to us, all those millions of people.

0:54.1

Disappointed.

0:54.5

Tears streaming down their face in the last episode yeah but now imagine the joy I think it's like hurt and let down yeah that might be hurt and that matter I'm really sorry put the piano music of this up I I'll do that. It's already been playing for a long.

1:28.6

Did you not have it?

1:29.6

Yeah.

1:30.2

It softly came in a while ago.

1:32.4

Oh, nice.

1:32.7

Yeah, that looks good as it.

1:34.9

Well, my plan was to research our Republic trilogy with the Grakai brothers and then Marcus Drusus. My plan was to research

1:45.8

Tiberius and Gaius graccus this

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