S1 Round IV

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Round IV: Who will go through? The mighty Diocletian, the horrible Galerius, the amazing Constantius II or the good-looking Majorian? Also: we look at the best looking busts and coins of the empire.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.0	This week, round I be. Hello and welcome to Roman Empress to Thalus Rankium, coming to you from the City of Culture, Coventry, 2021.
0:32.3	Yes, we are. I'm Jamie. Actually, I say we are. I don't live in Coventry. This is on you. Go off my co-tails. I'm Jamie. And say we are I don't live in carbon chase this is on you go off my
0:38.1	co-tails yeah I'm Jamie and I'm Rob ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus and this is
0:44.5	round IV we're also looking at Imujo face show this week sexiest emperor yes but we should
0:50.6	probably explain for those listeners not in the UK what you were just talking about. Yeah, so you get a couple of cities that try and bid to be the city of culture, so they have a lot of things that happen there and they voted on Coventry. Is it actually an official thing that you're only allowed to put your name forward if you were a bit of a rubbish city? Because none of the good ones ever put their name forward. I don't know. It's like Sunderland, Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and a few others. Swansea, I think. It might be Swansea. Named after Spend, Forkbeard, one of our Viking kings is Swansea. Coventry, named after no one quite knows. They think it might be Kofa's tree. Yeah, possibly.
1:28.4	Linked to um, Koffee, I believe. Yes. Yes. Yeah. But what they do is they sort of see all the culture and all things happening in the country. And I think we played our part in that. I think so. I think we tipped it over the edge. I think so. it was a toss up between this and Swansea.
1:26.1	It's like, what podcasts do Swansea have?
1:28.1	No, none. Well, yeah, banking nuns, it didn't work very well. It was slightly offensive. Yeah. A lovely wimple. Frames the face perfectly. Anyway, we have digressed and we haven't even begun.
2:01.6	Have we even pressed with cord?
2:02.6	Yes, we have.
2:03.6	So...
2:04.6	Right, let's do this.
2:07.6	Let's look into imageofacious first.
2:10.6	Sound guy hit it.
2:12.6	Imageo facie.
2:14.6	First of all, let's deal with the elephant in the room here.
2:18.8	We say imago-faced, what did they look like as an emperor, but let's face it.
2:24.2	Yeah.
2:24.9	We're just ranking them on their looks.
2:27.6	Yeah.
2:28.0	Yeah.
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