Special Episode: Emperor Norton I

American Presidents: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Did you know that the United States of America was ruled by an emperor for 21 years during the 19th century? Well, it was. This is a one off special episode on the amazing Emperor Norton I while we try to get to grips with recording while on lockdown.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Emperon Gordon. Hello and welcome to American President, so tell us Rankingham.
0:27.6	I am Jamie.
0:28.3	I'm Rob, and this is our special Corona episode.
0:34.1	Yeah.
0:35.2	Not a president, because we're just going to see if this recording remotely works
0:41.1	and we figured the best way to really test whether this works properly is to do an episode.
0:46.5	But we're going to test it on someone who's not a president.
0:50.5	Yeah. Just in case.
0:51.9	But that was fascinating. Emperor Norton.
0:54.2	Yeah, you've got no idea, have you?
0:56.0	Nope.
0:56.6	No, this is someone who I've had an eye on for a while in terms of doing a special episode.
1:04.9	I found out about Emperor Norton when I started doing research for Washington, bizarrely, right at the start, and I thought,
1:12.9	oh, we've got to do an episode on him at some point.
1:15.3	I just never really had a reason to do it.
1:17.8	But why not now?
1:19.3	Yeah.
1:19.6	Last everyone's in lockdown.
1:22.8	Fair enough.
1:23.7	Well, I'm intrigued.
1:24.7	So let's get started.
1:26.2	Okay, then, right.
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