State of the Union 03 - Steven Walters and Erik Archilla 1865

American Presidents: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We are very lucky this week to be talking to the writers of the amazing 1865 podcast, an audio drama set in the aftermath of the assassination of Lincoln. Steven Walters and Erik Archilla have spent years getting into the heads of the characters of that time, including Lincoln and Johnson, so we decided to ask them their thoughts on the two presidents we have ranked best and worst so far respectively.

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0:00.0	I'm going to say, I'm going to say because of that nose, he's a five out of five.
0:03.7	Because you're not going to forget that nose.
0:05.5	That nose is going to be with you.
0:07.1	Once you've seen it, it's going to be with you forever.
0:13.6	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:17.1	This week, State of the Union, Port 3.
0:31.3	Hello, and welcome to American President's Totalis Rankium.
0:34.4	I am Jamie.
0:35.6	And I'm Rob. Did that hurt your fight?
0:37.5	We did.
0:38.2	Jamie's got a sore fright.
0:41.4	And welcome to the third State of the Union episode, the episodes where we track down some genuine Americans.
0:49.5	And see, see if they roughly agree with what we're doing.
0:53.7	Although we do select the Americans based on the historical knowledge.
0:56.2	They're not just random, random tourists.
0:58.1	No, it's the yellow pages.
0:59.7	No, not the other pages for...
1:01.1	Blue pages?
1:02.2	It's the blue, wasn't it?
1:03.4	I don't know.
1:04.9	No one's British reference for this.
1:06.5	No.
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