Welcome to Totalis Rangium. This week, Domitian.

Welcome to Totalis Rankingum. I'm Jamie. I'm Rob ranking all of the Roman Emperor's from Augustus to Augustus. We are Rankium them, them. Big style. Big style. Big time. Big time. Big time. styling. That's what we're doing. Stephen Fry says.

Here we are. It's hot. It's very hot. I'm sweating like a sweating person. Yeah. It's midday. It's usually for us. It's really weird. The sun's been out recently anyway, but no hard work in between. And the first episode where I don't need to drive home afterwards. Ah. well, when I walk you back to the train station, his sudden overbearing thirst might come upon us. You never know, you never know. Right. Just see what he can do. Okay, this week, Domitian. I think before we start, we've got to... Ah, yes, well, don't know. Yeah, I love you, Rob. We marry me. No. No. Okay. In that case, I'll say the second thing. Rex Factor, thank you very much for plugging us in your last episode at Alexander II. It was a good episode, isn't it? Yeah, I've literally just finished listening to it on the journey here. Very good. Got the Rex Factor when I've done him. And thank you for the plug at the end is very good. I particularly loved. Have you heard it all yet? Yes. Yeah. I love the fact that there was a baby having their head bashed off the wall, just like Caligula's daughter. Oh. Yeah. And someone torn apart by horses like Mark Anthony did. Yes. See, history repeats itself. Yeah. I'll spoil it for the Mark Anthony episode.

Not that he's got his own and we have already done that. Yeah. So if you're listening to this, you've probably already heard that. Yeah, probably. But no mind, though. That's fine, yeah. So thank you to Rex Factor again. It's been very good. And we do literally plagiarise their format. Yeah. I don't mind. It's nice. Yeah, because you asked them, didn't you?

I did to meet Ali and he said. Yeah. And he said yes. He said a lot of things. People do enough torture. They do. Anyway, I've got a lot of notes today, so we should probably crack on with it. Let's do this. Let's do this. So, biography time. We're going to start off today, as we have done a lot recently, with a little aside. I want you to picture a man in a room all on his own. Okay. At his desk. Okay. Big spacious room. Okay. And he's just staring at the wall. Right.

Silence.

Then a fly buzzes past and lands on his desk.

A fly?

A fly.

It lands just in front of him and it slowly crawls across the desk and the man still just staring and staring.

Ooh.

And the fly gets closer to the hand and the hand has a stylus in it. And then suddenly the man stabs forward with his stylus piercing the fly gets closer to the hand And the hand has a stylus in it

And then suddenly the man stabs forward with his stylus piercing the fly

And he picks up the little dead creature

And pins him to the wall with all the other dead flies

It's like karate kid

Yeah

This is Domitian

Ooh that's a bit

Okay two things Very talented,. Yeah. And a little bit kind of serial killery. A little bit. I imagine, you know that sound effect with the clinky clinky biden strings? Yeah. I imagine that playing. Yes. What's he his office? And it's in black and white.

Yeah.

I might have made up the bit where he pins it to the wall with all the other dead flies, but all the rest is apparently true. He just lock itself in his room for hours on end, doing nothing but killing flies. Huh. Yeah. See, I hope it is that cool, though, rather than him with a big massive fly spotted jumping around

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