Welcome to Totalis Rankium.

This week, John 6.

You heard it right, 6. Hello and welcome to Roman Emperor's Totalis Rancium. I am Jamie. And I am Rob, and this is episode

164. And that's right. It's John 6. Do not adjust your podcast playing device, however you do that. If it's got a dial

on it, don't touch it. If it's just one of those touch screen ones, don't touch the screen,

because that's right, it's John 6. We've not done John 5 yet. No, can I ask the question that I

think some of our listeners will be thinking? Yes, you do. Yes.

W.T.F?

Well, we'll get there. We're getting into it. It's John 6, not John 5.

For reasons that will become clear, Jamie.

We are going out of order. We're doing six before 5.

This is weird. I don't like it.

I am sure by the end of the episode, in fact, probably fairly quickly you will agree with me that this is the best order to do it.

But I like my number sequential.

I like them sequential, but I also quite like the fact that 164 episodes in, and so close to the end,

the Empire just throws up something just to mess with us.

Hopefully, you remember, Jamie, the last episode, when Andronicus 3 and his trusted advisor,

John Kant.

Yes, he had to say that name.

Yes, Kantakasinos, or Kantakazin.

I did toy with the idea of, like, going, oh, is he going to become emperor or not,

and then revealing that he's actually John 6, but you know what, things get confusing enough.

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