Hello, Dotares Rankium, welcome you to this special feature of Manuel Dors.

And this time it is personal.

Hello.

Welcome to Roman Empress, so Talas Rankium.

I am Jamie.

And I'm Rob, and this is episode 169. And it is, as you may have guessed by the introduction, Manuel D'Orse. Manuel the Dors. You've been looking forward to this one,

Jamie. I really have. I really, really have. Are you hoping that Manuel Doss is everything

that we, we have built him up to be?

I'm not hoping. I know. I know he's everything. How disappointed will you be if he's actually a

completely pathetic loser of an emperor? Well, that's not going to happen, so don't you think about it.

Okay, that's good. That's good to know. Right. I'm going to warn you, it's, as I have already warned you in previous episodes, it's going

to be a long end today.

It's our last long episode of the Roman Emperor series.

Oh.

Yeah.

So, we should probably dive into this.

We start on the 27th of June in 1350.

What a late sounding date that is.

That is like almost like end of summer kind of, even though it's the beginning of summer.

Yeah, yeah.

Nice summer days in the mid-1300s.

The days were getting longer, the night shorter.

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