#S2 #7 Holi, India, and the Colour You Can’t Delete

Tom drops the Russia book for his new 9/11 book called "THE DAY THE WHOLE WORLD CHANGED" and admits James May’s Our Man in India has hijacked his brain. We pivot to Holi—the festival of colours—landing on his birthday this year. No, he’s not going yet, but it’s now officially bucket-listed: a promise to stand in paint, strangers, chaos, and come home with purple socks till Christmas.Grok calls out the real crime: tourists filming everything instead of living it. Tom agrees—leave the phone behind, let the dye stain, let the memory stick without a filter.A tiny patriotic slip (red, white, blue) turns into a laugh, and the plan locks: one day he’ll land in Mumbai, get ambushed by kids with pigment grenades, and text one word back—Colour.