Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eaters episode 1,286. I'm joined by Luca, by Nick,

and making a special guest Halloween appearance. We also have Tony Blair, the Dark Lord himself,

as you can see, this is, this actually isn't his Halloween costume, this is what he looks like

without the makeup.

Yeah, thanks Jamie, who sent all of this in.

He sent in this photo of Tony Blair next to an engulfing Fireball.

Tony Blair's book, A Journey, Cheers, not reading it.

And also this actual framed, signed photo of Tony Blair.

I think you might have mistaken our PO box for AA's.

Yeah, he will want that now.

But we will keep a hold of these for when he next comes into the office,

because I'm sure he'll really appreciate it.

But frankly, I don't want them.

And I've dressed as much like him as possible in

order to arm there. Yeah, no tie. He does have a tie in that one, not in the journey one, which I base my look on. Yeah, base everything on, really. Of course. It's my journey. Based your journey. Other people have Ryan Gosling. Tony Blair is literally you. Yeah. If I start going, look, I just think

and doing a little laugh

that little laugh

incredulous laugh

then you'll know

I've really

Jamie's also

the guy who sent in

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