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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Do only cats purr? - 8 Jan 15

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered "why", then this is the hour for you. Sometimes simple, sometimes intelligent, but almost always entertaining, probably the best hour of radio you could ever download!

Transcript

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0:00.0

For his wedding, Liam bought a head, Mike.

0:02.5

It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you.

0:07.8

Luckily, he moved his credit card balances to his new Barclay Card Platinum card,

0:13.3

saving him interest for 31 months on his purchases.

0:17.0

Subject to financial status, T's and C's balance transfer fee and exclusions apply.

0:21.3

Search Barclay Card Platinum today.

0:23.7

24.9% APR representative variable and 24.9% purchase rate based on a £1,200 credit limit.

0:30.0

This is LBC, leading Britain's conversation.

0:34.6

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:51.8

Call 034560-973. Tweet at LBC. Text 84850. Mystery Hour with James O'Brien on LBC.

0:58.7

Four minutes after 12 is the time and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

1:00.4

I don't know if you're familiar with Mr. If you are, this is for you.

1:02.1

We've just had our first ever visual mystery submitted.

1:04.5

If you follow me on Twitter at Mr. James O.B.

1:07.3

is the name that you need.

1:08.1

I've just retweeted Jonathan's photograph. Our first ever visual mystery for you there. What's he on about? Well, this is a regular feature, the first of 2015, in which you ring in with a question and then someone else rings in with an answer. Or someone rings in with a question, and then you ring in with an answer. Or, you don't do anything at all. You just sit there and let the

1:27.6

humour, the enlightenment, the illumination and the elucidation wash over you like so much foaming surf.

1:33.6

Aha.

1:39.0

It's the who's. The whys, the when's, the wares, the whithers, the wherefores and even the

1:42.9

odd wends. Why do we do that? Where does that come from? What's that all about? When did that happen? Why does that happen?

1:47.8

What is? It's got to have an answer, and you've got to have in your mind a fairly clear confidence that it will have an answer.

1:54.5

I mean, there's no point ringing up asking me what the meaning of life is. Everybody knows, 42. So it is as academic or as silly as you please. If I tell you that we regularly take calls from a couple of professors, university professors, to answer some of the more complicated questions. But at the same time, we regularly take calls from people who, when I say, how do you know this? They reply, I saw it on telly last week. It gives you a full gamut, the whole range of inspirations on which you can draw when answering a question, which should give you

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