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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

How and why do our taste buds mature?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 47 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

Hey Sainsbury's. Do anything to help my money stretch a bit further this time of year?

0:03.6

Well, we're always matching and lowering prices. So every week, hundreds of Sainsbury's fresh and everyday products are price match to Aldi.

0:09.7

And every week, with nectar, you can save money on thousands of your family's favourite brands.

0:14.3

So your money can go further while you don't have to.

0:16.9

Looking for ways to save money? Ask Sainsbury's. Sainsbury's, good food for all of us.

0:22.3

Selected products. Aldi Price Match, not in N.I. Nectar Prices require nectar account. Terms, Sainsbridge.com slash altypriced terms. Leading Britain's conversation. This is a podcast from LBC. James O'Brien.

0:37.6

Missedraise upon us already. What joy, what rapture. Although every hour feels a little bit like mystery hour as the Brexit top continues to click.

0:44.7

You are, for the record, not allowed to answer questions about, for example, science by pointing out that we won the Second World War.

0:51.8

So there is a difference between other hours that appear mysterious and this hour of mysteries as well.

0:57.8

Neither are you allowed to answer questions about complicated matters of engineering by simply claiming that it's our destiny.

1:05.7

I don't know if that was a necessary clarification, but it was, I hope, a helpful one.

1:10.5

Three minutes after 12 at

1:11.4

time phone lines are open you know the number 0345 6060973 this is your weekly opportunity

1:17.4

to achieve the sort of satisfaction not ordinarily available anywhere else on your radio

1:23.4

dial you ring in with a question it can be silly it can be serious we don't really have preference on that and someone else will then ring in with a question. It can be silly. It can be serious. We don't really have

1:27.7

preference on that. And someone else will then ring in with an answer. And that's when we know

1:31.9

how good the question was. Quite often, I think a question is rubbish until the answer arrives,

1:36.0

at which point I have a small slither of humble pie and acknowledge that the question is actually

1:39.5

rather good. That happens more often than I'm comfortable with, to be brutally honest with you. Similarly, sometimes I think a question is really good.

1:46.6

Someone rings in to answer it, and we realise the question was actually really stupid.

1:49.9

Or at least obvious, and not really a mystery in the clearest sense of the word.

1:55.8

Four minutes after 12 is the time.

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