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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 45 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

If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach.

0:05.0

On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours?

0:10.2

Calm's Herbal Remedies.

0:12.2

Calm's days, a traditional herbal medicine used for stress, exclusively based on traditional

0:16.6

use only, contains Valerian Root. Always read the label.

0:21.9

Leading Britain's Conversation. This is a podcast from LBC, James O'Brien.

0:27.8

It's time for the most fun-filled hour of the week, or at least in terms of the hours that we spent together.

0:34.4

I hope you possibly have more fun in another hour when I'm not there, but that's possibly a little intimate for four minutes after 12 on a Thursday afternoon. Do you know what mystery hour is? Of course you do. Maybe you may not. I'll explain briefly, all right? It's quite straightforward. You have bubbling away in the back of your brain a question to which you need to find an answer.

0:54.5

It may be a relative, it may strike you as a relatively banal question, but if you think that loads

0:59.6

of other people, once they hear the question, might also share your interest in the answer,

1:03.7

I'd like to hear it. It can be silly or it can be deadly serious. It could demand the intervention

1:07.9

of a nuclear scientist or a brain surgeon,

1:11.9

or it could be a question that might be answerable by someone who happened to see a relevant television program on the goggle box last night.

1:18.9

That's the whole point. Anything goes. The goalposts couldn't be wider.

1:23.8

In fact, the only thing that would stop you from being... Yeah, I don't know why that happens. I've got to be honest with you.

1:31.7

A few of you commenting on the fact that I did sort of try to wrap a bit in the last portion of the programme.

1:38.6

I can only apologise. You have to at least acknowledge it proves we're live.

1:43.5

No one would do that if they gave it any thought beforehand.

1:46.1

So what we tried to do on Mr. are the only two things that would get you disqualified, or just perturbed, discouraged from contributing, would be dullness, which is in the ear of the beholder.

1:56.6

So Thomas and Beth are answering your calls today. If they politely give the impression that your question's a bit rubbish,

2:02.6

please politely hang up and move along.

2:04.4

Don't try and convince them that it's great or ring back again and again and again,

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