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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 44 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

Cold mornings, grey skies, and the holidays are but a distant memory.

0:05.1

Halford's Big Sale is here to perk you up, with up to 50% off on tools, in-car tech, car cleaning, adult bikes, and much more.

0:14.2

You can tackle winter head-on and prepare for warmer days.

0:18.2

Visit Halford's online today and keep on moving for less.

0:22.4

Halford's big sale is live across selected retail products online at Halifers.com

0:25.9

and in stores subject to availability.

0:27.6

Full TNC supply, see Halifest.com for details.

0:31.5

This is LBC from Global.

0:35.4

Leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:39.1

Call 034-60-90-973.

0:43.5

Text 8-4-850.

0:45.9

Tweet at LBC.

0:48.9

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

0:53.7

And Mystery Hour is upon us your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction not ordinarily available anywhere on your radio dial.

1:01.0

In fact, I'd go further, given that we're now living in an age of unenlightenment, where ignorance is celebrated and absence of evidence is applauded.

1:07.3

Mystery Hour is a lonely beacon, a lonely beacon of education and illumination, where

1:12.5

it doesn't matter how you accrued your knowledge, we will simply be grateful to you for sharing

1:17.8

it. What on earth is he going on about? All right, you know those things in the papers where

1:22.5

a reader writes in and says, why do we do that? Where does that come from? What's the origin of that?

1:25.7

Who, why, what, where, when, what happened, what resulted, and what transpired? Well, this is the radio equivalent, except it's a lot funnier. Usually, because it comes to two guarantees. The first is that you will know more than you do now by one o'clock today. Seriously, you listen to this, you'll know more by one o'clock than you do now. It may not be knowledge you're grateful for. It may not be knowledge you can use in any

1:46.6

meaningful way. It may not be even knowledge that you retain by ten past one. But you will

1:50.4

know more at one o'clock today than you do now. All right, what you do with that knowledge is up

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