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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

How do you know not to fall out of bed?!

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

where I say this every week and every week I say core even more than other weeks this week but

0:11.0

it really is nice to step away from the news agenda at the moment from the violence and the trepidation

0:16.1

about events in France both past and looming and from the well well, the rabbit hole that the referendum debate has become, we can now concern ourselves with our mutual interest in information, enlightenment, silliness and seriousness. It is mystery. I'll give you a heads up on the phone number and I've got a couple of phone lines free. The question really is, can you answer any of the questions that are already on the board?

0:40.5

And if you can, then you dial 0345-6060973 and dazzle us all with your knowledge.

0:47.0

I routinely make you two promises at this point on a Thursday.

0:49.6

I promise you, A, that you will know more by 1 o'clock than you do now,

0:52.6

with the caveat that it may prove to be utterly unwelcome and unuseful information.

0:56.6

It will, however, be more knowledge than you currently have.

0:59.1

I guarantee it.

0:59.8

And I've never had to pay out a refund on this.

1:02.3

You'll have one laugh out loud at least, often several.

1:04.9

Last week, one fellow got, we got quite late.

1:06.6

I got a 1248 text through saying, I just laughed out loud. I really thought that this week you were going to break your promise.

1:12.4

Never happened.

1:13.0

Someone always.

1:13.8

Someone, rarely me.

1:15.0

Someone else always provides, invariably provides a reason.

1:20.2

So if you want to get involved, then you need to ring in.

1:22.9

There are two rules, really.

1:24.0

The first is that you're not allowed to be boring.

1:25.9

And the second is that you're not allowed to be boring, and the second is that you're not allowed to be repetitious. So if you ask a question to which we can remember turning

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