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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

How long is the umbilicle cord?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6960 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Is there such a thing as a reverse placebo effect, why does a spider stick to another spiders web and who is the last in line to the throne?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The promise that I issue to you is that by one o'clock today, you will know more than you do now.

0:08.3

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:15.4

Three minutes after 12, you're listening to LBC 97.3. And mystery hour is underway.

0:22.1

The weekly opportunity to get an answer to the question that has you puzzled in the darkest, longest way.

0:28.2

0845-60-60973 is the number to call.

0:33.3

I've got, you know, if I sound a little bit distracted, I actually need to wash my hands.

0:36.9

I've got bio ink all over my hand.

0:38.5

So I don't know how we're going to get to the quarter past travel without me putting dirty blue fingerprints all over my face.

0:44.6

There could be a mystery to start us off with.

0:46.3

How do you get biro off your face if you find yourself unexpectedly covered in it?

0:50.4

But that is not what we will confine ourselves to. The way this works is the radio

0:54.7

equivalent of one of those newspaper columns where readers write in with a question and

1:01.1

hope that another reader, weeks, days, months later, will provide an answer. Some weeks we go

1:08.5

about 100% on this. One thing we do guarantee is that you will learn something you didn't previously know.

1:13.0

What we can't do, sadly, is guarantee that you'll be pleased with the knowledge, that you'll be glad of the knowledge,

1:19.5

that the thing you know by 1 o'clock that you do not know now will be knowledge that you're actually grateful for

1:24.3

or indeed able to put to use in any way, shape or form in the future.

1:29.4

So you've got the number. You know the, you know the M.O. You know how it works. And it's up to you

1:37.2

now, really. Just give us a call. Get your question on the board. 0845-6060973 is the number to call.

1:43.2

If you want to get involved, if you don't get through

1:44.7

immediately, don't worry. Judicious use of redart is always the answer. And if you're listening

1:48.7

to us on the podcast, let me remind you that this is no longer live for you. The number of

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