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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why do I float in all swimming pools? - 25 Sep 14

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2014

⏱️ 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

Hear that happy business owner.

0:03.6

They're whistling because they found a great deal for unlimited calls, texts and data with three business.

0:09.7

Plans start from just £8 a month with a 4.5% price increase each April.

0:14.6

Switch to three business for savings that'll give you something to whistle about.

0:19.4

Voted the UK's best network for business.

0:22.2

As voted by the mobile industry awards 2024,

0:24.7

£8 per sim for 10 to 20 sims.

0:26.7

24 month plan. Unlimited UK only.

0:29.0

X 20% fat.

0:30.3

LBC.

0:32.6

Four minutes after 12 and here we go.

0:35.0

Your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction that is rarely provided by a mere wireless or indeed whatever technological device you're using to listen.

0:44.0

The way it works is this. You have a question. You may not even realize you have a question, but trust me, you do, worming its way through your consciousness.

0:50.3

Buried somewhere deep in your cerebellum is a question to which you need an answer, a question over which you may have been puzzling for years without ever fully recognising resolution. Well, you can get that resolution today. Ring me with the question on 035-6060973. I'll remind you of the rules momentarily. But in the first instance, if it's a question and it needs an answer, then you need mystery hour.

1:17.3

If it's boring, it won't get on. And by boring, I'm afraid it really is the management's decision that's final. If it's about motoring or roads or something like that, it will almost certainly be boring. But another good way of making sure you're not going to be sent away with your tail between your legs

1:30.9

is by asking yourself whether it's likely other people will be interested in the answer to your question

1:35.5

so it's easy to work that out really you know why isn't my cooker working very unlikely that

1:42.1

anyone else is going to be interested in the answer to that question. And the other one, what's the other one? Repetition. If you ask a question

1:48.7

that we've dealt with relatively recently, then we will deal with it, or rather we won't

1:54.8

deal with it. We'll remind you, we'll refer you to our previous attempts. That's pretty much it. Okay, so the number you need, which you'll only hear me say when we have a phone line free, is 034-56060973. If you hear somebody else ask a question

2:06.3

to which you know the answer and ring in with the answer on the same number. I can't imagine

2:11.3

this is very difficult, but we've done it so often now. I feel a bit like Paxman at the beginning of University Challenge. Right, you know the rules. No need to explain them. Let's crack on. And I just always have a little bit of me wonders, what if you don't know the rules? What if you don't know the rules? What if you're

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