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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why do we say 'Bully for you'? 14th March

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5987 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Why do we say 6th round of FA cup, how do you explain a lump in the throat, what makes it a controlled explosion and can you be tickiled to death?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You turned your dating app for pets into a business, which just turned over its first billion.

0:06.5

You turned around the fortunes of a failing football club, politely turned down a Nobel Peace Prize,

0:13.7

and turned up on Mars in your own reusable rocket.

0:18.8

While struggling to turn on the dishwasher,

0:22.1

there's more to imagine when you listen.

0:24.0

Discover business development titles on Audible.

0:27.0

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0:28.2

See audible.co.uk for terms.

0:31.7

The promise that I issue to you is that by 1 o'clock today today you will know more than you do now.

0:38.2

LBC 97.3 Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:45.0

Three minutes after at 12, this is indeed LBC 97.3.

0:49.7

Let's move from, well, what, from the ridiculous to the sublime?

0:53.3

Let's find out. This is your weekly

0:55.6

opportunity to get an answer to the question that has had you puzzled for the longest time.

0:59.5

And I do prefer, or rather you prefer, questions that are real. You don't just sit there dreaming

1:06.1

up a quote. You see what I mean? Something that really has puzzled you, something that has popped

1:09.9

up in your daily life or in your sort of meandering through the corridors of academe and left you befuddled, even perhaps discombobulated, and someone else listening to the program will be able to provide you with an answer.

1:20.5

If you haven't heard it before, think of the newspaper columns that you probably have seen, the notes and queries, the Q&As, where a reader will write in with a question, why do we do this, what is the origin of that, where does that come from, how does that work, who did this, how did that happen, who, why, where, what, when, what happened, what resulted, even when's with a wherefore, anything at all that's got a question mark on the end, and ring 0845 6060973 it gets crazy busy

1:47.3

but it doesn't mean that it is impossible to get through far from it actually you just got to be a little judicious in your

1:53.2

use of redile at the moment i've got empty phone lines three or four of them so 0845 6060973 if you would like to bagsy one of them. I only say the phone number

2:04.1

when there are chinks in the armour of my switchboard. So as soon as you hear the numbers,

2:08.6

the best thing to do is to lean on them or, of course, if you've already tried, then to hit redar.

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