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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why don't I burn when I'm cycling?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's Mystery Hour. To join the game, call 0345 60 60 973, Thursdays at 12pm.

Transcript

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0:00.0

For unlimited all-day travel in London, think TFL. With the daily cap fair frozen until March

0:06.2

2027, travel as much as you like on tube, bus, Elizabeth line, DLR and overground, knowing you'll

0:14.1

never pay any more than £8.0.0.0.0. Download TFL Go to plan your journey.

0:24.0

To the mayor of London and TFL, every journey matters.

0:27.7

Always use the same card of device when touching in and out for full terms and conditions,

0:29.0

such TFL fare capping.

0:36.9

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation.

0:39.3

Mystery Hour with James O'Brien.

0:46.4

Four minutes after 12 is the time. Do you think, I mean, my all-time favorite clip on LBC involves a caller to Nigel Farage suggesting that he'd changed his mind about Brexit because he'd got kicked in the head by a horse.

0:51.6

But, and you know what my ego's like. So the idea of my all-time favorite

0:55.1

clip on LBC involving somebody else's program is, is a bitter pill to swallow. But I do wonder

1:00.7

whether that great work by my colleague James in finding the most perfect clip of Scooby-Doo

1:06.5

sounding uncannily like the President of the United States of America, or of course, vice versa.

1:11.6

I wonder whether that in a few years time, we've probably added now to the problem of social media addiction

1:17.6

by releasing that into the atmosphere. That might be cut. I don't know though.

1:21.6

Oh, Ellen, why?

1:22.6

Drop it, Keith. Seriously, I've got a radio show to present. I'm a proper grown-up radio presenter. A corpse Henry the other day, do you remember? You kind of come close to... But please, don't because it's not very professional. And also, it might make me sound bad. It's five minutes after 12. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. So, Mystery Hour is upon us. If you're not familiar with this feature, just let me fill you in briefly. Someone will ring in with a question in a minute, and then a bit later someone will ring in with the answer. There you go. That'll do. Talk among yourselves. Somewhere between those two positions, the magic happens. If you hear somebody asking a question to which you know the answer, then do feel free or possibly

2:01.4

even compelled to call in. There's no rules. It might be a very serious, stroke scientific question.

2:07.2

It may be a rather silly one. The point is, of course, that all human life is here. The only rules

2:13.1

that don't really apply anymore, or at least we usually forget them, we don't like motoring

2:17.2

questions. We don't like anything to do with motoring on this program. It's a bit of a prejudice on my part, but, you know, compared to some of the prejudices you hear on the radio, it's a relatively healthy one. And we don't like repetition, although goodness me, we struggle to remember what we did. Well, I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, let alone what's happened on this segment of the program at some point in the last 10 or 15 or however many years it is that

2:38.1

we've been doing it. So that's kind of it. My favorite contribution of the week by a human,

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