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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Why Roger?

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Also why do you only learn times tables up to 12?

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0:00.0

Three minutes after 12 and time for Mystery Adi, the only hour of radio that comes to you with two cast iron guarantees.

0:07.6

The first is that if you pay attention, you will know more by one o'clock than you do now,

0:11.3

and the second is that you will have the pleasure of at least one laugh-out moment.

0:15.2

Never ever, ever had any request for refunds on either of those guarantees.

0:18.9

I should stress, though, by way of small print,

0:21.0

terms and conditions, that this is on the radio, this is the bit you're doing a really fast voice,

0:25.0

isn't it, on the adverts. So I'll try and do it in a really fast voice. The knowledge you received

0:28.7

by 1 o'clock today may not actually improve the quality of your life in any way. It may not be

0:31.9

knowledge for which you find yourself grateful or indeed knowledge that you can recall at any point subsequent to 1 o'clock today. The management accepts responsibility only for the pledge that you will know more by 1 o'clock today than you do now.

0:42.6

Copyright's conditions apply.

0:45.3

Oh, wow, even with the jingle coming up at the end there.

0:48.1

It's astonishing.

0:49.5

And the way it works is this.

0:51.6

You ring in with a question.

0:53.5

Someone else rings in with the answer.

0:55.0

It's a little bit more complicated than that. Don't ring in with boring questions about cars.

0:59.0

Try to avoid questions that we've dealt with in the past. I appreciate that's a little difficult

1:02.4

if you're new to the program, but there is a wonderful archive over at lbc.co.com.

1:06.7

And you can check what questions have been asked in the puzzle. It's quite funny. It's quite a

1:12.9

diverting feature on the website regardless of whether or not you're checking to see if your question

1:16.9

has been asked before because some of the answers are up there. Some of them are funny. Some of

1:20.5

them are stupid, ridiculous. It's all good. It's all good. Okay? That's the point. And the way

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