James O'Brien's Mystery Hour: a Christmas special | LBC

[@kevinbaker4263]

Dear James O'Brian, You are an international treasure. Merry Christmas!

[@An-Alien-On-Earth]

Grow up

[@LiamGervaise]

@@An-Alien-On-Earthye awrite John Paul shank anyone recently?

[@An-Alien-On-Earth]

@@LiamGervaise ya mom

[@denisesf5]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@bobleitch3610]

What! What are you on mate?

[@jonesfactor9]

Merry Christmas Britain from across the pond! Thanks for bringing smiles to my face this morning James. 😁

[@ryannickens7848]

I've been watching James clips for many weeks now, and this was a strange pleasure... None of the callers appear to be complete morons

[@MrG.42]

The man talking about moon miricles, was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

[@deancyrus1]

​@@MrG.42hahaha 🌙 just what I was thinking. So glad that Lady called in.

[@Laliv2024]

@@MrG.42 😂

[@gavinwhitby5164]

Don't you just despise it when a sentence doesn't finish the way you think it testicles? Happy Christmas all!

[@bobadams7654]

Great cod fish.

[@allanmckeown8417]

Ostriches and Penguins both belong to the avian family although they are very different , but they do have something in common, neither can drive.

[@bobadams7654]

@allanmckeown8417 interestingly, they are books

[@bobadams7654]

.....except the ostrich.

[@rambledogs2012]

@@bobadams7654 and a chocolate biscuit.

[@kamr3511]

The answer about the singing out of tone is probably the best I’ve ever heard, it just makes so much sense !

[@jomckenziesloan5678]

Please never stop James, have a very merry Christmas to you and yours, and lets hope next year brings a conscious raising attitude/feeling to all of humanity, and we can 'move forward' ❤

[@Anonuser-s5j]

I got James’ book as a Christmas present today and I cannot wait to read it

[@trucker4567]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@margueritehann-syme5137]

As an oz, I'm fairly new to this show. What a pleasure to have this is as post xmas day listening. Love the genuine curiosity about the inanities drifting through our cluttered custardy minds

[@ruthchesson9596]

Merry Christmas James, to you and your family! I always enjoy listening to your show from Canada. 😊

[@davidl83722]

Merry Christmas to Mr James. And all the best to all the amazing people that work and own the best news outlet called LBC NEWS. If any one wants the truth and what is going on in the world go to LBC. Love you all David Patel

[@Lita1]

Working on Christmas day in the UK... BRUH James deserves a few perks of pay or a gift or something for sure...I liked this video LBC yes!!!!👍🎄

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Jim is working on Xmas day for all the bad things he has said this year.

[@allanmckeown8417]

This was recorded on Thursday 21st.

[@Lita1]

@@Neil-Aspinall 😂🤣

[@Lita1]

@@allanmckeown8417 oh fair enough still a lovely video nevertheless 👍🎄

[@allanmckeown8417]

More interesting than Charlie's xmas message that's for sure.@@Lita1

[@DeniseWilliams-jr5xo]

Merry Christmas everyone.

[@PaulHooton-w8w]

Bought your book the other day James, treated myself for Christmas it will be delivered on 4th January 2024 my birthday 🎈🎂 two treates 😅

[@Tomsplaystion]

When something grows it naturally extend equally in all directions which results in a round object. A thing which grows into a different shape is more complex for it needs an extra ability. Round works perfectly fine for most. Also the surface area of a round object is the smallest option. Its not just fruits.

[@Tomsplaystion]

Also, fruits tends to be sweet, which make them food for all sort of animals, the rolling thing therefore only aplies for seeds. Fruits ripen on the plant and most squash when they fall to the ground. A garderner whould surely know that. Ever had an apple or pear tree? In dutch we have a saying 'the apple doesnt fall far from the tree' I think you do aswell in english.

[@bg1616]

I agree with this one. It's consequence of equal growth and the seeds protected in all the directions on average.

[@ninajansson5826]

This is fantastic! Lifted my day!

[@MaryMclare-sp6vx]

Merry Christmas James hope you and your family are well.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Merry Christmas James.

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

he doesn't read these and he's not the one posting them.

[@jeffsimon9594]

@@sarcasticstartrek7719 James' cult followers are not the sharpest knives in the drawer..

[@sashh2263]

My claim to fame, I once looked out of an airplane window and saw, a double rainbow, one entirely inside another - it was beautiful.

[@franklingoodwin]

That's great. RIP to the double rainbow meme guy (can't remember his name, only his joy at seeing a double rainbow)

[@zakshakey4686]

The cables are tangled because while in the drawer, they are having kittens - schrodinger's kittens to be precise..😂😂😂

[@carolesaldanha8806]

I loved your programme on Mystery Hour. The questions and answers were priceless. What a fun programme most importantly your response to the Moon Man????? I laughed so hard aloud at the question which was ludicrous no wonder the moon man comment.??????

[@denisesf5]

Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy 2024 James! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 *and you said my name today...and it sounded so sweet with a British accent! 😊❤️🇨🇦

[@im_NOT_passive_aggressive]

LBC and James are brilliant

[@ralphrmillerjr]

blind people are faking it....this is what i'm here for!! 🌍❤

[@DraniCondon]

the eyes move when something they read is interesting!

[@timballam3675]

Love the call from the flat earther......

[@sodiumlights]

I'd love a '24 Christmas special with James, Tom, Rachel, Iain & Shelia together on a roundtable debate.

[@Westlake72]

I seem to remember that when Chinese first encountered 'white' europeans they referred to us as being 'red' - as we are very 'red' compared to them.

[@TomBartram-b1c]

Fruits are round because there are no right angles in nature. My teacher used to go on about square roots but he was talking bx.

[@YETIDAY]

Round fruits are also easier for animals to eat and therefore spread seeds from manure.

[@ARolls-dd2zd]

Fruit are round so when they fall this maximizes their roll and distance from the tree increasing their survival spreading.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Apples but not so much pears

[@Tomsplaystion]

An apple doesnt fall far from the tree... every gardner knows the fruit which havent been picked or eaten rots under the tree

[@Tomsplaystion]

Except the lady who called ofcourse...

[@kaischwandes6900]

Answer to why fruits are mostly round: reduction of surface tension and preventing water loss

[@denisesf5]

Oh... And I think the answer to the chords tangling themselves in the drawers is simple. They are usually bought in packages where they're wound up tight or have a distinct packaging form, and when you put them in the drawer, they're loosened but have muscle memory. They're just trying to get back into their packaged shape. No qualifications... just sipping on a glass of wine and it sounded right😁❤🇨🇦

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Botanical evolutionary question - seeds have a hard outer shell to protect against digestive system enzymes. Bananas are such shaped from growing in bunches close together. Etc. etc..

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Nystagmus - Old coalminers developed that condition from digging coal by touch in very dark conditions. Above ground their eyes became involuntary very twitchy.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Aneurin Bevan - Ab Evan. Price - Ap Rhys Beynon - Ab Eynon. Powell - Ap Hywel. Pugh - Ap Huw, etc.. spot mutations on vowels.

[@RemoKnightUK]

Wheres your Xmas hat mate?! Lol

[@carolspencer6915]

Why is Boxing Day, so called? Happy boxing day James, LBC Team and listeners. Cheers to 2024. 💜

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Merry Bah Humbug, Jim. 👍😎

[@annemoncrieff3875]

A lot of pple, like billy connolly, say Scots r so white we r blue!!

[@Westlake72]

Cables *DO* tangle themselves: it's because off the 'natural' state of the metals that are used that will do its best to return to this natural state.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

Merry Christmas, James! You should get a pet 🐀! They give the sweetest love ❤️

[@maragoldcee1469]

Merry Christmas, James! You had chickens...lesson learned 😂❤

[@Scottie444]

The Moon was worth a question for discussion. It has loads of anomalies.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

02:40 - A. They get instantly sent to Rwanda.

[@MightyCraicDJ]

Fruit round for seed dispersal - they roll away from the mother tree

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

Bananas are not naturally that shape. Naturally they ARE round. Humans cultivated them and selectively bred them.

[@ethzero]

The same applies to cattle. (Look up spherical cows)

[@gattaca5911]

yes, perhaps the round, the color, the texture is easier for creatures to see. perhaps when they fall they roll farther away from other trees to root...

[@onomatopoeia162003]

Never see the dark side of the moon? Well I'll have to moon you. lol

[@stevebutterworth1937]

I missed your mystery hour show😢 But please tell me on the LBC logo why the bottom left of the L has a cut going down instead of up? It drives me bonkers and I just want to snip it off! Happy New Year to everyone!

[@DraniCondon]

round seed/fruit is best round so they roll in the wind for best distribution. i think.

[@patcomerford5596]

The round fruit answer was deserving of the boardgame!😢😉😁🧑‍🎄

[@davehopkin9502]

Apart from the fact its wrong!, Fruit by definition contains a seed(s), the edible part of the fruit being a "carrier" for the fruit to entice it to be eaten, henve the seed is also consumed and excreted a a viable entity later on, that ensures dispersion not "rolling" Iwould profer the the reason most fruit being roughtly round, is that its predominantly water and as the plant develops the fruit it expands and the natural shape of any unconstrined expandng body is spherical

[@jeeweewee]

The moon question annoyed me. It's NOT a miracle at all. The Moon is "Tidally Locked" where the pull of the Earth's gravity is so strong that it slows down the Moon's rotation causing 1 rotation of the moon to be pretty much the same length as it's orbiting around the earth so it's moving around the earth as it's turning causing the same side of the moon to always be facing us. It's hard to explain without a physical example but imagine you and your friend are in the school playground (As kids, if you're an adult then you will be arrested) but you stay still and your friend moved a couple of meters way from you and starts to walk around in a circle around you while still looking at you. from your point of view it may look like the Moon (your friend) hasn't rotated however if you take a pictures of your friend from above with a drone as they're walking around you. You will see that when they are to the south of you they are facing north, when they are to the west of you they are looking east, when they are to the north of you they are looking south and when they are to the east of you they are looking west. They have complete 1 full rotation in the time it took them to orbit around you. Before you ask. We do not do this around the Sun because we are far enough away from the Sun not to be Tidally Locked. If i'm not mistaken Mercury might be Tidally locked and therefore does the same to the Sun the Moon does to us.

[@tonyding1543]

in Shakespeare's Othello, Iago says to Desdemona's father, an old Black ram is tupping your White ewe.( Oth. 1.1.53-54). The play was first performed in 1604.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Welsh surnames - They came from first name of their father. Hence me, son of Tom Jones. USA, end of slavery - many adopted name of their preacher, who were Welsh chaplains and plantation foremen.

[@jackvalior]

The moon is more or less tidally locked to the Earth. Because of gravity and how the moon was formed, which involves a lot of math, the moon rotation around the Earth is the equivalent to a coin going round and round a drain. The one face of the coin itself is always facing the whole in the drain, which is Earth in this case. The other face is always on the other side.

[@pabmusic1]

Bananas aren't fruits, they're herbs - and each 'fruit' grows upwards.

[@tom47opm3]

Modern fruit have been bred to look and taste the way they do.

[@helenmoorcroft6964]

It's also an Irish name

[@TheSMILINGJOE]

That accent was Welsh Delhi!!

[@michaelathanasiou2030]

We all know 96% of the population don’t have to pay inheritance tax and 4% do (that’s because with the Tories NOW you can give or receive up to £1M inheritance tax free) the £1M is called the threshold ( Labour’s policy is to make everyone pay 40% inheritance tax, no matter how much you give or receive) by reducing the threshold to Zero (so if your house is worth £400,000 and you die, you’re kids only receive £240,000) this will effect 100% of the population ( how can I get thick Labour supporters to understand this basic fact ) please help.

[@bandit2048]

Interesting. Here in France inheritance tax is paid at quite low levels. A child can inherit estate up to 100,000 euros beyond which tax is paid. The revenue is doubtless a great part of the french government's income.

[@TBakerXD]

So long as that tax is being used on national infrastructure or public services like the NHS, and not being secreted away to Tory donors through nepotistic contracts and shell companies any more, I'm alright with that

[@sitrombone]

You probably can’t explain it to ‘thick Labour supporters’ because most of what you wrote is unclear and incomplete. The threshold is £325,000, after which a 40% tax is applied. If you give away your estate to your children this threshold can be £500.000, or to your spouse then the threshold can be added to their IT. Labour have no plans to change this, however will reinstate these rates if the Conservatives abandon IT. By the way; ‘your kids’ ‘affect’ It’s a bit strange to be criticising ‘thick Labour voters’ when your grammar is so poor.

[@ethzero]

Naj 🤝 Jan

[@SonOfExcess]

Imagine spending your Christmas Day ringing James O’Brien 😂😂😂

[@jomckenziesloan5678]

Your listening?❤

[@hmq9052]

This was recorded last week

[@jackhemm98]

imagine spending your christmas watching and commenting on something you don’t enjoy 😂

[@digitalcareline]

The moon is subject to gravitational tides and this has brought the rotation of the moon and the Earth into synchronisation with one another. The size and tidal draw of the moon may be the reason that the Earth has retained liquid water and developed life. Or you can use the Anthropomorphic principle to argue that everything has been designed, perfectly to allow me to answer the question - but that makes the universe a bit me centric ( This could be true and Copernicus was wrong)

[@petermartin1954]

Your caller, who’s talking about orbital mechanics doesn’t know science. Bugs Bunny knew about gravity.

[@MrG.42]

Question. My nephew got a peanut stick up his nose. The doctor put some chocolate up my nephews nostril. The peanut came out a Treat. Why does this only work in the UK?

[@MrG.42]

Auto-incorrect forgot to put an apostrophe in nephew's

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Tangled cables - they become like that in time due to Earth electromagnetic effects on the copper. They actually move. Remember your junior physics experiments with magnets?

[@alanwatterson2850]

On second thoughts, as a fruit grows the input would be likely to be distributed inside the fruit equally in all directions, forming a sphere or close to it. No idea about bananas.

[@philbeattie3978]

Leading SFA. More like.

[@RemoKnightUK]

Pairs aint round. Pineapples aint round......

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

Pears.

[@khalzo7804]

The fruit answer is wrong. Its because of gravity. Most object in universe are sphere, drop of water, planets because the drop on their mass

[@alexlodda]

I had chickenpox at 35. Think it's the sickest I've been

[@Steve-ws3hg]

James, the moon rotates on its own axis. It rotates around the earth. It needs an explanation

[@---Tre---]

Keep the politics coming! But this was a nice reprieve from idiots' corner.

[@rexdink]

If they were actually put away tidy, they wouldn't come untidy. Your idea of tidy, will be less of that, than my Mother's idea of tidy.

[@deancyrus1]

39:32 haha OMA

[@helenmoorcroft6964]

He have a very keen ear, if you have a trained ear then you would notice

[@medialies6254]

the 90 day in the EU answer was incorrect....the true answer is that any EU country can impose up to 100 euro maximum fine per day for the amount of days over the 90 day stay at their discretion and an automatic 5 year ban from entering any other EU member state from the date of deportation from the country you got caught in...if not actually caught by the authorities then the overstay is now captured by immigration computers at all EU airports and ports and that country that you attempt to re-enter next time can refuse entry....also Bananas ARE fruits, a fruit is designated the name fruit due to its seeds being on the inside...hence tomatoes being a fruit and a strawberry isn´t....so yes, a banana is a fruit

[@RemoKnightUK]

U got a sparkly cheek mate, just like your personality 😅

[@phillydavison]

Disappointed James didn't actually have a santa hat on lol

[@LeighChevaux]

Yes, we are pink, beige, fawn, tan, brown, dark brown etc. Lots of hues. I have seen some very very pale brits who were so pale they were translucent though. I don't think they'd seen the sun for quite a while. And then there's pale like prison pallor. Did American Indians really call Europeans 'pale-faces' and originally thought they were ghosts?

[@mohamedpenelope8109]

IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY .WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DESICION YOU EVER MADE IN YOUR LIFE ?

[@interrupt394986]

My vote to remain in the EU

[@mohamedpenelope8109]

YOU ARE SMART YOUR VOTE BUT UNFORTUNATELY YOU DON'T NEED ANY FORM OF EDUCATION OR REASON TO DO THAT .

[@nahidadavies2829]

I like the way James engages with his audience normally, but he was very harsh with the questioner about the moon. Very harsh and dismissive of someone who just wanted to be part of the show. If he listens to this questioner again he will notice the shyness this man’s voice presented and shock in his voice at the harshness of James’s reaction. It’s his show he can react how ever he wishes but I thought he was better then this as he normally has far more compassion and understanding at what it means to some of his listeners to be listened to , and to be listen to by James.

[@iamliamt]

He does it all the time. Sanctimous tool.

[@staffordvillan]

Tuned to in for the first time in a long time now even Mystery Hour is Brexit based. Shame

[@jomckenziesloan5678]

Exactly James, the anglicised interpretation of other languages, never mind the forced disuse of indigenous languages 😉

[@andrewmcewan8081]

rene lesson started calling skin colours but the only ones he used that still r being used r black and caucasion , they were published in 1847

[@PaulHooton-w8w]

Volume i expect.the numerous of the crowd would drown out those singing out of tune??

[@alanwatterson2850]

Sorry, but fruit are designed to be distributed by fructivores, not by rolling. So there is still no answer. BTW bananas are indeed fruit.

[@Darshyboy]

Is it a trip to find his brain??

[@Callmemarvs]

😅33😅the March 3😅😅3rd

[@pluto5746]

Xmas has been stoped inBethlehem the birth place of Jesus . I find it distasteful when many people congratulate you for Xmas.

[@archstanton6102]

Source? Edit: Bethlehem is in West Bank split between Jewish and Uslim rulers. But images on bbc ahiw church services there. So exactly who banned it?

[@VivaCatatumbo973]

Not being a christian should I care?

[@-jamthesun1103]

All 20 satellites in our solar system big enough to be round, are tidally locked to their planets. Nothing strange about the moon at all. May be his sky fairy was anticipating us expanding our civilisation to all the other planets…

[@jimcourt9164]

The woke yawn off hour

[@archstanton6102]

What was woke about this part of the show? Or are you just confused by having to think of things?

[@jimcourt9164]

@@archstanton6102 JOB and LBC are a woke cliche

[@archstanton6102]

@jimcourt9164 Ah, so just your opinion tnen. Am guessing you are just here to troll, rather than trying to be entertained or learn something new?

[@jackhemm98]

you’ve left over a hundred comments on this channel, why do you invest so much time into something you hate. seems a bit excessive

[@archstanton6102]

@@jackhemm98 Obsessive

[@louieholmes123]

Yes it’s a mystery that he hasn’t mentioned that Nissan is building a new car and battery plant in Sunderland……After what the bullocks he was talking in 2016 about Brexit……😳🤔

[@whovotedforthat]

Mystery hour questiin? How does a presenter so out of touch with the majority of ordinary people gets a job " lecturing" on topics that he will never b affected by?

[@mohamedpenelope8109]

CAN ANY SMART MIND ANSWER THIS QUESTION.WHAT DO YOU KNOW MAN EVER INVENTED THAT THEY CANNOT CONTROL ?

[@interrupt394986]

Consumerism?

[@mohamedpenelope8109]

@@interrupt394986 IN WHAT CONTEXT VERB OR NOUN CAN YOU PUT A FEW WORDS MORE TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND YOU CLEARLY .

[@dogwalker666]

Stop shouting!