30/11/2012 James O'Brien Show, UKIP, Drink Driving, Oscar Pistorius

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Hour 1

After yesterday's by election results, is it time to review UKIP's reputation as a refuge for people too nuts for the Tories? 0845 6060973
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 30, 2012

• Featuring the zinger of the morning - "I can't stand all these human rights"

Hour 2

• More UKIP callers
• After the drink driving campaign was launched, James wants to know what we can do/have done to stop friends from driving drunk. 

Hour 3

• More drink driving calls
• Oscar Pistorius interview

James serenaded us with this classic while discussing drink driving

James' break-up song

Mystery Hour Podcast 29/11/2012

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29/11/2012 James O'Brien Show - I'm a Celebrity, The NHS, Mystery Hour

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Hour 1

• James is reluctantly outraged by something that happened on I'm a Celebrity.  He thinks it borders on child abuse.

Did I'm a Celebrity go too far in not allowing Charlie Brooks to see her daughter during last night's programme? Tell @mrjamesob on @lbc973
— LBC 97.3 (@lbc973) November 29, 2012

The heartbreaking clip



Hour 2

• James examines Jeremy Hunt's remarks on the NHS inspired by this tweet and invites calls from people with personal experience

Hour 3

AUDIO: There's a free podcast for this hour

• Is there any basis on the suggestion that if you are wearing coat indoors it makes it less effective when you venture outside?
• What are the origins of the word "tattoo" when you're talking about the Edinburgh tattoo or the military tattoo?
• What are the origins of the phrase "tying the knot" in reference to getting married?
• Why do we lose our memories of what happens immediately before a car crash?
• How do touch screens work? (as in smartphones)
• In the UK you're innocent until proven guilty whereas in Europe it's the other way round. Has it ever been established which system is fairer?
• Why are there 60 seconds in a minute? 
• Is there a genetic guarantee that boys taller than their mother?
• How long does it take the royal mint to print £1 million when implementing quantative easing?

Cultural references

• Jay-Z's Guilty Until Proven Innocent

And James' obviously superior effort.  It's a shame that such talent has so far gone unnoticed by record companies.

28/11/2012 James O'Brien Show - Porn education, Countryside Development, Online Dating

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Hour 1

• After this emotive story, James takes calls from parents about whether children should be taught about pornography at school.

Hour 2

• Following Planning Minister, Nick Boles' suggestion that we should build on 1 500 square miles of the English countryside, James wonders why building more houses in the where there's a housing shortage is a bad idea.

Hour 3

• James explores the booming industry that is online dating

27/11/2012 James O'Brien Show - Property Ownership, Phones for Children, Floods

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Hour 1

• The bank of mom and dad is responsible for 72% of first time property buyers in London.
• James wants to know how we came to have the relationship between property ownership and success.

Hour 2

Why do children need mobile phones? Call @mrjamesob on 0845 60 60 973 @lbc973
— LBC 97.3 (@lbc973) November 27, 2012

• James takes calls from paranoid parents who think a phone will insulate their kids from the evils of the world and some to whom the phones have helped their kids find their way home or with medical conditions.

Hour 3

• Following the floods that have swept across the North West, James wants to speak to people who have ever been flooded.
• All he wants to know is, WHAT WAS IT LIKE?

26/11/2012 James O'Brien Show - UKIP/Rotherham, Booze, Football Chants

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Hour 1

• Following the Rotherham Council/UKIP supporting forster parents debacle, James asks if you can love and care for children while simultaneously believing that they shouldn't be here.

Hour 2

• More calls on the Rotherham Council/UKIP topic
• The government is to increase the minimum alcohol price by 40p.  James wants to know who this is going to affect.

Hour 3

• More calls about booze
• James discusses the kerfuffle surrounding the Spurs and West Ham game yesterday
• James interviews Tim Minchin about his career and Matilda the Musical, which Tim co-wrote.

Cultural references

listen to ‘"Spurs fans' Y-word chants ARE offensive and need to stop" - David Baddiel’ on Audioboo

Tim Minchin's Matilda James has been singing in his "flat voice" - his words.

23/11/2012 James O'Brien Show - Stalking, Dubai, Prisoner Votes

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Hour 1

What's the difference between being a lovesick fool and a stalker? @mrjamesob wants to know-call him on 0845 6060 973
— LBC 97.3 (@lbc973) November 23, 2012

• We learn that James was something of a stalker as a teenager 
• James takes calls from stalkers and stalkees
• James was once on the receiving end of stalking by a Manc woman that culminated in what he can only describe as "simulated orgasm" (maybe she was a saucy phone operator), but he doesn't consider the  existence of this to be stalking.

Hour 2

• After a British woman and an Irishman were jailed in Dubai for what the prosecution and the only witness, a taxi driver, call sex in a taxi (James calls it getting jiggy), even though DNA evidence confirms that no penetration actually took place, James wants to know: what's the bloody fascination with Dubai? 
• A woman who lived there for 25 years called in to say people have too much freedom here

Hour 3

• After David Cameron's claim that the thought of prisoners voting makes him "physically sick", James wonders who this emotive line was aimed to impress.

Cultural references

• The Flintstones - The classic American cartoon series was the source of a very rubbish joke that was texted to James and he read it out at the end of the second hour
• Guns N' Roses - Linsey, the drummer of Guns 2 Roses, The Official Guns N' Roses called in to tell us that his band is performing in Dubai soon and he's keen to check it out.