Blimey , you won’t be taking calls until 11:30 after all that’s gone on since you’ve been gone 😂😂

It could be the mother of all monologues 😂

I do like Lewis G … but I have missed you

Hallelujah…the nation rejoices 🥳

Something I’ve genuinely always wanted to do🤔 🌱🕊️

Imagine if the defendant was an anti-woke, anti-liberal type who knows who you are and hates you. Then he looks up at the jury and sees your shit-eating grin presiding over his judgement. 🤣

You didn't miss much....

Thank goodness

Welcome back James and thanks to @lewisgoodall.com

Thank god. Lewis has been ok though 😂

Was starting to wonder if they pulled a Sangita Myska and replaced you. 🤔

Slow news day. Car parking charges?

Welcome back

🥰

Oh goody! There's quite a lot of nazi America fuckery to catch up on!

Oi’ll give it foive. For those of us who remember Juke Box Jury.

Great to have you back, you’ve been missed.

Going from 12 angry men to 1.2m slightly miffed listeners.

I'd lay a pound to a penny that you were the foreman!

Can you make clear to British people that Liz Truss , Nigel Farage and Reform Want Trump/Musk oligarchy in the UK ! They want Project 2025! Sovereignty from EU, replaced by slavery to America Federalist Society Christian Nationalism ? Both are funded by this society as is Tufton St

Yes to all of the above . And let me say - fear is real and beginning to spread . But Reformers will double down. Now isn’t the time to turn on Starmer it’s time to rally behind your local govt and keep NF out of power. He needs way less BBC time too.

The BBC give Nigel more air time then most politicians. Left wing the BBC is not! UK media is owned by 5 men who pay taxes abroad, or live abroad. Hardly woke media as they claim. They want Victorian England back it seems.

They live in a non evolving mindset and want us all stuck there with them enabling their offshore lives.True historians know that way is total bull - but here we are.

Agree

100% correct ! They do and convince working Brits to support them

Like he hasn't pointed that out already. He's about the only one that does

Great , well , does not mean one ceases to say loudly daily either

Great to have you back.

Was it the Boris Johnson corruption trial you were called for? Oh, wait ...

Nice to have you back. One question: Sprouts and cheese? Second question: Really?

Welcome back James, you were sorely missed 👍

Slim pickings for subject matter! 😂

😁😉😁😉😁

Tuning in now. Too much going on without you.

Lewis has been great. Good to have you back though.

So back to being a lawyer lol

I did suspect you wouldn’t be selected. What barrister would want to come within a mile of your analytical brain?

Aww.. welcome back James. We’ve missed you!

Poland’s Donald! Poland military power and Tusk’s knowledge of the EU. Interesting to see how Starmer plays this.

Listening on catchup, just been reminded of this classic sketch youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?...

There's not much going on tbh....might as well take the rest of the week off! Btw LG has done a great job sitting in for you❤️

Blast! I'm in the office today so can't listen. Was really looking forward to your take on the current madness in the world.

I bet "Dressed Crab" is Billy Porter.

Surely every town was once a new town?

Did he/she do it? 😊

Trump mentioned the issue of Ukraine elections and Zelensky's ratings. And even whether Ukrainians will eventually be Russians. Forget land - is the US going to deal away sovereignty and insist on localised elections to allow a puppet Kremlin friendly regime. But what can we do? Men making deals.

I must admit that young master Goodall did an excellent job.

Hey James, I wondered why your return date was up in the air but now understand as it was jury service. Good to have you back 👍

Did they do it?

Yipp blooming ee

It's a good job nothing interesting happened while you were away.

It can't come soon enough for @lewisgoodall.com.

The guy just wanted to have one day when the rapist in chief wasn’t dominating the headlines with his boss Herr Plugs.

Guilty or Not Guilty?

So pleased to hear this we all do you respect life of one that have missed you sorely

The grown-up, @lewisgoodall.com, looked after us while you were gone.

Oh James, where do you start? There are so many knobheads doing knobhead things to choose from

Can you get Lewis a weekday slot, replacing Ferrari perhaps? A daytime schedule of Lewis, yourself, Shelagh and Tom Swarbrick would be the whole day sorted. The breakfast slot is the only one I avoid at the moment, for obvious reasons.

Yay, welcome back @mrjamesob.bsky.social, we've missed you. I think I'll make some Tarste to celebrate ;)

@lewisgoodall.com was great!

Oooo was it a good case?

How did you find? Please tell me it was the female footballer case. I know it was kingston cc, so there's a good chance? I wouldn't be surprised, celebrity accused, celebrity jury. Who else was there? And was it overseen by judge Judy? More importantly, did you have to complain, as I did?

It's been very quiet in your absence James, no major world order upsets or mad despots upending the Monopoly board of normality - just because they can 😬 #MysteryHour comme d'habitude, I trust?

Did you find Labour guilty?

Can we have 3 mystery hours please?

"Thank you Nick. As many of you know, I was on jury service the last few days, and it's made me think of one question to put to you - Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain? Brave Hungarian peasant girl who..."

In Ireland journalists are routinely eliminated at the selection stage for jury panels. I've known a few who have said this to me. Maybe on the basis that they are compulsive researchers and maybe too opinionated? I'm not sure. But I thought it would be the same in the UK.

James? Compulsive researcher and opinionated? Surely not? Great to have him back but if he’s off again Lewis is the only other one I could listen to !

One for your 'Unhinged Headlines': 'Allister Heath: A parasite is devouring the soul of Britain' @lbc.co.uk

Did they do it?

The monastery analogy is shifts in power.

Now you've left jury service its back to being the judge

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

T'other James, @lewisgoodall.com, did a great job filling in for you. Hope this continues if you are off again (rather than the other alternatives who I can't bear to mention)

👏

Is it Steve Allen James?

So happy you're back.🎉🥰

Lewis has done a wonderful job subbing, he is most definitely a keeper for the future. Welcome back, James.

👌 excellent news, Lewis did a grand job whilst you were away….much better than a gaggle of pretend presenters 😉

Thank you for just getting on with your civic duty without complain or whinging - this is a vital part of being a responsible citizen.

You must tell us all about it

Not allowed to talk about it

Good to know although Lewis has done an outstanding job

“Complete” doing some heavy lifting 🙃

Great to have a good critical thinker back again. Something Trump certainly does not want.

Yay! Mystery Hour. My happy times in this sewage-filled timeline

Didn’t Shelagh “Foges” Fogarty just come back from jury duty?

Boy, have you got plenty of material to catch up on.

What happens when the European and Non-European (without the US according to Trump) peace keeping forces in Ukraine get attacked by Russia?

Go on, I give up. What happens?

Was this you?

Lewis did a marvellous job James, but wonderful to have you back!

We await your wise words with great anticipation.

Kerr?

Enjoying the show from Melbourne Australia now. Surely the USA will realise that the world allowed the USA to lead the world in exchange for protection from the bastards. If they become one of the bastards, then it's see ya later

Stevenage, East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, etc. are all ‘New Towns’. Built on the outskirts of villages to eventually become large towns.

not much news about 🤨

Yes...yes yes.....finally ❤❤👍

Lovely to hear you this morning, despite the subject for discussion. No disrespect to Lewis but so pleased you’re back.

Get @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on ...he was brilliant on #Trump and #Ukraine yesterday at #PMQs

I didn’t hear that !!! Go Ed !!!

It is imperative that @Eddavey appears on every media outlet, talking sense, while the lunacy emanating from the White House continues. (Meaning he could be very busy for the next four years!)

Just in time for mystery hour. Thursday saved

Lewis was is a good lad on the radio slightly better stand in than say cruela

Alas, @james has previously mentioned he has no control on who does his shows while he’s away.

Yea not blaming anyone just saying is all how strange some ppls thinking is, and how far they can get while being lets say 🤔 that strange of thinking

More than "slightly" ! 🩷

Just ‘Slightly’ eh🤔🤣

Ok ok he was bigly better than crela how’s that my friends criticism taken, considered and acted on ( how’s that for a lib) 😂😂😂

Wish I could post a few sound bites from this mornings monologue to FB. Received this reply from someone I went to school with back in the US after I posted Ian Birrell’s tweet. Like my compatriot you had on first thing this morning, I don’t have high hopes of Americans rising up against this.

He’s right on two of those statements but I find the betrayal of Ukraine by “the West” a bit of a stretch, maybe he meant Palestine? 🤔

Gonna miss Lewis, roll on Sunday morning.

Yeah bro!!!

Following your Jury Service would it be a good time to discuss why Trump is so deluded that he seems to think that he’s been elected as the World Leader?

Lewis was absolutely outstanding in your absence—head and shoulders above some of the less charming stand-ins we've seen recently.

Agreed, be good to have Lewis doing a more regular weekday show. Replacing Ferrari would be good.

Nick Ferrari - “In September 2019, Ferrari said, after a visit to Israel, "I'd been given an insight into a country that I've always admired and I now revered The apartheid must have really touched his heart

Did they make you the foreman ?

It’s real, I just heard you after the 9.45 news!

Good to hear your voice this morning. No offense to Lewis Goodall, but we've missed you.

I hope all the callers continue yesterday's joke and address you as "Lewis"! 😂❤️ Welcome back!

Lewis did you proud! You missed Badenoch shitting the bed yesterday tho lol!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social BUGGER! Jury service was it James? I had a wager with a mate of mine, also a regular listener, that your sudden absence was down to Mrs O'Brien imminently delivering O'Brien Jr. Ah well, another large one I owe him

Great to see you back, @lewisgoodall.com did a great job stepping in.

Nice to have you back James. Loved Lewis. He was a great stand in. Please have him in future to keep me tuning in to your show when you are off!

Imagine standing in the dock, looking at the jury, and seeing James O'Brian sat in the jury scribbling notes. "Will the defendent please refrain from waving at the jury"

Have I missed you? Have I also enjoyed Lewis Goodall? Guilty as charged me lawd!

If you want to talk about Munich - Friday meeting USA and Russia about Ukraine. I am sure you are aware of the place significant place in history for Czechoslovakia in 1938. We call it as Munich Betrayal. I doubt Trump picked the place coincidentally.

Justice was served.🍻

Excellent. Will be tuning in at 10. Can’t listen to Nick and his right wing loons. He shuts down everyone else.

He has his moments though, the Tory mayoral candidate's 'mugging' was a definite highlight. Unfortunately he and Iain Dale are pretty staunch in their views, nothing's going to change there.

Thank you for your service.

I should check my Blue-sky more frequently, just enough time to catch up before bed. Phew!

Re - minted mate (and I use that term advisedly) with a hand dryer. Is it Farridge?

A remarkable tweet from Pence about his former boss. The wheels of democracy are turning in the US.

I hope Zelenskyy punches Vance in the mouth. It’s never going to happen but the image it conjures up is satisfying.

Did you condem them to Idiots Corner?

Thank God!

The case involved a man who stole a battery and his friend who stole fireworks. One was charged, and the other let off.

Morning Lewis …..😂

Can’t wait!

My work is disturbing with my intentions to listen live. At least I can listen back and without the ads and news.

Back just in time for Mystery Hour… how strange 😀

What fresh hell is this?

youtu.be/oJ4mxOluXY4?...

I’m From a new town, Newton Aycliffe, in Co. Durham. ( new town Aycliffe). It was built during the war to house workers from the munitions factory..

How long until #WhoIsJamesMateWithAHandDryer is trending because of #MysteryHour with @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Adrian Chiles 😀 @adrianchiles.bsky.social 😀

Hope you had an interesting trial but not traumatic one to experience Glad you’re back 😊

Glad wonderful to have you back.

Thanks Lewis.

Hurrah, hurrah, and thrice hurrah.

Guilty!

Well done Lewis, feisty with enthusiasm.

So which one were you?

11 angry men. And MrJoB.

Weird. I start jury service for the first time next Monday. Out of interest, James, how long were you on a jury for? Without breaking confidences, what kind of case were you on?

Boring!

Mystery Hour!!!! 👍👍👍👍

Looking forward to it James . I’m not as traumatised by your absence and replacements as I was last time as Lewis did a great job: balanced, fair, highly informed and sensitive to the callers.

Whatever decisions you and your peers on the Jury came to... It was Starmer who set the guilty free / jailed the innocent. I'm reliably informed by the Mail that's how it works. Not the judge, not the jury, it was Starmer what done it.