Into Your Head

Neal explains how it’s possible to be of sound mind yet not think about buffet breakfasts much despite your name being Buffet, and looks at the armpits of the leg world, the human trunk, the argument for smoking assistance dogs, toe stubbing advice for people just starting a family, TV gas safety commercials, why toe models worry too much, the inherent problem with shoe industry toe stubbing statistics, how edible helmets might help so-called mad cows, watching a field being built, contributing to a 1980s mural, hurling, tykes and louts, casual jackets, casualty jackets, the trouble with hand pockets, greed versus gluttony, Wall Street (1988) and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal reviews his list of helpful animal TV shows with surprising additions, illuminates the double life of the consultant surgeon, looks at the pros and cons of taking pets through Customs in stasis, explores pre-surgery bathing, considers how Australians feel about how we feel about their popular culture, reveals why he seldom speaks his own name on this show, explains why you must never cut your dog’s tail off even when flying, exposes a possible synergy between end times preppers and amateur astronomers, remembers life in the second millennium and discusses the Coyote prey realism problem, the trouble with war games, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, childish medicine packaging, not sidewalks, breakdown rescue, dogs as bus branding, making discount mushy peas palatable, the dark history of frontal lobe lobotomies, why doctors shouldn’t have books, bars of soap, an important note about Irish Spring, why your underground shelter needs a window, handling raw poultry and road runner meat, Quantum Leap, Michael Landon in Highway to Heaven, CSI Miami, CSI Kids, The Safety Dance in Grand Theft Auto, Phil Spector, Rolf Harris and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal wonders how dog rehab works, goes over what happens when you leave hospital without clothes, documents a decades old fake cinema facade with which you might identify, recalls the last time he learned something (2003), asks if opposable thumbs are worth the trouble, issues a stark warning about your waste disposal contraption, clarifies how Lighthouse entrance halls work, considers how emergency services deal with prayer related accidents, ponders whether abolishing Limbo will embolden it and discusses the phrase TMI, the song Yer Old by Reef, your longevity as a far future listener on Archive dot org, how a dog might fall out of a car, salt water accidents on land, ER scissors extravagance, In the Name of the Father (1993), half of Queen plus Paul Rodgers, an American Idol host clarification, public buildings with no walls, old school Monopoly, how a well meaning dog struggles to mind it’s own business, what US satellite radio can teach you about how to listen to this show and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal maps the future of the traditional white haired action villain, explains why governments would love to mandate toe typewriters, tries to describe a mysterious part of Dublin’s city centre using Theoretical Physics, conjures a talking cat to explain the mechanics of speaking without vocal cords, defends Edwyn Collins’ incorrect inflexions in Addidas World, relates a defining childhood moment involving a very special word, worries about toilet brush design, proposes a unifying theory for the Terminator movies, illuminates the dark side of cartoon dogs, wonders how you go about decaffeinating something, relates how bread vans triggered an ambulance phobia, remembers when the name AA1 Aardvark used to mean something and looks at tastefully rebooting Die Hard, what cats hear when we say anti disestablish mentarianism (last time I used that word without breaks in it, it broke the feed), why dog beds are nonsense, The Ant and the Aardvark, why The Animals of Farthing Wood is unsuitable for children, Jellystone and other hideous cartoon reboots, a piece of student infrastructure resembling an ancient royal litter, fines for swearing in Demolition Man (1993), schooling in the twenty-second century, the surprising logistics of walking computers and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

SLIGHTLY CRACKLY SOUND IN PLACES. Neal considers how to talk to your child about Devil Gate Drive, explains how the bow and arrow were the Dark Ages equivalent of a kid with glasses, reveals the best career to pursue for omnipresence, explores the logistics of being seen dead in an IKEA, celebrates his old dinosaur mirror’s scientific endorsement and looks at a 1980s music warning label, tricycle tyre alchemy, life in a Dyson Sphere, Haley’s Comet, Haley’s father, The SuperVet (Channel 4 UK), off-camera unheard interviewers, Designated Survivor (Netflix), operating your two wheeled no legs dog, an unexpected advantage of noisy joints, the Ask Jeeves mascot, three hours stuck in a rail tunnel, rain from the heavens via space, societal attitudes to desserts, improving how you donate coffee to homeless citizens and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal addreses the perennial Kermit problem, exposes the diplomatic minefield of haunted White House guest rooms, sets out the considerable differences between smokers and cat owners, looks at the practicalities of camping and installing igloos in industrial fridge freezers and discusses cold brew coffee and beer, Pigs in Space, dogs in space, understanding space rockets, moving Lincoln’s ghost, childhood fear of Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse Shopping Centre, situation rooms, fictional West Wings, puppet body doubles, David Frost (RIP) body doubles, steamboats on vintage television, the White House property ladder, Rush Limbaugh and his nemesis The Pretenders, the trouble with Ryan Seacrest, remembering Regis Philbin’s name, podcasts as background noise (No), reinventing fireplace TV channels, washing machines versus submarines, finally outdoing his Virtual Toast Rack invention, the designated non pizza eater and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal critiques Superman’s flying and rescue techniques, offers strategies for baby bird flying lessons, wonders how slaves got promoted to gladiators, looks at how Hollywood’s need for PG certs curtailed snack design, considers communion wafer strategies, uncovers what coin operated toy cars quietly taught us, shares his special use for double yellow lines as a vision impaired pedestrian, contemplates working with Robert de Niro while he’s a boxer and discusses watching things ironically, the trouble with Gladiator 2 (2024), making the best of your reformed drug dealer cyclist community service, harmless American punk, planning a life as a monk in your reincarnation schedule, Nick Cave’s Gladiator 2 treatment, making the alphabet infinite, how sponges can transform your life, what happened during the show’s seven year interlude, the recreational diarrhoea medicine abuse craze, Wonka (2023), The Colosseum, songs of The Sex Pistols, punk hairstyle digital comeback and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal comes to some realisations about Metallica and Chevy Chase, goes over a personal experiment involving TikTok, reveals the most depressing movie ending ever and looks at snuff film inception levels, manual sneezing, why cheese is wasted as a breakfast item, Catch 22, Nazi style burning of audiobooks, life on an island on a lake on an island on a lake, mistaking Community for Fraggle Rock, bouncers at the gates of the trachea, Syd Barrett and quite a bit more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal considers a particularly violent fruit, raw milk enthusiasts, Mercury retrograde versus holy water, an appalling game called Punch Buggy, Steve Martin’s several careers, George Formby grill and discography, salmon weirdness in the education system, Fionn McCumhaill and the mythological salmon of knowledge, a week of leaks, breakages and cat death, the case for reinventing the wheel, why coffee cups don’t have windows, Fanta but from a dog, why we evolved to not drink all the water, eau de toilette, listening in a coma, cat milk versus cat’s milk, the Patrick Stewart Ian McKellen pairing, fish-like aliens on Star Trek, Ferengi, Scampi, fudge in confectionery, fudges in international diplomacy, using time travel to prevent smoking, pre-smoked meats versus unsmoked tobacco, does your dog think you’re a potato and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head episodes and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Apologies for more muffled voice than usual, due to minor mouthal injury. Neal staunchly defends the business practices of J. Wellington Wimpy, explains why your dog would prefer you didn’t drink from puddles, uncovers parallels between The Truman Show (1998) and Elvis Presley, looks at parking arrangements on car ferries, reveals his childhood cordory trouser hack and discusses full length front car seats, emperors getting new clothes, choose your own adventure books, the future of half man half robot bus drivers, colonels versus kernals, dog catchers, TV license inspections, how potato crisps work, a recipie for fried eggs and banana, why McDonald’s stopped counting hamburgers served and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll. In the far future? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head episodes and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.

In a movie length episode Neal assesses Warren Buffet’s breakfast habits, wonders if lickable screens could take some workload off his dying retinas, belatedly learns what RV stands for, considers the feasibility of working from home in a jungle, looks at regulating child operated lemonade stands, begrudges right handed touch typists, explains how TV procedural drama mavericks are kept in check and discusses apprehending a criminal via their car sunroof, why the clock face directions system is not fit for purpose, how dogs issue non verbal warnings, cathedral basements, Filene’s basement, placing house boat owners on a pedestal, the alarming disappearance of Kittensoft brand toilet paper, Morse Code, mock MENSA IQ tests, the man who failed to eat his dog, monster truck events in sit-coms, travel protocols and admin on Criminal Minds, typing the letter W, how bespoke prairie wagons appear mass produced, how the Kellogg brothers named cereals, quad bikes on the show I Shouldn’t Be Alive, Woodstock versus other Woodstocks, boat houses versus house boats and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll. In the far future? Feed broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head and Matchstick Cats episodes on Archive dot org.

Despite some sub par sound quality in parts, Neal proposes an innovative Star Trek spin off, wonders if dogs are powered by four legs or two, disambiguates Whoopee! comic, whoopee cushions and Whoopi Goldberg, considers the natural resting state for a human hand, demystifies the traditional motor funeral cortege, makes the surprising case for transparent mains sewage pipes, uncovers the strange logistics of Ash Wednesday following Pancake Tuesday in 1980s Ireland, ponders the feasibility of allowing ghosts access night classes, reveals why your cat will not thank you for cream in a non dairy beverage, uncovers the surprising liability risks of in-store perfume sampling and discusses why dogs urinate, life before soap, how tea is made, his home’s changing cat to human ratio, Chumbawamba, songs about legs, Right Said Fred, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin’s rainy day album, defining woodwork, how to give your address, Eircodes, the realities of flying cars, joke shops, Ghost (1990), Sister Act (1992), elephant glass, Toronto’s CN tower, the phrase throwing up in your mouth a little, how to fairly charge a talking cat for tap water in a bar, using de rigueur in casual conversation, how storytelling fell into the control of elitists, Gnid and Enid Blyton and more.  CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll. In the far future? Feed broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head and Matchstick Cats episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal examines the logistics of running away to join a circus, wonders how Einstein adapted to American breakfasts, considers the sociology of  onster communes, creates a case study in witness memory unreliability, compares your cat cam with the Mars Curiosity Rover, opens up about the next step in his twenty years of harmonica growth and discusses standing up to hydration shaming, things to consider if you’re offered a trip in a lifeboat, how cats reset after a house move, what this podcast can’t provide for your child, a Netflix to VHS pipeline, wrapping your lunch in sheet metal, politeness on cheques, psychic detectives, Starbucking (2006), circus branch networks, a Now 16 album update, handling dry ice, geometry of a dog, anatomy of a coffee table, dimensionality of a double cassette album,Frankenstein related branding problem, amplifying a cat in the jungle, caffeination on planes, how co-pllots gain experience, toy dogs and pageants, Paddy versus Patty, Schrödinger the lunatic, parrots versus AI for podcast cloning, fond memories of failing Chemistry, dry ice versus freezer burn, a new era for the harmonica element of the show, The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman), swimming like a cross continent sprinter, Forest Gump (1994), adapting am-dram theatre licensing to podcasting and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal reluctantly calls for a boycott of mezzanine levels, reveals what microchip factories can teach us about mouths, vigorously defends those who call human children kids, recalls a disturbing scene from Family Guy, outlines how death row equipment could be better used in headphone design, previews your Meals on Wheels years and discusses an Inception theory of music radio, disposable one-a-day wireless earphones, Toyota’s cat litter warning light, standing desks and the people who use them, the mysterious process of flossing, milk from a Milton bottle, pockets for dogs, Family Guy versus Air Crash Investigation, Sully’s formative years, crop dusters, peanuts as wages, posing with a Connemara pony, when car interiors were sacred, black and white cat photography, instant camera mysteries, the case for black printer paper, managing permanent hat hair, why marketeers are looking into your mouth, Sonny Bono and / or Ike Turner, Groundhog Day, squirrels on the national curriculum, a school tour to nowhere, Winter Solstice at Newgrange, a school visit to a brewery, regulating dopamine use by content creators, Boston Legal and Fringe on the Boston skyline, hoping Boston hasn’t changed, the reverse mortgage of podcast segments and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

In a movie length episode Neal considers decomissioning panic rooms, why hotwiring might be a myth, how Mother Nature downgrades caterpillars, spaceship exteriors, why modern ensuites are more secure, rethinking grout, The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Philip K Dick, life in a black hole, a new bottle tops regime, landfills and airspace, silage around the world, phasing out the M word, how to walk partially around a block, personal height news, a crane’s eye view of your feet, communal beer pitchers, hotpress home brew, why beer is wasted on children, panic room design terminology, road maps with air traffic overlays, your podcast nutrition regime, handbaskets, hangbaskets, flash freezing furniture mysteries and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal looks at life lessons from the egg and spoon race, making sense of ninjas, lunatics illicitely climbing cranes, true mouth to mouth broadcasting, fostering a culture of elevator hitchhiking, built-in guitars, dishwashing at mass, harmonica terminology, Now That’s What I Call Music 16, the trouble with cartoon eyes, why an accidental dog hero is not a hero, what you’re missing about pockets, podcasts that talk literal shit, Trading Places (1983), Russia’s Space Ark, reinventing Sunday school, coptic sunroofs, pasta in the morning and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal reminisces on how a terrifying boiler house was once serene, traces the suprising number of life stages that come after old age, considers leaving your mind to science without donating your brain, makes the argument for cryogencially freezing kitchen waste and discusses hacking overnight toilet breaks for better caffeination, how Einstein’s maths addiction might have escalated, how one simple chair could transform your home life, how one sophisticated chair could transform Kill Bill Volume II (2004), some Cat Inter Estate Super Highway Wall news from the old neighbourhood, explaining toilets to future historians, being an OCD surgeon before hygiene was discovered, equipping Roal Dahl’s garden shed and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

In a feature length episode Neal defends his pronunciation of typer writer, talks you through waking up on an operating table, shows how an only child leads an only dog astray, scrutinises the practicalities of turning the other cheek, explains how your miniaturised cat experiments are driving friends away, advises on cat dialogue for screenwriters, reinvents the Apple 1 and discusses making mistakes on typewriters, living in a giant replica of your own home, Downsized (2017), Britpop songs about solvent abuse, Falling Down (1993), JRR Tolkien, JR Tolkien, world war one nomenclature, why the dentist is more fun than you remember, car halves welded together, where Ireland houses endangered species and heads of state, how three dragons ran for Ireland’s presidency, toy radios, ice cream van theories, rabies on the dog spectrum, phobia treatments, internal iron lungs, the third coming of Iceland, car manuals versus ark instructions, nursing homes for podcasters, what fire hydrants are for, memories of not being taught Civics, what happens to people to make them appreciate Shakespeare, Heathcliffs and Pips in popular culture and quite a bit more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal ponders the practicalities of being Greek god of thunder, reveals why air crash survivor guilt is a good thing, worries about your supermarket trolley deposit, explains what palaeonthologists and NASA could learn from Winston Churchill and discusses the true meaning of last meals on death row, screaming on roller coasters, hedge trimming beside live power lines from a helicoptor, tuning forks, harmonica progress, Dame Vera Lynne, oldtime anarchic BBC radio comedy, dog evolution, a childhood memory of impressive police notetaking, milk rounds in the 2020s, elite special forces bin lorries, biblical pillars of salt, your first day as a billionaire, life in a bookcase, why small confectionery items should not be called bites, hydration versus lubrication, reinventing quarries, living in a shed and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal grudgingly gives a dog some credit, issues a stark warning about video game points, considers the reported last words of Mother Teresa, prescribes a mental workout involving your bathroom window, recalls a true childhood tale of lucky bags and death at the sweet shop and discusses predictable circus routes, a 1974 Twin Towers tightrope walk, winning the lottery at birth, poker faces on Star Trek, unwarranted pokers in the home, Peter Gabriel’s Don’t Give Up with Kate Bush, Metallica’s post rehab documentary, the relative melodies of Guns ‘n’ Roses, first time parents at school gates, sports helmets, your post Covid return to the office, clock-in technique, blinkers for office workers, Queen’s Was It All Worth It, why magicians use saws, biblical leprosy and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it relates to Mary Poppins and discusses making a raw chicken asthetically pleasing, turning a parking space into a home, ordering fruit juices with an extra shot, a decade of avocado misinformation, compulsory u-turns and Margaret Thatcher, The Nine O’Clock News, Not the Nine O’Clock News, reaching Nirvana, The world of The Truman Show (1998) versus the South Pole, waking up in a Pink Floyd album cover, childhood abatoir memories and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact NEW – ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest shows have moved to the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego management, raising children in a void, Lego Batman,  listening in July,  the man who made North Korea boring, watching with your ears, the future of home decor, the nation’s luckiest KFC, where gravy belongs, true crime fans, a crematorium crime documentary, handling a sick puppy, a criminal’s vomit proxy, vomit as a calling card, Rubiks Cube ethics,  crosswords with multiple correct answers, anatomy of a Rubiks Cube, buying half a Titanic in bulk, Yacht Rock, hospitality vocabulary, bar tab legalities for cats, saliva-based hygiene and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact NEW – ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest shows have moved to the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses how to eat a spring roll, cuckoo clock apartments, how many cats an ark needs, how the Mona Lisa ended up like that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly Wagon, where America should house your national TV archive, an unfortunate first impression of Philadelphia, Mountain Dew versus stout, pelicans, puffins and penguins, saying no to Star Wars, Skellig Michael island in Star Wars, a Lego airport, why Star Trek is acceptable, miming in a prison yard, life on a submarine ark, air free tyres and footballs, a reason not to give kids their ball back, how useful is a swimming dog, the traditional ship’s cat, a failed attempt to own bespoke furniture, the truth about LIdl’s renovation cycle, dog owners who claim to feed them chocolate, macho female cats, drinking candy, washing up liquid versus recycled urine versus hot sauce and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact NEW – ARCHIVES FEED: Old shows have recently moved to the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Suggested atttribution: By Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses whether dogs are cultural appropriators, why Dracula is science fiction, building a house inside a barn, theme park castles, pet spiders, TV dramas The Sullivans, House MD and The Good Doctor, foot deodorant, one simple lie that can bring out the best in your doctor. dog mergers, I Shouldn’t Be Alive – S04 E07: Alone in the Amazon, Inception (2010), injurious talcum powder, Little Plum (comic strip – The Beano), why The Godfather Part III (1990) is fine, understanding burglers and dogs, animal entrapment and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact NEW – ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest shows have moved to the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses having something in common with Dan Rather, sidewinder glass lengths, the Mandela Effect on Special K cereal, a memorable brush with law enforcement, one person operated toilets, finding sponsors for death sports, recreational scratching, a special sponge, remembering an old urination segment, the trouble with wheelbarrows, Hamburger Helper, back seat configurations, a new kind of tooth gap, why flying car owners are going to hate us all, why you may have to choose betwen potholing and the Clockwork Orange treatment, potholing versus coalmining, the respecful way to serve a meat pie and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. ILICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses demystifying Road Runners and Coyotes, a very bad use of a Maigret paperback, saving a Genesis keyboarist from jury duty, court stenographers versus keyboard players, flying baggage trucks and beyond, commuting on part of Ernest Shackleton’s Polar route, Indian Saints who don’t eat, pressures that come with switchng to cordials, driving in a cul-de-sac, looped video GIF labels on dashboards buttons, an unlamented childhood bicycle, red rock backdrops, wondering about tuna size, Heston Blumenthol’s peas, bussing in Boston, in defence of lifelong non-flyers, oldschool business letters, palacial banks and inward facing malls, dumping fuel on a swimmer, the case for dummy controls on every airline seat, why wheels are natural, pelican verse, life at a polar science base, walking in high winds or zero atmosphere, inadvertently anticipating a 199th birthday, transmitting messages to the future, Back to the Future Part III (1990), a prime example of the pefect segment, admiring the French word for usable, a year-long school screening of Mississippi Burning (1988), atlas bleedthrough, the proposed global highway, podcasters who think they’re Aerosmith, dealing with Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, The Faces and their faces, whether Spinal Tap always looked like that and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal adds some colour to the parable of the boy who cried wolf, wonders what it’s like to run a combine harvester, tears the so-called leaping Salmon down a peg, reinvents cut-out activities in children’s comics, highlights one job missing from every school careers day and considers cave based wardrobe design, mouth based cave design, unsatisfying tree houses, whether soup is eaten or drunk, flying fishing boats, roots and foundations, letting your AI assistant clean your brain, how tow paths helped scouts discover knots, the case for amphibious bicycles, how Star Trek ruined the traditional Two Cats Walk into a Bar story, loops on TikTok, how Roy Orbison cried wolf and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. NEW – EBOOK: – A Selection of Original Modern Nonsense Verse by Neal O’Carroll – free at IntoYourHead.ie/Vanity LOW BITRATE EDITION: For the lightweight alt feed of this show for the bandwidth impaired, see IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Insta or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal “remembers” a twenty minute nuclear catastrophe on Ireland’s east coast, compares your cat to an anthropomophic Mars rover, invents the virtual hotel room, probably fails to change your mind about backpacks on trams, recounts his unique challenges as a teenage Queen collector and discusses library sandwich inhalation memories, Owls on Napster, understanding dog whistles. a terrifying bucket, movie “The Walk” (2015), sheet music for whistlers, virtual whistling, earworms in the animal community, how dogs get earworms, life as a non whistler, sheet music for whistlers, skiffle orchesras, briefcase kids, how train windows predict the future, partialy defending earphone non-use, logistics of using Irish government issued iodine tablets, whether Dublin’s Anna Livia radio once did a War of the Worlds style nuclear drama, skiffle bands in space, vacuum cleaners in space, Mother Nature’s human diamond turducken, a very good reason to get back to the living room, maximising your podcast listening without risking electrocution, a plagiarism prevention safeguard, Nicholas Parsons and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses the logistiics of handling raw chicken on bathroom visits, an experiment for your next ATM visit, workplace pneumatic tube messaging etiquette, an AI veterinary assistant versus a talking dog, a carpet-based vacation concept, improving your child’s scream accuracy, getting bitten at a sleepover, vinyl records, vinyl floor-covering, a urinal advisory for Dublin’s Blackrock Shopping Centre, this podcast in the newspapers, what replaced the dodo, making messenger birds less messy, queues versus dotted lines, a dog mismeasuring speed, navigating a whale’s insides, healing a whale from within, ancient bile medicine, CD changers versus coal cellers versus car doors, a partial defence of dogs and bats, opposite Columbus mnemonics for US kids, the Nordic Noir crime dramaas craze, Bang Bang and other street characters of Dublin’s past, U2 versus Aslan, Scooby Doo reboots and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses beaches spontaneously turning to concrete, a parent’s head replacement disclosure dilemna, a busman’s holiday in jail, the case for going nowhere slowly, alien visitor respitory concerns, home expansion slot systems, garage modules, attic rooms, defining a shed, beech house owners, parental supervision from a beach-adjacent mountain, billionairre hot air balloon bouncing, dark times on children’s TV shows, Record Breakers (BBC), Roy Castle, Roy Castle, Norris and Ross McWhirter, owning headphones in prison , memorable childhood insect death, recognising a power washer, flood cleanup sock confidence, the gap between sea and space, airship interior mysteries, orvilles, space boats and the horizon, how sand insects outwit humans in fights, selling cigarettes to a cat for editorial balance, choosing cigarettes for visiting dignitaries in 2025, a cat reveals Pope Benedict Emeritus XI’s cigarette branding fandom and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal EXPOSES how motorists are disappearing in a secret holding pattern, MAKES the case for appetisers for a better drip feed regime, EXPLAINS how things that skip generations are never lost, SHOWS how statues of rubber things can demolish boundaries, DEVELOPS a new folding building bricklaying technique in real time, RECALLS a decade watching a boat grow in a driveway and DISCUSSES listener dog segment consumption notes, emergency landings on Street Cleaning Night, life behind your unopend eyelids, mapping a closed fridge, shameful mathematician verbal habits, the condition Boy Scout Neck, the post knot era, wireless charging versus childrearing. an unexpected song from the musicals, rescuing harmonicas, tandem design, brick design, Muppet helmet design, cloning the historic Bray Town Hall McDonalds, selling your regenerated body double, how architects work, helmet design for animal Muppets and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing school shop, The Hardy Boys and their vehicles, travel logistics on Criminal Minds, iron lungs, Joe Rogan’s sensory deprivation tank, Nick Cave’s alternative Gladiator II, Naylor’s Cove (public baths ruins off Bray Head, County Wicklow), ancient aliens bearing chocolate gifts and more. Book mentioned: To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood by Alice Taylor. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat’s OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless earphones, actuaries and the Mandela Effect, fresh thinking on bus basements, taking too long to choose a hobby, a career in head stitching, Irish folklore’s Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge, the trouble with asking yourself a question, the book I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, the childhood bear hoax, actuary snobbery, pre wired garments, a spontaneous dog, a bootlegging cat, air conditioning versus guns, navigating American multi layered doors, childhood paper rounds on sitcoms and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

In a packed hour, Neal discusses work life balance in the American Wild West, making Spielberg’s Duel (1971) on an even lower budget, unexplained generational gaps in the wasp community, a simple device that could inadvertently cause you to speak in tongues, why we celebrate cistern noises, vomiting for the privileged, a one size fits all argument for reviving dead languages and people, how to outrun a car, Moses baskets, an international standard system for asking strangers how they are, breakfast and tourism in the American wild west, educational podcasts and brown bread, understanding porridge people, recycling body fat, a branding experiment for wrestling producers, the case fpr audio only concert tickets, the first word ever created, arbitrary dictionary sizes, how to choose a page randomly, trouble with learning a word a day, understanding strangers’ accents in the Wild West, whiskey in the pre rocks era, saying dog without a tonsillectomy, a childhood doctor doppleganger of veteran newscaster Charles Mitchell, remembering town centres, a Saint Bernard dog, Bob Newhart and 1990s in-flight entertainment, childhood memories purchasing Butcher’s tongue, privacy issues in a language laboratory, why kids are shunning earphones on public transport, early 1980s Thomastown in County Kilkenny, lighting the inside of a mouth and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal recreates some special moments from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. advises on talking to adults about your dead arm, wonders if you should add blood to your hydration regime, provides an overview of the human-dog-dinosaur societal overlay structure and discusses wardrobe culture, smalltalk in the information age, standout past wardrobes, a surprising life lesson from Breaking Bad, slow readers, slow watchers, Bill Hicks versus Denis Leary, boxing style weigh-ins for firefighters, George Michael, Robbie Williams, not Robin Williams, rules for calling yourself Robert, why dinosaur burial sites are not sacred, who stands to gain from reclassifying Pluto and Brontosauri, seeing Red Bull for the first time, men on TV swallowing pills, bonsai aliens, branding problems for Pluto, dumb dogs of Disney, cartoons in Andromeda, why the modern dog is a sell out, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, how nineties kids navigated their first rave and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

Neal considers insect consumption norms, identifies a new actor level below extras, exposes a town with a landmark brown stain, confuses the movies Stand by Me and Sleepers, remembers TV’s greatest sketch show: classic Sesame Street, invents a self policing public toilet cleanliness system and discusses introducing city kids to rivers and creeks, mixed messaging from a Schwartzenegger branded fly, walking school buses, why you incorrectly think you were home schooled, underground toilet memories, anti salt waiters in popular culture, igniting your gas hob with piped fire, geographic limits on warehouse sizes, listener concerns about warehouse toilets, getting to the creek, Mr Men book and TV franchise, logistics of recordibg a talking torso, shit creek without a paddle, one person operated motorbikes versus push and pull trains and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal reinvents the ensuite and consequently food ingredients labelling, evaluates modern prodding techniques, changes your mind about ghost trains and Microsoft Windows Paint, evaluates a possible alternative history of Mars, composes a special experiment for tourist excursion helicoptor pilots, tries to recall the name Andy Kauffman and the song I’ve Been to Paradise but I’ve Never Been to Me and disucusses seating arrangements in US classroom dramas, the justfication for third party forewords, passive international election observer dogs, tracking your child’s astronomy career, the show TAXI, your mouth’s overflow system, impulse buys for people who like shopping lists, disposable thoughts, sight tests for dogs, a vending machine for soundwaves, monitors in TV emergency wards, latin in medicine and gardening, continuity issues, a virtual armchair and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal reveals what every flightless bird knows, considers the surprising pros and cons of chopsticks and cutlery, administers a very special listener test, assesses the opportunities for carving pork as a McDonald’s customer and discusses demanding more from our fingernails, a trio of Tom Hanks characters, how offices outgrow the alphabet, a land mass with windows, Hitler-related time travel ethics, 2010 as a baseline, advice for HR staff handling the conseqeunces of the opening segment, renting a VCR, renting a television, how stone beaches stabilise property markets, typing on a microwave, two wrong ways to ingest liquid nitrogen, life before standard wheelie bins and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact LOW BITRATE EDITION:A lightweight alternative feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS – on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site: Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

In a Christmas Day episode not for younger ears, Neal discusses identifying insects by smell, tag teaming citrus fruits, declaring dead weight at Customs, why ripping out entrails is a non violent act, what you Australians demand of Santa, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in black and white, margarine related TV repair memories, the trouble with police drama finales, why TV won’t let you just enjoy a plane crash, December in other hemispheres, sleigh driver regulation, the argument against relief pilots on long haul, how crosswords could make air travel safer, cats in cockpits, WWF tag team The Natural Disasters, walking the earth on other planets and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – See IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal proposes a thought exercise for listeners in traffic, identifies a new use for the top of your head, explains how to listen via medical stethescope, diagnoses his audience with a phobia of bodily noises including speach and discusses Nick Cave’s Harry Potter exposure, why fire brigades study age-related temperal anomolies, how to make a K Pop band, understanding binary traffic lights, McCauley Kulkin’s former self, the conscious self in a nutshell, a weird US TV bandleader, experimenting with speed, proving to your toddler that you’re not a giant, plumbers in binary pairs, rotating your internal crops, vomit fridge etiquette, seeking and receiving approval from Dropbox and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A lightweight alternative feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS – on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site: Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal sets out his one big problem with both Radiohead and Gilbert O’Sullivan, makes the case for traceable dog food, maps out the next evolutionary step for handwriting and discusses experimental wasp fiction, life in a hundred year old choir, chairs on trains, an innovative way to use the word Christmas, how to tell if Roy Orbison is dead, Jive Bunny, dropping dead of a car crash, page-a-day books in museums, when to stop learning, the trouble with seeing your favourite orchestra on tour, a promise to any listener who starts a choir podcast, different signatures for work and home, burglar dogs, dog prison uniforms, cow-related office work, deadstock, washing raw chicken in other jurisdictions and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal corrects the listener’s delusions about auto pilot, illustrates the differences betwen humanoid cats and Edward Scissorhands and discusses the anatomy of a commercial earworm, understanding you Americans and your Spring Break, how songwriters think, appreciating instant mashed potato, what a thousand cavemen can achieve without typewriters, the life expectancy of a harmonica, Stevie Wonder’s name change, token tamborine use, workplaces that can’t sustain a mad drummer, choosing your dog size, securing the food chain against dogs, Madonna’s cartoon versus Bucks Fizz’s Land of Make Believe, an unintended Guiness Odlums Flour crossover and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal reveals what it would take for him to name a fourth cat after a UN Secretary General, recalls the one comic book in every Christian Brothers School library and discusses Neighbourhood Watch mythology, dog anomolies on Bray Head, learning Irish by projection, things legally banned in classrooms, next door’s over-reaching attic, the song Frere Jackques, a pharmacy Advent calendar, inaminate emotional support animals, how Full House paved the way for jobsharing at the UN, logistics of hot dog trolleys in staired stadiums, tea trolleys in comic strip based radio sitcom Bristow, an inaudible new mouth sound, checking this podcast for secret codes, how an anethesist would produce this episode and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses encoutering your postman in another neighbourhood, playing Dr Suess, a terrifying futuristic garage, reinventing the painted ostrich egg, Ireland’s sheep filled desert, idenfiifying a mouth’s postal address, remembering what you buried in the sand, how deserts evolve into casinos, understanding speakeasy, Stephen King’s car burial tale, what you could legitimately be giving your kids pints of at breakfast, a portrait microwave, how a dog handles a mirage of a desert, landlord teethmark inspection protocol, how ostriches fool predators, electrical tape misadventures, how to get a letter in The Irish Times, plugging a boat with a newspaper letters page, a surprise for non-podcast listeners, an opposite newspaper clippings exchange, a better use for LInkedIn, rejecting dopamine shamers and more.  CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal looks at the presumed defacto diplomatic relationship allowing the moon to slosh our seas around, reveals which of his arms is the least interesting and discusses sailing in boiling water, mouthwash retail licensing, substitute priests, how to say mass, mouthwash as a sleep hygiene product, Richard Simmons RIP, new ways to say no, a military childhood, the trouble with flight simulators, fast food service simulators, impressionists who do other people’s sitcom characters, Phantom of the Opera, Freddie Mercury versus Sid Vicious versus opera snobs, handling pre decimilisation currency, sensible non-mockable names, the argument for flying in reverse, Titanic pride, defining crashing a ship, bidirectional sweat glands, the argument against making your cat purr and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal discusses apple core cowardice, treadmills for swimming, documentaries about little Timmy falling down a well, how and why to properly record your breakfast, corporate espionage podcast snobbery, cultivating a nasal helmet in medieval times, Sunday driving and your metabolism, navigation apps for rabbits, heirlooms versus genes, generational puppet acts, The Sooty Show, working breakfasts in McDonalds, how surgeons put your leg to sleep, the truth about people who work on aeroplanes, monacle heirlooms, ventriloguist dummies versus proper puppets, Bill Nigh the Science Guy, Pee Wee Herman versus Ernest, how townfolk recognise helpful travelling dogs and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.