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EPISODE · Jul 17, 2025 · 56 MIN

Show 856: Why Signatures Should be Assigned at Birth

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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.

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