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Ten Inches Above Right Knee is the Global Standard
NOTE: The words accidentally drowned out by the opening music are: "or Billy Joel fans are very law abiding citzens." Neal wonders what role screaming plays in training pilots and bus drivers, advises on managing your collection of scratching combs, questions the wisdom of apps that ignite…
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See How the Other Sixty-Nine Seventieths Live
Neal explains why burial at sea is nonsense, fantasises about ambidextrous drug deals, judges people who get a barber shop shave, goes over some tattoo myths, considers a stereotypical stakeout situation and discusses television's Call My Bluff and Busman's Holiday, seeing how the other…
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Show 895: Alphabetical Postal Rounds Make ZERO Sense
Neal considers intrusion into famous artists' privacy, your pet's attitude to nighttime, what constitutes a street, I Seen (sic) the Lights go Down on Broadway, the first paper aeroplanes,pressing buttons on a piano, revisiting Schubert's trout era, Frère Jacques, combining music theory with…
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Show 894: Sundae Incident Boston October 1989 You Know Who You Are
Neal looks at how to count half siblings, unobtrusively clearing your throat, why huskies think they're Superman, Michael Keaton, Birdman (2014), a sundae-related childhood incident, movie physics, the trouble with vigilantes in bat costumes, the case for deep fried bat wings, what's a normal...
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Show 893: Something Innocuous in the Sitcom Credits
Neal recounts his latest tongue injury and what it means for this episode, questions the wisdom of waking Maggie up with a song, imagines what it's like to lose at boxing and wrestling, rethinks a childhood pastime of squashing people like bugs, explains why learning to count never ends, wonders...
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Show 892: Let's Normalise Briefcase Schoolbags For a Decade
Neal wonders how Dougie Howser's career would have gone with a face tattoo, advises on recognising a fake glasses and moustache, sets out the argument for rectangular coins, imagines how a King Charles Dog could wreck stamp collecting, explains why a spare bedroom can never be a spare surgery,...
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Show 891: Why Crickets Don't Sweat (If Crickets Don't Sweat)
Neal explores the delicate diplomacy of carrying a motorbike side car passenger, spends some time addressing the bee keepers in the audience, illustrates how a cat handles a passive aggressive bar man, advises on minimising your total lifetime camera exposure, wonders if dog whistles and cricket...
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Show 890: Soliciting Your Reflection's Approval
Neal dismantles an offensive myth surrounding Conan O'Brien's head, thinks a little too much about reservoirs, ponders how to choose a kitchen sieve for your bathroom, recalls a memory of a horse's head on a stick, offers wardrobe advice for news readers, asks why you're still paying someone to...
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Show 889: Shallow as the Spoon on Your Swiss Army Knife
Neal offers tips on scrubbing in for raw poultry prep, critiques the photography choices of the Andes cannibal plane crash survivors, imagines how a horse would fare in a school gymnasium, questions Switzerland's branded pocket weaponry monopoly, goes over the perennial flying car branding…
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Show 888: When Should You Season Your Cat Food?
Neal questions the viability of musically gifted twins, wonders about pet bear taxidermy, shows how to guard against identify theft with your mind, warns about weaponised weather smalltalk, decides where a proposed World Highway should start, designs a more palatable alternative to Shrodinger's...
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Show 887: Walk the Four Minute Mile, Don't Run It
Neal makes the case for casting music to your unoccupied car, shows how to convince your plastic surgeon there's something worth saving, asks if the bakers's dozen is nonsense, wonders if there was any place for dogs in the Stone Age, casts an eye over your child's igloo and sandcastle design,...
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Show 886: Twenty Years of Tripe (With an Asterisk)
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874: You’re Nobody Without Opposable Thumbs, Supposedly (17 MAR 2026)
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…
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873: Nonetheless Wiser (3 MAR 2026)
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...
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872: How to Achieve Omnipresence by Sixty Five (23 FEB 2026)
SLIGHTLY CRACKLY SOUND IN PLACES, DUE TO MISADVENTURE. 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...
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871: Bivouac in Industrial Fridge or Night in Lincoln Bedroom? (16 FEB 2026)
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...
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870: Are You Not Not Not Not Unentertained? 03 FEB 2026)
Are You Not Not Not Not Unentertained? 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,...
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869: Commuting to an Island on a Lake on an Island on a Lake (20 JAN 2026)
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...
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868: Like Fanta But From a Dog (12 January 2026)
Neal considers a particularly violent fruit, an appalling game called Punch Buggy, the George Formby grill and discography, salmon weirdness in the education system, Fionn McCumhaill and the mythological salmon of knowledge, raw milk enthusiasts, a week of leaks, breakages and cat death, the case...
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867: Beyond Here Be Dragons, Signed The Colonel (2 JAN 2026)
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...
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Show 885: How to Synthesise a Blank Look
Neal shares everything he knows about counting sheep, evaluates the modern hermit, wonders why office sitcoms exist, re-evaluates everything we know about dragons, finally understands why youngsters need emoticons, goes over a key difference between paper aeroplanes and paper ships, guesses at…
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Show 884: Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem
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Show 883: The Argument Against Toothache
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Show 882: Your Homing Pigeons Have Stockholm Syndrome
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Show 881: Why Pet Snake Owners Are Like That
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Show 880: While Eggheads Sweat Over a Replica Paper Cup
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Show 879: Edible Cigarette Addiction and Other First World Problems
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Show 878: Freshers Week at the Finishing School
Neal takes the so-called grilled cheese sandwich down a peg or two, recommends a new way to use toothpaste, explains why it's someone else's turn to watch the news now, asks if not seeing the shark really makes it scarier, wonders how long you're going to live, sheds light on the higher power of...
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Show 876: Edible Cow Helmets FTW
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...
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866: The Impenetrable 3D Chess of Punching Down Through a Sunroof (17 DEC 2025)
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…
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865: Just Fill Up On Nonsense (3 DEC 2025)
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...
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864: The Label Literal Monster Created in Frankenstein’s Lab Carries Baggage (24 NOV 2025)
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...
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863: The Pelican Brie is Not a Typo (11 NOV 2025)
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,...
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Show 875: Travelling With Your Pet in Stasis
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…
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Show 874: You're Nobody Without Opposable Thumbs, Supposedly
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…
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Show 872: How to Achieve Omnipresence by Sixty Five
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…
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862: Very Little of This is Your Cat’s Fault (26 OCT 2025)
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…
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861: Are Cartoon Eyeballs the Next Pandemic? (29 SEP 2025)
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...
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860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This (13 SEP 2025)
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...
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859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog? (25 AUG 2025)
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...
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858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection (05 AUG 2025)
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 palaleopnthologists and NASA could learn from Winston Churchill and discusses the true meaning of last meals on death...
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857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega (26 JUL 2025)
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…
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856: Why Signatures Should be Assigned at Birth (17 JULY 2025)
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,...
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855: Your Cat’s Bar Tab and the Law (9 JULY 2025)
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…
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854: The Miming Submariner’s Post Apocalypse Raincheck (23 JUN 2025)
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...
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853: One Simple Lie to Bring Out the Best in Your Doctor (1 JUN 2025)
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...
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852: Clockwork Orange Treatment for Potholers? (27 JUN 2025)
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...
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851: The Keyboardist, the Judge and the Stenographer
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…
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850: You’re Going to Love How You Look When You’re Drinking This
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...
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