Episodes
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Thinking Too Much About Heavy Lead Pencils
Neal worries about self incrimination as a burglar, exposes the sinister world of ivy enthusiasts, makes the case for shunning Darwin Award obsessives, deconstructs your child's 2d architecture, ponders what Jim Henson can teach us about artificial plants, thinks a little too much about heavy…
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You'll Believe Owls Can Fly
Neal addresses listeners in juvenile delinquent facilities, considers the plight of long time Sesame Street viewers, assesses societal attitudes to bathroom breaks, highlights the knuckle Sandwich of the fast food world, critiques the portrayal of death on The Simpsons, tries to understand owls,...
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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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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 877: Flushable Dock Leaves are NOT the Answer
Neal imposes a temporary self ban on dog anatomy talk, tracks TV’s most misleading puppet housing depiction, considers the downside of commercial breaks on baby monitors, asks if the uncultured can enjoy the movie Whiplash (2014), changes your mind about prison exercise yards, warns of the mortal...
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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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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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Show 871: Bivouac in Industrial Fridge or Night in Lincoln Bedroom?
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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Show 870: 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, uncovers what coin operated toy cars...
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Show 869: Commuting to an Island on a Lake on an Island on a Lake
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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Show 868: Like Fanta But From a Dog
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…
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Show 867: Beyond Here Be Dragons, Signed The Colonel
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 866: The Impenetrable 3D Chess of Punching Down Through a Sunroof
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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Show 865: Just Fill Up On Nonsense
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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Show 864: The Label Literal Monster Created in Frankenstein's Lab Carries Baggage
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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Show 863: The Pelican Brie is Not a Typo
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 862: Very Little of This is Your Cat's Fault
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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Show 861: Are Cartoon Eyeballs Incubating the Next Pandemic?
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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Show 860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This
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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Show 859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog?
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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Show 858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection
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…
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Show 857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega
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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Show 856: Why Signatures Should be Assigned at Birth
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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Show 855: Your Cat's Bar Tab and the Law
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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Show 854: The Miming Submariner's Post Apocalypse Raincheck
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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Show 853: One Simple Lie to Bring Out the Best in Your Doctor
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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Show 852: Clockwork Orange Treatment for Potholers?
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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Show 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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Show 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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