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Neal imagines how Houston eggheads work the problem in a crisis, worries about what happens the first time you see an ocean, recommends escalator maintenance as the perfect career choice, publicly admonishes his brain for creating the same thought twice, warns about shoes and spectacles losing adhesion during a stroke, reveals the most unappreciated miraculous substance in your home, marvels at how pilots manage their laundry, outlines why actors need to show us both corners of their mouth, remembers half a lifetime spent offline and looks at the hypocrisy of uncensored airline safety announcements, weird and disturbing seaside lakes, Stephen King’s Florida Quays, why nobody knows how to clean a blackboard, Apollo 13 (1999), n Neil Armstrong’s crash, Bic four colour ballpoint pens in space, the hypocrisy of self help groups, .long distance tractor travel, human aging issues in Toy Story 5 (2026),  logistics of ploughing championships and aircraft aisles, should in flight entertainment screens show oil levels, how Lightyear (2022) successfully annoyed parents, why astronauts should wear business suits, headless ghosts, Rentaghost (BBC TV), how flight crews manage laundry, time-shift masses and the international date line, the Mandela Effect phenomenon, taking up space on the Internet, how much unimaginably worse this podcast was twenty years ago this summer 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 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 convenience foods, assesses the outcome of last week’s dog segment ban and discusses sugar stick assembly, how Cat and Barman meet in dreams, life before and after abandoning saucers, post-credits cinema meditation, waiting outside Downton Abbey for a visitor, horse edibility, pills versus peanuts, the trouble with exercise bicycling and tread-milling, spitting in private, applying butter in a vacuum, the International Space Station, Outposts on the Frontier by Jay Chladek, meat versus anatomy, Saddam Hussein’s video messages, what happens if you discover oil while out walking, an accidental tile vandalism memory, hiding commuters underground, how bar segregation becomes infinitely compounded, vaping versus vaxing, what became of Kill Bill’s killed Bill, transparent memo tubes in offices, Duel (1971) 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 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 risks of foot washing, gives you an new appreciation of empty stairwells, recalls the snobbery surrounding Edward Scissorhands (1990), explains why grown-ups should not watch movies, wonders about a Willy Wonka elevator sequel, discovers the true purpose of rubber ducks, sets out the pitfalls of trying to live in a wheelie bin, reveals the missed glaringly obvious choice to replace Kevin Spacey in House of Cards and looks at flushable dock leaf inequity, posthumous prison options, back yard naivety, the phrase Murder Death Kill, delivering the meaning of life on a plate, Being John Malkovich (1999), KPAX (2001), the shows Bosco (RTE) and The Young Pope 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 uncovers a massive parallel between Bruce Willis’ The Sixth Sense character and 1960s Muppets precurser Sam and Friends, proposes an ingenius new type of mnemonics that will change your life and discusses the practicalities of shooting yourself in the foot, being obsessed with Sesame Street,  inadequate media explanation of kneecapping, being unimpressed by The Snufflelopacus, how to test a documentary idea, how to use a single solitary bar stool in a crowd, the argument against bathroom windows, appreciating TV masts, narrator inception, The Willy Wonka Show, A realistic sitcom reboot, oral chemistry exams, dogs versus cats in bars, how to defuse a spoiler, wartime gender-based duplication, when cats bum everybody out and more.

Neal discusses Roald Dahl’s shed boundaries, demolishing and redeveloping a mountain, how sculptors manage Phil Lynott and Luke Kelly’s hair, designing a bridge over troubled waters, Henson-Disney’s post merger pre death plans, the trouble with the new generation of kittens, the house of detention, when to use Bob Dylan, a feature request for the sun, life as a pocket torch owner, Fatima children, Children of Lir, what swans know, how I spent Freddie Mercury’s last year, Capetown’s so-called Table Mountain, blood transfusion death preferences, accountants on the small screen, Tales of the Unexpected, spying something beginnning with A, kitten feces revenge, a podcast playlist hostage sitation, the truth about concrete and more.

Neal delivers an overview of the second hand sock market, considers how a method actor tackles Superman, wonders whether scalding the roof of your mouth would soften your Cs and discusses the presumptiousness of Stan and Ollie (2018), songs from The Producers (1967), how Steve Jobs made phone screems seem real, the trouble with real crime docu-dramas, digital de-aging versus hair dye, how to watch sci-fi, staff literacy on Star Trek: The Next Generation, defending Chaplin from you Americans, why smells are a loss leader, Bono’s train station shame, striped clothes in windows, assessing your child’s first words, a pea picking childhood, an overture to this episode, the science of reducing pure drivel to something purer, calling your children maidens, Marlon Brando’s Digital Corpse and more.

Neal considers how a cat learns to smoke in the current regulatory environment, explains your child’s hunger for paramilitary-style balaclavas and discusses risky versus risqué, Jesus’ disastrous impact on local fishing, changing atitudes to water bombs, edible versus digestible, Inbred fish sandwiches, why lay ministers can’t wipe, using Buddah’s name in vain, landfills versus volcanoes, anatomy of a racehorse injury, showground gates versus school gates, you Americans and your canyons, cats but not the nice type, the trouble with jungles, the lack of urination on Breaking Bad, reheating stout, dog licking versus cat licking, extras in bars, the correct way to end a podcast, surviving a zombie TV series and more.

Neal puts beekeeping under the spotlight, recounts an old cat-related head injury, imagines how normal people say “dog” and discusses bin day in a Stephen King novel, belch fraud, virus creation hobbiests, anti meditation vigiilantism, unsubscribing, unsubs, ONSUG, how Criminal Minds helps podcasts, turning a juggernaut around, listener correspondence, dog movements versus bowel movements, dandruff versus nits versus measles, new anti-meditation vigilantism technologies, how to label dead things, why bars should pump in air from Chernobyl, growing two non Bowsies, the underground trade in saplings, harmonica spontaneity, artificial air colouring, new ways to enjoy fresh air, iodine tablet memories, what replaced oxygen bars, oxygen weight inflation, having someone shoot you in the foot and more.

Neal discusses what they did to Craig Ferguson, humanoid cats fraternising with regular cats, what to do if your president freezes, elastic band fracture science, a deep dive on overthinking, interpretating foreign languge gestures, how non wilful ignorance works, Irish kids who reference the feds, hotdesking on procedural dramas, why the second cat never features in the two cats walk into a bar stories, disloyalty to yourself, life as a nine to five actor, songs with cold opens, Meatloaf coming up too often, streamlining the cola dregs system, the risk of becoming a classic hits format, and more.

Neal examines what we know about farm animal cravings, contemplates career progression in a firm of guitarists, reimagines Sinéad O’Connor’s SNL pope photo protest, exposes the restaurant toothpick scam and discusses humanely expelling a wasp, why movie trailors shouldn’t be free, recreational self injury (non-psychotic), rib geneology, taking the weight off your hands, comparable dog segments on other podcasts, guitar anatomy and calcium, how stage magicians find a balance, standing desks versus counters, the problem with the back office on Cheers, Charlie Brown’s original teacher, the trouble with Guinness Plus, a fictional Joe Rogan experience, a non-existant barman’s existential crisis, a cat’s cuss-word therapy, papier mache solid fuel memories and more. exist.

Neal proposes a twelve step approach to ET and discusses nine to five life for the shipwrecked, anti-social astronauts, saving on invisible ink, how raisons d’etre work, the truth about gout, a new understanding of you Americans, learning from Orson Welles, modesty on public transport, spitting in the theatre of the mind, why x-ray glasses never took off, a logically unsound Meatloaf track (not that one) debuting rafts, rebranding spaceships in the Elongated Musket era, a real doctor’s take on edible paper, mouthwatering tree bark, judging your fictional creations, Identifying with Shithead, a bar asshole by proxy, wasting a cat’s time, cat pants the right way, Let it Be versus Que Sera, and more. Into Your Head is created and publsihed by Neal O’Carroll under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Neal discusses black boxes in popular culture, a role for camels in health spas, TV casket reunions, ambidextrous banking, a foot-related tip for smokers, a cat’s analysis of the songs of Genesis, wishful thinking about superjet lounges, recording off TV in 2024, songs about administrative work, a cat’s take on Peter Gabriel’s career phases, telling other people what their point is, an alarming decline in brand-name toilet paper, why losing pens is a sign of intelligence, cold sore watch, haircut syncing for television, when ice takes you out of the movie and more.

Neal exposes the abhorrent life of the cranberry sauce obsessive, remembers a disturbing mass produced heart surgery portrait and discusses whiskey in sit-coms, two very different ways to appreciate crabs, why dogs’ mouths are impractical, Stephen King’s so called stand, a bus tour of nondescript houses, the cost of hand washing, skipping rope philosophy via Black Mirror, fudge’s one saving grace, how children stole cycling, decanting defined, life on one third of a hill, shortcut shame in a mature neighbourhood, ordinary house tourism, living on an island versus living on an island. being a crab and a hermit, revinventing seafood display tanks, shortcuts to other seas, life and death grammar explained by a cat, fly by wire Internet explained to a cat, when birds had runways, the ludicrious Road Runner, adapting Paul McCartney’s songwriting method, The Ant and the Aardvark cartoon, failing to remember the name Jackie Mason, Rodney Dangerfield’s menu, featherless aircraft, a dog in a cat food restaurant, a face set several rows back, impractical two-faced dog studies and more.

Neal makes an empassioned case for the return of the sitcom theme song, considers assembling a whale stomach survival kit, provides a brief orientation for new listeners, has a go at defining the parameters for a study of the interchangeability of potato and chicken skins, proposes a Russian doll solution to the property crisis and discusses catcher glove anatomy for couriers, the trouble with swimming hats, an extra level between parents and offspring, the baker’s fillet, The Million Dollar Homepage (and Frank from The Overnightscape.com‘s pixels), contact lenses user psychology, a rare blindness rant involving shoving lasers somewhere, how Spielberg boosted your self confidence using intervals, why Batman needs his own genre, a cure for credits overruns on The Office (US TV), Mr Belvedere (US TV), a career in xylophony, AI that swears at you,  Ever Decreasing Circles (BBC TV), how to confuse barman, cat and narrator, cat bar stories on The Moth podcast, dealing with psychics when you’re dead, what happens when your cat inherits or purchases a car, repurposing the rain trouser, trouser knowledge as an IQ measurement and more. Audiobooks mentioned – not affiliate links, or even links – 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin, Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean by Brett Archibald and Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callinan. BOOKS MENTIONED – not affiliate links, nor indeed links 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin, Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean by Brett Archibald and Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callanan. 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 how dogs instintively guard agains snout detachment, how the savvy traveller uses their tailwind Time Savings, why your burner phone doesn’t make you a loser. Stephen King’s afterlude process, fun toilet cistern disposal methods, the entrhalling possibilities of 360 degree facial philosophy,  a plumbing experiment of which the listener will already knows the outcome, why frostbite stopped being fun, the something very special that the chef made just for you, anticipating a Phil Hartman crimomentary, a confusing  2016 reboot of Falling Down (1993) and I don’t mean Comedian (also 2016), stock motionising this podcast in the style of Morph (BBC) to make it believable, Rome being built in a day and the marketing thereof, pros and cons of tailwind underruns, how to animate The Joker with glass and paint, legitmate dog-related academia, Dropbox settings lessons from Aron Ralston’s canyon self-amputation survial, bookkeepers versus librarians, considering just-in-time logistics for libraries, chef atitudes to fortune cookie.

Neal illustrates the Mandela Effect phenomenom using Status Quo’s discography, reevaluates Popeye, changes your mind about socks and discusses what we know about helicoptors, how elevators should work, a clever trick for locating a cordless phone with ham, why holes in food are useful, why the sausage thing last time was a bit much, defining the face’s perimeter, the trouble with peeling, why boiled sweets and gum are superfoods, a new way to think about litter, an itch no McDonalds breakfast can scratch and more. Then concludes with some helpful orientation for the recent influx of new listeners, assuming they use the same bus route. CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: The song I mentioned with incorrect tune and incorrect lyric “There’s something going on (repeat ad nauseum)” in fact goes “…stop Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look, what’s going down?” I knew it had to be something along those lines.

Neal discusses popping your Bs, the trouble with playing a zombie, how to purchase free tap water in pubs, BB Max and other nemeses, apple seed myths, the globalisation of bin day, a tip for listeners who don’t enjoy this voice, a card game nation, an entrepreneur’s guide to counting money, why Nickelodeon goes over children’s heads, the trouble with Jack and the Beanstalk, hospitality versus hostelry, Coolio’s big mistake, water on draught, how to store a tonne of bricks, the limitations of the word giraffe, getting the fliuch out of here, Ireland’s new Tasioghiflghiush (prime minister), how to manage your president and more.

Neal takes an objective look at Hansel and Gretel and discusses the trouble with heroin, basement-attic philosophy, the IRA on Everest, the argument against thought experiments, broken leg mysteries, the rainy day myth, advice for News Junkies, Einstein’s dog equation, dog narratives versus dog stories, how a trained actor drinks piss, declaring garden weed to the authorities, pisswaffles, the stroopwaffel era of this podcast (circa 2007), reforming how we name our children, pre-registering your death, registering drugs found in your garden, fairy tale time shiftability, things Einstein presumably explained and more. CLARIFICATIONS: Rev Ian Paisley, deceased DUP leader, was not one of the joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Neal discusses explaining Pink Floyd to a cat, understanding the Middle East, how parrots work, cars that are very wide and very short, how to dress a performing seal, Chevies, levees, levies, Daewoo, the building layout in Cheers, imagining what it’s like to have undiagnosed haemorrhoids, advice for U.S. homeowners, Led Zeppelin’s creative process, using local language on the podcast, a non-unionised dog, a unionised dog, proof my brain exists, a fraudulent dog, determining what the listener wants and more.

Neal presents a new original Quentin Tarantino dialogue about a bank heist of a bulding that once housed Robin Island jail (tasteful), and discusses assisting an elephant with self exploration, a bland thing that you’re sucking on all day, mapping your face, addressing the far-future listener as ancestor, a non-corporeal Maître D’ versus a cat, Logan’s Run (1976) for fish, podcasts versus comic books, a French dining experience, how I imagine you drive a car, a concienctious elephant’s data protection worries, peanuts as an epsresso, how they made Resevoir Dogs (1992) on a budget, writing dialogue, the undernourished gear stick, the term “shitting on”, recyclable tissue drinking, Mrs Brown’s Boys (BBC / RTE), Keeping the dream alive, how to end a conversation in real life, how this podcast stays authentic and more.

Neal discusses Bivouacs, shoes in radio dramas, traversing North Korea, how to talk to your child about podcasting, the phrase teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs, urinal troughs on trains, inventing the commuter picnic, cartoons about puppets, attitudes to scarecrows, curing the listener’s pencil sickness, major life lesson from Man Versus Food, how a bishop moves in Chess, Worzel Gummage (ITV), alternate universe binary code, winning in the confessional, Muppet Babies format confusion, a Mary Poppins of the drugs world, typewriter versus typerwriter, myths about oats, the fates of Murder She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher and Family Guy‘s Mayor Adam West, paracetamol versus cocaine versus audiobooks, Harbour Hotel (RTE Radio 1) and what replaced it, honey monster capsules. what an AI barman experiences and more. 

Neal discusses what happens to your child if they listen to this, what your cat does to feel alive, how to organise a legalised crime purchase regime, reporting future cold cases, Demolition Man (1993), prepping your child for an era of burning and drowning, how to row your dog, Dinasaur versus Alien, an horrific nursery rhyme. forty years of non-violent teaching, a tonne of bricks versus a tonne of blessings, understanding shoe leather, a brief overview of flies in popular culture, the movie that wasn’t about the fly (1997) (NOT The Fly (1996)), a pact with the listener regarding the papacy, sourcing snake oil, is it okay to laugh at a dog and more.   exist.

Neal discusses things to consider when falling to Earth, the impenetrable mechanics of swatting a fly, victim-blaming a fly, nondescriptness, a dog’s attempts to line it’s stomach, why the Littlest Hobo should learn better posture, why dinosaurs could have been pets, assessing the moon’s flammability, a fly relates to Billy Joel’s No Man’s Land, how air crash investigators measure customer satisfaction, the difference between a lighthouse and the sun, the role of rear view mirrors in space travel and more.

Neal discusses a problem he has in common with Beatle Paul McCartney, a surgeon and a tree surgeon comparing notes, truly hollow fruits, the body as a trickle down economy, doctors berating the comatose, the very worst thing to take on a plane, manicure and footwear logistics for upright cats, cranberry sauce nuts, outsourcing your bedtime thoughts, the face as a fake shopfront facade, dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life, toothbrushing on TV, “coming right up” as a catchprhase, child avoidance for cats, Edward Scissorpaws, toothbrushing in the military, that movie with the Dude (1998), blood in the heads of Guiness, tackling the roof of your mouth, belching as a by-product, the argument against sleeping, Judge Judy tries to help, defining a field, scaring your child with wooden houses, redesigning the toothbrush, the argument for timber skycrapers, two places where coffee is inappropriate, a flying bucket, Fortycoats (RTE TV), body parts as co-workers and more.

In a podcast laden with twists and nail-biting revelations as we sit in on a jail hardened dog’s parole review, Neal considers what an M and M is, Mother Nature’s periodic landscapes, a doctor’s views on bi-directional blackboard scraping, the dog bitch to dog Hitler ratio, dog parole board makeup, the French resistance on ‘Allo ‘Allo (BBC1), what home means to a dog serving life, lingusitics versus comas, putting yourself in the dog’s shoes, something I learned watching Letterman (Columbia Broadcasting Systems), adults and Freddo bars, a shocking reveal about the dog convict’s year, ditto the parole officer’s year, employee Christmas dinner ratios, trying it with two dogs; two Shanes, a mutton decoy, a French podcast you might prefer and more.

In the first show of 2024 Neal discusses the term “west brit”, Trevelyan, a cat avoiding New Year’s beer scams, a dog’s dealings with the registrar of deaths and stuff, defining hella dodgy, Hurricane Charlie mountain memories, songs about meatloaf, accepting that toilets trigger thirst, Chas and Dave but not Status Quo, realities of building a road to the Moon, a show-permeating glasses incident, fine line between Nowhereland and Doctor Who, what is a dog’s business?, civil defence raincoats, Brendan Grace wrote that combine harvester song, a moveable psychic prediction, counterintuitive office animal demographics, how dogs experience repetition and more.

In a Christmas special culminating in the heartwarming story of a foulmouthed fake Santa who holds up bars, Neal discusses face cloth enthusiasts, introducing your child to A Clockwork Orange (1972), conversations with a working dog, a guide to shooting yourself in the foot, dogs in soap operas, how parenting ends, a deleted undersea mountain climber story, watching Highlander (1986) for the Queen songs, a barman’s secret life, a barman’s alternative work ethic, inventing a trailor system for homeless pets, what the term Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick means to a cat, the nights of Christmas Day, a dog who relates to post-Gabriel Byrne episodes of In Treatment (HBO / Sky Atlantic), people who have multiple shoes, one fell swoop, managing a five mile leash, drawing artificial trees on heads of stout, consulting the bar security cat aging expert from last week, reimaging Slimer, an overtrained dog, panting versus laughing and more. CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: The barman incorrectly refers to a Baileys and coffee as an “Irish Coffee”, when it is of course something far superior.

Neal discusses reassuring a fast food operative who’s seen Michael Douglas in Falling Down (1993), the trouble with one-way vocal chords, whodunnits at mass, thoughts of a depressed eternal dog, bar security’s guide to aging a cat, a new way to deliver heating oil, misinterpreting a blue moon, temporal extradition, custody of a padlock, cat linguistics, commissioning the word bespoke, smuggling toast, smiting technique, TV sets versus alters, nasal linguistics, portable church memories, cinema glasses for cats, you Americans do the news incorrectly, ditto late night talk shows, multitasking with your mouth, minimum word-lengths in academia, dangers of generic juice, probabilities explained properly, penography, philantropicality, a new way to value postage stamps, a non-scalable podcast, ordering milk in bars, bridge versus drunkard, operating an old fashioned telephone, why dogs pant, reinventing the afterlude and more.

eal discusses sit-com bunk bed envy, takey-offey parachutes versus landy parachutes, a dignified way to kill off libraries, eternal peanuts, where cabaret fits in the grand scheme of things, a curtailed feed remnant advisory for returning listeners, fooling yourself with documentaries, Everest without a Walkman, measuring hell-broken-loose levels, steamboats and whitewashing, long distance stewing, casting then uncasting the dead parents on Diff’rent Strokes, the right elephant for the job, rebooting Air Crash Investigation, legalities of shooting messengers who happen to be elephants, elephants versus character actors, actor David Kelly RIP, a revised history of storytelling and firelighting, falling by design, penny drop moment for a trainee air crash investigator, statistical probabilities of different species entering a bar, bunk kitchens, failing to remember the word bittorrent, inauthentic endings on travel shows and podcasts, drawing a stairs on volume two of Colliers Junior Classics and more, before assigning the listener an important comprehension exercise as homework. 

In an 800th episode during which he may have overdone the energy drinks somewhat, (although the Cat Stevens part is true) Neal exposes a gaping loophole for toddler movie producers and discusses merry-go-rounds versus the events depicted in The Deer Hunter (1978), what he learned in his days in a Dublin boxing arena, achieving immortality by outwitting his future self, sit-com revolving door tropes, novel advice for joggers, you could fry an egg on the rocks / stones / sidewalk – if you had an egg (1980s Irish commercial) ukulele talk, a scathing attack on the first four hundred episodes of this series, a hall of mirrors versus a horsehoe-shaped bar, learning from The Walking Dead, self-aware fictional characters on strike, revisiting Short Circuit (1986) versus revisiting Sesame Street, windscreen wipers are robots, the chimney revenge woman, Cat Stevens at an accountancy seminar (1994), a contraption to achieve mouth lubrication equilibrium, time machine form factors, Spielberg and Schindler’s charming misunderstanding in a bar, a Netflix branded cereal, what real raw milk does to cereal and more. 

Neal discusses the imaginary listener’s secret existential crisis, approximating the taste of grass for the discerning diner, a new way to measure your height, whether crosswords count as relaxation, changing atitudes to chimneys, what’s under your face, the first humans ever to see a bridge, canal tow-path horse height issues, harmonica design mysteries, Lovely Daaaaaaaaaay versus a barking barman, canal tow path issues, demons in undergound systems, a horse’s head versus a railway bridge, impressing a giraffe with our bar licensing system, how giraffes pat you on the head, Lovely Daaaaaaaaaay versus a barking barman, what happens when two “Two cats walk into a bar” stories walk into a bar and more.

In an hour culminating in an elightening explanation, using the story of his recently departed mother’s 1950s or early 1960s Atlantic crossing, of how silence works, Neal discusses why animals need to become gardeners, your chances of getting a pharmacist to sell you tea or paracetemol or cocaine, the movie “Downsizing”, quicksand on a playing field, the pros and cons of having Anthony Hopkins as your family doctor, how cats buy rounds, the folly of wine tasting, Robin Williams, Robbie Williams, an over-empowered sweet shop proprietor, the philosophy of characters who exist only in a podcaster’s imagination, an old zoological gardens song, how The Beatles’ new song Now and Then has advanced this podcast, and more.

Neal discusses turning against Tom Hanks, a cat versus Pope Benedict XVI, Apple Pencils in banks, turning against Monopoly, a beverage based on some woman off Deep Space Nine, misexplaining Occupy Wall Street, off-air cat songs, debriefing a temporary cat, why you should have something wrong with you, fonts in the blood, transmitting barmen over the Wicklow Mountains, taking up space, IT security as entertainment, cistern noise analysis, treadmills versus conveyor belts and more.

Neal discusses filling a bath from the bottom, an anti-prelude, harmonica haters, witchhunts under Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, isolated tool-blaming, the case for (domestic) cats vomiting on each other, QED memories, a particularly taxing song for harmonica, what to drink in a vomitorium, understanding bass guitar operators, misunderstanding Queen’s John Deacon, vomitorium enthusiasts in academia, navigating company law for vomitoriums, the IT role in a vomitorium, the life of an off-duty vomitorium manager, judges playing peek-a-boo in procedural dramas and more.

Neal deals with how head transplants do or don’t work, cinematography of Pope John Paul II and Oscar Schindler, how donkeys are processed hygenically, the problem with Steve Jobs RIP, a cat purchasing fake magic in a laundrette, elephants in a library, the problem with the human digestive system, surviving a long weekend in prison, what to do after you’ve made lemons into lemonde, talking microbes with guns (fictional), what Bob Geldof was right about, a synopsis of Better Caul Saul, awards versus nominations, and more.

Neal discusses pre-recorded bungee jump commentary, training podcast listeners, fighting fire with actual fire, gorillas in the news, PC disposal vesus bear disposal, finding a milkman in 2023, life as a margarine factory line foreman, the real reason for the seven year hiatus, how a cat verifies podcast listeners, that excellent ten-part drama about either Freud or Einstein, conversations in a margarine factory, cooking a load of crap, milk truck misconceptions, predecessors to pigs, Apple’s harmonica firewall, how harmonicas could revolutionise healthcare, a song about how Paul McCartney wrote in his sleep and more

Archival Note: Into Your Head podcast initially ran from 2006 to 2016, then went away for seven years. it returned in Autumn 2016. Neal officially unretires Into Your Head podcast after seven years! Topics include the brief interlude since 2016’s Show 792,  a prodical son, how lemonade works, coffee shop marzipan violence, a civilised summons, single use gold, Siskel or Ebert or Roeper or the other one, the podcast co-host protection system, zero on the dog scale, Mak my day versus Be my guest, off duty dog helmets, dog licensing, vocal experiments, acapelo singers’  concerns about the word bollocks, alienating dog owners, armchair liars, a bag of salted peanuts in a bag of salt and more.

Archival Note: Into Your Head podcast initially ran from 2006 to 2016, then went away for seven years. it returned in Autumn 2016. This is Show 792A – Labelled as 792.5 in some systems. Original description: A short test transmission as Into Your Head prepares to emerge from it’s brief seven year absence. Show 793 will be along in a week or so.

This 2016 episode, show 792: “Pilot” was the last ever episode of Into Your Head. Until October 2023, when it’s coming back! Please subscribe to the new brand new podcast feed. See IntoYourHead.ie/Subscribe for everything. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for...

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Pies for minors, hiring a pilot, Paint Monsters, prepping a hair bal and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/about Get in touch: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/contact License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll

The racist listener, ear wax theatre and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/about Get in touch: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/contact License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie & Newsburp.ie Many episodes findable...

Deconstructing a pyramid, controlling the sun, nutrition advice for zombies and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Far future humans can find hundreds of episodes by searching on Archive dot org for: Into Your Head podcast.

How hospital staff access your legs, reading notes to yourself in real time, thinking with a sore neck, something about cows, something about the end of the world, something about a dog in a vomitorium and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/about Get in...

The original description claims that this is a short comeback episode to start a new season of Into Your Head, failing to predict a looming seven year hiatus. Sorry about that. 

Misunderstanding baseball, legislating for beverage-recycling, how to pre-own a plumbing tool, emergency cat names, defining a trialogue, toughening your brain toughness training, eradicating philistines, wheelie bin leasing issues and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this...

Pancakes and ashes, cloning a toaster, self inflicted sock-stuffing, how to cook a Universe, playing with adhesives, second-guessing a smoke detector, Louis Armstrong at The Sphinx, the problem with drops, how to throw an analogy out the window and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. License: Creative Commons...

The problem with time, anatomy of a comb, The Penn and Teller of the Cat World, Gymnasticians, A career in toothpaste design, A giant hole / Robert De Niro, underestimating your own intelligence and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is...

Placebo aviation, amateur surgery, the argument against fiction, podcasts as penance, mice in zoos, the dirty little secret behind inanimate objects, the battle for damp skin, home made beverages and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. There’s also a classic episode of Athy Weekly World News with Shainne...

Why Top Gear won’t use my cats, how to ask for a helicopter, The link between space exploration and accountancy training, how to avoid offending a glove puppet operator, non-expiring Near Year greetings, remembering “Eat the Peach” and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.