Show 839: The January Test
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.
Episode 839 of the Into Your Head podcast, hosted by Neal O'Carroll, titled "Show 839: The January Test" was published on January 6, 2025 and runs 44 minutes.
January 6, 2025 ·44m · Into Your Head
Summary
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.
Episode Description
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.
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