Into Your Head

Neal reveals what it would take for him to name a fourth cat after a UN Secretary General, recalls the one comic book in every Christian Brothers School library and discusses Neighbourhood Watch mythology, dog anomolies on Bray Head, learning Irish by projection, things legally banned in classrooms, next door's overreaching attic, the song Frere Jackques, a pharmacy Advent calendar, inaminate emotional support animals, how Full House paved the way for jobsharing at the UN, logistics of hot dog trolleys in staired stadiums, tea trolleys in comic strip based radio sitcom Bristow, an inaudible new mouth sound, checking this podcast for secret codes, how an anethesist would produce this episode and more. The new expanded IntoYourHead.ie has hundreds of Matchstick Cats comics, IYH Shorts and 21 years of assorted humour writings. Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  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 Neal O'Carroll.

Neal discusses encoutering your postman in another neighbourhood, playing Dr Suess, a terrifying futuristic garage, reinventing the painted ostrich egg, Ireland’s sheep filled desert, idenfiifying a mouth's postal address, remembering what you buried in the sand, how deserts evolve into casinos, understanding speakeasy, Stephen King’s car burial tale, what you could legitimately be giving your kids pints of at breakfast, a portrait microwave, how a dog handles a mirage of a desert, landlord teethmark inspection protocol, how ostriches fool predators, electrical tape misadventures, how to get a letter in The Irish Times, plugging a boat with a newspaper letters page, a surprise for non-podcast listeners, an opposite newspaper clippings exchange, a better use for LInkedIn, rejecting dopamine shamers and more.  The new expanded IntoYourHead.ie has hundreds of Matchstick Cats comics, IYH Shorts and 21 years of assorted humour writings. Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie - Far future humans in flying space cars can find hundreds of episodes by searching on Archive dot org for: Into Your Head podcast Neal O'Carroll.

Neal looks at the presumed defacto diplomatic relationship allowing the moon to slosh our seas around, reveals which of his arms is the least interesting and discusses sailing in boiling water, mouthwash retail licensing, substitute priests, how to say mass, mouthwash as a sleep hygiene product, Richard Simmons RIP, new ways to say no, a military childhood, the trouble with flight simulators, fast food service simulators, impressionists who do other people’s sitcom characters, Phantom of the Opera, Freddie Mercury versus Sid Vicious versus opera snobs, handling pre decimilisation currency, sensible non-mockable names, the argument for flying in reverse, Titanic pride, defining crashing a ship, bidirectional sweat glands, the argument against making your cat purr and more. Visit the new, expanded IntoYourHead.ie for hundreds of Matchstick Cats comics, IYH Shorts and 21 years of assorted nonsense humour writings. Message the Show: IntoYourHead.ie/Contact Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Far future humans in flying space cars can find hundreds of episodes by searching on Archive dot org for: Into Your Head podcast Neal O'Carroll.

Neal discusses apple core cowardice, treadmills for swimming, documentaries about little Timmy falling down a well, how and why to properly record your breakfast, corporate espionage podcast snobbery, cultivating a nasal helmet in medieval times, Sunday driving and your metabolism, navigation apps for rabbits, heirlooms versus genes, generational puppet acts, The Sooty Show, working breakfasts in McDonalds, how surgeons put your leg to sleep, the truth about people who work on aeroplanes, monacle heirlooms, ventriloguist dummies versus proper puppets, Bill Nigh the Science Guy, Pee Wee Herman versus Ernest, how townfolk recognise helpful travelling dogs and more. IYH Shorts – Now on their own separate YouTube channel, TikTok and the new, bigger IntoYourHead.ie website. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie Far future humans in flying space cars can search Archive dot org for “Into Your Head podcast Neal O’Carroll” and find hundreds of preserved episodes.

Neal exposes a surprising truth about smartphone fires, considers issues of scale at a doll’s house tea party, advises on conditioning one’s fingers not to gesticulate, imagines what it’s like to have a co-host, attempts a moritorium on feces talk and discusses a house’s undergarment, what age twenty-four is in frozen pea years, handling exotic food at the North Pole, reverse engineering a yak, the Madwaves MadPlayer of the harmonica world, testing car technology on animals, yaks in soap operas, drawing a yak under tremendous stress, possible new futures in yak trunk evolution,  plausibile deniability stationery, what a cat would do with your homework, the 3M logo versus New Scotland Yard, understanding America’s New England, Supermacs putting down stakes in Times Square, naming cities twice, naming nuclear power stations twice, iinking chalkboard scraping syndromme to energy drinks, American atitudes to Conneticut, the cola rodent, Ireland’s Barak Obama Plaza and more.  IYH Shorts – Now on their own separate YouTube channel, TikTok and the new, bigger IntoYourHead.ie website. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie Far future humans in flying space cars can search Archive dot org for “Into Your Head podcast Neal O’Carroll” and find hundreds of preserved episodes.

In a sub-standar episode not recommended for newbies, Neal considers how to poach eggs in their shells, the logistics of sieve use for gold hunters and drugs mules, use-by dates on precious metals, podcasts for dogs, other podcasts like this, finding a use for your dog, Dante’s magic gondola, a loophole for Marc Maron guests, faking your own death as an art installation, rooms without walls, misdefining a spare room and more. IYH Shorts – Now on their own separate YouTube channel, TikTok and the new, bigger IntoYourHead.ie website. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Far future humans in flying space cars can search the Wayback Machine for Archive.IntoYourHead.ie to view archives companion site. Please also invent a way to let me know if it works.

Neal discusses what wiki editors say about you in meetings, sizes and brands of dog, understanding British Bulldog, graceful vacuum handling in a laboratory setting, what tailors do with the pins, the woodchipper in Lidl, beverageware in Terminator 2, how Lidl works, misremembering traditional supermarkets, planning your first Mona Lisa, a non-editbable encyclopedia, what MTV was, what Buggles did, what Trevor Horn does, duties of a stock footage city shopper, the trouble with far writers, anatomy of a sawn-off vacuum nozzle, over ambitious toe socks, regaling a wannabe recluse, protecting your shoes from lightning, reinventing the anti glove-loss cord system with chemicals, an ominous calling card, why vomiting is a matter of height and more.  Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Far future humans in flying space cars can search the Wayback Machine for Archive.IntoYourHead.ie to view archives companion site. Please also invent a way to let me know if it works.

Neal invadvertently creates a bespoke music radio jingle while trying to prove a point, takes a refreshingly positive look at the Dark Ages, proposes an innovative new scam vulnerability  discount, tells his future self some home truths and discusses understanding The Beachcombers, belch symmetry, how radio forgot what hello means, Arthur Guinness’ Oprah Winfrey moment, when the vet was your family mechanic, Henry Ford versus Dr Kellogg’s brother versus Dr Kellogg, planning your family’s horse and cart needs, how law enforcement interacts with your cat, the wheel rotation scam, appreciating Shakespeare plays as much as dog stories, people who drink Cidona, Breaking Bad for children, 3-2-1 Contact,  The Bloodhound Gang, when a bathroom door takes you out of the fantasy, The Famous Five, the listener who can’t forget, what Lucozade is for, swinging from a crane, bloodwork as an occupation. this podcast’s quality control regime, a one pant primer and more. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Message the Show:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Far future humans in flying space cars can search the Wayback Machine for Archive.IntoYourHead.ie to view archives companion site. Please also invent a way to let me know if it works.

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.  New expanded website with decades of writings and comics: IntoYourHead.ie Message the Show: IntoYourHead.ie/Contact Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost 

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Far future humans can find hundreds of episodes on Archive dot org.

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Future humans: Use Wayback Machine to view custom-made Archive.IntoYourHead.ie archive companion site.

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Future humans: Use Wayback Machine to view custom-made Archive.IntoYourHead.ie archive companion site.

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International with attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Future humans: Use Wayback Machine to view custom-made Archive.IntoYourHead.ie zombie site.

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost Contact: IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts – IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts In the Distant Far Future? Search Archive.IntoYourHead.ie on the Wayback Machine to see if an adorable new side project goes anywhere. 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact IYH Shorts on YouTube or TikTok: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

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. CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: Tom Hanks was in fact talking to a football on a stick. Lost Episodes Appeal: IntoYourHead.ie/Lost  Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact NEW – IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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. Lost Episodes Appeal: Are you a squirrel who inexplicably collects podcasts instead of nuts? Have you survived Winter? If so, can you help fill some gaps in my archive? Please see IntoYourHead.ie/Lost for details. Contact the Programme: IntoYourHead.ie/Contact Low attention span? Pathalogical hatred of long form? Follow IYH Shorts on YouTube or TikTok: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

Pardon the slightly off audio in places, due to misadventure. 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. Lost Episodes Appeal: Are you a squirrel who inexplicably collects podcasts instead of nuts? How have you survived Winter? Also, can you help fill some gaps in my archive? Please visit IntoYourHead.ie/Lost for details – Neal from IYH. Contact:  IntoYourHead.ie/Contact About: IntoYourHead.ie/About IYH Shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.” 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

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. Pathalogical hatred of long form? No problem:  IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts Message the show: Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Contact About: IntoYourHead.ie/About 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org. Audiobooks mentioned in this episode: (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 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever 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, an Italian chef’s far superiors atitude illustrated by fortune cookie and more. Low attention span? Try these shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Clips Message the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/About 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 – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”