Into Your Head

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 lead pencils, reveals an unexpected update on Kittensoft toilet roll, determines the real reason for bicycle reflector laws, explores the conundrum of like-for-like sugar substitution, imagines the chances of finding vegetables in a jungle, argues against dogs in the criminal justice system, addresses listeners on exercise bikes and touches upon drinking water in a coma, the Deep Space Nines of breakfast cereals, alternate ways to test your smoke detector, cow stomach logistics, egg sandwich snobbery, loose tea, Slimfast hula hoops, the cord cutters of the toast world, dynamo bicycle lamps,  coin operated toy bicycles, kids with Whizzer and Chips comic reservations, rolling L shaped carpets, what a dog thinks about inhalation 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 with attribution: by Neal O'Carroll.  

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, worries about dogs who go places, imagines how boarding schools work, wonders if the Mandela Effect has transformed the toilet roll aisle and touches on burner phone snobbery, Stephen King's The Long Walk, how stocktaking works, synthetic edible fast food feathers, wings versus entrails, the challenging cola, tiny handcuffs, Kittensoft disappearing off the face of the Earth, how Quantum Leap ended, Heston Blumenthal's reconstituted peas, prison cell design, Jim Henson's life choices, the pre-blue Pepsi label years, cats running late, a terrifying first day school assembly, Dead Poets Society (1989), Sister Act (1992), Inspector Gadget, the broader world of inspectors, reshaping the baked bean for a new generation 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 with attribution: by Neal O'Carroll. 

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 things, considers a palatable way to inventory vacuum cleaner contents, asks if you'd know if your pet fish had brain trauma, tears the hairless cat down a peg or two, highlights the inherent assumptions in the standard aviation brace position, offers compelling evidence Billy Joel fans are upright citizens, speculates about a cat the listener offended in a past life, defends those who mistakenly believe islands float on water, imagines explaining to cabin crew you're about to crash and need chocolate, and deals with tracheotomy cap management, raw milk versus raw sewage, transporting a pet fish overseas, why children scream, how to tactfully retire a flight engineer, red flag wavers at the dawn of the automobile and more.   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 things, considers a palatable way to inventory vacuum cleaner contents, asks if you'd know if your pet fish had brain trauma, tears the hairless cat down a peg or two, highlights the inherent assumptions in the standard aviation brace position, offers compelling evidence Billy Joel fans are upright citizens, speculates about a cat the listener offended in a past life, defends those who mistakenly believe islands float on water, imagines explaining to cabin crew you're about to crash and need chocolate, and deals with tracheotomy cap management, raw milk versus raw sewage, transporting a pet fish overseas, why children scream, how to tactfully retire a flight engineer, red flag wavers at the dawn of the automobile 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 with attribution: by Neal O'Carroll. ABOUT SERIES:  Neal O'Carroll spins stream of consciousness humour monologues, peppered with absurd opinions, deadpan lectures, tangent after absurdist tangent and a unique twist on Irish wit, in this completely improvised indie Irish comedy podcast now in it's third decade.  

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 sixty-nine seventieths live, smoking in the wild west, the unconscious foot, the first monkey to use tools, neural pathways, garden pathways, correct clothes lines, so-called resting bitch face, street statue performers, an episode of TV's Dave Gorman's Modern LIfe is Goodish, whether an AI do this show, why freshwater harbours smell better, your first visit to a coast, sheet metal for you sandwiches, browsing by smell, the one thing you don't wash in the shower 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 with attribution: by Neal O'Carroll.

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 French linguistics, growing up in the previous century, how to buy fish, delivering post in alphabetical order, rethinking house numbers, Rocketman (2019), Air Crash Investigation, archery injuries, the jobs for life era, burger cardboard versus fingernails on a blackboard, the modern zoo, the Botanical Gardens, allotments 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 with attribution: by Neal O'Carroll.