Episodes

  • Show 853: One Simple Lie to Bring Out the Best in Your Doctor

    Show 853: One Simple Lie to Bring Out the Best in Your Doctor
    Jun 1 2025
    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 Shouldn't Be alive - S04 E07: Alone in the Amazon, Inception (2010), injurious talcum powder, Little Plum (comic strip, The Beano), why The Godfather Part III (1990) is fine, understanding burglers and dogs, animal entrapment and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. NEW - EBOOK: - A Selection of Original Modern Nonsense Verse by Neal O'Carroll - free at IntoYourHead.ie/Vanity LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's a lightweight ALT feed of this show for the bandwidth impaired, see IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Insta 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    46 mins
  • Show 852: Clockwork Orange Treatment for Potholers?

    Show 852: Clockwork Orange Treatment for Potholers?
    May 27 2025
    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 urination segment, the trouble with wheelbarrows, Hamburger Helper, back seat configurations, a new kind of tooth gap, why flying car owners are going to hate us all, why you may have to choose betwen potholing and the Clockwork Organge treatment, potholing versus coalmining, the respecful way to serve a meat pie and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. NEW - EBOOK: - A Selection of Original Modern Nonsense Verse by Neal O'Carroll - free at IntoYourHead.ie/Vanity LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's a lightweight ALT feed of this show for the bandwidth impaired, see IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Insta 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    31 mins
  • Show 851: The Keyboardist, the Judge and the Stenographer

    Show 851: The Keyboardist, the Judge and the Stenographer
    May 18 2025
    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 eat, pressures that come with switchng to cordials, driving in a cul-de-sac, looped video GIF labels on dashboards buttons, an unlamented childhood bicycle, red rock backdrops, wondering about tuna size, Heston Blumenthol's peas, bussing in Boston, in defence of lifelong non-flyers, oldschool business letters, palacial banks and inward facing malls, dumping fuel on a swimmer, the case for dummy controls on every airline seat, why wheels are natural, pelican verse, life at a polar science base, walking in high winds or zero atmosphere, inadvertently anticipating a 199th birthday, transmitting messages to the future, Back to the Future Part III (1990), a prime example of the pefect segment, admiring the French word for usable, a year-long school screening of Mississippi Burning (1988), atlas bleedthrough, the proposed global highway, podcasters who think they're Aerosmith, dealing with Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, The Faces and their faces, whether Spinal Tap always looked like that and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. NEW - EBOOK: - A Selection of Original Modern Nonsense Verse by Neal O'Carroll - free at IntoYourHead.ie/Vanity LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's a lightweight ALT feed of this show for the bandwidth impaired, see IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Insta 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Show 850: You’re Going to Love How You Look When You’re Drinking This

    Show 850: You’re Going to Love How You Look When You’re Drinking This
    May 12 2025
    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 wardrobe design, mouth based cave design, unsatisfying tree houses, whether soup is eaten or drunk, flying fishing boats, roots and foundations, letting your AI assistant clean your brain, how tow paths helped scoults discover knots, the case for amphibious bicycles, how Star Trek ruined the traditional Two Cats Walk into a Bar story, loops on TikTok, how Roy Orbison cried wolf and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. NEW - EBOOK: - A Selection of Original Modern Nonsense Verse by Neal O'Carroll - free at IntoYourHead.ie/Vanity LOW BITRATE EDITION: For the lightweight alt feed of this show for the bandwidth impaired, see IntoYourHead.ie/Low. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Insta 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    51 mins
  • Show 849: Back to the Living Room Before It’s Too Late

    Show 849: Back to the Living Room Before It’s Too Late
    May 3 2025
    Neal “remembers” a twenty minute nuclear catastrophe on Ireland’s east coast, compares your cat to an anthropomophic Mars rover, invents the virtual hotel room, probably fails to change your mind about backpacks on trams, recounts his unique challenges as a teenage Queen collector and discusses library sandwich inhalation memories, Owls on Napster, understanding dog whistles. a terrifying bucket, movie “The Walk” (2015), sheet music for whistlers, virtual whistling, earworms in the animal community, how dogs get earworms, life as a non whistler, sheet music for whistlers, skiffle orchesras, briefcase kids, how train windows predict the future, partialy defending earphone non-use, logistics of using Irish government issued iodine tablets, whether Dublin’s Anna Livia radio once did a War of the Worlds style nuclear drama, skiffle bands in space, vacuum cleaners in space, Mother Nature’s human diamond turducken, a very good reason to get back to the living room, maximising your podcast listening without risking electrocution, a plagiarism prevention safeguard, Nicholas Parsons and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's now a lightweight alt 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Show 848: Nobody is Impressed by your Dog Befriending Skills

    Show 848: Nobody is Impressed by your Dog Befriending Skills
    Apr 19 2025
    Neal discusses the logistiics of handling raw chicken on bathroom visits, an experiment for your next ATM visit, workplace pneumatic tube messaging etiquette, an AI veterinary assistant versus a talking dog, a carpet-based vacation concept, improving your child’s scream accuracy, getting bitten at a sleepover, vinyl records, vinyl floor-covering, a urinal advisory for Dublin’s Blackrock Shopping Centre, this podcast in the newspapers, what replaced the dodo, making messenger birds less messy, queues versus dotted lines, a dog mismeasuring speed, navigating a whale’s insides, healing a whale from within, ancient bile medicine, CD changers versus coal cellers versus car doors, a partial defence of dogs and bats, opposite Columbus mnemonics for US kids, the Nordic Noir crime dramaas craze, Bang Bang and other street characters of Dublin’s past, U2 versus Aslan, Scooby Doo reboots and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's now a lightweight alt 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    53 mins
  • Show 847: Going Nowhere Slowly

    Show 847: Going Nowhere Slowly
    Apr 6 2025
    Neal discusses beaches spontaneously turning to concrete, a parent's head replacement disclosure dilemna, a busman's holiday in jail, the case for going nowhere slowly, alien visitor respitory concerns, home expansion slot systems, garage modules, attic rooms, defining a shed, beech house owners, parental supervision from a beach-adjacent mountain, billionairre hot air balloon bouncing, dark times on children's TV shows, Record Breakers (BBC), Roy Castle, Roy Castle, Norris and Ross McWhirter, owning headphones in prison , memorable childhood insect death, recognising a power washer, flood cleanup sock confidence, the gap between sea and space, airship interior mysteries, orvilles, space boats and the horizon, how sand insects outwit humans in fights, selling cigarettes to a cat for editorial balance, choosing cigarettes for visiting dignitaries in 2025, a cat reveals Pope Benedict Emeritus XI's cigarette branding fandom and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's now a lightweight alt 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    56 mins
  • Show 846: Not Too Many Ems On The Outside

    Show 846: Not Too Many Ems On The Outside
    Mar 19 2025
    Neal EXPOSES how motorists are disappearing in a secret holding pattern, MAKES the case for appetisers for a better drip feed regime, EXPLAINS how things that skip generations are never lost, SHOWS how statues of rubber things can demolish boundaries, DEVELOPS a new folding building bricklaying technique in real time, RECALLS a decade watching a boat grow in a driveway and DISCUSSES listener dog segment consumption notes, emergency landings on Street Cleaning Night, life behind your unopend eyelids, mapping a closed fridge, shameful mathematician verbal habits, the condition Boy Scout Neck, the post knot era, wireless charging versus childrearing. an unexpected song from the musicals, rescuing harmonicas, tandem design, brick design, Muppet helmet design, cloning the historic Bray Town Hall McDonalds, selling your regenerated body double, how architects work, helmet design for animal Muppets and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LOW BITRATE EDITION: There's now a lightweight alt 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 more shows on Archive dot org.
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    1 hr
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