Episodes

  • Show 864: The Label Literal Monster Created in Frankenstein’s Lab Carries Baggage

    Show 864: The Label Literal Monster Created in Frankenstein’s Lab Carries Baggage
    Nov 24 2025
    Neal examines the logistics of running away to join a circus, wonders how Einstein adapted to American breakfasts, considers the sociology of onster communes, creates a case study in witness memory unreliability, compares your cat cam with the Mars Curiosity Rover, opens up about the next step in his twenty years of harmonica growth and discusses standing up to hydration shaming, things to consider if you're offered a trip in a lifeboat, how cats reset after a house move, what this podcast can't provide for your child, a Netflix to VHS pipeline, wrapping your lunch in sheet metal, politeness on cheques, psychic detectives, Starbucking (2006), circus branch networks, a Now 16 album update, handling dry ice, geometry of a dog, anatomy of a coffee table, dimensionality of a double cassette album,Frankenstein related branding problem, amplifying a cat in the jungle, caffeination on planes, how co-pllots gain experience, toy dogs and pageants, Paddy versus Patty, Schrödinger the lunatic, parrots versus AI for podcast cloning, fond memories of failing Chemistry, dry ice versus freezer burn, a new era for the harmonica element of the show, The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman), swimming like a cross continent sprinter, Forest Gump (1994), adapting am-dram theatre licensing to podcasting and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 24 mins
  • Show 863: The Pelican Brie is Not a Typo

    Show 863: The Pelican Brie is Not a Typo
    Nov 11 2025
    INeal reluctantly calls for a boycott of mezzanine levels, reveals what microchip factories can teach us about mouths, vigorously defends those who call human children kids, recalls a disturbing scene from Family Guy, outlines how death row equipment could be better used in headphone design, previews your Meals on Wheels years and discusses an Inception theory of music radio, disposable one-a-day wireless earphones, Toyota's cat litter warning light, standing desks and the people who use them, the mysterious process of flossing, milk from a Milton bottle, pockets for dogs, Family Guy versus Air Crash Investigation, Sully's formative years, crop dusters, peanuts as wages, posing with a Connemara pony, when car interiors were sacred, black and white cat photography, instant camera mysteries, the case for black printer paper, managing permanent hat hair, why marketeers are looking into your mouth, Sonny Bono and / or Ike Turner, Groundhog Day, squirrels on the national curriculum, a school tour to nowhere, Winter Solstice at Newgrange, a school visit to a brewery, regulating dopamine use by content creators, Boston Legal and Fringe on the Boston skyline, hoping Boston hasn't changed, the reverse mortgage of podcast segments and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 862: Very Little of This is Your Cat’s Fault

    Show 862: Very Little of This is Your Cat’s Fault
    Oct 26 2025
    In a movie length episode Neal considers decomissioning panic rooms, why hotwiring might be a myth, how Mother Nature downgrades caterpillars, spaceship exteriors, why modern ensuites are more secure, rethinking grout, The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Philip K Dick, life in a black hole, a new bottle tops regime, landfills and airspace, silage around the world, phasing out the M word, how to walk partially around a block, personal height news, a crane's eye view of your feet, communal beer pitchers, hotpress home brew, why beer is wasted on children, panic room design terminology, road maps with air traffic overlays, your podcast nutrition regime, handbaskets, hangbaskets, flash freezing furniture mysteries and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 25 mins
  • Show 861: Are Cartoon Eyeballs Incubating the Next Pandemic?

    Show 861: Are Cartoon Eyeballs Incubating the Next Pandemic?
    Sep 29 2025
    Neal looks at life lessons from the egg and spoon race, making sense of ninjas, lunatics illicitely climbing cranes, true mouth to mouth broadcasting, fostering a culture of elevator hitchhiking, built-in guitars, dishwashing at mass, harmonica terminology, Now That's What I Call Music 16, the trouble with cartoon eyes, why an accidental dog hero is not a hero, what you'r'e missing about pockets, podcasts that talk literal shit, Trading Places (1983), Russia's Space Ark, reinventing Sunday school, coptic sunroofs, pasta in the morning and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 18 mins
  • Show 860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This

    Show 860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This
    Sep 13 2025
    Neal reminisces on how a terrifying boiler house was once serene, traces the suprising number of life stages that come after old age, considers leaving your mind to science without donating your brain, makes the argument for cryogencially freezing kitchen waste and discusses hacking overnight toilet breaks for better caffeination, how Einstein's maths addiction might have escalated, how one simple chair could transform your home life, how one sophisticated chair could transform Kill Bill Volume II (2004), some Cat Inter Estate Super Highway Wall news from the old neighbourhood, explaining toilets to future historians, being an OCD surgeon before hygiene was discovered, equipping Roal Dahl's garden shed and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 8 mins
  • Show 859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog?

    Show 859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog?
    Aug 25 2025
    In a feature length episode Neal defends his pronunciation of typer writer, talks you through waking up on an operating table, shows how an only child leads an only dog astray, scrutinises the practicalities of turning the other cheek, explains how your miniaturised cat experiments are driving friends away, advises on cat dialogue for screenwriters, reinvents the Apple 1 and discusses making mistakes on typewriters, living in a giant replica of your own home, Downsized (2017), Britpop songs about solvent abuse, Falling Down (1993), JRR Tolkien, JR Tolkien, world war one nomenclature, why the dentist is more fun than you remember, car halves welded together, where Ireland houses endangered species and heads of state, how three dragons ran for Ireland's presidency, toy radios, ice cream van theories, rabies on the dog spectrum, phobia treatments, internal iron lungs, the third coming of Iceland, car manuals versus ark instructions, nursing homes for podcasters, what fire hydrants are for, memories of not being taught Civics, what happens to people to make them appreciate Shakespeare, Heathcliffs and Pips in popular culture and quite a bit more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 23 mins
  • Show 858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection

    Show 858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection
    Aug 5 2025
    Neal ponders the practicalities of being Greek god of thunder, reveals why air crash survivor guilt is a good thing, worries about your supermarket trolley deposit, explains what palaeonthologists and NASA could learn from Winston Churchill and discusses the true meaning of last meals on death row, screaming on roller coasters, hedge trimming beside live power lines from a helicoptor, tuning forks, harmonica progress, Dame Vera Lynne, oldtime anarchic BBC radio comedy, dog evolution, a childhood memory of impressive police notetaking, milk rounds in the 2020s, elite special forces bin lorries, biblical pillars of salt, your first day as a billionaire, life in a bookcase, why small confectionery items should not be called bites, hydration versus lubrication, reinventing quarries, living in a shed and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 1 min
  • Show 857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega

    Show 857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega
    Jul 28 2025
    Neal grudgingly gives a dog some credit, issues a stark warning about video game points, considers the reported last words of Mother Teresa, prescribes a mental workout involving your bathroom window, recalls a true childhood tale of lucky bags and death at the sweet shop and discusses predictable circus routes, a 1974 Twin Towers tightrope walk, winning the lottery at birth, poker faces on Star Trek, unwarranted pokers in the home, Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up with Kate Bush, Metallica's post rehab documentary, the relative melodies of Guns 'n' Roses, first time parents at school gates, sports helmets, your post Covid return to the office, clock-in technique, blinkers for office workers, Queen's Was It All Worth It, why magicians use saws, biblical leprosy and more. CONTACT THE SHOW - Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There's also a low bitrate edition - For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. 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 1 min