Into Your Head

Show 885: How to Synthesise a Blank Look

Neal shares everything he knows about counting sheep, evaluates the modern hermit, wonders why office sitcoms exist, re-evaluates everything we know about dragons, finally understands why youngsters need emoticons, goes over a key difference between paper aeroplanes and paper ships, guesses at what archeologists do when they tire of digging, addresses people listening in dungeons, plots the next steps for a typing trillionaire, issues a start warning about wearing shoes, recalls an afternoon spent with security at a Toronto airport, reveals the one topic that makes his face itchy, makes the case for dog-faced commercial aircraft, asks if your weekend is proprietary information and looks at creating music on an office keyboard, Paul McCartney’s misery at having written Yesterday, a song that goes Inch by inch Row by row, a unique nativity play experience, an outbreak of fidgeting, about infinity pools and eternity pools, what happens after school bullies take your tablet, how to prevent handmedown clothes shame and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie [https://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 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Show 884: Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem

Neal addresses the perennial question of whether sugar is a vegetable, asks if dogs can get spoken word ear worms from podcasts, flags a potential Kermit situation in the world of stop motion animation, recalls a hellish era when Irish adolescents couldn’t access music, advocates giving soup eaters a handicap, ponders life in a prison misdemeanours gang, looks at how to apply your crossword solving skills to real world problems, goes over the classic trolley problem with a local overlay, changes his own mind in real time about spaghetti hoops, explores what happens when a cat orders soy milk in a bar, compares the words Lidl and Aldi for usability, wonders how much of bathroom smartphone use is waiting to vomit, advises on what to say when asked if you’re living at home, recommends off-road shopping carts for Lidl Arklow, assesses where Shithead falls on the derogatory names scale, makes the argument against reusing first and second names, recalls unknowingly performing double entry bookkeeping at the same venue as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, recounts the first time hearing an American say herb, tries to count the guitar players in The Beatles, offers some advice for true crime fans, asks whether angst laden teens were better served by Dublin’s bench hogging poet or Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, exposes the dangers of getting a prolapsed rectum from public benches, assesses the ongoing reinvention of the bicycle and why the next step must be the wheel, uncovers a unappetising connection between trouser presses and french style baguettes and more. MENTIONED – Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding  VISIT IntoYourHead.ie [https://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 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Show 883: The Argument Against Toothache

Neal explains the flight simulator windscreen wiper dilemma, bemoans the poor design of the human lower skull, wonders if it’s lawful for dogs to eat themselves, compares Schubert’s The Trout to Masterchef Junior, recalls early childhood experiences of cutlery and daisies, considers why you’d play pitch and putt on a full size golf simulator, frets about his motives for raising a hand in an RDS exam hall three decades ago, wonders why you’d start a city near a swamp, remembers Tiger Woods’ name surprisingly swiftly, links his childhood self image to Dublin’s old gasometer tanks, remembers Ian Dury and the Blockheads, pinpoints where cats fall on Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and looks at how motorists bank their hill climbing progress, understanding the American prom experience through situation comedies, the AA, the other AA, the AAA, advice for procedural drama producers and quite a bit more.  VISIT IntoYourHead.ie [https://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 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Show 882: Your Homing Pigeons Have Stockholm Syndrome

Neal compares your child to the Mona Lisa, throws a spanner in the works of the stopped clock twice a day cliche, reveals why a TV free family would pivot to compulsory viewing targets, wonders if homing pigeons suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, tries to understand porridge people, recalls the post-war heyday of sugary cereals, tells how to distinguish tea from coffee, proposes cutting out the middle man for manure-based plant nutrients (but it’s not what you think), changes your mind about your apartment that you think is a basement, heralds the return of TV channel nighttime closedown, remembers the era of answering machines in sitcoms and The Twilight Zone, exposes the Orwellian torture of telephony and discusses black packaging on energy drinks and corn snacks, why David Bowie’s death is even more final than hoped, Bowie’s drum and base album and flag wearing, the Breaking Bad bath melting scene and quite a lot more. MENTIONED: Twelve Angry Men (1957), Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie [https://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 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Show 881: Why Pet Snake Owners Are Like That

Neal recalls a justifiable childhood fear of igloos, explains why whistlers should be seen and not heard, celebrates half a century of not learning to swim, invents a way to trick drone enthusiasts while keeping everyone happy,  illuminates the bottom of a well for a short retreat, questions the habits of the owl community, asks why pet snake owners are like that, considers how to fatten yourself up for emergency partial self cannibalism, explains Weetabix and Shredded Wheat cereals and discusses a fear of looking like Roald Dahl, how the Channel Tunnel  miraculously met up in the middle, why wool is unhygienic, walking on the sea bed, prescription snorkels, inability to whistle or snap fingers, unanswered questions about what pigs roll around in, the trouble with Massachusetts’s wooden houses and more. MENTIONED: The Dark Wizard (HBO documentary) and 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie [https://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 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.