Into Your Head

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 [https://IntoYourHead.ie/contact]. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired - See IntoYourHead.ie/Low [https://IntoYourHead.ie/Low]. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site - Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts [https://IntoYourHead.ie/shorts]. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll - Far future humans can find hundreds of shows on Archive dot org.

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 [https://IntoYourHead.ie/contact]. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired - See IntoYourHead.ie/Low [https://IntoYourHead.ie/Low]. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site - Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts [https://IntoYourHead.ie/shorts]. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll - Far future humans can find hundreds of shows on Archive dot org.

Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing school shop, The Hardy Boys and their vehicles, travel logistics on Criminal Minds, iron lungs, Joe Rogan's sensory deprivation tank, Nick Cave's alternative Gladiator II, Naylor's Cove (public baths ruins off Bray Head, County Wicklow), ancient aliens bearing chocolate gifts and more. Book mentioned: To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood by Alice Taylor. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://IntoYourHead.ie/contact]. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired - See IntoYourHead.ie/Low [https://IntoYourHead.ie/Low]. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site - Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts [https://IntoYourHead.ie/shorts]. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll - Far future humans can find hundreds of shows on Archive dot org.

Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat's OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless earphones,actuaries and the Mandela Effect, fresh thinking on bus basements, taking too long to choose a hobby, a career in head stitching, Irish folklore's Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge, the trouble with asking yourself a question, the book I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, the childhood bear hoax, actuary snobbery, pre wired garments, a spontaneous dog, a bootlegging cat,  air conditioning versus guns, navigating American multi layered doors, childhood paper rounds on sitcoms and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://IntoYourHead.ie/contact]. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired - See IntoYourHead.ie/Low [https://IntoYourHead.ie/low]. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site - Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts [https://IntoYourHead.ie/shorts]. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll - Far future humans can find hundreds of shows on Archive dot org.

In a packed hour, Neal discusses work life balance in the American Wild West, making Spielberg's Duel (1971) on an even lower budget, unexplained generational gaps in the wasp community, a simple device that could inadvertently cause you to speak in tongues, why we celebrate cistern noises, vomiting for the privileged, a one size fits all argument for reviving dead languages and people, how to outrun a car, Moses baskets, an international standard system for asking strangers how they are, breakfast and tourism in the American wild west, educational podcasts and brown bread, understanding porridge people, recycling body fat, a branding experiment for wrestling producers, the case fpr audio only concert tickets, the first word ever created, arbitrary dictionary sizes, how to choose a page randomly, trouble with learning a word a day, understanding strangers' accents in the Wild West, whiskey in the pre rocks era, saying dog without a tonsillectomy, a childhood doctor doppleganger of veteran newscaster Charles Mitchell, remembering town centres, a Saint Bernard dog, Bob Newhart and 1990s in-flight entertainment, childhood memories purchasing Butcher's tongue, privacy issues in a language laboratory, why kids are shunning earphones on public transport, early 1980s Thomastown in County Kilkenny, lighting the inside of a mouth and more. CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://IntoYourHead.ie/contact]. LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired - See IntoYourHead.ie/Low [https://IntoYourHead.ie/low]. INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site - Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts [https://IntoYourHead.ie/shorts]. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll - Far future humans can find hundreds of shows on Archive dot org.