Into Your Head

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.

Neal recreates some special moments from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. advises on talking to adults about your dead arm, wonders if you should add blood to your hydration regime, provides an overview of the human-dog-dinosaur societal overlay structure and discusses wardrobe culture, smalltalk in the information age, standout past wardrobes, a surprising life lesson from Breaking Bad, slow readers, slow watchers, Bill Hicks versus Denis Leary, boxing style weigh-ins for firefighters, George Michael, Robbie Williams, not Robin Williams, rules for calling yourself Robert, why dinosaur burial sites are not sacred, who stands to gain from reclassifying Pluto and Brontosauri, seeing Red Bull for the first time, men on TV swallowing pills, bonsai aliens, Pluto's branding problems, dumb dogs of Disney, cartoons in Andromeda, why the modern dog is a sell out, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, how nineties kids navigated their first rave 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 fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.

Neal considers insect consumption norms, identifies a new actor level below extras, exposes a town with a landmark brown stain, confuses the movies Stand by Me and Sleepers, remembers TV's greatest sketch show: classic Sesame Street, invents a self policing public toilet cleanliness system and discusses introducing city kids to rivers and creeks, mixed messaging from a Schwartzenegger branded fly, walking school buses, why you incorrectly think you were home schooled, underground toilet memories, anti salt waiters in popular culture, igniting your gas hob with piped fire, geographic limits on warehouse sizes, listener concerns about warehouse toilet hell endorsements, getting to the creek, the Mr Men book and TV franchise, logistics of recording a talking torso, shit creek without a paddle, one person operated motorbikes versus push and pull trains 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.