Into Your Head

Neal makes an empassioned case for the return of sitcom theme songs, assembles a whale stomach survival kit, provides a brief orientation for new listeners, considers parameters for a study of interchangeability of potato and chicken skins, proposes a Russian doll solution to the property crisis and discusses catcher glove anatomy for couriers, the trouble with swimming hats, an extra level between parents and offspring, the baker’s fillet, The Million Dollar Homepage (and Frank from The Overnightscape’s pixels), contact lenses user psychology, a rare blindness rant involving shoving lasers somewhere, how Spielberg boosted your self confidence using intervals, why Batman needs his own genre, a cure for credits overruns on The Office (US TV), Mr Belvedere (US TV), a career in xylophony, AI that swears at you,  Ever Decreasing Circles (BBC TV), how to confuse barman, cat and narrater, cat bar stories on The Moth podcast, dealing with psychics when you’re dead, what happens when your cat inherits or purchases a car, repurposing the rain trouser, trouser knowledge as an IQ measurement and more. Audiobooks mentioned: (not affiliate links, or even links) “438 Days” by Jonathan Franklin, “Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean” by Brett Archibald and “Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea” by Steven Callinan. Low attention span? Shareable snackable shorts via IntoYourHead.ie/Clips Message the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/About License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.” Audiobooks mentioned: (not affiliate links, or even links) “438 Days” by Jonathan Franklin, “Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean” by Brett Archibald and “Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea” by Steven Callanan. Low attention span? Shareable snackable shorts via IntoYourHead.ie/Clips [https://intoyourhead.ie/clips/] Message the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://www.intoyourhead.ie/C] About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/About [https://intoyourhead.ie/A] License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/] – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie [http://intoyourhead.ie/] – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

Neal looks at how dogs instintively guard agains snout detachment, how the savvy traveller uses their tailwind Time Savings, why your burner phone doesn’t make you a loser. Stephen King’s afterlude process, fun toilet cistern disposal methods, the entrhalling possibilities of 360 degree facial philosophy,  a plumbing experiment of which the listener will already knows the outcome, why frostbite stopped being fun, the something very special that the chef made just for you, anticipating a Phil Hartman crimomentary, a confusing  2016 reboot of Falling Down (1993) and I don’t mean Comedian (also 2016), stock motionising this podcast in the style of Morph (BBC) to make it believable, Rome being built in a day and the marketing thereof, pros and cons of tailwind underruns, how to animate The Joker with glass and paint, legitmate dog-related academia, Dropbox settings lessons from Aron Ralston’s canyon self-amputation survial, bookkeepers versus librarians, considering just-in-time logistics for libraries, an Italian chef’s far superiors atitude illustrated by fortune cookie and more. Low attention span? Try these shorts: IntoYourHead.ie/Clips [https://IntoYourHead.ie/clips/] Message the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://www.intoyourhead.ie/C] About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/About [https://intoyourhead.ie/A] License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/] – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie [http://IntoYourHead.ie] – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

Neal illustrates the Mandela Effect phenomenom using Status Quo’s discography, reevaluates Popeye, changes your mind about socks and discusses what we know about helicoptors, how elevators should work, a clever trick for locating a cordless phone with ham, why holes in food are useful, why the sausage thing last time was a bit much, defining the face’s perimeter, the trouble with peeling, why boiled sweets and gum are superfoods, a new way to think about litter, an itch no McDonalds breakfast can scratch and more. Then concludes with some helpful orientation for the recent influx of new listeners, assuming they use the same bus route. CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: The song I mentioned with incorrect tune and incorrect lyric “There’s something going on (repeat ad nauseum)” in fact goes “…stop Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look, what’s going down?” I knew it had t be something along those lines. NEW – Snackable shareable highlights: IntoYourHead.ie/Clips [https://IntoYourHead.ie/clips/] Message the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://www.intoyourhead.ie/C] About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/About [https://intoyourhead.ie/A] License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/] – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie [http://IntoYourHead.ie] – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

Neal discusses popping your Bs, the trouble with playing a zombie, how to purchase free tap water in pubs, BB Max and other nemeses, apple seed myths, the globalisation of bin day, a tip for listeners who don’t enjoy this voice, a card game nation, an entrepreneur’s guide to counting money, why Nickelodeon goes over children’s heads, the trouble with Jack and the Beanstalk, hospitality versus hostelry, Coolio’s big mistake, water on draught, how to store a tonne of bricks, the limitations of the word giraffe, getting the fliuch out of here, Ireland’s new Tasioghiflghiush (prime minister), how to manage your president and more. NEW – Snackable shareable highlights: IntoYourHead.ie/Clips [https://IntoYourHead.ie/clips/] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbMAfSYtOuU&list=PLcifCUZqlTsm4UDjcHGmo_KLsQHaq9xLL&pp=gAQBiAQBMessage the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact [https://www.intoyourhead.ie/C] About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/About [https://intoyourhead.ie/A] License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/] – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie [http://IntoYourHead.ie] – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

Neal takes an objective look at Hansel and Gretel and discusses the trouble with heroin, basement-attic philosophy, the IRA on Everest, the argument against thought experiments, broken leg mysteries, the rainy day myth, advice for News Junkies, Einstein’s dog equation, dog narratives versus dog stories, how a trained actor drinks piss, declaring garden weed to the authorities, pisswaffles, the stroopwaffel era of this podcast (circa 2007), reforming how we name our children, pre-registering your death, registering drugs found in your garden, fairy tale time shiftability, things Einstein presumably explained and more. CLARIFICATIONS: Rev Ian Paisley, deceased DUP leader, was not one of the joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. About Into Your Head: IntoYourHead.ie/A [https://intoyourhead.ie/A] Message the show: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/C [https://www.intoyourhead.ie/C] Neal’s webcomic: MatchstickCats.com [https://matchstickcats.com/] License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/] – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie [http://IntoYourHead.ie] – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”