Into Your Head

Show 849: Back to the Living Room Before It’s Too Late Neal “remembers” a twenty minute nuclear catastrophe on Ireland’s east coast, compares your cat to an anthropomophic Mars rover, invents the virtual hotel room, probably fails to change your mind about backpacks on trams, recounts his unique challenges as a teenage Queen collector and discusses library sandwich inhalation memories, Owls on Napster, understanding dog whistles. a terrifying bucket, movie “The Walk” (2015), sheet music for whistlers, virtual whistling, earworms in the animal community, how dogs get earworms, life as a non whistler, sheet music for whistlers, skiffle orchestras, briefcase kids, how train windows predict the future, partialy defending earphone non-use, logistics of using Irish government issued iodine tablets, whether Dublin’s Anna Livia radio once did a War of the Worlds style nuclear drama, skiffle bands in space, vacuum cleaners in space, Mother Nature’s human diamond turducken, a very good reason to get back to the living room, maximising your podcast listening without risking electrocution, a plagiarism prevention safeguard, Nicholas Parsons and more. CONTACT THE 8SHOW: 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 discusses the logistiics of handling raw chicken on bathroom visits, an experiment for your next ATM visit, workplace pneumatic tube messaging etiquette, an AI veterinary assistant versus a talking dog, a carpet-based vacation concept, improving your child’s scream accuracy, getting bitten at a sleepover, vinyl records, vinyl floor-covering, a urinal advisory for Dublin’s Blackrock Shopping Centre, this podcast in the newspapers, what replaced the dodo, making messenger birds less messy, queues versus dotted lines, a dog mismeasuring speed, navigating a whale’s insides, healing a whale from within, ancient bile medicine, CD changers versus coal cellers versus car doors, a partial defence of dogs and bats, opposite Columbus mnemonics for US kids, the Nordic Noir crime dramaas craze, Bang Bang and other street characters of Dublin’s past, U2 versus Aslan, Scooby Doo reboots and more, CONTACT THE 8SHOW: 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 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.