Into Your Head

Show 890: Soliciting Your Reflection’s Approval

Neal dismantles an offensive myth surrounding Conan O’Brien’s head, thinks a little too much about reservoirs, ponders how to choose a kitchen sieve for your bathroom, recalls a memory of a horse’s head on a stick, offers wardrobe advice for news readers, asks why you’re still paying someone to touch your head and touches upon how to talk to your reflection, faces on cave paintings and Mr Men characters, the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, why you’re ironing t-shirts you idiot, the spare head donation chain, seeing yourself through a taxi driver’s eyes, getting your sweaty palms read, catering for Toy Story’s maturing audience, Harry Potter’s on screen death 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 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Show 889: Shallow as the Spoon on Your Swiss Army Knife

Neal offers tips on scrubbing in for raw poultry prep, critiques the photography choices of the Andes cannibal plane crash survivors, imagines how a horse would fare in a school gymnasium, questions Switzerland’s branded pocket weaponry monopoly, goes over the perennial flying car branding problem, ditto the unsolved problem of dipped headlights in the air,, demands a correction to car seat terminology, recalls a time when writing involved drilling holes in furniture, asks which pocket you use for lit tobacco pipe storage, considers why baby Hitler hasn’t been killed yet, or has he, wonders if people de-tooth their dogs, explains why throwing a dog at you is never warranted, ponders greyhound track rabbit design and discusses muzzles in film, wearable wings for pilots, fast food wings, running in the corridor outdoors, putting office workers on a pedestal, Hannibal Lecter, baby Hitler versus a kitten 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 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Show 888: When Should You Season Your Cat Food?

Neal questions the viability of musically gifted twins, wonders about pet bear taxidermy, shows how to guard against identify theft with your mind, warns about weaponised weather smalltalk, decides where a proposed World Highway should start, designs a more palatable alternative to Shrodinger’s experiment, compares France’s Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triomph with their Dublin counterparts, reveals the one situation when you might consider seasoning your cat food, advises on how to get the best out of your pharmacist, wonders if a reasonably intelligent dog can understand our postal system, provides a harmonica taster of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, sets out the pros and cons of Bob Geldof and deals with fly on the wall murder documentaries, how to make your exercise equipment last forever, what to ask your alleged murderer, criminal calling cards, where the continent of Europe ends, The Weather Channel movie of the week, reusing house numbers, locating the sun, Radiohead’s Creep, Hansel and Gretel, The Brothers Grim, The Coen Brothers, The (arrogant) Righteous Brothers, how to insult a harmonising vocalist, The Proclaimers, bringing things back from America, The Boomtown Rats 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 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Show 887: Walk the Four Minute Mile, Don’t Run It

Neal makes the case for casting music to your unoccupied car, shows how to convince your plastic surgeon there’s something worth saving, asks if the bakers’s dozen is nonsense, wonders if there was any place for dogs in the Stone Age, casts an eye over your child’s igloo and sandcastle design, deconstructs the four minute mile, exposes the double life of cartoon dogs, goes over the history of travelling on wheels and looks at The Chuckle Brothers, The Chuckle Hounds, why the baker’s dozen is nonsense, what the meek have for breakfast, why you should carry a photo of your bank in case of emergency 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 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Show 886: Twenty Years of Tripe (With an Asterix)

Neal marks the twentieth anniversary (with an asterix) of Into Your Head podcast, recalls the aardvark plumbing wars, warns against leaving a fan on for burglars, looks at whether a dog can walk itself on a leash, remembers with disgust trying rabbit lasagne, wonders what a boudoir of commerce is, takes the Moon down a peg or two, advises on what to do if you drop cash on the pavement, goes over the practicalities of multi course breakfasts, reviews the first Seasonal Affective Disorder case on Mars, tries to grasp neighbourhood tree boundary etiquette, ditto downstairs toilet bidet norms, changes his mind about mezzanine levels, speculates about whether Stephen King is forced to write double-space and looks at a dog’s rights in the civil courts, dog licensing versus TV licensing, the pitfalls of marking your banknotes, using an attic for parking, NASA’s mobile quarantine unit, the Angelus on TV, reinventing the take-out coffee, disease outbreaks in procedural dramas, the show Doc, swapping a astronaut out for one who looks the same, why cat burglars are called that, toy cat breeds, incorrect opinions about Dublin’s Georgian architecture, shorthand notepad sizes, refill pads,  wasted space under a model railway table, underground trains versus rabbits, natural dog food with recognisable body parts, paw versus foot 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 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.