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Neal uncovers a massive parallel between Bruce Willis’ The Sixth Sense character and 1960s Muppets precurser Sam and Friends, proposes an ingenius new type of mnemonics that will change your life and discusses the practicalities of shooting yourself in the foot, being obsessed with Sesame Street,  inadequate media explanation of kneecapping, being unimpressed by The […]

Neal discusses Roald Dahl’s shed boundaries, demolishing and redeveloping a mountain, how sculptors manage Phil Lynott and Luke Kelly’s hair, designing a bridge over troubled waters, Henson-Disney’s post merger pre death plans, the trouble with the new generation of kittens, the house of detention, when to use Bob Dylan, a feature request for the sun, […]

Neal delivers an overview of the second hand sock market, considers how a method actor tackles Superman, wonders whether scalding the roof of your mouth would soften your Cs and discusses the presumptiousness of Stan and Ollie (2018), songs from The Producers (1967), how Steve Jobs made phone screems seem real, the trouble with real crime docu-dramas, […]

Neal considers how a cat learns to smoke in the current regulatory environment, explains your child’s hunger for paramilitary-style balaclavas and discusses risky versus risqué, Jesus’ disastrous impact on local fishing, changing atitudes to water bombs, edible versus digestible, Inbred fish sandwiches, why lay ministers can’t wipe, using Buddah’s name in vain, landfills versus volcanoes, anatomy […]

Neal puts beekeeping under the spotlight, recounts an old cat-related head injury, imagines how normal people say “dog” and discusses bin day in a Stephen King novel, belch fraud, virus creation hobbiests, anti meditation vigiilantism, unsubscribing, unsubs, ONSUG, how Criminal Minds helps podcasts, turning a juggernaut around, listener correspondence, dog movements versus bowel movements, dandruff versus nits […]

Neal discusses what they did to Craig Ferguson, humanoid cats fraternising with regular cats, what to do if your president freezes, elastic band fracture science, a deep dive on overthinking, interpretating foreign languge gestures, how non wilful ignorance works, Irish kids who reference the feds, hotdesking on procedural dramas, why the second cat never features […]

Neal examines what we know about farm animal cravings, contemplates career progression in a firm of guitarists, reimagines Sinéad O’Connor’s SNL pope photo protest, exposes the restaurant toothpick scam and discusses humanely expelling a wasp, why movie trailors shouldn’t be free, recreational self injury (non-psychotic), rib geneology, taking the weight off your hands, comparable dog […]

Neal proposes a twelve step approach to ET and discusses nine to five life for the shipwrecked, anti-social astronauts, saving on invisible ink, how raisons d’etre work, the truth about gout, a new understanding of you Americans, learning from Orson Welles, modesty on public transport, spitting in the theatre of the mind, why x-ray glasses […]

Neal discusses black boxes in popular culture, a role for camels in health spas, TV casket reunions, ambidextrous banking, a foot-related tip for smokers, a cat’s analysis of the songs of Genesis, wishful thinking about superjet lounges, recording off TV in 2024, songs about administrative work, a cat’s take on Peter Gabriel’s career phases, telling […]

Neal exposes the abhorrent life of the cranberry sauce obsessive, remembers a disturbing mass produced heart surgery portrait and discusses whiskey in sit-coms, two very different ways to appreciate crabs, why dogs’ mouths are impractical, Stephen King’s so called stand, a bus tour of nondescript houses, the cost of hand washing, skipping rope philosophy via […]

Neal makes an empassioned case for the return of the sitcom theme song, considers assembling a whale stomach survival kit, provides a brief orientation for new listeners, has a go at defining the parameters for a study of the interchangeability of potato and chicken skins, proposes a Russian doll solution to the property crisis and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Neal discusses explaining Pink Floyd to a cat, understanding the Middle East, how parrots work, cars that are very wide and very short, how to dress a performing seal, Chevies, levees, levies, Daewoo, the building layout in Cheers, imagining what it’s like to have undiagnosed haemorrhoids, advice for U.S. homeowners, Led Zeppelin’s creative process, using […]

Neal presents a new original Quentin Tarantino dialogue about a bank heist of a bulding that once housed Robin Island jail (tasteful), and discusses assisting an elephant with self exploration, a bland thing that you’re sucking on all day, mapping your face, addressing the far-future listener as ancestor, a non-corporeal Maître D’ versus a cat, […]

Neal discusses Bivouacs, shoes in radio dramas, traversing North Korea, how to talk to your child about podcasting, the phrase teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs, urinal troughs on trains, inventing the commuter picnic, cartoons about puppets, attitudes to scarecrows, curing the listener’s pencil sickness, major life lesson from Man Versus Food, how a bishop moves […]

Neal discusses what happens to your child if they listen to this, what your cat does to feel alive, how to organise a legalised crime purchase regime, reporting future cold cases, Demolition Man (1993), prepping your child for an era of burning and drowning, how to row your dog, Dinasaur versus Alien, an horrific nursery rhyme. forty years of […]

Neal discusses things to consider when falling to Earth, the impenetrable mechanics of swatting a fly, victim-blaming a fly, nondescriptness, a dog’s attempts to line it’s stomach, why the Littlest Hobo should learn better posture, why dinosaurs could have been pets, assessing the moon’s flammability, a fly relates to Billy Joel’s No Man’s Land, how air crash investigators […]

Neal discusses a problem he has in common with Beatle Paul McCartney, a surgeon and a tree surgeon comparing notes, truly hollow fruits, the body as a trickle down economy, doctors berating the comatose, the very worst thing to take on a plane, manicure and footwear logistics for upright cats, cranberry sauce nuts, outsourcing your […]

In a podcast laden with twists and nail-biting revelations as we sit in on a jail-hardened dog’s parole review, Neal considers what an M and M is, Mother Nature’s periodic landscapes, a doctor’s views on bi-directional blackboard scraping, the dog bitch to dog Hitler ratio, dog parole board makeup, the French resistance on ‘Allo ‘Allo […]

In the first show of 2024 Neal discusses the term “west brit”, Trevelyan, a cat avoiding New Year’s beer scams, a dog’s dealings with the registrar of deaths and stuff, defining hella dodgy, Hurricane Charlie mountain memories, songs about meatloaf, accepting that toilets trigger thirst, Chas and Dave but not Status Quo, realities of building […]

In a Christmas special culminating in the heartwarming story of a foulmouthed fake Santa who holds up bars, Neal discusses face cloth enthusiasts, introducing your child to A Clockwork Orange (1972), conversations with a working dog, a guide to shooting yourself in the foot, dogs in soap operas, how parenting ends, a deleted undersea mountain […]

Neal discusses reassuring a fast food operative who’s seen Michael Douglas in Falling Down (1993), the trouble with one-way vocal chords, whodunnits at mass, thoughts of a depressed eternal dog, bar security’s guide to aging a cat, a new way to deliver heating oil, misinterpreting a blue moon, temporal extradition, custody of a padlock, cat linguistics, commissioning the word bespoke, […]

eal discusses sit-com bunk bed envy, takey-offey parachutes versus landy parachutes, a dignified way to kill off libraries, eternal peanuts, where cabaret fits in the grand scheme of things, a curtailed feed remnant advisory for returning listeners, fooling yourself with documentaries, Everest without a Walkman, measuring hell-broken-loose levels, steamboats and whitewashing, long distance stewing, casting then […]

In an 800th episode during which he may have overdone the energy drinks somewhat, (although the Cat Stevens part is true) Neal exposes a gaping loophole for toddler movie producers and discusses merry-go-rounds versus the events depicted in The Deer Hunter (1978), what he learned in his days in a Dublin boxing arena, achieving immortality by […]

Neal discusses the imaginary listener’s secret existential crisis, approximating the taste of grass for the discerning diner, a new way to measure your height, whether crosswords count as relaxation, changing atitudes to chimneys, what’s under your face, the first humans ever to see a bridge, canal tow-path horse height issues, harmonica design mysteries, Lovely Daaaaaaaaaay […]

In an hour culminating in an elightening explanation, using the story of his recently departed mother’s 1950s or early 1960s Atlantic crossing, of how silence works, Neal discusses why animals need to become gardeners, your chances of getting a pharmacist to sell you tea or paracetemol or cocaine, the movie “Downsizing”, quicksand on a playing […]

Neal discusses turning against Tom Hanks, a cat versus Pope Benedict XVI, Apple Pencils in banks, turning against Monopoly, a beverage based on some woman off Deep Space Nine, misexplaining Occupy Wall Street, off-air cat songs, debriefing a temporary cat, why you should have something wrong with you, fonts in the blood, transmitting barmen over […]

Neal discusses filling a bath from the bottom, an anti-prelude, harmonica haters, witchhunts under Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, isolated tool-blaming, the case for (domestic) cats vomiting on each other, QED memories, a particularly taxing song for harmonica, what to drink in a vomitorium, understanding bass guitar operators, misunderstanding Queen’s John Deacon, vomitorium enthusiasts in academia, […]

Neal deals with how head transplants do or don’t work, cinematography of Pope John Paul II and Oscar Schindler, how donkeys are processed hygenically, the problem with Steve Jobs RIP, a cat purchasing fake magic in a laundrette, elephants in a library, the problem with the human digestive system, surviving a long weekend in prison, what […]

Neal discusses pre-recorded bungee jump commentary, training podcast listeners, fighting fire with actual fire, gorillas in the news, PC disposal vesus bear disposal, finding a milkman in 2023, life as a margarine factory line foreman, the real reason for the seven year hiatus, how a cat verifies podcast listeners, that excellent ten-part drama about either […]

Archival Note: Into Your Head podcast initially ran from 2006 to 2016, then went away for seven years. it returned in Autumn 2016. Neal officially unretires Into Your Head podcast after seven years! Topics include the brief interlude since 2016’s Show 792,  a prodical son, how lemonade works, coffee shop marzipan violence, a civilised summons, single use […]

Archival Note: Into Your Head podcast initially ran from 2006 to 2016, then went away for seven years. it returned in Autumn 2016. This is Show 792A – Labelled as 792.5 in some systems. Original description: A short test transmission as Into Your Head prepares to emerge from it’s brief seven year absence. Show 793 […]

Archival Note: Into Your Head podcast initially ran from 2006 to 2016, then went away for seven years. it returned in Autumn 2016. This episode was the last one before the (then unexpected) interlude. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive […]

_________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive dot org STASH 1: Go to Archive dot org and search for: Into Your Head podcast Neal O’Carroll. This will bring up all random uploads by myself over the years as well as the […]

Pies for minors, hiring a pilot, Paint Monsters, prepping a hair bal and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive dot org STASH 1: Go to Archive dot org and search for: Into […]

The racist listener, ear wax theatre and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive dot org STASH 1: Go to Archive dot org and search for: Into Your Head podcast Neal O’Carroll. This […]

Deconstructing a pyramid, controlling the sun, nutrition advice for zombies and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive dot org STASH 1: Go to Archive dot org and search for: Into Your Head […]

How hospital staff access your legs, reading notes to yourself in real time, thinking with a sore neck, something about cows, something about the end of the world, something about a dog in a vomitorium and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even […]

Original description reads “A short comeback episode to start a new season of Into Your Head, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland” Eye roll. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive dot org STASH 1: Go to Archive dot org […]

Misunderstanding baseball, legislating for beverage-recycling, how to pre-own a plumbing tool, emergency cat names, defining a trialogue, toughening your brain toughness training, eradicating philistines, wheelie bin leasing issues and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease […]

Pancakes and ashes, cloning a toaster, self inflicted sock-stuffing, how to cook a Universe, playing with adhesives, second-guessing a smoke detector, Louis Armstrong at The Sphinx, the problem with drops, how to throw an analogy out the window and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive […]

The problem with time, anatomy of a comb, The Penn and Teller of the Cat World, Gymnasticians, A career in toothpaste design, A giant hole / Robert De Niro, underestimating your own intelligence and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, […]

Placebo aviation, amateur surgery, the argument against fiction, podcasts as penance, mice in zoos, the dirty little secret behind inanimate objects, the battle for damp skin, home made beverages and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. There’s also a classic episode of Athy Weekly World News with Shainne Greoige. _________________ These shows remain […]

hy Top Gear won’t use my cats, how to ask for a helicopter, The link between space exploration and accountancy training, how to avoid offending a glove puppet operator, non-expiring Near Year greetings, remembering “Eat the Peach” and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot […]

In-cat purchases, Meatloaf’s tin foil issues, energy drink placebos, cats in Bethlehem, working in a Christmas tree factory, making monkey nuts seasonal, Winter sports days, stand-up violence, things that don’t kill you, Elvis’ family tree, repeating everything you’ve ever done, and lots more. It’s the 2014 Christmas special, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. […]

_________________ These shows remain permanently available on Archive dot org, even after the feed, links and websites cease to work: Archive dot org STASH 1: Go to Archive dot org and search for: Into Your Head podcast Neal O’Carroll. This will bring up all random uploads by myself over the years as well as the […]

The grass in France, determining what day it is, how to play Rock Paper Synthesiser, teacup weather science, patronising an inanimate object, selling Baileys by the pint, divvying up the Moon, a classic instalment of Shainne Greoige’s newspaper review and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. _________________ These shows remain permanently available on […]