Neal wonders how Dougie Howser’s career would have gone with a face tattoo, advises on recognising a fake glasses and moustache, sets out the argument for rectangular coins, imagines how a King Charles Dog could wreck stamp collecting, explains why a spare bedroom can never be a spare surgery, advises on scrubbing your mouth, considers the impracticalities of a global tribe of cat owners, proposes a revolutionary ten year compulsory briefcases mandate for school children, recalls a delicious looking dog’s ear and more. VISIT 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.

Neal explores the delicate diplomacy of carrying a motorbike side car passenger, spends some time addressing the bee keepers in the audience, illustrates how a cat handles a passive aggressive bar man, advises on minimising your total lifetime camera exposure, wonders if dog whistles and cricket noises work the same way, makes the case for calling trouser legs sleeves, wonders if crickets sweat and why it doesn’t kill them, recalls a surprising wildlife experience triggered by Beavis and Butthead, carefully notes the spare room’s emergency coughing options, discovers an old bedside lamp worthy of Freddie Mercury, applies some common sense to baggy trouser design, bemoans the new expanded definition of literal, imagines how supermarkets police the lard aisle, makes the case for police audio mug shots and looks at why life is scary with a QR code on your vehicle, Last of the Summer Wine, vehicles that get mistaken for roadworks, tyres versus helmets, Little House on the Prairie, the trouble with dry herb labels, slow cookers, cling film on the barbeque and more. VISIT 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

Neal shares everything he knows about counting sheep, evaluates the modern hermit, wonders why office sitcoms exist, re-evaluates everything we know about dragons, finally understands why youngsters need emoticons, goes over a key difference between paper aeroplanes and paper ships, guesses at what archeologists do when they tire of digging, addresses people listening in dungeons, plots the next steps for a typing trillionaire, issues a start warning about wearing shoes, recalls an afternoon spent with security at a Toronto airport, reveals the one topic that makes his face itchy, makes the case for dog-faced commercial aircraft, asks if your weekend is proprietary information and looks at creating music on an office keyboard, Paul McCartney’s misery at having written Yesterday, a song that goes Inch by inch Row by row, a unique nativity play experience, an outbreak of fidgeting, about infinity pools and eternity pools, what happens after school bullies take your tablet, how to prevent handmedown clothes shame and more. VISIT 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.

Neal addresses the perennial question of whether sugar is a vegetable, asks if dogs can get spoken word ear worms from podcasts, flags a potential Kermit situation in the world of stop motion animation, recalls a hellish era when Irish adolescents couldn’t access music, advocates giving soup eaters a handicap, ponders life in a prison misdemeanours gang, looks at how to apply your crossword solving skills to real world problems, goes over the classic trolley problem with a local overlay, changes his own mind in real time about spaghetti hoops, explores what happens when a cat orders soy milk in a bar, compares the words Lidl and Aldi for usability, wonders how much of bathroom smartphone use is waiting to vomit, advises on what to say when asked if you’re living at home, recommends off-road shopping carts for Lidl Arklow, assesses where Shithead falls on the derogatory names scale, makes the argument against reusing first and second names, recalls unknowingly performing double entry bookkeeping at the same venue as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, recounts the first time hearing an American say herb, tries to count the guitar players in The Beatles, offers some advice for true crime fans, asks whether angst laden teens were better served by Dublin’s bench hogging poet or Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, exposes the dangers of getting a prolapsed rectum from public benches, assesses the ongoing reinvention of the bicycle and why the next step must be the wheel, uncovers a unappetising connection between trouser presses and french style baguettes and more. MENTIONED – Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fakeby Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding  VISIT 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.

Neal explains the flight simulator windscreen wiper dilemma, bemoans the poor design of the human lower skull, wonders if it’s lawful for dogs to eat themselves, compares Schubert’s The Trout to Masterchef Junior, recalls early childhood experiences of cutlery and daisies, considers why you’d play pitch and putt on a full size golf simulator, frets about his motives for raising a hand in an RDS exam hall three decades ago, wonders why you’d start a city near a swamp, remembers Tiger Woods’ name surprisingly swiftly, links his childhood self image to Dublin’s old gasometer tanks, remembers Ian Dury and the Blockheads, pinpoints where cats fall on Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and looks at how motorists bank their hill climbing progress, understanding the American prom experience through situation comedies, the AA, the other AA, the AAA, advice for procedural drama producers and quite a bit more.  VISIT 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.

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#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts

#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts

#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts

Neal takes the so-called grilled cheese sandwich down a peg or two, recommends a new way to use toothpaste, explains why it's someone else's turn to watch the news now, asks if not seeing the shark really makes it scarier, wonders how long you're going to live, sheds light on the higher power of convenience foods, assesses the outcome of last week's dog segment ban and discusses sugar stick assembly, how Cat and Barman meet in dreams, life before and after abandoning saucers, post-credits cinema meditation, waiting outside Downton Abbey for a visitor, horse edibility, pills versus peanuts, the trouble with exercise bicycling and tread-milling, spitting in private, applying butter in a vacuum, the International Space Station, Outposts on the Frontier by Jay Chladek, meat versus anatomy, Saddam Hussein's video messages, what happens if you discover oil while out walking, an accidental tile vandalism memory, hiding commuters underground, how bar segregation becomes infinitely compounded, vaping versus vaxing, what became of Kill Bill's killed Bill, transparent memo tubes in offices, Duel (1971) and more. VISIT 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.

Neal explains how it's possible to be of sound mind yet not think about buffet breakfasts much despite your name being Buffet, and looks at the armpits of the leg world, the human trunk, the argument for smoking assistance dogs, toe stubbing advice for people just starting a family, TV gas safety commercials, why toe models worry too much, the inherent problem with shoe industry toe stubbing statistics, how edible helmets might help so-called mad cows, watching a field being built, contributing to a 1980s mural, hurling, tykes and louts, casual jackets, casualty jackets, the trouble with hand pockets, greed versus gluttony, Wall Street (1988) and more. As mentioned, INTO YOUR HEAD - LOW BITRATE EDITION can be found in Pod LP or followed in any other app: see IntoYourHead.ie/archive. VISIT 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.

Neal reviews his list of helpful animal TV shows with surprising additions, illuminates the double life of the consultant surgeon, looks at the pros and cons of taking pets through Customs in stasis, explores pre-surgery bathing, considers how Australians feel about how we feel about their popular culture, reveals why he seldom speaks his own name on this show, explains why you must never cut your dog's tail off even when flying, exposes a possible synergy between end times preppers and amateur astronomers, remembers life in the second millennium and discusses the Coyote prey realism problem, the trouble with war games, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, childish medicine packaging, not sidewalks, breakdown rescue, dogs as bus branding, making discount mushy peas palatable, the dark history of frontal lobe lobotomies, why doctors shouldn't have books, bars of soap, an important note about Irish Spring, why your underground shelter needs a window, handling raw poultry and road runner meat, Quantum Leap, Michael Landon in Highway to Heaven, CSI Miami, CSI Kids, The Safety Dance in Grand Theft Auto, Phil Spector, Rolf Harris and more. VISIT 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.

Neal wonders how dog rehab works, goes over what happens when you leave hospital without clothes, documents a decades old fake cinema facade with which you might identify, recalls the last time he learned something (2003), asks if opposable thumbs are worth the trouble, issues a stark warning about your waste disposal contraption, clarifies how Lighthouse entrance halls work, considers how emergency services deal with prayer related accidents, ponders whether abolishing Limbo will embolden it and discusses the phrase TMI, the song Yer Old by Reef, your longevity as a far future listener on Archive dot org, how a dog might fall out of a car, salt water accidents on land, ER scissors extravagance, In the Name of the Father (1993), half of Queen plus Paul Rodgers, an American Idol host clarification, public buildings with no walls, old school Monopoly, how a well meaning dog struggles to mind it's own business, what US satellite radio can teach you about how to listen to this show and more. VISIT 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 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.

Neal maps the future of the traditional white haired action villain, explains why governments would love to mandate toe typewriters, tries to describe a mysterious part of Dublin's city centre using Theoretical Physics, conjures a talking cat to explain the mechanics of speaking without vocal cords, defends Edwyn Collins’ incorrect inflexions in Addidas World, relates a defining childhood moment involving a very special word, worries about toilet brush design, proposes a unifying theory for the Terminator movies, illuminates the dark side of cartoon dogs, wonders how you go about decaffeinating something, relates how bread vans triggered an ambulance phobia, remembers when the name AA1 Aardvark used to mean something and looks at tastefully rebooting Die Hard, what cats hear when we say anti disestablish mentarianism (last time I used that word without breaks in it, it broke the feed), why dog beds are nonsense, The Ant and the Aardvark, why The Animals of Farthing Wood is unsuitable for children, Jellystone and other hideous cartoon reboots, a piece of student infrastructure resembling an ancient royal litter, fines for swearing in Demolition Man (1993), schooling in the twenty-second century, the surprising logistics of walking computers and more. VISIT 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.

SLIGHTLY CRACKLY SOUND IN PLACES. Neal considers how to talk to your child about Devil Gate Drive, explains how the bow and arrow were the Dark Ages equivalent of a kid with glasses, reveals the best career to pursue for omnipresence, explores the logistics of being seen dead in an IKEA, celebrates his old dinosaur mirror's scientific endorsement and looks at a 1980s music warning label, tricycle tyre alchemy, life in a Dyson Sphere, Haley's Comet, Haley's father, The SuperVet (Channel 4 UK), off-camera unheard interviewers, Designated Survivor (Netflix), operating your two wheeled no legs dog, an unexpected advantage of noisy joints, the Ask Jeeves mascot, three hours stuck in a rail tunnel, rain from the heavens via space, societal attitudes to desserts, improving how you donate coffee to homeless citizens and more. VISIT 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 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.