Into Your Head

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.

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,

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.

Neal adds some colour to the parable of the boy who cried wolf, wonders what it's like to run a combine harvester, tears the so-called leaping Salmon down a peg, reinvents cut-out activities in children's comics, highlights one job missing from every school careers day and considers cave based wardrobe design, mouth based cave design, unsatisfying tree houses, whether soup is eaten or drunk, flying fishing boats, roots and foundations, letting your AI assistant clean your brain, how tow paths helped scouts discover knots, the case for amphibious bicycles, how Star Trek ruined the traditional Two Cats Walk into a Bar story, loops on TikTok, how Roy Orbison cried wolf and more.

Neal discusses demystifying Road Runners and Coyotes, a very bad use of a Maigret paperback, saving a Genesis keyboarist from jury duty, court stenographers versus keyboard players, flying baggage trucks and beyond, commuting on part of Ernest Shackleton's Polar route, Indian Saints who don't eat, pressures that come with switchng to cordials, driving in a cul-de-sac, looped video GIF labels on dashboards buttons, an unlamented childhood bicycle, red rock backdrops, wondering about tuna size, Heston Blumenthol's peas, bussing in Boston, in defence of lifelong non-flyers, oldschool business letters, palacial banks and inward facing malls, dumping fuel on a swimmer, the case for dummy controls on every airline seat, why wheels are natural, pelican verse, life at a polar science base, walking in high winds or zero atmosphere, inadvertently anticipating a 199th birthday, transmitting messages to the future, Back to the Future Part III (1990), a prime example of the pefect segment, admiring the French word for usable, a year-long school screening of Mississippi Burning (1988), atlas bleedthrough, the proposed global highway, podcasters who think they're Aerosmith, dealing with Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, The Faces and their faces, whether Spinal Tap always looked like that and more.

Neal discusses having something in common with Dan Rather, sidewinder glass lengths, the Mandela Effect on Special K (cereal), a memorable brush with law enforcement, one person operated toilets, finding sponsors for death sports, recreational scratching, a special sponge, remembering an old urination segment, the trouble with wheelbarrows, Hamburger Helper, back seat configurations, a new kind of tooth gap, why flying car owners are going to hate us all, why you may have to choose betwen potholing and the Clockwork Organge treatment, potholing versus coalmining, the respecful way to serve a meat pie and more.

Neal discusses whether dogs are cultural appropriators, why Dracula is science fiction, building a house inside a barn, theme park castles, pet spiders, TV dramas The Sullivans, House MD and The Good Doctor, foot deodorant, one simple lie that can bring out the best in your doctor. dog mergers, I Shouldn't Be Alive - S04 E07: Alone in the Amazon, Inception (2010), injurious talcum powder, Little Plum (comic strip, The Beano), why The Godfather Part III (1990) is fine, understanding burglers and dogs, animal entrapment and more.

Neal discusses how to eat a spring roll, cuckoo clock apartments, how many cats an ark needs, how the Mona Lisa ended up like that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly Wagon, where America should house your national TV archive, an unfortunate first impression of Philadelphia, Mountain Dew versus stout, pelicans, puffins and penguins, saying no to Star Wars, Skellig Michael island in Star Wars, a Lego airport, why Star Trek is acceptable, miming in a prison yard, life on a submarine ark, air free tyres and footballs, a reason not to give kids their ball back, how useful is a swimming dog, the traditional ship’s cat, a failed attempt to own bespoke furniture, the truth about LIdl's renovation cycle, dog owners who claim to feed them chocolate, matcho female cats, drinking candi, washing up liquid versus recycled urine versus hot sauce and more. that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly Wagon, where America should house your national TV archive, an  unfortunate first impression of Philadelphia, Mountain Dew versus stout, pelicans, puffins and penguins, saying no to Star Wars, Skellig Michael island in Star Wars, a Lego airport, why Star Trek is acceptable, miming in a prison yard, life on a submarine ark, air free tyres and footballs, a reaspm not to give kids their ball back, how useful is a swimming dog, the traditional ship’s cat, a failed attempt to own bespoke furniture, the truth about LIdl's renovation cycle, dog owners who claim to feed them chocolate, macho female cats, drinking candy, washing up liquid versus recycled urine versus hot sauce and more.

Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego management, raising children in a void, Lego Batman,  listening in July,  the man who made North Korea boring, watching with your ears, the future of home decor, the nation's luckiest KFC, where gravy belongs, true crime fans, a crematorium crime documentary, handling a sick puppy, a criminal's vomit proxy, vomit as a calling card, Rubiks Cube ethics,  crosswords with multiple correct answers, anatomy of a Rubiks Cube, buying half a Titanic in bulk, Yacht Rock, hospitality vocabulary, bar tab legalities for cats, saliva-based hygiene and more.

Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it relates to Mary Poppins and discusses making a raw chicken asthetically pleasing, turning a parking space into a home, ordering fruit juices with an extra shot, a decade of avocado misinformation, compulsory u-turns and Margaret Thatcher,  The Nine O'Clock News, Not the Nine O'Clock News, reaching Nirvana, The world of The Truman Show (1998) versus the South Pole, waking up in a Pink Floyd album cover, childhood abatoir memories and more.