Into Your Head

Into Your Head

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Into Your Head episodes

  • Show 887: Walk the Four Minute Mile, Don’t Run It (14 JUL 2026)
    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 dot ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head episodes and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.
    LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.
    53 min
  • Show 888: When Should You Season Your Cat Food? (22 JUL 2026)
    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 dot ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head episodes and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.
    LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.
    52 min
  • Show 889: Shallow as the Spoon on Your Swiss Army Knife (1 AUG 2026)
    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 dot ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head episodes and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.
    LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.
    48 min
  • Show 890: Soliciting Your Reflection’s Approval (10 AUG 2026)
    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 dot ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head episodes and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.
    LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.
    39 min
  • Vintage era – 455: Monday’s Temporarily Daily Breakfast Show
    Please beware: This is a vintage episode of Into Your Head, a show that evolved a lot over 18+ years. New listeners are reeuested to start with later episodes, like the 500s or, even better, the 800s.
    Neal teaches humility to a mug of coffee, puts clowns and microwave turntables into perspective and discusses the next Schindler’s List re-make, using black and white photography to tackle racism and more.
    24 min
  • Vintage era – 319: Farm Gate Maths
    BEWARE - This is a vintage episode of a podcast evolved a lot over two decades years and close to a thousand episodes to eventually beomce somewhat listenable. If you are new to the show, please try some current episodes first.
    11 min
  • Vintage era – 003
    Please beware: This is a vintage episode of Into Your Head, a show that evolved a lot over 18+ years. New listeners are reeuested to start with later episodes, like the 500s or, even better, the 800s.
    Tonight’s topics include:An Apology, my new bicycle, Tearing cats and dogs, People in heaven are bigots, I hope I die before I get confused, Queen Elizabeth for tea, Prime Minister Who?, Like father; like George Bush, Did you excuse me yet? Time travel might help, Some gratuitious insulting of the listener, Living near sea level, Disgusting trees, Faulty guitar, My life as a childhood mathematical biographer, Improvisation, Things on my table, Sue me, It’s not junk mail unless it smells, Mandatory current events coverage, Low fat beer, Birthdays are neccessary, and some public service announcements by Joanne.
    30 min
  • 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 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.

    39 min
  • 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 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.

    48 min

About Into Your Head

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Neal O'Carroll spins stream of consciousness humour monologues, peppered with absurd opinions, deadpan lectures, tangent after tangent and an absurd twist on Irish wit, in this completely improvised…