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  • Show 801: Air Investigator First, Elephant Second
    Neal 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 uncasting the dead parents on Diff'rent Strokes, the right elephant for the job, rebooting Air Crash Investigation, legalities of shooting messengers who happen to be elephants, elephants versus character actors, actor David Kelly RIP, a revised history of storytelling and firelighting, falling by design, penny drop moment for a trainee air crash investigator, statistical probabilities of different species entering a bar, bunk kitchens, failing to remember the word bittorrent, inauthentic endings on travel shows and podcasts, drawing a stairs on volume two of Colliers Junior Classics and more, before assigning the listener an important comprehension exercise as homework.
    1 hr 10 min
  • Show 800: You could fry an egg on the rocks
    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 outwitting his future self, sit-com revolving door tropes, novel advice for joggers, you could fry an egg on the rocks / stones / sidewalk - if you had an egg (1980s Irish commercial) ukulele talk, a scathing attack on the first four hundred episodes of this series, a hall of mirrors versus a horsehoe-shaped bar, learning from The Walking Dead, self-aware fictional characters on strike, revisiting Short Circuit (1986) versus revisiting Sesame Street, windscreen wipers are robots, the chimney revenge woman, Cat Stevens at an accountancy seminar (1994), a contraption to achieve mouth lubrication equilibrium, time machine form factors, Spielberg and Schindler's charming misunderstanding in a bar, a Netflix branded cereal, what real raw milk does to cereal and more.
    1 hr 11 min
  • Show 799: High Praise from a Giraffe
    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 versus a barking barman, canal tow path issues, demons in undergound systems, a horse's head versus a railway bridge, impressing a giraffe with our bar licensing system, how giraffes pat you on the head, Lovely Daaaaaaaaaay versus a barking barman, what happens when two "Two cats walk into a bar" stories walk into a bar and more.
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    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International - It is mandatory to reproduce the following attribution text in full and with this exact wording for each episode: "Neal O'Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie - Many episodes also findable on Archive dot org.
    55 min
  • Show 798: How Silence Works
    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 field, the pros and cons of having Anthony Hopkins as your family doctor, how cats buy rounds, the folly of wine tasting, Robin Williams, Robbie Williams, an over-empowered sweet shop proprietor, the philosophy of characters who exist only in a podcaster's imagination, an old zoological gardens song, how The Beatles' new song Now and Then has advanced this podcast, and more.
    About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/about Get in touch: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/contact
    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International - with this attribution: Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie
    59 min
  • Show 797: No Kneecapping
    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 the Wicklow Mountains, taking up space, IT security as entertainment, cistern noise analysis, treadmills versus conveyor belts and more.
    About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/about Get in touch: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/contact
    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International -- with this attribution Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.com
    1 hr 12 min
  • Show 796: Quod Erat Vometorium
    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, navigating company law for vomitoriums, the IT role in a vomitorium, the life of an off-duty vomitorium manager, judges playing peek-a-boo in procedural dramas and more. 
    About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/about Get in touch: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/contact
    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International with attribution "Neal from Irelandvia IntoYourHead.ie
    54 min
  • Show 795: A Weekend in Jail
    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 to do after you've made lemons into lemonde, talking microbes with guns (fictional), what Bob Geldof was right about, a synopsis of Better Caul Saul, awards versus nominations, and more.
    About the show: IntoYourHead.ie/About Get in touch: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact Neal's webcomic: MatchstickCats.com
    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International - with attribution Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.com
    54 min
  • Show 794: Reinventing the Inhaler
    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 Freud or Einstein, conversations in a margarine factory, cooking a load of crap, milk truck misconceptions, predecessors to pigs, Apple's harmonica firewall, how harmonicas could revolutionise healthcare, a song about how Paul McCartney wrote in his sleep and more.
    45 min
  • Show 793: Armchair Liars (Comeback Episode)
    NOTE: Into Your Head podcast initially ran from 2006 to 2016, then went away for seven years. it returned in Autumn 2016 with this episode. TODAY: Neal discusses the brief interlude since Show 792,  a prodical son, how lemonade works, coffee shop marzipan violence, a civilised summons, single use gold, Siskel or Ebert or Roeper or the other one, the podcast co-host protection system, zero on the dog scale, Make my day versus Be my guest, off duty dog helmets, dog licensing, vocal experiments, acapelo singers’ concerns about the word bollocks, alienating dog owners, armchair liars, a bag of salted peanuts in a bag of salt and more.
    LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.
    47 min
  • Test Show 792A: Pre-Comeback Rough Warmup Audio
    792A - 792.5 on some apps: A short test transmission as Into Your Head prepares to emerge from it's brief seven year absence. Show 793 will be along in a week or so.
    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International with attribution
    License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International with attribution "Neal from Ireland / IntoYourHead.com "
    14 min

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