Show 846: Not Too Many Ems On The Outside
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Neal EXPOSES how motorists are disappearing in a secret holding pattern, MAKES the case for appetisers for a better drip feed regime, EXPLAINS how things that skip generations are never lost, SHOWS how statues of rubber things can demolish boundaries, DEVELOPS a new folding building bricklaying technique in real time, RECALLS a decade watching a boat grow in a driveway and DISCUSSES listener dog segment consumption notes, emergency landings on Street Cleaning Night, life behind your unopend eyelids, mapping a closed fridge, shameful mathematician verbal habits, the condition Boy Scout Neck, the post knot era, wireless charging versus childrearing. an unexpected song from the musicals, rescuing harmonicas, tandem design, brick design, Muppet helmet design, cloning the historic Bray Town Hall McDonalds, selling your regenerated body double, how architects work, helmet design for animal Muppets and more.
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Show 845: Boogeyman’s Grand Day Out
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Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing school shop, The Hardy Boys and their vehicles, travel logistics on Criminal Minds, iron lungs, Joe Rogan’s sensory deprivation tank, Nick Cave’s alternative Gladiator II, Naylor’s Cove (public baths ruins off Bray Head, County Wicklow), ancient aliens bearing chocolate gifts and more. Book mentioned: To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood by Alice Taylor.
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Show 844: Navigating Self Facing Voodoo Doll Feedback Loops
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Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat’s OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless earphones, actuaries and the Mandela Effect, fresh thinking on bus basements, taking too long to choose a hobby, a career in head stitching, Irish folklore’s Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge, the trouble with asking yourself a question, the book I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, the childhood bear hoax, actuary snobbery, pre wired garments, a spontaneous dog, a bootlegging cat, air conditioning versus guns, navigating American multi layered doors, childhood paper rounds on sitcoms and more.
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Show 843: Your Own Personal Ice Age
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In a packed hour, Neal discusses work life balance in the American Wild West, making Spielberg’s Duel (1971) on an even lower budget, unexplained generational gaps in the wasp community, a simple device that could inadvertently cause you to speak in tongues, why we celebrate cistern noises, vomiting for the privileged, a one size fits all argument for reviving dead languages and people, how to outrun a car, Moses baskets, an international standard system for asking strangers how they are, breakfast and tourism in the American wild west, educational podcasts and brown bread, understanding porridge people, recycling body fat, a branding experiment for wrestling producers, the case fpr audio only concert tickets, the first word ever created, arbitrary dictionary sizes, how to choose a page randomly, trouble with learning a word a day, understanding strangers’ accents in the Wild West, whiskey in the pre rocks era, saying dog without a tonsillectomy, a childhood doctor doppleganger of veteran newscaster Charles Mitchell, remembering town centres, a Saint Bernard dog, Bob Newhart and 1990s in-flight entertainment, childhood memories purchasing Butcher’s tongue, privacy issues in a language laboratory, why kids are shunning earphones on public transport, early 1980s Thomastown in County Kilkenny, lighting the inside of a mouth and more.
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Show 842: We Need to Talk About Your Dead Arm
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Neal recreates some special moments from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. advises on talking to adults about your dead arm, wonders if you should add blood to your hydration regime, provides an overview of the human-dog-dinosaur societal overlay structure and discusses wardrobe culture, smalltalk in the information age, standout past wardrobes, a surprising life lesson from Breaking Bad, slow readers, slow watchers, Bill Hicks versus Denis Leary, boxing style weigh-ins for firefighters, George Michael, Robbie Williams, not Robin Williams, rules for calling yourself Robert, why dinosaur burial sites are not sacred, who stands to gain from reclassifying Pluto and Brontosauri, seeing Red Bull for the first time, men on TV swallowing pills, bonsai aliens, branding problems for Pluto, dumb dogs of Disney, cartoons in Andromeda, why the modern dog is a sell out, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, how nineties kids navigated their first rave and more.
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Show 841: Getting to the Creek
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Neal considers insect consumption norms, identifies a new actor level below extras, exposes a town with a landmark brown stain, confuses the movies Stand by Me and Sleepers, remembers TV’s greatest sketch show: classic Sesame Street, invents a self policing public toilet cleanliness system and discusses introducing city kids to rivers and creeks, mixed messaging from a Schwartzenegger branded fly, walking school buses, why you incorrectly think you were home schooled, underground toilet memories, anti salt waiters in popular culture, igniting your gas hob with piped fire, geographic limits on warehouse sizes, listener concerns about warehouse toilets, getting to the creek, Mr Men book and TV franchise, logistics of recordibg a talking torso, shit creek without a paddle, one person operated motorbikes versus push and pull trains and more.
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Show 840: Omnidirectional Optic Nerves and Your Dog
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Neal reinvents the ensuite and consequently food ingredients labelling, evaluates modern prodding techniques, changes your mind about ghost trains and Microsoft Windows Paint, evaluates a possible alternative history of Mars, composes a special experiment for tourist excursion helicoptor pilots, tries to recall the name Andy Kauffman and the song I’ve Been to Paradise but I’ve Never Been to Me and disucusses seating arrangements in US classroom dramas, the justfication for third party forewords, passive international election observer dogs, tracking your child’s astronomy career, the show TAXI, your mouth’s overflow system, impulse buys for people who like shopping lists, disposable thoughts, sight tests for dogs, a vending machine for soundwaves, monitors in TV emergency wards, latin in medicine and gardening, continuity issues, a virtual armchair and more.
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SHORTS 097: Dealing with the Aliens
A redux of a previous short.
Show 839: The January Test
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Neal reveals what every flightless bird knows, considers the surprising pros and cons of chopsticks and cutlery, administers a very special listener test, assesses the opportunities for carving pork as a McDonald’s customer and discusses demanding more from our fingernails, a trio of Tom Hanks characters, how offices outgrow the alphabet, a land mass with windows, Hitler-related time travel ethics, 2010 as a baseline, advice for HR staff handling the conseqeunces of the opening segment, renting a VCR, renting a television, how stone beaches stabilise property markets, typing on a microwave, two wrong ways to ingest liquid nitrogen, life before standard wheelie bins and more.
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Show 838: An Insom Maniacal Christmas
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In a Christmas Day episode not for younger ears, Neal discusses identifying insects by smell, tag teaming citrus fruits, declaring dead weight at Customs, why ripping out entrails is a non violent act, what you Australians demand of Santa, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in black and white, margarine related TV repair memories, the trouble with police drama finales, why TV won’t let you just enjoy a plane crash, December in other hemispheres, sleigh driver regulation, the argument against relief pilots on long haul, how crosswords could make air travel safer, cats in cockpits, WWF tag team The Natural Disasters, walking the earth on other planets and more.
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Show 837: Experimenting with Speed
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Neal proposes a thought exercise for listeners in traffic, identifies a new use for the top of your head, explains how to listen via medical stethescope, diagnoses his audience with a phobia of bodily noises including speach and discusses Nick Cave’s Harry Potter exposure, why fire brigades study age-related temperal anomolies, how to make a K Pop band, understanding binary traffic lights, McCauley Kulkin’s former self, the conscious self in a nutshell, a weird US TV bandleader, experimenting with speed, proving to your toddler that you’re not a giant, plumbers in binary pairs, rotating your internal crops, vomit fridge etiquette, seeking and receiving approval from Dropbox and more.
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Show 836: Wasp Fiction
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Neal sets out his one big problem with both Radiohead and Gilbert O’Sullivan, makes the case for traceable dog food, maps out the next evolutionary step for handwriting and discusses experimental wasp fiction, life in a hundred year old choir, chairs on trains, an innovative way to use the word Christmas, how to tell if Roy Orbison is dead, Jive Bunny, dropping dead of a car crash, page-a-day books in museums, when to stop learning, the trouble with seeing your favourite orchestra on tour, a promise to any listener who starts a choir podcast, different signatures for work and home, burglar dogs, dog prison uniforms, cow-related office work, deadstock, washing raw chicken in other jurisdictions and more.
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Show 835: Bippily Blippily Bop
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Neal corrects the listener’s delusions about auto pilot, illustrates the differences betwen humanoid cats and Edward Scissorhands and discusses the anatomy of a commercial earworm, understanding you Americans and your Spring Break, how songwriters think, appreciating instant mashed potato, what a thousand cavemen can achieve without typewriters, the life expectancy of a harmonica, Stevie Wonder’s name change, token tamborine use, workplaces that can’t sustain a mad drummer, choosing your dog size, securing the food chain against dogs, Madonna’s cartoon versus Bucks Fizz’s Land of Make Believe, an unintended Guiness Odlums Flour crossover and more.
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Show 834: Your Pharmacy Advent Calendar is Leaking
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Neal reveals what it would take for him to name a fourth cat after a UN Secretary General, recalls the one comic book in every Christian Brothers School library and discusses Neighbourhood Watch mythology, dog anomolies on Bray Head, learning Irish by projection, things legally banned in classrooms, next door’s over-reaching attic, the song Frere Jackques, a pharmacy Advent calendar, inaminate emotional support animals, how Full House paved the way for jobsharing at the UN, logistics of hot dog trolleys in staired stadiums, tea trolleys in comic strip based radio sitcom Bristow, an inaudible new mouth sound, checking this podcast for secret codes, how an anethesist would produce this episode and more.
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Show 833: The Desert is a Mirage
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Neal discusses encoutering your postman in another neighbourhood, playing Dr Suess, a terrifying futuristic garage, reinventing the painted ostrich egg, Ireland’s sheep filled desert, idenfiifying a mouth’s postal address, remembering what you buried in the sand, how deserts evolve into casinos, understanding speakeasy, Stephen King’s car burial tale, what you could legitimately be giving your kids pints of at breakfast, a portrait microwave, how a dog handles a mirage of a desert, landlord teethmark inspection protocol, how ostriches fool predators, electrical tape misadventures, how to get a letter in The Irish Times, plugging a boat with a newspaper letters page, a surprise for non-podcast listeners, an opposite newspaper clippings exchange, a better use for LInkedIn, rejecting dopamine shamers and more.
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So-Called Coffee Cake Consumption Norms
I have never been able to figure out whether coffee cake is meant to be enjoyed with coffee, or enjoyed as an alternative to coffee washed down with a cup of tea by people who don’t like to drink coffee and also don’t like to eat tea cakes, or consumed but not necessarily enjoyed in liquidised form by the infirm, or not consumed at all and just admired as a concept, or enjoyed as a standalone beverage replacement, in which case surely you’d be wise to at least have a glass of tap water close to hand in case you choke.
That last option, while admittedly relatively minimalistic, still seems a little extravagant. Now, I haven’t looked up the statistics, and you might argue that these things are best left to the experts, but let us assume that ten thousand servings of coffee cake are consumed daily nationwide and that, of those, seven hundred and eighty-four result in fatal choking in instances where a pre-poured beverage is not close to hand.
That leaves eight thousand, two hundred and sixteen servings of, on the face of it, medically unnecessary tap water. However, let’s be reasonable and assume that forty percent of diners will be genuinely thirsty and drink the water regardless, and that another ten to fifteen per-cent will take a number of nervous sips just out of some sort of guilt and / or perceived obligation because they are occupying the much sought-after big sofa in an upmarket coffee shop in which you are pretty much required by law to be drinking coffee, even if you were just hungry and had a hankering, as some of you foreigners call it, for something that tastes like coffee but fills the solids compartment rather than the liquids compartment.
Incidentally, the only reason people go nuts for those couches is because they’ve convinced themselves that one day they’re going to find a load of cash between the cushions that will balance out all the money they’ve squandered on bottled tap-water and dry coffee cake over the years. It’s pretty much legalised illegal gambling, and it’s happening right in front of our faces in every shopping mall in the western world. It is very telling that McDonald’s, who serve a far more down-to-earth, honest, hardworking clientele, have always had contiguous moulded plastic seating with no gaps. Although they do still screw the chairs to the floor.
The only other possibility I can think of (regarding the coffee cake Market) is that maybe it’s like Carat Cake, whereby it isn’t really made from carats of gold, it’s just called that because somebody mistyped “carrot”, and it auto-corrected to “carat”. But that doesn’t seem to make any sense to me. It’s not like your average consumer of cake would have a hankering for either carat or carrots, or in any case expect such a hankering to be resolved by eating cake. And besides, unless I’m greatly mistaken it’s actually called carrot cake, and not carat cake, so my point is moot.
And while I’m on the subject, that word “hankering” just reminds me of that disgusting Mr Hanky character from South Park, and does nothing for the appetitite. The producers would be well-advised to consider licensing him to SlimFast. (Assuming they want him)
In conclusion, there is literally a coffee cake on a coffee table five feet from me as I type this on a device that contains a camera, and still I’m going to use an archive photo of one of our cats as the illustration.
2019 – First posted on Facebook
**** Next time: Coffee tables ****
Show 832: All Toothpaste All the Time
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Neal looks at the presumed defacto diplomatic relationship allowing the moon to slosh our seas around, reveals which of his arms is the least interesting and discusses sailing in boiling water, mouthwash retail licensing, substitute priests, how to say mass, mouthwash as a sleep hygiene product, Richard Simmons RIP, new ways to say no, a military childhood, the trouble with flight simulators, fast food service simulators, impressionists who do other people’s sitcom characters, Phantom of the Opera, Freddie Mercury versus Sid Vicious versus opera snobs, handling pre decimilisation currency, sensible non-mockable names, the argument for flying in reverse, Titanic pride, defining crashing a ship, bidirectional sweat glands, the argument against making your cat purr and more.
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How to Play the Banjo: Parts 1 and 2
From 2004, Originally part of the Newsburp University. Later rebranded the Matchstick University. It even had a Matchstick Cat mascot in a graduation cap Adorable.
Course NBU-04: How to Play the Banjo – Part 1
Although I, your lecturer for course NBU-04, have never played the banjo and never handled one or read any books on how to play the banjo, I firmly believe that a good teacher can teach anything, regardless of knowledge and experience.
Playing the banjo can be a rewarding and fruitful hobby, in the right hands. In the wrong hands, it can have consequences that lead to the forced evacuation of your town or city, and can result in harsh economic sanctions being placed on your country by the international community.
First some background. In 1976 Christopher Columbus, grandson of the explorer of the same name, was travelling by car to a second hand record market in Holland, where he hoped to pick up a bootleg copy of the yet-to-be-released unnamed fourth Led Zeppelin album. The one that some idiots mistakenly refer to as “Led Zeppelin 4”. The ignorant numbskulls.
Anyway, on his way he took a brief diversion and inadvertently discovered America. Now, America had of course been discovered several hundred years before that, but everyone in Europe had sort of forgotten it existed. So it came as a complete surprise to everybody to find that there was another country at the other side of the big blue water-filled hole where they kept their inflatable matresses.
Suddenly everything made sense. They now knew where all those mysterious unidentified flying aeroplanes (UFAs) were coming from, and why the aliens who travelled in them always spend a couple of weeks harmlessly exploring museums and local McDonald’s branches, before disappearing without even bothering to kidnap anybody.
Anyway, this guy, Columbus Jnr (Jnr. was an abbreviation of Jennifer, a name of which he was not proud, because there was a much loathed serial killer at the time, by the name of Jennifer) , came back from America with a new musical instrument, and a couple of board games. At first people were skeptical. “That’s pretty much just a violin that’s not made out of cat whiskers, isn’t it?”, they would say. They always said it in those exact words, because the well-organised anti banjo movement used to walk a hundred feet ahead of Columbus wherever he went, handing out cue cards to the locals with that sentence written on it.
(The anti banjo movement is now a political party, but in the interests of impartiality, the NewsBurp University will not tell you which one.)
Anyway, somehow the proponents of banjoism managed to overcome these hurdles, and nowadays it is rare to walk down a street and see a person who isn’t carrying a banjo. Well, that’s the history bit – let’s get down to learning how to play your banjo.
First, make sure you have oiled your musical instrument. And always adjust the “saddle” before attempting to play it. Now, assuming you’re right-handed, hold the handlebars in your left hand, put your right foot on the left paddle, and gentle push youself down the hill. When you have a momentum going, throw your right leg over the saddle and start peddling, remembering to watch out for traffic coming from behind.
Now you’re well on your w:ay. Well done. You’ve all passed.
Course NBU-12: How to Play the Banjo – Part 2
Welcome to the long-awaited second part of our course in how to enjoy one of the most rewarding hobbies known to humankind.
Now that you’ve learned the basics, and are becoming comfortable with your banjo, it’s time to get more adventurous. I suggest you start by signing up for some bungee jumps or going on a blind date. But you could also become more adventurous with the banjo itself. Before you do that, though, you need to know a little more about the history of this wonderful instrument.
In the early 1800s, the peer pressure that has always been associated with banjos, started to get out of hand. Every child in the country felt an uncontrollable urge to get his or her hands on one. As a result, the banjo factories worked flat out, twenty four hours a day to meet the demand. Banjo makers were in great demand, and started to insist on exhorbitant wages for their much sought after services.
Something had to give.
Then the manufacturers became clever. Instead of making banjos in the traditional way, they bought thousands and thousands of unused ukelleles, and simply converted them. The expertise ot the banjo makers was no longer needed, and they ended up on the scrap heap.
Ukellele makers, on the other hand, had it made.
Everybody suddenly wanted ukellee makers. But to cut a long story short, it all ended in tears when the kids suddenly decided they wanted Shrek 2 toys intead. I hope I’m not giving anything away for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, but the storyline of Shrek 2 contains very few, if any, complimentary references to banjos. Possibly because the film company is in cahoots with the anti banjo movement (see How to Play the Banjo, part 1, above)
Anyway, now that you’ve learned how to play the banjo, it’s time to learn some advanced moves. As always, hold your banjo between your legs, at an angle of forty five degrees to your right leg. Remember to check that there’s nobody standing behind you. You don’t want a nasty lawsuit just when you’re getting the hang of your new pastime, do you? Of course you don’t.
Now, holding the top of the banjo’s neck with your right hand in a vulcan death grip, and your left hand a couple of inches below, swing it right back and up into the air, enjoying the satisfying “swoosh” sounds it makes, then off you go. You might even get a hole in one. And that’s perfectly fine. There’s supposed to be a hole in the centre of the banjo, just under the strings. It’s something to do with sound or resonance or something.
My First Website
A page of content from The I make web-pages when there’s nothing on TV site.
In October 2003 I was attending a night class in web development, and had to make a website. So I wrote two pages of absolute tripe to fill it up. It had a very long URL with a squiggly line in it, and used free hosting that came with a parent’s Eircom dialup Internet.
The original site consisted of two pages because I had to demonstrate an ability to link from one web page to another. It has a picture of a TV, made in MS Paint, to satisfy the requirement to successfully upload and display at least one image.
I was awarded a City and Guilds Higher Diploma in Web Development based purely on this website. It was the one and only assignment for this ten night course.
Obviously it’s a load of absolute tripe, with no redeeming features.
I am under no delusions as to the quality of this content. My delusions didn’t kick in until at least 2004, when I got my first dot com. But it led onto more writings which led to Matchstick Cats and Into Your Head podcast, which have been my pasttimes ever since. So there’s that.
Anyway here, amalgamated for the first time onto one handy page, is the content from The I Make Web Pages when there’s Nothing on TV site:
Welcome
You know the song that goes “You’re so vain, You probably think this song is about you”? That’s about me.
Urination
There’s a lot of fuss made about the apparent need to test athletes’ urine at unannounced times, to ensure that they are not using performance-enhancing substances. I have given a lot of thought to this and my advice to athletes would be this: Stop drinking urine.
The Egg, Obviously
Allow me to supply the answer to the frequently asked question “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”. It’s always seemed perfectly clear to me that the egg came first. It was layed by a creature which was one generation away from evolving into a chicken. I hope that clears it up, once and for all.
No Breakfast
Do you know the film (and song) “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”? I haven’t seen the film myself, but apparently you can’t get breakfast at Tiffany’s.Because there’s no restauraunt there. Presumably just a load of disappointed tourists hanging around outside, wishing they had gone to Dunkin Donuts (did I spell that right? I don’t think they call it “doughnuts”)
And while I’m on the subject, my favourite cereal is toast. (What? Wheat is cereal isn’t it?)
Which reminds me. I wish shop assistants would do me the courtesty of handing me my change instead of placing it on the counter, now that leperacy is no longer as common as it used to be.
Generic Weblog
There’s a new trend among web-people to keep a “blog” – an online diary, for strangers to read on the internet. I can appreciate that. We all want to know what a person we’ve never met on the other side of the world had for breakfast. I had Frosties (known in some countries as Frosted Flakes – must allow for cultural differences).
Unfortunately, a weblog, by definition, must contain an entry that says “9.30pm: spent two hours writing this”. If it doesn’t it is not accurate and cannot be trusted.
Anyway here is a generic description of what I did today:
| My Generic Weblog – Today’s Entry | |
| Mon/Tue/Wed/Thurs/Fri (delete as appropiate): | Looked at clock, swore, went to toilet, dressed, went to work, worked, came home, ate, wrote this, went to bed. |
| Sat/Sun | Looked at clock, went back to sleep, looked at clock, went back to sleep, got up, did stuff / did nothing, wrote this, went to bed |
| Public Holiday | Looked at calender, went back to sleep*, etc. |
*except Christmas day – got up and ate sweets for breakfast
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There used to be a paragraph about the weather here, but it was poor, even my my standards, so it’s gone. I can’t say I’m thrilled with this bit, either. And now, three weeks later, I notice that I even mispelled “weather”. That’s depressingn
Antidisestablishmentarianism
An English teacher in school circa 1989, asked the class to suggest the longest words we knew. I offered “antidisestablishmentarianism”, rather proudly. He said this word didn’t exist. I’m still bitter to this day. The best that the rest of the greasy-haired little scumbags could come up with was “cat”, if I recall correctly (albeit selectively).
Not the Ninth Caller
I used to have a phone number that was two digits out from the number of the local radio station. What fun! One night a woman rang up and said “Hello, is that the radio?”.”No”, I said. “This is the telephone”.
Then another time some guy rings in the middle of the night, and I bite the head off him* for waking me up. He acts all surprised and says there’s no need to be so unfriendly. I point out that it’s 2AM. Sorry if you’re expecting a punchline here – I just need to get this off my chest.
*A local coloquialism meaning call him a complete b*&*$£
| Anyway, where I live you can send text messages from your cellphone to the DJ on the radio. So one morning, just before a newsreader called “Hanley” came on, I sent the text “10 minutes to curtain, Mr. Hanley. Thanks Scooter.”. The DJ and the sports guy seemed to think it was hilarious, and as a result I now own a cheap plastic “Holy Moly” mug.As per the photo on the right. And that’s how I pass the time on the bus.The reason I mention all this is: I’ve e-mailed the DJ, telling him about this bit on the web-page, and suggesting he should provide a link to this site. I don’t think it’s going to work. |  This is a MUGSHOT. Ha Ha Ha. The other side says “holy moly”. |
So-called Bad Manners
I need to discuss the issue of so-called “manners”. Why is it that if you put your elbows on the table, you are automatically labelled “bad-mannered”. The thinking man knows that the only situation where this is rude, is where you’re seated at a long table, with a person on your left, and a person on your right, who may want to talk to each other without your elbows blocking their sight…
…In which case, surely, THEY are being rude by ignoring YOU.
And while I mention it, what’s wrong with wearing my headphones on the bus? They’re not loud (it’s just the news), and anyway I’m just trying to drown out the sounds of peoples sniffing and snorting, which apparantly are acceptable.
Why does the person sitting in front of me need to clear his throat every thirty seconds? He’s sitting on his own, so it’s not as if he needs his voice to be in perfect working order so he can make a speach to the person beside him.
Helping Others
I didn’t come up with the following proverb, but I wish I had:
“A friend in need, is a pain in the arse”
Light Rain
I would like to add my voice to all those of whoever has already said this: I object strongly to drizzle. I go out on a cloudy day in October; everything seems fine until a couple of drops of water start landing every few seconds. The problem is this: If I put up my umbrella, I will look like an idiot – it’s not raining. If I don’t put it up, I will slowly get soaked. Ditto snow. It feels dry until it melts on your head. Then your’re bandjaxed.
| Have you noticed how many people mispronounce the word pronunciation? They say pro-nown-ciation. The buffoons. These people are going to cause the downfall of society. |
Wildlife Shows on TV
Why are presenters on Nature shows always either too loud or too quiet.
First you have that guy David Attenborough. He goes within a few feet of a big lion, then starts whispering into the camera. Is he afraid he’ll scare the animal or something? Meanwhile the other lions are looking up a recipe book. The only reason they don’t eat him is they’re not expecting him and don’t have a suitable wine.
Then there’s that Australian guy. Enough said.
Dogs
Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf arf arf arf
No don’t leave. It’s just a simulation. Not a real dog. If this was a real dog there would now be dog-saliva on your hand, and you would be expected to smile at the owner as if you’re enjoying it.
I’ve produced a complex theses to explain why dogs make that loud noise with their mouths. Here is a summary: They’re all bastards.
Fingernails
But what really annoys me is something that started four or five years ago, and is spreading around the word like an e-mail virus. Saying the word “is” twice in a row, for no reason. For example, “The thing is, is it’s very hard to stop talking in this irritating fashion”
Why don’t you people just scrape your fingernails on a blackboard, or something?
Fake Mice
And why are there so many mice in cartoons? Are we meant to think they’re cute? Surely cartoons are meant to be a brighter, more fantastic version of the world, so that we can escape from for a while. Call me old-fashioned, but I think mice are scum. And you can quote me on that. So long as you don’t say who I am, or what I said.
Directions?
I seem to have a problem with people who stop me in the street for directions, and then start driving away before I’m finished, shouting “okay thanks” as they disappear in the wrong direction, dying to get away from me. Is that just me? Are my directions particularly uninteresting or upsetting, or is it just that they get confused and forget all about it. If that’s the case I think I see why they are lost in the first place.It’s not my fault they’re in the wrong place. Don’t shoot the messenger. In some jobs I could reasonably expect a tip for being as helpful as that.
Primal Termite
Since you seem to be still here, do you happen to know who wrote these lines or where they might have come from?:
“A primal termite knocked on wood
He tasted it and found it good
And that is why your auntie May
Fell through the parlour floor today”.
Someone I knew used to recite it. My uneducated guess would be Spike Milligan or Dr.Suess wrote it. or possibly the Irish poet Pat Ingoldsby, who you’ve almost definitely never heard of because everyone on the internet is in America.
Here are some more favourite lines. This is from Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ “This is What we Find”
“This is what we find
This is what we find
The hope that springs eternal
Springs right up your behind”
Standards
I was watching a television programme today and the guy being interviewed said “I think anyone with an IQ of less that eighty per-cent of the average, should savagely be beaten until they learn to be less lazy“.
Personally, I believe that this is absolutely disgraceful and disgusting. Anyone who speaks on TV as a spokesman for a cause should be capable of getting through a sentence without using a split infinitive.
But I digress
Here are some more favourite lines. This is from Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ “This is What we Find”
“This is what we find
This is what we find
The hope that springs eternal
Springs right up your behind”
By the way, if this site looks unprofessional it’s because the copy of Dreamweaver I ordered ten days ago hasn’t arrived yet, and I’m writing the code all by myself. If it does look professional, it means it has arrived, and I’ve just forgotten to remove this paragraph. Which in itself is unprofessional.
I was about to put an e-mail address here, then I realised you’re a stranger and I don’t trust you, especially now you’ve read through all of this gobledegook without leaving – I’m not a psychiatrist, but there’s obviously something very wrong there.
Show 831: Cultivating a Non Herdetiary Nasal Helmet
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:24 — 99.7MB)
Neal discusses apple core cowardice, treadmills for swimming, documentaries about little Timmy falling down a well, how and why to properly record your breakfast, corporate espionage podcast snobbery, cultivating a nasal helmet in medieval times, Sunday driving and your metabolism, navigation apps for rabbits, heirlooms versus genes, generational puppet acts, The Sooty Show, working breakfasts in McDonalds, how surgeons put your leg to sleep, the truth about people who work on aeroplanes, monacle heirlooms, ventriloguist dummies versus proper puppets, Bill Nigh the Science Guy, Pee Wee Herman versus Ernest, how townfolk recognise helpful travelling dogs and more.
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On Chernobyl and Modified Pets
There are plusses and minuses to waking up with Frank Zappa’s “Evelyn, a Modified Dog” as an earworm, as I’m sure you’ve found, but at least it provides us with an opportunity to subtly indicate to the online community what sophisticated and eclectic tastes we have.
Especially, in my case, when it’s taken in conjunction with my Billy Joel / Adam Lambert quip from last week, and the fact that I quite enjoyed a recent bleak mini-series about Chernobyl. Is “enjoy” the right word? Probably not, although since all the characters inexplicably spoke English to each other throughout, there were, arguably, no right words in that show anyway.
There used to be a British woman in the (nineteen) nineties (I am not saying she was nineteen, although it cannot be ruled out without over-researching for what is meant to be a mildly amusing social media post, not a PhD dissertation. It’s bad enough that I keep spotting annd having to fiix new tpyos on every read-through) who reported having suddenly acquired a foreign accent after a brain injury. But even something like that, (and especially *that* itself (not the word “that”, the concept of people acquiring a foreign accent after a brain injury (The following two closing-brackets are not a typo and are entirely neccessary and appropriate. In fact we’re going to need a third one now to accommodate these (admittedly extravagant) words of explanation))) would not account for a whole country switching languages at least twelve hours before, and possibly (as far can be ascertained without once again adopting the methodology of a PhD candidate) anything up to 13.8 billion years before the start of the nuclear emergency.
We can only assume it was some sort of conspiracy involving either (a) the people of Soviet era Ukraine, or (b) scriptwriters at the tiny startup production company in either Scotland or Northern England (I can’t remember which and have too much respect for the reader for me to just “Google” it and then dishonestly pretend to be an authority on the matter) who created the series for HBO and Sky. If the conspiracy involves (a) above, it’s reasonable to assume that a sequel will be made about it, given the enormous success of the first series. This is less likely if (b) is the perp (perpetrator), as it might involve self-incrimination, or allegations of self-incrimination.
I assume self-incrimination is also a serious crime as it can cost your investors zillions in avoidable litigation, especially if you screw up even further by somehow managing to lose the case despite being innocent of the thing in which you managed to incriminate yourself, which is quite a talent, if you ask me, since I assume that when you sell-incriminate you are expected to testify for both the prosecution and the defence.
Not that I’m an authority on either Scottish or Soviet or Northern English law. Although I did once successfully demand a refund from the aforementioned Sky by conveying that I know a fair bit about the civil law tort of Misrepresentation. Which I did at the time, so don’t imagine you’ve caught me up in an admission of misrepresentation. F’ing smartass.
First posted on Facebook, October 2019
Show 830: What’s in a Yak?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:29 — 120.8MB)
Neal exposes a surprising truth about smartphone fires, considers issues of scale at a doll’s house tea party, advises on conditioning one’s fingers not to gesticulate, imagines what it’s like to have a co-host, attempts a moritorium on feces talk and discusses a house’s undergarment, what age twenty-four is in frozen pea years, handling exotic food at the North Pole, reverse engineering a yak, the Madwaves MadPlayer of the harmonica world, testing car technology on animals, yaks in soap operas, drawing a yak under tremendous stress, possible new futures in yak trunk evolution, plausibile deniability stationery, what a cat would do with your homework, the 3M logo versus New Scotland Yard, understanding America’s New England, Supermacs putting down stakes in Times Square, naming cities twice, naming nuclear power stations twice, iinking chalkboard scraping syndromme to energy drinks, American atitudes to Conneticut, the cola rodent, Ireland’s Barak Obama Plaza and more.
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Show 829: Dante’s Magic Gondola
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:04 — 94.6MB)
In a sub-standar episode not recommended for newbies, Neal considers how to poach eggs in their shells, the logistics of sieve use for gold hunters and drugs mules, use-by dates on precious metals, podcasts for dogs, other podcasts like this, finding a use for your dog, Dante’s magic gondola, a loophole for Marc Maron guests, faking your own death as an art installation, rooms without walls, misdefining a spare room and more.
Show 828: How Lidl Works
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:42 — 116.7MB)
Neal discusses what wiki editors say about you in meetings, sizes and brands of dog, understanding British Bulldog, graceful vacuum handling in a laboratory setting, what tailors do with the pins, the woodchipper in Lidl, beverageware in Terminator 2, how Lidl works, misremembering traditional supermarkets, planning your first Mona Lisa, a non-editbable encyclopedia, what MTV was, what Buggles did, what Trevor Horn does, duties of a stock footage city shopper, the trouble with far writers, anatomy of a sawn-off vacuum nozzle, over ambitious toe socks, regaling a wannabe recluse, protecting your shoes from lightning, reinventing the anti glove-loss cord system with chemicals, an ominous calling card, why vomiting is a matter of height and more.
Show 827: Bloodworking from Home
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:52 — 101.1MB)
Neal invadvertently creates a bespoke music radio jingle while trying to prove a point, takes a refreshingly positive look at the Dark Ages, proposes an innovative new scam vulnerability discount, tells his future self some home truths and discusses understanding The Beachcombers, belch symmetry, how radio forgot what hello means, Arthur Guinness’ Oprah Winfrey moment, when the vet was your family mechanic, Henry Ford versus Dr Kellogg’s brother versus Dr Kellogg, planning your family’s horse and cart needs, how law enforcement interacts with your cat, the wheel rotation scam, appreciating Shakespeare plays as much as dog stories, people who drink Cidona, Breaking Bad for children, 3-2-1 Contact, The Bloodhound Gang, when a bathroom door takes you out of the fantasy, The Famous Five, the listener who can’t forget, what Lucozade is for, swinging from a crane, bloodwork as an occupation. this podcast’s quality control regime, a one pant primer and more.
Show 826: Musical Stools
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:54 — 135.5MB)
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 Snufflelopacus, how to test a documentary idea, how to use a single solitary bar stool in a crowd, the argument against bathroom windows, appreciating TV masts, narrator inception, The Willy Wonka Show, A realistic sitcom reboot, oral chemistry exams, dogs versus cats in bars, how to defuse a spoiler, wartime gender-based duplication, when cats bum everybody out and more.
Collection: The Sháinne Greoige Scripts
Since the dawn of the 2010s, Irish broadcast news giant Sháinne Greoige* has anchored occasional segments of Athy Weekly World News on Into Your Head podcast. Here for the first time are the raw scripts, written just after the news happened and just before it was brought to Into Your Head listeners via the vocal chords of Joanne O’Carroll.
*no connection with Gráinne or Sile Seoige
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: – 1 of 2014: Newspapers 3Another of Sháinne’s unique reviews of the papers, in this original script from Sháinne Greoige’s occasional Into Your Head podcast segments. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is my occasional look at what’s happening under the sheets of YOUR newspapers this morning. This bulletin is sponsored by Lidl. Visit your local…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: – 3 of 2013: Newspapers 2Another of Sháinne’s inimitable newspaper reviews, in this original script from Sháinne Greoige’s occasional Into Your Head podcast segments. Hello. I’m Sháinne Greoige with an eyewitness report on the content of this morning’s newspapers. We begin with today’s edition of The Star, which reports that Dublin firefighters have been forced…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: – 2 of 2013: Newspapers 1Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s occasional Into Your Head podcast segments. This time, Sháinne’s unique newspaper review. Hello. I’m podcasting’s Sháinne Greoige with a look at today’s newspapers, to save you from having to read them online. We begin this morning with The Irish Catholic, which announces that it…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: 1 of 2013Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News – an occasional segment from Into Your Head podcast. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is Athy Weekly World News. The news, the whole news and nothing but the news. And lots more. It’s been announced that two government-rescued banks are…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: 5 of 2012Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News – an occasional segment from Into Your Head podcast. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is Athy Weekly World News. The news, the whole news, and nothing but the news. Plus weather, traffic, sports and celebrity births. Kildare’s Libraries Czar has…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: 4 of 2012Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News – an occasional segment from Into Your Head podcast. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is Athy Weekly World News. The news that matters, and the matter that’s news. A diversion remains in place on Duke Street, after six ATM users…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: 2 of 2012Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News – an occasional segment from Into Your Head podcast. Good morning. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is “Athy Weekly World News.” It’s just been announced that a brand new episode of “Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News”, is to go…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: 1 of 2012Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News – an occasional segment from Into Your Head podcast. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is Athy Weekly World News. A controversy has erupted after this week’s unveiling of Athy’s 2012 Christmas tree. The local Chamber of Commerce had stated that…
- Sháinne Greoige Scripts: 3 of 2012Another original script from Sháinne Greoige’s Athy Weekly World News – an occasional segment from Into Your Head podcast. Good afternoon. I’m Sháinne Greoige, and this is Athy Weekly World News. The news that’s NEW, and happening to YOU! Permission has yet again been denied for Athy’s proposed new Town…
Collection: Bowsy’s Complete Works
Collected writings of Bowsy, inaminate bear and outspoken occasional contributor to mid 2000s incarnation of MatchstickCats.com. Part of the new writings section.
- Bowsy’s Yes I do Shit in the Woods
- Bowsy’s Good god how are we going to tell our sheep apart?
- Bowsy’s Theory of Non Existence
- Bowsy’s Christ you Humans are Dumb II
- Bowsy’s An (Axl) Rose by any Other Name
- Bowsy’s Christ you Humans are Dumb
Biographical Update:
Manufactured in the 1980s, Bowsy spent his last decade as a cat bed for Bowsy II and Ozzie on top of a dusty old bookcase in south Kildare, before being tossed in a skip circa 2021.
Show 825: Something Beginning with A
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:24 — 90.6MB)
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, life as a pocket torch owner, Fatima children, Children of Lir, what swans know, how I spent Freddie Mercury’s last year, Capetown’s so-called Table Mountain, blood transfusion death preferences, accountants on the small screen, Tales of the Unexpected, spying something beginnning with A, kitten feces revenge, a podcast playlist hostage sitation, the truth about concrete and more.
Show 824: Method Actor’s Superman
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:18 — 97.7MB)
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, digital de-aging versus hair dye, how to watch sci-fi, staff literacy on Star Trek: The Next Generation, defending Chaplin from you Americans, why smells are a loss leader, Bono’s train station shame, striped clothes in windows, assessing your child’s first words, a pea picking childhood, an overture to this episode, the science of reducing pure drivel to something purer, calling your children maidens, Marlon Brando’s Digital Corpse and more.
Show 823: Lay Ministers Can’t Wipe
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:45 — 110.1MB)
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 of a racehorse injury, showground gates versus school gates, you Americans and your canyons, cats but not the nice type, the trouble with jungles, the lack of urination on Breaking Bad, reheating stout, dog licking versus cat licking, extras in bars, the correct way to end a podcast, surviving a zombie TV series and more.
Show 822: In Case This is Being Recorded
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:25 — )
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 versus measles, new anti-meditation vigilantism technologies, how to label dead things, why bars should pump in air from Chernobyl, growing two non Bowsies, the underground trade in saplings, harmonica spontaneity, artificial air colouring, new ways to enjoy fresh air, iodine tablet memories, what replaced oxygen bars, oxygen weight inflation, having someone shoot you in the foot and more.
Show 821: Deep Dive on Overthinking
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:04 — 101.5MB)
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 in the two cats walk into a bar stories, disloyalty to yourself, life as a nine to five actor, songs with cold opens, Meatloaf coming up too often, streamlining the cola dregs system, the risk of becoming a classic hits format, and more.
Show 820: Talking Cat Cuss Therapy
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:20 — 113.2MB)
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 segments on other podcasts, guitar anatomy and calcium, how stage magicians find a balance, standing desks versus counters, the problem with the back office on Cheers, Charlie Brown’s original teacher, the trouble with Guinness Plus, a fictional Joe Rogan experience, a non-existant barman’s existential crisis, a cat’s cuss-word therapy, papier mache solid fuel memories and more.
Show 819: Nine to Five for the Shipwrecked
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:52 — 124.0MB)
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 never took off, a logically unsound Meatloaf track (not that one) debuting rafts, rebranding spaceships in the Elongated Musket era, a real doctor’s take on edible paper, mouthwatering tree bark, judging your fictional creations, Identifying with Shithead, a bar asshole by proxy, wasting a cat’s time, cat pants the right way, Let it Be versus Que Sera, and more.
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: Tom Hanks was in fact talking to a football on a stick.
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Show 818: Punch in the Face or More Genesis?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:23 — 108.8MB)
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 other people what their point is, an alarming decline in brand-name toilet paper, why losing pens is a sign of intelligence, cold sore watch, haircut syncing for television, when ice takes you out of the movie and more.
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Show 817: Warning – Hermit Crabs from the Outset – Poor audio in parts
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:44 — 98.2MB)
Pardon the slightly off audio in places, due to misadventure.
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 Black Mirror, fudge’s one saving grace, how children stole cycling, decanting defined, life on one third of a hill, shortcut shame in a mature neighbourhood, ordinary house tourism, living on an island versus living on an island. being a crab and a hermit, revinventing seafood display tanks, shortcuts to other seas, life and death grammar explained by a cat, fly by wire Internet explained to a cat, when birds had runways, the ludicrious Road Runner, adapting Paul McCartney’s songwriting method, The Ant and the Aardvark cartoon, failing to remember the name Jackie Mason, Rodney Dangerfield’s menu, featherless aircraft, a dog in a cat food restaurant, a face set several rows back, impractical two-faced dog studies and more.
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Show 816: Intermission Me Bollix
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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 discusses catcher glove anatomy for couriers, the trouble with swimming hats, an extra level between parents and offspring, the baker’s fillet, The Million Dollar Homepage (and Frank from The Overnightscape.com‘s pixels), contact lenses user psychology, a rare blindness rant involving shoving lasers somewhere, how Spielberg boosted your self confidence using intervals, why Batman needs his own genre, a cure for credits overruns on The Office (US TV), Mr Belvedere (US TV), a career in xylophony, AI that swears at you, Ever Decreasing Circles (BBC TV), how to confuse barman, cat and narrator, cat bar stories on The Moth podcast, dealing with psychics when you’re dead, what happens when your cat inherits or purchases a car, repurposing the rain trouser, trouser knowledge as an IQ measurement and more.
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Show 815: No to Intestinal Retrieval
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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 outcome, why frostbite stopped being fun, the something very special that the chef made just for you, anticipating a Phil Hartman crimomentary, a confusing 2016 reboot of Falling Down (1993) and I don’t mean Comedian (also 2016), stock motionising this podcast in the style of Morph (BBC) to make it believable, Rome being built in a day and the marketing thereof, pros and cons of tailwind underruns, how to animate The Joker with glass and paint, legitmate dog-related academia, Dropbox settings lessons from Aron Ralston’s canyon self-amputation survial, bookkeepers versus librarians, considering just-in-time logistics for libraries, an Italian chef’s far superiors atitude illustrated by fortune cookie and more.
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Show 814: An Itch no McBreakfast can Scratch
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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 the face’s perimeter, the trouble with peeling, why boiled sweets and gum are superfoods, a new way to think about litter, an itch no McDonalds breakfast can scratch and more. Then concludes with some helpful orientation for the recent influx of new listeners, assuming they use the same bus route.
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: The song I mentioned with incorrect tune and incorrect lyric “There’s something going on (repeat ad nauseum)” in fact goes “…stop
Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look, what’s going down?” I knew it had t be something along those lines.
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Show 813: Getting the Fliuch out of Here
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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 children’s heads, the trouble with Jack and the Beanstalk, hospitality versus hostelry, Coolio’s big mistake, water on draught, how to store a tonne of bricks, the limitations of the word giraffe, getting the fliuch out of here, Ireland’s new Tasioghiflghiush (prime minister), how to manage your president and more.
Show 812: The IRA and Everest
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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 authorities, pisswaffles, the stroopwaffel era of this podcast (circa 2007), reforming how we name our children, pre-registering your death, registering drugs found in your garden, fairy tale time shiftability, things Einstein presumably explained and more.
CLARIFICATIONS: Rev Ian Paisley, deceased DUP leader, was not one of the joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Show 811: How to Win BIG in the Confession Box
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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 in Chess, Worzel Gummage (ITV), alternate universe binary code, winning in the confessional, Muppet Babies format confusion, a Mary Poppins of the drugs world, typewriter versus typerwriter, myths about oats, the fates of Murder She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher and Family Guy‘s Mayor Adam West, paracetamol versus cocaine versus audiobooks, Harbour Hotel (RTE Radio 1) and what replaced it, honey monster capsules. what an AI barman experiences and more.
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Show 810: The Littlest Hobo and the Leprosy Bell
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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 measure customer satisfaction, the difference between a lighthouse and the sun, the role of rear view mirrors in space travel and more.
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Show 809: And the Elevator Seal Maintenance Dog you Rode in On
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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 local language on the podcast, a non-unionised dog, a unionised dog, proof my brain exists, a fraudulent dog, determining what the listener wants and more.
Show 808: My Trunk, My Choice
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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, Logan’s Run (1976) for fish, podcasts versus comic books, a French dining experience, how I imagine you drive a car, a concienctious elephant’s data protection worries, peanuts as an epsresso, how they made Resevoir Dogs (1992) on a budget, writing dialogue, the undernourished gear stick, the term “shitting on”, recyclable tissue drinking straws, Mrs Brown’s Boys (BBC / RTE), Keeping the dream alive, how to end a conversation in real life, how this podcast stays authentic and more.
Show 807: Pope Bollo XI
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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 non-violent teaching, a tonne of bricks versus a tonne of blessings, understanding shoe leather, a brief overview of flies in popular culture, the movie that wasn’t about the fly (1997) (NOT The Fly (1996)), a pact with the listener regarding the papacy, sourcing snake oil, is it okay to laugh at a dog and more.
Show 806: Blood in your Head of Guinness
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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 bedtime thoughts, the face as a fake shopfront facade, dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life, toothbrushing on TV, “coming right up” as a catchprhase, child avoidance for cats, Edward Scissorpaws, toothbrushing in the military, that movie with the Dude (1998), blood in the heads of Guiness, tackling the roof of your mouth, belching as a by-product, the argument against sleeping, Judge Judy tries to help, defining a field, scaring your child with wooden houses, redesigning the toothbrush, the argument for timber skycrapers, two places where coffee is inappropriate, a flying bucket, Fortycoats (RTE TV), body parts as co-workers and more.
Show 805: Two Handcuffs or Three?
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n 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 (BBC1), what home means to a dog serving life, lingusitics versus comas, putting yourself in the dog’s shoes, something I learned watching Letterman (Columbia Broadcasting Systems), adults and Freddo bars, a shocking reveal about the dog convict’s year, ditto the parole officer’s year, employee Christmas dinner ratios, trying it with two dogs; two Shanes, a mutton decoy, a French podcast you might prefer and more.
Show 804: Intellectually Honest Meatloaf Recipies
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n 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 a road to the Moon, a show-permeating glasses incident, fine line between Nowhereland and Doctor Who, what is a dog’s business?, civil defence raincoats, Brendan Grace wrote that combine harvester song, a moveable psychic prediction, counterintuitive office animal demographics, how dogs experience repetition and more.
Show 803: Christmas on a Popsicle Stick
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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 climber story, watching Highlander (1986) for the Queen songs, a barman’s secret life, a barman’s alternative work ethic, inventing a trailor system for homeless pets, what the term Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick means to a cat, the nights of Christmas Day, a dog who relates to post-Gabriel Byrne episodes of In Treatment (HBO / Sky Atlantic), people who have multiple shoes, one fell swoop, managing a five mile leash, drawing artificial trees on heads of stout, consulting the bar security cat aging expert from last week, reimaging Slimer, an overtrained dog, panting versus laughing and more.
Show 802: Custody of a Padlock
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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, smuggling toast, smiting technique, TV sets versus alters, nasal linguistics, portable church memories, cinema glasses for cats, you Americans do the news incorrectly, ditto late night talk shows, multitasking with your mouth, minimum word-lengths in academia, dangers of generic juice, probabilities explained properly, penography, philantropicality, a new way to value postage stamps, a non-scalable podcast, ordering milk in bars, bridge versus drunkard, operating an old fashioned telephone, why dogs pant, reinventing the afterlude and more.
Show 801: Air Investigator First, Elephant Second
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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.
Show 800: You could fry an egg on the rocks
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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.
Show 799: High Praise from a Giraffe
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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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Show 798: How Silence Works
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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.
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Show 797: No Kneecapping
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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.
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796: Quod Erat Vometorium
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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.
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Shopw 795: A Weekend in Jail
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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.
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Show 794: Reinventing the Inhaler
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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.
Show 793: Armchair Liars (Comeback Episode)
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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 gold, Siskel or Ebert or Roeper or the other one, the podcast co-host protection system, zero on the dog scale, Mak 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.
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Show 792A: Pre-Comeback Rough Warmup Audio
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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.
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418: Re-emergence
This was the first episode after an absence of several years. More about the changes here.
Show 792: Pilot
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This 2016 episode, show 792: “Pilot” was the last ever episode of Into Your Head. Until October 2023, when it’s coming back! Please subscribe to the new brand new podcast feed. See IntoYourHead.ie/Subscribe for everything.
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Show 791: David Bowie’s Fork
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Show 790: Pizza String
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Pies for minors, hiring a pilot, Paint Monsters, prepping a hair bal and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland
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Show 789: Supermyth
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The racist listener, ear wax theatre and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 788: The Pelican Diet
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Deconstructing a pyramid, controlling the sun, nutrition advice for zombies and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 787: Ploughed to Death
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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.
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Show 786: Two Podcast Hiatuses walk into a Bar
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The original description claims that this is a short comeback episode to start a new season of Into Your Head, failing to predict a looming seven year hiatus. Sorry about that.
Show 785: Trialogue
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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.
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Show 784: Stuck together with God’s Stew
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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.
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Show 783: The Penn and Teller of the Cat World
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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.
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Show 782: The Dirty LIttle Secret Behind Inaminate Objects
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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.
Show 781: Finding Your Helicopter
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Why 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.
Show 780: In-Cat Purchases – A Christmas Special
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In-cat purchases, Meatloafs 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.
Show 779: Cats in Equity
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Cats in police stations, the downside to knowing how to fly, reinventing the telephone, Kurt Cobain naming rights, what’s behind your face, drinking on fast ferries, why motorists wear rubber soles and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 778: Rock Paper Synthesiser
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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.
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Show 777: Defunding Ebola
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How eyelids place athletes on an equal footing, Podcast Theology, Defunding Ebola, Reinventing sliced bread, Pottery in pop culture, waiting for a cold, reconstructing Annie the cat, John Malkovich’s fourth wall and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 776: What Time is What?
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Vacuum-packed data, Learning to spell, Rebooting a fly, Something profound about Ebola, stuff, things, other stuff and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 775: Why I won’t Vote JFK
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The argument against apples, teaching toddlers about death and nutrition, getting a fish on board, why I won’t vote for JFK, the argument against Halloween and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.”
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Show 774: Bag for Death
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A cat in a Barm Brack factory, shopping bag pension schemes, reasons to bring a ham to a Census office, ending stationery abuse, bags for death, losing the run of it on a treadmill and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.”
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Show 773: Orange News
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Amoebas versus Astral Physicists, life beyond the Cat Inter-Estate Highway Wall, why cats don’t understand the free market economy, orange on television, and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 772: Dry Ice Challenge
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The problem with Ouentin Tarantino, Barber beheadings, trojan politics, overlooked fables, topical crap and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 771: A False Luxury
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How to be retrospectively greedy, confectionery ingredient bars, a false luxury and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 770: Orange by Stealth
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Turning orange by stealth, what to call your roommates, living next door to Bono, overhead property rights in space and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 769: Thursday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Concluding a short season of Temporarily Daily Summer Shows. Back with normal Into Your Head episodes soon. Thanks for listening. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
Show 768: Wednesday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Another instalment of Into Your Head podcast’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 767: Tuesday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Week 2 of Into Your Head podcast’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 766: Monday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Week 2 of Into Your Head podcast’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 765: Friday’s Temporarily Daily Breakfast Show
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Into Your Head podcast’s alternative format of short daily shows is back for a Summer run. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 764: Thursday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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nto Your Head podcast’s alternative format of short daily shows is back for a Summer run. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland
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763: Wednesday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Into Your Head podcast’s alternative format of short daily shows is back for a Summer run. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland. Please subscribe in iTunes and rate and review
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Show 762: Tueesday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Into Your Head podcast’s alternative format of short daily shows is back for a Summer run. With your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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761: Monday’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show
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Into Your Head podcast’s alternative format of short daily shows returns for a Summer run. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 760: Puppets in Court
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An excessive primer, puppets in court, paper clip economics, cat photocopiers, bespoke plastic things, Sting versus a one-eyed cat, the Garth Brooks controversy, Irish sports and more, with your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 759: A Shit in a Biscuit Tin
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Ponytails versus human hair, a very special hall of mirrors, an elephant’s USP, self-conscious fingers and more, with your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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758: Sweating the Big Stuff
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In which your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland, sits in and does a podcast on the hottest day of the year. We’ll forgo the topic-listing formalities if you don’t mind. It’s too damn hot.
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Show 757: Sacrosancticity
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Oprah’s advice for drug dealers, Harry Potter versus Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawking versus Morgan Freeman, shunning windows on starships, believing in books, the problem with the atmosphere, obsessing over who made things, a no-frills vomitorium, Dr Drew pretending to look at you, dogs as police officers, drama versus fake news and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 756: Cat-Based Lubricant
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Elitist bouncy castles, why that woman in “Titanic” was a hypocrite”, cat-based lubricants and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 755: Reinventing the Soliloquy
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Wigs, snowmen, signing for contraceptives, IRA songs about the weather, soliloquies, rose tinted highlighter pens and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 754: Urethral Suppositories
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How Netflix handles infinity, The Gong Show versus The Goon Show, how rhetorical twin fences think, pharmacists versus bartenders and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 753: Wood Knot / Witch Justice Technology
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Technology-assisted witch trials, cat cloud perspective, natural furniture legs, how strangers work, Bon Jovi philosophy, scratch media and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 752: Something Anyway
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Back with a new episode and quite a bit of throat-clearing, but it’s “something, anyway”, your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland
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Show 751A: Sounding like This
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751A – Labelled 751.5 in some places. In which your common-cold afflicted proprietor, Neal from Ireland, phones it in with a couple of specially selected archive episodes, including the one in which the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez walks into a bar.
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Show 751: Astral Fly-In Movies
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If cats ran supermarkets, movies for yogic astral flyers, how to motivate a sick dog, and lots more with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 750: Cold Closure
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Different types of powder, people who still run video rental shops, regulating the afterlife, what it’s like to own a private jet, whether Hitler might have been re-incarnated as a podcast listener, a cold closure and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 749: Defending Danté
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Television’s Sháinne Greoige returns with her occasional newspaper review and Neal discusses the McDonalds school of reincarnation, the brain as a ventriloquist, the dangers of counting sheep, how Danté avoided death threats, a legal loophole that allows poisoning of foreigners, life as a dog and more.
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Show 748: Life in Argos
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Brain surgeons versus street cleaners, life as an Argos reservation number and lots more, with your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
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Show 747: Pens on Beer
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An advantage over Eminem, reflective light bulbs, foil topic wrappers, why everything\’s about the beer, checking that the laws of physics are operating, rearranging Professor Stephen Hawking and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 746: Women’s Day
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On International Women’s Day, a special female-centric episode of Into Your Head podcast, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 745: Sistine Boxroom
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Resuscitating a calculator, barter in Lidl, life as a ginger nut, a box bedroom versus the Sistine Chapel, the benefits of Spongebob nightmares and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 744: Shit Creek Optimism
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Defining the world, on-board motors versus fans, plant hygiene, how not to destroy a country and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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Show 743: Frontal Lobe Retail
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In a double-length episode, Neal discusses why society needs idiot savants, astrophysics with imaginary PlayDoh, whether the Elephant Man could been a dog, the deli beside the Ed Sullivan Theatre, frontal lode sweatshops, a surprise for Walt Disney, an experimental afterlude and lots more.
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Show 742: Demystifying Simplicity
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Classless peanuts, turkeys, the Radiohead school of cosmetics, simplicity demystified and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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737 (?) Wednesday’s Temporarily Daily Christmas Show
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Continuing the third and last week of Into Your Head podcast\’s Temporarily Daily Christmas Show.
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Show 741: Bieber’s Cat Loophole
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A preview of Justin Bieber’s court case, creating an artificial Hell, why people can’t do Tarzan stuff, natural wastage of Lou Reed’s name, creating a new Irish culture to confuse foreigners, applying marketing principles to a cat story and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
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