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Month: April 2008

VINTAGE IYH – 070: Sampling Stephen Hawking

Neal O'Carroll, April 27, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show70.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:00 — 17.3MB)

WARNING – This is a very early vintage episode of a podcast that’s evolved a lot over 17+ years and 800+ episodes. If you’re new to the show, please try some current episodes first.

Tonight’s topics include: Not strapped in, Shadowing a hunting cat, Properly processed poultry, Bogged down with alliteration, Ignoring small words, A nineteen seventies search engine, Underused portability shame, My 2D monitor, Testing a dimensional website, The Niagara Falls nano-border, Obsessed with the bends, Thom Yorke’s lucky guess, Everybody knows an Aloysius, Experimenting with goodbyes, A hidden track, Sampling Professor Stephen Hawking, My pencil failings.
Also: Our first ever aborted cat song. Nobody is to blame.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 069:

Neal O'Carroll, April 26, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show69.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 19.9MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s topics include:
Just a host, Small minds in the audience, An ill-informed cow, Creating a cat on the fly, Getting stuff from users, Papier maché limbs – the pros and cons, Harrison Ford’s badly planned circus, Obvious sand-monsters, Linking role reprisals and death, Rocky the private investigator, Delaying the mail, Limitations for macho actors, The Spoiler Police, Accidentally liabling a police officer and more. Also: our occasional series of audio columns by security correspondent, Tomo O’Brien.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 068: Licensed to Grimace

Neal O'Carroll, April 26, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show68.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:59 — 14.6MB)

WARNING – This is a very early vintage episode of a podcast that’s evolved a lot over 17+ years and 800+ episodes. If you’re new to the show, please try some current episodes first.

Tonight’s topics include:
Don’t listen to this, Listener-imposed drugs test, Watching a marathon, Avoidng the word “pod”, Cannibalistic vegetables, Remembering the bread man, Grimacing in the front seat, Innapropriate product placement – an experiment, Blackberries and mungo juice, A double shot of beer, Fantastic typing, Slow-drying coke, Being frowned upon, The NYC Wingdings font conspiracy, Reading too much into the trees, Making use of a urination opportunity. Also: Joanne and Neal’s unprecendented cat song collaberation.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 067: Paradoxes and Cats’ Eggs

Neal O'Carroll, April 25, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show67.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:00 — 18.2MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s topics include:
Frightening episodes, Severed feet and the natural landscape, Poultry carving politics, Oxygen free chickens, No explosion without fire, Surviving on a forest planet, Counting the foot carers, An embassy to a neighbour, Planning a fictional World War, Some truths about E.T. and Elliot, How to be an information resource, Alternatives to Dr. Suess, Kitten basket distribution, Rearing an undercooked egg, Obsessing over paradoxes, Improving Wikipedia live on the show. Also: Joanne with a brand new caffeine-inspired cat song
Thanks: Dadaist (hear his Dadaist Cabaret show at http://www.duddingstonbooks.com/cabaret/ ) for topic suggesion and Lockjaw (ThePodcastJunkie.com)for piss-related information, which info can be found at http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html?cpg=70H

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 066: Invisibility Saturation

Neal O'Carroll, April 24, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show66.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:01 — 20.7MB)

WARNING – This is a very early vintage episode of a podcast that’s evolved a lot over 17+ years and 800+ episodes. If you’re new to the show, please try some current episodes first.

(Today’s 2nd Show!) Topics include: Sequentics in counting, Confusing colons, Randomnisation and the digestive system, Surplufluous skins on fruit, Eight miles of person, Outage outrages, Non facial expression, Caffeine as a coolant, What’s wrong with Meeveo?, In defence of fractions, A song about a specific cat, An insect not a router, Everybody puts chicken in, Strapped in and unable to urinate, Why humans don’t live past 100, Dressing for black and white movies, Invisible Man saturation, Hyperlink hype, Why I don’t record myself reading, Points for spraying a cat.
Our YouTube videos are at http://ie.youtube.com/user/IntoYourHeaddotcom
Thanks: Ruben (RubenerdShow.com) for topic suggesions and Lockjaw (ThePodcastJunkie.com)for piss-related information, which info can be found at http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html?cpg=70H

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 065: Paperclip Special

Neal O'Carroll, April 24, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show65.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:02 — 17.9MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s topics include:
Lack of ambient cat recordings, Stationery update, Big brother is watching paperclips, Non moving office supplies, Lying about “loling”, Political lauging gas, A stationery argument, Cat duplication to prove a point, Self duplicating cat-copyright infringments, Reliable paperclip information sources, Dead pigeons on the property ladder, An irrelelevent synthetic paperclip, A warning about other paperclip podcasts, Exchanging your goat’s head.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 063: Lying About Plants

Neal O'Carroll, April 20, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show63.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:02 — 13.5MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

This is the first of two episodes that went out on the same date. For once it’s not a mistake.

Tonight’s Topics Include: Garnering subsequency, Inefficient use of a hacksaw, Swapping out a big thumb, Getting on Discovery Channel, Legalities of killing two birds with one stone, Hand gestures on Judge Judy, Even better than a cat picture, Stressing the listener, Vegetables as evidence of a dog licensing conspiracy, Return of the urination session, Pronouncing prevarification, Waterfall production, Sesame Street Porn, The Irish podcasters’ video conspiracy, Listener concerns regarding guitar urination, Listener comment regarding hair, Prevaricating over an out-take, Lying about plants, The ridiculous Oxygen Cycle, Kitten dog eyes.

Also: Our first ever downbeat cat sang.
Additional voiceovery stuff thanks Lockjaw and Dustin. The Conspiracies podcast referred to is a Conspiracast.com.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 064: Duran Something

Neal O'Carroll, April 20, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show64.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:57 — 12.1MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

This is the second of two episodes that came out on the same date. It’s not an error. Tonight’s topics include:
Between two consecutive days, Stupid place for a mountain, A fuel thief in the audience, Podcaster diplomacy issues, Black market petrol, A less gloomy cat song, The first pluck is the hardest, Pronunciation of “Duran” and “Duran” respectively, Two “Delilah”s under the microscope, No disrespect to Freddie Mercury, Wales’ secret cat song exporter, Not afraid to curtail things, Undressing the sky, Dealing with flem, Paws and pause in other languages, How to wreck a legal conference.

Also: Joanne with a special selection of folkloric cat stories.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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