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Show 899: Thinking Too Much About Heavy Lead Pencils

Neal O'Carroll, October 28, 2026October 28, 2026
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Neal worries about self incrimination as a burglar, exposes the sinister world of ivy enthusiasts, makes the case for shunning Darwin Award obsessives, deconstructs your child’s 2d architecture, ponders what Jim Henson can teach us about artificial plants, thinks a little too much about heavy lead pencils, reveals an unexpected update on Kittensoft toilet roll, determines the real reason for bicycle reflector laws, explores the conundrum of like-for-like sugar substitution, imagines the chances of finding vegetables in a jungle, argues against dogs in the criminal justice system, addresses listeners on exercise bikes and touches upon drinking water in a coma, the Deep Space Nines of breakfast cereals, alternate ways to test your smoke detector, cow stomach logistics, egg sandwich snobbery, loose tea, Slimfast hula hoops, the cord cutters of the toast world, dynamo bicycle lamps,  coin operated toy bicycles, kids with Whizzer and Chips comic reservations, rolling L shaped carpets, what a dog thinks about inhalation and more. 

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