About Into Your Head podcast | About Matchstick Cats Neal O’Carroll spins stream of consciousness humour monologues, peppered with nonsensical opinions, absurd advice and a unique twist on Irish wit and dry humour, in a one-of-a-kind sit down comedy programme now in it’s third decade. Tripe on tap since 2006* When dry witted Irishman, acquired taste hobbiest humourist, socially awkward practically unheard-of legally blind cat obsessive, and husband Neal O’Carroll ingests** a perfectly ordinary consumer grade generic energy drink, something happens. There emerges a silver-tongued** purveyor of comical monologues, absurd analogies, illogical yet impressively argued opinions and copious Two Cats walk into a Bar stories. Each segment starts with no idea how the first sentence will end or what topics may emerge. It’s a ludicrious creative non-method inspired partly by classic BBC panel show Just a Minute, praticed and honed over eighteen years and 800 episodes. Yet here we are, in 2024, trying to retro actively construct a narrative around it, like it’s the label for a micro-brewary beverage. Not to mention referring to ourselves in both the third person singular and the first person plural. *with an asterix**with a further asterix | Get Podcast | Contact | Latest from Into Your Head podcast Show 892: Let’s Normalise Briefcase Schoolbags For a Decade – Into Your Head Neal wonders how Dougie Howser’s career would have gone with a face tattoo, advises on recognising a fake glasses and moustache, sets out the argument for rectangular coins, imagines how a King Charles Dog could wreck stamp collecting, explains why a spare bedroom can never be a spare surgery, advises on scrubbing your mouth, considers the impracticalities of a global tribe of cat owners, proposes a revolutionary ten year compulsory briefcases mandate for school children, recalls a delicious looking dog’s ear and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll. Show 892: Let’s Normalise Briefcase Schoolbags For a Decade 58:11 Show 891: Why Crickets Don’t Sweat (If Crickets Don’t Sweat) 57:53 Show 890: Soliciting Your Reflection’s Approval 38:03 Show 889: Shallow as the Spoon on Your Swiss Army Knife 47:07 Show 888: When Should You Season Your Cat Food? 51:53 Show 887: Walk the Four Minute Mile, Don’t Run It 52:51 Show 886: Twenty Years of Tripe (With an Asterix) 01:05:32 Show 885: How to Synthesise a Blank Look 56:06 Show 884: Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem 01:13:50 Show 883: The Argument Against Toothache 01:05:05 More | Get Podcast | Contact