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Into Your Head is a unique long running audio comedy podcast from Ireland, by Neal O’Carroll.

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.

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Latest Shows

Show 888: When Should You Season Your Cat Food? – Into Your Head

Neal questions the viability of musically gifted twins, wonders about pet bear taxidermy, shows how to guard against identify theft with your mind, warns about weaponised weather smalltalk, decides where a proposed World Highway should start, designs a more palatable alternative to Shrodinger’s experiment, compares France’s Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triomph with their Dublin counterparts, reveals the one situation when you might consider seasoning your cat food, advises on how to get the best out of your pharmacist, wonders if a reasonably intelligent dog can understand our postal system, provides a harmonica taster of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, sets out the pros and cons of Bob Geldof and deals with fly on the wall murder documentaries, how to make your exercise equipment last forever, what to ask your alleged murderer, criminal calling cards, where the continent of Europe ends, The Weather Channel movie of the week, reusing house numbers, locating the sun, Radiohead’s Creep, Hansel and Gretel, The Brothers Grim, The Coen Brothers, The (arrogant) Righteous Brothers, how to insult a harmonising vocalist, The Proclaimers, bringing things back from America, The Boomtown Rats 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 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.