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

When dry witted Irishman, acquired taste hobbiest humourist, socially awkward practically unheard-of legally blind cat obsessed underachiever 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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Show 865: Just Fill Up On Nonsense – Into Your Head

Despite some sub par sound quality in parts, Neal proposes an innovative Star Trek spin off, wonders if dogs are powered by four legs or two, disambiguates Whoopee! comic, whoopee cushions and Whoopi Goldberg, considers the natural resting state for a human hand, demystifies the traditional motor funeral cortege, makes the surprising case for transparent mains sewage pipes, uncovers the strange logistics of Ash Wednesday following Pancake Tuesday in 1980s Ireland, ponders the feasibility of allowing ghosts access night classes, reveals why your cat will not thank you for cream in a non dairy beverage, uncovers the surprising liability risks of in-store perfume sampling and discusses why dogs urinate, life before soap, how tea is made, his home’s changing cat to human ratio, Chumbawamba, songs about legs, Right Said Fred, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin’s rainy day album, defining woodwork, how to give your address, Eircodes, the realities of flying cars, joke shops, Ghost (1990), Sister Act (1992), elephant glass, Toronto’s CN tower, the phrase throwing up in your mouth a little, how to fairly charge a talking cat for tap water in a bar, using de rigueur in casual conversation, how storytelling fell into the control of elitists, Gnid and Enid Blyton and more. CONTACT THE SHOW – Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact ARCHIVES FEED: Oldest episodes are now on the archives feed. There’s also a low bitrate edition – For all feeds and archives see IntoYourHead.ie/Archive. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

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