About Into Your Head podcast | About Matchstick Cats comics

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 883: The Argument Against Toothache – Into Your Head

Neal explains the flight simulator windscreen wiper dilemma, bemoans the poor design of the human lower skull, wonders if it’s lawful for dogs to eat themselves, compares Schubert’s The Trout to Masterchef Junior, recalls early childhood experiences of cutlery and daisies, considers why you’d play pitch and putt on a full size golf simulator, frets about his motives for raising a hand in an RDS exam hall three decades ago, wonders why you’d start a city near a swamp, remembers Tiger Woods’ name surprisingly swiftly, links his childhood self image to Dublin’s old gasometer tanks, remembers Ian Dury and the Blockheads, pinpoints where cats fall on Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and looks at how motorists bank their hill climbing progress, understanding the American prom experience through situation comedies, the AA, the other AA, the AAA, advice for procedural drama producers and quite a bit 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.